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"Prayer, Unity & Faith" Part 8 - Pastor Craig Field - Jun. 2. 2024
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Hallelujah. Have a look, please, at Revelations, chapter three, verse seven. Revelations, chapter three. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your help. The mighty anointing of the Holy Ghost. I yield my vessel to that anointing. With it, all things are possible. Without it, Lord, it's just words. So I thank you for that precious anointing. Thank you for skillfulness as I deliver. Thank you for angelic assistance. Thank you, Holy Ghost, for revelation that produces faith and victory. Thank you. We thank you for the gifts, as you will, in Jesus name. We're hungry for you and we love you. And we thank you that we see on the horizon the explosion of prayer. It's coming. We thank you for the greatest days ahead that are for our church and for our lives, for our children, for our marriages, for every area. We thank you and we bless you as we look to your word. I thank you for the help of the mighty counselor, the great teacher, the Holy Ghost. I thank you that I don't minister on my own. I minister with his aid. And the people don't receive on their own. They receive with his aid. In Jesus name. Amen. And amen. Praise the lord. Revelations, chapter three, please, if you don't mind. Revelations 3. 7. And it says here and to the angel of the church at Philadelphia. Write these things. Saith he that is holy, he that is true. He that has the key of David. He that opens and no man shuts, shuts and no man opens. I know thy works. Behold, I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it. For thou hast a little strength and has kept my word and has not denied my name notice. He said, I've set before you an open door that no man can shut. And I open what no man can shut. And I close what no man can open. Let me remind you of what I shared a month ago, just in a briefer form. And that is that there are certain things that God wants to open for us. Do you understand? And there are certain things God wants to shut. Now, when I was in. Remember that, honey? When I was December, before we went to Holy Ghost meetings, about six months ago, the Lord spoke to me and he said, I want you to pray some things out. And I said, yes, sir. Because that's our way of saying. He speaks to us the way we understand. That's our way of saying, well, we're going to pray about certain situations so that God can help us. Really, that's what it means. And so I acknowledged that as a common phrase that we say all the time. So that's not something that was revelatory to me. And I said, yes, Lord, I'll pray some things out. And then he said, not just that, but I want you to pray some things out. You see the difference? The same statement, same sentence, same words. You means a completely different thing. He said, pray some things out, which really means, pray some things in. But then he said, pray some things out. There's things that are out of divine order. And listen, listen. Pastor Nancy said when she was talking on Monday night, listen to all of them again. But when she was talking Monday night about him feeding the 5,000, and she said, she read it in the Bible that there was grass, and he. He had everybody sit down. One of the Gospels says, in companies of 50, and she said, God does not listen. A very important statement. God does not multiply things in your life. When things are out of order, people want multiplication and increase. But that can't happen when things are in divine order. Do you understand? And that's why Jesus set them in companies. In other words, it wasn't just everybody just all over the place, sitting on each other, fighting with each other. Every. Everybody. There was a structure. There was an order. It wasn't because Jesus was legalistic. It wasn't because he's, you know, ocd. Jesus wasn't ocd. But there is a divine order. God does not like chaos. That's why it says that everything in church service be done decently and in order. There's a divine order. Let me tell you, when you go to churches and there's somebody quacking in the back seat, hey, That is out of divine order. Now, there are maybe times in a Holy Ghost service for those things to happen. But the divine order, there's an order with God when there's that flow, that is appropriate. But when there is a flow for the Word, you don't distract people around you and distract the minister and hurt the Holy Ghost. Grieve the spirit, really, because you're trying to do your thing. And it's amazing to me how I see these services occasionally. And David doesn't agree with that. But sometimes I watch David because there's a divine connection with David Hogan, even though he's not our company. He's one of the. He's actually the only one outside our company that God allows me to talk to and fellowship with and have in our pulpit, basically, because he's an apostle and there is impartation for me from his office. But we don't see everything eye to eye. But the main Things we see eye to eye on. But he goes to these kind of churches and it's just like craziness. I mean, it's just craziness. What is going on in these services and how dishonorable and how irreverent the people are under the guise of I'm free and we're in a Holy Ghost service. No, you're not. You're out of divine order. And the anointing will be affected. The Holy Ghost does not like things like that. That's why I don't mind. I want people to respond, but I want you to respond in line with the flow, not in line. Not in a distractive type of way. Same with worship. When you're worshiping, you need to ask yourself, am I being so loud? Am I being so with my arms that I am distracting other people and pulling their attention away from Jesus? Because if you are, you are out of order. Sing loud if you want and dance a little bit if you want. But if you can't, if you're that enthused, then move into the aisle or somewhere where you're not going to hit somebody, hurt somebody, or offend somebody. Because God's order is that everybody flows together in unity. How, how can we be in unity if you're slapping somebody in the face accidentally because you're so excited in your worship? That's not divine order. You can be exuberant, but you can still do it in a way that doesn't hurt or distract other people. I'm giving you examples here. Do you understand? So God is into divine order. Jesus is into divine order. Not legalism, but order. There is an order with God. We see how we made the universe. There's an order. What if God made the universe like these Holy Ghost churches. What if the planets just decided to do their own thing? We wouldn't be here. Everything would implode and explode and destroy itself. There has to be an order of the cosmic. There is physics, there is science. God created all of that. He's not legalistic, but he is a scientist. He has a certain way of doing things. And everything in nature has its place. You just watch the Discovery Channel. Just watch it a little bit. My wife and I were watching about some jungle in Borneo or something, and they're talking about, now if this little critter here isn't here, then that little thing here, you know, will die because it's the only thing it eats. And if this thing dies, then these things are going to be affected. And it's astonishing how everything Even in the natural world is connected to each other. Why? It's a divine order. Even though it's natural, it's an order from heaven because nobody taught those critters or made those critters come. God did. He wants this one in its place because it affects that thing. Every one of you have a place and a place where you fit. He wants that order. He wants us to keep that divine order and excel in that divine order so that the ecosystem of the Holy Ghost Church, the Word and Spirit Church, can flourish. Do you understand? So Jesus said, everybody sit down. I don't want all this chaos. This is too chaotic for me. Can you imagine 20,000 people potentially? So even if it was only 5,000 men and the ladies had all got an advertisement saying no woman invited and keep your kids at home, no childcare offered. Even if that happened, which I don't think it would have, but even if that happened, still 5,000 people is a lot of people and it can be very chaotic. And I've been there, right there where Jesus did that feeding of the 5,000 and it's a big grassy area. And so he wanted order. And so he said, sit him. Now remember what Pastor Nancy says. If God's about to multiply something, he puts things in divine order. Now ma', am, I'm telling you, my spiritual ears are, my radar is going beep, beep, beep, beep beep beep. Because God said to me, pray some things out. Things are out of divine order. You need to get rid of some things. You need to get rid of some people. Oh, but Pastor, we need to grow the church. Oh really? The church only grows when it's in divine order. If God's growing it, I can grow it in the natural, but I'm not interested in growing it in the natural. All I have to do is change. What I preach would probably have doubled the congregation in a year. I don't know exactly how to do it because I've watched people do it. I refuse to do it because I'm not going to stand before Jesus and him say, why did you change the message Just for a bunch of people, most of which are going to jump ship as soon as hardship comes. As soon as you correct them, they're gone because they're not right hearted people. So I'm not, you know, we're not. It's not just about people and money. We want God to build the church. You can't multiply things. God can't. If there's not right order. If there's not right order. Some people have to change. If they don't want to change, they have to go. That is not a lesser. That is an increase. Just because a physical person leaves does not mean it's a lesser. And I don't want anybody to leave. This is not your pink slip. This is not your walking papers. Today. I'm simply saying God said to me, pray some things out, because you can't go where I'm asking you to go with certain things that are there. So one of the things out was, you're not a pilot. I never asked you to be. I never told you to be. And if you're in my permissive will, you'll probably get killed. So get that out. That Oasis property, there's a number of reasons why we purchased it, why we misunderstood. Because God did speak something, but we misinterpreted something that he said. Because it's very easy when God says vague things and you have a desire for something to put your own spin on it. And we've all done it, and so we did that. The property's been a blessing, and we're going to make money on the property. So at the end of the day, everything's going to be fine. But. But the property at the end of the day, as much as Jenny and I like it, is a distraction because we have to lighten up and run faster. And if it was something paid for and there was no cost involved, it would be very simple. But when there is a constant financial pressure and the people in the congregation. Not anymore. After my masterful announcement, Jennifer, but when people in the congregation historically have not really supported this part of the vision, you understand that it just becomes a drag. So God doesn't want that as a drag. Okay? God doesn't care whether you have a property or not. He doesn't want it as a drag or a distraction. So we prayed and God said, out. So that's why we're doing that. And there were certain departments, God said, stop, shut that down. Change that. There were certain leaders. God said, remove them. This has to change. That has to change. Even in our worship, a lot of changes. We have gone through a season of six months, almost five months and a bit, right? That we have had more changes in the last five months than probably in the last ten years put together. Why, Jenny? Because God said to me in December, rebuild the altar of the Lord. And he took me to 1 Kings 18. And he said, as Elijah needed to pray, pour the water, and the fire was going to come. Then after that, remember he said, ahab, go get on now. And he went to the mountain and he interceded. And that drought ended from three years and there was a mighty rainstorm that followed. All of that is symbolic to spiritual things. And the Lord said, these are the things that I want you to focus, meditate on. And this is what I've called you to do. There is a certain amount of water or prayer that is precious, that has to be spent. There is a certain amount of fire that has to come. But there's also a reign of revival that has to come. And he said, son, I'm telling you, Jenny, we ended the years of the focusing on Elisha. And last year 23 was the Bethel, which is the last part, Not Bethel. Where is it? Where did he go? Come on, guys. He went from Jericho, Jordan to Jericho, Jericho to. Was it Bethel, Jenny? It was Bethel because he went back to Bethel, right? He went down three and he came back three. That's right. And that's where the bears came. And that's where the 42 children mocked him. And that's where all that stuff happened. And last year 23 was the highest amount of attacks this ministry has ever sustained in our history. And not just the church history in 32 years of preaching back then was 32. I've never had so many attacks in my life. And the Lord told me, he said, 42 children are coming out to assault you. But the bears are coming, son. The bears are coming and they're going to take care of it. You're going to come out without a scratch. And Jenny, we have come out without a scratch. Although I might tell you, it has been dark many days, but God is with us. Then that was it for the Elisha. It ends. He goes to Carmel and the Lord says, now he's retracing the steps of his father Elijah, who also went to Carmel. But nothing further is said about Elisha. So the Lord said, go back now, go back to First Kings 18 and pick up where Elijah was in Carmel, because that's the next prophetic phase and season for your ministry. And so as I'm studying that which starts in 24, he said, Elijah repaired the altar of the Lord. And the Lord said, I just told you, pray some things out and pray some things out. And he said, there has to be a repairing for certain things are out of order. Nobody wants to be out of order. Most people's hearts are right, but there are still things that God does not appreciate or approve of. And so it is my job as the pastor and Pastor Jenny's job as my assistant and co pastor for us to pray as well as our staff and begin to assess what needs to be changed and what needs to be removed and what needs to be tweaked and new staff that need to be hired and some that have to leave and different things. There is reasons why God is involved in every step, but we are coming through. And we're almost now we're less than a month away from the time frame that he gave me. He said, I give you to the middle of the year, which is June 30, to get the altar repaired. Or in other words, to get divine order. Why? Because you can't do the next thing without the first thing. There is an order with God and Jesus couldn't multiply the loaves and the fishes until there was a divine order and people sat down in groups of 50. So where there is going to be multiplication, there has to be order. Do you understand this applies to your marriage? I want you to pay attention when Pastor Nancy, as a prophet, stands on two different occasions, two different services, and warns people about their marriage and then quotes a story about Kenneth Hagin speaking and people dying because they didn't listen. Now, she didn't say people would die, but what she is saying, and she said it to me privately in the green room, she said, I am trying the spirit of God through me, it's trying to get to your congregation that this is life and death serious. And I'm not prophesying that people are going to die. But she said, some if they don't change, may. This is life and death serious. How you treat your spouse. See what is she doing? What is the Holy Ghost steward doing? Divine order, repairing an altar, getting things that are not right back to where they should be. In our relationship with God, we've got to, like I said in the communion, you've got to learn to discern right. Learn to Lord, am I right in my relationship with Jesus the head? Am I right in my relationship with this church and with people in this church? That's part of discernment, that's part of divine order. Am I right with my marriage? That's part of divine order. Am I right in my job? Not just is your job right, which may be wrong, in which case change it, but are you handling that job right? Are you handling the responsibilities given? Just because they're a sinner does not mean that you have a right to slack off. Because it says to do your job as unto the Lord, so he's your Boss, not as unto men. And so they should see and say, why you're the best worker in here. Well, that's because I do it for Jesus. And I look to you and I report to you, sir. But actually, you have a boss that you don't know about, and his name is Jesus. And because he's my boss, I serve him, even though I'm serving you. They should notice a difference in us. So there's a correction sometimes a tweaking that has to be made in our work environment, in our marriage environment, with our children, with our home environment, with our time schedules. Are you listening? Because I'm telling you, a lot of people spend a lot of time doing things that really are not necessary, and they're giving up. What are you giving up? It's not just that you spend all the time on whatever it is that you're doing. What are you giving up by doing that? Because a lot of people just say, well, there's nothing wrong with being watching this or doing that or going to the. Listen, you got to have life. You got to live your life. You've got to do all these things. But if things become excessive, you got to look at not just what you're doing, but what are you giving up by doing what you're doing. Because the time that you're giving up with God, the time that you're giving up praying about your future, praying for the witty idea, the divine knowledge, how you can prosper. The time you're giving up in services, the time you're giving up listening to the word at home, you gotta weigh. Is what I'm giving up more important than what I'm doing? Because in most cases it's not what you're giving up is more valuable, but what you're doing demands your time. And it's very easy. Now, there's things you gotta get out in your schedule. There's divine order that has to come because multiplication. I'm trying to make you excited, not make you sad. I. I'm trying to say that multiplication is coming. Multiplication for your life. Now, if you don't want children, there's no multiplication coming. But if you want children, then just get ready. You're going to have a whole brood of them. But there's multiplication in your thought life. There's multiplication in finances, there's multiplication in health, there's multiplication in favor, there's multiplication in vision, there's multiplication in protection, there's multiplication in the local church, there's multiplication in your family, there's multiplication in your Workplace. There's multiplication in a side business God may be calling you to do, but you're. Oh, yes, who is that person? God's been asking you to do that business, and you have been resistant. Well, don't come talk about the fact that you're not blessed if you won't listen. I just heard him say, I've been trying to get somebody to do a side business, and they're resisting me. Don't resist the Holy Ghost. Pray until you know it in your spirit. Pray until you got it down here and then follow. But there's got to be things prayed out as well as things prayed out, meaning things prayed in because we are in a season of divine change. Why is God having me say this? You know, some of this already, but because I. I'm not around you as much as I'd like to be around you, especially on a Sunday morning in this season because of my requirements in other areas of my life. I need you to remember that by the end of this month. There is. Now, listen. God is merciful. You can keep going into July, August, September, but that's not his highest plan. God is merciful. He'll work with people where they're at. He knows not everybody is going to listen to the Spirit of God and have this all done by June 30th. But I have to, because I have to as the leader. And so I am working feverishly, regularly, constantly, in my own personal life, with my marriage, my children, my family, my home, as well as the staff, as well as this ministry, as well as Pastor Nancy's Canadian ministry, as well as FMI Go, as well as Israel's peace. There's a lot of things that I'm working. Lord, what do we get out? What do we keep in? What do we shift? What do we move? How do we make corrections? We've got to find the divine order. We've got to restore the altar and repair it, or will never get to the place of the prayer explosion. Because pouring the waters of the barrels of water in the time of drought, that was more precious than gold. And if you study how much they poured until it filled the ditch, filled the ditch, filled the ditch, soaked everything. And this is water that the cattle are dying because they can't drink. And they're taking this and pouring it over an altar, it seems like a waste. And when you start to pray and God asks you to pray more, you're going to feel like, I can't do this. But this doesn't seem necessary. What is God? Why are you asking me? I'm sure the people thought, why are they pouring all this water? But it represents the most precious thing we have, which is our time. And prayer has to be made. And if things aren't rightly in order, when that time comes and anointing comes to pray more, we are going to be distracted because things aren't in the right order. We're going to miss signals and cues because things aren't in divine order. And that anointing to pray, which has to happen before the fire comes, We'll miss it. That's why divine order. Listen, there is no place for pride anymore. It's only humility. And can I make a little small suggestion? When a minister, me or anybody else, especially Pastor Nancy, stands up and corrects, your job is to assume it's you. Your job is not to say, well, just the person. You better listen. We all know this is you. Pay attention. I know it's not me, but I know it's you. That would not be the right response. Your attitude is check yourself. Assume it's you. Go and weigh yourself before the Lord in his scales. Father, go home and pray, Father. Is there anything in what she said in my thinking? Remember, she preached a lot about the thinking about money. Is there anything in my thinking that has to change? Because I'm telling you, 100% of us have to change. I. Me too. But is there anything in my marriage because she focused on that, Is there anything that has to change? You better ask God. Don't assume it's somebody else. Connect dots and assume it's you. And humble yourself before the most high God. Because the Bible says those that humble themselves, he will exalt. But the proud, he knows far off. How long does it take to know your own heart if you have to repent? You looking at me on the Internet? Yeah. You looking at me now you listen. How long does it take for you to know your own heart, to repent? How long does it take to know your own heart, to repent? I'm saying that to someone. You don't need to know who. How long does it take to be a Hezekiah? How long does it take to turn to the wall when the prophet says, you're done? How long does it take to turn and say, God, I beat? Jesus said, the one that's proud stands up and tells everybody how great they are, the Pharisee. But the sinner who's a genuine, bona fide sinner who deserves it, beats his breast and says, oh, God, have mercy upon me. A Sinner. And Jesus says, who is the one? My Father is pleased with. It don't matter what you've done. It matters how you handle what you've done. It doesn't matter how bad the sin is. It matters how you respond to it. Beat your breasts, turn your head to the wall, humble yourself, put a sackcloth in ashes, so to speak, spiritually, weep before God. Look at the horror of how you've treated your wife or husband or whatever else that you've done and say, God forgive me, I repent to you. I humble myself to you. How long does it take to be a Hezekiah? It didn't take Hezekiah long, and it was a lesser covenant. Dispensation of judgment, Old Testament. Because before the prophet even got to his outer court, which is what takes three minutes, four minutes. He's the king, he's got a big thing. But it doesn't take that long to walk. God already gives the word and says, go back and give him 15 more years. In our dispensation of judgment, at the moment of humility, the mercy of God reaches out and says, not only do I forgive you, but I'm going to give you 15 more years. And that's in a dispensation of judgment. How much more? In a dispensation of mercy, with God living in us, the hope of glory, Born again believers, how much more when we turn and repent, will God not reach out before the words have even left our mouth and reach out and say, it's okay, I will restore what the canker worm has taken. You pay a price for what you've done, but I'm going to make it back to you. I'm going to help you, my God. Humility is everything. Humility is everything. And Pastor Nancy told me in the back, specifically who she was talking to, because I'm the pastor and I pray for you and I need to know who she's talking to. Although it's a warning for everybody but the ones in that service. While that was happening, God spoke names to me, who she was talking to. That's my right as a pastor. He won't show you that because you don't stand in that office. And the names that I had on my list were exactly the names that she spoke. So I heard right, And I'm telling you, you better pay attention what he's saying today during the. I haven't even got to my message, and I probably won't, but what is he saying today at the communion service? You better discern Right. You better treat the church right. If you're not serving, stop being so lazy and proud. Humble yourself and find something to do in God's house. You're not better than God's house. You work for your sinner boss. What about working for your savior who bought you with his precious blood? You're not above it. David was telling me a church that he goes to in New York City and they have, it's a very highfalutin church and they have like a lot of politicians that come, it's very close to Washington D.C. they have a lot of congressmen that come, they have a lot of people, high ranking military officers that come where? They have generals, four star generals in their church. I mean just I guess because it's conveniently located, I don't know. And anyway, David was invited. You know, David's crazy. I mean, I don't know why they invited, but he was crazy. And as he's ministering a four star general, the pastor said, that's a four star general. He's the usher catching the general who commands troops into war is the usher catching. David was so impressed by that, he said, wow, maybe you should sit down and have somebody else catch, he says. And the usher said, no, no, no, no, no you don't. We teach people that everybody's equal here. Nobody's above because of your job. Then the pastor told him in the back room and David told me this person, he said, you know, and I won't say the name, but if I said the name, you'd know the name. He said, now this very big up person in politics, he said, he's in our church. And he came and said, what can I do to serve God? And he said, well sir, he said with the toilets need to be done. And he looked at me and he's like, you know who I am. And he said, I know who you are, but the toilets need to be done. And if you can't do the toilets for Jesus, God don't care what you do out there. He's looking for humility and a service to the King. And that man, high ranking politician, scrubbed the toilets for six months. Not for the pastor. No pastor's gonna, no, you don't do it for people. But he got a revelation in that church. We are serving the King. What Jesus paid for me, I'll do anything for him. I'll serve, I'll clean, I'll teach, I'll sing, I'll do digital, I'll do whatever is the need in that church. And it May not be what I want to do, but if there's a need for it, I will do the need until what I want becomes available. If a high ranking general and politician can clean toilets, you are not, I don't care what you do in the world. You, you are not above serving Jesus. And I'm telling you, Jenny, this is a different. He said to go in a different direction today. Okay, Lord, but I heard him say, there are people in your church, they will not serve. They will not serve. This is their final warning. They are going to open the door. You have to discern the Lord's body. You have to discern the church. It's not a manipulation, it's not a scare tactic. I'm saying it by the spirit. You've got to learn to serve. Because without discerning Jesus and his body, which includes the local church, which includes one of the subcategories is serving. If you don't learn to do that for this cause, for this cause, for this cause, God expects people. This is not a manipulation. This is a spiritual, divine law. He's trying to get order in our church. He's trying to get unity in our church. How are we in unity when some do and some don't? Hallelujah. Praise God. That's the anointing on me to say these things because in the natural, I don't want to say them. I would rather just stay quiet. But I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm telling you. God said to me, pray things out and pray things out, because you've got to rebuild the altar of the Lord. You got to repair it. Something's coming, son. Something's coming, son. Do you think Pastor Nancy says lightly these statements like she said on Monday evening, what is in the heart of your pastor? The vision of the church. That's your job to fulfill. Get in unity and do it. Don't argue, don't question. Do you think it's light that God says to her to say where there is divine order, there is divine multiplication? Why do you think God is saying that through her to us? Because God sees multiplication coming to you and to the church. But there's got to be order. Your marriage has to be pure. The way that you treat the church has to be right. Your heart attitude has to be right. If you go home and you talk about negative things about the church, your heart's not right. But if you go home before you get too happy with yourself, if you go home and you don't say things about the church, but you're thinking them. You're just as wrong. Jesus said, you don't have to sleep with her, just want her. You've already committed adultery. You don't have to say bad things about me or about the staff or about the vision or about pastor or about whatever it is that you don't like. You don't have to say it. You just have to think it and mean it in your heart. You've already committed that. You've already done that. And God sees the hearts of the people. Now, most of this church, I know because of the percentage of tithers. I know your heart is here, the percentage of attenders. And by the way, an amazing turnout for Pastor Nancy. Not an amazing turnout Wednesday night for your pastor, and I'm not laughing, but an amazing turnout Monday and Tuesday night. So thank you for being faithful and sensing what's vital and an amazing offering. It was more than double up on Thursday night. We were able to bless her every. And it was the largest personal cash offering we've ever received, ever. So she left. Seeing our honor demonstrated. She felt comfortable because she had fun. I know, Pastor. I travel with her from time to time. And I know when she kind of starts to do her little jokey, jokey, and she's very relaxed. She doesn't do that with places she's not comfortable in. She's far more professional. So when she starts doing a little bit of her joking and her stuff, she says, I'm just having fun. I mean, that to me is so important because it means that she's comfortable in this place and she can be herself and she doesn't have to put on. Not that she puts on the show, but you know what I mean. She doesn't have to put on errors. She doesn't have to be concerned about offending people. She can just flow the way she wants to flow. And I want you to notice the entire sermon on the last night and most of the sermons on the previous two nights were all by the gift of the word of prophecy. The gift of prophecy is inspired in spontaneous utterance. Means you don't plan on saying it. It's not in your notes. Notice she didn't even look at her notes. And look at the wealth. Look at the. I'm telling you, look at the wisdom. Just about Joseph. Just that one alone. And then it was this and then it was that. And I'm just looking at her. I'm thinking, I might as well just quit because how could you. Like, what is. Who are you? Who are you? Holy freak. Who are you? I didn't say freak. I said holy freak. But that's the way God uses her. I can't try to be her. I can only be me. But that's how God uses her. But just to draw up out of the well of her salvation, out of her spirit, and just speak without and read mail and then begin to deal with things that our church needs to hear. I'm telling you, this is all part of divine order. This is all her God using her and me to help get people in the right place. In your thought life, your marriage, with your children, with this church, how you treat this church, how you treat each other, how you think about people, what you say to people. This is all part of repairing the altar. We're in a repairing season. Do you understand how important this is? And on July 1, I'm not necessarily saying to you that you're going to wake up and there's going to be 17 angels in your bedroom and they're all going to have little jeweled gifts and they're going to say this is prayer and, and this is more prayer and this is extra prayer and this is even more prayer. And they're going to pour warm honey over your head and you're just going to be lost in the glory and be late for work. I'm not saying that's going to happen on July 1st. But what I am saying is that I heard God on multiple occasions saying an anointing to pray is coming to your church. Now not everybody wants it. And if you don't want it, you won't partake of it. But if you're hungry and if you get things in divine order. Now we. When that anointing. There's a specific anointing. Anyone can pray anytime. Look, we pray all the time. But there is a special anointing that is coming. I don't know how to explain it other than to say that there is a God's hand is coming. There is something that is something beyond what we normally experience. There is a drive and a call and there is going to be a passion and an anointing. I don't know how else to say it. Jennifer. There's something coming for prayer, you say, but I don't really want to pray. Well, that's okay. You don't have to. But God knows his system. You can't have the fire and the water, the rain without the praying. Are you listening? Now I'll say something I've never said before. But recently the Lord was talking to Me. And he said, did you notice with Elijah, which is the different years that are coming up in your ministry, all of it has symbolism? But he said, did you notice that there was like a junior, if you want to put it that way, not junior, but junior. That's how he said it to me. There was a junior and there was a senior. There was a junior, which is the fire, and there was a senior, which was the rain. And I said, well, Lord, they're both miracles. I mean, why would you lessen one and magnify the other? And he said to me, he said, because the fire was specifically in a locale, but the rain was over an entire nation. And he said it required prayer, required a sacrifice of the most precious thing there was, cord, water. It required that to bring the fire. But the fire was for a place. He said, son, if you don't yield to this fresh anointing that's coming for prayer, your church, your ministry, this place will not receive what I have for it. Are you listening? Listen, Jenny. Then he said, once the skill has been developed in praying for this place to get the fire, he said, another, another. It's going to be a repeat. Another is coming. But this time he went up to the top of the mountain, he put his head between his knees and he birthed and he prayed and he sent seven times to look. The Lord said, both represent prayer, but one is more intense, which was the mountaintop compared to the non mountaintop. And this one produced rain for the whole nation. This one produced fire for a locale, a location. The Lord said, this fire that your church needs and this, this season of prayer that's coming is going to produce it. But he also said, there's rain that your nation needs. And he said, praying for that is not the same as praying for your local church. He said, if you can't. Do you see what I'm saying? If you can't get skillful in the location, what is required for the location, you don't qualify to do what is required for the nation. One is smaller and one is greater. God does not put the cart before the horse. He's not going to say pray for notice. Elijah didn't pray for the nation and the rain come and then deal with the fire and the prophets of baal. He had to deal with the location first. And then he moved. He graduated up. There was more intensified praying and then it dealt with the entire nation. And the Lord said, there is something that's national. Why I know it's national is because anytime you see A mantle involved. It's always national, scripturally and naturally speaking. I didn't ask for the mantle. I didn't try to push this, Jenny. Dr. Dufresne saw an open vision, and he saw God put it on us. And It's Amy Simple McPherson's mantle. Who, who could have planned, who could have organized such a thing that my pastor, who I didn't even know about, The Amy Simba McPherson, when I connected with her, is in her castle, almost even looks like her, has a healing ministry like her, and is growing in prominence like her. How could you make that up? And yet the Mamie simple told Willard Pierce, take my mantle. She called it her mantle to the shores of southern Ontario, for I have not forgotten about my homeland. 1917, he showed up. Angelus Temple north became Evangel Temple. He ministered till 1924. Seven years of labor, seven years of preparatory, seven years of laying, getting right order. And then Charles price came in 2020, in 1924. Are you listening to me? 1924. 17 to 24. Seven years of prep. And in 24, he showed up and the revival began. And it lasted from 1924 to 1932. It went for eight years. Obviously in 24, it wasn't at full fever pitch. Now, do you remember, honey, back in the day, the Lord said to me, what did I say to you in 2017? Do you remember January 17, 2017? God visited us in our living room at 42 Mystery Brook Crescent, and he talked to us about the David analogy and about the Elisha analogy. And that's when we started. 17 was the year of bethel. And we went. 18, 19, 20 was the mantle. 21, 22, 23. Are you listening to me, congregation? I didn't plan this. Seven years of prep. When did Willard Pierce come? 1917. Seven years of prep. When did Charles Price come and the revival begin? 1924. Went for eight years. It started, things began. It wasn't at full fever pitch in 1924. And God said, I'll do things in hundred year cycles. I heard Brother Hagin say, pay attention to what God does in hundred year cycles. In 2017. Exactly. Exactly. And listen, this is why it implies to us more than other churches, because the mantle that was on Willard Pierce is on us. Because it was from Amy Semple. And it went from there up to the church that I. That I was with Evangel Temple. When I came to Canada, it went over on the other church where I was an associate pastor. And then it came over here and doctors saw it on the other church, and he saw it come on us. So the Willard Pierce, what he operated under in 1917 is on us. I'm not making this stuff up. You couldn't plan it if you tried. And a hundred years exactly is when God said, begin your prep because the Mantle came in 2010. And he said, I'm giving you afterward. I didn't know it at the time, I'm giving you six years to qualify. Remember, he showed me that four by 100. And you got to set a track. And if you go, because I used to run it when I was half the man I am, and if you go and you get outside that boundary before you grab that baton, you're disqualified. And from the moment he saw that and the mantle was assigned to us, we started running. And there was a season of six years for me to qualify, to actually get that. That ended at the end of 2016 because it had been six years. Are you listening? 17. We now qualify because we acted right in the first six years. Now the prep starts. I had no idea about how important this was or how it was all going to work out. It's all much clearer in hindsight. But for seven years, Charles, Willard Pierce labored to prepare Angelus Temple north at Bond street in downtown Toronto. And then on the eighth year, something began. To the hundred year anniversary, our prep started. And to the hundred year anniversary, which is this year, our move of God is starting. Do you understand what I'm saying to you? This is more than bigger than me. This is the prayers of saints for a century. This is the prayers of the saints for a century. Why would God pick people as simple as us and as foolish as us? But he uses the foolish things and the weak things to confound the strong and the wise. He uses people that nobody could think could do it. So that they know that they can't do it. That when it happens, they say it could only be God. We're not a big church. Why do you think God has chosen us in this time? Because we're not a big church. Because if we had 2,000 people, we would start thinking we could do this. The reason why this has maintained smallness all these years is a divine reason. Because God has to use weak and simple things. That doesn't mean it's going to stay small. But God uses weak and simple things so that people don't get a fat head. This is our 100 year anniversary. This is the year that Charles Price started. The leadership changed. Why? Because Willard Pierce didn't have what it took to Take it into the next phase. But God has seen fit to give me that same thing. Interesting that 2024 is also the apostolic takeoff, but it's also the domestic takeoff. That's why this year is so important to God. That's why this year is so crucial to God. That's why 2024 cannot be underestimated. Because internationally and domestic, it is critically important. That's why God has been on me for five solid months. Really? A month before that is when he started to say, get things in right order. Get things in right order. Get things in right order. Have the people sit down. Because I want to multiply. Get the altar repaired so I can pour fire down. Change things. Humble yourself. Change. Change requires humility. Change requires humility. You can't be right in your own eyes all the time. You've got to say, lord, how do I change? I wasn't planning on saying any of that, but evidently it's 1207. I gotta close. Evidently the Holy Ghost desired you to hear it because it come up out of my spirit. I have a great sermon that I wanted to preach, but the Holy Ghost, I couldn't. I would have grieved him if I had preached what I planned. But I'm telling you, this is our year. This is our year of beginnings. The 23 years of Elisha have ended. The years of Elisha have ended. And the years of Elijah have come. Jenny, even Elisha versus Elijah, one was lower, one was higher. In terms of Elisha had more miracles. But I'm talking about the hierarchy. The higher years are upon us. 2024 is our year of increase. It's our year of. Of the death years. The first three years, the Vineyard Parable, they're gone. 21, 22, 23, they're over. This is the beginning. This is our tithe year. What is our tithe year, Father, we lay everything before you. Isn't that appropriate? Because this year, what are we saying? Schedules, mindsets, marriage, children, church, business, finances, everything. I lay it before you. What is the tithe? I lay it before you. The fourth year out of the parable. Not parable. In the Old Testament, when you have a vineyard, you can't touch the fruit for three years. You've got to let it die and rot, because that's the die. The fourth year, you tithe it. The fifth year, you start eating. We're in 2024. This is our fourth year. But this is our beginning of our new season. This is the 100 year anniversary of the beginning of. Of increase. But we're still having a year. Can you see the multiple parallels here where we're saying, lord, I lay it, I give it, I tithe my life, I give my life. How do I change? Where do I need to make adjustments? Am I treating my church right? Am I thinking about Pastor Craig? Right? Am I praying? Am I serving? Am I tithing? Do I show up when it's convenient or do I actually show up? Are you listening to me? Because some of you really need to make some changes. You'll pull out every stop in the book to get to your MRI appointment. Nothing would hold you back. But when we coming to feed you the word and we're honoring the king who paid for us with his own blood, we always have a reason why we're too tired, why it's not convenient, why the traffic's too bad, why our kids this and our kids that. I'm not trying to judge you. I'm trying to say it is the time upon us to make changes, promises. And especially you watching. Why are you watching? Why aren't you here? Are you in your pajamas because you couldn't put a suit on and a dress on and come to church? Some are watching because they can't come. And it's legitimate shift work. They live out of town. Thank you. But the ones that watching, just because you're too lazy to come change that it's time to change. It's time to humble ourselves and say, I'm going to change. We are in the season of greatness, Jenny. We are in a season of greatness. Hallelujah. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. You don't know how many. I'll end with this. You don't know how many ministers. And I'm talking big ministers. I don't mean smaller ministers, large ministers. You don't know how many have come to our church or have met me outside of our church. That's never come. And these are big name people. And you don't know how many times people have said to me, I don't know what it is about you and that church in Toronto, but it's like the only thing that I've got to tell you is there's a destiny on your church. I don't know how to explain it. I don't even know much of what you do. But I'm telling you, if this bears witness, Pastor Craig, let it encourage you. There is a destiny on your church to do something that others have not done. So whatever you're doing, keep going kind of attitude. Many have told me that And I can't tell them the whole thing about the mantle and everything, but I just. I take it as an encouragement to say, lord, yes, there is something. It's more than me. It's. God's been endeavoring, Dr. Dufresne said, to do something in this area for over 100 years. And people keep getting in his way. Will you get in his way, Craig? Or will you obey him and let him move? Fire is for this place. Rain is for the nation. We've got to get skillful with the praying for the fire or we'll never touch the rain. And we've got to get skillful in getting things out divine order if we're even going to start to pray for this occasion. And I don't just mean pray like we've been praying. I'm talking about an anointing to pray that is coming in the second half of this year. And some of you. Yes, I hear you, Holy Ghost. Some of them. Some of them. I'll wake them up in the middle of the night, and some of them won't recognize it. So tell them I'll wake some of them up in the middle of the night and there will be a desire to pray and an anointing present in their bedroom to pray. And I desire the sleep to go from their eyes and stand up and receive that responsibility and assignment. And some won't recognize it. And some will, but will refuse to do it. But there are some, Son, that will recognize it and will yield to it. I'm working with those. Because there is an anointing. Yes, Lord, a grace. There's an anointing and a grace to pray such as you have never experienced before. Just like the Argentine revival. An anointing came upon them to pray in a way that they couldn't pray on their own. Just like the Welsh revival, an anointing came on them to pray that they couldn't pray. In their own every move, there's been an anointing to pray that has come from heaven with Charles Finney, an anointing on Father Nash to pray, and Brother Clary that they could not articulate, that they could not conjure. Every time I desire to move, I bring an anointing to pray, to precede it. I desire to move in this city. I desire to move in this church. I desire for miracles, for signs, wonders and glory to come. So much that, as the prophet said, you'll name the building, you'll name the church the Glory Center. I desire for this to happen, but it cannot without being preceded. By my anointing to pray. So I'm bringing that anointing. That assignment is coming. You saw it on the horizon last week, and it is coming towards you. What you saw was. Was the anointing to pray. And it's coming. Tell the people to recognize it. And tell the people to yield to it. And tell the people to rush and hurry, make haste and pull out all stops. For there is less than a month to get things organized, to humble themselves so they are prepared and ready to receive. They are positioned for that assignment to pray. Oh, hallelujah. I knew this morning was going to be different, Jenny. But he doesn't show me with as much volume as he has today in most cases. So that thing I saw on the horizon, I called it the prayer explosion. But that's actually the anointing. That's the anointing. That's an assignment to pray. Because preceding every move is prayer. And God has to bring the anointing to pray because you can't do it on your own. But you don't qualify. You won't even recognize it if you're distracted because you're disorganized. That's why the divine order has to happen. Praise God. Heavenly Father, I bless you and I thank you. Just before I close, I can't get into it. I was supposed to preach a sermon about it today, but I guess God turned it. Just put up that faith card on the screen if you don't have one. The apostles. I was going to say the ushers have a faith card for you if you have it. I would encourage you to fill it out. What I want you to be aware of is that the date we have set for this pledge amount. You can give it any time but November 10th. Do we have another screen? If we do, November 10th is the date that we have picked for the money to all come in by that date. And listen, I want you to remember, put the other screen up where it's a bit bigger. I want you to notice that on there. It's what I have to give. Now, remember, Jesus said to the little boy, what do you have? Two loaves, five loaves, two fishes. What about the lady at Zarephath? She had a little bit of oil. Give what you have. But also remember, God is wanting us to use our faith for something we don't have. But the Lord has to lead you. So, Sandy, if you had $1,000 and you said, this is what I have to give now. Now doesn't mean right now, today. Now means by November 10th. Okay, but let's say Sandy, for example, said, I can sow $1,000. I know I have it. I know I can earn it. I know where it's coming from. And I. It's easy, it's simple, it's done. I don't just want Sandy to write a thousand dollars on the top blue line. I want her to say, holy Spirit, what would you like me to stretch my faith for? God may say 500, in which case she has no idea where that 500 is coming from, but she's going to use her faith, and either God will give her extra shifts or God will put a care package in her hand or an extra this or a refund or something, I don't know. But somehow God will make sure that money gets to you so that you are giving both what you have in the natural. You know where it's coming from, and you're using your faith for another amount. And you got to be led by the spirit on both. All right, we have to. What is the vision? You say, what is the vision? Why are we doing this? Because a lot of our lights need to be replaced. All of our speakers need to be replaced. They have all been going for well over 12, 13 years. All of our sound boards, everything, plus new cameras. I mean, everything in this sanctuary that is digital or has anything to do with that kind of stuff, everything is way, way, way too old, and we have to replace it. And so we've already got. Pastor Nancy uses a man. He flew up from the States to be a blessing to us. When David Ellis was here a couple weeks ago, he wasn't here in services, but he was here working with our team. That man came up. He's a professional, and he does secular as well as churches. He does for. He works for Brother Copeland, with Brother Copeland, and he is a professor. He's top game. And he did a very big favor because he's very busy, and he reassessed our entire situation. And he is going to replace everything, even these screens. We are replacing them with digital, large digital televisions. And we're painting this wall because it doesn't look right for television. He said. So there's a lot of things that we're doing and everything. By the time it added all up, it was about 275,000 Canadian. If we do a few extras, it might be as high as 3, but 275 is where we kind of landed. And he's asking us, can I put the order in right now? And I said, well, we don't have that money. We have to wait to raise the money. So we're holding him off. But this is the vision that we need for this year. We have to get everything where it needs to be. And so I'm believing that everybody listen. The Holy Ghost knows what I need, what we need, and he knows where your faith's at. If everybody will just write down what they can sow generously and then what a faith goal is and, and actually meet those two lines, all the money that we need will come in. But I need you to stretch your faith and I need you to be generous. So if you're ready for that card, put it in today. The money is not due till November 10. But if you want a card because you didn't get one or you lost it, get one on your way out and just wait on God about this. I'm just believing in the future. I'll divide it up. So, you know, on average, if everybody gave the same amount, what would kind of be the amount? We're looking pretty person, but I don't have that figure right now. I just know that that's the vision, that's what we're believing and all the money. Our church has never failed, ever. In all the years that we've done a special annual project. Sometimes it looks like we're going to fail, but people always come through. People always put God first. They always come through. And so we need to do this. Listen, we have a lot. We have a new building coming. We have millions and millions of dollars coming. So if we can't even believe for 275,000 is a congregation, how are we going to move into a 50,000 square foot with a 14 million dollar price tag and probably a 3 million dollar price tag on top of that, to renovate it. How are we going to do that if we can't even do just over a quarter million? So I don't expect any size, any rolling of the eyes. What I expect you to say is that's it, that's it. All you're asking is 275,000. Pastor, we could do a million this year. Why don't you ask us for more? Well, if that's how you feel, prove it to me in your faith. Prove it to me. Let's exceed this without me asking for it. Because that's the attitude for a church this strong. The way we think, which has to change the way she preached. But we are changing the way we think about finances. We should be saying, lord, we can do more than that. That's Easy for our congregation to do so. It's not a burden to me. Praise God. Heavenly Father, I thank you that we are in the hundred year anniversary of the beginning of a move of God in Toronto. We may not be down at Bond street, we may be up in Mississauga, but we are still in the gta. That mantle from Aimee Semple that came on Willard and that has gone on two other churches since is on us. This is our beginning. This is our beginning of increase. It's also our year of the tithe. As we lay our lives before you, as we get things out, as we get the right things in, as. As we rebuild the altar, as we begin to pray. Because the prayer must precede the move of God. Father, we're a church of destiny. We have a great future. The people here are strong. I declare they're strong. I declare they're strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. And they go with me into battle and they go with me into war. And they're not afraid. When we give out numbers, they expect higher because they know they're God and they know what God can do through through them. Father, we humble ourselves this next month. We humble ourselves to make adjustments and to remove and add things as needed so that we in our families and our minds and in our lives are ready. And as a church, we're ready to receive the anointing that is coming to pray for no move of God has ever happened without God first sending an anointing to pray. So I thank you. You said it's coming at the second half of this year. Lord, I thank you that they'll recognize it and they'll respond to it. And I give you praise and glory. Let them know how much I love them and how much you love them and how precious they are in Jesus precious name. And everybody said amen.