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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revival today.com. and now, here is evangelist Jonathan First Corinthians 12. But you should earnestly desire the most helpful gifts. So if God was just going to give you the gifts randomly, why would there be an instruction to crave what's in those gifts or what's in the Holy Ghost? Because it's an understanding. Look what's happened. Pastor Alex covets. Pastor Alex obeys that scripture. He earnestly desires spiritual gifts. Most churches, the average Assemblies of God church and Assemblies of God is in the best shape of all denominations in America. And they're at 66 for an average church congregation. Some studies say 112. Church of God, I think is in the 80s. This church is at 220 in five months. Because you don't have to drive somewhere else to get healed if you go to church here. You don't have to wait for a special meeting. This is a place where they honor the moving of the Holy Spirit and contend. Everybody say contend. Contend. For the move of the Spirit, There's a preparation in fasting and prayer to prepare yourself. Jesus said, this kind of demon will not come out unless you pray and fast. So. So being full gospel is not getting up on Pentecost Sunday once a year and saying, at this church, we're open to the move of the Holy Spirit. I'm open to being 310 pounds of solid muscle, but I'm never going to be that unless I put some work in. There's things that you have to do to cooperate with what God does. And I want to congratulate you because you're doing it tonight. You could have been anywhere in the world and you chose to be in the presence of God. And God has gifts for his people tonight. I said God has gifts for his people tonight. These gifts of the Spirit are the weapons of our warfare, which are not carnal, but are mighty to the pulling down of strongholds. The gifts of the Spirit are God's answer to the wickedness that's in the world. The devil can overrun any person, any family, any church, or any ministry at will if they don't have God's power. But when you have God's power, you have weapons that not only defeat his attack, they defeat him personally and make him cough up what he took. Tonight the devil is going to cough up everything he stole from you and your family. This is a night of victory. In Jesus name can you say Amen? Let me see the end of 1 Corinthians 13, the last verse. 1 Corinthians 13, the last verse. Three things will last forever. Faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love. So again, when you have people, there's like a subtle move to move people away from the Holy Spirit. Paul wrote to the church in Galatia, why, after starting in the Spirit, are you trying to finish in the flesh? So that's what people do. There's big churches all over the United States that if you listen to them on live stream or go, they'll say stuff like this. How many of you remember when we were in the old building? And then they'll tell a story about how people were healed there, a revival that came. And it's like people use the Holy Ghost until they get a nice salary and a big church and it's full of people. Then they go into maintenance and protect mode. That's why, if you notice those of you that follow our ministry, you won't see me do a week of meetings at a church that has 3,000 seats or 4,000 seats too much. Now you're gonna start seeing me do it a lot, because we're gonna have a church with 3,000, 4,000 seats, but you won't see us do that much because those churches generally are not hungry for a move of God. And many times your board starts to be run by lawyers and insurance companies, and they don't want to take any risk. And so they start, not immediately, it looks good, but they start to decline. Because as soon as you quit pressing forward, you know, I was talking. There's pastors here from Romania that just started. They're under 100 people. Pastor Alex, by the grace of God, just broke 200. As much as you want to be at 2000 or 2500, and you will be, this is a very great place to be because you're hungry. And as God grows you, you should never allow yourself to use that hunger of going out and taking people from the devil's grip. As soon as church becomes maintenance, your ministry is over. As soon as you're just trying not to lose donors or lose givers, your ministry's over. The ministry thrives when you stay full of the fire of the Holy Ghost and reach out and make the devil cough up souls that are in his possession. I see an anointing coming on people today to do just that. In Jesus name. If you believe it, can you say amen? Let me get that Fort Worth crusade, too, because I'm going to show you something. Even our outreaches that we do that cost money in fact, when I was at Sturgis, the man that runs the Buffalo Chip every year, you know, Kid Rock and Snoop Dogg were after me in a sense. I opened for Kid Rock and Snoop Dogg because that was the big stage. So that guy called me in for a meeting. He said, the way that I. The way that I run, or. He said, the way that I see things, you have to be at least in this for 350,000. He said, you have a nice stage, you're sound. He said, I do this for my business. I know how much that costs. I. He said, and I noticed you haven't taken any offerings any night. Yeah, we don't take offerings in crusades from unsaved people. They're not saved yet. And so he said, how do you make money? I said, here's what you have to understand, sir. In your line of work, you measure profit and loss by money. So if you're going to put something on for 350,000, you need to make at least 350,000 and more than that if you're going to keep going as a company. But in the ministry, you measure profit and loss by souls. And if you keep the soul account large, God will make sure your bank account always have more than enough to go get souls. Every ministry, in the sound of my voice, you're going to double before the end of this year. God is going to open his good treasure unto you to do the work of the ministry. And you'll never lack. In Jesus name can you say Amen? Let me see. First Corinthians 14:1. So anyway, when they try to steer you away from, basically, this is how it'll get taught. First Corinthians, chapter 12. That's the gifts of the Spirit. But then the Bible says, I'll show you a more excellent way. And so many people love the gifts, but the greatest thing is love. Yeah, but there's also a chapter called 14 where it tells you you don't have to choose. Like one time somebody said to me, when I was younger, I was preaching on the gifts of the Spirit. And they said, jonathan, what do you think is more important, the fruit of the Spirit or the gifts of the Spirit? I said, what do you think is more important? Eating or breathing? Now, whatever one you pick, you're going to find out you need that other one soon. And so the fruit is what manifests. When you're filled with the Spirit, you don't make an effort. Now think of this. I've heard people teach on joy and faithfulness, but the Bible is telling you, if you get filled with the spirit, just like when you're full of the flesh, you don't have to take anger. You don't have to take lessons to learn to get angry or to learn to be jealous because you don't have the spirit and you're in the flesh, you have anger and jealousy that are a fruit of your unchecked flesh. Then the Bible says, but when you're full of the spirit and walk in the spirit, then without trying. My dog's name is Christopher. He's a goldendoodle. My daughter named him. And he never had to take classes to bark. He never had to take classes to put his leg up to the side and pee. I never caught him using the toilet and said, don't do that. You're supposed to pee outside because dogs act like dogs. And when you're full of the Holy Ghost, you begin to manifest the traits of God naturally. How many of you since you got saved, I'm not even talking about filled with the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues. How many of you, when you got saved and the Holy Spirit was on the inside of you, you used to lash out. And the next time you went to do that, it's almost like you felt like a little tap on the inside or on your shoulder. Hey, take it easy. We don't do that. So that's the fruit of the spirit. Well, just like you don't make an effort to have love or faithfulness or gentleness, you're just like that because you have God. You don't make an effort to have healing. I mean, think of this. I wasn't. I had already made up my mind. I wasn't going to pray for anybody. And that guy. It starts manifesting. What made those people come up and say, excuse me, can you pray for my friend? It's because when you have God, the Bible talks about in the New Testament, we have God's life on the inside of us. You're not going to have God's life on the inside of you. You have God's life on the inside of you. I've heard the last week, I've heard a couple things that really bothered me. One was my mother and her family. I didn't know this. I thought they went to a Catholic church once in a while. They went every other week to Catholic church her whole childhood. And she didn't know anything about being born again or receiving Jesus Christ. They did the Mass in Latin or. No, in Polish. It was a Polish Catholic church. They did the Mass In Polish. And it was a type of Polish that wasn't even spoken by Polish people anymore. So even her father, who spoke Polish, had no clue what the guy was saying. And then I heard another relative of mine that grew up in Episcopal Church. She said, I was never born again. They never told us anything about being born again. They sprinkled water on you when you were a baby. Now that Russian Orthodox, you start fighting Presbyterian. Doesn't matter. There's a religious form of church that denies the power of God. But to be changed on the inside, it's not learning lessons from the Bible. You have to have an encounter with the person of the risen Jesus Christ, and He changes your life from the inside out. If he's changed your life, can you say amen? What a change. He changes you from the inside out. John 1:12. John, chapter 1, verse 12. As many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons and daughters of God. John 1:12. As many as received Christ. Christ gave them power. Everybody say power. Yeah. How ridiculous is it to teach against the Holy Spirit and say that? That's not for today. But all those churches that teach you that still tell you you're to be like Christ. How in the world, as a human being, have you ever read. I feel like telling them. I'm going to tell the next minister I hear say that. Have you ever read about Jesus? You're telling your congregation that they can't have the Holy Spirit, but they're to be like Christ. Very difficult to walk on water. Very difficult to spit in a blind man's eyes and have his eyes come open and see. You can't do anything that Christ did unless you receive power from on high. But I have good news tonight in Woodruff, South Carolina, God has given us his very own spirit. He lives on the inside of me. You're going to leave here with him living on. On the inside of you. And what you weren't able to do at all, you'll be able to do with ease. Not by might, not by power, but by the spirit of Almighty God. If you receive that, go ahead and do what you already do it. Praise God. But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God, even to those that believe in his name. Let me see. 1st Corinthians 14:1. So how many know there's the gifts, but we don't believe in those anymore. And the Bible says, now there's love. And that's better. Yes. Love will be what remains. And the gifts and faith Works by love and the gifts work by love. You know you're gonna have a messed up ministry if you're just trying to get people healed to prove a point to the church down the street that God still heals. That's not. That's not what you do. Love is the primary thing, but it's not exclusive of the power of the Holy Spirit. And you know it right here. Let love be your highest goal. But you should also, everybody say also, desire the special abilities the spirit gives, especially the ability to prophesy. So the Bible tells you walk in love, but you should have a desire for God to use you in the gifts of the Spirit. Can you say amen? Take your. In fact, I'm going to make this my text. I said I wasn't going to preach on the gifts of the Spirit, but I got in the water and I'm not getting back out. I had notes. Apparently God saw my sermon and wasn't impressed. Let's read this. Let's read First Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 1, NLT. And I'm going to have you switch to King James at one point. 1st Corinthians 12:1. How many of you want to hear a little bit about the operation of the gifts of the Spirit before I get in there, let's go back on an evening more base foundation do John 7:37. John 7:37. On the last day, the high day of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, anyone who is thirsty, come to me. Anyone who believes in me may come and drink. For the Scriptures declare rivers of living water will flow from his heart or in the King James, from his belly. Even unsaved people talk about getting a gut feeling. I had a feeling about that. Any mother that's here because you're created in the image of God and have a spirit, Some guy walks by you. What's your grocery store called here? Food line. You're at the aisle on the food lion. Some guy walks by with greasy hair. You have your little kid with you, your son. You say, hey, stay by me till this guy gets out of here. I don't have a good feeling about him. And so that's your spirit. Out of your belly will flow rivers of living water. Your spirit's not in your head, your spirit's in your belly. Anyone who believes in me may come and drink. For the scriptures declare rivers of living water will flow from his belly. When he said living water, he was speaking of and spirit is capital S because he's speaking of the Holy Spirit. The disciples didn't have the Holy Spirit living in them then. That's why Jesus would pray and they'd watch him pray and fall asleep. And that's how it is. If you don't have the Holy Spirit, you're watching Pastor Alex or whoever. And man, they're a mighty man of God. They are. But that same might is available. Jesus said in that day, now this is very difficult. If you believe this is something given to the first 12 apostles. He didn't say in that, hey, disciples, I don't want to yell this to everybody. So you come here and Judas, you're going to be dead. So you. 11 in that day, rivers of living water will flow from the first 12 apostles. But that's not what he said. He shouted to everybody. That was at that festival. In Israel, anyone means anyone. Anyone who believes in me may come and drink. You know, we have Pastor Alex and Pastor Roy and you. You both of you had a background in drugs, correct? Selling drugs, you know, and I'm sure people feel like. I'm sure people feel like they weren't to be used in the ministry. But God doesn't. God cares about belief. God only sees two colors. He doesn't see black and white. He sees faith and he sees unbelief. And when he sees faith, he'll open the windows of heaven and pour out his good treasure. Everything that's in that Bible is available to you by faith. Faith is what brought you here tonight. I hope. I hope you came here with an expectation something good is going to happen to me. I'm not content to stay where I'm at. I want the greater things of God. God's going to reward you tonight with the good gifts of heaven. In Jesus name can you say Amen? Anyone who believes in me may come and drink. For the scriptures declare, rivers of living water will flow from his belly. When he said living water, he was speaking of the Holy Ghost, who had not yet been given. But would be given to who? Why are you mumbling? You guys need a snack? You want like a sugar? You want some skittles or something? Would be given to who? Everyone who believes in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory. Now go to Luke 3:16. Do you have that guy that I played in Arizona and Pittsburgh that was talking about how he doesn't believe in the supernatural in the Bible anymore, or can you find it? I played it on Saturday and Sunday. Remember that guy sitting on the stool? Super feminine. Luke 3:16. That guy wouldn't last five days in Russia. John answered their questions by saying, I baptize you with water. Look at this. John, said the Baptist, I baptize you in water. But one is coming soon who's mightier than I am, whose shoes I'm not worthy to tie, whose sandals I'm not worthy to latch it. He will baptize you. Now think of this. John's saying the same way. I take you in the water and baptize you like that Jesus will come and baptize you in the Holy Spirit. There's an old Pentecostal book that we need to break out and start reading again. It's called the Anointing Within. And the anointing upon garments were taken from Paul's body. Because how many of you gotten baptized at this church or another church? They have to give you a towel or a change of clothes because after you go in the water, no one has to wonder if you got baptized or not. You can see it. It gets on your skin and clothes. The Bible says there's an anointing that's on the bodies of people that are filled with the Holy Ghost. Part of the role of that anointing is to strengthen your body and keep you strong. I preached 307 times last year and I've never missed one meeting for sickness or disease, and I never will. Because one of the functions of that anointing is he strengthens your body. Everybody that needs strength in your body, particularly if you're in the ministry, there's a strength for your body coming in today. You're never going to need a sabbatical. God is going to give you a river on the inside that never runs dry. If you believe it, can you say a loud amen? Praise God. I baptize you with water. See, you can see it in the Bible. Garments were taken from Paul and brought to us. That's what this towel is for. Apparently somebody's read this stuff before because they said, somebody. What was the problem? Half her body is paralyzed. Can you pray for this cloth to take to her? Well, they wore garments. And then when they took the garments that Paul had preached, they took them. And the Bible says in Acts 19, think of this. The residue of the anointing on Paul's body. Any evil spirit, when his cloth touched them, any evil spirit came out and any sickness was healed. And so there's an anointing on you. What about when Elisha was dead and they were throwing a body into his tomb because Aramean raiders were coming? I think it's 2nd Kings 13. Bible says raiders started coming. So they took the body they were going to bury and just tossed it in where Elijah was. And when that dead body made contact with Elisha's bones, what did that corpse do? Jump back up? So after he was dead, there was still enough left over in his bones to raise somebody back to life. So if that could happen in the old covenant with dead old covenant bones, imagine what God can do through your living bones today as you yield to the Holy Spirit. Man, I feel something breaking loose tonight. Yeah, this is powerful. This is powerful. And this is in the Bible. Once, when some Israelites were burying a man, they spied a band of these raiders. So they hastily threw the corpse in the tomb of Elisha and fled. But as soon as the body touched Elisha's bones, the dead man revived and jumped to his feet. And because they all ran away, he's just by himself now, wondering what in the world happened. Everybody say, power. Where'd that power come from? The Bible's telling you now, anybody here that had, like, a stepfather or a father that was abusive and would go out and drink and get drunk, and you and your brothers and sisters were having fun watching tv, your mom was washing dishes or whatever, then he came home, and you could feel the atmosphere change. And sometimes you just shut the TV off with anyone telling you, go hide in your room. Everybody go to a different part of the house. Because you could feel like. Like. Like sin on him and unholiness from where he was coming from. I won't ask for a show of hands, but some of you grew up in places like that. Well, don't you think if somebody can carry hell with them, that when you get born again, not only are you rescued out of the power of hell, but you have heaven's power in you and on you, that wherever the sole of your foot shall tread, you're on land that God's given to you. Can you say Amen? I'm telling you, things are changing. You're going to have a different experience in your household than what you had growing up. Because it only takes one person in a family to yield themselves to the Holy Ghost. And that power begins to drive out every other thing. Luke 3:16. John answered, I baptize you with water, but one is coming who is mightier than I am, so much greater than I am not even worthy to be a slave. And untie the straps of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy spirit and fire. 17 is good, too. Actually, the Whole book's good. He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. And he'll clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn. But burning the chaff with never ending fire, which speaks of. As we talked about last night, the chaff is unproductive. The wheat's productive. So as that fire burns on the inside of you, it starts to burn out the things that are not of God on its own. As you stay full of the Holy Spirit, all of the parts of you that were unproductive and resisted God, you stay. That Bible says it'll separate the chaff from the wheat and the chaff will be burnt up with unquenchable fire. I'm going to tell you something about generational curses and demons. Demons are real. Generational curses are real. But when you get born again, there's not one curse the devil has. I don't care if it's running your family for 2,500 unbroken years. The blood of Jesus. Jesus is greater than all curses. The blood of Jesus is greater than all demon power. The devil cannot hang around the child of God. The child of God doesn't run from devils. The child of God casts out devils. Devils run from you because greater is he that lives in you than he that's in the world. Can you say amen? So let me see, Let me see. First Corinthians 12:1. Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your questions about the special abilities the Spirit gives us, spiritual gifts. Now, the word gifts isn't in the original language. That's why it's translated oddly in the nlt. If you translated it into English, it would be the spirituals, which doesn't really make sense. So they do spiritual gifts or. Everybody say this Things of the Spirit. Now here's how I want you to understand the gifts of the Spirit. This is the scriptural way. Rather than trying to get the gift of healing or taking some test at church to see which gift you have. That's not how it works. Who from the Trinity is the giver of those gifts? They all come from the self, same spirit. So when you're filled with the spirit, the Bible says the Holy Spirit has an attribute to him, that he's like a river. There's a flow to the Holy Spirit. You should never. I can tell you I've never felt like I was doing anything in the ministry. Everything just flows. I don't know why this meeting went so great. It just. It flowed. Even when the last meeting in South Carolina Somebody tried to put a stop to it. I flowed up to Pittsburgh and we had spite a thon and a million dollars flowed into the ministry and we sowed a million out. And that million has come back five times since then. Can you say amen? Say with me, there's a flow to the Holy Spirit. Pastor Alex, when you felt called to do something here, how did this building open up? Got a phone call. From who? And what did he say? This is your place. He got a call from the owner of this building and said, this is your place to gather. See? No building program, no coloring in a red thermometer for 25 years. Thanking the Johnson family for their gift. We only have 100 more million to go. We should be done sometime in the millennium. None of that. When you get in the flow of the Holy Ghost, the good things of God start flowing in your direction. And though the devil tries to come in like a flood, the Lord raised up a standard against him and flushes them out. I tell you again, the good things of God are headed in your direction tonight. And everything the devil's trying to do, it's getting flushed out of your life permanently in Jesus mighty name. Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your questions about the gifts of the Spirit, I don't want you to misunderstand this. I don't want you ignorant. It says in the King James, God can't bless stupidity. Say with me, God can't bless stupidity. That's why there's an instruction in the scripture study to show yourself approved. A laborer that need not be ashamed that there should be no area of the Bible that you say, I don't get involved in that. I don't know what's happening in Iran. I'll be honest with you. I don't read Revelation. I get nervous. I get confused. Well, get unconfused. Turn chatgpt on and ask it questions. Ask it according, according to the best available concordances. Explain this passage to me. Study it. Anything you're confused in. We have people write us questions. What does it mean in John, chapter 3, verse 38 when it says this? You know you can ask that same question to Google and then it's going to come back with materials. Everybody say study. So anytime there's a lack of something. Now if you catch this, especially if you're in the ministry, this will help you. Whatever there's a lack of in your ministry, there's a lack of your understanding of the Word in that area. Because when you study the Word, you not only gain understanding, you gain the substance of that thing, in understanding it. Because God, God's Word, is living and active. When you study on healing, it doesn't just help you to understand healing, it begins to produce healing by the Word. When you study the blessing of God and start to realize God didn't call you into the ministry to be a beggar, he called you to be the head and not the tail. You not only receive understanding, you receive the power from the Word in that area. Tessa, can I get the scripture? Is it Proverbs 13:16? Whatever it says. He, he that want. The man that wandereth out of the path of understanding shall abide in the congregation of the dead. Maybe. 2113, 2116. The man who departs from the path of understanding shall abide in the congregation of the dead. The man who wandereth out of the path of understanding shall. There it is, 2116. The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. Keep that scripture up there. That's powerful because you have all these people, you know, If God heals, why aren't I healed? Tell me about healing. I believe God can heal. That's not a scripture. Tell me about healing. Tell me from the Word why it's illegal for you to be sick. Oh, it is? Yes. It's not. The problem is never listen now. The problem in life is never on God's end. And the devil is too small to be blamed. How much of Satan's power was he stripped of when Jesus died and rose again? How do you blame a powerless person? You're saying the devil doesn't have any power? That's what the Word says. And then, even if you want to say we talk about the power of the enemy, he's in another kingdom. An ant. A and T, not your mom's sister. An ant has power. Scientists study and marvel at how an ant can lift crumbs of bread that are ten times its body weight or whatever good for it. But if it comes to me and an ant, I don't start saying, holy moly. That thing can lift a crumb of bread. No, we're not in the same class. We're not in the same kingdom. Without even breaking my eyes from the television screen, I can take my thumb and squish it. And then I'll say, oh, now those ants are going to be mad when his cousins find out. They might launch a counter attack. I don't care if all the ants make it their business to mess with me. They're not in charge of Me, they're not equal to me. They are far below me. And I came to tell the church in South Carolina there is a real devil. There are real demons. But you're not looking at them in the face. They're far below. You've been raised far above with Christ in heavenly places. Can you say Amen? So when you don't ever say. Understanding of God's word is what allows me to leave the congregation of the dead. If somebody has a dead church, they have not studied church growth or how churches work. We don't have music in our church. There's your problem. I'll enter his gates with and he'll come into his courts with. I mean, there's singers that I could have had come here instead of Sister Clarita that we'd be down to nine people by now. Get up and sing depression. They don't sing praise. They sing about trouble. They sing their own repentance. If you need to repent, go repent. Don't sing your repentance over the congregation. Can you say amen? I'm coming back to the heart of worship. I never left. So if you need to. If you need to make things right with God, go do it on your own time without a guitar. I came to enter his gates with thanksgiving in my heart and come into his courts with praise. We are a praising people. We are a praying people. We are a word people. We are a happy people. We are a healing people. We are a revival people. We are a soul winning people. We are a righteous people. Because I found out we are from the Word. So this is the negative. If you wander out of the way of understanding, you remain in the congregation of the dead. How are all these churches doing with rainbow flags on the outside of the building? Are they getting bigger or smaller? Yeah. Look at their live streams. There's nine people there and seven of them are there by accident. Yeah, because they wandered out of the way of understanding. Some dummy at a seminary began to think that their thoughts mattered more than what the Bible said. And so when you wander off the path of understanding, you abide in the congregation of the dead. Think of this. Any area where you don't understand the word of God, you'll live a life no different than somebody who's spiritually dead. Does God have healing for his people? I would be more free to speak if I wasn't on live streaming tv because I actually like these people. And I don't like people being sick. I hate sickness, even people that I don't like. I don't want them to be sick. So I've had three different ministries attack us. When I say ministries, not even ministries. They're like blogs. And then the people are younger than me. One guy discontinued his blog because he's so sick. Yeah, these healing preachers. Okay, keep running your mouth. Would you not like healing? Enjoy sickness. Then the other one, same, sick, all sick. Pastor Russell's flying in. Tonight's flight got delayed. We were talking because they attacked both of us. I said, these guys are younger than us and they're all sick. Bedridden, can't work because why am I healthier? Because I'm lucky? No. Instead of making fun of by his stripes, I am healed. And making fun of the anointing with oil and making fun of the prayer of faith. I decided if Jesus shed his blood so that I can be healthy, then I'm getting all the health I can get. I'm gonna enjoy a feast of health, a feast of provision. I refuse to be sick, sad. I receive a feast of joy. So you don't read the Bible to read. You read the Bible to understand what's. Find it in the Psalms. For me, it sounds Psalm 119ish. Lord, open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119, 13, 17. Somewhere in there, Psalm 119, 13, 17. You know, I don't know the exact scriptures and I don't feel bad about it because even Paul wrote in his letters it says somewhere. So if you didn't have memorized, I'm not enough, open thou mine eyes, that I may behold. This would be a great. This is what David prayed before he'd open the word of God. It would be a great thing to pray from your spirit before you open the word of God. I'm going to tell you where form and tradition starts stomping out the Holy Ghost. Because even this. So let's say I was the pastor here, which I'm not, but for the existence. And so we started doing this before service. We're going to read the word. But before we do, let's lift our hands. Father, open our eyes that we may behold wondrous things out of our lives. And because Pastor Alex had that revelation, he'd do it and there'd be fire on it. But 100 years later, people are just doing it. Cause Pastor Alex did it before we read the scripture today. Let's say this together. Lord, open my eyes that I may behold wonderful things out of thy law. So it starts off right. It starts off in the spirit. And then people just start doing the form of it. There's people that anoint the sick with oil, but there's no power. Cause they're just doing it to do it. Hallelujah. Amen. Hallelujah. Shall we go to the Lord in prayer? Shall we pray the prayer over the offering? Lord, bless the Giver and those that have not to give. Multiply it to thine intended use in thy name. And it's just going through motions with no spirit attached to it. But tonight God is calling us back to understand the Word and an understanding. Understanding the Word. Get in love and get in league with the one who's the author of that book, who is the Holy Spirit. Can you say Amen? Well, say it out loud. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Man. I remember reading. I'll give you an example. Go to Exodus 15:22, 26 NLT. This changed my life. Then Moses led the people of Israel. Does anybody have a Dake's Annotated Reference Bible here? Can anybody get the note? Can you find me the note? Tessa of Dake's Annotated Reference Bible. The note, it has under Psalm 105, 37. Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the desert of Shur. They traveled in this desert for three days without finding any water. When they came to the oasis of Marah, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called the place Marah, which means bitter. Then the people complained and turned against Moses. What are we going to drink? They demanded. So Moses cried out to the Lord for help. And the Lord showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw it into the water, and this made the water good to drink. Now, that's supernatural. If water's not good to drink, you can't throw wood in it and make it good to drink. You watch any YouTube survival show, they don't say, now you got to be careful drinking water out of a river because it's got stuff in it. So make sure you take some wood and throw it in. No. D.L. moody, who pastored the Great Church in Chicago, Illinois, he said that that wood was a type of the cross. And so when he threw the wood in, all of the virus and bacteria and amoebas that made it where you couldn't drink it, it cleared it out. God did this to show them something. He did it as a decree to test their faithfulness to Him. 26. He said, God said, if you will listen carefully, to the voice of the Lord. Now, what is the voice of the Lord? God? When Christ returns, he'll destroy the Antichrist by the breath of his mouth and the splendor of his coming. And the Bible says, all scripture is God. God breathed. So I don't understand. When you hear Christians like, what do you do when you don't hear God's voice? Read your Bible out loud. If you have an analog Bible like I do, I want you to hold it up right now. Isn't it interesting that whether you like it or not, the Osteen's Church in Houston, Texas, that God has blessed? Maybe one of the reasons he decided to bless it was to have the people hold their Bible up every Sunday and say, this is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I can do what it says I can do. Today I'll be taught the living word of God. This is my Bible. It tells me about God. It's God speaking to me. If you listen carefully to this voice of the Lord your God, do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees. I will not make you suffer. Let me see King James. I will put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord that healeth thee. So notice this scripture will put a different view of healing. And God is a healer. He didn't say, when you get sick, I'll heal you. He said, if you do what I tell you to do. I won't let any Egypt ask any Baptist and any good Baptist theologian. Egypt was a type of the world, see the diseases that are in the world. If you'll do what my word tells you to do, I won't allow any of these diseases to come upon you. For I am the Lord that healeth thee. I was preaching in Barbados island in the Caribbean. We had a crusade. It went good, about 5,200 people. But there was an advisory that went out from us.gov that was when Zika was out. Mosquitoes were biting people. There was a virus called Zika. Let me tell you something. They were looking to shut the world. They were looking to shut things down a long time before COVID But you know what? There was too much faith preaching in churches to get the Christians to buy into it. Then came a weakness in the pulpits where people didn't preach healing anymore. Pray for the sick, talk about the supernatural, natural. And as faith got low, it allowed these things to overwhelm this country. But that's why God's solution this Week and last week and for the rest of the year is to raise up strong preachers in their pulpits that'll tell the people, you might look like everybody else, but you're not like everybody else. You have a covenant with God. Healing is the children's bread. Prosperity is your portion. God will take care of you and your family. Here you say amen. So I won't allow any of these diseases to come on you. So I. I get an email. We advise you not to go to Barbados because of the Zika virus. And then when I was preaching, it was outside. Obviously, there's mosquitoes outside. You could tell people were nervous just like they were during COVID See, if you get this scripture in you, they can announce any disease they want. Won't make any difference to me. Anybody ever hear the woman preacher Amy Semple McPherson? Did you know that during the Spanish flu in 1918, where all public gathering was banned in the United States and masks were federally enforced, she got a special permit to hold three weeks of meetings in Oklahoma and told them to bring people with Spanish fever and prayed for the sick, never got sick. Demonstrated God's power. There used to be strong preachers. They told me Woodruff, South Carolina is named after a guy that came down here and had a mighty revival. You read American History. Let me tell you, these atheist groups that want to rip everything that has to do with Christianity and the Bible, take down the Ten Commandments. You'd have to change probably one third of the names of the towns and streets in America. Calvary Road, Calvary, Bethel. Every place you see Bethel, they named it Bethel, which means House of God. They felt God's presence there. They can try as hard as they want. You can't define America from the word of God and from Jesus Christ. God's word founded this place. God's word has been alive in this place, and it's not going to die out in this generation. It's getting stronger right now. I said it's getting stronger right now. God is raising up a new generation that will not bow to bail and commit to his word. If you're one of that generation, go ahead and do what you're already doing. Somebody say, say none of these diseases. Hey, Tessa. I know I'm putting you to work. Can you find just the graphic of a book by a lady named Lillian B. Yeomans? Okay. Good job. There's a book by Lillian B. Yeomans. Y E O M A N S. It's called I Believe none of these Diseases. I'm just Going off the top out of my spirit. But you know, I know the book. Cause some of these people that had healing ministries in the 1920s, did they write a book? Maybe instead of me learning, like I see some of my friends and family right on Facebook. There's certain lessons you only learn going through the school of hard knocks. That's true if you're illiterate. But if you choose to read, everybody say read. Yeah. Then you can find any struggle you're going through. You can find someone who was in that struggle and beat it by the word of God. And then they'll write in that book the secrets they learned as they took on the devil. I'm going to tell you something else while I'm just rolling tonight. This is the most enjoyable night I've had in this whole two weeks of meetings. How many feel like an ease in the spirit tonight? How many are getting something out of this tonight? Yeah, I, I just figured, any problem, say this with me. The devil has no new tricks. He doesn't. So anything you, you, you're going through, it's already been gone through by a bunch of other people. Find someone that beat it and wrote a book on it. I got the last copy on Amazon. Who was the guy that had the Crystal Cathedral in California? Robert Schuller. When he built the Crystal Cathedral, this is in 1971, he wrote a book called your church has real possibilities. And he wrote it for pastors that are building growing churches. So he wrote back then, he said, if you want to have a church that has less than 500 people on under 5 acres of property, you won't have any problem. But the moment you go to build something bigger than that, it will seem like all hell will break loose to stop what God is doing. Then he said, these are things I learned back. It's not a new thing. California. California was fighting him in 1971. Illinois was throwing all of. Who was the minister that moved to Illinois? John Alexander Dowie. The postmaster was throwing all his mail away so he couldn't get any of the letters. Back in the glorious 1980s, when America was a Christian nation, Jimmy Swaggart found bags of his partner mail in the swamps in Louisiana. The Postmaster General was throwing his mail away in the swamps. There's always been a devil that's resisted the advancement of God's people. But if you read the word, he fails 100% of the time if the child of God will not move off the word. I tell you, whatever you're going through in your family, in your Marriage, with your children, in your business, in ministry. Tonight is your night of liberation. Tonight is your night of victory. You're not going down. The devil's going down. And God is lifting you up tonight. Yeah. So this. This lady, Lillian B. Omens, she was an actual medical doctor. Lillian B. Yeomans M.D. she prayed. She was one of the first people that prayed for the sick in America, and then she did it overseas. So these are her books. That's what she learned. The Great Physician. Health from Healing. Healing from Heaven, Balm of Gilead. Why not read it? Why have you not read any of that? Why did you just find out about Lillian B. Omens now? But you know about Cardi B. If Cardi's watching, you're great. We're all for you. But I'm saying, why do you know. Why do you know all the college football players and all the know them? You can know both, but why do you know nothing about people that God used? There's not just Wigglesworth and John G. Lake. There's all kinds of guys get their books. You know what TL Osborne said about books? He said books can never backslide. So even if somebody was used powerfully by God for like 20 years and then they fell off at the end when they wrote the book, when they weren't backslidden, that encapsulated what was in their spirit at that time. Can you say amen? How many of you feel the Lord speaking to you right now? To do what we've been reading and start to study the Word and study those who knew the Word. Can you say amen? So check this out. This is what Finnis Daycro. Locked back up. You're gonna give out your code on tv. Okay, Check this out. By the way, this guy finished 8. You guys seem like an agreeable crowd. I want to say this most places, but this is a fact. He got saved and God gave him a gift. He immediately knew the whole Bible, so people didn't believe him when he said it. Lester Sumrall said they had him go to a Christian radio station, shut him in glass where everybody could see him, and he quoted Matthew, Mark, Luke and John word for word with verse breaks. So then he wrote this book. It's called the Dake Annotated Reference Bible. Back when my grandfather was traveling and preaching, there's no Internet, so if you're an evangelist, you have to travel with your whole trunk full of books. Because anything you don't have with you, you have no way to look it up. So he made A bible that had 33,000 notes in it so that preachers could travel with one Bible. Check what he wrote under Psalm 105, 37. The reason there was. Okay, so he's writing on Psalm. Let me see. Psalm 105, 37. I know this is a little different tonight, but it is helping you. Psalm 105:37. He brought them forth also with silver and gold. And there was not one feeble person among their tribes. Who's that talking about there? Children of Israel. When they came out of Egypt, he brought them out of Egypt and will say loaded. Anytime somebody asks you how you're doing this week, say, I'm loaded. Daily. He loadeth me down with benefits. Can you say amen next time somebody says in this economy? He said, not me, I'm loaded. Amen. He brought them out of Egypt loaded with what? And there were how many feeble among their tribes? 3.1 million people. And no one was unable to walk when the pillar of fire moved or the cloud. They didn't have to leave anybody back. They didn't have to bring anybody back to Egypt for surgery. So look what he wrote. Check this out. This will change your life. The reason there was not one feeble person in all of their tribes was because God healed them at Marah. Exodus 15:26. We just read it. Such is the will of God for men under the new covenant which is based on better promises. Hebrews 8:6. Pop that up. Hebrews 8:6. We now have a better covenant. Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry. By how much? Also he is the mediator of a better covenant which was established on what kind of promises? So God wasn't rich in the Old Testament and then made some bad investments in the Gospels and now the church is poor. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. And every covenant improved on the one before and is more glorious in power and provision than the old Mosaic covenant. Let me see that. Put 2 Corinthians 3, 6, 15. That's what he has as a source. That this covenant not only is better promises, it's more glorious in power and provision than that of the old Mosaic covenant. Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament. That's the power. This is the Bible's great man. Everybody say, I've been made an able minister of the New Testament. Not of the letter, for the letter killeth, but the Spirit gives life. 7. But if the ministration of death written and engraved in stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance. Which glory was to be done away with? How shall not the ministration of the Spirit? The Bible's telling you, when Moses came off the mountain with the Ten Commandments, the ministry of the Word now is greater than that ministry. I know you don't like it, but it's in the Bible. Verse 9. For if the ministration of condemnation is glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10 Praise God. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11. For if that which is done away with was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. And not as Moses, who put a veil over his face so the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which was being abolished, but their minds were blinded. For unto this day the same veil remaineth untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament. Which veil is done away with in Christ? But even unto this day, when Moses is red, the veil is upon their hearts. 16 nevertheless, when they shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Let me get this. Let me get your coat again. All right. I applaud your efforts to save power in this planet. It is to the sh. Now check this. So then it is to the shame of the Church to fall so far behind Israel in receiving promised benefits. And then he's got like a zillion scriptures listed. In other words, if It's. Watch Matthew 7, 7 up there. Put, put, put, put. Whatever from Corinthians that we just had, was it 2nd Corinthians or first? 2nd Corinthians 3:15. 2nd Corinthians 3:15. So if it's more glorious now, he said it's to the shame of the Church. That if we now have a better covenant and nobody was sick and everybody was loaded with silver and gold, then how it is to the shame of the Church to be behind where they were in the Old Covenant? Is it not logical then, that New Covenant ministers and saints should meet the physical and spiritual qualifications of the Old Covenant? Listen now. Is the Old Covenant the better of the two? Are its provisions and promises better? I'm going to ask you again. I want an answer. Is the Old Covenant the better of the two? Are its provisions and promises better? If so, then we should go back under the Old Covenant. What then is wrong with the church that it does not get the superior blessings of the New Covenant because of unbelief. He answers no question. Because of unbelief and because of the widespread rebellion against such teaching. So. Q. This was last Sunday at a church in America. Now, this is. This is one church, but you basically have this said in all kinds of churches. Listen to this.
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If you don't believe in miracles, the fact that that stool hasn't collapsed is just one for starters. So what did Finnisdeak say? Finis Dake said, because of unbelief and because of the widespread rebellion against such teaching. What's that? Now? If you want to rebel against God, knock yourself out. But when you as a pastor start seeding into people that God's not supernatural, I, even as the pastor, don't believe that you are spreading what's called the sin of unbelief. Jesus said the sin of the world is their unbelief. In me. No wonder I feel pushed tonight to talk about the supernatural power of God available for the believer. Because it's by that power that you obtain the better promises in the covenant. It's by that power that you obtain healing for your body. It's by that time that when they're telling you you're going to die, you can stand up and say, I shall live and not die, and declare the goodness of the Lord while I'm yet in the land of the living. It's by that power that when they tell you there's not enough money, you say, my God shall supply all my needs according to his riches and glory. Through Christ Jesus, you serve a miracle working God. You serve a God that created the heavens and the earth, parted the Red Sea, brought his people through and drowned the Egyptian army. Jesus is alive, born of a virgin, died on the cross, rose back to life, ascended into heaven, and he's coming back again. And before he comes back, he's pouring out his spirit on all the earth. Go ahead, take 60 seconds and clap and shout a little bit. We believe in the supernatural. We believe in a miracle working God. We believe in a virgin birth. We believe all scripture is God breathed. We believe it is the power of God unto salvation. So I shout hallelujah. You can be seated. You take that out and you have nothing. You take the power out and all the church can do is refer people other places for help. You hear me? If you take the power out, a pastor just becomes a referral service. Your daughter's depressed. I can help get her medication. Your son's suicidal. I can get him counseling. Your son's on drugs. I can help get him into a counseling program, but I can't find anywhere in the Bible where they brought someone to Jesus and he said, I can't do it. Anything about that? Go get them some real help. No. I read that they brought unto him all the sick. They brought unto him all the sick of the village. And no matter what their sickness or what their disease or if they were possessed or tormented by evil spirits, one touch from his hand healed them all. I read in my Bible, he hasn't changed. Jesus Christ is the same Jesus Christ. Man can change, denominations can change, but Jesus never changes. He's still a savior. He's still holy. He's still righteous, he's still resurrected. He still holds all power in his hand. And he still responds when someone calls out to him. I believe you, Jesus. I believe you, Jesus. Lift your right hand up and close both eyes. Say, I believe you, Jesus. I believe your word. Everything that's in your word. Hallelujah. You be Seated. Now, when you. We talked enough about the negative. When you gain understanding, it puts a boldness in you. That's where David, David that said, lord, open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. All those soldiers didn't know that if you didn't have a covenant with God, you could not take out a man that was in covenant with God. But David knew it because he had been reading the law. Who is this uncircumcised, uncovenanted Philistine that would defy the armies of the living God? Then he began to speak. When you got the word in you, you begin to call those things that are not as though they are, he said. Today David prophesied before he killed him. Today I'm going to cut off your head. Today I'm going to God's going to deliver you into my hand. And then I'm coming after all the guys that are standing behind you. I prophesy in the name of Jesus. Everybody that's going through a storm, everybody that's got a giant that's rearing his head, you're not going to get taken out. You won't take out that giant. And you're going to win a great victory for God whether the devil likes to it or not. Whether the devil likes it or not. Who cares what the devil's will is? Who cares what the devil said? That guy's a chump. A spineless punk that was defeated 2,000 years ago. He doesn't have the victory. You have the victory. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Somebody say boldness in the day of battle. The more you word load your spirit, the more battle ready you are. Hallelujah. Stupid to buy books on healing once you get sick. Buy them when you're well and you won't get. They will repel the sickness. I was in Barbados. They sent that thing out. You need to be careful. You could tell there was a fear in the crowd because nobody knew about this Zika thing. Kids were being born deformed supposedly. And so God gave me something to say. Faith laughs in the face of adversity. Elijah wasn't binding the prophets of baal. He was making fun of him. Perhaps you should shout louder because your God's old than deaf. Perhaps your God's out relieving himself. He said maybe you need to shout louder because he's away on a vacation. He was having a laugh then when he prayed, it took about 14 and a half seconds. If you read it slow and fire was called down on that sacrifice. Faith laughs at the things that are bringing other people's sorrow. Everything you came in here having sorrow about, get your eyes off of what the devil's doing. My child's not serving the Lord. Yeah, and there never will. As long as you keep repeating that report, I'd start lifting my hands and saying, as for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord. Salvation has come unto my house. I will not be defeated. I shall not give up and quit. The God that gave began a good work in me is bringing it to completion. Wherever you started is now where you're going to finish. Your church is growing, your business is expanding. Your children are going to get better. You're getting stronger. Right now, the word of God is coming alive in you. You shall not be defeated. You will not give up and quit. The God that began a great work in you, he's bringing it to completion. Who cares what the devil says? He's not your master. Jesus is Lord. Hey, P.S. while I'm looking at these big letters, what day did David say, the Lord will conquer you? What's the first word? Yeah. Now faith is. You want a long, drawn out battle someday. And I believe God would, no, no, no. Today. Today I make up my mind. I'm done with you, devil. I'm not drinking anymore. I'm not smoking anymore. I'm not injecting anything into my body that doesn't belong there. I'm done with sexual immorality. I'm done with love lust. I'm done with double mindedness. I'm done with unbelief. I'm done with cancer. I'm done with death. Today the Lord. Today I'm not. Wait till tomorrow. I take it now. Take it now. Today the Lord will conquer you. Amen. So God gave me something to say. All those people were nervous. And I said, I said, how many of you heard about that Zika virus? Everybody put their hands up and I was preaching on the blood of Jesus. I said, let me tell you something, if one of those mosquitoes bites me, I'm not going to get Zika. That mosquito's going to fly away singing there's power in the blood. And when I said that, those Bayesian people started laughing. It broke that meeting loose because faith has a buddy. Wyatt Earp had Doc Holliday. And Faith has a buddy called Joy. When there's unbelief, there's sorrow. But when faith comes in like it's coming, right now I'm looking at A bunch of smiling people all over this church and you haven't even got prayed for or anything else. But something's coming alive in you called faith. Faith will make you laugh in the face of the devil. Faith will make you stare down what's taking other people out and say, it ain't happening here, brother. I've got joy. Joy unspeakable and full of glory. Hallelujah, man. I feel joy. The joy of the Holy Ghost. The joy, the joy. The joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord is your strength. Why so downcast, oh my soul? First Corinthians 12. There's people that came here tonight that needed prayer. If you check yourself, you don't need it anymore. Jesus is in this meeting. He said so personally. Wherever two or three gather, I pray for this lady with the glasses and brown, brown top power. God's on you, miss, let me pray for you. Lift both hands. Lord's gonna like a voltage from heaven is gonna go into your body and it's gonna clear up like 11 things that need healed. It's happening right now. You believe the word of the Lord and it was accounted as righteousness unto you. And the thing you came believing for, it's already done. Totally done. Yes, that's it. Enjoy yourself. Enjoy yourself a little bit. The devil might have had the first laugh, but you're gonna have the last laugh in Jesus name. The devil had the first laugh, but you're gonna spend 20, 26 laughing in his face in Jesus name. Let me tell you something. What's going on in Iran? How long is the war gonna last? What if it escalates? As long as I'm on the earth and that Bible is still sealed by the blood of Jesus, there's nothing Iran can do. There's nothing Russia can do. There's nothing the US government can do. There's nothing that drug cartels can do. Nobody has power to take my life from me. I've already given my life into the hands of God. I refuse to be worried. I refuse to be in fear. I refuse to be downcast. I refuse to be be discouraged. All of God's promises are yes and amen to those. Man, I like this section. All of God's promises are yes and amen. I want to say before you sit back down, this lady that's wearing a mask back here, I get the feeling and I could be wrong, you're not wearing a mask because you're afraid of COVID or anything. There's something you got diagnosed with that, they told you you have to be careful because your immune system's compromised. True. Let me pray for you. Because obviously you're not afraid or you want to come to a big meeting with a bunch of people. But they told you you have to be careful because your immune system's compromised. But I'm going to uncompromise it by the power of God. I saw you standing up and shouting. Lift your hands if you would. Infirmity and disease that's been around your friends and family most of your life. It comes away from you. That scripture I read, I quote it to you. I am the Lord your God, and I'll take sickness and disease out of your midst. That's what the Lord's gonna do right now. I see your hands. All sickness, disease that's tormented this life. I thank you, Jesus. It comes out. There it is. That's it. Go right through. More. Yes. Your lungs, your heart, all the organs of your body. I command you to live a long, good life. Thanks for coming tonight. God bless you. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise God. Go ahead and sing that one time. Sing it nice and. To. Sing it if you know it. Power wonder working Power. Wonder working out here in the blood of the lamb that is power. Power wonder working Power in the precious blood of the la. Now lift your hands. If you're filled with the spirit, Begin to pray in the spirit. If you've not yet been filled with the spirit. Be filled with the spirit tonight. Be filled with the Holy Ghost tonight. Be filled with power from on high tonight. May I pray for you, sir? She with you? Let me pray for both of you. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. Lift both hands to the Lord. I saw the Lord touching you right in your seat. This will finish it off. Jesus name. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for this lady in the green. Yep. You're dressed like the Riddler. You got a prayer request, 75767. You can text it on that screen. So if you're somewhere where there's lousy churches and stuff, you can get in on this. Let me see your hands. Jesus name. Strengthening your body. You're not supposed to have favorites as a preacher, but let me pray for my favorite couple in the whole crowd. Your ministry goes to another level tonight. The Spirit will manifest in your meanings, like effortlessness. Jesus. Jesus. I pray for my second favorite couple from Romania. Take a couple steps forward. Lift both hands. Close both eyes. A new dawn for your ministry. A doubling for your ministry. Obviously, if the enemy went to try to attack your body to Keep you from the meetings. Then you're special to God. So the attack is undone and never comes back in Jesus. Shake Romania, Shake Romania. Drive out what's ever left from Ceauescu Jesus. I want any pastor or evangelist or somebody has a ministry. I would like you to line the cr. No one has to. Not gonna do it at gunpoint, but any, any minister that would like prayer. There's an anointing that's here tonight for churches to double evangelistic ministries, to grow by the power of God's spirit and God's. What's going to happen is you're going to get an impartation to resist what that guy on the stool was talking about. Now he went to the extreme, but the enemy will get you if you're not careful as a pastor or an evangelist. You actually won't even believe the Bible. You just have little one man debates with yourself right now. Some scholars say, but others believe. And you don't even know what you believe. And you say amen. It takes an impartation of faith. The spirit of faith, the Bible calls it. Where are you guys from? One more time. Pelzer. Glad you're here. Go ahead. You can open the line up. Where, where did, where does it say in the New Testament? I know in him whom I've believed and I'm fully persuaded. That's from 2nd Timothy 1:12. Paul says, I know whom I have believed and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. It's all about that confident persuasion. Where does it talk about being fully persuaded? You'll find that language in Romans 4:21. It's talking about Abraham's faith, saying he was fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had. Romans 4:21. Let me see. King James. Fully persuaded. Until you're fully persuaded yourself as a minister about what the Bible says, then there's going to be a lack of power when you minister. That's why, like that guy. Why are you taking us? Like, even if you feel that way as the pastor, why are you just getting up and like telling people basically you doubt God. And people do that in one form or another every Sunday, says, well, you know, you know, I believe God can heal, but you know, we don't want to get into settle what you believe. And being fully persuaded that what God had promised man, that's our, that's our theme verse for tonight. And being fully persuaded. That's going to be you leaving this altar fully persuaded that what God has promised, he's able also to perform. You know what that means? That means you don't go. No, I know the Bible says that when people talk like that, it's like, yeah, you know, he promised it, but you also, you're not fully persuaded that he's able to perform it. But that everybody said, that's not me. Say, I'm fully persuaded that God is able to do everything that he promised for me, for my family and for my church. Everybody, it's in your seats. Everybody say, for me, for my family and for my business, God actually cares about everything that pertains to you when you're little. He cares about your doggy that you like. He cares about your gold. He cares about what you care about. That's what fathers do. If it matters to you, it matters to God. I'd have my. I've had my daughter misplaced stuff on the road that didn't mean anything to me. Some $4 blanket from Walmart, but you want it, I'll call concierge and get it shipped back overnight and all that stuff because it matters to you and God's a loving father. Hands lifted all across the front. I want the congregation to stretch your hands forth towards these. These aren't just people you're looking at. These are God's solutions to what the devil wants to do in this country. I was talking to a friend of mine in Europe. He said, our people can really tell, could really tell how much you care about me and our church. I said, because I do. I said, not even because I'm your friend. Because I can't think of five churches in Europe that are doing anything to stop stem the tide of Islam into there. I said, and I have to live on this planet. So you doing your work there is helping me. I care about it succeeding. I care about you succeeding. Your church can't be big enough for me to be happy. Your evangelistic meetings can't be big enough for me to be happy. In Jesus name, I speak into your future. That group in Winnipeg will grow like a mighty seed and God will use what you do there to stem the tide of what the devil once done in Canada. In Jesus name, I bless, the work here. I bless. And then all the multiple churches you'll have got to give you the wisdom and make it easy. And the finances will never lack. In Jesus name, thank you, Lord. Go ahead and sing whatever's on your heart, Sister Gl I'm going to lay hands on all these great men and women of God. In Jesus name, Fresh, impartations. Fall on me. Let the power of the Holy Ghost fall on me. Great song. Another level. Anything the devil brought against your ministry, the Lord's going to give you the wisdom. Thank you, jesus. Thank you, jesus. Thank you. Thank you, jesus. Thank you, jesus. Thank you, jesus. Thank you, jesus. Thank you, lord. Thank you, jesus. Thank you, jesus. Double portion. Jesus name. You're going to carry on your. Every hand lifted. Sing it one more time. Come on, sing it. There's like nine words. Thank you, jesus. Who's the clap for? Why was your daughter. How old is she? In the name of Jesus, when this cloth. What's her name? Rhema. When this cloth makes contact with Rhema, I command that side of her body to become her strong side. You foul devil, take your hand off this family. In Jesus name. Amen. Amen. You need to recognize that attacks are attacks. It's not the will. What's God trying to teach us with this bankruptcy? Bankruptcy is not from God. There are things to stand against. The devil tried to drive my father out of the ministry. I could have been a. I could have been a. A disgruntled preacher's kid that my dad was in the ministry. No churches paid him and he had to quit. Get a job, nobody paid. Go preach a place for a week. They give you a hundred dollars. Nothing. Two hundred dollars. Then my. My sister's born when I'm three years old. 1983, with a defective heart. Whereas Rockies trainer Mickey called it a bad ticker. And she. My mom had to stay in the hospital, I think 31 days. They had no insurance. $52,000 in debt in 1983. It's like a quarter million today. Then my dad would go to his next meeting. Hundred dollars, he said. That will be like it was in the pastor's seat. How are you ever going to get out of debt? How are you ever going to take care of your family? You can't live like this. My dad said he'd have to pray in tongues the whole time he was driving just to stay sane. But he didn't quit. And somebody. That's why you see a different side of me come out. Because we were raised in the Assemblies of God. The Assemblies of God hates the Hagans. They kicked them out. They kicked out Summer all. They kicked out T.L. osborne, everybody. They don't like faith. God can, but you can't tell people he will because that. No, you know when he. God said what he meant and he meant what he said. And so my dad made a joke about Kenneth Hagin. Not Even knowing who he was just because he heard someone else do it. He said the Holy Ghost convicted him and said, send him an apology offering. And when he did, they sent back books on faith. My dad started to read the books. Let me see. First John 5:4. Whosoever is born of God does what to the world? I don't care if they launch 15,000 rockets at my house for my rent. I'm coming out on top. And my ministry is going to expand. And I'm not dying till I'm in a ripe old age. The evil that's in this world can never be greater than the Christ that's in you. I know everybody at this church isn't from Russia, but there are people in this church from Russia. How many? You've heard a story from your grandparents that are Christians of how God supernaturally did something to protect them or feed them or something. Romania, whatever. Yeah. So what do you think? You think when the. When the Soviet Union fell, God quit doing that? You think God only cares about people in Russia and doesn't care about people in South Carolina? He's the God of all who believe. And there's no place you go on earth that doesn't have challenges. But the challenges don't have the power to take out the man who's born of God and exercises his faith. So I tell you again, tonight, the battle is transferred out of your hand and transferred into the hand of God. Just stand for a little bit. I'm. I'm going to let you go home soon. But I'm having a good time. Let. Let me see. Ephesians 6, 10. Final word. My brethren, you can do. You can do. Nlt be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. How many know the Lord wants us weak and broken? No, he doesn't. If he did, he'd pass heroin out to everybody. Drugs will make you weak. Drugs will break you. Jesus didn't come to make you weak. He came so the weak could say, I'm strong. 11. Put on all God's armor so that you'll be able to stand firm against how many strategies of the devil? 12. We are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world. Against mighty powers in this dark world and against evil spirits in the heavenly realm. 13. Therefore, put on every piece of God's armor so you'll be able to resist. See, most theology teaches you to accept, not resist, in sickness and in health. You know, I had that written out on my wedding vows. In sickness and in Health. I was healthy when I got married, and I planned on staying healthy after marriage. So you know what I changed it to? As God keeps us healthy and strong, not making room. I resist sickness. I don't like sickness. I don't like poverty. I resist it. The word makes you resist it. You know where we this town that you pastor in? The people don't. Aren't really church people here. Yeah, and they never will be as long. No wonder the Lord sent you. People don't really come to church here. Yeah, no wonder he had to send me to start a church with you as the pastor, saying, people don't come to church here. If you came and there wasn't one Christian there, you say, thank you, Lord, that you said, wherever the soul of my foot shall tread, I'm on land that I've given. That you've given to me. 14. Stand your ground. Everybody say, stand your ground. That's why I'm in court in Pittsburgh. They said, you're going to have to move out of that church. No, I'm going to do what's called stand in my ground. You can come call the Marines and move me out, but I'm standing and I'm still standing. And the standing produced a building that's six times the size of the one we're in for a sanctuary. Because when you stand against the devil, God will vindicate his elect. God will vindicate his elect. Build of truth. Body armor of righteousness for shoes. Put on the peace that comes from the gospel so that you'll be fully equipped. 16 in addition to all these, hold up the shield of faith. Let me see. King James above all, taking the shield of faith which quenches how many of the fiery darts of the wicked. There's like 10 witches that live in this area. Great. Fire all the arrows you want. No arrow can get through the shield of faith. I was supposed to die of Zika. According to the US Government, I didn't. I was supposed to die of COVID I didn't. Whatever the next one is, that won't take me out either. I'm gonna go home when I'm good and ready and I fulfilled what God's called me to do. Can you say amen? That sounds like that health gospel. You know, Paul, these people preach healing. But Paul. Paul died. Yeah, you'll die, too. Nobody's preaching that. Nobody has to die. But Paul died. Scholars put it at about 70 years old. Do you know what the average life expectancy was in the Roman empire in the first century? He said 35, 38 was what I read. So these guys that were living, John at 92, Paul at 70. How do you read the apostle Paul? Like it's like a counter action to what God promised in the Old Testament. Paul was in prison? Yeah, for like 48 minutes. They threw him in. He prayed and sang praises to God and he got broken out the same night. True or false, Peter? These people preach victory. But my Bible tells me that Peter was in prison for how long? 13 years. He got tattoos and stuff. How long was he in prison? They put him in. And that night an angel of the Lord came and broke him out. And the leaders were perplexed that Peter that they had put in prison was standing in the very temple that they arrested him from preaching the exact same thing. Your life will be a frustration to the powers of darkness. In Jesus name. Say it so the devil can hear you. I shall not be defeated. I will not give up and quit. He who began a good work in me will bring it to completion. Yeah, God fed your grandparents in the Soviet Union. And God fed my grandparents in West Virginia when they were out of food. And God cleared my dad's medical bills. And God gave my dad a plan to end around the religious system that was keeping him broke without compromising or being greedy. God has a way way out of every problem. And you know what the Red Sea shows you? If there is no way out, God will make a way out. He makes a way. He makes a way where there is no way. Somebody shout Hallelujah. Wherewith you'll be able to quench all Hallelujah. Speaking of Kenneth Hagen, he used to say this thing that I never understood till tonight. He'd go, wow, I just preached myself happy. That's how I feel. Whether you got anything out of this or not. I feel like I can run through a troop and leap over a wall. God is a good God. God is too faithful to fail. God is our victory. God is our very present help in the time of trouble. God is our deliverer. God is our healer. God is our soon coming king. God is the one that makes our cup to overflow. God is the one that kept your grandparents and your parents. And he's kept you. You're alive. The devil's tried to kill you many times. But he's failed. Because God's hand all's on your life. And you shall do what God's called you to do. And you shall be who God's called you to be. One more time. Take 60 seconds and clap your hands. Hands and Shout. Hey. I hear the sound of the armies of the Lord. Hey. The shout of the Lord is in the camp. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Hey. Hey. Mighty God, powerful jesus. Who does the devil think he is? Nikita Khrushchev. The former premier of the Soviet Union said, I've made it my mission to personally bury the church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Soviet Union. But they buried Nikita Khrushchev. And I'm looking at a ton of Russian preachers that the devil was unable to stomp out. And your spirit, you're not only impacting Russia and Romania, you're impacting South Carolina and Jacksonville and America. Because the devil doesn't determine your destiny. You determine your destiny by believing the word of God, speaking it with your mouth, and doing what the word says to do. Congratulations in advance on the best year that you've ever had. Sam. Sa. Thankfulness is a major variable. If they could morph that guy that was sitting on the stool and he doesn't believe in miracles, if they could make him appear here right now and I could talk to him with a mic, I would like to ask him, like, you don't believe in God's supernatural power. You've never had anything happen that's the goodness of God. You know, for me, I don't even have to see anything. Why am I not in a hospital tonight? Have I gotten super lucky or has God helped me? I am the Lord, your helper, Ebenezer. I'm your helper. I ate today. Gonna eat again tonight. Got beverages to choose from. They don't have that all over the world. God's helping me. He's a helper. When you complain, what you have diminishes. When you thank God for what you have, the five loaves and two fish become more than enough. He's a good God. It's been good to my family. My mom's alive. My dad was supposed to be dead at the beginning of last year. And he's alive and well and preach. He's preaching at our church in California tomorrow night. He's supposed to never be able to preach again. He's supposed to be on 24 hour machines in his house with a live in nurse for the rest of his life, tearing his diaphragm in his esophagus with a hernia that shut his organs down. An internal hernia. They told him he'll be on 24 hour bed rest with. With the machines. You know what he said? With almost no oxygen in his lungs, Christians heal faster that's what he said. Looking. Looking like a World War II prison camp guy. I sunk in, lost like 38 pounds. But if you'll speak the word, you'll tap into the life of God. And if you talk against miracles, you have a crappy life like that guy says he has. How do you have. How can you. We're about the same age. We look like. How can we have. How can you say you don't believe in the supernatural? In the last 12 days, I could tell you provision miracles. Pastor Russell is in the front row. He was with me in our board of directors meeting two weeks ago in Las Vegas. Since then, God. God's done amazing things in our ministry in. For me personally, for my daughter, for my wife. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. You're a wonderful God. You're a supernatural God. And I want to tell you, you got something tonight. It's not going to last a little bit. It's not mosquito spray that wears off in a little bit. It's the seed, the incorruptible seed of God's word. And it's going to bring increase in every area of your life, whether the devil likes it or not. I tell you a final time tonight. Congratulations in Advance. The next 10 months, March through December, will be greater than the last 10 years put together. Amos, 9, 13 is yours tonight. If you believe it, shout Amen like thunder. Give your neighbor a high five. You can return to your seat. Tell them congratulations. Congratulations. Hallelujah. When do you guys go back to Virginia? Oh, good. Because if you weren't coming back tomorrow, I wasn't coming either. Give our great pastors from Virginia that have been here for the better part of two weeks a big hand. That's a weak hand clap. That's a northerner, Yankee hand clap. Give him a nice southern hand clap. Praise God. Love you. Really love you. You got great faith. Praise God. Lift your hands in your seats. I'm not wasting time. Anybody would feel it's a full service if I just missed a 9:53. But I'm telling you, God's presence is here. Thank you, Jesus. I want to teach you how to do something when you're in the presence of God. When you're in the presence of God, it feels great. But then you can start pulling on things that are in the presence of God. Say this, thank you Jesus, that you're my healer. You're healing me now. You're strengthening me now. Thank you for 80 plus years on this planet to serve you unencumbered by sickness or pills. In Jesus name, thank you. That when I'm in my 80s, I'll still be eating ice cream. Not sugar free, real ice cream. Yeah. Everybody say I'm going to be strong all the days of my life. Yeah, I've already made up my mind about that. When I'm 80, I'm not going to be eating some diet that would make a billy goat puke just so I can stay on the planet. I want to enjoy life. Can you say amen? Everybody say life. And life more abundant. Praise God. Gina in Albany, New York, for a teenage son to be delivered from depression, anxiety and paranoia. Preston in Aurora, Colorado. I know you. Reconciliation and marriage. Karen in Riverview, Florida. Son Jeff to have victory in court restoration with his sons. Roselle in Hallowell, Maine. If you're in Hallowell, Maine, I'm going to be in Mars Hill, Maine. I don't know where Hallowell is. Mars Hill is up by Canada in the northern part. I'll be there next week. Healing for her husband, Gary, from severe neck pain case in Moore, South Carolina. Father Glenn to receive healing from stage four esophageal cancer. Where's Moore, South Carolina? Hey, get your dad here. I'm not praying for you tonight. You got to get your dad here for tomorrow night. That's serious. Say, well, he can't move. Sure he can. What's going to happen? What's the consequence if we move him, he might die. If you keep him still, he's going to die. Bring him here. You can bring him on a bed or whatever. I'll pray for him tomorrow night if you get him here, because that's in person. You know, I can pray for the screen, but stage four esophageal cancer. I'd like to do that in person. Bruce in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. You guys don't have to print out the last names. I don't want to read it by accident. Healing for lungs. Sue in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. Son Derek, deliverance from drug addiction. Granddaughter, reconciliation with the father Jeanette in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Daughter Paula. Restoration and family healing. Leo, God's mercy and miracles. Rachel, miracle to restore her desire to live and find purpose. Dale in South Carolina and Greer, salvation for his six children and 12 grandchildren. Man, you guys need to get a cable television. Deborah in Punta Gorda, Florida. Protection and peace from harassment. From neighbor. Anna in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Healing and salvation for for spouse and son. Matthew. Natalia in Edgewood, Washington. Husband, salvation and freedom from drinking Marcus in New Hampshire, Jeanine in Canton, Ohio. Tina in Greenville South. I'm not praying for you, Tina. Get here. Battling ADD focus. Get here. Zariah, stage four cancer to be removed and eyesight restored. Let's lift our hands and pray for these that have been tuning in that need help. Even those of you that I messed around about being too close to pray for, I. I'll include you in, Father. Every person that wrote in, I joined my faith with them for the exact thing they asked for. Let there be an immediate turnaround. Now, in Jesus name, I loose your glory and your presence into their room. Let there be a tangible change that alcohol, whether it's alcoholism or esophageal cancer, whatever's from hell that's tried to mess up their family, I thank you for taking it out. In Jesus name with your heads bowed, your eyes closed, you can put your hands down. If you're here tonight and you've never received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, I had a sermon I was going to preach about end time Bible prophecy. And my seventh point was one thing you should know about the end times. Many who were ready will not be ready. And many who were lost in sin will make it in. That's what the Bible tells you is going to happen. As Jesus waits for people to get saved, some that had their lamps full of oil and fire, they'll let their fire go out. So if that's you tonight, you grew up in church or you know about the Bible, but if you're honest, all that stuff I preach about, I mean, do you think about it, that pastor that I put up there, I didn't put that up there to mock him and make fun of him. He's going to end up in hell. As a pastor, I don't believe the Bible. I just believe it gives you like a good moral code. And at one time, I guarantee you he went into the ministry on fire for God. So whether he got around seminary people or he let sin in, something happened that crowded God's place in his life out and the fire went out. Well, what about you? Are you living on fire for God or has something been allowed in or a companionship or whatever that has quelled that fire. I want to pray with you tonight. You need to go to heaven. Hell's a real place full of real people that never got right with God. I want to give you that opportunity tonight. Secondly, the Bible tells you that there's some that at the last hour got in and got the same reward that everybody else got. So like the thief on the cross, God is rich in mercy. Some of you maybe didn't ever grow up in church. You never heard anything like this before in your life. And you've never been given the op. Maybe you're like my mom or my aunt. Episcopal church, Catholic church. You went to church. Nobody ever told you about being born again or repenting, turning your back on sin. They just did a bunch of stuff and dismissed you. If you need to make tonight the night that for the rest of your life, March 2026, at an altar. I got right with God and God's power changed my life. I know I'm going to heaven. My name is written in the Lamb's book of life. And you won't do it tonight. It would be my privilege to pray with you like we have so many others in these two weeks. If you say, Jonathan, when you pray tonight, I want to pray with you. Put your hand up. And I'm gonna pray with and for you right now. Put your hand up nice and high where I can see it. I see you. That's awesome. I see you. Awesome. Who else? Need a little break? I see in the back. Awesome. Who else? This is the night you tell the devil adios. How do you say good baka? How do you say, like a harsh goodbye in Russian? Say it again. Yeah. Tell the devil I'm through with you. I don't like you. I never want to see you again. That kind of goodbye. That's what we're going to do tonight. Everyone that lifted a hand are those of you that didn't lift a hand. But you know you need to be here. Quickly come out of your seat, join me at the altar. I'm going to pray with you right now. In Jesus name. Yes, lord. Yes. Yes, lord. Congratulations. Yes, lord. Yes, lord. Yes. Yes, lord. Amen. Oh, more. Amen. Praise God. Made my night. Lift both hands to the Lord. I'm going to lead you in a prayer. But this isn't a recital. God hears you pray this prayer, and as you're doing it, he changes you from the inside out. Welcome. Say this nice and loud. Heavenly Father, I've come forward tonight to give you my life. Forgive me of all my sins. Wash me in your blood. I believe in my heart. You raised Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth. Jesus is Lord and my Savior. Right now I receive forgiveness. By the blood of Jesus. I am saved. I am forgiven. I am clean. In Jesus name, 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 and click on Give now to become one of our monthly partners. Thank you in advance. We hope to see you soon.