Speaker 1: Welcome. Just hand Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose
Speaker 1: of inspiring, heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and speakers
Speaker 1: all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast finds
Speaker 1: you in good shit. And now here's your message. He's
Speaker 1: gonna come up and let it red, brother, Rick. You
Speaker 1: guys are a brave crowd. Amen. You guys are ready tonight.
Speaker 1: We're excited to be here, right amen. Man, that worship
Speaker 1: tonight was awesome. Right, come on, let's bless the Lord
Speaker 1: for that right there. I love that. I love those
Speaker 1: times of worship when suddenly it seems as though the
Speaker 1: presence of the Lord fills the room and suddenly nothing
Speaker 1: else matter. It's like I don't care who's speaking, I
Speaker 1: don't care who's doing what. It's just good to be
Speaker 1: in the presence of the Lord. Amen, Andrew, that was awesome, man,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thank you guys. And what's the
Speaker 1: lady's name? That's sam huh, Amanda, whore's Amanda? Well this
Speaker 1: she is over there. It's awesome, Amanda. Thank you. And
Speaker 1: you know, many times we fail to adequately express our
Speaker 1: appreciation that we should express to those people that weekend
Speaker 1: service in service out give of themselves to lead us
Speaker 1: into the presence of the Lord. And we just thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much for that. And we're excited to
Speaker 1: be in here tonight. And my wife is already up
Speaker 1: in northern Kentucky with her mom, like Pastor Mark mentioned
Speaker 1: a moment ago, So I'm here by myself tonight, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of a scary thing, Amen, but we're glad
Speaker 1: that she is there in her is just just is
Speaker 1: in the process. Our mother's in final stages of of
Speaker 1: uh of liver disease, and uh she's just really really
Speaker 1: very ill. So we appreciate your prayer for her. And
Speaker 1: and uh I miss Jennifer tonight. So uh uh here
Speaker 1: we are. And so tonight we're gonna jump into this.
Speaker 1: Uh here's what we're gonna do tonight. Kind of give
Speaker 1: you a little outline so you can kind of keep
Speaker 1: up with this process. Is that all right? And tonight
Speaker 1: we're gonna begin by sharing with you a couple of stories.
Speaker 1: We're gonna begin with a couple of stories. Then we're
Speaker 1: gonna move into a scripture reference and I want to
Speaker 1: give to you out of Jeremiah, and then we're gonna
Speaker 1: come back and tell a couple more stories. Amen, on
Speaker 1: Monday night. This is the eve of maybe one of
Speaker 1: America's most significant elections, and tonight, I know we've worshiped
Speaker 1: and we prayed, but right now, let's just intentionally target
Speaker 1: this election and ask Holy Spirit to move in this
Speaker 1: moment of time and shift this nation for the glory
Speaker 1: of God. We're not looking for either candidate who tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: if all goes well, one of them is going to
Speaker 1: end up being our president elect. But we know tonight
Speaker 1: that it's the glory of God. It's the manifest glory
Speaker 1: of God that we need that's going to turn our
Speaker 1: nation around. And so we just want to really pray.
Speaker 1: So just join with me a minute, and let's just
Speaker 1: target this thing right here. Come on, intercessors in the house,
Speaker 1: just begin to release, right now, Just begin to release
Speaker 1: right now in this room. Father, we just ask you tonight,
Speaker 1: Oh God, be merciful to America. Be merciful, Oh God,
Speaker 1: to America. Again. God, let thy grace shine upon this nation.
Speaker 1: See to see. Release the manifest glory of your presence.
Speaker 1: Release the manifest glory of your presence. Release that, Oh God, tonight,
Speaker 1: release it. Father, I pray tonight that this room, on
Speaker 1: this Monday night, would be a room for encounters. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's just stay engaged right there a minute in prayer. Father,
Speaker 1: we just pray right now for encounters of the Holy Spirit. Father,
Speaker 1: I pray that you would teach us God, how to
Speaker 1: steward the things that you've deposited into our lives. Teach
Speaker 1: us how to steward them. Teach us how to steward them. Father,
Speaker 1: we pray tonight for all over this nation. Father, tonight,
Speaker 1: I know that there are people that have been meeting
Speaker 1: in the nation's capital for three days. Think of it.
Speaker 1: I know a group of leaders who have been meeting
Speaker 1: in the nation's capital for three days, praying and interceding
Speaker 1: coming into this election. I saw them the other night
Speaker 1: as they were posting pictures off of the speaker's balcony
Speaker 1: at the nation's capital, interceding over the nation. So, Father,
Speaker 1: we come into agreement with every intercessor and pastor and
Speaker 1: leader in our nation. Father that's crying out for God
Speaker 1: to be merciful to America. God forgive us for abortion.
Speaker 1: Forgive us, God forgive us for the shedding of innocent blood. God,
Speaker 1: would you released upon us tonight, Father, the hope of
Speaker 1: an encounter, the hop hop of an encounter. And Father, tonight,
Speaker 1: I pray that as we minister tonight, as we as
Speaker 1: we share some stories tonight and encourage the people, I
Speaker 1: pray Father that somehow that we would all begin to
Speaker 1: realize that it's time we take our play. That Father,
Speaker 1: an encounter is not for a few, but Lord, you
Speaker 1: have designed an encounter for every person in this room.
Speaker 1: That we might encounter the manifest glory of the presence
Speaker 1: of God, and our lives will be radically changed as
Speaker 1: a consequence of our encountering you. Come on, just stay
Speaker 1: engage here for a moment. Father. We pray that you
Speaker 1: would allow us to learn from history, allow us to
Speaker 1: learn from those who have gone before us. God, we
Speaker 1: pray for those in our memory. We thank you for
Speaker 1: those who have gone before us, and Lord, we thank
Speaker 1: you for those who are coming after us. And Lord,
Speaker 1: do we ask you tonight, Father, that you would somehow
Speaker 1: let us be the bridge between what was and what
Speaker 1: will be. Step into this moment of time and show us, Father,
Speaker 1: what it is that you would have us do. God,
Speaker 1: reveal your glory. Father, release miracles in this room. Release
Speaker 1: healings in this room. Father, Come on, somebody. Father, we're
Speaker 1: asking you tonight, Father, not for the touch of the
Speaker 1: hand of man. We're asking you for a touch from heaven. Tonight.
Speaker 1: We're asking you, Father for that. Release that in this room.
Speaker 1: Release that in this room. Come on, let's pray for
Speaker 1: Kentucky right now. I know we've got pastors in this room.
Speaker 1: Leaders in this room. We thank you Father. We thank
Speaker 1: you Father. For those that are here from Corvin and
Speaker 1: Manchester and Barberville and Glasgow and others surrounding areas, we
Speaker 1: thank you for them, Father, And we pray tonight for Kentucky.
Speaker 1: We prayed for Kentucky. Turn the heart of the commonwealth.
Speaker 1: Let Kentucky become a play of encounters. Let Kentucky become
Speaker 1: a play of revivals and moves of the spirit. Let
Speaker 1: Kentucky become a play where the harvest is being one.
Speaker 1: We bind a spirit of drug addiction, We bind a
Speaker 1: spirit of alcoholism, we bind a spirit of abuse. Off
Speaker 1: of this off of this state. In the name of Jesus, Father,
Speaker 1: released the fire of your holy Spirit, Release the fire
Speaker 1: of your olation.
Speaker 2: H m hmm, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord.
Speaker 1: H Okay, here we go you all ready, here we
Speaker 1: go tonight. I want to begin by telling you a
Speaker 1: couple of stories. Uh, tonight. The purpose for telling the
Speaker 1: stories that I'm being, that I'm telling to you is
Speaker 1: to bring you to a hopeful conclusion. The intent tonight
Speaker 1: of this message is to bring us to the place,
Speaker 1: every one of us, to the place of a single
Speaker 1: hopeful conclusion, and that is that we can encounter him.
Speaker 1: He wants to encounter us, that our lives will be
Speaker 1: radically changed, and that we will no longer be the same.
Speaker 1: We are living in critical pivotal days, not just of
Speaker 1: national history, but of global history. Nations tonight arerielling in
Speaker 1: a spirit of chaos and compromise and confusion, and people
Speaker 1: all over the world tonight are hungry to encounter the
Speaker 1: Holy living Sovereign of the universe. I was raised in
Speaker 1: the church, been in the church all of my life.
Speaker 1: I was raised in the Church of the Nazarene. My
Speaker 1: father was an alcoholic. My father was a drug addict.
Speaker 1: My father died at the age of forty. My father
Speaker 1: was hugely abusive to my mother. I've got four brothers.
Speaker 1: There were five of us, and my father never heard
Speaker 1: any of us as far as I know, but the
Speaker 1: things that I saw him do to my mother were
Speaker 1: absolutely unconscionable. I began to realize that in my home
Speaker 1: two worlds were being lived out before me. My mother
Speaker 1: kept my brothers and Eye in church, and she would
Speaker 1: tell us. And my mother was one of those mothers
Speaker 1: like many other of you whose mother may have been
Speaker 1: the same as mine. My mother knew that she must
Speaker 1: keep us boys in church because it's not just about
Speaker 1: going to church and getting the Sunday school pen that
Speaker 1: we used to have in Sunday school, her faithful attendance,
Speaker 1: But it's because in the place of worship and in
Speaker 1: the place of celebration, in the place of the ecclesia,
Speaker 1: it is the most most ripe place to encounter the
Speaker 1: Holy Sovereign of the universe. Now, my brothers and I,
Speaker 1: I grew up with a horrific fear of my father
Speaker 1: all of my life. I would grow when I was
Speaker 1: growing up, my teeth would chatter so bad because I
Speaker 1: was afraid all the time of him. If you look
Speaker 1: at pictures at me when I was a little boy,
Speaker 1: my teeth were literally chiseled down to knobs in my
Speaker 1: mouth because my teeth were always chattering just like this.
Speaker 1: At night, when my father would come home, my mother
Speaker 1: would rescue the five of us boys. She would take
Speaker 1: us out our bedroom window. She would take us across
Speaker 1: the street and down two houses, where she would pull
Speaker 1: us like a mother. Hen would pull her brooding chicks
Speaker 1: up under the bushes of a neighbor's house. And we
Speaker 1: would sleep under the bushes of the neighbor's house, and
Speaker 1: they never knew we were there. My mother kept a
Speaker 1: quilt that my grandmother made. It's the same grandmother that
Speaker 1: pastored her and my grandfather, my mama, and my papall
Speaker 1: pastored here. He's the only man that ever had as
Speaker 1: a little boy who would take his big old hands.
Speaker 1: He was a painter by day and a preacher on
Speaker 1: the weekend, but he would take his big old hands
Speaker 1: and he would crown my head and pray that God
Speaker 1: would move in my life. My mother would pull us
Speaker 1: out the bedroom window. We would go under the bushes
Speaker 1: of the neighbor's house. She kept a quilt beside the
Speaker 1: bush that was that was my grandmother made for us.
Speaker 1: She made the quilt and quote and hands stitched on it.
Speaker 1: Bible verses on this old quilt. My mother would pull
Speaker 1: it out and she would throw this quilt out over
Speaker 1: her five sons. She would say to us things like this, boys,
Speaker 1: God knows where we are, and where we are we
Speaker 1: will not always be. She would tell us ridiculous thing.
Speaker 1: She would tell us that God is alive, He's not dead.
Speaker 1: She would tell us that God is not red words
Speaker 1: on white paper, he's not black words on white paper.
Speaker 1: But he's the living, breathing, smelling God. And he will
Speaker 1: come and he will rescue us. Mother. Always he took
Speaker 1: us to church. My mother was faithful to her church.
Speaker 1: Praise God. Amen. Faithful. For my mother meant if the
Speaker 1: doors were open, Honey, we were there. Amen, it's okay
Speaker 1: to still say that. Right, That's the way she was.
Speaker 1: And we would sit in that pew and I would
Speaker 1: hear my pastor, a man from Breathfatt County, Kentucky, would
Speaker 1: stand in the pulpit and he would begin to preach
Speaker 1: to us the word of the Lord. There's a little boy.
Speaker 1: I'd sit in the chair. I would hear him tell
Speaker 1: the stories of the Bible, and I would begin to say,
Speaker 1: if God is so big, why doesn't he keep my
Speaker 1: mother from getting beaten up. My mother was the pianist
Speaker 1: of my church from the time I was born, and
Speaker 1: she's still the pianist in the very same church. She
Speaker 1: sat on the pew, and she sat on that piano
Speaker 1: bench all of my life. And I saw her many
Speaker 1: Sunday mornings, get up on the keyboard, get up on
Speaker 1: the piano, and she would begin to play the piano
Speaker 1: on a Sunday morning with two black eyes she had
Speaker 1: just gotten the night before. And my pastor wouldn't get
Speaker 1: up and preach about the power of God, and I
Speaker 1: would begin to say, if God is so powerful, why
Speaker 1: can't he keep my mother from getting beaten us. I
Speaker 1: saw my mother. I saw my father take his fist
Speaker 1: and knock her to the floor like a full grown man.
Speaker 1: I saw much more in my life that I have
Speaker 1: the courage to share with you tonight. But the bottom
Speaker 1: line is my mother infused in us a hope that
Speaker 1: God is bigger than the church. We love the church,
Speaker 1: but we must encounter him. The church should be a
Speaker 1: place of encounter, should be a place where we come
Speaker 1: and we know with expectant hearts, God is going to
Speaker 1: meet with us. And when he comes, no telling what
Speaker 1: might happen when he comes, no telling what might happen.
Speaker 1: I've had a thousand men laid their hands on me,
Speaker 1: and some things never change. But I've had him touch
Speaker 1: to me in a moment and everything changed.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 1: And my mother would say, God coming, he's coming, boys,
Speaker 1: he's coming, He's coming. We go to church. Church people
Speaker 1: sometimes can say the dumbest things in the world. Amen,
Speaker 1: go ahead and say it. Brother. They say, Amen, it's
Speaker 1: all right. They just can't my mother come to church.
Speaker 1: And you know what, my Daddy. I only saw my
Speaker 1: father ever give my mother one gift. One year, one Christmas,
Speaker 1: he gave her a gift. Christmas was a big deal
Speaker 1: at our house because Daddy tried to make up and
Speaker 1: sixty five days in one day. Christmas was amazing at
Speaker 1: our house, except the year he gave my mother the
Speaker 1: only gift I ever saw him give her. And the
Speaker 1: gift that he gave her was a beautifully wrapped gold
Speaker 1: foil boss with an amazing red red bow on top
Speaker 1: of it that we knew.
Speaker 3: He didn't tie that it was beautiful.
Speaker 1: We couldn't wait, My brothers and I waited for all
Speaker 1: of Christmas to see my mother open one box when
Speaker 1: she did. The insight of the box was a picture
Speaker 1: of him and his girlfriend and a little boy that
Speaker 1: they had born to him that year, and I saw
Speaker 1: my mother's heart melt like wax again on the floor.
Speaker 1: My mother would say, lois, listen to me. God's book come,
Speaker 1: God's book comes, God's gonna come. Listen to me. My
Speaker 1: mother many wonderful things she did in my life, but
Speaker 1: one of the things that she tried to infuse in
Speaker 1: us is a love for him, greater gonna love for
Speaker 1: the church. Hello, he love the church. She's there all
Speaker 1: the time, you understand. But but the church is a
Speaker 1: place of encounter. And my mother said, boys, God's coming.
Speaker 1: He knows where we are, don't you worry. The whole
Speaker 1: time we were kids, I was like, where is he? Why?
Speaker 1: If God can speak, why don't he have anything to
Speaker 1: say about what I'm going through? And maybe there's been
Speaker 1: somebody here, Donna, y'all right, now, y'all look like you
Speaker 1: ain't never been through anything in your whole life. I
Speaker 1: don't even know why I'm telling this story right here,
Speaker 1: but it's just like from my mother, say, boy, God's
Speaker 1: gonna come. And the whole time my teeth were chattering.
Speaker 1: I was literally beating my teeth out of my head
Speaker 1: because I had so much fear. I never will forget
Speaker 1: today that my mother was standing in the kitchen sink.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit of the old kitchen sink.
Speaker 1: We lived in a house that was one bedroom. It
Speaker 1: was probably about eight hundred square feet. We could stand
Speaker 1: in our kitchen. As teenage boys, we could stand in
Speaker 1: our kitchen and touch from wall to wall in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: and it was just a little bit of the old house.
Speaker 1: I never had a friend. I never had a friend
Speaker 1: that knew the house that I really grew up in.
Speaker 1: I had a house out in the set division picked
Speaker 1: out my kids would take my friends would take me home.
Speaker 1: I'd have them take me to that house, and then
Speaker 1: I'd tell them, you'd better drop me off at the
Speaker 1: end of this big, long, winding driveway. My daddy don't
Speaker 1: like company, so y'all just let me out there here
Speaker 1: and I'll walk on us the driveway. So they'd leave
Speaker 1: me out. I'd let them get outside and i'd be
Speaker 1: out of that neighborhood. But they caught me ben somewhere.
Speaker 1: I wasn't supposed to be amen. Y'all y'all all right. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether y'all or not all right or
Speaker 1: not right. And so, but one day my mother was
Speaker 1: standing in the sink. There was a little bit of
Speaker 1: the old kitchen sink. Man. She's standing there. My father
Speaker 1: comes to the front door behind her. He never sees
Speaker 1: her when he comes through the door. His five sons
Speaker 1: were in the living room. We immediately saw him come
Speaker 1: in with everyone without saying a word, just begin to
Speaker 1: back up against the wall, and we all five of
Speaker 1: us froze up against the wall when he walked in.
Speaker 1: He walked past his five sons, never acknowledging any of
Speaker 1: us was there. He walked up to my mother in
Speaker 1: the kitchen. He pulled out he had a hawk bill knife,
Speaker 1: which is an electricians knife, in his left hand, and
Speaker 1: he had a thirty eight revolver in his right hand.
Speaker 1: And he walked up to my mother and he stood
Speaker 1: there and he lowered that revolver down at the base
Speaker 1: of the skull of her head, and he began to
Speaker 1: call her by name, and he began to call her
Speaker 1: some names. She is not. He began to say, you blanked,
Speaker 1: he blanked six, said make nine tens because I want
Speaker 1: to testing church. You blinked blank six said make nine tens.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill you. My mother never knew he was
Speaker 1: there until he began to scream with her. My brothers
Speaker 1: and I were just watching like this. We had seen
Speaker 1: similar scenes unfold, I don't know how many times, but
Speaker 1: we were just watching them again as an unfold. The
Speaker 1: only sound among us was the teeth that were clattering
Speaker 1: in my head. My brothers today still talk about and
Speaker 1: make fun of me because the clattering of the teeth
Speaker 1: in my head. And we were sitting there and my
Speaker 1: mother he put that gun on the base of her neck,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, I'd never seen her
Speaker 1: good before, and I've never seen her good since she
Speaker 1: was a little video Nazarene lady. She still is and
Speaker 1: and she don't play around with stuff. But she laid
Speaker 1: her dish rag across the edge of the thing, and
Speaker 1: she spun around to my father and she put her
Speaker 1: finger on the tip of his nose, and she called
Speaker 1: him by name. I heard her do something that night.
Speaker 1: I've never seen hurt her do before, nor sense, but
Speaker 1: it changed my life in a moment. It changed my life.
Speaker 1: In a moment, she turned she put his finger her
Speaker 1: finger on the tip of his nose, and she said, Harry,
Speaker 1: I reduced you in the name of the Lord Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ of Nadath. You cannot hurt me, and you will
Speaker 1: not hurt my boy. When she said that, he hit
Speaker 1: the floor like I did in this I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: if I had an armful of bricks and dropped them
Speaker 1: right now, he would not have hit the floor any harder.
Speaker 1: And when he hit the floor, I can't explain it.
Speaker 1: But when he hit the floor, he was cold, sober,
Speaker 1: and he was paralyzed, and he couldn't move a muscle,
Speaker 1: and he began to beg, my mother, take this fell
Speaker 1: off of me? What have you done to me? I
Speaker 1: can't move. Here's Ricky over on the wall. I looked
Speaker 1: to my brothers this way, and I looked at my
Speaker 1: brothers that way, and I was like, cool, right therefore,
Speaker 1: that was bad right there. Ricky liked some of that
Speaker 1: right there. You may understand it and you may not,
Speaker 1: But all five of my brothers we came off the
Speaker 1: wall and we started dancing in that little kitchen for
Speaker 1: the first time in our lives. God was no longer
Speaker 1: a Sunday school lesson. God was no longer a preacher
Speaker 1: a sermon, but God was a living, breathing, smelling sovereign
Speaker 1: of the universe. And He had come to my home
Speaker 1: to encounter us, that we might encounter him in a
Speaker 1: moment of revelation that might sum up in a moment
Speaker 1: what my pastor had taught to me all of my life.
Speaker 1: He may not come when you want him, but he
Speaker 1: will come. Nonetheless, He's coming. He's coming. He's coming. People
Speaker 1: at the church, you said, tell my mother, you know
Speaker 1: some of your boys are gonna end up just like
Speaker 1: their daddy. Don't you why that's worth going to church? Forward?
Speaker 1: Right there? Whoa get there and tell you your boy.
Speaker 1: You know you boys gonna end up a drunk, don't you.
Speaker 1: You know you boys gonna end up a horrormonger. Right?
Speaker 1: You know, you boy's gonna end up on drugs, right,
Speaker 1: you know that's gonna happen. My father, my grandfather, was
Speaker 1: the sheriff of Madison County. My father was a deputy.
Speaker 1: Remember one Father's Day, he was in the Madison County
Speaker 1: jail with my brothers and I made him a great
Speaker 1: biggld birthday card and we stood outside of the Madison
Speaker 1: count of jail, walking up to the streets hoping he
Speaker 1: can see the Father's Day card that we made for him.
Speaker 1: His life was messed up. Man. He was a good man.
Speaker 1: When he was sober, he'd give you the shirt off
Speaker 1: of his back, but when he was drunkard ripping off
Speaker 1: of you and anything else you had. But my point
Speaker 1: is this God lapped out of the book, and for
Speaker 1: the first time in my life, I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: This thing just went to a whole nother level right there.
Speaker 1: This thing just went to a whole other level. You want.
Speaker 1: From that day till tonight, I know my hunger to
Speaker 1: encounter him has been the greatest hunger of my life,
Speaker 1: my hunger for My mother said to me the other day,
Speaker 1: she said, when we was talking about revival, I shared
Speaker 1: it with you the other morning when when my mother
Speaker 1: said to me, she said, Ricky, you have desired to
Speaker 1: encounter God all of your life. I was like, that's
Speaker 1: what I want, that one encounter, that moment begin to
Speaker 1: shift my entire life. By the way, by the way,
Speaker 1: my father died at age forty, my breath at County
Speaker 1: Pastor read into the Lord two weeks before before he died.
Speaker 1: I believe my dad is in heaven. To that though,
Speaker 1: that's really hard for me to say. It's really hard
Speaker 1: for me to say, really hard for me to say,
Speaker 1: But I believe it. I believe that God saved it.
Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing God forgave him of all of his sin?
Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing? Two weeks man, two weeks he pushed
Speaker 1: it to the end of his life. But I ain't
Speaker 1: believing that he too encountered the dynamic life of the
Speaker 1: Sultrin of the universe. It's amazing. It's amazing. We are
Speaker 1: living in days of encounter. We're not living in days
Speaker 1: that we might encounter him so that he might produce
Speaker 1: a foolishnith among us. We're encountering him that he might
Speaker 1: release destiny and infuse purpose and release the powerwork that
Speaker 1: we might become the people that He's called us to become.
Speaker 1: We encounter him for purpose, not for our own pleasure.
Speaker 1: Living in a moment where the world is hungry to encounter,
Speaker 1: many don't even believe he's real. A few years ago,
Speaker 1: a few years ago, the Holy Spirit begin to say
Speaker 1: to me, something really strange. You begin to say to me,
Speaker 1: the days that lay before you you will never fully
Speaker 1: understand unless you begin to learn more about the days
Speaker 1: that were behind me. I want you to become a
Speaker 1: student of his one until for the last ten years.
Speaker 1: And you may say, how does this apply? This story
Speaker 1: right here applies. Listen to me. I'm not up here
Speaker 1: talking to hear my head right I'm up here purposely
Speaker 1: to lead you to a process that you might be
Speaker 1: infused with hope for yourself. That your journey was not
Speaker 1: an accident. My journey was not an accident. Nothing has
Speaker 1: happened in my life that was not filtered by the
Speaker 1: sovereign will of the Father first. And I don't understand it,
Speaker 1: but this is what I know. God is good. He
Speaker 1: has a plan for us, He has a plan for you.
Speaker 1: In those days, I begin to read history, history, history, history, history.
Speaker 1: I picked up her book one time at the Barnes
Speaker 1: and Noble. It was a book by doctor Phillip Jenkins.
Speaker 1: It's not an easy read. It's an academic read, and
Speaker 1: I really didn't know what I was getting in for.
Speaker 1: I've read the book now four times because I'm a
Speaker 1: product of the Madison County school system and I just
Speaker 1: had to read things six or eight times and then
Speaker 1: if they'll put some pictures in there, I got it. Baby, whoa,
Speaker 1: I've raised an East Kentucky baby. Cut the pictures out.
Speaker 1: I don't know nothing. And this book is an academic book.
Speaker 1: But the books is about global Christianity. And the subtitle
Speaker 1: of the book is A thousand years of Forgotten Church
Speaker 1: History amazing. And in the book, I won't take you
Speaker 1: through the whole book. Oh you don't even know how
Speaker 1: blessed you are right now. But look here in this
Speaker 1: book he talks about many times as we celebrate how
Speaker 1: that from Pentecost in Jerusalem the Church began to move west.
Speaker 1: He said, what we never realized is that as the
Speaker 1: Church went west, it also went east, and that there
Speaker 1: was this dynamic church in ancient Mesopotamia and much of
Speaker 1: the eastern part of the globe that we've never been
Speaker 1: taught about. And so he titled it a thousand years
Speaker 1: of Forgotten Church History because we've never considered that when
Speaker 1: God went west, he also went east. Constantinople of Rome
Speaker 1: is not the only places that God visited in antiquity.
Speaker 4: Where fact, in the book he said this is amazing,
Speaker 4: and by the way the book is centered around one thesis,
Speaker 4: one idea, really one question.
Speaker 1: I'll give that to you in a moment. But what
Speaker 1: he begins to say is, in the year nine hundred
Speaker 1: to eleven and fifty AD, where do you think was
Speaker 1: the epicenter for global Christianity? Many would say the cities
Speaker 1: I've already mentioned, may be Rome, may be Constantinople. Pick
Speaker 1: up the book. It's amazing. What he begins to say
Speaker 1: in the book is this that in those years, the
Speaker 1: most thriving Christian metropolis in all of the world was
Speaker 1: ancient Baghdad Iras he does in the book, the lineage
Speaker 1: of Saddam Hussein, who came from a family of Christian
Speaker 1: missionary and the town he grew up in was a
Speaker 1: missionary outpost, welcoming Christian sojourners out of Turkey and into
Speaker 1: northern Iraq. So he begins to say, thriving libraries and
Speaker 1: education centers. It was amazing, and I sat there and
Speaker 1: I thought, could that even possibly be true? Could it
Speaker 1: be true? Here is the thesis of the book, Here
Speaker 1: is the question, and it's apropos for us tonight. It's
Speaker 1: timely for us tonight. Time matters my friends, all of
Speaker 1: us wish we had it indefinitely upon this earth, but
Speaker 1: none of us are assured of one more single day
Speaker 1: at all? Time? Is now? Time? Is this moment? Time? Now?
Speaker 1: Here's this question of his book? Think about it. Is
Speaker 1: it possible? Is it possible? Please hear me? Is it
Speaker 1: possible for a nation that was once the most thriving
Speaker 1: Christian nation in all the world to have her faith
Speaker 1: so decimated, so compromised, her faith so abandoned that in
Speaker 1: a matter of years, not only is the nation no
Speaker 1: longer a Christian but far worse yet? Is it possible
Speaker 1: that the world could look by and never remember that
Speaker 1: nation was Christian at home? Near the end of the book,
Speaker 1: he writes a prophetic decree. He is a Christian. He's
Speaker 1: a tremendous history written a number of books that Jesus
Speaker 1: was and many other history books. It's amazing. But don't
Speaker 1: go spend twenty nine dollars on a book that you
Speaker 1: think is going to be dumpty dumptyes that on the wall.
Speaker 1: Just get in there and dig in, baby, because it's
Speaker 1: good when you get to the meat of it. Amen,
Speaker 1: I know y'all went to PLASKI kind of high school.
Speaker 1: So y'all probably speed read through it one time and
Speaker 1: know everything in it. Amen, me, I live the east
Speaker 1: of my seventy five he all know what that tells, y'all,
Speaker 1: So look here. So at the end of the book
Speaker 1: he begins to give this. This in the book was written.
Speaker 1: I think it's published in two thousand and five. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the book he begins to say,
Speaker 1: here's my concern for America. My concern for America is
Speaker 1: that the greatest, freest, most thriving Christian nation in all
Speaker 1: of the world. He began to ask the questions, what
Speaker 1: will we look like in a hundred years? Think of
Speaker 1: what we've become in our lifetime. Think of what we've
Speaker 1: compromised in our lifetime. Think of what we've given up
Speaker 1: in our lifetime. Tink on our watch. More than fifty
Speaker 1: million babies have been aborted. Think of that. Think of it.
Speaker 1: The freest Christian nation in all the world is the
Speaker 1: greatest producing nation of pornographic material in all.
Speaker 4: Of the world.
Speaker 1: He began to say, what do we look like one
Speaker 1: hundred years from now? He began to say, since about
Speaker 1: I forget exactly of the year of fifteenth century, he
Speaker 1: began to say, the Muslims have always developed at least
Speaker 1: one hundred year plan. They're always striving pools. Think about that.
Speaker 1: We're lucky if the Church has a six month plan. Amen,
Speaker 1: What if the global Christianity were to come together with
Speaker 1: one hundred year plan to evangelized the world. You think
Speaker 1: we could do it? You bet we could do it.
Speaker 1: And we've got the Holy Ghost. But what we do
Speaker 1: like is the call of a person, a personal call.
Speaker 1: We always make excuse why I don't have to be involved,
Speaker 1: can be somebody else will do it, somebody else will go,
Speaker 1: somebody else will do it. A God is saying he's
Speaker 1: calling us, He's calling us, He's calling us. I begin
Speaker 1: to I've contemplated in my mind, maybe a thousand times,
Speaker 1: contemplated in my mind, what will America look like one
Speaker 1: hundred years from now Today? I thought about that, and
Speaker 1: I begin to say, what will it look like this
Speaker 1: time tomorrow? What will it look like a week from now,
Speaker 1: year from now, ten years from now, the current trends
Speaker 1: as they are going, What will we look like? Man?
Speaker 1: Will we continue to send missionaries? We have been the
Speaker 1: most evangelizing missions sending nation in the history of humankind.
Speaker 1: Where will we be hundred years from now. Is it
Speaker 1: possible that the generation of your descended and mine will
Speaker 1: look back and say, I don't ever remember that's a
Speaker 1: being a Christianity. Many of us in this room remember
Speaker 1: when prayer in school was acceptable and good. I remember
Speaker 1: being given Gideon New Testament Bibles at my school. I
Speaker 1: remember having crusades in our high school gymnasium. I remember
Speaker 1: when my teachers would pray for me without fee or favor.
Speaker 1: I remember. There's something on the inside of us. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely burning within us that's causing us to demand that
Speaker 1: we come to the understanding that it's not with political
Speaker 1: arrogance or pride. It's not in the dogmatic rhetoric of
Speaker 1: our political speech that the nation has changed. It's by
Speaker 1: the brokenness of our heart. It's by the humility of
Speaker 1: the human spirit. It's the it's by the brokenness of
Speaker 1: the heart that says I cannot tolerate compromise and sin
Speaker 1: in my life. Another moment, I must yield myself fully.
Speaker 1: I must concentrate myself fully to the cause of Christ
Speaker 1: in my generation. I remember this song we sang it.
Speaker 1: Probably you did too, Lord Jim Croachey's house or something
Speaker 1: like this. If I should save time in a bottle,
Speaker 1: if worse should make wishes, I'm true. I'd save every
Speaker 1: day until eternity passes away, just to spend them with you.
Speaker 1: I throw it kind of cool. I love it sometimes
Speaker 1: though the church is like that first bar of the song.
Speaker 1: We want our words to be wishes that our dreams
Speaker 1: had come true, but our lives remains selfish and unswerving.
Speaker 1: Listen to me. I wish I could tell you there
Speaker 1: was an easier path. I wish I could tell you
Speaker 1: that you're going to have somebody come to your church.
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you somebody's going to come
Speaker 1: to the high school. I wish I could tell you
Speaker 1: that we've got a prophet, or we've got an apostle,
Speaker 1: or we got a janitor man. I don't care who
Speaker 1: he is or she. I wish I could tell you
Speaker 1: somebody's going to come and make.
Speaker 5: The right prophetic word upon the right prophetic wind and
Speaker 5: the right emthetic banner will be waved and all of
Speaker 5: our dreams will come true. Because we believe we are
Speaker 5: that special, we forget people in history like John Hussell.
Speaker 1: I can't even go there, John Husks. Amazing man that
Speaker 1: John Huskins.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: One hundred years after me, There's will become a man
Speaker 1: who will carry neither sword nor saved, And yet no
Speaker 1: sword nor saved will ever hinder the work that God
Speaker 1: will birth through him. One hundred years later, Martin Luther
Speaker 1: was born. It was Martin Luther who began to prophesy
Speaker 1: one hundred years and Count Zinzendorf would come and the
Speaker 1: birth of the Moravians.
Speaker 2: It was one.
Speaker 1: Hundred years that James comni Us, James Cominius. History has
Speaker 1: forgotten him, but he was a revolutionary for the way
Speaker 1: to teach children and many of his principles. Though he's
Speaker 1: not given credit for, many of his principles for teaching
Speaker 1: children are still used today. Google him, look him up.
Speaker 1: All of these people are real people who lived in history,
Speaker 1: who determined what's our heart. Man, I just can't live
Speaker 1: for a happy meal and a good time. I got
Speaker 1: to live for something more significant in my life was
Speaker 1: the Moravians. Man who were on a ship and the
Speaker 1: young evangelists by the name of John Wesley began to
Speaker 1: get into conviction because he was coming to America to
Speaker 1: evangelize it but he got on a ship full of Moravians.
Speaker 1: The storm comes up, and Wesley's scared out of his mind,
Speaker 1: and the Moravians are having a party. They're having a
Speaker 1: Holy Ghost party, because everybody knows the Holy Ghost party
Speaker 1: never stopped. So these Moravians were and Westerley was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, here they're not afraid of anything, and
Speaker 1: I think I'm about to die. So he finds the
Speaker 1: place on the ship. The Moravians were amazing to The
Speaker 1: Moravians had an ongoing prayer meeting for one hundred years unbroken.
Speaker 1: It's amazing the Moravians. You know what they'd do in
Speaker 1: their generations. They would literally sign up to sell themselves
Speaker 1: into slavery, believing whatever slave master bought them and whatever
Speaker 1: part of the globe they took them, that was the
Speaker 1: place where they were to evangelize and carry the gospel
Speaker 1: of Jesus. We feel like our week is ruined if
Speaker 1: we have to turn the TV off. Try selling yourself
Speaker 1: into slavery that you might find a place to preach
Speaker 1: the gospel in the earth that's riding. Do you agree, Hey,
Speaker 1: some of your family think you're crazy because you own
Speaker 1: church on Monday night. Wait, till you're telling me about
Speaker 1: to sell yourself in the slavery. Them folks out there
Speaker 1: the house, they gonna call it a patty wagon or
Speaker 1: somebody on you because they're gonna say you out. You
Speaker 1: have a loving mind. But don't worry. They saw it
Speaker 1: coming years ago. They knew it was gonna happen. So
Speaker 1: what is this time? Man? A few years ago? A
Speaker 1: few years ago? Alistair Petrie, after Alistair Petrie, he's been
Speaker 1: to Kentucky many times. Awesome man of time, ouster Petrie.
Speaker 1: Give me a word. One night he beginning to stay rick.
Speaker 1: God said, I'm to give to you Jeremiah six sixteen.
Speaker 1: I love Alistair such a beautiful man. Well not, I
Speaker 1: mean he's just a good he's a great man. Sure,
Speaker 1: he's a good man. And he said jeremih six fifteen.
Speaker 1: God says that you're to go stand at the ancient
Speaker 1: pie and ask stand at the cross roads, ask for
Speaker 1: the ancient pie. See what God begins. And I knew
Speaker 1: when he gave to me Jeremi sixty sixteen. God was
Speaker 1: saying to me, I've set you up. I told you myself.
Speaker 1: Go stand at the crossroads, look at the ancient pie.
Speaker 1: See what I'm must to do. So I set myself
Speaker 1: on a journey to say, Okay, God, all my ships
Speaker 1: are in the day, I don't care. And I told
Speaker 1: my wife at the end of last year, I mean,
Speaker 1: God wants us to go back on the road, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna begin this year twenty sixteen, traveling full time.
Speaker 1: We began this year was this zero meeting, and we
Speaker 1: began this year where I surrenders all of ourselves and
Speaker 1: I said, we're going. We're going by faith. And she said,
Speaker 1: I'm with you, and she said it in a much
Speaker 1: more pepete and wonderful sweet and really keep what becall.
Speaker 1: She loves him, she's encountered him, and she trusted. So
Speaker 1: we sat on the pie, and what we begin to
Speaker 1: discover is God, God, it's far more thrilling to follow
Speaker 1: if you'll let him ever lead you out of.
Speaker 3: Your favorite que That's the truth.
Speaker 1: When we begin to have these encounters. I had the
Speaker 1: dream on the appeal to Heaven's flag, and I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about that, but I had never seen the flags before.
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything about the flag. I saw it
Speaker 1: the dream. I didn't believe the flag was drek to
Speaker 1: my wife, At that point he said to men, you know, Ricky,
Speaker 1: I believe that flag might be real. And I was like,
Speaker 1: I come on five o'clock in the morning. You know,
Speaker 1: gaw Gay is the man of gall Or the Bread,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure he would have told me the flag
Speaker 1: was real. He said, he may just shut your mouth
Speaker 1: and google. I did, and there was a flag and
Speaker 1: now you know Dutch was in it, and you don't
Speaker 1: know all that. And he's gone, and I've gone tell
Speaker 1: the story everywhere. In two and a half years. I've
Speaker 1: never stood before a group of people now one time,
Speaker 1: as anybody ever told me. I learned about that fly.
Speaker 1: I saw him, So it's been hidden for generations. I
Speaker 1: don't understand. The people have sent me pictures from all
Speaker 1: over the world of that fly. It's amazing. My favorite
Speaker 1: one is probably a young missionary friend of mine from
Speaker 1: Brownville Revival School of Ministry ends up going to Northern ira.
Speaker 6: God caused him to go to Northern Iraq.
Speaker 1: He tonight with his beautiful wife and two little babies,
Speaker 1: are an herbal of rit and he's opened up the
Speaker 1: Mesopotamia House of Prayer and he's the most courageous young
Speaker 1: firebrand I've ever seen in my life, and God happened
Speaker 1: twet me in God, that boy and he's believing that God,
Speaker 1: it's going to birth an end time move of the
Speaker 1: spirit of God in Iraq and living under the death
Speaker 1: of threat and his babies by his side. He's baptizing
Speaker 1: Muslims by the.
Speaker 3: Hounds and it's amazing.
Speaker 1: He's holding all night worship gathering in Urbill, Irai. Amazing.
Speaker 1: My favorite picture is Curtishravel Forever. They're going in to fight.
Speaker 1: If they're driving, looks like about a nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 1: Toyota pickup truck and there's about forty five of them
Speaker 1: packed up on the back of that truck like they
Speaker 1: from Alesmi County or something. And look they are, Oh women,
Speaker 1: don't know, does mean boys from Milesing County. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean that. I met Clay County. The whole time I
Speaker 1: met Clay County. They were a power of all over
Speaker 1: that truck and these men you could sit in their faces.
Speaker 1: They were going into battle and on the back of
Speaker 1: that truck they had an appeal to Heaven, Fly Fly,
Speaker 1: And I was like, my God, how does that happen?
Speaker 1: How does the dream go from my bedroom to the
Speaker 1: to our right and to all over the world. But
Speaker 1: the spirit of God is saying, listen to me. The
Speaker 1: dream and the flag is not about a symbol. We're
Speaker 1: not to make a idol out of the fly. The
Speaker 1: flag is just a standard that should call us to
Speaker 1: a place of humility and brokenness. Listen to me, Church,
Speaker 1: It's time we go low that he might be lifted high.
Speaker 1: I had that dream, and I carried it. I shared
Speaker 1: it with duction blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: A few months later, he is the Wednesday night of
Speaker 1: my church pastors. You know, it's packed. Can you imagine it?
Speaker 1: It's scary. Now I've been he's not pastor for nine months,
Speaker 1: and now I'm thinking, my Lord, I wouldn't a good
Speaker 1: past I couldn't have been. I mean, all right, he
Speaker 1: imagine all these companies. My people watched me sweat. He's there,
Speaker 1: My God, man, I see sick or something. Look here.
Speaker 1: One Wednesday night a church. I was up there at
Speaker 1: the front, and all of a sudden, the service was over,
Speaker 1: and I'm standing out here, and the door opened up
Speaker 1: in a sanctuary, and I looked up and here came
Speaker 1: a man. He was an African American man comes walking
Speaker 1: through the door. And he had on this bright purple suit.
Speaker 1: He had a lime green dress shirt. His tie was
Speaker 1: this brilliant pink color. He had on lime green shoes.
Speaker 1: And I promised you the moment I saw him, I said,
Speaker 1: here comes the Bishop of Skillville. I mean, listen to me.
Speaker 1: Meany wrong. But he looked like a bag of skittles
Speaker 1: throw out on the floor. And I was like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I love skittles. But he came
Speaker 1: in and he comes to the door and he said,
Speaker 1: it's Papa in the house. And I looked around. They
Speaker 1: looked straight to me, and that's the papa worst Papa. Listen,
Speaker 1: somebody she want to be Papa. Here's done. We'll make
Speaker 1: Doug papa. And he comes up to me and he says,
Speaker 1: my name is Bishop Isaac Agebecca. I'm from Sudan. This
Speaker 1: is my second time to come to the United States.
Speaker 1: He said. As I was flying into Texas, I had
Speaker 1: only been to Texas, he said one time. He said
Speaker 1: to my second, he said, as I was flying across
Speaker 1: the Gulf of Mexico and I was coming into Texas,
Speaker 1: the spirit of God said to me, you must go
Speaker 1: to Florida because I've got a word you must give
Speaker 1: to Papa.
Speaker 7: Damn.
Speaker 1: So he said, I landed and I asked the people
Speaker 1: in al Paso where is Florida and said, oh, says
Speaker 1: you must get on I ten and just go east,
Speaker 1: drive till you get there, to take you two days.
Speaker 1: So the man says to me, I got in a
Speaker 1: truck and I drove by myself this Plasa. So when
Speaker 1: I come across the state line, he said, Pensacola was
Speaker 1: the first town I thanks to. So he said, this
Speaker 1: must be Florida. He said, well, Pensacola ain't all of Florida.
Speaker 1: This is the beginning. Some people call Pensacola La. Really
Speaker 1: it's the Lower Alabama. Other people call it Ucla, which
Speaker 1: is the ugly corner of the Lower Alabama. But that's
Speaker 1: not true. So he says, I pull into Pensacola, and
Speaker 1: he said, I begin to say, God, it's Papa in
Speaker 1: this house. It's Papa in the city. He said, goffee Da.
Speaker 1: So he said, I've been in your city three days.
Speaker 1: I'd set up every night in my truck. I've eaten nothing.
Speaker 1: I pulled up in front of every church up in
Speaker 1: front of it, and I would park in front of
Speaker 1: the church and I would sit and say, God, it's
Speaker 1: Papa in the house. And he said. Every time God
Speaker 1: would say no, Papa got and he said, go find
Speaker 1: another church. Puck, it's Papa in this house. Oh, guy's
Speaker 1: another church. It's Papa in this house. So he said,
Speaker 1: find it today Wednesday afternoon, I pulled in front of
Speaker 1: your church, and he said. The moment I did, go said, Papa,
Speaker 1: he's here. He said, I'm a fifty years a word
Speaker 1: of the Lord. I summoned my wife to my thigh
Speaker 1: and my elders to gather around me. Of the spirit
Speaker 1: of God's said, you must fear what he said. The
Speaker 1: man never asked me for a thing. He began to
Speaker 1: speak to my wife and I, and though he had
Speaker 1: been sleeping in our vegos, he said to me, God
Speaker 1: is going to move your life. God is going to
Speaker 1: move your marriage. God has already shown you by way
Speaker 1: of a dreaming. He said that awaken him is coming
Speaker 1: to the head. He said.
Speaker 6: The spirit of God told me to tell me, you
Speaker 6: must pummel yourself. You must discipline, you must prepare yourself
Speaker 6: for the days that they have He said, if you
Speaker 6: have ever you must never again raise.
Speaker 1: Your voice in your wife. He said, God coming, and
Speaker 1: he said, when I walked into this burn he said.
Speaker 1: I said, God, surely this is my play. And he said.
Speaker 1: God said, no, this is it.
Speaker 6: I will begin a move of my spirits.
Speaker 1: He said. God said to me, I am about to
Speaker 1: burnt a move of the spirit that will be greater
Speaker 1: insignificant to the Kingdom of God than a Zeusa revival.
Speaker 1: W And I said, I you sup, I feel Mother, God,
Speaker 1: jes people with Charles Parlam, William Feeble, a one eye
Speaker 1: African American man who is not even allowed to sit
Speaker 1: in his own classroom to study the Bible because of
Speaker 1: Jim crow log Man. He had to sit in the hallway,
Speaker 1: He had to sit outside the window. He couldn't even
Speaker 1: sit in the classroom because of the color of his skin.
Speaker 1: And yet today I can't name for you the name
Speaker 1: of one person sitting inside the classroom, but I sure
Speaker 1: know the name of the man sitting in the hallway,
Speaker 1: because it's not the posture that men assigned you to,
Speaker 1: but it's the position of your heart before God and
Speaker 1: God begin to use William Seymour an amazing way we
Speaker 1: all know that. And as Zuso was the instrumental of
Speaker 1: bringing six hundred million people into the Kingdom of God.
Speaker 1: And Isaac oh Becta stood before me and he said,
Speaker 1: you must prepare yourself because God it's coming. That's why
Speaker 1: I didn't do this all. That's why I want. And
Speaker 1: I had a soothing these pastor standing over me. Well
Speaker 1: probody nine or man and it was heaven. But I
Speaker 1: gotta He said to me, listen, ah, he said, while
Speaker 1: you were down, he said, God told me he's gonna
Speaker 1: confirm the word to you. He said, come on, come outside,
Speaker 1: I want to say he said, So I get outside
Speaker 1: and he takes me to this white Toyota Tundra pickup
Speaker 1: truck Beautiful Man Forward or brand new Toyota Tundra pickup truck.
Speaker 1: He pulls the title out of his pocket. He said, look,
Speaker 1: somebody gave this to me. This is my truck. He said,
Speaker 1: I can never take it to see that because he
Speaker 1: never afforded that's for this. But he was showing me
Speaker 1: the title for it. He said, this was given to
Speaker 1: me to mine. And he said to me, God says,
Speaker 1: to confirm this word, He's gonna give you a truck
Speaker 1: like mine, And I'm like, what.
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: What I said to him? Honest? True? What do you
Speaker 1: say when somebody says, wow, that'd be a good start
Speaker 1: right here here? Here's what I said. Uh, I don't
Speaker 1: really know what to say right now, so I use
Speaker 1: what I said to him. I said, if you don't mind,
Speaker 1: will you please remind the Lord that I'm afford man? Now,
Speaker 1: that's all for in it, I promise you. That's what
Speaker 1: I said to him. Any shit you want to afford
Speaker 1: to eat? He said, okay. About two weeks later then
Speaker 1: comes by, true it nice to come. Let me see
Speaker 1: what a boss I said to say. You bought a
Speaker 1: brand new truck? He said, I come home, man, litiful?
Speaker 1: He said, you gonna go for a ride here? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: I never been. I promise you, I've never been in
Speaker 1: the truck like that. He said, you want to drive it?
Speaker 1: I said, are you kidding me? Who wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: drive this truck? And he pitched me the keys and
Speaker 1: I got up in the seat. Look like a Cadillac. Man,
Speaker 1: I know what I've talked about from me if I
Speaker 1: was like, can you see me?
Speaker 2: I grew up.
Speaker 1: I grew up in my dread daddy's old truck. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, bounce around. It's like wool said,
Speaker 1: driving down the road and the man said, do you
Speaker 1: like it? That man, this truck? What's about the white?
Speaker 1: He said? Good? And my wife and not some reason
Speaker 1: he told him for go buy me sure it was
Speaker 1: a white.
Speaker 6: Ford or Ford F one as Sistan had the same
Speaker 6: colored tan interior as Isaac Convecto.
Speaker 1: It was the very same truck, except it was a Ford.
Speaker 1: Y'all not even listening to me, right and that trucks
Speaker 1: parked out in the old driveway right now. And I've
Speaker 1: got one hundred and forty thousand miles from it, but
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 6: The point is this, sometimes to come to church expecting
Speaker 6: the church to meet my need, when it's in the
Speaker 6: place of encounter that we find all of our needs
Speaker 6: are supplied, said.
Speaker 1: This man, Isaac Vecta. He said to me, he said, listen,
Speaker 1: prepare yourself because he's coming. I want to kind of
Speaker 1: thought one more stories. I do. Actually I've got ten mores,
Speaker 1: but I'm eliminating note. So that was about the two
Speaker 1: in November. The supirit of the Lord said to me
Speaker 1: with that, I want you to prepare yourself for pastor,
Speaker 1: because I'm coming. And he said, I'm coming in the
Speaker 1: season of Pastor. So kid, it so struck me with truth.
Speaker 1: I went to my elders, I went to my staffe,
Speaker 1: I went to my congregation, and I told him exactly
Speaker 1: what I told him, And I said, this is November,
Speaker 1: some time in the season apostle, March, April, some time
Speaker 1: in that window. He's coming, and we've got to get that.
Speaker 1: So I said, we're going to get this place ready.
Speaker 1: We painted the church, we'd put down new floorings, we
Speaker 1: would end up putting the new roof on the building.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. I said, we're going to dress this
Speaker 1: room up as though he were just going to walk
Speaker 1: into the room. And we spit from November from March
Speaker 1: getting ready for his coming. And I learned from November
Speaker 1: to March. The Lord told me to preach on two days.
Speaker 1: Number One, I preached on the Covenant promises of God.
Speaker 1: Number two, I preached on the renewing of the prayer Moses.
Speaker 1: Every time I stood up every time in my pullet,
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday. It didn't matter what it was.
Speaker 1: Every time say he's coming. Monday morning, we're doing Covenant Promise.
Speaker 1: Sunday night we're doing prayer. Wednesday night, we're doing activated.
Speaker 1: We did it weekend, weaken, weaking, weekend weekend we seek, painting, cleaning,
Speaker 1: cleaning out room. All I can envision was the Lord
Speaker 1: coming into the temple, overturning the table because the place
Speaker 1: was a net. And I was like God. And one
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, March sixteen, I was standing on a pulpit
Speaker 1: and I was getting ready to preach, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I stepped over here and I was standing
Speaker 1: in my profect exactly like I'm standing here. I was
Speaker 1: exhorting the congregation on a Sunday morning. I was exhorting
Speaker 1: the congregation about guess what about what God was doing
Speaker 1: in Kentucky. By the way, people in people in Florida,
Speaker 1: they think I live in Kentucky. They don't he right, Seriously,
Speaker 1: it's once you just moved there because I got two
Speaker 1: beautiful of grand babies in Florida. Bobby ain't leaving. That's
Speaker 1: another story. But a standing there like this, I talked
Speaker 1: to her about what God was Reallyking fact, listen, I
Speaker 1: was raised in the chirp of the nass Ram. I
Speaker 1: don't thought that at all. I don't fight at all.
Speaker 1: Gave me a great foundation in the strict but they
Speaker 1: don't embrace the gifts of the spirit.
Speaker 6: And but in that time, I was never taught to
Speaker 6: believe in dreams of this again at all, by the fact,
Speaker 6: we were warned against.
Speaker 1: And told to be stay away from people who had them.
Speaker 1: So I had never had a vision. Lots of things
Speaker 1: are new for me, I'm I told noting them today.
Speaker 1: I never Jennifer and I had never been to a
Speaker 1: movie in our lives until about seven eight years ago, maybe,
Speaker 1: so people talk about these movies and movies. I was
Speaker 1: clue with the talk. I mean, I don't and we've
Speaker 1: never seen uh, you know, it's a wonderful life or
Speaker 1: any of those. We don't know anyway, it's just the
Speaker 1: way we will array. There's that. It's not bad, just
Speaker 1: the way we're raising. Just sitting there, I never had
Speaker 1: a vision in my life, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I was sit there talking with ms right back here,
Speaker 1: I saw the Lord step in the ten and I immediately, Oh,
Speaker 1: if you watch the video of the show, you'll see
Speaker 1: me just talk into the crowd.
Speaker 8: And then all of a sudden, it's laughing. My eyes blocked,
Speaker 8: I said, and I saw him, and I was a flash.
Speaker 1: I stood there for a moment and I thought I'm dying.
Speaker 1: I'm like those I can't believe it, but I think
Speaker 1: he begins to walk towards me, and my body begins
Speaker 1: to just shrunk. My fact, if you watch the video,
Speaker 1: you can begin to hear my breathing get heavy in
Speaker 1: the microphone. You can begin to hear a shortness of breath.
Speaker 1: You can begin to watch my body get weaker and
Speaker 1: weaker and weaker. As he came toward me. I thought
Speaker 1: I was d nothing and wanted to go running up
Speaker 1: to him and slap him on the back, give him
Speaker 1: some knuckles. Le'll say, what's up her, give me some skin.
Speaker 1: Everything new ILL did there, and he could begin to
Speaker 1: walk towards me. I noticed in his left hand he
Speaker 1: was holding an unfurled folid white flash, and then inside
Speaker 1: of me, I knew it. I felt like it was
Speaker 1: for the harvest of soult. This was about five months
Speaker 1: after I was back.
Speaker 6: In the other hand, his right hand, he was carrying
Speaker 6: a torch, but he had no torch in his hand.
Speaker 6: He was holding his hands like this, and the flanks
Speaker 6: were emanating about him, and he walked into the room.
Speaker 1: And everything in me was immediately still, as though I'd
Speaker 1: been overfrowned. Oh, he walks up.
Speaker 6: The closer he gets to me, the more I go down.
Speaker 6: My whole church had no idea what happen. And I
Speaker 6: was going like this, and they were just watching me
Speaker 6: go like this.
Speaker 1: To finally to this student. I thought my life had
Speaker 1: passed me before my eyes. I thought I'm dying. I
Speaker 1: thought I'm having a stroke. My heart attacked, I'm gone.
Speaker 1: He gets to me, he takes the hands of the
Speaker 1: fire and begins to bathe my face, and I begin
Speaker 1: to feel.
Speaker 7: It go into my eyes and my nose tears out.
Speaker 7: I begin to be it, this spire, and the moment
Speaker 7: I felt I answered. It was about eleven fifteen in
Speaker 7: the morning.
Speaker 1: I lay on the floor.
Speaker 6: And never opened my eyes until two thirty in the afternoon,
Speaker 6: when I opened my eyes and looked.
Speaker 1: The church was sitting exactly where they were, I mean,
Speaker 1: eleven fifty and nobody had to move, and nobody said
Speaker 1: a storm, and nobody begin from eleven fifteen two when
Speaker 1: I woke up, Jennifer was sitting right here at my head,
Speaker 1: and I looked up at her. And the first thing
Speaker 1: I said to him, am I dead? I said, no,
Speaker 1: you're very much alike. And I said, I'll begin the week.
Speaker 1: I said, I I can't rely love with See. She said, listen,
Speaker 1: it was not that kind of staff for the all
Speaker 1: I'd lay there. Here's what the Lord said to me,
Speaker 1: what I want to say.
Speaker 6: Very quickly I said, it said man the world said,
Speaker 6: I'm about to become.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna relieve a revelation of the Father's farm.
Speaker 1: We have reached the place in America where we're far
Speaker 1: more in love with the Church than we are with
Speaker 1: the body. He's about to pour out upon us a
Speaker 1: revelation of his heart, revelation of his life, the revelation
Speaker 1: of the fatherhood of God. In a nation that continues
Speaker 1: to denigrate father and family jobs, begin me to release
Speaker 1: the revelation of the Fox. And he said, through the
Speaker 1: revelation of the Father's heart, I'm gonna release the fire
Speaker 1: of my holiness. And through the fire of my holiness,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna reach the greatest part the world of the s.
Speaker 6: And he said to me, I'm beginning a move of
Speaker 6: my spirits, no building will ever contain, no ministry will.
Speaker 1: Ever control it. At the end of that nine I
Speaker 1: wrote about twelve pages from the encounter I had with
Speaker 1: a world on the floor. I never shared it. It's
Speaker 1: not one person, but my life from that time to now.
Speaker 1: But at two thirty I still couldnt get up office.
Speaker 1: I stayed on the floors until about six o'clock that night.
Speaker 1: Ever that you like the end of that night, at
Speaker 1: the men of my church literally picked me up, put
Speaker 1: me in my car, drive me home, lay me on
Speaker 1: my couch, and I woke up the next morning. Told
Speaker 1: it well, that Monday nine, I told him that night,
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, we need to have.
Speaker 6: A mening called this pastor, this pastor, this pastor, this
Speaker 6: y God said what he's about to do. We cannot
Speaker 6: keep him still, It's gonna spread.
Speaker 1: So the next night we had a revival. Then we
Speaker 1: didn't know how many would be there. If anybody we
Speaker 1: went and our church, our church would seep probably forehnce
Speaker 1: with the people completely full, people standing, people standing in
Speaker 1: for you, people standing in the hallway over here, places
Speaker 1: completely out. And from that Monday ninth till nearly a.
Speaker 6: Year favor we cared that vid all of them do
Speaker 6: it Florida, Alabama and Prosifi Louisiana. Has I still go
Speaker 6: to prices today.
Speaker 1: Where God began to revolve in Mississippi and begann Alabama, Florida.
Speaker 1: God began to revolve and those two cause cause, doctor,
Speaker 1: we could not keep it in our house. I had
Speaker 1: to go out that from that time to thousand I
Speaker 1: I can't tell you, I promise a dozen remembers hurt 'em,
Speaker 1: probably more than anybody.
Speaker 6: I can't tell you the number of crazy, crazy praise
Speaker 6: encounters and things that happened that he would never even
Speaker 6: hardly believe.
Speaker 1: Because God is releasing him a promise in the earth
Speaker 1: and was coming touches people. And that is the encounter
Speaker 1: from which the revival began. That brought little shame into
Speaker 1: my life, and A told the storyline. We saw young
Speaker 1: people that were committed to vampires.
Speaker 6: We saw a young man that drank human blood every
Speaker 6: day and he would only bathe in human blood.
Speaker 1: He came in the seeding to tear it up. He
Speaker 1: the one that got told us and God set him run,
Speaker 1: and now he's bringing worse in the little church. How
Speaker 1: the how was the middle of the bullish him mystifies
Speaker 1: and the dolphin God one touch one a count and
Speaker 1: there's no telling what cannot.
Speaker 2: Krank prank.
Speaker 1: And it's not about me. It's about God's saying he
Speaker 1: loves this man and he loves his people, and we're
Speaker 1: not waiting on him to come and make us right.
Speaker 1: He's waiting on us. Was come and bow and they
Speaker 1: killed kid. That's you see, how can God ever used me?
Speaker 1: You've kidding me. I grew up on local street and it.
Speaker 6: And the summer, I had the privilege of the family
Speaker 6: of the steps of Lincoln Memorial to share the story
Speaker 6: of my dreams with the family of Martin Luther King
Speaker 6: Junior sitting in the list. And when I got downe
Speaker 6: telling them the story of my just on the steps
Speaker 6: of the Lincoln Memorial with Martin Luther King Junior's family
Speaker 6: and the living. Then they take me to the tenth
Speaker 6: and they give me a gift in the King's family,
Speaker 6: and it's a piece of the stone that started in
Speaker 6: my truckle. They gave to me a piece of the
Speaker 6: stone that Martin Luther King Junior stood.
Speaker 1: On on that day and part off side to the nation.
Speaker 2: I have to.
Speaker 1: Give me a piece of this stuff. I say what,
Speaker 1: you don't have it. You believe that you're stepping in
Speaker 1: the prophetic step of the Father is gone, and I
Speaker 1: don't care. I don't care what obstacle you gotta get over,
Speaker 1: get around, get through, get to to get to a place,
Speaker 1: or you encounter five. I'm telling you right now, whatever
Speaker 1: happens tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Happen you.
Speaker 6: Rest assured you. God has not stands a pot. He's
Speaker 6: not forgotten your gif narration. He's releasing the dreams your
Speaker 6: generation just looking for expek excuse me.
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Speaker 6: God bless you all.