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The Mantle's Past & Present | Pastor Craig Field | Wed. Jan. 1, 2025
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Turn with me, please. In the Book of First Kings, chapter 18. And the meetings with Brother Copeland were cancelled for this weekend. And so for the first time in 10 years, I will be in our pulpit on the first Sunday of the year. It's been 10 years. Every year we've been there, we tithe that first weekend to the Lord and to honor Pastor Nancy and the one that she is submitted to. But there was some complications, and so they had to change that or postpone it indefinitely. So, praise the Lord, all is well. And I'm sorry I don't get to see her, but I'm so thrilled that we get to be here in our own pulpit. So Sunday's going to be a wonderful service, but tonight we're not finished our worry because you're all worrying about if we're going to finish the worry. I can sense the worry that the anxiety is high. Are we ever going to finish it? Yeah. We hardly have even listened. The leading of the spirit course was like months. This one is just a couple weeks. This is easy. But we're not. Don't worry about it because we're not finished yet. But I'm not going to talk about that tonight because this is the first of the year. And I just want to share some things that Lord's been bubbling on the inside of me. And so I want to start by reminding you sometimes it's good to just talk a little bit about where we're at and how we got here. And on January 17, 2017, we had just celebrated in October 2016, my 25 years in the ministry. And that is when Jennifer famously. No, she can't do it. She just can't bring herself to submit. I keep telling her the New Testament says Sarah called Abraham Lord. I just keep telling her to meditate upon that scripture, but she refuses. So, anyway, I thought that on that October 25th anniversary, for me, it wasn't for the church, but for me, I thought that there was something in my spirit that was different. I don't know what it was. I just thought, well, this is a milestone. 25 years is a milestone. And maybe. I'm sure that's all it was, but it wasn't. And we didn't know that until January 17th. That following year, 2017, I was up, I don't know, very often, but the spirit of God came in the living room. That's when before we had moved into our current home, and I was sitting on the couch, Jenny was sitting there, and God started to speak. The presence of God filled the room. In a very tangible, overwhelming, almost way. I looked at her, she looked at me, and God started to talk to us, actually started talking to her and started telling her. And I'm not maybe quoting exactly. If you want to grab the mic and interject at any time, you can just be gentle. But basically, the Lord said to her, your husband is like David. And there's going to be some parallels that I'm going to show you. Now. You see, you can't claim that yourself. That's not something you can claim. Okay, The Lord just happened to say that. And so she told me, and we talked and prayed, and then she went upstairs to bed. And I stayed through the rest of the night. I didn't plan on that, but the presence of God just wouldn't release me. Ever been there where the presence of God just won't release you at that point? Sleep doesn't matter. What matters is that you submit to that flow. And so he said, open the Bible. And he started to talk to me, and he started to show me something. By the spirit, this is not me trying to find something that I can latch onto. Do you understand? He initiated. And I'm just now saying, lord, explain what you mean, because I don't know what you mean. There's many things that could mean. And he said, well, look at his life. And he showed me how he went from Ziglag, which was in a cave. I know Mr. Rain doesn't like me saying it, but he said to me, he said, the Morris basement was your Ziglag years because we were unknown. We were in a basement, an unfinished basement, but it was just, to me, like the Taj Mahal. Did you like that I brought a reference into your country? To me, it felt like the Taj Mahal. I've never been so joyful and so peaceful and really anywhere, because it's the. We were in the perfect will of God. We were in the perfect timing of God. We were in the perfect place. We didn't have a website. It was a new construction area, so we couldn't even tell people for GPS because they couldn't find us because it wasn't on the maps yet. But it was just. We grew to 88 people from six people in my home till about, I don't know, 30 or so. And then we grew up to 88 in her basement. And the Lord said that season where you were. See, he was in a ziglag. He was in a cave. He was not exposed in any way. He was like. He was hidden because Saul was after him. Do you remember? And so the Lord said, in that season, there was a season of time that he was there. And he said that season was ziglag. And then he said, and then I moved you into this building, this building here. And he said, and now that didn't start the Hebron season, but he said, you're in this building. And he said, there's been some seasons of preparation. I won't get into all the details because I have preached this before, but there was some seasons of preparation that we had to go through. Then Dr. Came and he in 2000. And when was it? 2010, because we were in the basement that whole 2009. So that was June 28, 2010. That's when he saw that mantle come down. And then basically, you know, we had. I won't get to all the details, but I've taught it many times before. But there was a season from the time he called me out in Peru, okay. And he talked to me about the church, which I said, I'm not a pastor, I really don't know what you're talking about. And he said, well, then I don't know what this means, but this is the vision that I see about you from that time, okay? Which was 2004, there was a season of preparation that we had to do, okay? And that was six years from 2004 to 2010. And 2010, he came in June and he saw. See, that was the next instruction that God gave us. One was in Peru, then this one that was kind of like a private. Even though it was in a big service, but nobody knew us, including him. And remember, God anointed David privately with his brothers with Samuel's anointing. And he told me that Peru thing was like that. Then there was six years. Now, I didn't know all this until after it happened. Like, I didn't know that there would be six years. All I knew is that in that six year period, the Lord kept saying, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it. Some people got offended in our church for talking about it. They thought we were trying to be all that. They thought we were trying to be combative with the other church that had left. I just heard the Lord say, talk about it, talk about it. In that time is when I hooked up with that pastor at Evangel Temple and he showed me the whole. He taught me the. Because his dad was the last pastor under Amy Simple McPherson's Church, downtown Toronto. And he had all the history. And that's when all that, that all in that six years all that came out and I started to realize, my God, this is the Aimee simple McPherson Canadian mantle. This is the Canadian anointing from her. And then I'm looking at Pastor Nancy and the castle. Hadn't happened then, but I always sensed, and other people always sense that that same kind of anointing is on her. Then of course, God confirmed that by giving her the castle some years later. But this is before any of that happened. But that six year period, something had been handed to me. A baton is about to be handed to me. Hadn't happened yet, but I have to get ready to receive that baton. Do you understand? I have to get ready. And then I did. And in 2010, that's when he saw that mantle and I didn't actually show up. He just saw it coming. He saw it come down, but I didn't know it. I thought we had it, but we didn't have it. It just meant that we were marked for it. And I didn't understand that because a lot of stuff you don't understand at the moment, you just have to be faithful. But six years of preparation, preparing, you know, from the time he talked about, let me rephrase, six years from the time he talked about it in 04 to 2010, just not going to Peru, submitting to the call and the real call in my life, submitting to Dr. Coulter and going and working at that church, which was an important step for me to do, and then starting this church from nothing in my home, and then going to the basement and then getting to this. I mean, there's a lot of prep in that six years. Then the public, this was more of a public thing with the mantle and the roof disappeared. And he saw that. June 28, 2010, then that happened. Then there was another six years from 10 to 16. And that was where he basically is saying, I got this for you. You better get ready to take it. So I'm running and just like on that 4x100 relay, you only have a certain length of track, that you have to have it in your hand before you pass that boundary or you're disqualified. And it was. I didn't know how long it would be, but I just knew if you don't show honor for it by talking about it and if we don't intercede and pray it out, whatever he saw, and I didn't understand it all, but it's not going to happen. But then around that six year mark, that was October 2016, something in my spirit knew something had changed. But I didn't know what it was. I just thought it was a 25 year anniversary. And it wasn't until January 17th that the Lord showed me. He said that was that six years from 2010-16 was that track where, where you had to talk about it and pray about it. You had to do a lot of different things to make sure you were ready to receive that, that assignment. Do you understand? And then something in the spirit changed. Now, we didn't have it yet that came in 2020, but something in the spirit changed. We took hold of that thing. I can't explain how. I just know we took hold of it in the spirit. We had to run and get up to speed on that track. And then we took hold of something on that, on that 2016 anniversary time. Because October is always the new year for us. That's our new year is October, not January 1st. And so I knew we had accomplished something, but I didn't understand it. And then the Lord said to, then he said January 17, 2017. So just a few months later, he starts to talk then, now this. Up until that point, I've been in the dark. Do you understand? Everything has been by faith. Half the time I don't even know what I'm doing. I'm just, you know, doctor's gone by this point, so I can't really talk to him too much about it. I just knew, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, show honor for it. If you show honor for something, you'll talk about it. Are you listening? If you don't talk about it, you'll lose it. If you're going to talk about your healing, you'll lose that too. If you don't talk about his goodness to your finances, you'll go broke. You got to talk about something if you're going to show honor for it, it's talking. Honor is also substance, but honor is talking. You better start to learn that. That's why I talk about Pastor Nancy, because I'm showing honor. That's why God told her, talk about the angels. It shows honor for what they do. And when you talk about them, they'll work more for you. We talk about the mantle not because we think we're better, but if we don't talk about it, we disrespect what God has done. So all I knew was talk about it, pray about it, talk about it, pray about it. I didn't know that there were six years of qualification and that if I didn't get it by the end of that season, that they would have been. It might have been aborted. But all I know is I did what I knew to do. And then when we took that, something in the Spirit changed. I knew it, I could feel it. But I couldn't explain it, I couldn't understand it in English, but I knew something had changed. And I just talked it up to the 25 year anniversary. But then I started seeing into the realm of the Spirit on the 17th of January. And he started saying, no, it's not the 25 year anniversary. There's been six years. Then there's been another six years. Six years of getting yourself positioned and then six years of preparation. Once you're positioned, you still have to prepare for it. Now you've laid hold of something in the Spirit. It hasn't come yet, but you've laid hold of something and now see all of that. Think about that. People are in such a rush. 12 years. And I preach, preach long before that. Okay, but I'm just talking just in terms of the mantle. 12 years to position and then to prepare another six, 12 years. You can't be in a rush for things. 12 years. Now we're finally like the clock starts. We don't even have it yet, but the clock starts. And he said to me, he said to me, on that day, he said to me, there is going to be a similarity to the life of David in that you are, even though we're in the building. He said, you're still in a ziglag phase, even though we were in the building. So it didn't match that parallel exactly. Because when he came out of the cave, he went to Hebron. He said, you're not in Hebron yet. He said, because when you get to Hebron. When he got to Hebron, he sat down in some things. That's how the Spirit said it to me. He sat down in some things. What did he do? He sat down on a throne. What happened? He got anointed. He had already been privately, but now there's a public anointing. And he said, there's been a private one there. Then there's been another. That was in 2004. And pray, then there's been another public one. But just seeing it, not you getting it, just seeing that it's coming. That was Dr. Dufresne in 2010. Now he's telling me in 2017, you're qualified for it. Now the clock starts. You're on a journey now because you're going to get to Hebron. You're still in Ziglag but you're on your way now. Don't quit on me yet, son, because if you just keep going, you're going to get it. And that's when the clock started. And he showed me that same night, Jennifer, the David parallel and the Elisha parallel, and both came at the same time. He said, when you get to Hebron and you get anointed, that anointing comes, that Dr. Dufresne saw. That represents that kingship, that represents going to another level. I didn't know it was the apostolic office. I didn't know that. But he didn't explain all that to me. Then he just said, an anointing is coming, like when he was anointed king. And that's when you're going to enter Hebron, is when that happens, you're still in ziglag. He said, but so he's giving me a dual parallel. He said, when you get there, there's going to be seven and a half years in Hebron. I didn't come up with this. I'm just telling you what he showed me. But he said, you're not there yet. You're still in ziglag under the David timeline. He said, now you've just started. This is January 2017. Remember, this qualification is over. I've got that baton. That baton is not the mantel. I can't explain it to you. I just know I've laid hold of something. But that thing is yet in the future. But it's like something. The race has started. I've got the baton. I've got to run my lap. And the Lord said, now this starts the Elisha parallel, and you're starting it right now. You're actually 17 days in, so pay attention. This all happened on 1-17-17. And he said, now the Elisha parallel starts and you are in 2017. He said, this year is the Bethel year. And then he showed me the thing of Elisha, following Elijah. As the Lord lives, as thy soul is, I shall not leave thee. And he said, now you just stay with your pastor and you stay with me as the great Shepherd. I'm going to lead you in. He said, this is going to be year one. He said, this is a prep year. You're in the Bethel year. And he told me things that would happen. It happened exactly the way he told me. I wrote it down before it happened. It's in my journal. Then we come into the 8th, 2018. He said, now you're in the Jericho year. And he told me exactly what would happen and everything Happened exactly like he said. And he shows me all this usually in the last three months of the previous year or the first month of the existing year, but it's never longer. We never get to February without me knowing things. Do you understand? Then we come into 2019. And he said, now you're at the Jordan River. Remember, that's what Elijah and Elisha, they went to Bethel, to Jericho, and to Jordan. That's the three stops that are listed in the scripture. And he said, each represent a year. And now, 2019, you're at the Jordan River. And he said, you're about to cross over, son. You're about to cross over into the Jordan plain. And it was the Jordan plain where Elisha received the mantle, right, from Elijah. And he said, when he received the mantle, that's the same thing as David sitting down and receiving kingship. So he said, when you hit that plane next year, 2020, and you receive that mantle, that's what Dr. Dufresne saw. Now it's going to come to pass. That's what you've been in preparation for 12 years plus three. It's 15 years. That's a long time. I'm telling you because it's important you remember you're part of this. And I want you to know that. The amazing specificity, the genius, the orchestration, the masterful orchestration of God's plan, most of which I didn't even understand until it had already happened or was about to happen, I certainly didn't plan any of this. So we did 17, and we did 18, and we did 19. And now I know something's going to happen. I don't know what, but I just know Something's coming in 20, and I don't know how. And because I'm a very intense person by nature, it bothered me a lot. It concerned me a lot because I didn't want to miss it. I didn't want to. You know. Remember he said to Elisha, you can miss it if you don't keep your eyes on me. You could miss it. And so. But obviously, there was a big distraction that came. I mean, a horse, a fire, and a chariot fire. You kind of want to look at that a little while and study it. But he had to keep his eye and ignore this thing that's running in front of him. And he had to look at him as he went up in the tornado. And so I didn't know what was going to happen. And then, you know, Brother Randy comes in March, and he starts prophesying about the apostolic office. And the Holy Ghost spoke to me at that meeting and said, this mantle that you're getting helped, Elisha, step into the prophet's office. And this. That's coming for you, just like David sat down on that throne and Elisha in that plane, it's going to help you step into a higher office than your pastor's office. And this is a very holy thing, and it's a very important thing, and you better be sober about it. And he told me when Randy was here, he said, I'm making it public through another man that you have not talked to, so that nobody would question it. Doctor had already said it, but privately to me, but never had it been ever publicly stated except Randy. And he said, I'm saying that and get ready, a big distraction is coming. I said, what, Lord? Is my wife gonna. Is my wife gonna be bad or something? Is she gonna. She gonna stop cooking? Because that would be a big distraction. I said, what's gonna happen, Lord? What's gonna happen? And a week after Randy left, something by the name of COVID 19 came with a fury and a rage and a storm, and everything got shut down and everything got topsy turvy, and people were afraid. And some of our congregation, Most thank God, 98%, you know, you might have gone through some things, but Storm, just 2% didn't know how to get grounded in the word and got offended. Some got offended because of the way we were not talking about the vaccine or that we were talking about the vaccine. Others got offended the fact that we tried to do the services in a different way and then that we weren't doing enough mass, and then we weren't sitting silent. Everybody's got their own stupid opinion. And that's what it really is. It's a stupid opinion. Because my opinions are stupid too. Nobody has. Nobody knows God. Nobody is exactly right. We're all just trying our best to figure this thing out. But the point is, you just try to flow and stay in unity. Which we did a trial run, and I think our church generally passed, but I think we could have done better. And God forbid that ever happens again. Hopefully we'll learn from our mistakes in the past, okay? Because I know I learned some things from that. That was this big distraction. Now you say, but how could that be? How could God's like, you're not Covid. Wasn't because of you, Craig. God didn't send Covid so that it would be your fiery chariot. Do you understand? Like, we're nobody. We're nothing like Covid. Was global. It didn't happen because of Craig needed a fiery chariot. Do you understand? So if it didn't happen, there would have been another fiery chariot. It wasn't. God didn't send. That had nothing to do with God. That was the devil. I'm just saying that God used that as the distraction. If that hadn't have happened, it wasn't God's sovereign plan for that to happen. So I would have a distraction. I just want you to understand that God doesn't do things like that. No one person, no one church is so important that it's going to affect global events. So don't even let your mind go down that weird path, okay? There would have been a distraction. If it wasn't that, it would have been something else. Because that was the word of prophecy that came to me. I had to pass that test. It just happened to be that. And it was actually a lot bigger and harder and worse than probably most any other kind of distraction could have been. I would have preferred a different kind of distraction. But we went through that and I kept my eye fixed. I kept my eye fixed. I did. I kept my eye fixed. And then in the summertime, he said to me, I was praying, Jesus walked into my room. I didn't see him with my eyes open, but I saw him with my eyes closed. I can tell you what he looked like. I can tell you what he wore. And he held out a silver platter to me. I looked at that platter and there was like a diamond encrusted, looked like a little jewelry box almost that you could open, like a hinge, like those music boxes, but it was diamonds all over it. And he handed it to me like this on a silver platter. And he said, I'm offering you a 40 day fast. That was what that fast represented in that diamond encrusted little container. He said, basically, you don't have to do it if you don't want. But he said, it is required to get the mantle. And I said, give me scripture. I don't want to see no scripture for this other than you did it, but I'm not you. And he said, didn't Elisha rip his garment? The Bible said he ripped his garment in two pieces. And then he took Paducah's hand and he took up that mantle. And the Lord said, there has to be. That ripping represents a ripping of the flesh, a dying to your way. It represents a severe price. That was his garment. He owned that. And he's ripping. He paid a price for Something. Then he took something new. Do you understand? He said, that is this fast. I said, when do you want me to do it? He said, dude, toward the end of the year, I'll tell you the day to start. I'll tell you the day to the end. And he told me exactly the day to start, and I started when he told me. And all of that. I'm not going to get into all of it, but there were reasons for it. There was reasons for it that he explained to me on the fast. Some of it I've never shared publicly, and I probably will never. I don't know. But there were reasons that I had to end that fast. When I ended that fast. And Jesus showed up at the end of that fast with two angels in my prayer closet. Again, I didn't see him, but I know what it feels like when his presence walks in the room. I was shaking so bad because on that last day, I hadn't drank any water. That was the only day he said, don't do. I want you completely nothing. No water, no food, no nothing. And my body was just reacting to the stress of all of that. And I'd just been in prayer all day. And those two angels, each of them put a hand on my shoulder. As soon as they did, the quivering stopped. He stood in front of me. He poured something over my head. I could feel it going over my head physically, even though it was spiritual. And he said, I've anointed you now that you have sat down on the throne like David, and you have picked up that mantle. And that was January 12, 2020. I'm telling you because it's good to remember those are holy things. December, what did I say? Daniel? December 12, 2020. And it was at the end of that year. Now he says to me, I didn't know up until that point anything about what was coming. I thought, okay, now we got this thing. I don't know what to do with it. I don't even really know what this is, other than I know it's to help me in the apostle, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do. What is the rest you've given me now? 17, 18, 19, and 20, but I don't know what's left. And it was during that fast. It wasn't on the last day, but it was during the fast. He said, I'll tell you. Open my word. And I opened my word. And he said, keep reading, son. I just had stopped reading when he said. He picked up the mantle. He said, keep Reading. And then he says he went back to Jordan and. And he struck the water, said, where's the God of Elijah? Then he went back to Jericho, remember? And they went out looking. They went out looking for Elijah. He told them not to. And the water was bitter. And he healed the waters. He threw the salt in. Do you remember? Then he goes up to Bethel. And those kids came out because Elijah was hairy, the Bible says, and Elisha was bald. He was hair challenged. He was bold. And those kids said, go see. They were making fun of what happened to don't make fun of spiritual things. They were making fun of Elijah. You don't make fun of Elijah. And then you. Elijah was hairy. The Bible says you can read it. He was hairy and he wore a leather girdle. That's why John the Baptist, who came in the spirit and power of Elijah, that's why he wore camel's hair. Because he had to even physically look like Elijah looked. It was that important to God. That wasn't just a fashion sense. He wore camel's hair. Nobody else wore that because it looked like, from a distance, like Elijah. So Elijah went up in the whirlwind and those kids were mocking Elisha as the one that had the mantle and said, go up, baldy. Go up, baldy. You can read it. They were making fun of him because he was bald. And they were saying, go up. Why don't you go up the thing like your daddy did? But you're bald. Unlike him, he had had enough. Ministers can have enough now. Not in the New Testament, but in the Old Testament, you don't want to mess with a preacher when they've had enough. So he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she bears came out and ripped 42 children to shreds. 42 of them. See, people would say that God's not very nice to kids. No, God loves kids. But you mock a prophet in the Old Testament, under a dispensation of judgment, you take your life in your own hands. My, my, my. I was reading last night about how that one prophet came, this is after the time of David, during some of one of the other kings past Solomon. And he said, slap me. And he wouldn't slap him. You're a prophet. I'm not going to slap you. And he said, because you have not listened to me, a lion is going to come and kill you. And he walked on and a lion jumped out of the woods and killed him. And then he went to another guy and said, slap me. And the guy slapped him. As hard as he could. And the Bible says he wounded him, but he needed to be wounded because he had to go and stand before the king and say, just as I am wounded, thus saith the Lord. You see? So when a prophet tells you to slap him, you better slap him, okay? But if he tells you to give a big offering, you better give a big offering. So the Lord said to me, just look at my word. I'll tell you what's coming. Now, this is him saying, I'm not just expecting this to continue. He said, look, he said, now you've got it. 2021 is going to be the. The Jordan river year. That's an obstacle. And we started having some pretty big obstacles in our personal life in 21. He said, It'd also be a year. The water. Water parts. And he said, revelation is going to come. And we had the greatest revelation. Some of the greatest revelations I've ever received in my life happened that year. Then we went over to Jericho, and he told me what happened that year happened exactly like he said then. This is not. That was 22, now 2023. He said, now you're over in Bethel. He said, and there's going to be mockery and there's going to be attacks, and there's going to be this. And we had probably the most vicious attack we've ever had in 2023, especially at the beginning of it. Hallelujah. And rash. You're all the way through it, really, if you think about it, honey. And that was those kids coming out to cause mischief in the realm of the spirit. I'm talking symbolically, but we dealt with that. We dealt with it. And the Lord would give me a word. And a lot of this was about Quinn, but also other situations as well. And the Lord would say, the bears are coming. The bears are coming. Remember, the two she bears came out of the woods and destroyed that problem. He said, keep saying the bears are coming. I'd wake up every morning, I'd say, honey, the bears are on the way. I call those bears to come and defend me in Jesus name against this attack. And I'd say it every day, sometimes 50 times a day. And those she bears showed up, and God delivered us. I can't share publicly a lot of what happened, but God delivered us that year. Exactly what he told me would happen. Happened that seven years in a row, from 17 to 23. He told me exactly what would happen. And it happened every year. So you can trust me when I tell you, when I say God has said something to me, you can trust me that I'm not making it up. Alright. Now he also gives us. So that's this Elisha parallel. Then at the end of 23, I said, Lord, I guess where we're going from here, it was actually earlier in 23. And he said, keep reading. And it says, and Elisha went to Carmel. He was retracing the steps of his father because his father had gone from Carmel there to Bethel. And he went from Bethel back to Carmel. And I said that there's nothing else listed about Elisha. And he said, because now it's time to pick up the Elijah line. So he said, that was Second Kings. He said, go back to First Kings and watch what Elijah did in Carmel, because that was the place mentioned. And then the first thing he did was he repaired that altar. And then he built that altar. And then he cut the bullock and he put the wood and he prepared the altar. And he said, the first half of this year, I want you to repair things because things are out of order in the church, in individual people's lives that I have responsibility over. And in my own life, I'm just talking things not in right order and I've done the best of my job to fix that. Then he said, the second half of the year, you've made repairs, but just because you've prepared it doesn't mean that it's organized properly. So I want you to build. It says he actually built an altar he repaired, but he also built. And he said, I want you to get ready, dig that trench. So we dug that trench. He said, get your whole life structured as an altar. I said, lord, for what? He said, for prayer. He said, I don't want anything crowding you. I want you to get stuff off your plate. I want you, all the stuff that you're backlogged on, which I had been on a lot of different things, things that hadn't. I hadn't caught up on, things that, you know, things just kind of slip away from you. He said, you got to catch up with all of that this year. Everything has to be done by December 31st. Well, I'm happy to tell you that by December 29th, actually 28th, everything was done. I don't. I was so nervous, I, you know, I'm not supposed to worry. But I'll be honest, I probably was worrying a little bit because when he talks to me like that, he didn't want playing games. And I had to make sure. So I wanted to make sure I was a little early and I was Done three days early, Praise God. It's all. Everything's done, everything that I had to do to get my mind free and clear, to get stuff off my responsibilities, unnecessary responsibilities, off my plate. I've still got responsibilities, but not unnecessary ones that cloud me and that gnaw at me and that take my time and distract me. All that's done, thank God. And he said, because now you're stepping into 20, 25, and this is going to be an important year because this is the year of the pouring of the water. This is the year of prayer. He said the most precious thing they had was water. They were in a drought for three years. Everything's dying. Vegetation is dying, animals are dying, people are dying. Water is something that is more precious than gold. And he said that water represents your time in prayer. Everybody has time. But your time watching television is not precious. Your time praying is precious. So I just want you to understand something, that when we had three years, 17, 18, 19 of preparatory time holding that baton, because that. That 20th year was a very important. It was a watershed year. It was a marker year. It was. Everything before was one, everything after was another. And that whole year, there was a lot of distraction. But we were in the plain of Jordan, or we had entered into Hebron. Do you understand? And we sat down on December 20th. That's when it completed. That's when that mantle came. But I said to the Lord, I said, lord, how. How do I count this? And he spoke to me very clearly, this is some time ago, but he said, you don't. You might have been transitioning into Hebron, but I told you, because sometimes we forget the specific way he says things. I had to look back. He said, I told you when you sit down in some things, which is basically getting that anointing, you have entered Hebron. David had to physically be in Hebron before because there was prep that had to be made for all the elders to come and anoint him. But he didn't start. That's how the Lord said it to me. He said his reign, even though he was in Hebron a little bit, a short time, maybe only a few months, until that coronation event. But his reign did not officially start until they poured the oil. And he said, your Hebron season does not start until you finish that fast. So when we finish it on December 12th, that's when Hebron technically started. But really, if we're going to count it, it's really 20, 21, because 20, 20, December 12th, there's not a whole lot of time left in 2020. Do you understand? So he said to me, now that Hebron has started on December 12, he said, Your first year in Hebron is 2021. Are you listening? Now remember the David parallel, because he said this. On January 17, he said, you will be in Hebron. We're not even there yet. We still have three years just to get to the plane. And then one year in the plain or in Hebron, so to speak, but without it officially beginning yet. Now that we've got that done and we're starting 2021 and that mantle has come and that, that, that. That kingship oil has been poured. Do you understand? Now everything really starts. Everything before that was a preparatory time. It really was. If you want to look at it, the six years, then another six years, and then three years, that's 15. And then a year in the plane until December 12, the end of that year. So 16 years. Do you understand? That's a long time to be in a kind of a. What's next, Lord? Because you're aiming to get something. Sixteen years, a long time. It's nothing to shake your head at. It's not 16 months, it's 16 years. That's a long time. I'm just saying I can be amazed at how patient God is and how slow things are yet also how fast things are. But we got it now. Something starts again now. 2021, the clock starts now. Remember he said when you sit down in some things, you enter Hebron. Now remember he said David was in Hebron seven and a half years. So you don't have to be a math genius to figure out that 21 is year one. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27. And it's very specific that it was seven and a half years. So you can't lose out on that half. So this is the middle of 2028 completes Hebron. Do you understand? So now he says, you're starting your Hebron years as we enter 2021. He said, you're starting it. Then he says, now we already know the Eli. That's the David line. Now we already know the Elisha line because he said, just go 21 until we are in Bethel, then get to Carmel, which is 24, then switch to the Elijah line, which we're in right now. We've been in the Elijah line for one year. You still following me? But there's another. There's four parallels. You're going to blow your top if I tell you all of them. But let me just remind you of the third one, there's a vineyard parallel. Now, when that mantle came on that fast, he took me to a scripture and he said, when a man plants a vineyard, he is not allowed to touch the fruit thereof for three years. It must fall to the ground and die. Except a corn of wheat fall to the ground and die. It abides alone. And in the natural, that fruit that was like a nourishment for the soil, in the fourth year, they were allowed to touch it but not eat it. They had to tithe. And in the fifth year, they could start partaking and being blessed by it. And the Lord said, that parallel starts with Hebron. So that means 2021 was year one, 2022 was year two, 2023 was year three. This is also our going back. Jordan, Jericho, and Bethel. These are years of death. These are years. And they were hard years for me. I don't know about for you. Maybe your life was nothing but a bed of roses and peaches, but my life was hard. Every devil seemed to come out. We made a lot of bad decisions. We bought Oasis and that. That was a bad decision. We bought the plane. That was a bad decision. I tried to be a pilot. That was a bad decision. There were just a lot of things that were going on that were buffeting us against us, my son. Just a lot of things. But I want to remind you that in that first three years, which is the first three years of Hebron and the end of the Elisha timeline, we're also in a vineyard timeline, and they're years of death. Years of death don't feel good. But he said, now the fourth year is going to be a tithe year. I said, I don't really understand what that means, tithe year. I know what a tithe is, but how do you apply that? And the Lord said, what is a tithe? And I said, I don't know. I didn't know how to answer. And he said, it is my divine order for finances. When you want divine order to come into your finances, you have to follow covenant principles. And. And when you tithe and give offerings, that brings divine order into your finances. He said, it's a tithe year. They took the fruit and tithed on it. But for you, symbolically, it's a divine order year. Are you listening? And I said, how does that apply to this Elijah timeline, which we've now just stepped into in 24? He said, because Elijah repaired and built the altar which is bringing divine order. He said, so the tithe year in the vineyard parallel of 2024, which is now the fourth year of Hebron, which is the first year of the Elijah timeline of repairing and building the altar is the year of divine order, Son. This is the year of the altar. This is why all that year we were doing things. I don't know if you were listening or not. I don't know if you did things or not, but I can tell you that I did things. And I said to the Lord once, what if they don't do. What if they don't listen? What if they don't do anything that I tell them to do? What's going to happen? He said, are you doing it? I said, I am doing it. He said, then I'll bless your church. That doesn't give you a pass to just do nothing. But I'm telling you, God is not limited to you. I hate to say it because it sounds narcissistic and I don't mean it narcissistically, but God is limited to me. If I don't obey him, he has to boot me out and put somebody else in if I don't obey him. As the lead as driving the bus. The person that gets in the accident is the bus driver, not the kid in the last row. The kid in the last row could be picking his nose and crying. The bus driver is still responsible to get that bus to safety. You all may not be doing what you were supposed to be doing, or maybe you are. I'm the bus driver. I'm responsible for the safety of this vision. So he said, I want the church to get behind you. And most of them are, but don't look to them. Don't look to the left or right. Don't be discouraged because I'm judging you. You're the bus driver. You do it. And I've done it to the best of my ability. So help me God. Hand on the Bible, I've done what he's asked me to do. And I can say that with a clear conscience. In 2024, the first year of the Elijah timeline, the fourth year of the Hebron years, and the year of divine order, or the year of the tithe was the year of the altar. Are you with me still now excited? Because last night at midnight, something in the realm of the Spirit, we stepped over something. I can't explain it to you, but just we stepped over something. Because Now I'm into 2025. This is our first year. Now this year, he said, is the year of increase. This is the first year you can take the fruit of that vine and you can eat it and stuff your face. First year, you couldn't touch it before. And he said to me, this is holy stuff. You don't take this lightly. He said, now, you watch what I do for you in 25. You watch what I do for you in 25. And some stuff has already started brewing. Ever brew a cup of coffee? You had a couple drops. That doesn't mean you're going to drink the cup. But it started. It started. It always starts. For me, that's his pattern with me at my birthday, because that's our new year. Internally, that's my birthday and I'm the head of this thing, and that's when the church started. So that first weekend in October is always the new year for me. Like, if you want to look at it like that, that's our fiscal New year. But in October, my birthday, to Christmas time, to New Year's time, he usually shows me and things that are going to start. I get a taste of it. It's like he gives me an hors d' oeuvre Sandy, but he won't let me eat the steak yet. He does give me a little hors d' oeuvre because he has to wait until that clock this season. He's very particular. You can't get it on December 30th. You've got to wait until you step over into that new season of time, which we just did today. But things have already been brewing. I can. I've been seeing the percolating drops for three months. And I've watched and I've talked to my wife and I've talked to Errol and I've talked to Pastor Nancy and I've said, lord, what on earth are you doing here? And he's been talking to me and said, I'm about to bless you. I'm about to bless you. I'm about to reward you for your faithfulness. I told you, son, why don't you believe me when I tell you I. I told you that the 25 year is going to be a year of increase, and you're already starting to see it happen in the few months ahead of time. Because that's your hors d' oeuvre and you haven't even stepped into it. But you're going to start to see blessing. And if the people in your church will just believe and lay hold of it and stop questioning it with their mind and speaking against it with their mouth, but start to say in agreement, this is my year of increase. This is my Year of increase. If they'll do it, I'll start blessing them like I'm blessing you. Because they're a part of you and they're connected to you. And that blessing that's on me will come on you. Now, you've got your own blessing because all of us are the children of Abraham. But when you're committed to a man of God or a woman of God, and you've got a right heart and you're submitted that what's on them will come on you. I'm telling you, it will come on you. And I've already. I can't share it yet. When it's done, I'll announce it. But I've already started to see that coffee has been percolating for three months. And I'm already. I've already sat with Jenny and wondered and said, lord, I don't deserve this. I don't deserve what you're doing. I'm not. I'm not worthy of what you're doing. And he said to me, I'm rewarding you for your faithfulness. I said, lord, I'm not even that faithful. I mean, I might show up at church, but I don't always want to be there. I'm just like the congregation. I want to stay home and watch Bonanza sometimes. But I. But I show up. I am faithful. And he said, I'm rewarding you for that. I don't feel like I'm worthy of it. But he didn't care whether I thought I was worthy. He said, I'm rewarding you for your faithfulness. And he's already started to show me some, not all, just some little things that are happening. Then he said, now this is just private to me. This is nothing about the church. He said, son, you're turning 50 years old this year and 25. I said, yes. And he said, and what did I talk about in my word? I said, that year is a year of great celebration, and that is called the Jubilee year. He said, that is when all debts are canceled. That is when everything. That is when people go free. And he said, listen to me. I'm trying to tell you how the Holy Ghost works. And he said to me, in the summer, he said, you see those debts you're still dealing with? I said, yeah. He said, in the Jubilee year, they're gone. I said, I don't know how you're going to do that. He said, don't worry about it. I'm going to do it. Then in November, all of them disappeared. Come on. And I said, but, Lord, you missed the timing. You said, the jubilee year is 25. He said, yes, but you get an hors d' oeuvre in the taste. He canceled every debt we have. In the taste. In the taste. Now, you can take it or you can leave it. I don't really care. I'm just telling you what I know. Telling you what is working in real time, in physicality, in manifestation. We haven't seen it all, but we've started to see it. First time probably in our entire married life, because we made some investment, big mistakes years and years and years and years and years and years ago. And we've been paying that price for a long time. But for the first time in our 20, almost 25 years of married life, we are completely debt free. First time we have a savings account. I know that you might look at me and go, what? My God, you've been in debt all these years. Just shut up. You don't know what I've been through, and I don't know what you've been through. So just rejoice and don't judge me. I don't be transparent for you to judge me. I'm just being transparent because I'm saying my life led me to where I am. Your life has led you to where you are. And don't matter what mistakes you've made, because I've made a lot. I don't mean sin, I don't mean that kind of mistakes. Just bad decisions, investing in wrong things, making bad decisions, missing timings, missing on ramps, paying a price. But God said, because you're faithful, he didn't say, because you're perfect. He said, because you're faithful. I'm about to bless you. And he said, I'm going to bless you in the hors d'. Oeuvre. And the hors d' oeuvre has wiped our slate clean. And we just stepping in. I can't wait to see what happens this year. Because he said, I'm going to start. You're going to start stuffing your face, boy. And he don't mean this face, because this has to go down a little bit in this year of Jubilee. Remember, the prisoners go free, Sandy, the prisoners go free. Hallelujah. So this has to reduce just a little bit more. So I'm not stuffing my natural face, but he said, you can stuff your face symbolically, meaning I'm going to bless you. You're going to start eating of this thing now. So that vineyard is still working, and it only lists five years in the vineyard parallel. It doesn't list anymore. So I said, well, what about the sixth year? He said, stuff a little bit more. I said, what about the sixth year, seventh year, eighth year? He said, every year after you just stuff your face with that vineyard, the season of drought is over. The dead years are over. The divine order has come. The divine order, Jenny, it's come. God was waiting for that divine order. We had to get order. Now there's no more death, there's no more suffering, there's no more scrimping. Now there's eating of that vine every year. I can only tell you about me. You want to take that or leave that? That's up to you. I can only tell you for me. All right, now listen, listen. We're in the fourth year. Sit down. We're in the 1, 2, 3, 4. Now listen, there are eight years in Hebron. Seven and a half. But if you just count 28, for the sake of argument, it's eight years. Last night when I was after you had gone to sleep and the boys were out and they were on their way home about 1 o' clock in the morning, and I was just sitting there, just waiting on the Lord a little bit, and the Lord said to me, he spoke to me, he said, you're halfway through Hebron. He's never said it quite like that before. And I said, that's right, Lord. 21, 22, 23, 24. We've just finished 24 this eight years. If we just finished four, we're exactly. Today we're 50%. Well, of the eight, seven and a half. It's not exactly that, but you understand what I'm saying. The point is, he said, you're halfway through. And he said, now listen, I'm saying this, I'm not saying this to hype you, because I really honestly don't care. I want you to believe it, but I don't care if you believe it, because I believe it. And that's really all I care about is what I believe, because I'm not going to be judged on what you believe. You're going to be judged on what you believe. But he said to me the first four years were hard. He said that to me at 1 o' clock this morning. He said the first four years were hard, weren't they? I said they were hard. He said that's because it was death. Death, death and order. He said, the next four years sound are going to be easy. Now, that doesn't mean there's not devils. That doesn't mean there's not tests and trials. But he said, comparatively speaking, he said, the next four years are going to be easy because it's not longer death, death, death, order. Now it's abundance, abundance, abundance, abundance. That's what I heard in my spirit. And he said, you're starting it now. You're starting it right now, today. That was one year into the year, one hour into that new year. He said, you're starting it. He said, you're halfway through Hebron. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh, my goodness. My goodness. We're into that fifth year of the vineyard. We're into the fifth year of the seven and a half years of Hebron. And we're into the second year of the Elijah timeline, because he had to do the altar. But now he starts to pour the water. Now he starts to pour the water. And if you'd look there, just so your eyes can fall on it, in First Kings, chapter 18. Praise God. Hallelujah. I just like it so much. I'm going to back it up a little bit. Hallelujah. And it came to pass, verse 17, when Ahab saw Elijah. And Ahab said unto him, art thou he that troubles Israel? Isn't that just like the devil's people to accuse us of causing trouble? And he answered, see, you better answer, I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, and that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and hath followed Balaam. Answer the devil. Now therefore send and gather to me all Israel unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal 450 and the prophets of the Groves 400, which eat at Jezebel's table. So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel and gathered the prophets together unto Mount Carmel. But did you notice that the prophets of the groves didn't even show up? They're weak and they're afraid. But the bold ones are the BAAL guys, and they all lost their heads. So Ahab sent unto the children of Israel and gathered the prophets together unto Mount Carmel. And Elijah, verse 21, came unto all the people and said, how long will you halt between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him, and if BAAL then follow him. And the people answered not him, not a word meaning they don't know who God is. Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I, only remain a prophet of the Lord. But baal's prophets are 450 men. Let them therefore give us two bullocks, and let them choose one bullock for themselves and cut it in pieces. And Lay it on wood and put no fire under. And I will dress the other bullock and laid on wood and put no fire under. And call ye on the name of your gods. And I will call on the name of the Lord. And the God that answers by fire. And the God that answers by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, it is well spoken. Now I'll just tell you what. The Lord started dealing with me over the last 24 hours. He's been talking to me, Jenny. I haven't even told you because I wanted it to come out under the anointing. And he said, I'm the God. Actually, the way he said it was, let the God who answers by fire, let him be God. Now we know who he is. You know, Elijah's talking to the people. They don't know who he is. We know who he is. But he phrased it the same way. Let the God that answers by fire. He's emphasizing fire a lot to me. He said, let the God that answers by fire, let him be God. What he's really saying is, son, I'm gonna answer you by fire. Fire is coming. Fire like you've never seen is coming. Oh, my God. I'm telling you, you have no idea what we're in for. You have no idea what we're in for. And verse 25. And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first, for you are many, and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. And they took the bullock which was given to them, and they dressed it. And they called upon the name of BAAL from morning until the noon, saying, oh, baal, hear us. And there was no voice nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them. See, that's an anointing. That's not him being in the flesh. That's an anointing. To mock. I felt it. It's come on me a couple times. Only a couple times in 35 years of preaching. But when it comes, boy, I enjoy every second of it. And Elijah mocked them and said, cry aloud. For for he is a God, either he's talking or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey or peradventure, he sleeps and must be awake. And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets till the blood gushed out upon them. And it came to pass when midday was passed, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening. So he said up till noon, and then for another three, four, five hours, they're still going until the evening sacrifice. And there was neither voice and no answer, nor any that regarded. And Elijah said unto all the people, come near to me. See, he's bringing them into unity. And he says, and all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. That's what we've done. We're not perfect, but we've done it to God's approval. And Elijah took. Now he's building. Now he repaired. Now he's building. And he took 12 stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, israel shall be thy name. And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, he built it. What is those stones? It's the identity of Israel. Find your 12 stones, your identity, your life, and build structure something so that your life will be an altar of prayer. Then he doesn't just end with that, but then he says, now. And it says, and 32. And with the stones, he built an altar in the name of the Lord. And he made a trench about the altar as great as would contain two measures of seed. Okay, now, I didn't really know what that meant, so I looked it up in a bunch of translations, looked it up in the Hebrew, looked it up in the dictionary, looked it up in the encyclopedia. Try to get somebody to answer me, what does this mean? Because what is a measure of seed? I don't know what, that you plant a seed. It's in a little tiny row. So what is a measure of seed? Well, I found out that the way that they did this was a measure of seed by the Jewish calculation, you know, in an area like that, in a square would have to hold 144 eggs. He did it. And two measures of seed. An altar is not very big, you understand? An altar is like this. An altar is not very large. So that thing, the trough that he cut around that altar in a square had to hold 288 eggs. I don't know why they measured it that way, but that's how they measured it. And there's other ways. You could pour seed into containers and it would be a certain number of liters. It's like 17 liters or something. But the main way they did it is by eggs, for whatever reason. And so he did this thing double what a normal seed would be. I think that was important. He was. I said, Lord, what does all this mean? He said, you are the altar. You get the wood, you cut the bullock, you put it on. He said, you're the altar. But he said, you're more than just an altar. He said, you're a carrier of prayer. You're a container, that altar. The water poured on the altar, but it gathered in the trench. Do you understand? So that trench held the water and it was wide enough. It was double the normal width, so to speak, if you want to look at it like that. And it was wide enough to hold quite a bit. Some translations say he made a fairly wide trench. Other translations say he made a wide trench. But. But if you get it down to the nitty gritty, that trench would have been what would a normal row of seed. It was double that, two measures of seed. In other words, it was not cheap. That's what God is trying to say. It was not the bare minimum. That's what I'm trying to get get. That's what God was trying to get me to see. Son, he didn't just make something to just do the bare minimum. Because remember, water represents prayer. So you are a trench, you are an altar. You are carrying and holding prayer. But he said, I don't want you to do just the bare minimum in your carrying of prayer. Double it up. Do two measures, not one. Do 280 eggs, not 144. Do you understand? In other words, be generous with your time in prayer. Are you with me? That's what it means. And he put the wood in order and cut the bullock and Peter in pieces and laid him on the wood. Now, now, now, we are just starting. 2025 is the year of. He said, this is the year of prayer. This is the year of the water of prayer. This is the year of increase. This is increase. But we shouted on the increase part. But we shouldn't now not shout on the prayer part because there are two parallels. One is great sacrifice and other is great increase. Look at the duality of this year. The greatest sacrifice we'll ever make is going to happen this year in our time. But the greatest increase we've ever seen is going to happen this year in our finances. There's a duality this year. And he says now when he says this, this is now 2025. This is the year of the of prayer. See, the altar is now complete. And what did he say? Verse 33 starts 2025. Are you there? And he. Sorry, not verse 33. Where are we? Well, I guess it's all part of that it's halfway through. And laid it on the wood and said, fill four barrels with water and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood. Verse 34. And he said, do it a second time. That's eight barrels. And he said, and they did it the second time. And he said, do it the third time. And they did it the third time. And the water ran round about the altar and filled the trench also with water. These verses is the entire year. And the Lord said to me, now, take it or leave it. But I heard him say it. He said, I'm going to do this in three sections, just like you see it here. He said, for the first four months, from January to April, there's going to be phase one and there's going to be a certain level of anointing. He said, you're going to graduate if you're faithful with that, you're going to graduate to the second, which is going to be May, June, July and August. He said, if you're faithful with that, you're going to graduate to the third. And every four month season the anointing is going to ratchet up. But you don't get it if you're not faithful. So we have to start, and we're carriers of prayer. We're holding this. Hallelujah. We're getting ready for a showdown. See, part of this is, yes, we want increase, and that's individualized and personalized. And we want God to be pleased with us and we want our lives to be an alter. But I want you to know, what was the purpose that he did all this. He did all this because there's devils watching him. He did all this because there's people halting between two opinions. Are you listening to me? We are doing this. There's more than one reason we're doing this. But I want you to remember the main reason that we're praying like this is because we've got see the glory of God, or what he's been referring to me a lot on is the fire of God. We've got to see it. Why? Because there are people halting between two opinions out there, listening on the radio, going to churches, but they're halting. They don't know if the Spirit is the way to go, if the flesh is the way to go. They don't know if their pastor that teaches them that miracles are over, if that's right, or if other people that they're hearing on the television that are saying, no, we're in the time of the power of God. If that's right. They're halting between two opinions. And we've got a group that's halting, but we've got another group. They're demon possessed. Those prophets of BAAL were physical human beings totally possessed and taken over by demons. And there are real physical human beings in our society that are totally and utterly possessed of the devil. And they hate God and they hate Christianity and they hate everything to do with us. And they're in politics and they're also out of politics. They're in every sphere of life. There are two groups we are facing. That is why we're praying. That is why he poured the water, because he needs fire. And fire is going to make. It's going to make them. It's going to force people to make a decision. Power makes people make a decision. And there's a group that hate God and God has to clear them out. And there's a group that don't know what they want and God wants to draw them close. But we are dealing with two very distinct groups of people. Don't get me wrong. Now in the New Testament, unlike the Old Testament, if some of those prophets of BAAL repent, God will let them come. But in the Old Testament, they got killed. One chance, you're done. In the New Testament, these people that hate God, well, maybe they just get a little bit of touch of God and then they want God. God will let that because of his great mercy in the dispensation of the church age. But we're still dealing with people that hate God and people that don't know what they believe. And that is why we're praying, because we need power. And not just in the pulpit and in the services. You need power when you're living your life in your cubicle or driving your truck or wherever, whatever it is that you do, you're going to need another level of power in this end day before the rapture. You're going to need fire in your job, in your neighborhood. And I don't just mean for your kids because hopefully your faith is strong enough to deal with your kids. But what about the ones halting? They need a convincing. What about the ones that hate God and therefore they hate you because you love God? They need some convincing. I'm telling you, we are facing two groups of human beings. And I don't know, sometimes, Jenny, I don't always see it at the time the way that I see it after time. It's like he pulls back the veil for me and he goes, do you see this, it's like, I read it, but I can't see it. Do you understand? But in the last 24 hours, he's been talking to me and he's been saying, this is all because of two groups. If they weren't two groups, he wouldn't even be on the mountain. He wouldn't be there. But there's two groups. There's ones that hate him and there's ones that don't know what they think. And both situations need the fire. So the reason why you're pouring the water is because. Listen to me, the water is required. Why? So that they can't say the power was fake. Because if it can eat up water, it's real fire. That's their reason. But the reason we're praying is because a price has to be paid. Now, they also poured the most precious substance they had. They poured the most precious substance so that there was a price to pay for the fire. And our price is prayer for the fire. But we need that fire, and we need it so strong, we need it so unmistakable, we need it so dramatic that none of these especially BAAL people and the other people can say, you fake it. It's got to be unmistakably God. When you talk to them in the grocery store, it's got to be unmistakably, I don't know who you are. I don't know what is going on, but I feel like a presence around you. Who are you? What are you? I don't know if I like this or not. What is going on? Am I losing my mind? That is how they. It's got to be unmistakably dramatic. And that is why you pay the price. And that is why we spend this year paying a price. Because fire is needed and it's coming. I'm telling you, it's coming. He said to me this morning, and the one that answers by fire, let him be God. He knows who he is. He knows I know who he is. But he's quoting this exactly word for word because he's letting me know I'm going to answer by fire. And I am the God and the only God. And these two groups, they're gonna know it. They may reject it or they may accept it, but they're gonna know it. Listen, I can't control if they accept it. I can't control if they reject it, but I am gonna make sure that you know it's true. That's my job as a preacher, is to let them know it's true. They're going to know it's true, buddy. Oh my God, they're going to know. But you can't get that kind of fire by having 30 minute devotions. That's why he said to me, don't go and pray for that girl. She didn't even look like a human being. I've never in my life, I've been in slums before, I have never in my life seen a human being look like that. She didn't even look human. I actually walked up, I thought she was like a. You know how they carve statues and sometimes they put stuff out of metal because she wasn't moving and she's in full black and with black hair. And I thought she's a. They've carved a metal statue. But that looks so ugly. And it wasn't until I was about from here to you that I could see a little bit of her face past her and I realized she was a real human being with arms, this wound I've never seen anorexic somewhere like that. And my heart just crushed. And I'm on that landing on the second escalator and I look back and I said, lord, I can't leave her. I can't leave her like that. I can't leave her. She got no hope. I've got an answer. And I heard the Holy Ghost say, don't go up there. I said, but Lord, why? He said, just because there's a need doesn't mean it's your job to answer. I said, I'm asking you to let me. He said, you're not ready. I said, what do you mean I'm not ready? I've done greater than that in years past. He said, yeah, and I gave that to you on credit. He said, you haven't paid that price. Said, you want to clear a card, go give her a card. But you don't do a public scene right now and then, I don't know why, because some people will scream murder. They'll scream that you touch them and before you know it you're arrested with a lawsuit. So you better know what you're doing if you're going to do something in public. But I just heard him say, you're not ready. You haven't paid that price. I said, what is that price? He said, you're paying it this year. There's a price to pay. Dad Hagin, Norville Hayes driving in the car. The quadriplegic is passing them in the walkway. And he said, dad Hagin. He said, dad. Brother Haig said, brother Hagin, he didn't call him daddy. He said, brother Hagin, is there any hope for that man? And Brother Hagin said, yes, that man can be healed if someone is willing to pay the price. Healing is free. But to position yourself for that kind of power, you have to pay a price to position. It's not your paying for the power. It's that the power is not going to move. It's going to flow out of this spout and you've got to get under that spout and it pays a price to get you there. That's how you have to look at it and see. Dad Hagin said, somebody has to pay the price. If they will, power will show up, fire will show up. Somebody has to pray. The price is prayer. If you do, fire will come. The Lord said, you're not always, I'm not always going to tell you not to do it. I'm walking to the car, Dan. I'm sitting in that car trying to get out of that Yorkdale parking lot, which is a nightmare in and of itself. And he's talking to me while I'm sitting there. And he said, I'm not always going to tell you no. He said, but you haven't paid the price yet. But he, and then he started talking to me about fire. He said, fire is coming. He said, when the fire is on you, I'll tell you, go up and do all that is in your heart and I'll climb that escalator on hands and feet like Jonathan, and I'll take that sword of the spirit and that name of the Lord Jesus Christ and I'll look at those precious people that are bound by demon power. And I'll say, if you let me, give me permission, if you let me lay my hand and I'll record it while I'm saying it so that they can't say that I violated their civil rights. I'll record it and I'll say, will you let me pray for you? I'll cast that devil out of you right now. As sure as I stand here now, it will leave you and you'll be normal within 10 seconds. And that fire will drive that thing out. But you got to know that there's fire. If you're going to do that in the grocery store, if you're going to do that in your workplace and risk getting fired for it, if you're going to do that, you, you better know that you've got something more than a 30 minute devotional. And this is what God's looking for. He's Looking for not just preachers, but believers. Believers, regular laity believers that have fire on them. Can you imagine if all this congregation went out and there were fireworks, works of fire. You do the works of God and there's fire attached to those works. Can you imagine there were fireworks popping all over this city because promise of lifers went out and did the works of Jesus with fire. Not just with a devotional, but with fire. Could you imagine how that. What impact that would have? I'm not just trying to. Emotionally, I'm not just trying to be emotional. I'm trying to tell you this is what he's been talking to me about. And notice he didn't say nothing during that first half. It's almost like we had to get the halfway mark, like we had to get over all that death and all that hardship and all that. All that dead years and all that hardship and to get divine order and pay the price in that regard. Now we're poised, Jenny. Now we're ready. We're at the threshold. Now it's the year of increase. Now things are going to get easier, but yet a heavier price than we've ever paid because we need fire. Whoa. I don't know if you can feel it, but I'm telling you, we need fire. My God. My God. My God. And the water ran about the trench, the altar, and filled the trench also with water. Verse 36. And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that Elijah the prophet came near. And he said, lord God of Abraham, this is 2026, Isaac and Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. And I'm telling you, we're doing this at his word. Hear me, O Lord. Hear me that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou has turned their heart back again. Do you know the last verse of Malachi? In fact, the last verse of the entire Old Testament. Do you want me to read it to you? I'd get faster on my phone trying to find these papers. It's so hard. The last verse of Malachi. I'm almost finished. Malachi, chapter four and verse five and six. You know what it says? Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet. He's already dead, but he's talking symbolically of John the Baptist before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth of the curse. What did the anointing of Elijah? Listen to me. This is what he spoke to me this morning, Jenny. He said, what? Now, he's already talked to me about some other things, but this is the key. Now listen closely and I'll say it quickly. He said, what did the anointing of Elijah accomplish? Remember, the whole point of this was not about the fire. The whole point of this was about the people, the two groups. God is trying to get their hearts. The anointing of Elijah. Notice what Elijah said in what I just read you. What was that? Second Kings 18. What's the scripture, brother? 37. First Kings 18:37. Hear me, O Lord, hear me that this people may know that thou art the Lord God and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Now, he just said, john the Baptist is coming in that same anointing of Elijah. Why? Because Elijah turned hearts. Now John the Baptist is coming in that same power. Now, as I preached in Pastor Nancy's service in January a year ago now in her Holy Ghost meetings, as I preached, the Lord said to me, the spirit and power of Elijah. And if you listen, I should. I can't get into all of it again. I even played a clip with dad Hagin saying it out of his own mouth. But I told you, Elijah, that anointing came on John. That anointing prepared the way for the first coming. Now that anointing has come on dad Hagin, he is John. Jesus appeared and told him that. That he has that second coming anointing. John had the first coming anointing. And dad Hagin was not limited to human being like it was in the Old Testament of John. In the New Testament. It's a whole movement of people of which we are one. Which means that we are carriers of that forerunner anointing. Because of dad Hagin. That means we're bringing in, we're ushering in the second return of Jesus. There's an anointing to bring that return. And you know, there's not just. This is a very serious thing. There is an anointing to bring that return in. There's a lot of body parts and God loves all of them. But there's only one group that are anointed to bring him back. Everybody is, in a general sense. But do you understand? He was a forerunner. He was like John the Baptist, a forerunner of the second coming of Jesus. That message that he preached is going to bring Jesus because Jesus said, when I come back, I'M looking for faith. And what did he tell dad Hagin? Teach my people faith. So he was a forerunner of the Second Coming. He's gone, but we're here. It wasn't limited to man. It's a movement that means that. That. Listen to me, that Elijah anointing is on us to bring back Jesus and to preach this message strong. But what was it? It was the spirit and the power. The spirit is the spirit of faith, the attitude and the dynamics of faith. And it's the power, the anointing, to produce miracles. So in a general sense, those that are following this message, word and spirit, we are under that anointing of Elijah. But now I'm talking a very specific sense. I'm not just talking about what applies to all these other churches that are following this message. I'm talking specifically now to this church. I'm narrowing the focus because it does apply to all. But I'm telling you something specifically now, and I don't mean to. I'm not trying to hype it up. I'm telling you. I heard him say. And he couldn't say it until this year had dawned. But he said it this morning, in the early hours of the morning before I went to sleep. He said, look now and see the two people, the two groups of people. You're focusing on the fire. But the fire came because of the people. I love the people. It's not the fire. It's the people. Now, what did that anointing do? Look what he said. Lord, hear me. That they would know you've turned their hearts back. The fire caused hearts. The anointing of Elijah, Malachi four turns hearts. John the Baptist had that anointing. And what did he do? Turned hearts. Repent. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. What are we doing? We are preaching with fire. But it's to turn hearts. The focus is not only the fire. The focus is the two groups of people. There are ones that hate them and there are ones that are not sure what they believe. But God needs fire to turn hearts. And Jenny, I haven't seen it quite like that. But this morning while you were sleeping, he said to me, this fire, you're focusing a lot on the fire, and rightfully so. But the fire is there to turn hearts. I'm looking for people. It's not just about the fire. The fire is the power of God. But that's. God's got lots of power. He's not that impressed with the fire, although we are impressed. But he's not impressed with his own fire. What he wants is hearts, people's hearts. Now he said, I told your wife, clear the path for him. Clear the path for him in prayer. Clear the path. Get your machete and cut away all this stuff that hinders your husband from getting in. And she walks with her brother and they, and they walk those, those trails and they pray and they intercede and they groan and they cry and they fast and they do what they need to do. And why? Because this is the year of paying the price in prayer. And I'm stepping in and they've already cleared a certain path for me. And I'm going to walk in that why that is absolute, absolutely critical. That is the water, the trench is going to be filled this year. Because I'm telling you in 2026, that is when he says, hear me, O God, look at what we have prepared. Now turn their hearts. And the next verse says, and the fire fell. Did you see that? Did you see what the next verse says? The next verse says, and the fire, look at the verse 38 turn that they would know that you have turned their heart back again. And then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, the wood, the stones, the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And all the people saw it and they fell on their faces and said, the Lord, he is God. The Lord, he is God. And then he takes the prophets and he slaughters them. Because that was Old Testament judgment. But the point is, hearts were turned. Fire causes hearts to turn. Let us not be so impressed with the anointing and the power that we forget what's purpose. The anointing's purpose is to remove yokes and destroy burdens on the lives of people. The reason for the fire is to turn hearts. And we don't just have it because we follow this message of faith like all the other churches have it. We have it in a much more specific area. Because God has spoken this to my heart for this church individually and specifically. This is not just for the body, what I'm saying. It's for this church in general, the whole body that follow that faith message, have that spirit and power of Elijah. But God is talking to me about our very specific work, our church under my leadership. And he said to me, if you will pray, if you will pray, I will pour the fire. He said to my wife, clear the path so that he can step in. And then next year I will pour fire upon him. And this is before I'd ever said a word to her about this. She Got that by the spirit. It wasn't her being nurtured by me or influenced by me. God said it to you. We hadn't even talked about any of that, had we? And he said, I'm going to pour fire out upon him now. He pours out on me. To imagine he's going to pour fire out on you. The more you pray, the more fire you're going to get. The less you pray, the less fire you're going to get. The more fire, the more hearts are turned. And he started. I'm telling you, I saw a flash. I can't explain to you, but I saw a flash, flash in the spirit. And I saw like a different anointing coming on me as I was preaching on the radio, as I was preaching overseas, as I was preaching in this church, as I was preaching at other conferences, like a different anointing come. And I said, lord, he said, that's fire, what you're seeing. I was like a different person. I can't explain it. There was like a different anointing that came on me. That's the fire of God. That's the fire of God. And that anointing, that anointing, when people hear that preaching, it's going to turn hearts. If they hate Jesus, it's going to turn them. If they just don't know what they believe, it's going to turn them. Not all of them, because not all of them want it, but some of them that deep in their heart, they're looking for truth. Some aren't looking for truth. Some that don't even hate him, they're not looking for truth. Others that hate him, they're actually looking. They just don't understand where the truth is. And they're blaming Jesus for their problems, but they actually want to find truth. Like Anne Rice, the author of all the horror and the vampire novels and all that stuff and all the witches. But in her heart, she was looking for truth. She was just trying to find it through witchcraft and occult. But when she found Jesus, Anton lavey, who wrote the Satanic Bible, on his deathbed, an angel appeared to him and he found Jesus. These are people like the BAAL men, but their hearts looked for something. They just didn't know where to look. Look how much damage they did. The fire is to turn hearts. Prayer is required for the fire. We start it now, we're going to increase this year, but we're also going to pay a heavy price. And it's a joyful price. It's not a bad price because I'M filling my trench with water. Whether you do it or not, I'm filling my trench with water. I'm going to do it in three different sections over four, four, four months. That anointing is going to go up every time. And by the time this time comes next year, my trench is going to be full. So help me God, my trench will be full and I'll be ready because I don't know, I can't explain everything to you, but I just know what he said. He said, I'm pouring fire. And he said, don't. He wants me to be impressed with the fire, but he wants to remind me, you're so awed by fire, but remember the fire's purpose, son. The fire is not for you to go, oh, wow, look at that fire. The fire is to say, oh, look at those hearts, they turn. We're going to see. I don't know, I believe we're going to get to the 500 this year. Because he said, I expect you to have 500. So my faith is out there for that. But we need a lot more than 500. We just can't fit him in this building. But we need a lot more. But he said, I'm going to start turning hearts. Now. When he starts turning hearts, hearts will start filling the seats. See, we're going to grow this church not by advertising or natural means. We're going to grow it by the anointing. Because God's going to send people, the hearts are going to be touched, the hearts are going to be turned. But you need fire to turn them. And in order to have fire, you got to have prayer. In order to have fire, you got to have water. See the beautiful opposite symbolisms of God. You got to have water to have fire. You got to have prayer to have power. And we are set now. Now 25, the year of the water of prayer. 26, the year of fire. 27, the year of the mountaintop intercession. Because he goes right up, he puts his head between his knees and he begins to have deep intercession. The Lord said, what you're doing this year is going to get you ready because you can't step into that anointing without getting into this baser line of anointing for prayer. He told me, Jenny, the name of it. He said, it's called the mountaintop of intercession. He said it to me at one o' clock this morning. He said, you're in the year of the water of prayer prayer. Then it will be the year of fire. Then it will be the year of the mountaintop of intercession, and then it will be the year of divine acceleration. That is when he ran ahead of the chariot and he entered into Samaria. And that year is 28. And that year, Sonia, that year is the end of our Hebron. And where did he run? He ran to Samaria. What is Samaria? Representative of the Bible, sin and the world. What did David do? He's in Hebron seven and a half years. When it ended, where did he go? Jerusalem. Before he went to Jerusalem, it was all internal. You never saw the Philistines attack him. Everything, all the trouble he faced was internal. All the different people that are against him and Joab and this and that, and all this stuff, Saul's son and every, all that stuff, all of that got settled. Because when he stepped into Jerusalem, immediately there was international pressure. All the other nations started to attack him and he became an international ministry as opposed to a domestic ministry. All that, see, Jerusalem is for the world. Samaria, under the other parallel represents sin. That's where Jezebel lived. That's where Ahab lived. That's where sin lived in Samaria. And where did Elijah run when he was accelerated? He ran right smack dab into sin. He didn't sin, but he went to where sin lived. And this is what's going to happen. We're going to end this season of Hebron. And it's all of this, I've been saying, is our prep season because Jerusalem is where we're headed. Jerusalem is where we're trying to get to. And in Jerusalem, this ministry is going to go global. I know we're a little bit now, we're just testing the waters with a few little international dinky things. But in 28, you watch, this thing's going to go. And I know it, I don't know exactly the timing, but the Lord said television is required to go global. And he said, you're going to go global because I told you, Jerusalem is the world. Samaria is the world. And 28 begins the season of the world. He said that television is required. So, Joey, we got to start. We got to start laying hold, brother. We're going to start laying hold because it's going to take a miracle to get us on, and it's going to take a heck of a lot of money. But God has the supply. And he has the supply for this building because hearts are going to start being. He is a supply to get that into that next building and to get us on television. Because God Needs a voice in this godless nation. He needs a voice. Not telling you about stupid little prayers. How did Joe Siegel say it? Bedtime prayers versus end time prayers. That's all we've got on Christian television is a bunch of bedtime nonsense. There is no fire. There is no casting out devils. There is no bold voice. And God needs boldness to talk to people because he's trying to turn hearts. He's not trying to offend people, he's trying to turn people. But it takes fire. And there has to be a global platform for that voice because Pastor Nancy has said six times. The voice, the voice, the voice, the voice, the voice. For Canada, for the world. For Canada, for the world. I'm not reaching Canada by Joy Radio, but I have to be faithful and little so I can be made rude over much. I need television to reach Canada and there's going to be fire and we're going to get into another building and we're going to touch the world. Hallelujah. I don't know what happens after 2028, but I also didn't know what was going to happen after 2020. But he showed me. I don't know what's happening after 28. I just know we start Jerusalem. We start Jerusalem. Praise God. I'm telling you, we start Jerusalem years and it's going to lead us into the Rapture. I don't know how long it's going to take Jesus to come. I have my personal opinions and I could be wrong. All my friends think I'm wrong. I hope he does it just so I can rub it in their face for eternity. But I have my personal opinions of when he's coming. You want to know when he's coming? In my personal opinion? 2034. And you know why? Even though Joe Myers says this and Joe Myers says that and he's the professional, not me. But he told Dr. Sumrall, from the time that Noah built the ark, it was a hundred years of him preaching until I came. He said, I will always give the generation that is about to face judgment 100 years. That's what he told Sumrall. Sumrall said, when does the hundred years start? God didn't answer. But I believe I know. And I know I'm nobody, but I believe I know. Because Jesus appeared to dad Hagin's mother on the way to Aunt Mary's house and there was no trees in that yard, but the wind coming through the leaves sounded like wind through the trees. And she looked up and Jesus descended upon a white Cloud with her eyes open. And he said, I won't say everything. He said, you can listen. Dad Hagin talks about it in the 2002 summer camp meeting. He talks about it out loud, publicly. God told him to say it. And he said, name him John, for he shall be a forerunner to my second coming. And she didn't. I mean, I don't understand that, but she didn't. And then when Jesus appeared, when he took him up to heaven on September 2, 1950, in the Rockwell vision, he said it wasn't that important that your name was John, even though I told her to name you, because you are John the Baptist in the flesh. But it's important that you minister in the power of the spirit. In other words, your message and the anointing is what matters more than your name. Are you listening to me? I believe that Kenneth Hagin's start of ministry as the forerunner of the second coming of Jesus marks the hundred year period because he so told sumrall. And if you look at it in the Bible, he always gives those about to be judged a hundred years. I believe that when he started preaching as the forerunner, even though he didn't know he was the forerunner at that point, I believe that Mark the clock started and you can listen. I've searched and searched and searched. And finally in that 2002 camp meeting, he says it three times. He said, I started preaching on August. I think. I don't have it in my notes. I think it was August 14th or whatever it was, but it's in August 1934. And then he says when he said that, and that was 2002. And he said, and this is our X anniversary. And I made sure the math lined up and it was 1934 in August. Now, that doesn't mean that Jesus will come in 2034. Jesus could come in 2030 or 2028 or 2048. I don't know. I'm just saying it's an interesting thought. Don't ever try to be dogmatic on dates. You'll get into error. I'm not dogmatic. I play with my friends a lot because I like to stir them up. Then I act like I'm dogmatic and then they get all in the flesh on me. You shouldn't do that, Pastor Greg. I just like to play games with him, but in my heart, I'm not dogmatic. I just think it's interesting that a hundred years from the time the forerunner not was born. Do you understand? But he started preaching. Remember, Noah had to preach. Noah wasn't born. Noah was born 600 years earlier, 500 years earlier. He had to start preaching for 100 years. And dad Hagin started preaching in August 1934. I think it's going to be 2034 because of God's honor for that prophet. But every other minister disagrees with me, so I'm probably wrong. Just be ready. He's not coming this year, I can promise you that. And he's not coming next year. He's not coming till I'm out of Hebron. I'll just tell you that right now. He's not coming. He's not ready. We haven't seen the fruit of the earth. You know why? Fire has to show up. Hearts have to be turned. I mean, a massive revival. A massive. And there's going to be an even greater revival after we're gone. Because they're all going to think, oh, my God, everything these crazy people said happened, oh, my God, is there an Antichrist coming? There's going to be a greater revival after we go than before we go. But there has to be a great revival because Dr. Smigglesworth prophesied it and Sumral prophesied it and William Branham prophesied it and Dr. Dufresne prophesied it, and all of them prophesied that there will be a great revival just before the Rapture. What's that going to take? Fire. It takes fire to turn hearts. We're going to be positioned in our Jerusalem years, in our Jerusalem building, and we're going to have fire on us. And we're going to be preaching. And you're going to be out in the streets and you're going to be in the neighborhoods and you're going to be preaching. And I'm going to. We're going to have some of you come up and share testimonies, and there's going to be fireworks every Sunday, I'm telling you. And people's hearts are going to be turned. Some will hate, some will love, but they're going to have to make a decision. And then Jesus is going to say, come up hither. And I'm going to say, I'm out of here. This is not a fairy tale. This is actually going to happen. I know it sounds so good. Like this is too good to be true. It's actually going to happen. So you can work out if you want, and you should try to work out, but don't really matter because in a twinkling of an eye, you're going to have the perfect body. Forget About Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig or anything else in the twinkling of an eye. You're going to have the perfect body and you're going to. You're going to float up there. Not instant. We're not going to be up there. Instant. They were going to float. The Greek word says we're going to float. We're not going to. Instantly, we're perfect. I can't wait. But we're going to float. They're going to see us. They're going to see us while they drive their cars. We're going to wave to them. Well, I'm not going to be looking at those fools. I'm looking for him. I'm going to hug him so hard. I'm going to love that horse of mine. I've already got a name picked out. Praise God. I'm telling you. And I'm going to push Benny Hinn off his horse because I'm going to be at the front of the line when I see the Antichrist. His skin will melt on his face. At the very. Look at Jesus's face. His skin will melt. Oh, I can't wait to see that. I know it sounds vulgar and I don't care. He's going to melt in front of us. The hater of God, the one possessed of Satan himself is going to. I'm telling you, you have no idea how much excitement is ahead of us. We're going to have a street called Promise of Life. I'm going to have the biggest mansion on it. You can't be jealous. There's other planets that we're going to explore. What's that guy that Pastor Nancy likes? The one that wrote the book? The one that she said is the only one that she says, Richard Sigmund, you should read that book. One of the only ones that we talk about publicly. He saw other planets and the angel said, you can't go there. That's for. That's reserved for the next age. Wow. There are other planets. There are life on other planets. It's just not what they say. They don't have weird goblin ears and strange things. I gotta quit. I could go all night on this. Because I'm telling. Oh, Jesus, Heavenly Father, I thank you for tonight. I thank you, Lord. I went longer than planned, but it was important to let them know this is not a game. This is not a joke. I'm not making this up. From before we even started this church in Peru. You had our number and we have been faithful for 16 years before the mantle came. And now we're beginning our fifth year after the mantle has come, and we will continue running full steam because we're going to do what this year is about. Going to pay the price. We're going to increase, but we're going to pray. And fire is coming to turn hearts. To turn hearts. Oh, Jesus, I thank you. It feels good to hear myself say it again. It feels good to say it under the anointing again. It feels good to let the people know that they're part of something bigger than themselves, that this is not just me shooting in the dark, trying to come up with a catchy slogan that rhymes with Lord. I'm not looking for a slogan for the new year. Like this is the year of jive in 2025, Father. That's what people do. And it's a bunch of nonsense. It means nothing. But I'm saying something that doesn't rhyme, but I'm saying something that you spoke to me. This is the year of prayer. This is the year of the water of prayer, the price of prayer. And this is the year of the vineyard in increase. And we will see it come to pass. Now, Father, we dedicate our hearts. We lift up our hands to you. And right now, from the bottom of my heart, with all of my heart, I yield my vessel to you. I commit my life again to you. I offer myself upon this altar. My life is that altar. But now I douse myself. I'm a carrier and a holder of prayer. I douse myself with that water I seek after it, I pour after it. I run after it all year, all year, all 12 months, in sections of four. I give myself to this, Father. I say it publicly. I say it on record before the holy angels, before the devils of hell, and before you, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I say to you, I will do this with all my heart. I will do this. I'm your man and this is your church. I know you have many, but we are one and we are not to be overlooked. We will do what you have said. We covenant ourselves for this year, and we will yield to the increase, and we will yield to the price of prayer. And we will become wet with prayer by the time this year is done, ready for the fire of heaven to fall. So, Father, I thank you. Let this inspire them. If at any point in this year they get discouraged, let them go back to this Wednesday night. Let them listen to this message again. Let it become real to them. Let it be like fire in their bones. Thank you for calling us and counting us worthy. I don't feel like we're worthy, but I'm so grateful that you picked us for that mantle. Thank you, thank you, thank you. In Jesus name, thank you. I give you praise and I give you honor. And we are ready Now, Lord, for 2025. In Jesus name.