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The Next 4 Years | Pastor Craig Field | Sun. Jan. 25, 2026
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The Lord said on Wednesday night, if you weren't here, you need to watch Wednesday night, you need to watch it. Because I didn't teach my normal message, the Holy Spirit did something different. And I'm going to just quickly summarize very quickly what's been coming up. Because you come to church because you love God, you're tithing, you're serving, you're fellowshipping, you're doing all the things, but ultimately you're coming to God to hear the Word. And the Word is not always just a typical sermon like I normally preach. The Word can also be a word of the Lord, what God of speaking in these days. And that is just as important as a scriptural verse because it's the current life, it's the living word that he's giving for this moment so that people will all be in unity and flow together. And I said on Wednesday, there's something that's been bubbling up in my spirit from the beginning of the year, almost every day, literally every day. Like, and I know when God does that, he's trying to really get my attention because I wasn't really paying attention at the beginning of the month the way I probably should have been. And that's why he's kept repeating it, repeating it. And he keeps, son, it's son, you're in a new season. He keeps saying that you're in a new season. And my entering this year was very much typical of previous years. We do a year, we move into the next year. We're on the timeline with Elijah now and I know what the timeline is and it's going to be another year and that's normal. And there's nothing that exciting about that, although it's exciting. But I'm just saying it's just another progressive year. What was more exciting to me was what happened back in October and of course is now coming. Remember October to December. God always uses me in like an overlap season. It's like an hors d'. Oeuvre. But the main thing starts in January. And so it's a taste in that three months of what is going to start coming into fullness in the new year. And of course this whole thing that he's been dealing with us about this new apostles office which started in October, and about more traveling and about international and Fmigo and the fire and all that stuff. And so that's really been a lot of my focus is praying that out and planning the year. And there's so many places, my God, there's so many places to Go see arrow Peter. Where's Peter? Quickly, go. If you can do it before I end the sermon, go and get the word from Reba. Get it on the video so we can play it. Try to do that. I want people to hear what she said. Do that quickly, and then give me a signal or jump and do some calisthenics or something. So I know that you're ready to go, but this thing, you're in a new season, and I've been focusing a lot on the international, okay, in my prayer time, because this new office and stepping into this thing this year, this is the fullness of it starting in January is important. And so I've been praying a lot about that. In fact, the first search I went to was last Sunday, which was Pastor Billy Brim's church in Oklahoma, which was a tremendous honor. She was watching, and I thought, oh, God. And then, you know, she's a great lady, a great lady leader. That's what I was trying to say, anyway. But she liked it, and they were blessed. And I preached. And, you know, and the Lord said to me, he started talking to me about, this is your first major church, your first major travel within this new season that started in January because the hors d' oeuvre was the previous three months. Do you understand? And he said, this is your. And so he talked to me about some things, and it was encouraging to me, and there was a certain anointing that was strong. And he talked to me about going other places and bringing that message. In fact, he told me what to preach in every place I go. If I'm one service. He told me what to preach just for this year. And then he said, if you're in other services there, then preach other things. I lead you. So he dealt with me, even this last week about this international thing, okay? And it's because this is an important change, and you got to get behind this, because we're not just a church, we're an apostolic church. And there's a big difference between the two. So you understand, I'm saying that to say that I started the year with. That's more on my mind. But I guess the Holy Ghost felt, in whatever way he felt it, but he felt that my focus was too much on that. And he wanted my focus to come swing, not just there, but to swing back. Sometimes you get a shiny new toy. You forgot the toy you've been playing with for a while. Do you understand? And he wanted me to stop looking at the shiny new toy for a little bit. And Come back onto my favorite toy, which is called Promise of Life Church, which is called the domestic, which is called the home base, which is called right here, right now with you. And so he kept rolling up in my spirit. You're in a new season. He's not talking about the apostolic or the traveling. That's not what he's talking about. He's talking about this church. And I know when he talks about it because there's a certain sense that I get of what he's talking about. And he's been saying it every day since January 1st to me, like, strong. You're in a new season, son. Promise of Life is in a new season. Finally, after a number of days, I realized, lord, you're trying to get my attention. Maybe I'm focusing too much because it's new and it's understandable, but I may be focusing a lot on all those other things. But what about what you're actually saying to me now? And where is my main home? It's not in the other world, other countries. It's here. And he kept saying, you're in a new season. And I would say, yes, Lord, I know we're in a new season. We're in a new year. Every year is a new season. I wasn't getting it until finally he really dealt with me. And my wife was engaged and involved in all of this as well. But he really dealt with me. But I just, I kind of felt like, lord, why do you keep saying this? And then he really. It's like, it's like just a couple weeks ago, almost like the first 10 days of January. But he really dealt with me. And we did share it a little bit on the 31st, maybe a little bit on the 4th. I can't remember. It's all a blur right now. But in that period of time, he was really dealing with me. And he said this. Four years, you are on the regular timeline. Things are continuing as normal. He said, but you've entered a new season. The church Promise of Life has entered a new season. And for lack of a better way of saying it, I could see that timeline. And it's been going from 17, 20, 17, all the way to 29. Okay, so it's a 12 year timeline. But I could see, it's like he pulled out, like, it looked like a shelf almost, but it's like he pulled out the last four years and elevated it. I can't explain it other than that. It's like he pulled it out and elevated it and said this. Four years is More important than any of the other, of the other years that you've been on this timeline, this next four years is the climax. It's the lead up. It's leading up to something. And I don't even know what's happening beyond it, because he hasn't said. But I know it's something big. I believe it's the last day move of God. I believe it's going to bring the rapture of the church. We're already in the end days, and I'm telling you, we are gearing up. But it's like I could see the 12 years, but the last four, which in my mind initially were just not business as usual. But it's like he pulled out those four and lifted them up and he said, you're in a new season. You're doing the timeline. Yes, but something has changed in the spirit realm. And these four years are going to be distinct from the other years, and they're going to be named distinctly, and they're going to be years called fire and Glory. And I shared with you, I think, on the first Sunday of the year of the different four images that he gave me for each year. Hallelujah. And the first one is the fire of Elijah coming on that altar because he said, this is a year of fire. It's a year of demonstration. It's a year of manifestation. It's a year of confirmation, because miracles confirmed the Word. And he said so there's a lot that's going to happen this year. I'm not even fully sure what all of it's going to be, but I'm telling you, this is the first of four years. But he keeps it. I'm telling you this because you need to hear it from me as your pastor, that we're in a new season, that this is. This is not business as usual, even though it is business as usual, that the timeline continues and this is a year of fire. Last year was a year of prayer. The next year is going to be a year of intercession. This is the. We're continuing, but something in this, in God's view, in God's eyes, something in the spirit realm has shifted slightly for our church, not the International, for our church. And he's pulling these years out and he's elevating them because they're such important years for him. Now. I don't know if. Oh, Jesus. See, we're very disorganized today. It's good to be disorganized, honey. My God, sister, you're so sweet. I'M just going to see. I'm sorry. Everything's a little bit topsy turvy today. Because remember when I woke up, I wasn't coming. I decided not to come. And then Jesus said, no, you better go. And I said, give me one good reason. He said, you're the pastor. And so I said, okay, well, that's a very, very good reason. I just. I wasn't going to share what I'm sharing right now. That's why I'm unprepared. I have a sermon ready for you, but I don't feel the anointing to preach that sermon, and I don't preach it without the anointing. So I'm sending you Peter something here. I'm so sorry, folks, for being like this. This is not my typical way of doing things, but I just heard him say, say that now. And you need to see it visually. So when you get that into your phone, put it through the wires and all the digital devices and your haloshans and potions and all your stuff. And when you can, put it up on the screen, please, because something so cool after, he said, just wait. Just let me know when it's ready. Don't put it up till I call. And so I've been focusing on the international. Are we ready with that video? Almost. I've been focusing on the international. But then he's like. He shifted the focus not to take it away from the international, but almost like, son, don't just look at the shiny new toy. Look at your regular toy, because I'm doing a new thing with that toy. And that's when he started saying, it's a new season. And I know he's talking about the church. He's not talking about traveling. He's talking about the church. This is a continued time, but I am elevating this. The next four years are going to be like something you've never seen. And there's four images of fire. And we shared those already. Do you remember what those are? Elijah's fire. Okay. And next year, it's going to be because of that intercessory prayer. It's the burning bush where Moses came and he turned aside and he took time away from his schedule to seek God. And God dealt with him about certain things and gave him assignments. And then the cloven tongues of fire, because there's going to be a divine acceleration. And how did those disciples accelerate? With the power of the Holy Ghost. And thousands of people were getting saved almost on a daily basis. And then the last one is those four men in the fire, the fiery furnace. And it represents, yes, an increase of persecution, but more than that, that's the minor premise. The major premise is not that we don't focus on persecution because we'll be delivered from persecution. The major premise is that Jesus shows up and the fire that was intended to hurt us is actually glorifying us. And that's when the beginning of the glory is coming. Because the sinners and those that are against this will look and say, what is this? We see. We see something moving in this, and it's beyond explanation because Jesus showed up in the fire and the fire turned into glory. And that's where we get the words fire and glory. That's what he said to us. It's fire and glory. Hallelujah. And Jesus. Remember about. About, I don't know, three, four months ago, I was. I don't know where I was. It was at a. I think it was a Wednesday night or something. I don't remember what it was, Jenny, but I got in the spirit and I saw those. This is long before I even knew about those images. And I saw those four men in the fire. Do you remember that? We need to find that. Happy. Make that your assignment. Find out when I preach that I want to know the date that I. Not now. You don't have to do it now, but just. I need to know what service that was because I want to hear that again. Because I was speaking by the Holy Ghost and I saw that and I began to prophesy. This is. I'd never heard anybody in my life ever say this before, but I heard the Lord say there's been three revivals. And those three Hebrew children represent each of the former revivals. But the fourth and the last day, that Jesus told Dad Hagin in a vision, he said, it will be called the last day. Great revival. And Branham prophesied it and. And Wigglesworth prophesied it that there'd be a break from the three, and then the time would pass and then there'd be one last, final move of God. And it would be greater than all the other three. It would be all the other three put together. And I heard the Holy Ghost say, on that day, I'm coming and I am the revival. Now, he doesn't mean the rapture. He means what's leading up to the rapture. And I saw that Jesus come into the fiery furnace. And he said, this, yes, represents the fire of persecution turning into the fire of glory. But it's more than that. It Represents there's been three moves of God, but a fourth one is coming. And Jesus himself is bringing the fourth one. Why? Because the fourth one's going to usher in his return. And he said, you say what you see, you prophesy what you see. And I began to say, there's a fourth revival coming. I don't care what anybody else says. I don't care. Many of my friends, preachers don't believe in it anymore. Even word of faith people, they don't believe in it anymore. They think, oh, it's going to come after we're raptured. No, it's not going to come after we're raptured. One will come after we're raptured. Can you imagine what the world's going to be in disarray after we're gone? Yes, there's going to be a revival, but there's going to be a last day move of God for the precious fruit of the earth. And it's going to happen before Jesus. Raptures is church and that's represented. The fourth man is coming, I'm telling you. And I saw that then. And then he showed you and confirmed to me that that's 2029, because it's the edge. We're edging into something brand new. Do you understand what I'm saying? These four years are very important. God's given symbols for them. They're years of fire and glory. And it's important that we recognize what God is doing in our midst. And why do I expect you to be completely different? You're living your life, you're doing your job, you're coming to church. But what I want is your holy expectation to be increased. And I want your willingness to pray more to increase. Because for you to know that we're in a different season and still act like the normal way you've always acted, it would be dishonorable to the Lord. Not to me, but to the Lord. It's time to tell people and let God use you to evangelize as you're led. Because he needs to grow this church, because we need another building and I need your help. Do you understand? Because most of you don't evangelize to anybody. In fact, I could pick out most people in this room and you do not. When the last time you told somebody you invited them to the church and it would be to your own shame how long that's been. And you've got to like everybody. This is not just, oh, he's talking to somebody and somebody's going to listen. This is everybody, including the front row. You listening to me, front row? Because you're here for a reason. I expect you to live this, and I can't pressure you to win sows. And we don't even have the power to win sows. We just have the power to talk. We have the power to invite, we have the power to witness. We have the power to sow seed. We're not always going to reap a harvest, but we've got to start getting into that evangelistic mode. And the apostle of God, Dr. Winston, told me that three times, get your church into evangelism. They're not. He picked it up by the spirit. They're just sitting here. They're just marinating in the Word. They've got to start thinking more than just, I come to church to get the Word, but I've got to go out and I've got to tell somebody about the Word that I've received. I've got to lay hands on somebody. I've got to be bold and witness to somebody. But until you make the decision that you're actually going to do it, the words are just what I'm saying, just going to go right over your head. And you won't make any change this year. Are you with me? So we're in a new season. He keeps saying to me, we're in a new season this year, even though it's the same, it's different. And of course, I was preaching one of the sermons there last Sunday night about rejoicing. And I know that one of the words Pastor Sharon Dixon in South Africa last November told me, which I didn't know. She said, you know, the root, root word of that Hebrew word to rejoice, Which I hadn't looked. I looked at the one root, I hadn't looked at the other root. She said, it actually means in the Hebrew to spin like a top. And I thought, my God, God told me to do something scripturally. And I didn't even know it was scriptural. I mean, it's scriptural, but that exact thing, phrase on that Indian platform when he said, spin like a top, I didn't know that was a rude Hebrew word. So I preached that again last Sunday night at Pastor Chip Brim's church. And he came in the back room and he said, you know, can I tell you something? I said, yes. He said, 25 years ago, I was in Israel with my mom. She went one direction with a group, I went another direction with the group. We were in the Valley of Elah. And I was preaching about David and Goliath right there where he slew that monster. And he said, a bunch of rabbis were following us in a car uninvited. They pulled up and came out and listened to me preach. Then they came up to me afterward and said, so your hero is King David? And he goes, yes, King David is my hero. And he goes, would you like us to tell you, you talk about him rejoice and spinning and dancing before the ark when the ark came into Jerusalem, because he was preaching about that. And he said, would you like us to tell you something about that? Rejoice. And he said, yes, sirs, please. They know the Torah better than he does. And they said, there's three root words in Hebrew for rejoice. Root words, there's other family words, but root words. And they said the first one, and this is in successive progress, the first one is to brighten up. Because he said, when people are feeling low, oppressed, they're having a hard day, the first thing is their countenance. They look down, they're sad, they're stressed. You can see, you know what I'm saying? And the first thing to rejoice by faith is you change your countenance, whether you feel like it or not. You smile, you straighten your back, you put your chin out, and you brighten up. He said, that's the first word. He said you can't get to the second if you don't do the first. He said that the drive by told him the second word is to jump. And he said, because once you brightened up. And he said, then just starting to do a little jump before the Lord, he said, is an act of faith to say, I trust you even though I don't feel good. And he said, even our back in ancient days, the warriors at David's day, they would jump like that in front of the enemy as an intimidation tactic. But it's more than that. It was to say, God is with us and he is not with you, and God is with us and we're about to kill you. I mean, it was a rejoicing for war, that God was going to give them victory in that war. Well, all of us have a war at different times. And rejoicing, dancing, jumping will do something for you. But then my socks were really blessed. Blew mart off, I had a wig, I jumped, changed color, came back down. And he said, would you like to know the third root word in Hebrew about rejoice? And Pastor Chip said, absolutely, sir. And he said, it is the Spin. And he said, which we know, but, you know, Pastor Chip didn't know it back then, but they confirmed as rabbis, they said one of the three root Hebrew words is to spin like a top. And he said, why would David do that? Why is it important to God that we spin? I can understand the brightening up and the jumping, but what's with the spinning thing? Because it almost looks like you're foolish. And that's part of the act of faith, is to not care what people think about you. And David did that. He spun before the Lord. And Wigglesworth said, I dance for 10 minutes every morning when I get out of bed, he would twirl in his bedroom. That's part of the dance as a spin. And so the Hebrew, the gentleman there, the rabbi, he said something so precious and it so blessed my socks off, he said, well, he said, when you. The reason why God wants you to spin and why that's in the Bible, that's in the Torah is he said, because when you spin, you are doing a 360 degree turn. And he said, what that means symbolically in Hebrew. And what we say in our hearts to the Lord as we're doing it is, Lord, a complete cycle has been done. And what we're saying, he says, it's a brand new day. He said, when we spin, we're saying, the past is over and it's God, you have made it in my life a brand new day. In other words, one cycle is complete and a new cycle begins. And he said, that's why it's. The rabbi is saying it. That's why we dance before the Lord in the mornings more than any other time. Because we're saying today is a brand new day. David was saying, the ark has come into the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. And it is a brand new day for Israel. When you dance in the morning and say it's a brand new day, that the power of yesterday is gone, the demonic attack of yesterday is broken. Whatever mistakes you made from yesterday, his mercy is fresh. Every morning it's over, it's forgiven. And every morning you start, I'm encouraging you to do this. The first thing when you get out of your bed is just do a little twirl and say, lord, today in Christ is a brand new day. Hallelujah. I'm in a brand new day. And because he's been saying, you're in a new season, this church is in a new season. These four years are more important than the others. These four years are being elevated above the Others, these four years are critically important. They're all important. But you've reached, like, the final. You're on the final stretch of this timeline. And because you're in a new season, you're in a brand new season. So he's been dealing with me about that. But then also, this is a brand new day. So I feel like when I dance before the Lord, I'm saying it privately. This is a brand new day for me today. Whatever happened yesterday, it's over. Whatever mistakes are done, whatever demonic attacks, they're broken today. The power of God, as I dance in faith and worship the Lord and rejoice, and in the rejoicing, power flows. And as I rejoice, the power of God makes a new day for me today. But as I do it, Jenny, now I'm on a duo. There's a duality as I do it because I'm doing it personally, but I'm also doing it corporately because I'm saying, lord, you said, and I'm repeating back to you because I'm in agreement today in promise of life. It's a brand new day. It's a brand new season. And now people are picking up that season and they're praying about that season and they're evangelizing for that season, being faithful for that season. It's a brand new day. Hallelujah. It is so important. Do you have that text ready? Put it up there. This. Now, this. This blows my mind just a. This blows my mind just a little bit. I can't. But. But do you know what that is? That is the. What do you call it, Jenny? That is the. What's it called? Not the logo. It's kind of like a badge or a emblem or I guess logo maybe as well. I don't know. But this is Amy Simple McPherson's banner. And I didn't even, like, believe me, it's the last thing I'm thinking about. And the Lord showed me and my wife, really, my wife and Joey first. And then she started talking to me about it. He showed it to her and he said, there are four emblems in Amy Simple McPherson's. This was her statement of mandate and vision. And he said, and those four. And then God showed our four. And he showed her four going over top of our four. And he said, and they match perfectly. The cross is when the fire of God fell, but on Jesus, as judgment, as purification, as a confirmation of the greatest story ever told for the salvation of humanity. It's a time of fire falling. It matches the next One is, help me, Jenny, with this one. The next one, the blue one is that cup of sacrifice where Jesus said, because he was going into a consecration mode. And he said, lord, let the cup pass from me. And he said, not my will, but your will. In other words, he was accepting by a consecrated act and going through a great listen. Jesus is called the intercessor because the death on the cross was intercession between us and God. He interceded. He came to our rescue. Jesus took the cup to say, I'll accept the intercessors role and I will redeem humanity. And what is he saying to us about that second year 27? That it's going to be Moses and the fire. And why? Because Moses had to turn aside and there was a take your shoes off, Moses. It's a holy consecrated time. I'm going to give you an assignment. You don't want the assignment. I know you don't want it. You don't feel capable of doing it. Remember, he said, let somebody else do it. Not me. Let my brother do it. Not me. I can't speak. And he said, but this consecrated life that I see before me, I put on this assignment on you. And you will go and you're going to intercede and bring my people out. We turn aside to receive things in intercession and in prayer. And that's Elijah on the mountain. Can you see the parallel then the Holy Spirit. I mean, so easy to see that one as the next year, because our one is the tongues of cloven tongues is a fire. Because when the Holy Ghost came upon the church, there was acceleration. And this is all about the baptism of the Holy Ghost. I mean, you couldn't make it more perfect. And then Jesus, the king, the royal, the regal one. In other words, her words were, jesus is coming soon. But what did God show me? The fourth man in the fire. And he's coming, but before he takes his church, he's coming for a move. He's coming for revival. He's coming to turn fire into glory. And the king is coming. The fourth man is coming into the fire and the king is coming. That's what they would say, the cross, that he saved the cup, that he took the consecrated life and he accepted the assignment. The Spirit of God that anoints and energizes and accelerates and Jesus, the king is coming. And when he comes, nothing can stand before him. I mean, I know her way of preaching it is not the way we're preaching it. There are differences, obviously, but the Lord divinely By the Holy Ghost took those four symbols. He showed my wife, he saw our four symbols and he said, these matches. And then I went to the Lord and I said, lord, why would you talk to us about that? I see what you're saying. And this is not just us trying to make it match. This is. God showed it that it matched. That's why I'm saying it. Otherwise I wouldn't say it. And the Lord said to me, he said, it is. Listen to me, I'm telling you, this stuff is wild. I couldn't make it up if I wanted to. He said, I couldn't show you this before because it's for this year. It's for the beginning of these four years. Now watch. And he said, and have you noticed that the first full and official time. Let's say he said this to me. He said, the first full and official time of living in that home was in January because we went in November. But we still. We didn't even have the keys. Everything was new. We didn't know what was going on. We were trying to organize everything. I mean, it was just. It wasn't really like we just show up. It was like a move in. Do you understand? And it didn't feel like home. And it just felt like a bunch of work. Even though our staff did so much. They did so much. But it was just emotionally an upheaval for me because I'm so used to being at a hotel. And it was just like a move in week. And I even said to Jenny, this doesn't feel like home. And I thought it would. But when I walked in for the Holy Ghost meetings in January, when I walked into that house, now, see, nobody's there. We have the key. We have the alarm code. We know where everything is, and it feels settled. And when I walked in on that Thursday, we went two days early. When I walked in, there was a sense of, I'm home. And I heard the Holy Ghost say, do you feel at home? I said, lord, it feels completely different to last time in November. This feels like home. And that was the first proper week that we've ever spent in that house. Now, I'm not thinking anything about that, but I heard the Lord say one, I couldn't show you till January because the fourth, that these four years, this new thing has only starts in January. I couldn't speak it to you before that because it applies now. And he said, secondly, he said, your first full and official time at that house was in January. Now listen to me. I don't Understand, this is as bizarre to me as it is to you, maybe. But he said to me, he said, I told you before to get that house because there is something about being in proximity to Pastor Nancy, and there is something about being in proximity to the castle because you are somehow connected to her, but you're also connected to that thing on her and that thing. I gave her that house. I gave her that castle, Amy Semple's castle. Because there's something that was on Amy that's on her. And people haven't seen it yet, but they're going to see it. People haven't seen who Pastor Nancy is yet, but they're going to see it because there's an anointing that was on Amy that is coming on her. It's already on her. It just hasn't come to full expression yet. And God is. The symbolism of God is so wild. He said, I put you beside her in your life because you're connected to her, because she's under that. That anointing. And Dr. Dufresne saw that mantle come, and that mantle was Amy's mantle because she had sent Edward Pierce. Willard. Willard Pierce to go and said, go to the shores of southern Ontario, where I'm from, and bring my mantle and there'll be a move of God. And the largest revival Canada's ever seen was on Bond street of 15,000 born again people. And there's been a lull and a lag. And he said to us, this is way back years ago when Dr. Was even alive. He said, now it is time. When he saw that mantle, Lord said, now I'm using. I've looked to four different churches. It went there, it went there, it went there. Now it's on you. Doctor saw it. It was Amy's mantle. You've heard me preach, this mantle is going to produce something. And I'm not always thinking about the mantle from that perspective, but I'm telling you, I don't understand it all. But he said, I can say it in tongues. I don't know how to express it in English, but only way I know how to say it is he was trying to say to me that Castle is connected to her. And I gave it to Pastor Nancy because she's connected to her. And I put you beside Pastor Nancy in regular life, close to her, because you're connected to her and because you're connected because of that vision to Amy. And now I've put you in a house beside that castle because you're connected to this. Now I don't understand it all. I don't understand it all, but I just know that there's something about the proximity to Pastor that's very precious to God. And there's something about this Amy anointing that is on her lesser measure is on us. Because Dr. Saw the mantle on us from her and now we're beside the castle, beside Pastor. I don't understand it all, but I know that he said, don't be surprised that I'm showing you these four elements and I'm putting them on top of your elements because there's a connection to that anointing. And I can't understand it all because it's beyond me. That's why I could never make it up. But there's a connection here. There's a connection to that anointing. There's a connection to what she did. And she was from here. She was a visitor there, but she was here. This was her home. And God does not forget roots.
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And her heart was southern Ontario. That's why she sent her mantle back. And whether you realize it or not, and I know people don't like it when I say it and other people at other churches get upset with me, I don't care. I didn't ask for it. God gave it. I didn't plead for it. God gave it. And God had me coming off the shores of Africa in Evangel Temple, serving that mantle, preached my first sermon under that mantle, not even knowing about it. God sent me to Dr. Coulter to serve him. And I was in that church for years and then on staff. And that mantle was there because Dr. Dufresne prophesied and saw it come on that church. But they didn't handle it right. You have to handle things right or you'll lose them. And then little old silly Craig, nobody, a nobody, a nobody with a little building, a low roof, which I hate. Snakes and scorpions and spiders and rats and weird things. In the zoo. We shared a building with a zoo. We're the least likely candidate on the planet. We don't have money, we don't have influence, we don't have fame. We don't have nothing. But I'm hungry for a move of God and I'm staying rightly connected to my spiritual parents. And Dr. Dufresne comes and the roof disappears. And he sees the hand of God pick up the mantle and he sees it and he begins to prophesy. The whole service was a prophecy. June 28, 2010. And he said, I see the mantle. He didn't know where it was from. He just said, it's from downtown Toronto. I see the revival at the turn of the century, downtown Toronto, right behind the waterfront. I'm researching God leads me to the last pastor. The last pastor whose father was the last pastor in that revival. I sat with him for an hour, and he told me the whole story about Aimee Semple McPherson. He doesn't know anything about me or about our church or about the prophecy or about the vision. But he's telling me, and I'm sitting there as a divine appointment. And God's saying, listen. Listen closely, because this is the heritage for your church. I have chosen you not because you're better than anyone else. In fact, you're not as good as most other people. But I don't look at that. I'm not for you or for them. I'm for the plan of God. And your heart is for the plan of God. And you're staying with your spiritual parents. And that disqualifies other people because they won't stay put. They won't stay where God planted them with their parents. And he said, I've chosen you. You are not in the natural. You can't do it. But my anointing will make you do it. Now. Treat it right. Talk about it. And we've gone through all these seasons, and that mantle is here more than it's ever been, and it's growing. And just at the time where the four years is elevated and just at the time where we're in that house beside the castle of that woman and just. You think that's coincidence? It's just at that time where he says, here, the next four years, it's a different four years. And then he says, look at hers. And they match. Because there is a similarity in the realm of the spirit. And you are connected to that Amanda. On that woman, you are connected. And it will work in southern Ontario, and it will work in the world, because she was called here, but she also went to the world. None of this was planned. I'm just speaking from my heart. Hallelujah, Jenny, I'm telling you, you can't make that stuff up. God is trying to draw attention to the mantle. He's saying every year there's a symbol that matches that anointing is starting to increase. These four years are starting to accelerate. We're no longer an idol. We're making forward motion in the realm of the spirit. This is an exceptionally important time because Jesus, the fourth man, is coming. My God, I'm telling you, I hope you can sense what I'm saying. From my heart, I'm telling you. And that's why that mantle is also for the nation. It's not just for this church or a revival in this city. It's for this nation. That's why what happened this morning happened. It's because of that mantle. In fact, what you saw on me was that mantle. That's the fire. That's the beginning of the fire that he said, I'll pour fire out upon him. I'm not a faker, and I'm not an exaggerator. And if I tell you I found it hard to walk, that I didn't know if I'd make it to the pulpit because the anointing was so strong, I'm not lying to you. I don't feel it now, but I felt it then. Because that's the fire of God. And you said it. But I didn't say it out loud. But I heard him say, hold on to the pulpit. He's so practical. Because I felt, lord, I'm going to pass out. He said, hold on to the pulpit. And I said, lord, I'll hold on. And then he said, lean on the pulpit if you have to, because he knows what our frame can handle. And then he said this. You're laying hold of the horns of the altar this morning. I didn't say that out loud, but I heard it in my spirit. You're laying hold of the horns because this is an altar before God. This is an altar before God, this holy desk. You know when Dr. Dufresne preached, when his very early years, a voice came out of the pulpit. Everybody heard it. It came out of the pulpit, a male voice, and said, you will preach from this holy desk. God called the pulpit a holy desk. It's like an altar to God where we break the bread of the Word and we disseminate it. I'm serious. There's things that we don't understand, but they're holy before the Lord. And I heard him say, take hold of the horns of the altar. He means in the spirit. You're laying hold in the natural. Grab that physical thing because, boy, I'm going to do something in the next three minutes. That's something that you don't mock. That's something you don't play lightly with. That's something you pay attention to. Because you can go to almost any church in the city and you don't see God move this way. And I'm not saying that pridefully. I'm just saying Most people don't have a move of God in their church. They don't. And we're going to have one here. One way or the other, we're going to have one here because God has promised us that this thing is starting to build. I want to say something before I know I'm all over the map, but I want to say just one very quick thing because I don't want to ever talk about it again. So I'm just saying one more, one thing right now is that, okay, before I show you that brief video and then we're going to call it quits. But I just, I shared some things on Wednesday and I just want to say just a couple things right now. Very important, all of you. And if you're watching, pay attention. We're in a new season. I've just shared that it's a brand new day. Hallelujah. Internationally, it's a new day. Promise of life. It's a new day. Personally, it's a new day, Jenny. This is a new day. And you've heard what I've said and I've said so much this morning, unrehearsed and unwritten. But you probably need to listen again because there's some things you probably didn't hear as clearly as you needed to. So I would encourage you to listen to what I've said before. But I just want to say in this new season, sometimes there's a shaking. Do you understand that? I don't like shakings. They're not my preference. But there are shakings sometimes. Where church is a wonderful place, but there's a very big. It's not a negative. It's just part of the life of church. We come to church, we serve, we listen to the word, we do all these things, but we're a community. And as a community, we make friends because we don't want to be islands. We make friends, we talk to people, we become friends with people and we get close to those people and we love those people very deeply. Then all of a sudden, there's a shaking because God says it's not business as usual anymore. Boy, I'm moving and I need you and I'm taking you to another place. And then listen closely to my heart. And then the hearts of many are revealed and the hearts that were coming for a season seemingly connected. But what's really in the heart when there's a shaking and God does a shaking before a new season. Do you understand? So there's been a shaking going on in the spirit, in this church. Because this is the first month of this new season. And sometimes the hearts of people are revealed during a shaking, and sometimes they're not bad people, but sometimes they just decide that they can't go with the direction that we're going, though they should, but they can't. And so sometimes they leave. And there's been some, not many, very small percent, but there's been just a very few people that have left. But we've had phone calls, and the phone calls have been, why did Pastor Craig kick him out? So that's why I'm addressing this. Because people erroneously think that I'm here hurting people, and I'm not. So I have to address this because I don't know how that stuff. I don't know if people that have left have said it. I don't want to judge them because they probably didn't, or if people come up with these squirrely notions on their own. But if people are calling, obviously there's enough people that are concerned, so it warrants me saying it publicly. So in church, sometimes people leave, but that doesn't mean that that's your signal. It means they couldn't run with it. And there's four main reasons why people don't run with it. Some have their own vision, their own what they want to do, and they can't run with mine because they need to do theirs or they feel they need to do theirs. And I'm not stopping them. But if you're going to stay here, you got to run with my vision. You can't be on the side running with your vision. That is die vision. And it affects things in the spirit. Other times, people, they don't have their own vision, but I'm talking about a second category. They're not too hot about what I'm selecting for my vision. They don't like certain procedures or protocols. They don't like certain sermons or directions of how we're spending money or whatever. They just. They don't. They've opinionated. That's why I always tell you, don't be opinionated. You will be disqualified. They don't have their own, but they're opinionated about what I'm saying. Well, if they can't handle it, they gotta go. And yet other people, they. I'm just giving you three, four general categories. There's others, but these are the general ones. They don't want to live right. They don't want to treat their wife or husband right. They don't want to live clean. There's areas of things that are wrong in their life. And I try to rescue and talk to them and help them and preach them, but they want to live. Wrong. You say, how could anybody want that? You'd be shocked. Because their flesh is stronger than their spirit. And sometimes just the conviction of being here, they can't handle it. So then they leave. And the fourth reason, the most common reason, is offense. People just get offended. And the number one reason of offense is money. But they can get offended by lots of different things. They can get offended that we're multicultural because they're racist. They can get offended because we're too far and they live too far. They don't want to drive. But the number one reason is because of money. And so for four reasons, people sometimes leave. Are you with me? How do you respond? How do you respond? First of all, don't believe what people say without talking to me first. Because you weren't there when I counseled them. You weren't there when I tried to rescue them. And people have no idea the lengths I go to rescue people. So don't get opinionated about them. Don't get opinionated about my leadership style. Well, I think he could have handled that differently. It's none of your business, because you weren't there. Unless you're in the room, you have no right to speak. Because people don't know how far I go to rescue. They don't know how I plead. They don't know how I cry. They don't know how I wake up in the middle of the night praying and weeping for those people because I can see they're going off. So don't dare judge me. Because you don't know nothing about pastoring because you're not a pastor and you don't know that my heart is never to hurt and never to wound and never to reduce the church. It's to increase the church. So don't be opinionated about them or me. And don't, for the love of God, believe just what anybody says. Guard your heart because the place that God put you is important. Hallelujah. And you can run with the vision. Don't get offended. Don't get offended about money. Live clean. Embrace the vision that I set. And guard against your own ambition. Do you understand? Are you with me? I want to say this, too. A lot of people don't know this. If ever I kick somebody out of this church, I make a public announcement. Because for me to remove somebody from the fold means their offense is so grievous that they are a threat to the sheep. I have to make a public announcement and tell you, do not engage with this person. The Bible says, don't even eat with them. Are you listening to me? So if you don't hear me say I've kicked somebody out, then you know that I didn't kick them out. They left on their own free will. And the same thing applies on the other side of that coin. If somebody ever leaves and I'm in full agreement with them leaving, that's rare, but it does happen. I always announce that they're leaving. I lay my hands on them, and I pronounce a pastoral blessing over them as they go their way. But if you don't see me do that, it means I'm not in agreement. But I haven't kicked them out because they're not. Whatever they did was not grievous enough to hurt the sheepfold. Are you with me? And this is life. This is church. That's why I want you to get close to people. But I want you to be more close to the plan of God than you are to an individual person. Because individual people can miss it. They can change their heart, change their mind. They can change everything. But that shouldn't shake you. One person I was praying for, because they left because of offense about money. And I was praying for them. And the Lord spoke something to me. I didn't expect him to pray, speak to me, because I wasn't praying in a way for him to speak to me. I was just praying just to guard my heart. Do you understand? And the Lord said something to me that shocked me, but it was such a revelation to me. He said, when I'm dealing, he said, ask the people if they're offended about money. I said, okay. And he said, and tell them if they are, it's because I'm dealing with them about money. I'm trying to get something over to them about money, and they're offended with me. That is why when you talk about it, it convicts them. But they have to blame someone, so they blame you. I'm telling you, the presence of God walked in my room. And he said, you ask the people if they're offended about money. Because I asked him, I said, lord, should I not talk about it as much? And he said, you need to talk about it more. He thinks about it completely different to the carnal Christian. And he said, ask them if they're offended, and if they are, tell them it's because I'm dealing with them and they are resistant me. And because they're convicted now they're blaming you because they won't follow me. Do you understand that is truth, what I've just said? And listen, if you don't want to give, don't give. If you want to tithe, don't tithe. Nobody's calling you. I know churches where they call people Monday morning. Did you know that? They get a list of the people who didn't give the Sunday, and they call them and say, why didn't you give? I know pastors that do that. I'll never do that. Because that's pressure, that's manipulation. If you don't want to give, don't give. There's no reason to be offended about money. I'm trying to teach you so that your life can increase and so that the money is here to do the vision for this thing so that Jesus can come back. Are you with me? Hallelujah. So just let's get the right heart about money, because that's a very common offense. And let's love people and be friends with people, but always remember where your. Where you're planted. The plan of God. The plan of God is greater than any friendship. Hallelujah. Jennifer. We're in a new season. It's a brand new day. The most fearful moment of my life. Well, other than when I drowned. But the most fearful moment of my life was being decapitated in India, and they were about to do it. And who would have thought that the action in the most fearful moment of my life 30 years later, 27 years later, would now be a sermon? I'm preaching around the whole world and taking what the devil intended for worse. And now saying, why don't you spin like a top and rejoice before the Lord? Because in the rejoicing, power flows. And when you spin, you're telling God, the devil, the angels, the demons, and everybody else, you're telling yourself, today is a brand new day. Yesterday is gone. And I'll say one more thing. People that leave arbitrarily, they've lost a place in the spirit that they. That was precious. That's what people don't understand. People don't understand this. If a pastor leaves an office, leaves a church, Dr. Sumral always told pastors, if you do that, you'll lose a seat of authority or a place in the spirit, and you cannot get that back. And Dr. DeFrank like, pea pastors would say, well, I'll just move to this other city and start a church, because this one's not really working out. And then I'll come back. If that one doesn't work out, then I'll come back. And Dr. Some would say you're a fool if you leave that place of the Spirit. God set you, you've lost it. You can't get it back. Well, he said it's extremely difficult to get it back. It's not impossible, but it's very hard. That's why when he left the Torrance, California church, Dr. Sumrall called him and said, be careful before you go start a church in Tulsa, because if you leave that place of the Spirit in turns, you won't get it back. But God had told him, go and start the church in Tulsa. And then after Tulsa, it was Marietta. So God was okay with them leaving that seat. But many people leave too, too lightly. And it's not just for preachers. It's for people. When you're in a church, you occupy a place with me in the Spirit. You leave that for silly reasons, you lose that place and it displeases the Lord. Hallelujah. Sometimes these are hard things, but they have to be said because people need to understand. This is not a Kiwanis club. This is not a ymca. This is not just some club you join. This is a spiritual thing and we're trying to do a spiritual plan and we need you. So let's keep our eye fixed on the prize. Let's appreciate the place where God planted us, and let's protect that place above all. Hallelujah. Because we're in a brand new day. We're in a brand new day for this church. In a brand new day for the years of fire and glory. They're here, brother and sister. They're here and they're going to grow. You saw a little bit of it this morning. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We're not fighting Carney or anybody else. We're fighting demonic powers in heavenly places that are trying to destroy our nation. And we need more people getting in the spirit and saying, no, you don't. We stand, we stand, we sing it, but do we do it? We stand on guard for thee. Hallelujah. We shouldn't have to pay tax. If the government knew what we were doing to protect this nation, they would give us tax free. When David slew the enemy attacking Israel, he was tax free. I'm going to write a letter to Carnean saying, I am slaying devils that are trying to assault this nation. I expect. I don't want your daughter. I already got a nice wife. But I expect tax free status for me. And all my peeps, and you're my peeps. Now, I'm not promising he'll agree, but I'm gonna write a letter. Hallelujah. So we've talked enough about the local church and about these four years and about the aimless, simple McPherson. Praise God. But let's just, very briefly, just turn our eyes to the international. And I didn't know this would happen. No. No sense of it whatsoever. But God used Ms. Reba in front of my precious mother, who knows that call. But it was just good for the other pastors that don't know it. And God used her to say something very important. And anyway, just. Just this happened on Wednesday morning a couple weeks ago.
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Thinking about the laboratory part of this house. How that God is doing a new thing. And I know we. We say phrases like that without really realizing it's a new thing. Apostle. It's a new thing that God's doing in you. You are his laboratory right now. I love watching you evolve and grow and mature the two of you. But it's such a new thing. It's like you're living in the laboratory. I saw the Lord over the two of you and. What are those? Beakers? Is that what you call them? That you're switching from one thing to another. And the Lord was having the best time over the two of you because there was this switch going on between the two of you. But he. It was like the Lord was a chemist over. And I don't even know what all that means, but maybe you do. But I. I'm just so thrilled to be a part of something that's not stuck in the laboratory or the library so good that we can embrace both. That we, you know, even in our music. I would thinking today I want to talk to you about something. An idea I have about. About distribution for the record. What I love. We have psalms, hymns and spiritual songs here. So many places you go. It's the newfound gadget. It's the fog machines, the lights. And that's fine. Shundo, do that if that's what God told you to do. But what I love here, we'll pull out. I love it that David. David and Mr. Tony will pull out an old hymn, an ancient hymn. They'll reach back into the library, but they're not afraid to say, cindy, get up here and sing a song that we've never heard before and let it be the laboratory for a minute. That's all I got. Well, that's not quite all you got. Because what I got for you is there's some. It may be. You start with the fields. I saw you singing over people with tongues and then interpreting it. So just. Just draw. Go. Whoever draws, you start with the fields. Okay. Start with step up. Step up. Beyond your own ability into the ability of the holy one, little nightingale, you will sing. You will sing the prophetic word. You will sing like someone from another dimension. And it's going to be fun. It's going to be fun. It's going to start in your kitchen. You're going to be in that kitchen slinging pots and pans and singing. You go, where did that come from? Where did that song of the Lord come from? Where that. Did that prophetic vocal come from? In Jesus name, I release you into the fullness of pastor. I release you into the fullness, pastor. I've released you to the fullness, little songbird. Right division. Right division. Sing division. And sir, I. I hesitate to even lay my hands on you, because I know. I know when I'm in the presence of greatness. I thank you for the. The cities. I thank you for the countries that you are giving this man. I thank you for the apostolic voice he is to the church. I thank you that pastors open up and are welcoming some of those that haven't understood you, that have resented you. I declare that thing is broken in the name of Jesus. And you will be accepted not only in the beloved, you'll be accepted in the body of Christ as the voice to the nations that you are that you will establish. Get ready for the ride of your life, sir. Get ready for the ride of your life. The ride of your life. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. And there needs to be a sound that comes from your church.
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There needs to be a sound that comes from. And it starts in you. It starts in you. It starts in you. It starts in you. It starts in you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Well, that's a holy word, my little nightingale, my little songbird. That's precious. And hallelujah. And a sound coming from our church. God's gonna bring it. He's gonna bring it. I just want you to know, when God publicly confirms things. That's Reba Rambeau, Dottie Rambo's daughter, One of the most famous singers in the world in terms of Christian kind of circles. And she's more than just a singer. She stands in an office. That's why Pastor Nancy uses her like that. And she went and laid hands on a whole bunch of folks and prophesied over them. So I just want you to know, praise God. God's confirming the international, he's confirming the domestic. And at a time where he's saying, you're going to surely overtake and recover. All right, then. Then there's some folks that depart. It kind of discourages me, but he keeps reminding me, don't, don't. No mind. I said, I'm going to restore to you the 1/3 you've lost, and you're going to overtake and recover all. So just stand with me and say that. Amen. Our church is restored. We are recovering all. We are overtaking, and that we're going to do these four years in honor. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.