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Jonathan Shuttlesworth
Financing The Ministry: Keys to Enjoying Financial Prosperity in Ministry
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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revival today.com and now here is Evangelist Jonathan. I want you, if you have your Bibles, open it with me to Deuteronomy chapter 28. This is a passage that I read often and that God used to changed my life. I did a bad job moving this podium yesterday, so if somebody would move this down on the floor for me, I appreciate it. Thank you. I mean, appreciate Pastor west opening the doors of the church so we could have these meetings. If you're watching online, we're going to do questions and answers when I finish. So I can help you with anything you need specifically and you can send your questions and they'll give you a prompt on the screen how to do that so you can join in this this is a live meeting. We're in Mars Hill, Maine, right on the Maine Canada border. If you're in Canada or Maine or Vermont, you can come over. We've got tonight at 7 o', clock tomorrow again for ministers at 10am and then finish Friday at 7. If you're watching in Arizona, I'll be there Saturday morning at 10:00am if you're in Fort Worth, Texas, I'll be at our church there Sunday at 9. And if you're watching in Spokane, Washington, I'll be there Monday night at 7pm Deuteronomy 28, verse 1. If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I'm giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. There's a Bible scholar named Finis Dake that had a rule for Bible interpretation. When you read the Bible, take it literally wherever possible. Where not possible, search for the literal meaning. So if you take these as encouraging words or just nice things God said, you're going to live a pretty average to below average life. In fact, you will live a very below average life statistically. Let me see the this is an income breakdown by religion in America. Number 1 Jewish Percentage of households making 100,000 or more 44% 2nd Hindu, 3rd Episcopal, 4th Presbyterian, 5th atheist, 5th 6 agnostic not sure 7 Orthodox Christian then United Church of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church in America, Unitarian Universalist, Lutheran Church in Missouri, Mormon, Muslim, average Catholic who take a vow of poverty. Nothing in particular. Confused people, Churches of Christ, Southern Baptists that don't believe in prosperity at all, Seventh Day Adventists just big on Saturdays, Buddhists, Buddhists that take an absolute vow of poverty and basically just practice karate up in the forest. And then here we are, Assemblies of God, American Baptist Churches, Church of God in Christ. So look, whether it's black Pentecostal or white Pentecostal, the statistics are almost exactly the same then National Baptist Convention and at the bottom, Jehovah's Witness. So when you see them come to your house on foot or on a bicycle, now you know why? Can't even get a car. They're dead last when they come and say, can I pray for you? Say, why don't you let me pray for you? How can the people that I believe. And you know, I'm not just saying if somebody's got in church, you got in Christ. I'm saying the people that have the full gospel and carry the light of God and have the message that God's given to impact the world, why are they so far at the bottom? How can you have a full understanding of God's word and be this much below Muslims and average and Catholic? The only answer is there has to be a contaminant that was introduced into the system. No one could perform that poorly without somebody doing something to mess up how you believe and behave and that. And now I grew up in the Pentecostal movement. Many of you did. We were taught things about money that are so absolutely stupid that it caused us to be the worst performing people more than atheists. People that hate God do better. So what's most people's answer to that? That's because when you serve God, you can be an atheist if you want and have money. But if you serve God, no, because we're going to read here that God didn't say, if you serve him, he'll give you less. He said if you serve him, he'll give you more. Can you say amen? But everything with God is cooperative. You have to cooperate with God's healing plan. You have to cooperate with God's salvation. Well, if God wants me blessed, I'll just be blessed. No, that's like somebody that won't come to church. If God wants to save me, he'll just save me. No, they have to find out that 2000 years ago Jesus died on the cross and you have to receive what he did for you to be saved. Well, it comes that way with every other thing that's in the Bible. You know why I've had Baptist pastors ask me this? Why don't we see people healed in our churches? You don't preach healing. Whatever you don't preach, people don't have. And so if you preach money wrong or you don't preach on it at all. You got pastors that are blessed. Well, we don't talk about it because it's very controversial where we're at. If you want to preach things that aren't controversial, then just quit the ministry. Because it's got to the point that it's controversial to believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven. Other Christians don't believe that Billy Graham's ministry abandoned their model of evangelism because it doesn't work anymore. Franklin Graham put that as a public statement. You used to be able to. If they were going to do a crusade in Northern Maine, you could get the Lutherans, Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic, everybody. And you could say, we all disagree on small doctrine, but we can all agree that Jesus is the only way to heaven. Everyone would shake their hand. And so we. Or shake their head and raise their hand. That's true. So we can all work together on that to see the lost one. But you, if you did that now, if you grouped up all the churches in Northern Maine, Rainbow Flag Methodist, Rainbow Flag Presbyterian, and said the Bible is the inspired word of God and Jesus is the only way to heaven, they don't believe that anymore. And so the day, if I'll tell you where you're going to break through and have an impactful ministry is when you quit caring about everybody thinking you're all right. Most people that are here are one Instagram comment away from getting thrown into a tizzy for four hours. Why would she write that? I wonder if she's. I've never said that. Let me write back to her then keep hitting refresh, see what they say. Your family's falling apart because you're trying to win an argument with Wolfman 1964 with green eyes. You have to stop caring what people think and start getting hyper focused on what God thinks. God's approval and what God said. And that's the difference that's going to get raised up in the last day. God's raising up a new generation of ministers that have an allegiance to his word and don't mind the opinions of people, if that's you, can you say a living Amen? So what did God say? Deuteronomy 28. If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I'm giving you today, everybody say, carefully keep all the commands. We're going to read a wonderful list of blessings, but it is predicated on carefully keeping all the commands that God gave you so you can't ignore them. You ignore them. At your own peril. If you ignore them, it doesn't work. But if you do them, you get it all. The Lord your God will set you high above the nations of the world. You will experience. Everybody say, I'll experience. I'm not just having you repeat stuff to repeat it. I was raised with whether we have anything or not, I know I'm blessed. No, the Bible doesn't say it'll be an intangible blessing. The blessing is intangible, but it'll manifest where there's an experience of the blessing. You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord, your God, your towns and your fields will be blessed. Your children and your crops will be blessed. Everybody say, my towns and my fields will be blessed. Has anybody been to our church in Pittsburgh? Wow. We have. Thanks for coming. We have a convenience store in Pittsburgh. It's called Sheetz. They have made to order food. They were one of the first gas stations that did it, where you go to a digital screen and they'll cook mozzarella sticks, sandwiches. They'll make it for you right there. The sheets by our church. The manager told my nephew, who's our youth pastor, Jay Ortiz, that that sheets during what no eye has seen set. That's a four billion dollar company. I think it's the largest private company in Pennsylvania. That sheet has the record for most food sales in a month from the July that we're having. What no eyes seen. We found out because when he went in to buy food, the manager came and said, you, why did you not have that conference this year? Because we had it in Texas. They said, oh, we had in Texas. Are you going to have it here again? He said, yeah, probably at some point. He said, please see if your pastor will have it here again, because when you did, we set the record for most food sales. Government treats church like it's an imposition on society. We could be getting tax revenue from that place. But they, first of all, if this church shut down, what's going to open up in Mars Hill, Maine? Not. Not a computer chip manufacturing place. It's not like they're going to be getting billions of dollars of tax revenue. It'd be a vape shop. I don't know what wind chimes, I don't know what they'd sell here. So they act like the church is an imposition on society. But you know what they're going to find out after we're gone? That in seven years the whole thing will have imploded on itself. We are not a detriment to society. We are the salt of the earth and the light the world. Can you say amen? So you rising up in blessing now? Think of this. I didn't try to do any of this. I have 80 full time employees that now live in that area in Pennsylvania that own homes and pay taxes and don't beat their wife and don't mug people and don't commit have DUIs and commit a vehicular assault. Just the ministry. We're starting to become one of the largest employers in that area of Pittsburgh and we're only four years old and it'll keep going your towns see. Start to see yourself as a blessing, not someone in need of blessing. Say this. God has blessed me and made me a blessing. And you're going to be a blessing the rest of your life in Jesus name your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring of your herds and flocks will be blessed. Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be blessed. Wherever you go and whatever you do. Everybody say wherever I go where I pastor in Fort Kent. It's a very hard area. No, you have a hard head. Now I don't know if anyone pastor in Fort Kent. So that's not a. Hopefully not a word of knowledge to rebuke a pastor here. I was just trying to pick a place no one lives. But I'm kind of close to it, so maybe I messed up. Everybody say wherever I go. People talk themselves death and life is in the power of the tongue. My dad tells this story. There was a youth pastor at Whited Bible Camp. This has to go back 20 years now, right? More. Yeah. So it's safe ish to tell. He would say around camp all the time, I want to be like Jesus and die when I'm 33 and laugh after he said the second time my dad heard it, my dad pulled him aside and said, you need to quit saying that. Death and life's in the. Nah, I'm just messing around. And then he kept saying it. He died when. Yeah, that's. So that's that positive confession stuff. Listen, if you don't like the faith message, go join the. Go join the Catholic Church or something. Go kiss a statue of Mary. We have the faith message. Catherine Amy Semple McPherson took the faith message up here in a tent meeting and blew this county open in one set of tent meetings. The message that changes the world is, is that you have power through Christ to speak to mountains, to have the windows of heaven open over your life, to be healed, to carry healing in your hands. Don't back off of it. Go into it stronger. In Jesus name can you say Amen? Praise God. Well that's hyper faith. When I was in Bible college, our dean said that the hyper faith message, I said, I raised my hand. I said hyper means too much. How can you have too much of the only thing that pleases God? It doesn't say without faith it's difficult to please God. It says without faith it is impossible to please God. And then it tells you the two pillars that Bible faith stands on. Hebrews 11:6. Anyone that comes to him successfully must believe that he is. How many legs are on your chair? If you kick one of those legs out, is the chair usable anymore? No. So the same with faith. Both things have to be in place or it doesn't work. Most people get the God is part and that he is what? Yeah, not a punisher. Anyway. When you go into the ministry, God's going to test you. He's going to bless you. The tests come. But God won't even allow a test to come that he hasn't pre qualified you to beat by his power. Can you say amen? You know, I've been preaching the full gospel in God. The prosperity gospel. It's called the full gospel. Nobody came to God rich and God made him poor. You don't read an Abraham. God told him and said, go to the land that I'll show you and I'll put you in section 8, housing and WIC. No, go to the land that I'll show you and I will bless you and make you great. Can you say Amen? And so you preach the full gospel. Well, you get criticized for it. You know why? Because the devil can't stop the power of God's word. He can just try to get God's people to be ashamed of what the Bible says. That's what he did in Acts 2. The devil. First way to try to stop the move of the Holy Ghost was to mock them. These men are just drunk. You're one of those prosperity preachers. Is that an insult? You know, my daughter goes to Christian school. Her teacher said you go to that church where everybody's rich. Am I supposed to be ashamed of that? And everybody that's not rich is getting rich. We used to bus 60 some people in a Sunday and we're going to start busting more than that in now that we got the new building coming. And I was checking the numbers because I like data. And we had six people bused in the week before. We had eight the week before. That we had four. So I called the guy that's in charge of bus outreach. I said, what are you doing? Used to bus in 60 some people, you're down to four. Are you trying to get fired? And he said, real nice, sir. I'm not making excuses, but the reason there's so few people bused in is because almost all of them have gotten jobs and cars and they don't need bust anymore. There's nothing wrong with coming to Christ poor, but as you follow the instructions of the Bible, it is impossible to stay at that low level. Can you say Amen? God is looking to it said, there, I'll set you on high above all the nations of the world. And it says, I'll bless you. Let me see my scripture again. Deuteronomy 28. Wherever you go, if you don't have this, you'll never have blessing because they'll talk you out of being blessed everywhere you go in the ministry. I used to preach almost all my meetings in eastern Canada, where we're near right now, Quebec, New Brunswick, and then Maine and Vermont. They would say, the spiritual climate here. Almost every pastor, the spiritual climate here is as cold as the winters. Then I got called to go preach in Arizona for the first time in 2012. I'm not making this up. On my connecting flight in Dallas, Fort Worth, I was walking to my gate and the pastor beeped in. I hadn't talked to him yet and I hadn't met him. He said, have you ever preached in Arizona before? I said, I haven't. He said, you're going to find the spiritual climate here is as dry as the desert. I thought, son of a gun, the devil's got a weather analogy. To talk every single minister out of things working, you have to get Joshua 129 strong in your spirit. Wherever the sole of my foot will tread, I'm on land that God's given to me. That place might be cold, but when I go there, God's not sending me there to fail. God's giving me a plan to flip that thing around for the power of God. Can you say Amen? I'll tell you one. I had two meetings one month when Adele and I launched out on our own. And one of them was at a big church in New York City, and the other was at a small country church in central Pennsylvania. Those are my two meetings for the. For the month. The Sunday. The New York one was for a Sunday, and the Pennsylvania one was Sunday through Wednesday. So I had kind of budgeted. I mean, it's Almost impossible to budget. But back then I'm like, okay, I need 3,500 to break even this month. I'm gonna believe that 2,500 will come in in New York because it's a big church. And then the little church that's got 40 people and I'm there for a few days, I don't believe that a thousand dollars come in, which would be a lot. So I go to New York first. They don't pay me. Yeah, you're surprised, aren't you? In the ministry, You've never had that happen to you. I wish I had your life. They don't pay me. And then I go to the country church. Now I'm thinking, shoot, man, this is not good because that's not going to come in from these people. And Sunday morning after I finished preaching, this couple came up to me with tears in their eyes. They said, we wanted to give you this. We've been saving up money. Now there's no. This is 2007. There's not really social media and I certainly wasn't using it. There's no YouTube live. There's no way for anybody to know you. And they said, we wanted to give you this. And they gave me a check for $8,400. I said, why? They said, we'll tell you why. Last year we were doing our family devotions and the Lord said, begin to set money aside. We said, for what? The Lord said, when it's time, I'll show you. And they said, we just started saving money for over a year. And then this morning when we woke up for church, the Lord said, now it's time to cash that money out and bring it to church. And so they did. And when they said, when you got up to preach, the Lord said, it's for him. And so they had the money pre prepared. This is what I'm trying to get across to you. These are my books. This one is called the 20 laws that govern the Financial Anointing. Everybody say the financial anointing. That's what I'm going to talk to you about as a minister, because this is not talked about. Just like almost nobody can talk about healing without getting into diet and supplements and exercise, which is all great, but that's not divine healing. Jesus didn't give the blind man a sack of carrots and beta carotene supplements. Can you say amen? Yeah. He didn't tell the crippled man he needed to exercise more. He healed them. And then when it comes to financial wealth, think of this. Elijah did not tell the widow how to budget her meal in oil so that it could last longer. It wouldn't matter how much she cut back or how much she saved. She didn't have enough food to last. And the cruse of oil and jar of meal multiplied for three years. The Bible says in the first iteration of the New Living Translation, First Kings 17:16, no matter how much she used, there was always plenty left over. God hates waste. We have budgets, we don't waste. I had Patrick that runs our money. Do what Elon Musk did when Trump got in. Just go in and cut contracts and push stuff back. We renegotiated all kinds of stuff. God hates waste. But I'm not talking about saving and skimping, because that's the disease that's in most churches. Everything's about saving money and we can't afford that. It's good to not be wasteful. But the Bible blessing is not God telling you how to cut back. It's see if I won't open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that's so great you won't have enough room to take it all in. I want you to know today, that's the purpose of today. From today, you're going to operate in the El Shaddai open windows of heaven. More than enough in your finances and ministry, if you believe it, can you say a living? Amen. Amen. So there it is where everybody say, wherever I go, I will be blessed. You know? So remember that in the ministry, people don't really respond to altar calls. Here they will when I give them. People aren't really big on healing Here they will be by the time I'm done preaching. Now, you don't have to say that. You can if you want, but you don't have to say it. But you should have that on the inside of you. You just nod your head and disregard every negative thing they say because what's going to happen? I don't know how many evangelists are here, but I'm a pastor, so I'm not knocking pastors. I am a pastor, but they project. You know, our people don't really come out. Yeah, for you, they'll kind of go through their thing. Actually, if you listen to them, you start realizing where they need breakthrough. There's not really any giving here. Okay, that's a problem that you facilitated. It's impossible to teach the Word and not have the results of the Word. The Word is incorruptible seed and gathers the thing that it's taught to Do. Can you say amen? Acts, chapter 19. Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? We haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit. You never receive what you don't have taught and preached to you. Can you say Amen? And likely, sadly, I'll probably be the only person you have maybe for the rest of your life that teaches you on financial abundance. All these people, all these prosperity preachers. Name three. Name three besides me. Can't do it. Even the ones that used to preach it have all dialed back. You know, I don't really believe that anymore. I don't feel the tithe is for today. They've stepped off of it. And what's been the result? The result is the people that are supposed to be carrying the message that'll change America are the poorest group of people. What did it say? 9% make 100,000 household income or more. How? How can you be that low? Jews 44% and any Pentecostal. If you bring that up, well, they're God's people. Guess what, genius? The same blessing of Abraham that's on them has been brought to all those that are in Christ Jesus. Welcome to the generation that'll flip the table on the devil in Jesus name. If you believe it, can you say Amen? Wherever you go and whatever you do, you'll be blessed. The Lord will conquer your enemies when they attack you. Doesn't say anything about you praying. God just wipes them out. They'll attack you from one direction and they'll scatter from you in seven. The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he's giving you. So not Heaven bless you in the land that he's giving you if you obey the commands of the Lord your God. I mean, you know, my dad had a miracle where he was given a house. That house and land looks 10 times better now after he's had it than before he had it. Christians carry a blessing. If you give property to a real Christian, it'll shine. Can you say Amen? There's people that house could have been given to that have a heroin problem or just regular degenerates that smoke and drink. And that house would be falling in on itself. The property would be overgrown. Christians carry a blessing. If you go preach in a prison, the prison starts getting saved. Wherever you go, you carry something that overwhelms the spirit that's in that place. Can you say Amen? The Lord will guarantee A blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. What does that mean? Say this before any need arises. The provision is there ahead of time. It's not praying meals on the table. You can do that in the beginning. But if you're still praying meals on the table and you're in your 60s, there's a problem because it should hit a point where there's Psalm 23:5. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runs empty. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup. So the Bible's telling you when you make room for the anointing. The anointing, the Holy Spirit who moved over the waters on a formless flooded earth and then brought order to it. The Holy Spirit facilitates increase. Just like if somebody gets demon possessed, they end up clothless, jobless, marriage fails, the devil brings chaos and decrease. God brings order and increase. Amen. You guys are great to preach to, swore to do. Then all the nations of the world will see that you're a people claimed by God. So it's a visible blessing and they'll stand in awe of you. The Lord will give you prosperity. I don't like prosperity. Well, then go up to heaven and correct God. I hear people. I don't feel like you should use the word prosperity. Okay, he used it, so go correct him. Prosperity is God's word, it's not the devil's word. And prosperity means so much more than money. Amen. Yeah, but it also means money. Want to see it? Let me see. Genesis 12:1 to 3. The Lord said to Abram, leave your native country, your relatives and your father's family. I dealt with this on. Is it Joshua 24:2? Let me see Joshua 24:2. Why did he have to leave his family? I think it's. Yeah. Joshua said to the people, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. Long ago, your ancestors, including Tara, the father of Abraham, lived beyond the Euphrates river and they worshiped idols. Some scholars tell you that Abraham's father was an idol maker. So God told Abraham, if I'm going to bless you, you need to get out of that idol worshiping house and go to the land that I'll show you. Everybody that comes into God's financial prosperity, there's a breaking you have to have from systems that you were taught. And so that's why he had to leave. God's not just making him leave his dad for as a test, go back Genesis 12:1 3. Leave your father's family, your native country and your Relatives and go to the land that I will show you and I will make you into a great nation. So this is the Abrahamic blessing. Now I'm going out of order, so I might as well go all the way out of order. Why am I reading all this? What's Deuteronomy 28:1 14? God re codifying to Abraham's descendants what the blessing is. Specifically, this is the blessing given to Abraham. So old time Pentecostals of which I'm one would say, oh, the Jews, of course the Jews are at the top. In fact, if you went to the most poor hating of prosperity Pentecostal church there is, and before you showed that graph you said, now I'm going to tell you what, by religion I'm going to rank. What religion would you guess is the richest at the top? Old Pentecostals that hate prosperity would say the Jews. When you asked them why they'd say the blessing of Abraham. Well, this will change your life. Galatians 3, 13:14. Galatians 3, 13 14. But Christ has redeemed us not just from sin, from the curse of the law. Everybody say the curse of the law. Curse of the law is recorded in Deuteronomy 29. I don't have time for this today. But if, if you want Deuteronomy 28:15 to 68 will show you what you've been redeemed from. Anything that's in that curse of the law, you have a legal right to reject it from your life. Well, let's see some go to Deuteronomy 28:43. What have I been redeemed from? The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger while you become weaker and weaker. What's happening in the United Kingdom right now? What's happening in Belgium right now? If a nation won't serve God, God said there'll be an influx of foreign people and foreign gods and, and that you will serve them and you will serve their gods. That's why we contend for revival. Islam will never set up shop in the United States of America in Jesus name. 44. They will lend money to you, but you'll not lend to them. Borrowing money is listed as a curse. When you see it, it'll take the taste for it out of your mouth. There's a great pastor that if I mentioned his name, you would know who he was. He has one of the great churches in America. He got cancer and he didn't want to take chemotherapy. He wanted to do natural holistic treatments. He was the key man on the insurance for the loan of the church. So the bank told him, we don't allow you to do holistic treatments because we own your church, and you're the key man on the thing. Well, yank the loan if you don't have chemotherapy. And they forced him to get chemotherapy because he was a borrower. I heard that when I was 29. And that took the taste for borrowing money out of my mouth. Because the Bible says the borrower is servant to the lender. Can you say amen? God said, if you serve me, you won't be a servant of anyone else. From today, the last loan you ever took to do God's work or personally be the last one you ever take, you'll be the head and not the tail. The lender and not the borrower. If you believe it, can you say amen? They will be the head and you will be the tail. 45. If you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and obey the commands and decrees he has given you, all these curses will pursue and overtake you until you're destroyed. That's why if you have friends that live in sin, they kind of crap out in Maine. So then they'll move to wherever. And then within 18 months, they've recreated the exact same life in Massachusetts or New Hampshire that they had in Maine. Then they move from there. You can't outrun a curse. And then on the flip side, when you're blessed, they can put you anywhere. What do you think would happen? Like during COVID when we. When we not only didn't shut our ministry down, announced we were going to have the largest Easter service since the original Easter, and it made international news when we did that. People called me and said, what are you gonna do if you go to prison? I said, what do you think I'm gonna do if I go to prison? Let me ask you, if I went to prison, what do you think I'd be doing? Exactly what I'm doing right now. There would be a large group of men in that prison that are born again. In fact, I'm not stupid. The prison that they would send me to, I was already preaching in for that reason. Why don't you come in? And I already know people there. I know the warden. I know. I know. I know Crips. I know Bloods. I know Latin Kings. I know Aryan Nation. I'd be the first prisoner that they had a fantasy draft to see who gets them on their team. Yeah, I'd preach. Everybody say I'm blessed. So if you don't Understand that you're always worried about protecting your blessing. But if you want to protect your blessing, just don't disobey God. Please the Lord. And look at Joseph. If they sell you into slavery, they soon you're living in the house with the slave owner. If they put you in prison, soon you're assistant warden. And then the day comes where they call and you become prime minister of the nation. Because you can't curse what God has blessed. I see you blessed from today in Jesus name. If you refuse to listen to the Lord your God, all these curses will pursue and overtake you till you're destroyed. 46. These horrors will serve as signs and warnings among you and your descendants forever if you do not serve the Lord your God with joy and enthusiasm for the abundant benefits you've received. Now keep that up. That's the danger we run into right now in 2026 is there's a mighty revival God has done. I could list. I don't know how many I listed. I did a broadcast on a few weeks ago about 20 plus things that if I would have told you were going to happen in America in 2015, you just said, no, I don't think that will ever happen again. Everybody's so far from God. You cannot get a transgender surgery in the United States as a minor anymore. No insurance carrier will take it. Even the Los Angeles Children's Hospital stopped doing it. That seemed impossible. Almost no one's identifying as transgender anymore. It's like wallet chains. They're out of style. Violent crime increase or historic decrease in 20, 25 decrease. I mean, what do you want to go? Planned Parenthood? Opening up or closing down? Abundance of money or losing their money? Losing their money. How many things you want to go on? That seemed absolutely impossible. I think some preachers that are angry don't even have anything to preach on anymore. God's angry. I still hear him say, God's angry because of abortion. Well, I don't know if you paid attention to the news, brother. They're gone. When I preached at our church in Pittsburgh, I said, this is three years ago. How much longer do you think that Planned Parenthood in our township can stay open while this church is open? I won't pray against it. I don't have to do prayer walks around it. Me being here will close that down because those two spirits can't stay in the same place. The first Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood that closed down was the Moon Township one next door church. I'm thinking of buying it for fun and making it a Daycare, just as a middle finger to the devil. That's what we're going to do in this last hour of time. In Jesus name, if you believe it, can you say amen? Keep going if you don't. So you gotta serve God. You gotta thank him for what he's done. 32 trillion dollar economy. Next closest is China at 18 trillion. There's nobody close to the economy here. I'm just worried about the economy. If you can't prosper in America, you have a curse. And the curse is somebody misrepresenting the word to you that glorifies poverty. Let me just flow for a second. Where did this teaching that glorifies poverty come from? I'm glad you asked. In the Middle Ages certainly didn't come from the Bible. In the Middle Ages, you had to be licensed by the king to preach. And so they misrepresented scripture. They didn't teach the love of money is the root of all evil. They taught what? Money's the root of all evil? They didn't tell you, blessed are the poor in spirit. They said, blessed are the poor. These are verifiable historical facts. This is not my take on things. So the job as a preacher was to tell people it's good to be poor so that the king and the bishops could live in luxury, raise taxes, raise tariffs, and no one cared because money's evil anyway. Did you know the main reason Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation is he said it's ridiculous for the bishops and kings to be living in royalty while the people are suffering. And he read in the Bible, he never told us we can't be married. In fact, the first thing Martin Luther did after the Protestant Reformation is he got married, had children, opened a farm, brewed beer, which I'm not for that, but he's German, so tough habit to kick. But what I'm saying is he just decided. He didn't just rebel from the Catholic Church. He decided, I'm going to make stuff, I'm going to produce. I'm not going to be poor. I'm going to have a farm with food. I'm going to have everything that I can have. And he did. He nailed a 95 thesis to Wittenberg Chapel. I don't know why he couldn't have thought of five more and made it an even hundred. But he stopped at 95. I'd have rounded up. And then that's why he broke. He said, we're selling indulgences for people's sin, we're pocketing the money. We eat and feast as priests and bishops and the king and the people are all in poverty and we've told them it's good. My mother, her oldest sister goes to my church in Pittsburgh. I didn't real. This really irritated me because I knew they went to Catholic church growing up. And I said, I just thought they went like every once in a while. My Aunt Liz said, no, we went about every other week. Is that true or not? How often would you guys go to Catholic church? But she went more. She's 10 years older. So she was going every other week. They went. No one knew about salvation. No one knew about being born again. Now if you think that that's. I'm picking on Catholics. If you stick around, I'll pick. I'm an equal opportunity offender. I'll be happy to insult everybody. Where's my friend? On that stool. This is a Protestant church, not a Catholic church. When you take the word away, by the way, you see the supernatural thing that God did, right with the split from the Catholic Church. Anyone that tried to translate the Bible where the people could read it, what was done to them and, and killed how humanely or the most violent way possible, tied to the stake and burned from the feet up. That's how much the devil does not want this liberating, life giving word in the hands of the people. But I got news for the devil. Tough luck. We got a copy. And as you read it, meditate on it, hide it in your heart. It starts to make a different life for you and your family. It starts to bring a blessing to your marriage. It makes your children blessed. It makes your house blessed. Things begin to grow. God sends streams in the desert by his word. Can you say Amen? This is a representative of why we're fourth from the bottom. Roll it. So why do we still go to church? Besides the fact that we started one and I guess we should show up. For me, as I may have just given away, I'm a little bit uncomfortable with spirituality, with miracles. Pause. He said, I'm a little bit uncomfortable. Meanwhile, the stool sang, you're uncomfortable. Keep going. With God supernaturally intervening in our world. And when I say I'm a little bit uncomfortable, I might not even believe that it happens at all. Which is probably a big downer for you to hear from me on a Sunday as a guy who runs a church. So if I don't believe in that, for instance, I'm, I'm not someone who believes that, you know, Noah's ark was a real thing. Plus, this is what kind of stunned me because when he said he doesn't believe in miracles, it's like, okay, you're a cessationist, but he actually now carry that out. I don't believe there was ever miracles. Did you know you don't have to have faith to believe in Noah's Ark? All you have to have is an Internet connection and search the CIA file. Noah's Ark, it's exactly where the Bible said it's parked. They have it by satellite technology. You know these guys, they don't believe in a literal hell. I can take you to the top of a volcano in Hawaii and show you, show it to you that under the earth is exactly what God said is under the earth. But when you start elevating your mind over the word of God, don't bring God's word down to your mind. Make God's word bring your mind up to God's level. Or you end up like him, full of estrogen, with a wife that cuts her own hair. Keep going. So if I don't believe in that, why, why am I still here? And on Sunday morning at 8:05 when I'm crawling under the stage, plugging in cables, Stay under there, stay under the stage, take a cable and wrap it around your neck. Keep going. That question sometimes. But I have what I think is a really good answer. Reason number one, I like the fact that Christianity is a code that teaches me what I think is like maybe the best way. That's all I can. So gay, so gay. And we're for the LGBT community. We're not gay, but so gay it loses a feeling of gayness, which is fine these days, but that's enough. Now what you hear him doing outright, I'll actually give him credit because at least he has the guts to say what basically is not said but communicated in most. I would say most pulpit, not most full gospel pulpits, but most pulpits. Every Sunday is the man having a one man debate with himself. You can't hear anybody preach on healing. Now, I know that they have never settled healing in their mind. So when they preach on it, it's a one man debate. Now some would say, where are these? Some just preach. Why are you debating your own points? Because you're unsure. Because you've got some Bible College professor from 20 years ago still echoing in your mind and you've never dealt with unbelief, deal with unbelief, deal with it by stomping it to death. Build your faith till you're single hearted, single purpose about the word of God. Now, when you start taking what parts of the covenant you like and don't like, if you mess with it, it starts all getting messed with. I don't know that I believe in prosperity. I know. I've heard you. You also aren't sure you believe in healing. You also aren't sure you believe in total victory over sin. How many know? We all sin every day. No, if you do, if you sin every day, you're gonna go to hell and probably jail. What a stupid thing to say from the pulpit. We all sin every day. Have you ever read a list of sins? Well, we sin even if we don't know it. Really? Witchcraft. You do that without knowing it. Honey, you're covered in squirrel blood. I know. I met up with these ladies at work. We ended up in the forest stirring a cauldron. I don't know what the heck happened. Witchcraft, adultery, can't do that by accident. Murder is tough to do without knowing it. I mean, if you murder someone without knowing it, you're full of the devil. I can tell you that much. Honey, you're covered in blood. I. I know. I. I murdered three people. It's like that old thing Jerry Seinfeld used to say about the old Tide commercials. That Tide now can get blood out of clothes. And Jerry Seinfeld said, if you need blood, take it out of your clothes. You might have bigger problems than laundry. Yes, everybody say I have victory over sin. So you notice as they mess with some of it, it all starts getting messed with. They don't believe you can live a holy life. We all sin, we all get sick. Poverty. No, I don't believe you can walk in abundance. Yeah, that's the difference between me and you. You have subverted every single blessing that's in the covenant. Not just the money part. You're very close to being like him. But you're gonna have to make a distinction in your life. You're not gonna end up in the middle. You either end up. You start getting lukewarm, you end up cold. You start doubting the Bible, you end up like our estrogen filled friend on the stool there where you don't believe any of it, but make a decision. Let me see what Paul said when he was on trial. Is it Acts 24:16? I could be wrong. Acts 24:16. Ish. Where is. Keep going. 17. Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. Where is. I believe all things that are written in the law and the prophets. Is it 14? 2414. Paul's on Trial. This is what he has to say about himself. Yes, I was off by two verses. I admit that. I follow the way, which they call a cult. That's what they're gonna call you whatever your church is. If you're trying to get the devil to like your ministry, you're fighting a losing battle either way. A he'll not like it. Or if you do get him to like it, you're in worse trouble. Every church is a cult. My brother in law pastor is in Montreal. He's the most down the middle conservative pastor that you could be and they call him a cult. Montreal, they call me a cult in Pennsylvania. I don't even own bunk beds. I've never had anybody sleep over my house. You can't be a cult. Not on bunk beds, No. So they called Paul a cult. I admit I fall away. They call it a call. I worship the God of our ancestors and I firmly believe the Jewish law and everything written in the prophets. Let me see King James, it's stronger. But this I confess unto thee that after the way which they call heresy. That's so everybody say cult. Everybody say heresy. Those are the devil's two bullets he's been firing since Paul's day. He's heretical. You can't even spell it. It's not heresy. Why were they calling him? He's telling. Why'd they call it heresy in the way, after the way which they call heresy. So worship I, the God of my fathers, believing all things. They call me a heretic because I believe all things that are written. Now you're worried about being called a heretic for believing all things. I'm worried about ending up like the guy on the stool. I don't know that I believe in miracles per se. I don't know that there was a Noah's ark. Yeah, that's the path you head down when you start questioning God's word. Eat this thing raw. I took the scroll and I ate it. Take the Bible and believe it. And in the midst of preachers like that that are going out of business, you can have a church. You if you'll commit to God's word. An old pastor told me when he was talking to me about church growth, he said, if you preach the Bible, God will not allow his word to remain without an audience. The largest church on planet Earth, Bishop David Oyedepo. He may quote 110 scriptures every Sunday. Word, Word, word. Kenneth Hagin. Word, Word, word. Not one scripture and thoughts and skits and pouring a pitcher of water into a Cup. This is like God's love and we're the cup. And see, now we're full of God's love. I know I'm not three. Every say, preach the Word. Yeah, preach the word. Scripture after scripture. And God's word demands an audience. It has always demanded an audience. God won't let his word go unheard. Can you say Amen? Let me see. Deuteronomy. Wherever we left off. 28, 40 something. 47. 48. This is the curse. You will serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you. You'll be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. Is lacking in everything. Material listed in the Bible as a blessing or a curse. A curse. Then I refuse to lack or speak in lack. You will never hear me say we need. It's unscriptural. You're talking against the Bible. The Lord is my shepherd. What does another translation say? I have everything I need. So you never say I need. You say, I have everything I need. Yeah, but we don't have it. We walk by and not by. There's another guy I could pull up from YouTube. I felt bad for him. You know, social media figures out your algorithm or who you are, or they think they do. So I guess they figured out that I'm a preacher on YouTube. So they'll just, like, recommend preachers. Well, me and Abraham were driving the church, and I wanted to hear preaching on my way to church, you know? So there's some guy I've never seen preaching, literally. They introduce him to preach, and he says this. As many of you know, I'm a young church planner. When you plant a church, you don't have any money, you don't have anybody to help you. You don't have a building, and you don't have many people that show up. I thought, buddy, why don't you just take a rope while you're at it, tie it around your neck and hang yourself. Why would you let that guy that said, I want to die at 33. Died at 33. Do you want to know why? You don't have a building, you don't have any help, no people show up, and you don't have any money out of the abundance of the. And death and life and the power of the tongue. Who told you that starting off in ministry means no people? Can you get that from the Book of Acts? I'm asking you, can you get that doctrine that no people show up when you start off in the ministry from the Book of Acts? How many people were added to the church on day One. How many? That's what the Bible says. Yeah, but the early church was poor. Let me see. Acts 4, 34. There were no needy people. This is the early church. There were how many needy people? There are no needy people among them. Because those who own land or houses would sell them. You'd be amazed. If you believe the Bible, what will happen? You know, as we're building this church, a guy from Washington state that I never met signed his home over to our church and asked us to sell it for the building. It closes March 23rd. The money will be in our account. March 30th, we clear $380,000. Just like happened in the Bible. Now, he's not homeless. That's one of his homes. But if you write off the book of. That's what God did back. No, God is the same. I am the Lord God and I change, not Jesus Christ the same. The Jesus that built the the church in Acts is looking for someone who will let him build his church through them. Let me see. Psalm 127, verse 1. Anybody getting anything out of this? Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted. Let's flip it though. It says, unless the Lord builds a house. Which means God is a builder and God is always building something. If you get his plan, you never have to build anything for God. You'll watch God build for you. I see you entering into a different flow in the ministry from today. You won't try to make things happen. You'll receive what God said already belongs to you. I'm telling you. That's why I titled that book the Financial Anointing. You know how many of you have ever prayed for somebody to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues? Who are the hardest people to get to receive it? People that are trying to do it themselves. What do I say? It doesn't work like that. Should I repeat? I want to know. I want to get the message of my Holy Ghost. How would I? You need to turn this off and turn this on. Well, you know, it's the same with the money part. If you're trying, there's a flow. When you receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost is the easiest flow. Then praying in tongues is an easy flow. You can be driving, actually thinking about other stuff while you pray in tongues because it's coming from your spirit. Healing is an easy flow. Let me see that lady that got out of the wheelchair in New Mexico. It's an easy flow. I saw a lady that had come in a Wheelchair. The night before, she was gray in the face, sick and in a wheelchair. Hadn't walked in six. Over six years. Her husband told me he carried her to the bathroom and stuff. Then I'm preaching and I just see she has, like a red, healthy color. I said, hey, you look better than you did last night. You starting to look healthier. I was like, happy. Then she well, you'll see what happens as soon as Tessa grabs it. She just stood up. Then she just started walking. I didn't have to. In the name of Jesus, I speak to the bones. There's a better way. Everybody say the flow of the Holy Ghost. Let me see. Acts 14, verse 8. That's how Paul ministered. While they were at Lystra, Paul and Barnabas came upon a man with crippled feet. He had been that way from birth, so he had never walked. Withered legs, too. Because if you don't walk from birth, your legs never grow. 9 and listening as Paul preached, Paul looked straight at him and realized he had faith to be healed and called to him in a loud voice, stand up. And the man jumped to his feet and started walking. That sounds like an easier way to do things. Now think if you're going to do that. Then Paul didn't notice who wasn't receiving his message. He was paying attention on who was receiving his message. Because your tendency in the flesh is to look at the one guy that's like, in the back corner and try to get him to uncross his arms and come to the altar. Sometimes he will, sometimes he won't focus on people that are receiving. Does God. Does God focus on the people that are receiving or the people that aren't receiving? Receiving, yeah. He tells you to go after lust, but God. God minds people that pay attention to him. He's not concerned about. You know, Jonathan, I'd love to answer your prayers right now, but I'm just thinking about Gary, you know, that won't listen. No, he responds to the people that respond to him. Draw nigh unto God and he'll draw nigh unto you. Can you say amen? So then that's how you'll start operating in the gifts of the spirit. By not focusing on the Johnson family that left early. Do you think they didn't like the way you think they thought I was talking about? No. Let people do whatever they're going to do. Quit worrying about keeping people in your church. You can't even keep people with their spouses. People run off on their children. People are nuts, by and large. Let them do their thing, but focus on the people. When Jesus told the rich young ruler to sell everything he had to give the money to the poor and come follow him. And the man went away, greatly ashamed. What was the next thing Jesus said to him? Nothing. Bible says he watched him go. And then Peter spoke up. We've given up everything to follow you. And he said, yes, and everybody that gives up houses or brothers or sisters or fathers or mothers, possession and property for my sake and the sake of the Gospel will receive now in this life 100fold. He focused on who would listen, not who wouldn't listen. Can you say amen? So Paul noticed him, realized he had faith to be healed, and called to him in a loud voice. So when you're preaching, notice, notice who's getting it. And then as you do, you're going to start to have the Lord reveal things that they're pulling on by their faith. And then ministry gets easy. This is the easiest you can get somebody out of a wheelchair. Hey, look at you. You were here another night, right? I prayed for it. You're doing better. I see a difference. Talk. Some say this, the power of God flows on faith filled words. I ripped that off of Tia Osborne. That lady's probably never had anybody say that to her. You know what you have at your age, it's going to progress. And being seated in that chair, eventually your bladder will rupture and your kidneys will shut down. They talk like that. They've never had anybody in their life say, hey, look at you, you look better. You're getting stronger. You start to. I'm telling you, you can literally not just preach somebody out of a wheelchair. You can talk someone just talking nice. God's touching you right now. You're getting stronger. As we. They've not had anybody tell part of your value as a minister. No one gets up in the morning to get showered and dressed to go to church to get beat over the head. My dad and mom raised me super well, so we never got to see the super bowl because every, every church used to have Sunday night service and I never saw a Super Bowl. Do you know what? Every Sunday night service, the message was on Super Bowl, Sunday night. I can't believe people would miss Sunday night service for the Super Bowl. I felt like saying, hey, I'm here. Me no miss church for Super Bowl. And many people come to church and have to hear about what others are doing. This world's got so wicked with gay marriage. Like, I'm married to a woman. I didn't do that. People out smoking and drinking. I'm not smoking. I put it out in the parking lot before I came in. Don't bash outside. Preach faith. He was sitting and listening as Paul preached, and Paul noticed him and realized he had faith to be healed. Now, think that tells you that Paul wasn't preaching, just that you can go to heaven when you die. Something Paul was preaching caused a man that had never walked. Say, wait a minute. If what this guy's saying is true, and I believe it is, and I don't think I have to be like this anymore. The entrance of his words give light. When Paul saw his eyes. Yeah, you got it. Stand up. And he stood up. Go ahead. What? No. Amen. What? No. Bring me that wheelchair. Wait, wait, wait. Stay with me. Stay with me. Missing that wheelchair. And you can't get people healed if you're mean to people. Well, no wonder you're in a wheelchair. She's in a wheelchair. At that weight, do you know how hard it is to stay relatively thin when you can move your legs? I have my work cut out for me. It's difficult to stay in anything close to trim when you can move. When someone has an accident or disease that puts them in a chair and they can't move, they get fat. I'm not. You know, look at her. Look at the size. Yeah. You know, I saw her again a year and a half later. She drove six hours to our church in Arizona from New Mexico and brought. Now think of this. This is how revival hits. So when she comes to see me in Arizona, she's got a row full of people and brought her grandchild that was born with severe autism. Can you. Can you help them? See, now they have faith that God will do it. And then the family comes because they know their grandma that was in a wheelchair is up walking around. This is the guy that I want to see that did it. When you come, we're gonna believe for his autism to go. And now not only do your meetings grow, there starts to be an anticipation that people are coming to meet with Jesus and meet with the power of God. That's gonna be the thing that distinguishes your ministry from today. People aren't gonna come to hear you, to be faithful to church. They're gonna come because they love to come to church and have an encounter with God. In your meetings, you will be a conduit for the rest of your life that introduces people to the power of Jesus Christ. Go ahead. Here's another way. You know, people who don't believe in healing are morons. What's ever. No one knows her. She's a visitor at that church. Why does everyone care so much? Why did I say no? No. Praise the Lord for this miracle. Let's all stand and lift. No. Without being asked. God receives great glory when people are healed. It makes sinners cry and lift their hands. Can you say amen? Your. Your ministry will have a load of signs and wonders delivered to it this year in Jesus name. Keep going. Can't have signs and wonders with the lights off. Hard to notice a man that has faith to be healed when it's pitch black. Churches aren't supposed to look like comedy clubs. Turn the freaking lights on. Yeah, don't turn the light. The answer to your declining church attendance is not to shut the lights off and pretend like everything's okay. Gotta look at all these churches on live stream. All the lights are dim. Trying to hide that there's no people. You know what you ought to do? You ought to turn it bright and make it stare you in the face and get irritated. You can't operate in the gifts of the Spirit. You won't see anybody that flows in the Holy Ghost that stands behind a pulpit it and looks over the top of people's heads. Because of Paul, you read from Acts 14 how it works. You have to be looking and noticing the people and then you feel drawn to people. Then you have to be willing to part company with your notes at a certain point. Jesus taught, then preached. Then what healed. Matthew, chapter nine. So when the like last night, I wasn't done done with my message. I hadn't got in two nights. I haven't got to point one. But when there's bodies all across the floor and people rolling around laughing and speaking in tongues, show's over. Speaking time's over. You can actually preach past the anointing. And that was a problem that I had for a long time because I really liked my message. I worked really hard on it. And then when it hit point two in, the thing blew up. No, no, no, that's good. Wait till you hear 3 and 4. But the anointing wasn't on 3 and 4. The anointing was on too. Can you say amen? Keep going. Let me see the wheelchair. Don't run that lady over. She's a nice lady. She was a nice lady. I wouldn't have said anything. All right, let's do this. Just to tick the devil off. Let me have a little ride. Give me a ride, she said. I don't want to touch. No, no, you let me have a Ride. No, no. Do this to tick the devil off. He. He'll be angry. Jesus will be happy. Give me a ride across the altar. Hallelujah. Praise God. Can you take me all the way to my plane? All right, man. You look great. Look at you. We're moving. Must be doing at least four miles an hour. Jesus, a great hand clap. Isn't that awesome? Now, when you leave a meeting like that, you don't need a rest. You need to find a way to go to sleep. I get my nourishment from doing the will of the one that sent me. It. No. But now, as much as that lady got helped in that meeting, nobody got help more than me. Feels good. Yeah. And then you just keep going night after night. That's how you make the ministry fun. Signs and wonders and miracles. Preach the word for a purpose. People get say, you know that that girl that came these nights with the 666 tattoo on her wrist? It got delivered and full of joy. As much joy as she got. Now, I didn't react the way some people reacted last night. Nobody had more joy than I had last night. I'm the one that carried it in. Any water pipe gets to taste the water first. You never. No water pipe gets thirsty. If you make yourself a conduit for heaven to flow through to the people, then you get refreshed. First you pray for the sick. When you're done praying for the sick, I've done this. I can't put words in my father's mouth. I bet he's done it. Sometimes if I feel I'm battling something in my body, I'll lay hands on everybody that night for healing for me, because as it flows through, it'll knock it out of my body. Going on about 19 months without being congested, let alone sick. I can't really be congested because I got to speak once or twice a day. So it's like I found a way to never be sad. People don't believe this. You believe whatever you want. People have not believe in me since I started in the ministry. But I'm 45 now, closer to 70 than I am to 20. And if you're waiting for it to wear off, it's not. You can live above. I will set you on high above all the nations of the world. I had more practical things for finances and ministry, but I'm telling you, joy is a facilitator of massive amounts of money coming in if your meetings angry berating offerings. People spend money down at governors, but they won't Give anything to the house of God is not a recipe to have any money come in. People are. You know what? Don't be a Democrat in the pulpit and vote Republican. You're not entitled to people's money as a pastor. People don't give here and they never will with your little sad face. But you want to know what? Without mentioning a thing about money in a meeting like that, if you take the offering at the end, everybody's happy. The same power that got that woman out of the wheelchair starts to deal with people's hearts about giving and then God. Why does God talk to people about giving? Give and you shall receive. Pressed down, shaken together, running over to make room for more. I will cause men to give liberally into your bosom. Everybody say, lack is a curse. I'm redeemed from the curse. Let me see John 8:39. John 8:39. We're children of Abraham. They declared. No. Jesus replied, for if you were really the children of Abraham, you would follow his example. Let me see King James. You would do the work works that Abraham did. Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, if you were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. Now if that's true, that in order to enjoy Abraham's blessings you have to behave and do what Abraham did, then if I was the devil, I would start preaching that doing Abraham's work called legalism and grace makes us where we don't have to do anything Abraham did, but can still claim all the benefits. And if you preach that and have that preached to you, that's where the problem comes in. Well, I'm saved. How come I don't have. I guess God doesn't bless everybody. I was having a conversation with Chatgpt and she said something about that's called the controversial prosperity doctrine. I said, what's controversial about it? And then I had her go through Deuteronomy 28 and let me see, Galatians 3, 13, 14. Christ hath redeemed us from all the curse of the law being made a curse for us. For it is written. Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree. Everybody say I'm free from the curse. But then there's a second part that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the Holy Spirit by faith. Everybody say the blessing of Abraham. Let me see 26 through 29 NLT Galatians 3:26, 29 for you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus and all who have been united with Christ in baptism. Have put on Christ like putting on a new garment. There is no longer Jewish, by the way. Go back to 27. So this nullifies the ability to sing any songs about chasing after God, running after him. There's no wall he won't tear down. Running after me. Why are you building walls between you and God? Are you spiritual Donald Trump? I refuse to let God into my life, but he tears down the wall. If we say I've put on Christ like putting on a new garment, why are you mumbling? Say, like putting on a new garment. Verse 28. There is no longer Jew or gentile, slave or free, male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29. And now that you belong to Christ, you are what you are his heirs. And everything God promised Abraham belongs to you. How many things? Everything God promised Abraham belongs to you. Well, that's codified in Deuteronomy 28:1 to 14. So I said the chat GPT. What's. What's controversial about that? Seems pretty easy to understand. She said, well, we have to remember that in the New Testament not everyone was rich. There were people that were rich, like Lydia, there were people that had their needs met, like Paul, and there were people that were very poor, like the church in Jerusalem. So you can't claim that. I said, according to proper Baptist Bible interpretation, can a narrative be used to overturn what's plainly written in the Bible? Or can a narrative only be used to explain what's plainly written in the Bible? You're correct. Yeah. You can't use it like that. That's what cessationists do. Paul left Trophis sick at Melatis. So even though the Bible says we can be healed, we have to remember that even Paul wasn't able to get that guy healed. That's not how it works. You can't interpret the Bible that way. I'm telling. I'm not telling you my way. I'm telling you. Established Baptist. It's amazing, you know, John MacArthur and I, believe it or not, got along. When he got fined in California, I sent him the money to pay the fine. His family sent me a picture privately of him wearing a Check the News T shirt. I made a T shirt that said I back Johnny Mac with John MacArthur with sunglasses on. And he was wearing it smiling and said, thanks. So you notice he always left me out when he would deal with what he called hyper charismatics or whatever. It amazes me how Ghaz like him have very strict and proper Bible Interpretation, rules. Then when it comes to the Holy Ghost and wealth, it all gets thrown out the window if you use your own rules. Let me, I'll illustrate it further. Can you say, even though God said don't commit adultery, David committed adultery and was a man after God's own heart. So can you do that? I mean, you can. You're gonna end up on a stool full of estrogen with a wife with uneven bangs. That's improper Bible interpretation. No. So why does the Bible tell you that? Does the Bible tell you that David committed adultery to let you know that sometimes you can commit adultery and still be a man after God's own heart? Or does it let you know that because the Bible's not the Quran? It doesn't turn everybody in the Scripture into a superhero. It tells you when people messed up. But you don't use people's failure to receive what God said is theirs as something to overturn what God said. If there's 1200 plus scriptures on wealth, land acquisition, homes, whatever you want. Overflowing cup, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked. You can't even do the simple commands of Scripture without prosperity. Feed the hungry. How are you going to do that when you're trying to get food? Clothe the naked. How are you going to do that if you don't have enough clothes for you? The rudimentary commands of scripture require you to have more than enough clothes, more than enough food, food, more than enough money to be a blessing to a hurting world. I see you taking that place in Jesus mighty name. Hallelujah. You are his heirs and everything God promised Abraham belongs to you. So then she said, this is not really specifically codified other than Galatians 3 in the New Testament. Here's another Bible interpretation principle. If something has been established in the Old Testament, does it have to be reestablished in the New Testament or clearly done away with in the New Testament? Which is it for you to not believe something? It doesn't have to be reset in the New Testament. That's how people mess with homosexuality. Well, it said a lot in the Old Testament, but it's only been mentioned in Romans 1 in the New Testament and 1st Corinthians 6. Yeah, first of all, it's two more times than it needed to be. Because if something's done away with, if God was a God of lavish prosperity, which he was. Genesis 13:2. Genesis 13:2, Abram was very rich, then God knew there'd be half. Excellent preachers. How many know riches don't mean money in what you'd be amazed that if you'll say what God said, you'll have what God said. I have always taken this literally. I take all. I believe in a literal hell. I believe in literal people getting out of literal wheelchairs. I believe that one day a trump, a literal trumpet's gonna sound, and I'm gonna literally leave the earth. I believe all those parts. I'm not checking the money part at the door. So when you preach that, if I have the same blessing Abraham had, it encompasses livestock, silver, and gold. We had a man drive down from Michigan on. On Sunday before church. He must have left in the middle of the night, and he dropped off $40,000 worth of silver. Then last year, he came back and dropped off $120,000 worth of silver. And that was when it was at $40 an ounce, and it went up close to 100 and then dropped back down a ton of silver. You know why? Because I. I didn't say what my Bible college professor said. Well, if you believe in prosperity, it's. There it is. That's all silver. Whole desk full literal silver. If you believe it literally, you get. I don't. If the guy was sitting here right now, I wouldn't know to say thank you to him. I have no clue what he looks like. I wasn't home. Adalus was home. That's a nice text message to get woken up to. Your wife's standing up next to a pile of silver and saying, a man just dropped. Yeah, I know they say money doesn't make you happy, but it made that Puerto Rican happy, I can tell you that. Look at those teeth. Now, these people preach prosperity. God said he'd multiply your silver and gold. You know anybody that's got silver and gold multiplying? You don't, because you're a loser, because you speak against the Bible. But if you'll say it, my friend, brother Jesse Duplantis bought a new Falcon 7X jet. The first nine times he used it when he stopped at the airport, a businessman came up to him and said, mind if I top off the fuel on your plane? Yeah, I've never heard of that in my life. It's not 100 bucks to gas a plane up. I mean, it is if you want to crash into a mountain. It's like 30 grand to fill it up. Mind if I fill your plane up for you? That's great. See, that's called favor. If you. It's not about making it happen. Just don't use your mouth to say stupid things like when you Start a church. You don't have any property, you don't have any volunteers to help. No people come to see you preach. And whatever the fourth suicidal thing was, he said, imagine if that guy learned like thank God, I learned by the word to say the opposite. Thank you God, as I start this church, I'm the seed of Abraham. You gave him land and you're giving us land. Thank you that you sent people to help him and you're sending people to help me. Thank you that people, multitudes followed Christ and multitudes are going to follow this ministry. Thank you that there were signs and wonders in the Bible and I'm going to have signs and wonders. Stop pleading for what's yours and thank God for what he already said you have and refuse to let any religious knothead talk you out of it. Somebody say it so the devil can hear you. I am blessed. Let's say super blessed. I was preaching in California a couple weeks ago and a couple said, we want to thank you for ministering here these three weeks. Wanted to give you a card. They gave me a card and you could feel, you could hear coins in it. So that, well, you know, whatever. You don't know where people are at financially. You want to sow 75 cents a buck, 25 in quarters, no problem. I receive it, opened it up. It was a two ounce gold coin and two one ounce gold coins. So four ounces of gold at five grand, that's 20 grand some of you saw a couple Sundays ago. I laid it on the altar. I'm putting up one of my luxury watches on the altar. I gave 300,000 personally last year. I'm giving 100,000 by the time the building opens. Just got to transfer the stocks and crypto and stuff. And so I get given a house and a plane. I get, you know, when we show what's come into our ministry, that's not, that's just cash and silver and gold. That's not even counting property or real estate and stuff. Here's the chart. I'm telling you this as somebody that went to high school in Maine and came back to Maine after Bible school and my salary in the ministry when I got out of Bible school was $300 every two weeks. So wherever you're at, what must be nice. No, I was lower. And then this is 2010. We didn't keep records before that because they're too depressing. 1213-3075-2541-7951.8 2.8, 2.7, 2.9, 3.1, 5, 7, 7, 15, 1, 23, 32, 35, 7. Gave away 5.3 million last year, 5 point something the year before and I think 6 this year. So that's almost 20 million given. And when I say given, I don't mean giving students discounts to our Bible school. I don't mean giving our staff a discount at the coffee at the church coffee shop. I'm talking about money that leaves our account. I'm not talking about paying for an outreach. I'm talking about things that have nothing to do with our ministry that the money leaves. I'm talking about like. I'll give you one. Let me tell you, Let me tell you how giving helps you put Second Corinthians. And I'm receiving an offering at the end. This is not driving to an offering. I'm teaching you. You know, he, he, he took it, he spent an hour on the offering. I went spend about 90 seconds on the offering. But right now I'm teaching you about the blessing. And there's no blessing without giving. That's all. This is not so you'll give in my offering today. This is so you'll begin today to become a lifelong extravagant giver. Which ministers think their job is to teach people to give. But if you give, you receive. See whatever anybody wants to give in our church. I've sown 5.3 million out of our ministry. Our ministry will be. That's why somebody calls and says come pick up a million dollars. That's the sixth million we've picked. We've picked up the, the lady before that. I don't know who she is. Mid 80s. I've never met her. She doesn't go to our church. The other people gave a million, didn't go to our church. I don't know that anyone that's given a million dollars goes to goes to our church. Maybe one guy. I'd have to look back over it. Our people don't have any money. Who said it has to come from your people? Who said it has to come from people? Ravens fed Elijah. Not Baltimore. Ravens. Ravens fish with a gold coin in its mouth paid the taxes. God will never be limited by people to accomplish his work. Can you say amen? So you give one lady I gave to. I'll just give you one. Can you get the Bishop Johnson? I'll show her too. So this lady, she was a pastor's wife. And her husband traveled with my grandfather and they ministered together. He died and went to heaven. She Came to my meeting with her daughter in Pennsylvania, this is a while back, and I called her out to pray for her. And when I went to pray for her body, the Lord said she also needs help financially now that her husband's gone. You know, that's what the Bible says, true religion, you take care of widows, especially preachers, wives. So I said, I'm gonna give you $1,000. She fell out. I don't know whether it was under the power or just shock. And I felt the Lord after she was laying down, go, keep going. I said, okay, and I'm gonna send you $1,000 every month till you join your husband in heaven. A year and a half later, she called me, she said, jonathan, somebody gave me your number. And I wanted to say, left a voice message, thank you for sending that thousand dollars every month. I forgot I did it. And back then I probably had about $21,000 in our ministry account. It wasn't like we had millions and just give some out. Thank you for giving me that. I wasn't going to be able to keep my house and when I was just talking with my daughter on the way up that I'd like to stay in that house, but I'm going to have to sell it. And you send in that thousand every month. Let me keep my house. I want you to know that I take an hour every morning. Tell God please bless Jonathan, wherever he is today. You know that scriptural, it says when you give, then Christians will give thanks to God for you. And then what happens? Well, you got some. You know, it's one thing for somebody to be praying for you. That's like a normal person. They just put praying hand emojis in a text. You get some tight, permed, no makeup wearing, 80 year old Pentecostal woman nagging God every morning to go, bless you. When she left that message, I thought to myself, you know, the kind of prom I mean, where like the rain beads up on it because it's so tight. Rocking the same haircut as snoop dogg from 1993. When she left that message, I thought to myself, this last year and a half makes a lot of sense. Because I see that that woman was telling God I got to stay in my house. Wherever Jonathan is, bless him. And it keeps going. It's more blessed to give than to receive. True prosperity doesn't celebrate what it gets. It celebrates what it gives. Can you say amen? And I told you that's what has to change. Churches I grew up in had a wall of missionaries they supported at $5 a piece, $10 a piece. That is a. That's like, I don't get it. I don't get how. How an adult human being can mail $5 to someone. It doesn't make sense. It would make sense. In 1780, you could buy a house for like 800 bucks. But to send $5 to India. I think the one church I went to in Maine, I think the Ladies Ministry, sent their used teabags to missionaries. Again. The more we talk, the more that chart starts to make sense. You send used tea bags to a missionary, God will smite you. I was on a missions trip with a group of people, and they brought their old clothes to the missionaries. So to make them feel bad, the next morning I brought my hotel trash can out and I said, hey, since all the other missionaries brought you their garbage, I wanted to bring you mine too. And the other missionaries looked sad and the people from India started laughing and slapping their knees. I said, here's five grand. You can do more with that than sweaters with holes in them. Can you say amen? What happened to do for others what you'd have others do for you? Now think of it. If the Bible says, treat others the way you want to be treated, do for others what you'd have them do for you, people's ministries start to make a lot of sense. You can't give others your trash and expect God to give you his treasure. But when you start blessing people and lavishly blessing people, that blessing will never leave your life. It comes back pressed down, shaken together, and running over to make room for more. And I see that being normal for you from today. In Jesus name, if you believe it, can you shout a living Amen? So let me. Let me play. And I want to do this. Okay, let's read this second Corinthians 9, 8, and do Amplified Classic and we'll do 8 through 11. This is new Testament. So if the blessing was done away with, then it needs to be specifically done away with. Somebody name me something. So this is all ministers and Bible college students. Tell me something from the Old Covenant that was specifically done away with in the new covenant. Correct? Animal sacrifice. Is it mentioned in one verse or is it in lengthy passage in Hebrews? What about why can we eat shrimp now? Why can we eat lobster and bacon? Why? I'm asking. Made clean. Was it made clean? Like you gotta piece two verses together? Or did God show Peter a vision three times that you can eat it now? So if something's been done away with, you don't have to Be a scholar to get it. It is in paragraphs that it's been done away with. Was the blessing of Abraham. Is there a place where Peter saw a vision? Now get ready. I know you're Jewish and were raised to understand the blessing of Abraham, but now that Christ died and rose again, you will be very poor. Things are not going to work. Is that anywhere in the Bible? No, it's never done away with. And it's actually Second Corinthians 9, 8, which is why ChatGPT then apologized to me. And God is able to make all grace, every favor, and what kind of blessing come to you in abundance so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need, be self sufficient, possessing enough to require no aid or support, and furnished in abundance. Furnished how? For how many good works? How many charitable donations? I mean, it's right there. These aren't trick questions. Furnished in abundance for how many good works and how many charitable donations? Verse 9. As it is written, he, the benevolent person scatters abroad. He gives to the poor his deeds of justice and goodness and kindness and benevolence. You know, I'm giving a hundred thousand to the church to build the church that knocked me down. And then when I was preaching, pastor Abraham's getting married, and I said, I'm gonna pay for your wedding. That's 25,000. That's 125,000 that night. Now, do you think in a year I'm gonna get. Now, you know, I got a little carried away in my giving, so we're waiting for it to build back up, or do you think. See, if I'm telling you these things so that when you see my life, you don't write me off as an anomaly. I don't give tiny seeds. I don't give a preacher. I don't have Dag Heywood Mills come to our church that does those crusades, and give him a hundred dollars from our church. Almost every church he preaches at in America never gives him more than $2,000. I said to him, how much are those crusades? They're about 200,000 a piece. I don't have 200,000 at the moment, but I'm gonna send you 20,000amonth. That way, every 10 months, I pay for one crusade. Then we brought an extra 300,000 one time. You give lavishly, you receive lavishly. You sow sparingly. You receive sparingly. Can you say amen? You don't have a preacher come to your church and preach on Wednesday night? Give him $50. He's not a prostitute. In fact, I think even that's gone up in price. As it is written, the benevolent person scatters abroad. He gives to the poor. His deeds of justice and goodness and kindness and benevolence will go on and endure forever. 10. And God, who provides seed for the sower. Say this out loud. If I make myself a sower, according to the Bible, I'll never lack seed. I don't have anything to give. I'd be quiet about that if I were you, because you just identified yourself as a non giver. I wish I had something to give, but I don't. Yeah, then we know you don't give. Because God said, if you're a sower, a sower will always have seed. And he'll provide what for your eating. And God, who provides seed for the sower and bread for your eating. Now if you ask this question, what are you? A sower or an eater? People say I'm a sower, but everybody say this. I'm both. You know what God's telling you? He's got money for you to give and he's got money for you to eat. He's got money for you to bless Dag Heywood Mills. And he's got money for you to take Camila and Adalus out to your favorite hotel and eat at the best restaurant, if you will. Let the Holy Spirit always speak to you about what seed and what's bread. You'll never lack seed and you'll never lack bread. Can you say Amen? Provide and multiply your resources of sowing and increase the fruits of. Of your righteousness which manifests itself in active goodness, kindness and charity. Keep going. Thus you will be enriched. In how many things? And in every way. All things. In every way. So that you can be generous and your generosity as it is administered by us will bring forth thanksgiving. That's what I was talking about. Then people start thanking God for you, so you're blessed. And then because you're blessing people, they pray and thank God for you all the time. And tell Lord, wherever Jonathan is, bless him, he's helped me. And then it goes up to God and God listens to him. Now here's a lady. Same thing. St. Louis, I'm going to give you $1,000. I'm going to send you $1,000 every week. I don't know if you speak St. Louis or not, so I'm going to interpret ahead of time. Her 50 year old son wouldn't go to church ever. And when he she came home and said, the preacher said, he's going to send me a thousand dollars. He cursed, mom, he's never going to send you any money. It's a scam to get people to give in the offering. Then the thousand came, then a second thousand, then a third, then a fourth, then a fifth. The next year, when I went to preach in that area, guess who was sitting next to her at church. Yeah. Because you will be used by God to undo everything the devil's tried to use about what these Christians are really like when they meet you. When you met Jesus, you had a different experience than you had with the Pharisees. People are going to have a different experience with you and your ministry than they're used to having at church. In Jesus name. Let me hear. Hey, Pastor Johnson Shuttleworth. This is Sister. She gave me a black bishop's name, Johnson Shuttleworth. Play it from the beginning. Hey, Pastor Johnson Shuttleworth. This is Sister Diana Miller from Alton, Illinois. The lady you blessed with $1,000 every month. You said, until Jesus come. But I said to the Rapture, because I'm growing up in the Rapture. I just want to tell you I appreciate it. I love you. You don't know how it has changed my life. It has opened up so many doors. I don't want to start crying. But even a lot of saved sanctified Holy Ghost people didn't even believe it. A lot of saved sanctified Holy Ghost people didn't believe it when I told them. And you're going to hear, she said, I carry a photocopy of the check around because they don't believe that. That a preacher did that. Keep going. We didn't even believe it. But that's why I made a copy of the check. And I've been sharing it everywhere. And it even had started. My son that was 50 years old that I. 54 years old, that I couldn't even get to go to church. But because you gave me that blessing. He been going to church because he appreciate what the man of God did for his mother. And he's been watching you on YouTube. To God be the glory. That was done by the Holy Ghost. That's not me being a white savior or having white guilt. I don't have any guilt. People been trying to make me feel guilty. People write on my Instagram almost every day, you should be ashamed of yourself. But I don't feel any. I have an inability to feel shame. Praise God. And so in that same meeting, there was another lady. It's amazing how the Holy Ghost will speak to you about giving. This lady was in the back. She was wearing, I think, a Chick Fil a outfit with a name tag on. I said, how old are you? She said, I'm 82. I said, you're not working at Chick Fil A anymore. I said, whatever they pay at Chick Fil A, I'm paying you till you go to heaven. And I found out what she made. Just irritated. Jesus was irritated. I felt his irritation that a woman that was 82, she didn't want to work, stand on her feet all day. Where's her son? I don't know. Where's her daughters? I don't know. But I could be a. I could be a son to her. So I won't pay you. So you can just be home. You can work if you want, but you're going to get the same money from me and then do whatever you want, but you don't have to work. She fell out. I don't think it was by the Holy Ghost. It was just like a Price is Right pass out. Then the family called me, like, three years later, which is nice. They didn't scam me because I wanted them. Our mother passed away. You don't have to send the checks anymore. We want to thank you. The whole family signing. We want to thank you for what you did for our mother. We're very blown away that you do that. You changed your life. I'm sure she lived longer with you doing it. I'll tell you another one while I'm just rolling. Everybody say it's more blessed to give than to receive. My daughter was raised. My wife's a Puerto Rican from Boston. I'm from Pennsylvania, and I lived in Maine. But somehow my daughter Camila must be from my dad's dad. She got, like, Southern Civil War food tastes. She wants to go to Cracker Barrel. We'll take her anywhere. Her choice is, do you have Cracker Barrel here in Portland yet? Do you know what Cracker Barrel is? Okay, so they have biscuits and butter and jam. So that's all she'll order. She orders a basket of biscuits with butter and jam and eats like she's a Civil War general. And so I took her there. Adalis ordered. I wasn't that hungry, so I got, like, a salad with chicken. I don't know. Cracker Barrel stays in business. So the bill was, like, $17. Well, if you're going to tip 20%. What's 20% of $17? Not everyone at once. Go ahead, $3.40. I can't give a grown woman $3.40. I can'T do it. It's like I don't feel comfortable. It's like an insult. Like, I can't. Like, he passed this. I can't be, hey, I believe in what you're doing. Here's $3.40. So I thought, well, let me make the bill bigger. So I saw this old white couple sitting. I know you're not supposed to say that, but they were old and they were white, and they were a couple. They were sitting one table over. And I could tell in my spirit, that's their one meal out a month on a fixed income. So I said to the server, don't say anything, but give me their bill. This is while we were eating, okay? And then I thought, that's not gonna be that much either, because they were, like, splitting the soup and sandwich or something. And you know you love somebody when you split a soup. Sounds gross to me. Sounds like a reason for divorce, but some people like it. So then there was another old white couple, and I felt the same thing. I said, give me theirs, too. Well, they were next to me. Then the only table that wasn't that I didn't pay for, that was close to me, was an older black couple. Well, now I just look like a giant racist. Give me the bills of all of the white people. So I thought, all right, give me. Give me the other couples, too. Give me those three. Well, then. Then I start looking around. That's three tables down, and there's not that many more. And, you know, I got to pay a lot of money for a lot of things. We spent 35, 34 million dollars last year. So, I mean, I do. I took our whole church out to eat in Texas. I don't get to be there that much. So I rented a banquet hall. We got Hutchinson. Hutchinson's barbecue catered in for 40 grand. I told everybody they can come. No registration fee. If Jesus fed 5,000 men. I'll carry women and children. Just have faith for the food. So I just did it. So I'm used to paying bills like that. So you just get used to it. So I said, you know what? Everyone that's seated in the restaurant, bring me all their. Just give all their bills to me and don't tell them I don't. I don't. I'm from Maine. I don't like talking to people I don't want thanked. Leave me alone. What's this place called? What? Does this have a license? Is that vacation land still? What's the motto here. Where there should be. They should change it to Maine, Leave me alone. And I got some of that in me. So I was gen not to be humble. I said to the sir, don't tell anyone who paid. Just tell them they don't have to pay. I don't want to. Like, I just. I just want to be left alone. Well, you find out like Jesus did, that's the worst thing. Don't tell anyone. You got healed, okay? This guy healed me. Well, when I told her that the way those. The manager came back thinking like the server had mental problems, she would. Excuse me, I hate to bother you, but our server said that you wanted to pay for everyone in the restaurant. I was just. Obviously, I just want to make sure that's not true. I said, no, it's true. I said, I have an American Express platinum card. So, you know, I'm not going to say it and then run out and you get fired. I said, you can hold my card if you want. No, I believe you. I just never heard anyone doing that before. All right, well, she tells everybody, don't tell anybody, but it was him. I look like the Pope. At the end of the day, there's a line of people, hey, thanks. Hey, thanks. Can I have. In Pennsylvania, they all hug. I got old lady foundation on my shoulder. You know, when you pastor a Pentecostal church, you go home every day looking like an adulterer. All the old ladies hug you. There's like. There's like makeup here. You come home like, honey, you gotta believe me. I was hugged by like eight 90 year old women with funeral home makeup on. Let me put some foundation on filling in potholes. Amen. Hallelujah. They all come in hugging. And then I didn't know this, but there was a. There was a family in the back corner that they had got like the private area. I didn't know this because I was raised in, you know, I got a white family in black culture. They have something called a repast dinner that when someone dies, they have a dinner. Is it before the funeral or after? After the funeral. And then I guess it's a big deal to take care of that funeral, the meal. So I didn't know I was paying for it. But this huge family comes and they go, they told us you took care of our repast dinner. Our son just passed. He was 31. You don't know how much this means to us. They all hug me. I got white people makeup and perfume on me and black people makeup and perfume on me. Each Shoulder, different sense. And the guy that was the grandfather of the family said, somebody said, you're a pastor? I said, I am. Where's your church? I said, just so you know, I was not doing this. I said, no. They told me that you don't want anybody to know, but we'll be at your church. He said, I want to say thank you for doing that. And so I've done enough that whatever hit piece they run on me on the news, there's going to be a lot of people go like this. That's the guy I was telling you about. You know, there were guys doing. I'll tell you one. Everybody say, give, and it'll come back to you. We had a narrow driveway. I'm not complaining, but we had a narrow driveway at our house. And me and adonis both have SUVs. So I was digging a trough next to the driveway because I'd back out in the muddy grass, you know. So Adonis paid a construction team to widen our driveway when I was home. The one day they're all doing work, you can tell they're not saved. And I just want. I want to be a good experience. That's what prosperity allows you to do. You're a pleasant experience for people. When you were growing up, did you ever get taken to a family's house that had lots of food and it was, like, fun to be at their house? Anybody have a friend like that? Like, if you went over their family's house, there was like actual soda, not like Mountain Lightning, like actual Mountain dew. Instead of Dr. Thunder, they actually had Dr. Pepper. There was a family when we were growing up called the Brocks. They would have us over, and their house was like that, and their food and the sillages, too. And then when my dad was growing up, there was a family called the Blocks, the Block family. And they would have them over and bless them. And you know what? Now, see, this is. If I could get this over to you, just this little part, it'll have been a profitable morning. You're not going to have a family that blesses you. You are going to be the family that blesses other people. The only way a minister could ever go to a baseball game or football game or hockey game was there's somebody bottom ticket, but you're going to be the one that buys the tickets. You know what I did? Pittsburgh Penguins play. They were supposed to finish in last place this year, but they got a new coach, and somehow he got Sidney crosby playing at 39, like he's 23. Again, got Evgenie Malky playing. They're going to make the playoffs. They're fun to watch. In fact, I think they've scored the most goals in 20, 26 of any team. So I just got happy one day. Now I'm not home much. So when I'm home, I like to make it count. I called the stadium. I thought you had to be a season ticket holder to have those luxury boxes, but you don't. They got some open. So I said, can I have a luxury box for tonight? It was thousands of dollars. It was January 1st, New Year's Day. We're gonna start the fast in a couple days. So I thought, might as well have some fun, you know, that'll be our Mardi Gras. You know, that's how Mardi Gras started. Lent on Wednesday, Mardi Gras on Tuesday. So people would just like go nuts Tuesday because they, they're gonna have to fast the next day. So rather than take off my shirt for beads, I just went to a hockey game. Thought that'd be a better alternative. So more last than I thought I'd get. So I brought my family. You can fit 20 people in the box. I brought my wife, all her sisters, all my nephews. Russell Johnson was preaching nearby. He came up and I brought more people. And then we just had. See, I'm trying to get you to understand. It's like I've had people ask me, how do you get away with having a jet? One of the reasons it's easy to get away with it is it's not illegal. There's no law that a preacher can't have a jet. I've been asking Christians, why are. You have a problem with a preacher having a jet and you don't care that Jeffrey Epstein had one? Why do you have a problem with a preacher having a big house? And you never said anything about Epstein island until six months ago. Why do we concede? You know how I feel when I go to my plane. Why are the Steelers allowed to have a jet? They don't want a Super bowl in forever. They stink. Pirates, why do they have a jet? Pirates, they're gonna be good this year, but they've been bad for 30 some years. But it's okay for a baseball team to fly private. It's okay for a football team because the NFL is important. Baseball's important. Hockey is important. When you get to people that don't like prosperity, what they're really saying is they don't value the work of the Lord Jesus Christ because the Same thing that doesn't want you to have a jet is, why does your church have to be a 3,000 seater? How big do you want it to get? Why do the penguins need an 18,000 seater to watch people from out of town play hockey? Explain that to me. For me, the church and the work of God is the most important thing by far. Nothing else. It's more important than hospitals. As important as there. There is nothing that matters as much as what you've been called to do. And God has an interest, interest in funding those that promote his kingdom, those that build churches, those that do the work of the Lord with the extravagance of heaven. Everybody say seed to the sower. Everybody say bread to the eater. So my wife's having the driveway widened. I can tell those guys aren't saved. Wasn't hard to tell. And I like that type of guy. I like having him in my church. When they get saved, you know, they're like great ushers and stuff. They like to fight. Like one of those guys that got saved. When the city was going to shut our building down for not having the permits, he came up to me and goes, hey, my cousin is the fire chief. And he told me that if he brings his fire trucks on Sunday and declares it an active fire scene, then the permit people can't come and shut your church down. I said, I like you. I like how you think. I'm going to tell you two of these stories. So now think how this works together. So I'm just playing video games. I'm home for a day, but I see these guys out there and I feel to give. So I go on door dash, and I ordered 20 ribeye steaks with sides. And I picked. I made it all medium rare. Because if you don't order your steak medium rare, that's your problem. Steaks are meant. In fact, the first date I went on with the Dulles, I took her to a nice steakhouse in Boston, and she ordered her steak well done. And I said, hold on. It has to be at least medium or this relationship will never work. I can't marry someone I don't respect. So I got them all medium rare ribeye sides and dessert. And they bring 20 of them. And I walk out to my driveway. I go, everybody can take a break, hand it to their boss, hand it to all the guys. And it actually was very entertaining to me. It made me like planet Earth again to watch men eat a ribeye steak with their bare hands because no silverware came. I said, I'll get silver. That's no problem. They were eating it folded in half like a sandwich. I thought, you know what? As much as they've tried to transify the whole country, they failed with these 20 guys. And we can start from here. Well, word gets back to their boss, who's a builder. That's the guy that's building our church. I didn't know him at the time. That's the guy that, when he saw me on the news and saw it was me there attacking, said, I'm gonna help that guy and his guys like me. We've never had anybody do that for us. The whole time we've done construction. That should be your story. I've never met anybody that's treated me like you've treated me. Pastor Abraham at the airport, didn't they send us a letter from the company? We've never had anybody treat us like you. Yeah. The Pittsburgh Pirates gave them a baseball after they loaded all 40 players bags into their plane. Not signed. Baseball. Football. Steelers gave them a football unsigned. We'd give every guy $200. They all ended up coming to the church. Yeah. Say, man, you know, they're the ones that told me so. The Steelers and Penguins and Pirates don't do for us what you do. I know I'm not them. I'm higher. I'm above all the nations of the world. See, you look at NFL owners and think they're above you. In my spirit, I don't. A minister stands next to God. You stand on the platform with him and you minister for him. And you don't command Earth's resources. You command heaven's resources. You're going to command heavenly resources from this day forward. In Jesus name, if you believe it, can you say Amen? Let me. So everybody say, all things work together for the good. Those that love God and are called according to his purpose. I wasn't feeding those guys so they could help build my church. I didn't know that was going to work out. But it started to prepare something where that boss said, this guy's different. He doesn't go to my church. He has not built a church for his pastor, but he's building one for me and has never been one time. See, because when you give, it comes back. $600 worth of stakes turned into $3 million saved on a church. Because when you give, it comes back to you pressed down, shaken together and running over. Can you say amen? Now, I'm going to show you this as a testimony to the glory of God, which is what God did last year. This is only 12 months. We started with two churches, finished with four. And God opened some wild doors. And then I'm going to pray for you. Have the best afternoon you ever had. We'll come back and hit the revival tonight. But how many have a confidence in your spirit at this point, that your ministry is going to go to another level? I'm going to say this. I don't talk lack, I don't talk budgets. I talk vision. Brother Jesse Duplantis said, when you talk budgets, it costs you something. When you talk vision, it brings you something. No one's interested in paying for your roof. They got their own roof. Nobody's interested that the bus broke down. Don't take offerings to pay for things. Tell people about the harvest that God had and tell them what you're going to do as a church. You never hear us taking off. Right now we need some plywood for this. But no. Talk about how marriages are going to get saved at this church. Talk about how kids are going to get delivered off drugs. Talk vision and it brings the provision. Can you say amen? This is a testimony to the shame of the devil, of what God did in 12 months. Take a look. If you thought we were moving fast before, wait till you see what happens starting right now. The Hebrew word for fasting means to close the mouth from food. I got news for you. You might have used to be the worst person in Southern California. But that person's not here tonight. You've been changed by the blood of Jesus and the resurrection life of God. I have been placed here in this time for some at the time and says, I have been anointed to destroy the works of the devil. I have been anointed to drive back darkness. I have been anointed to declare the word of the living God. I am the light in California. I am a light in Santana. I am at night in America and this fights are sunrise. Father, thank you that you filled us in the upper room. But we ask you fill us again. Fill us that we may flow in your signs and wonders and your supernatural power. Tonight is a night of great infilling, great and feeling. We're gonna do something great for God in Fort Worth together. This is a church where we didn't take a sacrifice out of Christianity. We're here to take up our cross and make an impact on our generation. You are building a strong church the way impact Texas and the best is yet to come. This is a soul winning church. We're not waiting on revival. Your revival. I'M revival. You've got to believe that you've got joy. You've got to believe that you've got healing. You got to believe that you've got strength and power and courage and tenacity. Because if God intervenes, that's all I need. All it takes is one moment talk about the washing of the blood, but we don't talk about how it rewires your thinking. It rewires who you are. The same person after you meet Jesus. What encounter with his power changes everything? He washed me of my sin, but now I'm transformed. Now I'm rewired to think the. The way he thinks, to walk the way he walks, to talk the way he talks. Welcome from all over the world. What? No. I have seen 2025. So may God give you and me a grace to be faithful like this man will not change. That's what makes the church. When things are happening which no man can fix, the anointing is the key. So sometimes you've got to get a hold of small beginnings and say, father, in the name of Jesus, I don't care what it takes. I don't care what I have to do. I'm the called of God. The fire you receive here, your friends will 490 teenagers at our. At our summer camp. You will be on fire. Your courts come above and any. Anything born of God overcomes the world. I am young, but I'm ready to preach the gospel. I am young, but I'm ready to live for the Lord. I am young, but I'm ready. It's a day of going out and going after the lost and telling people that Jesus is alive. That that situation you're in on heroin, living in section eight apartment. You're only one prayer away from the power of God Dragon driving that drug addiction out, raising your family out of poverty. It's a day of going out and telling people, Jesus loves you. You don't have to die in your sin. God really wants to bless us and change everything and cause us to have such a dream and a vision and to increase and multiply. You're anointed in the city and in the country. You're anointed in the highways and the byways. You, you're anointed in the church and in the courtroom. You ought to just give God something to work with. Pastor Russell and I are formally launching revival today. Global Pursuit. At this meeting, a ministry group should be ministers that are born into a house, that have a common objective, that stand like brothers for battle and do A great work for the Lord. With joy. I want to say congratulations for being a part of one thing that God's going to use to drive the devil out of the United States, drive the devil out of Canada and make great impact in the nations of the world. In Jesus name the devil know the second you hear the truth. You know, I don't feel any resistance in this room, but there's a lot of places if you preach like I did this right? He never. He never preached the gospel once. Are you lost? People want every time you do a YouTube video and teach on something. I haven't heard you preach the gospel once. Are you. Are you lost in sin? The Bible says to move on and become mature in your understanding. So I don't. You don't have to. Church doesn't have to be a Billy Graham crusade. Do actual crusades. This is a stadium meeting. I didn't preach on this stuff there. I preached on the seven places Jesus shed blood and what they redeemed us from. I preached on. Why do. In Pittsburgh, why do so many people believe in Jesus? Because of the things he said, the miracles he did. His death on the cross, his resurrection from the dead. That's where you preach the gospel. But the Bible doesn't tell you to preach the gospel. It says, preach the whole counsel of God's word. Can you say amen? Go ahead of the Bible. His reign of terror in your life comes to an Old Testament. Say something else with me. Say things cost what they cost. How much is it going to be to rent that building? It costs what it costs. So if it necessitates it, then that's what it's not God's, you know, I wanted you to do a big outreach, but then I didn't realize it was going to be that much. So maybe tone it back. I was in. I was in Barbados and we drove by a stadium and the pastor said we were going to rent that stadium. But it's a million dollars just to turn the lights on. I said, then we should have got 7 million to flip them on and off a few times. Say things cost what they cost. You spent that much money on your wife's purse. It's either that or steal. It costs what it costs. Can you say amen? You don't. You don't recoil when you find out what the sound and the stage and all that's going to be. Get three quotes, five quotes. Negotiate down, but don't try to save God money. He's not Jehovah, Bargoni. He's Jehovah Jireh, can you say amen? Keep going. But thank God we found a thousand people that didn't buy into the line. They said, I'm coming to the foot of the cross. I'm gonna receive the life and help that comes from Jesus Christ. All it takes is one person. Jesus Christ. I confess today. You are are my Lord. You are my savior. Come into my heart this day where I am weak. Make me strong. I came to tell the devil something in Houston. 300. Everybody got a toy for Christmas. It's time for the people of Houston to be free. The power of the tell you in the name of Jesus to the front. Anybody can talk about their passion to win the lost and stuff. You should express your passion when the loss with large events that reach the lost. Anybody can get fired up in the anointing in church. We need to win the lost. Yeah. Okay. Then do it then. Listen to your own preaching and do what you're telling the people to do. Because there's no money to be made in this stuff. But it actually will bring them the most money in because you're doing what pleases God. That's why people stop doing crusades. It's a lot of money and there's no offerings. So you slowly. And there's nothing that has a bigger fight over it than that. The devil doesn't like churches. But if he has to forfeit something have. They'll even let you have closed church meetings in the United Arab Emirates, parts of Oman, parts of the Middle East. But you can't do public conversion and preach outside. So what the devil doesn't like most. We should do more. Can you say amen? Keep going. The tide is turning in your life today. As hard as life used to be. Destroy the yoke of the devil. No more poverty struggling for food. No more struggling for a place to live. March 3rd of 2024. I ended up trying to take my life. I have had severe hearing loss since I was five years old. He had a hole in his diaphragm, in his stomach. We were told at that time his stomach was in his chest cavity. They kept telling us his lungs were going to be underdeveloped. His heart was shifted to the right side of his chest. Had three months to live. They told us on Wednesday at the medical center that I was going to die. I had been diagnosed with stage four cancer. I've been battling a demon within myself. Not able to look in the mirror. Not even a smile. When I looked in the mirror, I seen, hey, I Felt unworthy of love. She couldn't walk. She crawled on her knees. I took her to many specialists. I was really tired, and it was real unusual. I, as a pastor, would love for every person to get their name tattooed over their eye. It would make things so much easier. So anybody that's watching, if you want to get your name tattooed over your eye, I'll pay for the whole thing. I would love everyone to do that. Keep going. Well, I even felt like it was depression. I had lung cancer. I was on 4 liters of air or oxygen a minute. I would go home a lot with welder splash. They told me that basically all your protective layers are gone. You need to be very. Pause. He's Mennonite. His parents were. Did welding and just let him run around the welding shop with no eye protection on. His eyes were, like, singed out by the time he was little. Yeah, Loose, easy parents. But she had a late bedtime. Keep going. I got a call from the emergency room because my son was unresponsive and he was not breathing. He went into some sort of diabetic ketoacidosis. His kidneys, his liver, and his pancreas weren't working. From deathbed to matching jammies. He's a miracle working. God, I haven't heard this good in 35 years. I found on Jesus because of that. He saved my life. He pulled out my hearing aids, and I could hear every single word of everything that Pastor Jonathan was saying. God has moved his heart almost back to the center. He was removed from dialysis yesterday morning. They're gonna put a feeding tube in so he can start getting my milk in his little body. A week later, he walked in, this time to give us clinics, and he said, we can't. That lady that had the premature baby that was missing organs, and they said, he's gonna die. He got completely healed when I was in Marion, Kentucky, a couple weeks ago. It's a year. It was a year to the week she brought that kid. Every time the kid cried in the service, the whole crowd was there clapping. It was awesome. Yeah, it was great. It's great. Keep going. Yeah, keep going. Find that heart attack, and we can't even find the paperwork. On February 13, all of my blood work came back clear and normal. I was able to smile. I felt love. I felt worthy. And I mean, God bless me. On her second birthday, when I took her out of her crib, and instead of going on her knees, crawling on her knees, she stood on her feet and she started walking. When Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth prayed for me. I felt like a weight lifted off me, and I feel liberated. Lung cancer is gone. My lungs are stretching and growing and changing, and I can feel it happening right now. Pastor Jonathan mentioned an eye condition being healed, and I didn't even have time to say amen or anything. It was just like right away, sunglasses were lifted off my eyes, and I just. I could see clearly the next day. The next morning, my son woke up. He's alive. He's out of the hospital. He's walking. This year marks the beginning of a new dawn. We saw favor in every sphere of influence, culminating to. To an invitation to the White House. We stood along. Back it up. No, the White House. What's going on? Someone's nervous at the thing. There you had it. There's the White House. There's me with Brother Copeland, because nobody would stand near him because they didn't want to get photographed with him. So I went over and said, hi, there's the National Day of Prayer where we were. How that White House opened up would be interesting to you. I got invited in 20, 23 in July to go to Trump's private club on the day he got arraigned in Atlanta. So he came in to see us. There are a bunch of pastors and rabbis and priests there, 40 some at his club in New Jersey. So he walked in, he said, they're going to arraign me this afternoon in Atlanta. I'm going to fly down and get it rain. Then I'll be back for dinner with you guys. So in the afternoon meeting, I told Adalis, I said, you're going to be amazed how well behaved I am here. You know, I'm preaching almost every night. I'm not there to, like, let everybody know how great my ministry. Everybody can talk. I'm just here. I'm happy to be in the room. Well, the guy sitting next to me shares a little bit about himself. And how many of you know I have stage four cancer? And, you know, I don't think he was a Pentecostal. So lady running the meeting goes, jonathan, would you mind praying for him? We're at a. Like, you have to have a million dollars liquid assets to apply to be a member of the club. We're not the only people there. There's, like, lots of rich people. I said, all right. So in my head, I thought, I'm going to do, like, a very country club prayer, Father, in the name of Jesus. And then as I started praying and could feel, like God's compassion for the man and as he started crying. Next thing I knew, I was cursing cancer in Jesus name and shaking the guy. I committed to come out. I command you to live and not die. And then she said, she came over and gave me a mic and said, just pray now for the country. So I thought, all right, cats out of the bag. I mean, the top Jewish rabbis from New York were there. So I just went like, all right, I'm doing tongues, I'm doing the whole thing, because I've already blown my cover. So I went for it. We pray and the anointing hit strong. And it was funny because we had been going around the room praying, but it was like, say a little prayer and squeeze the person's hand. And then the next person to pray after me was the top rabbi from New York. The guy was funny. So I finish and they go, go ahead, Rabbi Sozra. He goes, oh, God, why couldn't I have gone before him? Well, then I get invited to preach at a place and a lady, I won't say her name, but she's one of the main guys, main ladies in the Trump administration. She was at the meeting, she got in line when I lined everybody up to lay hands on. She went out under the power. I guess she's never even received prayer before, let alone that. So then I get a text just before Easter. It was about this time last year. Would you join President Trump for lunch at the White House? I wrote back me question mark. They said, yeah. She said, this is our way of saying thank you for being faithful to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ in America. So I thought there was going to be like 500 people. There was 38 people. They sat me next to Carolyn Levitt, the press secretary. She's spirit filled. She is a cool lady. She's like a real spirit filled Christian. And, you know, we had a great time. It was me, her Pastor Russell. Me and Pastor Russell were the youngest people there by like 110 years. Just looking at each other like, what are we doing here? And that happens. See, the anointing will open all those doors. I thought to have those doors open, I need to kind of chill with the anointing. But the, the anointing makes you unique, makes you carry power, makes people want to be around you. And that's what happened. I'm sitting by Carolyn Levitt and one of the headed heads of Trump's administration came over and said, this is Pastor Jonathan. She said, I don't have people pray for me. I'm not big on that. She said, but he laid hands on me and she said it was powerful. When I was in his meeting, you should meet him. And then we talked the rest of the time and she tried to convince me to go up to New Hampshire to start a church and said her husband will buy me a church if I do, because we don't. Now think of this. She said, my husband keeps telling the pastor we're at to be bold, but he won't be bold. And we've gone to three different churches. We can't find anybody that'll speak out. So, see, in your effort to placate losers, you lose big people because big people admire aggression. Let me tell you another thing while I'm at it. That building that we were given, the $5.3 million building, the man who gave it to me was a billionaire. At the meeting, he told our people, you can start working on it tomorrow if you want. When he said that or when that was communicated to me, it hit my spirit that it's a test. See, if you say you don't have a church because no one gave you a building, and then someone gives you a building, you sit around for 18 months, then you're a fraud. See, people want to see. So when I heard that, I said to Magalis and Adoles, that's a test. Make sure Abel's there at eight in the morning and start working. You know, we're going to raise the money. Just work, move and the money comes. Don't raise it and then move, move and the money comes. Can you say amen? Well, that's what he said. He gave us all our money back after three months that we had paid and said. When I said, you can start in the morning, and I saw you show up at 8, work 80 hour weeks or 90 hour weeks through the night, I knew you were serious people. And I've decided to give you the building. See, you're worried about people that don't like you having a jet. But there's people that, when they see you have a jet, start taking you serious. You know, when that jet was given to me, Think of this. You got a couple of people. How can any man of God have a plane? You swindle from the people, okay? So to placate them, I won't use the jet or postage. But you know what else happened? One guy from the Permian Basin in New Mexico said, I saw you got a jet. Here's $150,000 for fuel. I never sent a letter out or anything, just from Instagram. And then a businessman in the Woodlands, outside of Houston, saw you got a jet. Here's a hundred thousand. Keep up the good work. There are people that admire bigness, and you're busy trying to placate somebody, so you got a new car. When we started, I had. Somebody said to me one time, where'd you get that car? I said, at the car store. They sell them to everybody. I'm not going through some apology. Well, I got some money back. You don't owe anybody an explanation. Somebody doesn't. Did you know one reason why I don't mind having a plane? Read church history. People criticized Spurgeon and Wesley for spending God's money on a horse. The devil's not anti jet. He's anti transportation. He's anti movement. If you. If you didn't have a car, a jet, or a horse, then he'd be mad you had shoes. I don't care what the devil thinks we should have. I don't care what level the devil thinks we should operate at. We're gonna do what's fastest and best and biggest. By the power of God, our actions will testify that we serve living God. Continue. We stood alongside legends like Kenneth Copeland and traveled overseas into Africa with powerful men of God such as Matthew Ashemaloa and Robert. That's Senegal. Dakar, Senegal. It's an Islamic city. It was raining. This is the first time I ever took my own jet out to Africa. It's very far. We actually had to have four pilots and rotate, so two would sleep and two flew. It was pretty cool. So we had to stop for fuel in Barbados. And then we stopped in Dakar, Senegal. So we walk in. It was raining. So there's a carpet when you first walked in the fbo. So I had, like, a ton of water and stuff on my feet, so I kicked the mat as hard as I could to get off. Then my nephew saw me do it. He did it, too. And then we went and sat down. And then after a couple minutes, another guy came in and knelt on the carpet and prayed. And we looked. It was a Muslim prayer, Matt. Yes. So by the grace of God, I'm still alive. I was wearing, like, an American flag jacket. Keep going. Preaching the gospel to thousands upon thousands. This year, we traveled to 41 cities across 7 countries and 8, 18 different states. Our ministry grew spiritually and financially. We stepped into new levels of stewardship, even receiving a Falcon 900 revival today. Put it back on the plane. So we had a Falcon 50. That's a great plane, but it has less range. And then the guy Upgraded me to a Falcon 900. So when they show it, I'm going to show you what a Falcon does. It's the perfect. God not only gave me a plane, he gave me the perfect one for what we do. Because it has three engines, not two. The third engine goes in reverse thrust, so it can stop in 2,000ft. If you have, like a President Trump's jet, like if somebody gave me a 737, I can't land unless it's at an international airport. This plane can literally land at any airport that there is because it can stop anywhere so that you got three engines. So you have that advantage. The other advantage is that you have three engines. If one engine fails, you can keep flying and you can be cleared to take off the fly again. If two engines fail, you can still fly, just not very fast. And if all three engines fail, you're not tithing. I can tell you that right now. You got like a mistress and cocaine on there or something, because that's never happened in the history of aviation. Yeah, those have never crashed because there's too many engines. There's no breakdown lane in the sky. So God gave me a safe plane. When I finished preaching in la, I can go to sleep, sleep through the night, land in Pittsburgh, get up and preach. And then God gave us this building. My Uncle Ted that preached here, he prophesied to me two years ago or the beginning of last year, he said, the Lord's gonna give you a building that's a warehouse, and you'll be able to build it out quickly because he's not going to have you kill yourself doing three services on Sunday coming back from the West Coast. And that's exactly what happened. Prosperity is just being willing to receive what God gives you as a harvest for what he told you to sow, instead of being embarrassed. What do people think? I've had. You know how many preachers I've had? Somebody gave me a plan. I want to be able to show anybody. They'd get mad. Why do you have people in your ministry that hate you? Why do you have people in your ministry that don't like you to prosper? Why are you. Why are you placating people that hate you? Can you say Amen? Keep going. Revival today took in 34.8 million, and we did not hold back. We sowed $5.4 million into crusades, churches, ministries, and that's other people's crusade. That does not count our crusade. So I'm telling you this for a reason, because ministers have creative ways of not giving and looking like they give. You know, nothing ever actually leaves the account. It gets transferred from one ministry. It goes from Revival today. I mean, think about it. I could give tons of money every year on paper and never actually give any money. We give from Revival Today Evangelistic to the Revival today churches. We could sow from Revival Today Church to the evangelistic expansion. When I say 5.4 million, I'm talking about widows, old preachers. I put that Pastor Bob Nichols in Fort Worth on salary. He was still trying to book meetings at 85. Book them if you want, but I put him on 70,000 a year and made him pastor emeritus. Take care of people, take care of old preachers, take care of their wives. Treat people like you'd want to be treated. And then God will treat you like you treat other people. Remember that. God will treat you like you treat other people. If you give people enough gas money to get home when they come preach at your church, then don't expect we're believing for breakthrough. You're not going to get it because you're cheap. You hurt. I remember my dad getting an offering when I was little from Jack Mitchell at Wayland, Massachusetts. What was it called? Wellesley park assembly of God. My dad came home super happy. This is 1990. And he came home. It was normal to get $100 for a Sunday. $200. $500 would be great. This guy gave him $5,000 for Sunday morning, Sunday night, put him in a nice hotel, took him to Ken's Steakhouse. Back when it was like the best steakhouse around Boston. My dad ordered chicken to be nice. When he finished ordering, he said, cancel his order and ordered steak and lobster for him, then gave him five grand. My dad came home smiling, took us out to eat, counted the money on the table in the restaurant in front of my mom to show her what happened. I could tell my dad, see, when somebody does something like that, it's not the money, it's the. Wait a minute. This thing's beatable. There's guys like him around. Everybody's not a cheap jerk. There's some people that actually care about you. And I believe that was the day that I decided I'm not going to believe that there's Jack Mitchell's that come into my life. I'm going to be a Jack Mitchell. When somebody comes to my church, they're going to get blessed. When somebody comes around me, they're going to get blessed. And that's what God's going to make you in Jesus name. Can you Say amen. Go ahead and finish it. Families and children worldwide across revival today, church campuses, crusades, outreaches and events we witnessed 8,688 salvation. Those are lives that will be changed forever. But none of this happens because of one person. It happens because of you. Our revival today church members, our revival today partners, our family and friends, thank you for standing with us. Thank you for believing and thank you for making possible the year of a new dawn. Read that out loud for me. Now lift your hands and begin to thank God that he's going to use you to make you the person that makes it happen in Jesus name. You're not going to operate in the ministry like it's 1925. You're going to operate like it's 2026, in Jesus name and use all this technology for the glory of God. Can you say amen? Do you have me preaching in Farsi? Okay. Do you have my prophecy about Iran? Now I'm wrapping up. I'm gonna take some questions and then we'll meet back tonight. Did you enjoy today? A lot of. Thank you. A lot of prosperity deals with. Say this with me. Be sensitive to the Holy Ghost. Here's October 2024. Not just the Russians. We can take it into the Arabic world and it looks like a regime change is going to happen in Iran. Do you hear Benjamin Netanyahu said that the people in Iran don't like their leadership. And I'm telling you, you're going to have a new leadership soon. And they've taken out all the Hezbollah elements. And now as of today, there's an Iranian leader who's exiled to America who said he's going to go back and run for president. So you know that if he's doing that, the CIA in Israel told him, we got your back. So imagine that country comes open to the gospel. And we've already been reaching it because I'm preaching now. You know how I'm tuned into what's going on there? Because I'm not trying to get coupons for the grocery store. I'm not. I'm dialed into what's happening with the gospel in the world. I'm not trying to save money on pancake batter or something. Use your mind to think and concentrate on big things. Keep going. Because I'm preaching now in Farsi thanks to AI. So we bought Million Dollar Technology once the Lord told me there's going to be a regime change, started a Farsi YouTube channel so that we'd already have a crowd there when it comes time to Fly over and preach. And now I have my own jet. I don't have to wait till they have commercial flights to Iran. The second the airport's clear and it's clear to fly, which I have a contact in the CIA that's going to let me know, I will be the first one over there to hold a public outdoor crusade in Iran since at least the year 700. Can you say amen? So there's those channels we've started so far. What do we got? English, I think, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian one's Farsi one's Arabic. Oh, and then Mandarin. Farsi, Arabic and Mandarin. Thank you. So it didn't make sense to do a Farsi one because there's only two countries that speak it, Iraq and Iran. But I knew it was going to flip. And so here's me and far. Now. This is million dollar technology. You know why I'm the only one that used it? Because there's a million dollars. People won't pay money for the gospel. I'm talking preachers. Too much. No, amounts. Too much. If it cost 100 billion, I'd get a hundred billion. It doesn't matter. The amounts don't matter. They're numbers in a computer. God is able to make all grace abound to you. Here's me. And Farsi protects a reap. So think of like a message like this going out on. On Iranian television. And they're already. They get VPNs, they watch it on YouTube. We're not in the last days. We're in the final hours of the last days. Jesus is coming soon. Then hear about healing. They've never heard about divine healing. There's no divine healing in mosques. Not they promise it and can't deliver. They don't believe. Whom Allah makes sick, he makes sick. Whom he makes well, he makes well. Similar to Calvinist theology, but they've never heard. Your daughter that was born with birth defects can be healed. Today when you call on the name of Jesus. Keep going. Can you say amen? Show my two pilots with me on the plane. Both of my pilots are from Iran. When I went to get on the plane, his eyes were the size of dinner plates. He said, you're not going to believe this, Pastor. I was in Turkey the last two weeks visiting family, and there were girls from Iran that went out to dinner with us. And the one said, what do you do for work? He said, I fly a private jet. They said, oh, is it for a movie star, musician? He said, no, it's for a church. Show me the Church, on Instagram. He said, I showed you to her. And she went, that's the guy I watch on YouTube. Iranian. She fell into prostitution, hit rock bottom, started searching on the Internet for God, found my YouTube channel, gave her life to Jesus Christ, and has been listening to the Word for eight months. So that plan has been in effect since. See, it's one thing for the Lord to Show you in October 2024, there's going to be a regime change in Iran. Now, what steps will you make when he shows you to make it beneficial to the kingdom of God? Say this out loud, I'm a useful servant. To he that is a useful, excellent servant, will I entrust the keys to the kingdom? God knows. If he gives me a jet, I don't take more vacations. Churches go from two to four in one year. Anything you show me, anything you give me, I'll return back to you. You give me five talents. I don't bury it, because I'm afraid. I multiply. Everybody say multiply. He took the five and he didn't get 10% back or 20% or 30%. He went out and quickly, what, doubled? Everybody say, double. So why do you have money in a savings account then? Which is the bank equivalent of burying it in the ground? How much does a savings account pay, percentage wise? Quarter of a percent. What's inflation? 3, 3% or so. So it's called safely losing money. And that's all, that's all that we've been instructed in church is to save, meaning get saved. No, I have money that's saved. None of it's in a savings account. It's all an investment. Some's in crypto, some's in stocks making money while I get ready to flush it out of my account and give another. Do you know why I'm giving 100,000? Do you know why I gave 300,000? Because I'm going to give a million. And instead of trying to turn 300 into a million in the stock market, I sew it and it comes back 100fold. We'll give a million. I will be the first minister if Jesus tarries, I promise you to give 10 million. Maybe somebody's done it. I'll go to 100 million. It won't be a problem. I'm going to be. My goal is not to teach people to give. My goal is to give. And as I give, I receive. My gift comes back to me. Let me ask you a question now, what did I teach the people that gave me a million dollars? I didn't take an offering, fly to our house and come pick it up. That's a return off of my seat. If you give as a minister, you never have to worry about receiving. If you want tithe as a minister, you will have a difficult time in the ministry. You have two choices in the ministry. Tithing or begging. Did Abraham tithe? Not everyone at once. Did Abraham tithe? If you're of the seed of Abraham, you'll do the work Abraham did. But Levites. The Levites didn't have to tithe. And we're ministers, so ministers don't have to tithe. Oh, yeah. Put numbers 18, 25 through 28 up. The Lord told Moses, give these instructions to the Levites. When you receive from the people of Israel the tithes I've assigned as your allotment, give a tenth of the tithes, you receive a tithe of the tithe. When the people bring their tithes, don't consume it all now. You take as they've given to you. You take a tenth of that tenth, give it to the Lord as a sacred offering. 27. The Lord will consider this offering to be your harvest offering, as though it were the first grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress. 28. You must present one tenth of the tithe received from the Israelites as a sacred offering to the Lord. This is the Lord's sacred portion, and you must present it to Aaron the priest. Not only was ministerial tithes never instituted in the Bible, it was specifically codified in the Bible that ministers are supposed to tithe off of what comes into them. If you're a minister and you don't tithe, you will be a beggar. You will put out a lot of newsletters, a lot of Instagram reels. Hey, family, we got a crusade coming up and we still need always playing from behind. I'm telling you, I can spot non tithers because they're always playing from behind. We need, we need, we still need, we need. And it happens so much because I'd like to know the percentage of ministers that tithe. It's got to be next to none. I believe that's why people shut their church down. I believe the reason we kept you cannot tithe. Where a man's treasure is there, his heart is also. The tithe ties your heart into the kingdom of God. You can't get me to close the church down. You can't get me to stop preaching. You're welcome to take my head off my body. I will never stop having Church, can you say amen? Everybody say, a tithe of the tithe belongs to the Lord. That doesn't mean 1%. That means the people brought their tithe that belonged to the Levites. That's what they lived on. In Nehemiah, he was irritated because he came back and all of the ministers had to work in the fields. He said, why are you out working in the fields instead of doing what God said? They said, the people don't give anymore. So Nehemiah gathered everyone, told everyone to start giving and said, quit working in the fields and start working in the temple. I believe every pastor should have a job. Well, you're stupid. Pastoring is a job. What job do you think I should have a job? Tell me what job I can work where I can get 51 weeks off this year to go preach. Yeah, if you're going to babysit some Christians once a week, you can have a job. But if you're going to go into all the world and preach the gospel, preach crusade. Preach crusade. Do what Paul did, do what those guys with great churches do. Preach and build and preach and build. And sow the word. And sow the word and pray for the sick. That's what God told you to do? Yeah. I like Russell Johnson. They asked him in a forum, they said, how much money does your church give to the city to help the city? He said, none. And I wish we could give less than that. How much do you people give to charity? We are a charity. We are. We are someone. We're not something that's a necessary evil, really. We should feed and clean the parks up and stuff. How high do you want to raise taxes? Clean your own park. We're not here. That book of Acts was not a city cleanup crew. And Peter went and scrubbed the graffiti off of the building for the city. All these people thought they were building bridges to the city. And when Department of Health came, they closed them all down first. It's a one way bridge. You want to help the city, help them, but we are not. We don't have to prove our worth by doing extra projects. Our worth is in changing people's hearts. Getting fathers to stop abusing their children. Getting mothers to actually take care of their babies because Jesus changes them from the inside out. Can you say amen, by the way, just to answer the question? The Pittsburgh Steelers gave $960,000 to charity last year. They take in about $2 billion. We gave 5.3 million. And we take in less than them for now. But soon we will be the Largest entity in Pittsburgh. They'll have court hearings as to how much a nonprofit should be able to own in a city. We're at four properties now in four years, and I'm just getting warmed up. This Abrahamic blessing. The more the devil doesn't like it, the more I intend to ram it down his throat that I'm not running my blessing down by your approval. I'm going to show you that God is God. He's the Almighty God. He owns all the silver and all the gold. I'm his son, you're his son, you're his daughter, and he cares about you. If you believe it one more time, clap your hands to the Lord. Let me see my graph again. Income graphics. I fear what would have happened if, when we tripled in one year, I said, we can't give 33,000. That's a lot of money. Okay. And stay there. As soon as you show God that you think that's too much to give, then God will reduce your income to the level that you're comfortable giving out of. Release the 33 comes back as half a million. Release the 52,000 comes back as 800,000. Release the 80,000 comes back as 1.8 million. Release the 180,000 comes back as 2.8. Release the 2.8 comes back a few years later as 5. Release 500,000 comes back as 7. 7. Release 700,000 comes back as 15. Release 1.5 million comes back as 23. Release 2.3. 32, then 35, and at no point the same way. I refuse to say 30,000 is a lot to give. We took in 35 million and gave 5.3. Not because I'm dyslexic. 35 and I got it mixed up. We gave the tithe 3.5 and a couple more million in offering as directed by the Spirit. I've never had to pay for a church building. Really? Because I've paid for other people's churches all over the country in the world. I can't afford to build a church. Yeah, you can. They're like 10 grand in certain countries. So what you make happen for others, God makes happen for you. I've started doing that in 2011, so there it is. I only put that up as proof. If he's trying to trick people. No, I got documented facts that giving works. And if you give, it'll come back to you. And one day, if Jesus tarries, this line will be this line. Because God will never stop increasing you unless you decide to cut out. You want to go have an affair. You want to go get drunk and get a dui, then that's your problem. You want to quit giving, that's on you. But if you do the terms of the covenant, God will bless you. And in blessing I will bless thee and multiply thy seed. I see that blessing coming on you today. In Jesus name. If you believe it, lift both hands and just begin to thank God for about 30 seconds as brother Tony please thank you Jesus that I'm going to another level today. I'm going to another level and I'm never going back. Man. I I thank you Father, for such a serious group of ministers that take your word seriously. Sit and listen to your word for two and a half hours and receive and be attentive. I thank you for showing them that it works everywhere in the world. World. Every country, every county, every state, everywhere you go and everything you do. You'll be blessed. I thank you for that blessing today. In Jesus name, all God's people said Amen. Thank you for sharing the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. If you're interested in supporting our mission to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to our generation, Please visit revival today.com and click on Give now to become one of our monthly partners. Thank you in advance. We hope to see you soon.