Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth (5:22)
We are raising up a family in this church. We're raising up a family in Pittsburgh. Raising up a family in Texas 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 anointing, never to take another backward step. Well, who came ready to receive from the Lord today? I want you. If you have your Bibles, open them to 2nd Chronicles, chapter 26. Then when you get to 2 Chronicles 26, go to 2nd Chronicles 20. On the way in, I just felt like reading this again. Great to have you back, Brother Lowe. Missed you. I looked back and saw RJ on the drums, and I thought you took a zempic, and it went bad. When did. What month did you join me here? April of 2022. August of 2022, when we started the church. So Brother Lowe's been with us since August 2022. And you are a blessing. You're anointed. You know, when you preach, you can feel the spirits of the. That the people have behind you. And some people are annoying. And I like. I like Lowe, and I like Tony. The other guys, I'm still making up my mind about, but Tony and Lowe are great, and I really appreciate you. Second Chronicles, chapter 20. So the country's in major trouble. There's three kings getting ready that had joined forces to attack them. So if you had a. I went to a school Pastor Dean would know was called John Bapst in Maine. It was the number one academic school in Maine, which meant our sports teams were terrible. So this would be like if you were going up against a great sports team and maybe you could beat them, maybe you'd get lucky and beat them. But you're not going up against one, you're going up against three. So it's 11 on 33. And they know they can't beat them. So the king decides to seek the Lord. He calls everybody into assembly to go to the temple, and they fast and pray. And the Bible says, as they're fasting and praying, a man stands up and gives a message of prophecy and tells them that the Lord's going to deliver them. This is 2nd Chronicles 20, verse 13. All the men of Judah stood before the Lord with their little ones, wives, and children. The Spirit of the Lord came upon one of the men standing there. His name was Jahaziel, son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, and son of Jeel, son of Mattniah, a Levite who was a descendant of Asaph. He said, listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem. Listen, King Jehoshaphat. This is what the Lord says. Do not be Afraid. Everybody say, do not be afraid. I want to ask you a question. Since when is the Holy Spirit worried about what the devil's doing? I'm going to tell you something for the rest of your life. I want you to remember it. Anytime you hear somebody preaching about there's things coming that we need to be prepared for, that's a thinly veiled fear. And that's not the Holy Ghost speaking. Go ahead and search through the Bible and tell me where. There's times where long messages were given by the Holy Ghost to tell people to get ready for what the devil's doing. I grew up in Pentecostal Church. I've heard probably a thousand messages in tongues and interpretation of tongues. Never heard one. Get ready. The Antichrist is coming, saith the Lord. But I've heard many. Get ready. Jesus is coming, says the Lord. God's not concerned about what the devil's doing. I mean, Jesus told you there's going to be trouble in the world. I'm not saying there's no place where God's people didn't know what was going to happen. In fact, we're going to read one right here. He says, don't be afraid. I know everything they're about to do. But the battle's not yours, it's the Lord's. Everybody say, the battle's not mine. The battle is the Lord's. You want to have three months of food in your pantry? You can do that if it's not done out of fear. There's nothing wrong with being prepared. And the Bible says God will cause your barns to overflow with grain and your vats to overflow with new wine. You don't have to play from behind. I got food in my refrigerator. We have food in the freezer. A Dallas shot an elk last. What was it, September, October, November. And we still haven't touched the meat because we're not home enough to thaw it out and cook it. I got a freezer full of meat, but I'm not making plans to have a big financial run out. And we'll live on the elk meat. You know, even. Even the stuff they tell you to get prepared for, it doesn't even make any sense. You should have a freezer full of food because the power grid could fail. Well, then so will your freezer and all the meat goes bad. So I want you to understand, when you read the Bible, even in times of national turmoil and calamity, God had a way to provide for all his children and all his people. Can you say Amen. I'm getting irritated that we saw this big victory last year at this time. If you remember, last year at this time, I stayed home for 40 days. The Lord spoke to me. Stay here. I didn't know that one of the opposition political parties would set up one block from where we were at and preach faith and it'll turn the nation in the right direction, which it did. And so we want a victory. The economy is not going in the wrong direction. Picture the economy like a big boat. I'm talking about the national economy. If it's heading in the wrong direction, it takes time to turn the boat around. But the boat is turning around. We had a victory. And I'm listening to a decent amount of full gospel people that should know better, getting people prepared, like we're about to go through year seven of the tribulation. We're not. This is not a time of defeat. This is a time of great victory. Can you say amen? And I'm not saying this off the cuff. Told everybody who could dig the message up after, after the. The new administration came in, I told everybody after giving that word on a new dawn, I then said, what should you do now that it's a new dawn? And gave, I think, 10 things that you should do. I told people what to invest in. If anybody would listen to me, they'd be up 83%, 60%, 120% on what they are right now. How can you have so much fear? See what got me started on this? The Bible says, don't be afraid. Fear is a paralyzer. You have people that are in fear. They say that the fear index is all the way on fear for investors. How? What are they afraid of? The stock market's hit 60, some record highs. There's no collapse in sight whatsoever. Everything's ripping. But if you have fear, you're going to be wearing a Trump 2024 hat, Trump 2028 hat, and you're going to be as broke as you were when Biden was in and, and Obama was in and both Bushes were in. Because it's not the president that does it. There's opportunity and things that are cleared out that give you the chance to do something. This is the time to be making moves, not cowered down in fear. Can you say amen? How many watched any of the nights that I took calls to talk to people? Whoever said that alarm. I'm glad you're awake now. Just hit snooze in case I fall asleep. So how many of you heard she's not watching that one lady that called up. Do you think with everything that's going on in the world, we should begin to develop our own currency? Lady, take a nap. Develop your own currency? You don't even have a job. You're gonna develop a currency that rivals world currencies. If you're not careful, you're gonna get around Christians that are so worried about what the devil's doing. An Antichrist, an Antichrist system. And you see what they're doing in Australia and the UK that's the beginnings of the mark of the beast. I know my dad's been preaching on it since the 1980s, but I'm the happiest preacher that you'll ever listen to because the Bible says, yes, these things must happen. But don't lose heart. Take courage and look up, for your redemption draws nigh. And I want to tell you that in the midst, you're going to see the world start to function on two tracks. You're already starting to see it. Australia, uk, and if you're watching from those countries, we love you. I haven't given up on you. But Australia, uk, France, they're all going in another direction. They're going in that Antichrist direction, but America rejected that direction. I mean, I'm really starting to see now why they shot Trump and thankfully just nicked his ear. Now that you're getting a bunch of people that were trading state secrets all getting ready to go to jail. People that were profiting off of America, America's decline. They knew if Kamala didn't get in, there was. It's not about Kamala. It's about who her cabinet would have been. There's nobody to run cover for him anymore. All their connections are gone. And that miracle happened of an election that was never supposed to go that way. And now you're going to see people in power that made money off of enslaving America and breaking the economy down. There's no reason for anybody to be in section 8 housing in this country. There's people that want people poor because they're easily dominated. But God has turned the ship around, and it's going to continue to turn around. And I want to tell everybody in this place, get ready for the best years that you've ever had. Your best days are not behind you. We're not getting ready to come into some kind of terrible time. This is the hour of God's favor. This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. Everybody say, do not Be afraid. So the word of the Lord, anytime somebody gives you a word that's supposedly from the Lord and it instills fear, you know, and they'll never come out and say, you know, no preacher's gonna come out and say like, be afraid, you know, that the food supply, if there was some kind of shutdown, Walmart would be out of food within a shut up. It's not gonna happen. So what if Walmart was out of food? You know, you got these things, when you drive home, you're gonna see about 50 or 60 of them. But they're called deer. And those deer aren't just animals. They have meat on the inside. When you shoot them, you can cut them up. Now if you got a normal sized deer, somebody, I'm sure somebody. Has anybody been deer hunting here in Pennsylvania? If you get a normal sized buck, I don't want to see a buck because you don't see them much. It's always the women and kids. I've been noticing that deer aren't good parents because who takes their kids out to eat at 11.30pm? Adalus Mugalus and white tailed deer, that's who. So if you get like a normal sized doe, not a record doe, not even a dough to brag about? How much meat are you going to get off that dough? How many pounds? About 50 pounds. 50 to 70 pounds from what we're hearing from the crowd. And so that's one doe. How many of you have passed at least 10 doe in the last five weeks. Okay, so you get out and you pop a couple of them and load them in your Subaru Outback with your coexist bumper sticker and carve that thing up and you have meat. You know all those bodies of water that you drive by, there's things that live in them called fish. Can you say amen? So how do you get anybody with a brain worried about food? Yeah, but you're not allowed to hunt. They sell these things called suppressors. Can you say amen? No. I'm not teaching you to commit crimes. But I am saying you don't have to let your family starve to death. No, you're good. So everybody say, I'll always have enough. Why would any preacher try to get God's children in fear? They're going to do away with the dollar. I've been hearing that. Now think of this. Imagine being a preacher in your 60s that's been putting fear in people for 40 years. The dollar's going to collapse. Well, it hasn't for 40 years that you've been ministering. And even if it does now, you got about nine good summers left to say I was right. And you wasted half a century in fear. How many of you have known people that have been in fear about America's collapse, the dollar collapse, economy collapse for the last 20 years? Let me see now. As soon as somebody gets in that mindset, they don't prosper anymore. If you would turn the air conditioning up slightly. They don't. They don't prosper anymore. When I say slightly, I mean blasted. I want to see people shivering. I want to hear teeth chattering. And it have nothing to do with spiritual manifestations, just air conditioning.
