(192) “Give What’s in Your Hand to God and Watch What He Will Do!” with John and Linda Thomas

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You do not understand how the kingdom of heaven works.

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You don't think you have anything, but what do you have?"

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And they said,

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well, we only have five loaves and a couple fish.

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And he said, give it to me.

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And when they gave it to him, he blessed it and gave it back.

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That's what Jesus is asking us to do.

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We come to him with these attitudes

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of we don't have anything to give, I'm not good enough.

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Because of the things I've done in my life,

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how could Jesus ever use me?

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What Jesus is saying to you is,

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look, I don't care what you have.

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I just want what you have to be given to me.

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I'll bless it and give it back.

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Then when I give it back, you give it away.

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And when you give it away, look what I do with it.

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God promises in Joel 2.28

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God promises in Joel 2.28

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to pour out his spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to global outpouring,

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where we contend for that promised outpouring,

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we equip for that outpouring,

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so that we may engage in that very outpouring.

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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We're so delighted that you're with us.

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And we are delighted to have with us

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some very, very special guests,

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very, very dear friends of ours, John and Linda Thomas.

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They are neighbors and they are close to us,

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helping us in lots and lots of ways.

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And they have testimonies that are going to help you

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to grow in your walk with God as you prepare

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for the outpouring.

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Thanks so much for joining us today.

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that is on your heart that you want us to talk about,

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let us know, and we'll pray into it

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and see what the Holy Spirit gives us,

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just to fulfill the thing that is in your heart.

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We want to equip you to be ready for the outpouring.

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So today we have with us John and Linda Thomas.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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Thank you so much. We're so honored to be on here.

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Yeah, thank you guys.

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We love you and we just appreciate the opportunity.

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So God brought you here sovereignly.

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Tell us real quickly about how God brought you to this place.

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God is so good.

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We were in North Dakota, actually.

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We're from Washington state originally,

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but we had moved to North Dakota.

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And through a long story for a different time,

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He showed us, He showed John in a dream, Springfield.

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And we realized after about a year

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that it was Springfield, Missouri.

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And so we had God used people in our lives.

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We had people we just met give us verses from Him,

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like go into the land that I've sent you

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and I'll tell you what to do.

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And so we were hearing His voice

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and we were having confirmation coming at us

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from all directions.

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And so we packed everything up and we moved to Springfield.

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And so He planted us in Springfield,

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but the very first weekend we got to Springfield,

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there was ministry going on in Jasper, Arkansas.

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And so we followed a friend of ours

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who was ministering up here

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and walked into global outpouring,

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brand new in the state, had only been here two days

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and got to meet Phil and Sharon and it was amazing.

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So that friend of yours is Dean Brexton.

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And we have come to love him so much.

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That was his first time here

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and you showed up for his first time here

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and it's like, click, something happened in the spirit.

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And we're so excited how God has just knit our hearts

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together and so you've been really mentored by Him

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in a way that a lot of people

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have not had opportunity to do.

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So John, tell us a little bit about your background

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and how you came to the Lord.

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Well, I was raised in the church.

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My mom took us to church every Sunday.

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And from the time I was very little,

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I would say I was very close to Jesus.

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When I was like two years old, three years old,

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my very best friend in the world was Jesus.

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My mom used to say that I would go into my bedroom closet

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and she'd go, John, what are you doing in there?

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And I'd say, I'm spending time with Jesus.

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I'm with Jesus.

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I had this little white Bible that had,

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it was a kid's Bible, so it had lots of pictures.

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And my favorite thing in the world when I was young

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was to open up that Bible and read the words in red

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that I knew were the words of my Jesus.

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And so I was really raised close to Jesus.

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I loved Him from the time I was very little,

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but then the world got involved and my flesh got involved.

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The next thing you know, I was out

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really living a lukewarm life.

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I spent my teenage years into my late twenties.

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Well, really all the way up until just a few years ago,

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very, very lukewarm.

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What I like to tell people is is that,

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yeah, I really believe I was still born again,

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but I wasn't operating in the spirit.

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I was living by my flesh.

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And so I was really my own God.

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I was my own God.

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I did things the way I wanted to do them.

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I did what I wanted to do.

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I paid zero attention to what the Holy Spirit

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was saying to me other than occasionally,

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He'd give me a drain that I would know,

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okay, that is from the Lord

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and I need to pay some attention to that.

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But still for literally decades, I was my own God.

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And Jesus was basically somebody

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who I put on the back burner.

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I don't want you to be Lord of my life.

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I do want you to save me and I wanna go to heaven.

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I don't wanna go to hell,

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but I wanna be in charge for now.

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That was basically my attitude.

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And one of the amazing things that happened

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when Linda and I were in North Dakota,

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we had moved there to be near family

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and that relationship with my brother who lived there

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really fell apart at the same time.

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The relationship with my dad really fell apart.

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I just was left in a spot where I had to go,

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you know what Lord,

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I am done trying to please my earthly dad.

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I really only wanna please you now.

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And it led me to doing a three day fast.

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And after I did that three day fast,

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basically the Lord moved me into a spot

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where he gave me a dream about Springfield, Missouri.

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he was just starting to move in my life.

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Basically what it was was I came to this point

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where I was done doing things my own way now

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because of these relationships that were falling apart.

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And you know, when you're doing things your own way,

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the enemy just gets to come in

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and he operates in these cycles.

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Things happen over and over again.

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I was involved in addiction to pornography.

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And you know, it is so hurtful to Linda

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when I was involved in that stuff.

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And so thankfully the Lord just got ahold of me

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and broke my heart for that.

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Like Lord, I don't wanna be this person

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that's acting like this anymore.

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I'm done doing it my own way.

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Through our friend Dean Braxton,

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after I had done this three day fast,

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Dean texted me and he said,

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John, I really believe the Lord wants you to be praying

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in tongues for an hour a day for a month.

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And then at the end of that time,

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do a seven day Daniel fast.

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And he's really gonna be showing you

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what he wants you to be doing.

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Well, not too long before that,

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I didn't believe praying in tongues was for me.

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Basically, I thought it was weird.

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I didn't want to do something that wasn't controlled by me

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because I'm still dealing with being in control

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of everything myself, you know?

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But I knew the Lord, actually,

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he had given me a dream during that time period

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where he showed me becoming a prayer warrior.

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And I knew he wanted me to be praying

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in my prayer language in tongues.

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And so when Dean reached out to me,

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I just said, Dean, help me out with this

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because I've basically told the Lord,

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if you want me to be praying in tongues,

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you have to force it upon me and it just has to happen.

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And Dean really outlined the scriptures

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that went through praying in tongues.

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Paul says, I wish you all prayed in tongues.

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It's something that the Lord really has

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for everybody that's born again.

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And what I came to find out is that really,

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anybody who's born again has access to that prayer language,

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but so many of us, because we're stubborn,

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because we wanna be in control,

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we choose not to access that.

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We say, if it's gonna happen, it's gotta happen

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the certain way that I predetermined, Lord,

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that you get to do it.

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And if you wanna do it any other way,

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then it can't happen.

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And just being my own God, right?

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I'm dictating to God how this has to happen.

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And that's not how things work.

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And so thankfully, you know, he got through to me

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and I just said, I came to a spot where I said,

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Jesus, I trust you.

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I don't trust me, but I trust you.

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And if you want me to be praying in tongues,

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then I'm just gonna trust you and go for it.

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And so I had to transition from a spot

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where I wanted the Lord to just force it upon me

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and realize, no, it's something

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that he's already deposited in me.

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And by faith, I'm gonna get ahold of it.

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So I just started praying in tongues and pretty darn soon,

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I'm like, this is my prayer language.

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It became very clear.

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And so I went ahead and I did that 30 days

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of praying in the Spirit.

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I did the seven day Daniel fast.

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And really during that time,

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not understanding all the benefits of doing that,

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but during that time, the pornography just melted off of me.

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Glory to God.

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Linda had an addiction to alcohol

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that literally melted off of her.

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It was like the praying in tongues in the house

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was literally changing the atmosphere in the house,

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bringing down a heavenly atmosphere

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instead of a fleshly earthly atmosphere.

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And it literally was just changing all this stuff,

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all the junk that we had been involved in in our flesh.

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It was just melting it off.

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Praise God.

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Glory to God.

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That is a key for contending.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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Absolutely.

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It was amazing.

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I didn't even realize he was praying in tongues.

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And all of a sudden, within a few days,

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it was like I woke up from almost like a fog

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and was like, wait a minute,

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I'm drinking wine every day after work.

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I don't need to do this anymore.

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I don't need this anymore.

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I can actually stop doing this.

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And it wasn't just that,

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it was even the fact that I was focusing on my own needs

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to try to get them met as far as physically,

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taking medicine for pain and all kinds of other things,

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trying to make myself feel good

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instead of letting the Holy Spirit do it.

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And once all those things melted off of me,

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it was like I had brand new eyes to see and hear God,

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and he was able to take care of those needs for me.

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It was amazing.

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Praise God, amen.

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Wow.

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So how long was it before you moved here after that fast?

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It all happened pretty quick.

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The fast, I think, was at the end of the year

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prior to when we moved.

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So probably in like September or October,

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and we were moved down there by what?

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June or July of the next year?

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Yep, late summer.

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And so, yeah, from that point,

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when I decided that I was done doing it my way,

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and tongues, praying in tongues,

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it's not the end-all answer.

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It's just part of the toolbox,

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the tools that God gives us,

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but it is a very powerful tool.

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And so you can get to the places

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where the Lord wants you to be without that,

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but what we saw demonstrated is that praying in tongues

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is so powerful.

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It was literally shifting things quicker

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than they could ever be shifted in the natural.

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And I really believe it's because when,

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Jesus says if you pray without doubting,

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knowing that you have what you pray for,

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you're gonna get what you are asking for.

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And when you're praying in tongues,

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Bible teaches us that we're literally praying out

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God's perfect will.

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The Holy Spirit is praying out the things

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that we don't even know how to ask or what to say.

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He's praying it out perfectly in that prayer language.

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And so we're getting it,

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whether we know what we're praying for or not,

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we're getting it.

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So it is so powerful.

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So I would encourage anybody

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if you've been kind of hesitant in that.

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You know, the biggest thing is I was worried about,

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basically because I was operating through my flesh,

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I was worried about having control over it.

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I thought, well, if I don't have control over it,

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then maybe the enemy could operate through me in some way

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because I don't know what I'm saying.

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But I would say to you,

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if you're someone who is thinking that way,

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because I think that a lot of people do,

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and that's actually taught by several groups,

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is that if your heart is that you do not want to say anything

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that's not honoring to God,

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then you don't have to worry about it.

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If your heart is that you want to honor God

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in your prayer language and you're worried

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about something coming through that's not from him,

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then you're really in the perfect spot to engage in it.

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So I would just encourage you to just go for it.

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It is so powerful.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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That reminds me of a scripture.

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Luke 11 says,

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"'If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father,

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will he give him a stone?

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Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a snake?

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Or if he shall ask for an egg,

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will he offer him a scorpion?'

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Verse 13 says,

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"'If you then, being evil,

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know how to give good gifts unto your children,

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how much more shall your heavenly father

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give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?'

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And that's part of the Holy Spirit,

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part of the Holy Spirit is this wonderful gift

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of a language to communicate directly

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with our Father's heart.

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It's wonderful.

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Yeah, same there.

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I don't know how we have managed without it.

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I mean, there's a whole lot of things that God does

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that it's just beyond our ability to really comprehend

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all the things that he manages to put in place

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with such broken people.

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That's amazing to me.

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Yeah.

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So John, you are a master electrician

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and God is using you in the workplace.

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He's really given you a burden as an evangelist.

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Tell us how you came to that

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and tell us some stories of what God has done.

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Yeah, wow.

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He's been so faithful.

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When we moved down here, I immediately got a job.

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This was a miraculous event in its own right,

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but I got a job subcontracting for a company

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where I get to drive all over Missouri,

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sometimes down into Arkansas,

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but I'm going to these mental health facilities

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and mostly doing access control work

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where you have to swipe a key fob to get in.

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And because I'm at these facilities for several days

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and because the Lord has just made me

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so that I'm on fire for him now,

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I get to go into these places and pray over them,

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pray over these people, pray over their destinies.

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But what was happening as I started to do this

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is I would go out after work and go to the Minute Mart

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or go to the park down the road, spend a little time,

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because most of this I'm on the road

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and I'm staying in motels.

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And so I'm just trying to keep myself busy after work.

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And I'd go talk to people about Jesus

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and man, it just wasn't going well.

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It just wasn't going well.

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And what I realized is,

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Lord, I'm really trying to do this in my own strength.

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I haven't asked you to be involved.

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And yeah, I was giving them scripture

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and I was talking to them about Jesus,

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but I was really trying to do it on my own strength.

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And so after going to this Minute Mart for a snack,

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this one particular day where I talked to these two guys

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and when I witnessed to them,

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man, one of them just got angry and bounced out of there.

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And the other one, he was nice and listened to me,

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let me pray for him, but literally nothing happened

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in terms of them giving their life to Jesus

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or making a decision or, you know,

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it just was hard for me to deal with.

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I said, I went back to my hotel room.

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I literally just laid down flat on the floor.

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I said, Jesus, I cannot do this on my own.

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I so greatly want to be involved in getting people saved,

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getting people to know you,

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getting people to experience your love

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the way that you have shown it to me,

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getting people to experience getting set free from the junk

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like you've done from me.

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And so I just, I started crying out for souls.

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Literally I was saying, Lord, give me souls.

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Father, I just want to have souls and it can't be me.

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It has to be you.

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I just, however I can help in that, Lord,

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just show me.

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And literally the next day after work,

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after praying that prayer,

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I'm working up in Columbia, Missouri,

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which is a college town.

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They have these electric scooters all over the place.

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You can get an app on your phone and rent these scooters.

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And I'd never done that.

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I thought I'm going to take one of these scooters for a ride.

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And so I rode this scooter down into a park

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where this young man walked in right by me

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with his little German shepherd puppy, tiny little puppy.

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And so I had to go talk to him.

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I said, man, that is the cutest little dog.

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And I just started chatting with him with,

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actually I was not thinking about witnessing to him

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about Jesus and this is how good Jesus is.

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He just set this appointment up.

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As I'm talking to this kid, all of a sudden,

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I heard in my spirit, here you go.

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Here you go, son.

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I said, whoa, really?

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Okay. And so this is just going on in the back of my mind.

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Really, Lord, this is an appointment for me.

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You want me to talk to him about you?

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And next thing you know, and he just let it in.

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Jesus led the conversation so smoothly and perfectly

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into this spot where I shared Jesus.

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I shared what he's done in my life.

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I shared how good he is.

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And this kid had been involved in drugs.

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He'd been involved in witchcraft.

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He told me that at 13 years old,

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his mom called him into the living room with his stepdad

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and got him hooked on methamphetamines.

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Oh, wow.

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And so he just had this broken life

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and I got to share with him, hey, Jesus is the chain breaker.

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Here's what he's done in my life.

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He is so good.

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He loves you so much.

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And that young man accepted Jesus Christ,

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gave his life to Jesus Christ right there in the park.

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Thank you, Father.

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How long do you?

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And so immediately I was on cloud nine like, whoa, Jesus.

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Thank you.

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You mean all I had to do was invite you in

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and give it to you?

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What a concept, right?

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Praise God.

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Amen.

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When we try to do it on our own, it just doesn't work.

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But inviting him in, he brings the power.

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And so the little that we bring to the table,

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if we'll just give it to him, he brings all the power.

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He sets it all up.

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He really does all the work.

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Amen.

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That is so powerful.

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So the Lord spoke to you

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about starting to have a healing meeting.

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And when you preach Jesus as the healer,

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he begins to show up as the healer.

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When you preach him as the savior, he shows up as savior.

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When you preach about him as the baptizer

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in the Holy Spirit, he shows up as the baptizer

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in the Holy Spirit.

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So he will accommodate how we follow his spirit

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to present him.

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So tell us something about some of the healings

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that you've seen.

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Yeah, that's been incredible too.

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You know, when Dean had told me

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that the Lord wanted me to do that,

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praying in tongues for 30 days, then do the Daniel fast,

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he told me after that, the Lord would reveal to me

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what he wanted me to be doing.

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And after I did those things,

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I had two different dreams about healing.

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In the first dream, I was in a place that looked to me

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like down on the piers in Seattle, right?

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By the Puget Sound there,

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there's elevated highways overhead.

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And then there's a bunch of businesses underneath

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that sort of in a rundown area,

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you know, not a very good area down there anymore.

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And I was down there and I walked into this building

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that happened to where somebody was living.

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This couple was living in there

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and a man was sitting on the bed.

524
00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,560
He was hunched over, his whole body was deformed.

525
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,120
And I didn't see him from the front,

526
00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:11,080
but I knew by the spirit that even his face was deformed.

527
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:12,980
And I just walked up to him in this dream,

528
00:21:12,980 --> 00:21:15,760
I put my hand on his back, I said a real quick prayer.

529
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,920
I didn't even get to hear what I prayed.

530
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,080
I just prayed a quick prayer, put my hand on him

531
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:22,800
and instantly Jesus healed him.

532
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,120
He straightened up, his body was restored.

533
00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,680
And then I knew also by the spirit

534
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,760
that his face was fully restored.

535
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,680
And then I looked at his wife,

536
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,200
who was standing there on the other side of him.

537
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,080
And I said, that is our Jesus.

538
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,040
That is our Jesus.

539
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,840
And then the Lord gave me a dream like a few days later,

540
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:41,920
same sort of a thing.

541
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,960
I was in a place where actually this young lady

542
00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,680
was riding her bicycle and got into an accident

543
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,280
on her bicycle and opened up a wound on her wrist

544
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,880
that was pretty major.

545
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,180
She was on the ground, like in the fetal position

546
00:21:56,180 --> 00:21:58,240
with her wrist underneath her in pain.

547
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,660
And I just walked up to her, I put my hand on her shoulder,

548
00:22:00,660 --> 00:22:02,360
I said a quick prayer again.

549
00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:04,680
And then instantly the scene changed.

550
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:09,520
She, this young woman was in a bathroom sort of washing up

551
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,840
and all the concerned family was outside.

552
00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:12,680
I was there with them.

553
00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:13,960
She walked out of the bathroom.

554
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,720
And this was really moments after I had prayed for her.

555
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:17,840
She walked out of the bathroom

556
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,880
and her wrist was completely healed.

557
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,200
Glory to God.

558
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,000
And everybody was just flabbergasted.

559
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,720
And I looked at that girl's mom and I said,

560
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,660
that is our Jesus.

561
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:29,720
But you know what?

562
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:34,080
I was still not really understanding of the whole thing.

563
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,700
And so I talked to Dean not too long after that.

564
00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,520
I said, Dean, I did this 30 days of praying in tongues.

565
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:41,880
I did the Daniel fast.

566
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,320
I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

567
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,320
The only thing that's happened

568
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,440
is I've had these dreams about healing.

569
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,420
And he said, John, that's it.

570
00:22:48,420 --> 00:22:49,360
That's it.

571
00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:53,280
Lord wants you to be involved in healing

572
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,600
and move into a healing ministry.

573
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,760
I said, whoa, Lord, whoa, okay.

574
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,360
So, you know, then immediately

575
00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:03,520
I started reading scriptures about healing

576
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,680
and because Linda and I, we came up in churches

577
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,900
that really didn't teach healing.

578
00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:12,520
And we sort of were taught that, yeah,

579
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,400
Jesus is still the healer,

580
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,940
but we weren't taught that we could know

581
00:23:16,940 --> 00:23:18,720
that his will is to heal.

582
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,200
And so as I started studying the scriptures,

583
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,160
it just became more and more clear,

584
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,160
it is his will to heal.

585
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,840
Part of one of his names is healer.

586
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,280
Your name is your character.

587
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,800
If your character is healer, then it is always healer.

588
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,400
He had never changes his character.

589
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,440
The Bible says that he never changes.

590
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:44,440
If he was healer, he is healer, he always will be healer.

591
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,600
And so our attitude, my attitude just shifted on that.

592
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,840
And then of course, Mark 16, you know,

593
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,120
and to any who believe they'll lay hands on the sick

594
00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:54,920
and they shall recover among other things,

595
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:56,620
but I was focused on the healing.

596
00:23:56,620 --> 00:23:59,240
So I just said, Jesus, if you say for me

597
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,320
to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover,

598
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,440
that's what I'm gonna do.

599
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,000
And I'm gonna believe you for it.

600
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:04,840
Amen.

601
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,720
And so, yeah, we started praying for people for healing.

602
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,300
And you know, the Saturday night healing service

603
00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:11,640
that the Lord had a start there

604
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,160
at the Global Outpouring Campus,

605
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:15,220
that's just been incredible.

606
00:24:15,220 --> 00:24:16,940
We started that last May.

607
00:24:16,940 --> 00:24:19,080
And of course, our good friend, Bob Baldwin,

608
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,000
who's been part of the ministry for years and years,

609
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,160
he joined up with us.

610
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,560
And really quite a bit of the community

611
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,360
had started to come in right in the beginning.

612
00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:30,200
Bob was driving around inviting people

613
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,520
and telling people to show up.

614
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,080
And so it was neat because right off the bat,

615
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,080
we just had a bunch of people from the community

616
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:40,320
who weren't really going for it with Jesus strongly.

617
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,760
You know, we had a few people who maybe were born again,

618
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,640
but still living in the flesh like I had been.

619
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,800
And we just said, hey, listen,

620
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,960
the Bible says that Jesus is still the healer.

621
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,480
So let us lay hands on you and let's see what happens.

622
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,160
You know, what do you got to lose?

623
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,160
What have you got to lose?

624
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,600
And so we had, of course, you guys know Jesse.

625
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,680
Jesse, I think this is one of the most incredible

626
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,320
healings we had down there because Jesse literally,

627
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,560
he went into the doctor with some chest pain.

628
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,320
He smoked for many years and the doctor said,

629
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,320
after they did x-rays, Jesse, we found two lumps

630
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,080
on your chest or two masses in your chest in this one lung.

631
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,320
And we think it's cancer, but we're gonna send you in

632
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,760
for a more detailed test.

633
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,800
I think they sent him in for an MRI.

634
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,320
And so he came to us one Saturday night and he said,

635
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,960
yeah, I just went to the doctor this week.

636
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,360
The doctor saw these two masses in my chest on the x-ray.

637
00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,280
They're sending me in for more testing.

638
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,520
But he said, the doctor also told me, Jesse,

639
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,080
did you know that you were only born

640
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,680
with half a lung on this side?

641
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:42,960
And he said, no, I had no idea.

642
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,040
Nobody's ever told me that

643
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,600
or nobody's ever x-rayed my lungs anyhow.

644
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,560
So we just started praying over him

645
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,680
and several of us prayed over Jesse

646
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,400
that not only would those lumps be gone,

647
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,200
but that his one half lung would be turned into a full lung.

648
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,360
Our good friend, Pam True saw in the spirit a full lung

649
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:02,680
appear right in front of him.

650
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,840
And by faith, she just moved her hand toward it

651
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,880
and pushed it into his chest.

652
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:07,720
And-

653
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,280
I love it.

654
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,680
And so, you know, that might seem out there

655
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,800
for some people, but you know what?

656
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,880
She did this and what was the report?

657
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,920
Jesse came back after this MRI.

658
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,760
I actually got a call from Bob Baldwin who's 85 years old

659
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,280
and he was giggling like a little kid.

660
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,360
He said, Bob, what's so funny?

661
00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:26,000
He said, I just talked to Jesse

662
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,680
and Jesse just talked to his doctor.

663
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,840
And the doctor after doing this MRI said,

664
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,040
not only can we not find those lumps in your chest anymore,

665
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,800
but you have two full lungs.

666
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:37,640
Wow.

667
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:38,640
That's just awesome.

668
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,480
I love that.

669
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:40,320
Yeah.

670
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:41,160
Incredible.

671
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:42,160
That's Jesus.

672
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,360
That is our Jesus.

673
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,720
Yeah, that's my Jesus.

674
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:47,960
Yeah.

675
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,360
You know, and one of my other favorite ones is

676
00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:52,400
we got word from someone that was coming to our

677
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,320
Saturday night healing service that a good friend of theirs,

678
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,120
actually a niece of theirs,

679
00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:00,000
really had been told by the doctors that

680
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,240
they couldn't do anything more for her.

681
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,760
She was at the hospital down,

682
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,680
oh, south of us, Linda, do you remember that town?

683
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:09,840
Outside of Little Rock.

684
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,360
Yeah, Conway.

685
00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:13,400
And she was down there in the hospital.

686
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,480
She had two masses in her, inside of her stomach cavity,

687
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,840
not in her stomach, but inside of her stomach cavity.

688
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,640
Each mass was the size of a watermelon.

689
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,920
They'd grown so large, she could no longer eat.

690
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,560
She hadn't been able to eat for weeks.

691
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:27,960
She couldn't keep anything down.

692
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,840
The doctors could not do anything for her.

693
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,560
They said, we're gonna send you to hospice.

694
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,280
You probably have a couple of weeks.

695
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,760
Get your affairs in order, basically.

696
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,480
And so Linda and I and Bob Baldwin went down there

697
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,360
and we were fired up in the power of the Holy Spirit.

698
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,360
When we got there, we were proclaiming healing.

699
00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:48,400
The Lord just had us so confident that we knew

700
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,120
we were getting what we prayed for.

701
00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:51,560
That was just one of the coolest times

702
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:52,840
because there was no doubt.

703
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,600
We knew we were getting what we prayed for.

704
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,960
Jesus was gonna touch this woman.

705
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,400
And as we were praying for her and talking to her,

706
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,000
her countenance just completely shifted.

707
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,880
She went from no hope to all of a sudden

708
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,320
she had this incredible hope.

709
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,480
And this woman has an incredible singing voice.

710
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,680
She went from having no hope to singing

711
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,760
and praising the Lord with this beautiful voice.

712
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,440
And I said, you know what?

713
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,600
When you get out of this hospital, you're gonna come

714
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,640
and you're gonna sing for us at our Saturday night

715
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,120
healing service and do worship with us.

716
00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:24,800
And she smiled and she said, I will, I will.

717
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,880
Well, a couple of weeks later, we heard back that

718
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,560
almost instantly things started shifting for her

719
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,320
and the doctors started seeing enough change in her

720
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,920
that they decided, well, we probably aren't gonna send you

721
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,000
to hospice now.

722
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,520
All of a sudden she was able to start eating food

723
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:40,960
and keep it down.

724
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,080
All of a sudden her strength started coming back.

725
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,400
And then fast forward, you know, a few weeks later,

726
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,600
we hear that she is doing just miraculously well

727
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,360
and the doctors are just flabbergasted.

728
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:57,080
A few weeks later, we hear that she was driven to her church

729
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,320
on a Sunday where she got up and sang at her church.

730
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,040
And yeah, they took her back to the hospital,

731
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,600
but the hospital is just, these doctors are going,

732
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,080
we don't even understand how this is happening.

733
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,720
You know, a few weeks ago now, the doctors went in

734
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,920
and they were able to take one of those masses out.

735
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,480
The other mass, I think it has some blood vessels

736
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,560
wrapped around it where they're concerned about

737
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:19,520
how they're gonna do that.

738
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,200
So we just continue to believe for her healing completely.

739
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,760
We've seen what Jesus has done and we know that

740
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,160
He's gonna complete that work that He started in her.

741
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,360
And so we're just so excited about this.

742
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:31,600
Amen.

743
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,720
He's literally just, He's just waiting for people

744
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,600
to believe His word when it says that He's still a healer,

745
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,920
when it says to go pray for people and they'll be healed,

746
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,840
when it says to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover,

747
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,840
when it says to have the elders anoint people with oil

748
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,560
and the prayer of faith will heal the sick.

749
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,320
He's just waiting for people to believe it.

750
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,280
And He's so excited to do it.

751
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,400
Yeah.

752
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,440
Amen.

753
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,720
Oh, that's powerful.

754
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:57,560
Powerful.

755
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:58,600
Yeah, solid.

756
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,160
You know, there's one other story I want you to tell.

757
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,520
And that is how you were the answer to someone's prayer

758
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,480
when you were on vacation.

759
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:08,920
Do you know what I'm talking about?

760
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,560
Oh, yeah.

761
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,480
Yeah, that was good.

762
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,560
Well, Bob Baldwin and I and Linda,

763
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,560
we were down on vacation at the Gulf Coast

764
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,040
and Bob and I had gone for a walk.

765
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,240
I think we were trying to do a little bit of shopping.

766
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,320
There's some shops across the street there

767
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,800
and we were just walking around checking them out.

768
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,720
And because of our Saturday Night Healing Service,

769
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,600
we had these shirts made that say, how can I pray for you?

770
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,280
It says, how can I pray for you on the front?

771
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,360
And on the back it says, Jesus loves you.

772
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,600
And I just love wearing these shirts because quite often,

773
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,480
people will say, hey, you can pray for this

774
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,240
or you can pray for that or, wow,

775
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,080
thank you for wearing that shirt.

776
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,000
They see on the back where it says, Jesus loves you.

777
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,120
And they say, wow, thank you.

778
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,720
He loves you too.

779
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,600
So anyways, I love wearing these shirts around

780
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,520
and I was wearing this particular shirt.

781
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,560
And so when Bob and I were walking back

782
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,720
to where we were staying,

783
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,680
there's a safety gate that closes at night

784
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,440
and it hadn't been working.

785
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,840
And so there were some people from the condos there

786
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,680
that were working on it.

787
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,520
And I believe she had just prayed for some help.

788
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:16,360
Yeah, she had.

789
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,480
She wrote us a letter afterwards and she said,

790
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,160
I need help here.

791
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,400
God sent somebody.

792
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:25,080
Yeah.

793
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,680
And so I walk up and I've done so much access control

794
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,320
as an electrician, I've done a lot of gate access control.

795
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,120
I've done gate installs.

796
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,440
And so here come Bob and I and she sees the shirt

797
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,880
that says, how can I pray for you?

798
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,880
And she was basically like, well, I was just praying

799
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,880
for somebody to help us fix this gate.

800
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,680
And I said, well, actually I'm an electrician

801
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,080
and I work on these things.

802
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,800
And so she was just blown away by that.

803
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,600
And so it was really neat because I got to sit there

804
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,960
and work on that gate for probably a good hour,

805
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:55,960
hour and a half.

806
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,280
And meanwhile, Mr. Baldwin was able to just talk

807
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,040
to those people and share Jesus.

808
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:06,520
And it didn't sound to me like they were fully going for it

809
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:07,360
with Jesus.

810
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,320
And so that encounter would just,

811
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,720
they had the faith to say a prayer, boom, we showed up.

812
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,480
I was able to help with the gate.

813
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,880
Bob witnessed to them and shared the love of Jesus.

814
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,160
I just know that was so powerful,

815
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,000
powerful enough that you guys got the letter afterwards

816
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,400
as a testimony.

817
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,360
It meant a lot to them what happened.

818
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,400
And that's really just a picture of how much Jesus

819
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,560
cares for and loves each individual person so much.

820
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,840
There's nothing too small that he doesn't care about.

821
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,880
He just wants you to reach out to him,

822
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,080
father, here's what I need, help me.

823
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,080
And boom, here we go showing up to help her out.

824
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,360
Yeah, that's so amazing.

825
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,080
Yeah, awesome.

826
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,880
The reason why I wanted you to tell that story

827
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,120
is to emphasize how important that it is

828
00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,880
that we simply give ourselves to the Lord

829
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,160
and make ourselves available so that,

830
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,360
cause he knows how he wants to use us.

831
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,200
He knows what's out there.

832
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,920
He is the amazing strategist and knows how to put

833
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,720
all the pieces together of every puzzle

834
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,160
so that all things will work together for good to them

835
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,880
that love him and that are called according to his purpose.

836
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,880
So that thing of being available for whatever the Lord has.

837
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,640
And you were the man with the right skillset

838
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,800
to walk into that situation in answer

839
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,680
to that person's prayer.

840
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,400
So as we close here, I would like for you, if you would,

841
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,880
to pray for our listeners, to have the thing

842
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:46,880
that God has for them, to turn that into something

843
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,040
that he can just shine his glory through,

844
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,560
like he's been doing with you.

845
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,400
And it all started when you finally said,

846
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,040
okay, I'm done, you do it, Lord.

847
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,400
You take over.

848
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,600
Can you pray that for our listeners?

849
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,880
Yeah, and I'm gonna share a scripture if I can

850
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,480
that the Lord gave me that goes right along with this.

851
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,440
This is so powerful.

852
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,920
I hadn't really looked at this this way until yesterday.

853
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,920
I was just asking the Lord what he wanted me to share

854
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,160
in the scriptures.

855
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:16,160
And this is what he gave me.

856
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,640
It might seem a little weird at first,

857
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,680
but I'll go back through and tell you what he gave me in it.

858
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,360
This is when Jesus fed the 5,000.

859
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,920
Jesus had just found out that John the Baptist

860
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,080
had been killed.

861
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,640
And it says, now when Jesus heard it,

862
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,000
he withdrew from there in a boat

863
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,640
to a lonely place by himself.

864
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,180
And when the multitudes heard of this,

865
00:34:33,180 --> 00:34:35,600
they followed him on foot from the cities.

866
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,880
And when he went to shore, he saw a great multitude

867
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,800
and felt compassion for them and healed their sick.

868
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,920
And when it was evening, the disciples came to him

869
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,680
saying, the place is desolate and the time has already passed.

870
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,120
By the way, this is in Matthew 14.

871
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,280
I should let you all know that.

872
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,840
Matthew 14, starting in verse 13.

873
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:55,960
Back to verse 15.

874
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,640
And when it was evening, the disciples

875
00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,640
came to him saying, the place is desolate

876
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,040
and the time has already passed.

877
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,000
So send the multitudes away that they may go into the villages

878
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,080
and buy food for themselves.

879
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,360
But Jesus said to them, they do not need to go away.

880
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,360
You give them something to eat.

881
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,920
And they said to him, we have here only five loaves

882
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,600
and two fish.

883
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,520
And he said, bring them here to me.

884
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,040
And ordering the multitudes to recline on the grass,

885
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,560
he took the five loaves and the two fish.

886
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,880
And looking up toward heaven, he blessed the food.

887
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,840
And breaking the loaves, he gave them to the disciples.

888
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,800
And the disciples gave them to the multitudes.

889
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,000
And they all ate and were satisfied.

890
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,920
And they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces,

891
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,000
12 full baskets.

892
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,160
And it says that this fed about 5,000 men,

893
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,560
plus the women and children that were with them,

894
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,360
five loaves and two fish.

895
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,000
And so what the Lord was showing me about this

896
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,040
is right off the bat, when the disciples came to Jesus

897
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,840
and said, hey, we need to send these people away.

898
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,160
It's desolate, it's late.

899
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,760
We need to send them off to give them something to eat.

900
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,120
Lord told me, John, that's how you operated

901
00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,680
before you gave your life to me.

902
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,200
This is operating in the flesh,

903
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,000
not understanding how the things of the kingdom work,

904
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,240
not understanding how this full surrender to me works.

905
00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:09,080
So the disciples came to him and said,

906
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,320
there's no way that this can work in the natural.

907
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,600
So let's do it in the natural way.

908
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,360
Let's send them to get food in the cities,

909
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,440
get them out of here so they can get food in the cities.

910
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,040
And really what Jesus said to them is,

911
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,580
look, you guys don't understand how this works.

912
00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:26,040
You do not understand how the kingdom of heaven works.

913
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,320
You don't think you have anything, but what do you have?

914
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,000
And they said, well, we only have five loaves

915
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:31,880
and a couple fish.

916
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,840
And he said, give it to me.

917
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,520
And when they gave it to him, he blessed it and gave it back.

918
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,800
That's what Jesus is asking us to do.

919
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,560
We come to him with these attitudes of,

920
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,000
we don't have anything to give.

921
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,300
I'm not good enough.

922
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,180
Because of the things I've done in my life,

923
00:36:46,180 --> 00:36:47,760
how could Jesus ever use me?

924
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,700
What Jesus is saying to you is, look,

925
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:51,600
I don't care what you have.

926
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,840
I just want what you have to be given to me.

927
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,600
I'll bless it and give it back.

928
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,680
You give it to me, I'll bless it and give it back.

929
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,160
Then when I give it back, you give it away.

930
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,320
And when you give it away, look what I do with it.

931
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:04,940
Watch what I do with it.

932
00:37:04,940 --> 00:37:08,320
And so that's really the picture of where we came from.

933
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,720
You know, we had these excuses and Jesus took them

934
00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:13,960
and said, no, you just give whatever you have to me.

935
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,840
I'll bless it and give it back.

936
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,400
And then you give it away.

937
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:18,720
So that's how we live our lives.

938
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:21,160
We just want to give our lives away to him.

939
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,040
We say yes every morning when we wake up,

940
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,760
Jesus, you have our yes, do with us whatever you want.

941
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,600
And that is so powerful.

942
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,800
And so for those of you who are listening,

943
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,540
I just want to encourage you, you know,

944
00:37:33,540 --> 00:37:35,880
if you're at this point where you're feeling the same way

945
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:36,920
that we felt before,

946
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,840
look, you're tired of being your own God.

947
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,640
You're tired of doing things your own way

948
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,080
and making your own decisions

949
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,880
and not letting Jesus Christ be the Lord of your life.

950
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,840
Then now's the time to say, Jesus, I give it all to you.

951
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:50,760
I give it all to you.

952
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,120
So you can just repeat after me if you want.

953
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,580
You know, it really is more about what's coming

954
00:37:54,580 --> 00:37:56,280
from your heart than the words that you say,

955
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,380
but you can say, Jesus, I'm done doing it on my own.

956
00:38:00,380 --> 00:38:03,080
I want you to have your way in my life.

957
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,280
I want to do things your way now.

958
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,120
I want to learn from your word

959
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,760
and learn from your Holy Spirit

960
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,160
and start living my life

961
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,960
according to how you would have me live it.

962
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,000
Because Lord, I know that you are the only one that is good.

963
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,560
And when I've tried to do it on my own,

964
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,780
it's nothing but a mess.

965
00:38:20,780 --> 00:38:23,500
So Father, I give to you all that I have,

966
00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:27,240
even as little as it is, I give it to you.

967
00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:28,460
I ask you to bless it.

968
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,720
And now Lord, I will give my life away.

969
00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,760
I will give my life away for you,

970
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,840
whatever you want me to do,

971
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,080
however you want me to do it.

972
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,940
I say yes, in Jesus' mighty name.

973
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,360
Heavenly Father, I thank you for each person

974
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:47,740
that was listening today.

975
00:38:47,740 --> 00:38:49,360
I thank you that they got

976
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,080
and are getting everything you want

977
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,440
for them to get, Lord God.

978
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,600
I thank you that you are working in their lives,

979
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,400
that your Holy Spirit is speaking to them now.

980
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,160
I ask Father that you would help them

981
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,420
to surrender to you completely and wholly,

982
00:39:02,420 --> 00:39:04,720
that everything they have, Lord God,

983
00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:07,920
that you would give them the wisdom and the strength

984
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,120
to turn it over to you,

985
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,920
that they would just fall at your feet

986
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,060
and say, Jesus, I will make you Lord of my life.

987
00:39:16,060 --> 00:39:19,680
And Lord, I ask that as they come to you

988
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,460
and just give it all to you, Lord,

989
00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:24,800
that you would show them who they are in you,

990
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,960
that you would show them who you made them to be,

991
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,960
that you would make it clear.

992
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,400
The day that you created them,

993
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,120
you spoke over them, Lord God.

994
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,560
Here is what I have created you to be.

995
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,520
Maybe an evangelist, maybe a pastor, maybe a teacher,

996
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,680
maybe somebody who still works in a trade,

997
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,520
but is just so on fire for Jesus

998
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,880
that those people around them can't help,

999
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:44,880
but catch fire too.

1000
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,280
Whatever it is, Lord God,

1001
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,720
I just pray that you would reveal to them

1002
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,000
their identity in you,

1003
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,400
that they would be so clear on their identity in you,

1004
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,940
that the identity that the world has given them

1005
00:39:56,940 --> 00:39:59,720
would just fall off, melt away in Jesus' name.

1006
00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:02,080
And that they would be able to operate

1007
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,120
in the identity of who you made them to be, Lord God,

1008
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,180
that they would be able to just glorify you

1009
00:40:08,180 --> 00:40:09,160
in all that they do.

1010
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,120
I ask for a blessing over them now, Lord,

1011
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,700
that you'd bless the work of their hands

1012
00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:14,300
and the meditations of their heart,

1013
00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:15,560
that as they seek you out,

1014
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,440
that you'd protect them from the evil one, Lord,

1015
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,100
and that you would just allow them to grow

1016
00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:22,600
so in love with you, so in love with your word,

1017
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:23,480
that they couldn't help,

1018
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,040
but be absolutely on fire for you.

1019
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:26,880
In Jesus' mighty name.

1020
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,220
Thank you, Father.

1021
00:40:28,220 --> 00:40:29,060
Amen.

1022
00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:29,880
Amen.

1023
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,880
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1024
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,620
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1025
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