Caitlin (2:40)

My name is Caitlin, and I have had severe hearing loss since I was 5 years old. I am almost 42 years old, and I came into this week to serve on altar and to bless others. And I had no intention of trying to receive for myself. But I felt the Lord start to stir in me that what I never thought was possible was within my grasp on Tuesday night. And every night that I've come since, I've just been reaching for the hem of his garment, believing in faith that the impossible for me, which is complete restoration of my hearing, could happen. And I sat in service tonight, and Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth was like, lift your hands all over this place.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (3:25)

Place.

Caitlin (3:26)

And the whole message was about faith and about just believing what the Lord can do and the power of his word and the power of our belief partnering with him. And I just felt hot all over. And I just felt the Lord's presence come upon me. And I just believed that he could heal me, that he wanted to heal me, that he wanted to reward the love that I had for him in my heart. And it was such a beautiful, intimate moment with me and the Lord. And I pulled out my hearing aids, and I could hear every single word of everything that Pastor Jonathan was saying. Everybody whispering around me, sounds that I have never heard my whole life. I was able to hear clearly. And I just am so thankful for the Lord and His power and the complete, the healing and restoration. And I can't wait to share this with others.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (4:24)

We are raising up a family in this church. We're raising up a family in Pittsburgh.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (4:31)

We're raising up a family in Texas

Church Member or Co-Pastor (4:35)

that don't just know about God, they know God. They've handled his power. They've seen his power flow through them. You're coming out of here today carrying fresh fire, fresh, fresh anointing never to take another backward step.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (4:53)

We know there's demons in this area. How many? You know there's not demons ordered to

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go with you wherever you go, but

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (4:58)

there sure are angels ordered to go

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with you wherever you go.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (5:01)

I tell you in the name of Jesus, things are turning around for your

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good beginning right now. The problems you came in here with will not go home with you. God is going to vindicate you. God's going to vindicate his word. God is going to show you that he's not a man, that he should lie.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (5:18)

If you believe it, shout Amen. Like thunder. Four Bible facts. Every believer, every successful believer must know, believe and confess. Ephesians 4. 22, 24Amplified classic. Strip yourselves of your former nature. That's a command to you, not to God. You can't ask God to do what he told you to do. Lord, save California. He told you to do that. Get a stadium, preach the gospel and win people to Christ and it'll empower you to do it. So people try to substitute prayer for the action that God told them to take that ye put off. Strip yourselves of your former nature. Put off and discard your old unrenewed self which characterized your previous manner of life. It would say, my previous manner of life. Man, I really want to get through this, but I'm not doing good. And I would say the vast majority of churches teach you basically to try to live the Christian life in your old nature. I know we all sin every day. How many know we're all sinners? Yeah, why don't you just. You're the way you talk, you're gonna end up in hell. We're all sinners. Then they ask the church how many of you battle sin? And every hand goes up because you tell them to confess it all the time. The Bible tells you to put off your old self. I'll be honest with you. I battle anger. Quit battling it. Quit confessing that I was reading a study on the way here to church when Abraham was weaving in and out of traffic. And there was a study in the book Atomic Habits. Check this out. That there were two groups trying to quit smoking. Every time they were offered a cigarette. The one group was instructed to say, no, I'm trying to quit. And the other group was instructed to say, I'm not a smoker. The group that said I'm not a smoker had an 80% quit rate. And the group that said I'm trying to quit had a 40% quit rate. It doubled. When people quit identifying as a smoker trying to quit and began to say I don't smoke. Well, all they're doing is learning what the Bible could have told you 2,000 years ago. Death and life is in the power of the tongue. And you have until you identify yourself as the things the Bible says you are, you can have every preacher and their wife on Daystar and TBN pray for you till you have a hand shaped bald spot on your head. Nothing's going to change until something changes in you. People can impart. People can, I'm losing something right now. By the Holy Ghost to give You a boost.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (7:56)

But when you leave here, you have

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (7:58)

to do what the Bible. And isn't it interesting that Paul is writing to the church and he didn't say, now listen, I'm an apostle that's been to heaven, and whether I was entering the body or not, I don't know. And I just want you all to know I'm praying for you that God's going to send it. No, he's giving them instructions that you have to constantly refuse to try to go forward carrying the new nature. Ephesians 4. 22. Strip yourselves. Thankfully, there's more to the sentence of your former nature. Put off and discard your old unrenewed self, which characterized your previous manner of life. Which means you had an old way you live then. Now you have a new way you live and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion. 23 and be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind, having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude. That's what's happening to your brain right now. The word of God does so many things. It brings healing to the body and it washes and renews the mind. You start looking at yourself like how God said you are. This is an act. This sounds like a pretend story for preachers to tell, but it's actually a real story. A shepherd in Kenya, there was a lion cub that got separated from his pride, and so he raised it with the sheep. And every time a lion or another predator against sheep came, he would run with the sheep. And then he said, I read this in South Africa and verified it after because it sounded like fake, but it's real. Then one day that shepherd said he noticed the lion drinking in the water and it was still and he saw his reflection, which I can relate to that because we have that dog, Christopher. My daughter named it. Every time it gets lost, it sounds like I'm a gay guy in a domestic partnership. Christopher. Christopher, you come back here. I love you. Christopher. My neighbor's like, I think that preacher's gay. And he won't respond to Chris or anything, just Christopher. I saw one time. We have a full length mirror in our entryway. I saw one time him stop in front of it and go. I think he thought he was like us, Son of a gun, I don't even have any pants on. So he said the lion was looking at the lion that had grown up, was looking in the water and stopped. And the next time a predator came, when all the other sheep ran, the lion stepped forward and roared. There is a sheep part Of Christianity. Nothing wrong with it. We are the sheep of his pasture. I'm not barking at God yet. I don't pray like that. Oh, God, I tell you right now, he's my father. I'm a sheep. He's my shepherd. But then when it comes, there's the lion part of Christianity, too. Jesus is the lamb that was slain, but he's also the lion of the tribe of Judah. There's a time to be a sheep. I don't go into lion mode at home. I'm sheepish with my wife. I'm sheepish with my daughter. God corrected me on that one time. I got out of a meeting, I cast the devil out of a girl. And I went home and I was still in that mode. And I said to Adas, make me some coffee. I felt the Lord say, if you talk to your wife like you talk to demons, you're gonna need a new wife soon. So I said, let me rephrase that. May I please have some coffee, ma'? Am? Everybody say sheep part. Everybody say lion part. Then there's a time to be for the lion part to come out. Because some people try to pray for the sick out of the sheep. Oh, God, we just come before you as Sister Nancy right now. Who has this cancer in her body? Oh, Lord, we just ask you. Oh, God. What are you asking God? He had nothing to do with the sickness. You talk to the mountain, you talk to the tumor. You tell the thing to move when you're challenged. It's time. Look how David talked to Goliath. There's no verse in 1st Samuel 17. And David said to Goliath, I think we have more things in common than we have apart. I'm sure we can work this out. No. You uncircumcised Philistine. What an awful insult to call someone. You come at me with sword and spear, but I come at you in the name of the Lord, my God, whom you've blasphemed today, I'm going to kill you. Then I'm going to cut off your head. And when I finish with that, everybody hold still. I'm coming after every one of you. Where even his own people are like, this guy's nuts. Can you say amen? There's a time to be the sheep and there's a time to be the lion. Read in the book of Acts, Paul didn't take any back talk from devils.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (12:28)

Peter didn't take any.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (12:31)

Peter's on trial for talking about Jesus and being ordered that if he talks about Jesus anymore They're going to put him to death. And when it's his time to speak, he preaches a three paragraph sermon about Jesus. No lip. See, Peter wasn't like that before he got the Holy Ghost. That's why you need the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. Because you can't try to be a lion.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (12:54)

But when the just like my dog doesn't try to be a dog and the lion wasn't trying to be a lion. The lion wasn't a sheep, he was a lion.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (13:03)

He wasn't a sheep that read books on seven keys to acting more like a lion. He just realized that there was a nature on the inside of him that

Church Member or Co-Pastor (13:10)

he didn't know he had. And let the thing out of the cage and do its work. I'm telling you, you're filled with the spirit today. The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you. And from today you're going to let that power loose and reign as a

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (13:26)

king and queen in this life. If you believe it. Can you shout amen and be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind, having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude. And put on the new nature. So you have everybody say cast off the old nature. Everybody say put on the new nature. The regenerate self created in God's image. Godlike. Man, I like this. You gotta amplify God. Godlike. Put on the new nature. The regenerate self created in God's image. Godlike. Everybody said godlike. How many know we're all sinners? Uh, is God a sinner? If he is, we're in trouble. Everybody say I'm godlike, says it right there. I don't like. You know, I don't agree. He told those people they're godlike. All I'm doing is yelling what Paul said. And Paul didn't yell it on his own. All scripture is inspired by the Holy Ghost. We know we're all sinners in hell. I'm on a fixed income.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (14:23)

You can't.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (14:24)

You can tithe and give offering your whole life. And if you. Your confession is I'm on a fixed income. Your mouth is working against your actions. Who fixed it is God limited to? God was going to bless me and then he found that I'm on Social Security and said, well, that's enough. God doesn't care what your age is. God helped widows and orphans, all kinds of people. He cares about faith. And faith is measured by your confession. Four amens. It's not measured by the amount of. What else are you measuring? It by mounted cross jewelry that you wear. Mounted pictures of Jesus with the same haircut as Joe Montana hanging in your kitchen. How do you measure your faith? Faith is measured by speech. If you will believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you shall be saved. For with the heart, man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation out of the abundance of the heart. The so you can't have a heart full of faith and a mouth full of unbelief, can you? Say amen. Put on the new nature. Everybody say cast off the old nature. Put on the new nature.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (15:41)

Hallelujah.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (15:44)

You've heard me say I was born. I had braces on my legs from a young age and I had speech therapy twice a week. Eight sounds in the Alphabet I couldn't say correctly in a 26 letter language. Not good. I never got healed by someone praying. It just left. I just saw the lion in the reflection and my legs twisted straight over time and my speech became a strength instead of a weakness. Don't look at where you are now. When you start drinking day one, you likely don't die of alcohol poisoning. You can drink 40 years before it starts messing your liver up and stuff. Then the devil, the moment you start saying it hasn't worked yet, yeah, just like you didn't die the first time you did cocaine, you start sowing seeds.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (16:38)

But it is a be not deceived,

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (16:40)

God is not mocked. Whoever sows unto the spirit will reap

Church Member or Co-Pastor (16:46)

a harvest of everlasting life under the spirit.

Kylie (16:50)

I'm Kylie and two months ago I was in a really bad car accident where quite literally almost died. I had a brain bleed, liver laceration fractured my shoulder, and I broke my neck in three spots. And I had to have a spinal fusion from C5 to C7. And so they put like metal plates and stuff in my neck to like keep it, I guess, in place. And so I haven't been able to like look down or touch my cheek to my shoulder on either side or like, I haven't had full range of motion at all really. And the doctors told me that that was something that I may never get back just because of like what they had to do. And they also told me that in the future I would be really, really prone to having to have like another surgery. I have like arthritis and stuff in my neck. I've just been believing that that's not the case because who wants that? But. And then when we came to the conference on Sunday Pastor Jonathan was like, I'm gonna lay hands on everybody. And so when he did and he laid hands on me, I, like, have never experienced anything like that. I, like, gasped really loud and then just, like, fell. And when I fell, I started moving my head around because, like, obviously that's what I was believing for, like, so hard. And so I started moving my head around and I heard it pop and I was like, that's new. And then I, like, tried to do everything that I couldn't do before, and I could. And I did not know what to do. So praise God. Cuz that was. Yeah, yeah. But I can, like, do this and this and look down and I've not been able to do that in two months or like, jump or anything. Like, my ankle is sprained and my shoulder is all messed up and I can do anything now. So.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (18:31)

Yeah, but it isn't.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (18:34)

Be not deceived.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (18:36)

God is not mocked. Whoever sows under the spirit will reap

Church Member or Co-Pastor (18:41)

a harvest of everlasting life under the Spirit.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (18:46)

It is impossible for the word of God not to work.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (18:49)

It is impossible for the word of

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (18:51)

God not to work. All the stuff I make fun of in religion. Let me say a couple good things I learned growing up. The Bi Bleach. Yes, that's the book for me. I Stand Alone on the Word of God. The Bi B. Oly. My Sunday school teacher called me during the COVID lockdowns. Hey, you're being a little wild, aren't you? Keeping your church open. I said, wasn't it you that read me the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego when I was 6? So I kind of blame you. You radicalized me. I was a normal Muslim. You made me ISIS. Don't read me stories like that when I'm 6. Don't read me about David at 17 killing Goliath. Don't read me about David when he's 15, running after a lion. That must have been one confused lion. First time it's ever seen that in his life. Took a sheep and David ran it down. Lion's like, what? Kid's off his medication. David told Saul, I catch it by the jaw and take it. Take the limb out of its mouth, and if it leaves me alone, I let it live. But if it turns on me, I grab it and club it to death. I've done this to lions, plural, and bears. See, you think the little. The little parts of your life don't matter, but God's watching. God knew that if David would take actual sheep, that Seriously. Then he could put men and women in his care and he wouldn't abuse them. Can you say amen and put on the new nature, the regenerate self created in God's image. Garlic. In true righteousness. Hallelujah. How many know? None are righteous. No, not one. Yes. Without Christ, none are righteous. No, not one. That's in the Bible. That's not written to people. In the New Covenant in Christ. There's scriptures you preach to unsaved people. When I'm in the stadium and there's 800 people that haven't. That haven't been to church, you can tell them no matter what you do, no matter how much you clean your life up, you're not righteous. All of our righteous acts without Christ are like filthy rags in the sight of God. But you do not tell believers that are in Christ that they're not righteous. Let me see. Second Corinthians. Let me finish the verse. True righteousness. Now look at that. You know, I have two verses for my introduction and then I have my sermon. I can't get out of Ephesians. Put on the new nature, the regenerate self created in God's image, Godlike, in true righteousness and true holiness. How many know? No one's holy but God. That's not true. He's the head and we are the what? Does anybody have head? A head with a different attribute than your body. He's super dumb in his head, but his body's very smart. No, all of you is dumb. Ali is smart. Ali is a good athlete. Ali is a bad athlete, though. It's said about the head is said about the body. And so we were sinners. We were outside of Christ. Let me see. Second Corinthians, 5:17, King James, and then 5:21, King James. Anybody getting anything out of this? Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a. Old things are passed away. Now, I'm going to tell you something. You can come up for prayer about stuff, but it'd be better to say thank you, Lord, that that depression was buried with Christ. Old things are passed away. I'm not trying to get them prayed. Passed away. They are passed away. And behold how many things have become new. You know how many times in 23 years you have somebody come up, the person just got saved at the altar and their friend that brought them, that's a Christian. Hey, can you pray for more? They need a lot of prayer. No, they need a better friend. What do you mean, a lot of prayer? Then I'll pray people are very dissatisfied with my deliverance prayers, even though they work super great. Be healed in Jesus name. That's it. Yeah. I command that spirit to come out in Jesus name. And they're still growling and stuff. You want to pray some more? No, I don't. If I evict a tenant from a property I own, I don't have to stay and watch them pack their stuff. They can yell and they can make

Church Member or Co-Pastor (23:10)

a lot of noise.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (23:11)

They can give me the middle finger.

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They can curse at me.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (23:13)

But they're on their way out of

Church Member or Co-Pastor (23:14)

the building and I can go have lunch. I'm not hoping things work. The Bible says it works.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (23:23)

Let me see. First Timothy 4, 8. Godliness is profitable unto all things, holding promise in the length that now is benefits. Let me see. NLT bodily exercise profiteth little. Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better. Godliness promises benefit in the life to come and in what life promising benefits when how many know we might be poor now and sick, but one day, when we get to heaven. I'm not waiting till I get to heaven. I can't pastor four churches sick. I can't pastor one church sick. I can't do anything God's called me to do with a body that's failing. Thankfully, God's not a dummy. He didn't just promise healing. He said, as your days are, so shall your strength be. If you come to this church and

Church Member or Co-Pastor (24:10)

you're looking forward to dying, you should find another church.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (24:13)

Because if you sit under this word,

Church Member or Co-Pastor (24:14)

you're going to live a long time.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (24:16)

You're going to outlive your heart doctor. You're going to outlive your kidney specialist. Because life is in his word.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (24:22)

Healing and strength is in His Word. I'm not expecting to lose my eyesight as I crest into my 50s. I'm not expecting diabetes. I'm not testing my blood hoping there's nothing. No. I have healing. I have life. I have strength. I have health. I have peace. I have joy. I have the anointing. I'm not trying to get it.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (24:43)

Jesus gave it to me. And I said this when I was here two weeks ago. If all you do is come out of today and say, jonathan said, you don't have it. Jonathan said, we don't have to be sick. I didn't write one book of the Bible. If I did, I'd have Zondervan in court or Tyndale or whoever getting some royalties. I didn't write any of it. All I do is shout it at you. Because God told Lester Sumrall when he sent him back from the Philippines to the United States, speak to the American people plain and strong because they're thick headed. So I'm taking God's advice. You got to make it extremely plain and shout it. Especially when people have had the opposite thing shouted at them for 40 and

Church Member or Co-Pastor (25:31)

50 and 60 years.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (25:35)

If I had some, I thank God for Judy Shuttlesworth, my mom, and Tiff Shuttlesworth, my dad. Because if I had normal parents, I never would have been in the ministry even if they were in the ministry. When I told my mom I feel called to be an evangelist and I have to go to speech therapy twice a week and they're recommending more and they've already told her, don't worry, there's many jobs your son can do that don't involve speaking. My mom could have very easily when I told her that. How you gonna be an evangelist when you can't even talk to your classmates? My dad could have told me that. Come on, son. I don't think, I don't know if that's going to be you, you know you were born with. I never heard my parents tell me I have developmental difficulties. Quit cursing your own kids.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (26:20)

Yeah, but you got to be real.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (26:22)

Let me tell you what's real.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (26:23)

The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. You're not lying when you quit. Quote God. You're speaking the truth. And it's a truth that carries power. Tell your son he's going to be great. Tell your daughter she's anointed. Tell your wife she's blessed and highly favored. Start talking, God talk. God's power flows on faith filled words. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (27:00)

It's the word of God. Praise God. One guy told me he's a billionaire when we outgrew our one church in Pittsburgh. He said, how are you going to get another building? He said, I've looked up how much your church takes in. He wasn't being discouraged. You know, he doesn't go to church. Just being real. I've looked up how much your church takes in. You don't have. You don't have enough money. You know what your next move is going to cost? $30 million or so. You don't have that. I said, said who? He said, do you have an account, a different account that's like not recorded somewhere? Said, nope. What you have to understand. And I said, I know this is going to sound crazy to you. You want to know how much money I Have I have the ability to call in any amount at any given time for what's required for the kingdom. He went. His response was, huh? And his wife told me as he continued to help us, he never heard somebody talk like that before. Yeah, that's not how I learned to talk in ministry. Can you help? That's a rich family. If you can go out to eat with them, they might be able to give you some money. Let me tell you something. If Juan Soto came to this church and tithed off of his $700 million contract, it keep us going for a year and a half. There is no human being that has the ability to maintain what we're doing. They're talking about it on the media in Pittsburgh. They think I'm helping drug cartels. That's how I have a jet. You think whatever you want. What my life is is an example that if you'll simply as a speech

Church Member or Co-Pastor (28:30)

impaired, crooked footed little nothing, make up your mind to believe God. God will set you on high above all the nations of the world. The heathen will see it and know that you're a people claimed by God and they'll stand in awe of you. I'll make you the head and never the T above and never beneath. Blessed in the city, blessed in the field. Blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out in Pittsburgh, in Texas. If you receive that today, clap your hands one more time. Let God know you're coming out. Let the devil know that you know today he's defeated. Hallelujah.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (29:13)

What was the scripture I asked for? I can't even remember. Wait. First Timothy 4:8, 2 Corinthians 5:17. Physical. Yeah, you can do 21. I guess you're trying to speed me up. No, it's good. 2 Corinthians 5:21. For he hath made him Christ to become sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Not the recovering addicts of God, not the recovering abuse victims. I was listening to Joe Rogan talking about with another counselor that they're starting to find in counseling studies that it's counterproductive to sit for half an hour a week and talk about the same problems. It actually regresses development. Who knew. All the psychology and counseling. Has it made mental health disappear or is there a mental health epidemic because you don't get free by sitting around thinking about wrongs that were done to you.

Church Member or Co-Pastor (30:24)

The Bible doesn't say deal with the past. The Bible doesn't say get healed of the past. It says forgetting those things that are behind you and focusing on on those things that are to come.

Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (30:58)

Foreign.

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