(222) “God Is Still Looking for Someone. Is It You?”

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how many Evan Roberts are out there.

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Yes.

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You know, how many Reese Howells are out there.

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You know, how many they're out there.

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And it could be you.

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God can use you in whatever capacity

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you will let him use you.

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Yes.

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You can be satisfied wherever you're at.

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The thing is, don't ever be satisfied.

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["Pomp and Circumstance"]

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["Pomp and Circumstance"]

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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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We contend for that promise, 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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It's going to be a good one.

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We have been contending in these latest episodes,

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talking about contending.

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And we're going to look at what God is looking at

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for contending.

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He's looking for someone to stand in the gap.

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Is that you?

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["Pomp and Circumstance"]

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Thank you so much for joining us today.

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We want to help you grow, to be equipped,

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to help you contend for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit

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in your own life so that you can be used of God

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in the outpouring as it continues to grow and manifest.

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So today, we're going to delve into the idea

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of God looking for someone.

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He's looking for a man.

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Philip preached a message about this not so very long ago,

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and we'll put a link to it in the show notes

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so that you can hear the whole message.

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But we're going to touch on some of these topics,

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and I'm sure it'll be different

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than what he gave in his message.

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So Philip, why don't you take it from here?

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Okay.

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Well, I was just in my prayer time, having a quiet time,

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and this scripture just kind of just dropped into me.

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You know, I sought for a man, or I searched for a man,

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to stand in the gap, you know, to make up a hedge.

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And, Sher, why don't you read that in the Amplified?

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This is the Amplified classic, Ezekiel 22.30.

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And I sought a man among them

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who should build up the wall and stand in the gap

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before me for the land, that I should not destroy it.

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But I found none.

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Yeah, so that's the Amplified version.

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Yes.

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And when we were in Israel one year,

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we were going through the gate,

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and this is the gate to Jerusalem.

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And you read your history where General Allenby came in,

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and went through the gate,

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and he wouldn't even ride his horse.

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He stepped off his horse and walked in,

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because this is the gate that someday Jesus, Yeshua,

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is going to come through.

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This is a gate that Jesus already came through.

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Yeah.

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So, and he'll do it again.

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That's his city, after all.

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The city of the great king.

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Yeah, and if you look up in the gate, in the tower there,

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there's like a place a person can stand.

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And this is kind of typical,

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I think, of what they did back then with bow and arrow.

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You would have someone in there, you know,

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with a bow and arrow, and they had a little slit.

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And you look at the slit, it's not very wide,

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but it's deep, it's tall.

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Where they have protection while they're shooting arrows.

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They can see out there and they can shoot

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what they're looking at.

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It's wide enough to get their bow and arrow and shoot,

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but it's hard to hit them.

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You have to be a real precise hit to get through that.

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And that's kind of what it's referring to here,

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to standing in the gap.

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But if there's no one to stand in the gap.

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There's no one to defend the city.

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You have to defend it, especially since the gap

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is right over the gate of the city.

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Cause that's what you want to protect is the gates.

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Cause the gates, they'll try to bash them down and get in.

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You know, and all through Israel's history,

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you know, the book of Judges, it talks about those,

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you could say stood in the gap.

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You know, God called those out, there was Gideon.

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Remember Gideon, it was the Midianites

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that were just harassing.

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And then they would come in at harvest time,

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right when the harvest is ready, steal all the harvest.

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And that was, and you can read that in the book of Judges

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where the Lord spoke to Gideon,

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you know, I want you to take an army.

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And that little army got whittled down to 300 people.

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You know, kind of scary going against

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all these Midianites and how God brought

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this tremendous victory, you know, by just being obedient.

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He was obedient to what the Lord told him to do.

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One man and 300 others.

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Yeah, and then you have had a judge like Samson.

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He judged the Philistines and he judged them

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in a different way.

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You know, he killed, well, a thousand people

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with the jawbone of a donkey.

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You know, he did some amazing things.

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He had a supernatural strength that was beyond,

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but he was a judge, but he wasn't always a righteous judge.

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Well, he got in the flesh.

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Yeah, he got in the flesh all right, yeah.

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And then there was Deborah and Barak.

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You know, and that was one against Sisera.

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And the Lord just gave the victory.

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And I think the prophetic word that came out

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that the Lord is going to give this,

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the honor is going to go to a woman.

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Yeah, and that's because Barak wouldn't go without Deborah.

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He wouldn't go without her.

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And actually for a woman too, cause it was Yael,

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and they put a tent peg through the general

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of the army, Sisera.

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You know, so, but these were judges.

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And these are what kept Israel,

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and this is before there was a king.

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Right.

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Of course you had King Saul, then you had King David.

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You know, Israel had its ups and downs and kings.

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And it was Israel that went into captivity first,

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and they were taken captive by Assyria.

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And I'm not sure how many years later this was,

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but the sin was still in the land.

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See, the people had forgotten their God.

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They'd forgotten what Deuteronomy 28 says,

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I will bless, you know, if you do all these things,

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I will bless you.

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And if you don't do these things, I will curse you.

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Right.

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And all the curses fell upon them

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because they did not obey the word of the Lord, thy God.

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And so then there was Jeremiah, you know,

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we called the weeping prophet, that Lord just, you know,

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raised him up and he was prophesying

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against the last king of Judah, wasn't it?

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Yeah.

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I believe it was, yeah.

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And they had three bad kings in a row.

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I mean, there was redemption, you get a new king in,

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there was redemption in the land.

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He would clear the idols out and worship would be restored.

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And after that one passed on,

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the son or someone else would take over

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and would go downhill, up and down and up and down

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until after three, the fourth bad king was Zedekiah,

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I believe it was.

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And he was saying, well, you're prophesying

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all these things that, you know,

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they're going to come and put my eyes out

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and they're going to, you know, destroy the city

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and all that.

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And that's not going to happen because all their prophets

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were saying this isn't going to happen, but it did happen.

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And Jeremiah was a weeping prophet.

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Yes.

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And he lived through all these,

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but he saw the finish all this, but he was the end.

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He was an intercessor, but why did his intercession

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not stop what was going to happen?

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Well, I thought on that.

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I think it has something to do with the fact

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that they had crossed the line.

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Crossed the line.

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There was no turning back.

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But his intercessions gave him the ability

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to see beyond the time.

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Yeah, and many prophetic words came out of Jeremiah.

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When you read the scriptures,

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where this nation is going to be built up again,

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there'll be, and it'll be, it's amazing what he's prophesying.

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What he's seeing is coming,

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but they are going into captivity for 70 years.

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Yeah.

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But there's life beyond 70 years.

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Yeah.

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There's life, you know, that, you know,

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we tend to look at two years from now,

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next year, two years, three years,

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get a, used to be a three-year loan on your car,

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now it's a six-year loan to get one, I think,

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you know, and on your house and things like that.

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And so you look forward to the years to come,

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you know, I'll do this.

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And then maybe when I get 65, I'll retire.

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I'll have enough money put away.

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I'll already have my boat.

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I'll have the house, house will be paid for,

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and we're just going to have the American dream

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the rest of our lives.

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But no, that's not the case all the time.

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That's happened for some, you know,

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but not for everybody.

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And because, you know, God has plans and purposes,

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and especially in these last days that we are living in,

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you know, that things are wrapping up real fast.

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They seem to be.

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I mean, you can just look at what's happening in the news

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and, you know, you don't even want to look at the news.

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You know, there's fear and there's riots in Paris,

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riots here, right.

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I mean, the devil is having a heyday.

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He's just stirring the minds of the people

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and even the believers, the Christians.

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It's because he knows his time is short.

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His time is short.

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And he's trying to put fear, you know,

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put fear into everybody.

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So we look at, you know, where we're at today

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and what's the answer for all this?

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You know, we ask what Lord, you know,

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we're crying out to you.

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What is the real answer here?

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You know, and so I want to take a look at the book of Amos.

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It's chapter eight and verse 11.

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And this is going to go a little different way

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than maybe what you're thinking.

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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God,

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that I will send a famine in the land,

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not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water,

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but of the hearing the words of the Lord.

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And they shall wander from sea to sea

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and from the north even to the east,

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that shall run to and fro and seek the word of the Lord

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and shall not find that.

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You know, these are the days when, you know,

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there was a bunch of oppression going on in Israel and that,

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but I want to put this in a sense that pertains to us today

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because we have such a wealth of knowledge out here.

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I mean, you can get on YouTube, you know,

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we have favorites that we love for worship, you know,

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and it's just, that's a blessing.

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And you can look at this conference,

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you can find all these conferences.

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There is no lack of the word of God right now.

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It's everywhere.

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It's, you know, you can get it on your phone.

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You can get all your translations, everything you want.

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But what there is a lack of

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is hearing the voice of God for yourself.

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Come on.

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That is what there is a lack of.

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And there are those, you know,

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that it's one thing God speaks to you.

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I want you to go to this convention.

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I want you to hear this word, you know, and get direction.

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And I know people that they would come to our convention,

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you know, and they would get a directive for the next year.

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True.

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And all these flags, we have flags of different nations

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that representatives of End Time Handmaidens,

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global outpouring has been in.

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And we have a have prayer time in the morning

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and people gather and they pray over these flags.

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And many times Lord will give them a burden for that nation

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to pray over it and receive for it.

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And then they'll end up going there.

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Yeah.

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To minister in some way.

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We see that happen over and over and over

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because they're seeking after God for, you know,

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this word for their life.

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And it's not just going to a meeting, you know,

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there's a prophetic man there and he's gonna prophesy

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over everybody in the place.

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That's good.

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You know, and there's places you can go,

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you can get a prophecy continually all the time,

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but what if they don't all match up?

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That happens sometimes.

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Yeah, and that happens, you know,

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and you thought, well, how's this?

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How's that?

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And that's where it's like you seek the word of God

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for yourself and you ask for confirmations.

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Yes.

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And that is a great way to go.

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Cause when we travel as we do, you know,

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I say, Lord, if you have a word for us,

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that you bring it to the right person at the right time.

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So we're not chasing after something, you know,

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a known prophet or anything like that.

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And so you can learn to hear the word of God for yourself,

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you know, but how do you really learn to hear the word

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of God for yourself?

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And that's by seeking him.

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It's getting a hunger for him.

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Yes.

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There's a hunger to go to events,

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but there's not a hunger to get still.

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Yeah.

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There's not enough hunger there.

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There is hunger there, but not enough.

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It takes more hunger to what meets the eye

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to really hear from God like we want to do.

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And I want to give a good example here.

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Now, Charles Finney, you've probably heard about,

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a lot about Charles Finney.

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And he just-

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Great revivalist.

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Great revivalist.

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1800s.

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1800s.

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And he was not looking for a move of God.

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And this is a man, he was an attorney.

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He's actually the choir director in his church,

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you know, that he was going to.

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And actually the pastor and a lot of the people

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in the church were not even believers themselves.

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They were not born again.

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They had a form of righteousness, but it wasn't,

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it wasn't it.

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They never had actually repented for their sins.

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And it's a marvelous story.

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If you have a chance to find out there,

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Charles Finney's autobiography, you know,

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how he got saved because he was an attorney

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and the Holy Spirit was just working on this man

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and just working on him and working on him.

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And he's asking questions.

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And finally the day came, he says, okay,

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I'm going to give my heart to God today

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or I'm going to die trying, you know?

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He's getting serious because he realizes now

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the conviction of the Holy Spirit is so strong,

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he can't keep going like this.

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And so he goes to his office in that

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and the voice of the Lord starts speaking to him saying,

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aren't you going to get saved today?

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And then he knew he had to.

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So he just went down the street

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and went off to a wooded area, looked around,

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make sure nobody saw him.

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Kind of went into an area in the forest

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where some trees have fallen.

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It was like made a little hiding place.

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And he got in there and he just starts seeking out for God.

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You know, just really pressing in into God, you know,

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just crying up.

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And then all of a sudden it broke loose.

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When he broke loose and he was just this joy

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that came over him, like he'd never experienced before.

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It's what he was looking for, you know?

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And this joy, and it was just a powerful,

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powerful conversion.

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But when he came back and went to his office,

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and because the office had moved that day,

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they moved into the new office

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and the other attorney was there

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and they were doing small talk in that.

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And he lit a fire in this room, you know,

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they didn't have heaters, you couldn't turn the thermostat

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to 72 or something like that.

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You had to build a fire in the room.

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So he built this fire.

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But then he got off into another room, into a closet,

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and all of a sudden he got overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit

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and got in filled with the Spirit of God.

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Now people were getting filled with the Holy Ghost

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back then, it's 1700s and-

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1800s.

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1800s, 1800s, sorry.

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Maybe there was some in 1700s, we don't know.

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Could be.

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But-

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Well, I think John Wesley was in the center.

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John Wesley had the Spirit of God.

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He got filled with the Holy Spirit.

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Wow.

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So Charles Finney had this encounter with God

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because even after he had this encounter in the woods,

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it's just like these questions were nagging him about this.

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Did you really get saved this and that?

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But he had a peace because those questions,

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they weren't bothering him anymore.

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So he knew he got what he needed,

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but then he got the Holy Spirit

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and it turned him upside down.

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And just like the ways of glory just came over him,

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this overwhelming love that he said, it's killing me.

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It's killing me, I can't deal with this.

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And he went out that next day

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and eventually talking to the pastor, the church,

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and it took a little while,

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but everybody he met that next day got saved.

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Wow.

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One that day, it was later on.

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But then he just started reading the Bible

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because he read the Bible.

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I mean, attorneys, they read the Bible.

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I think that was part of his law training.

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In those days, they had to read the Bible

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as a part of their law training

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because a lot of our laws were based on the Bible.

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And a lot of our former presidents all the way back,

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George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,

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and the Bible was part of what they grew up with.

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And a lot of them were believers

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and a lot of them weren't believers,

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but they use quotes out of the Bible,

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which are still used today.

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Sure.

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Which is really an amazing thing.

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So Charles Finney has this amazing conversion

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and he's studying the Bible, studying the Bible,

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and he's starting to talk to the pastor in that

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because it was kind of their belief.

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And apparently it's a belief that holds today

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and that the nomination were, as far as getting saved.

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Can you describe that, Sharon, a little bit better than I,

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you got a better handle on that than I do.

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Well, I think it boils down to the fact

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that they were being trained in their seminaries

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with doctrines that were interpretations of the Bible

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without ever actually studying the Bible

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to know and verify is this really the case.

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And that's dangerous.

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It's very dangerous.

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And because Finney was busy reading the Bible as an attorney,

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he's looking at it from a black and white

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kind of a situation, not like,

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here's what the Bible says,

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rather than here's what the theologians say.

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Yeah, uh-huh.

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So he kept reading the word.

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I don't know if he took, it was a test or whatever it was,

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but he went before the pastoral board.

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Well, he was trying to get his license to preach.

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Yeah, he's studying his life to get his license

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for what he was saying is not what they were taught.

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They saw the power that was operating through him

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and how it changed him, cause they all knew who he was.

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And it was many that when he got converted,

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they got converted because they thought,

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wow, this really is real.

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And then boom, you know, it happened.

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And so when he went before the board,

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he had to pass his test and all that.

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They voted unanimously to give him his license as a preacher.

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Yes.

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Though he never went to their,

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I won't say their cemetery, their seminary.

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Good thing you won't say it.

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Yeah.

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And so he was so fiery.

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You look at the pictures of Finney,

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you look at his eyes and they're piercing.

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And in his book, it talks about,

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I don't know if it's actually in the abridged edition or not,

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but I got my hands on an unabridged edition

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of Charles Finney's autobiography and it's twice as thick.

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Yeah.

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And it has more chapters in it,

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but it tells about his, the intercessor,

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the man he met that was his intercessor

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that would go before him and pray

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and just intercede and pray.

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And when he got an all clear, he wouldn't notify him

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and said, you can come now.

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Yes. It's time to come.

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And people would be convicted, you know, at his presence,

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you know, they would.

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And I remember just hearing just the other day,

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Rodney Howard Brown preaching, you know,

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he'd walk into areas and the preachers would just leave,

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you know, cause they were scared of him.

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You know, he has such a presence of God on him.

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It's just so powerful.

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And that is really what happened to Finney.

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You know, it's just a powerful thing.

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And he went into a place, he was invited to preach

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and somebody came to him in a little village,

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not too far away, says,

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can you please come and minister in our church?

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So he's there and he's just getting before the Lord.

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And the Lord just gives him the words up,

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get you out of this place, you know.

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And that goes back to Genesis when Abraham and Lot,

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they separated themselves for the land

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and this beautiful land, you know, which Lot chose,

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he ended up in Sodom.

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And so God's coming, he's gonna destroy the whole city

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because of the sin is so bad.

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And that's the angels said to Lot,

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up, get you out of this place, you know,

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cause if you know, we're gonna destroy it.

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And so he's speaking on this, on this message, you know,

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that they're just saying, though you have to get,

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and he's using Sodom, he's using this whole scenario

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of Sodom and Lot and the people are getting madder

523
00:20:51,340 --> 00:20:53,300
and madder and madder by the minute.

524
00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:54,220
Angry, angry.

525
00:20:54,220 --> 00:20:56,980
Angry and he says, what's going on and all that.

526
00:20:56,980 --> 00:20:59,020
And then at the end of the message, you know,

527
00:20:59,020 --> 00:21:01,260
it's all over and he leaves.

528
00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:03,020
And he finds out a few days later,

529
00:21:03,020 --> 00:21:07,580
the place he was ministering was called Sodom.

530
00:21:07,580 --> 00:21:10,940
And the one righteous man that was there that invited him,

531
00:21:10,940 --> 00:21:12,780
his name was Lot.

532
00:21:12,780 --> 00:21:16,020
I mean, how much of a coincidence is that?

533
00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:16,860
You can't make these things up.

534
00:21:16,860 --> 00:21:18,340
You can't make those things up.

535
00:21:18,340 --> 00:21:20,180
And so, you know.

536
00:21:20,180 --> 00:21:22,340
So did they come under conviction and get saved?

537
00:21:22,340 --> 00:21:24,300
They did, yeah, not right that moment,

538
00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:28,060
but then they realized, you know, when it hit home,

539
00:21:28,060 --> 00:21:30,100
they did, you know.

540
00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:31,060
Glory to God.

541
00:21:31,060 --> 00:21:32,980
And he went into another place, you know,

542
00:21:32,980 --> 00:21:34,820
and this can happen today too,

543
00:21:34,820 --> 00:21:37,100
we're believing this marketplace ministry.

544
00:21:37,100 --> 00:21:37,940
Amen.

545
00:21:37,940 --> 00:21:39,700
You know, God's using people in the marketplace

546
00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:41,860
and, you know, in all different ways, you know,

547
00:21:41,860 --> 00:21:45,020
he's giving witty ideas and inventions and, you know,

548
00:21:45,020 --> 00:21:47,980
because you can't evacuate the marketplace, you know,

549
00:21:47,980 --> 00:21:50,340
cause that's a key to many people's survival,

550
00:21:50,340 --> 00:21:52,100
is the marketplace.

551
00:21:52,100 --> 00:21:56,140
And so anyway, he's invited to go to this factory.

552
00:21:56,140 --> 00:21:58,540
It's a, and they have spinning wheels,

553
00:21:58,540 --> 00:22:00,380
Jennys, I think they call them.

554
00:22:00,380 --> 00:22:02,700
And you know, they're all, they're working and all that.

555
00:22:02,700 --> 00:22:06,820
And he's ministering to them and they stop everything,

556
00:22:06,820 --> 00:22:08,700
you know, and they have a meeting,

557
00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:11,580
shut all the machines off and all that.

558
00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:13,060
And they all get saved.

559
00:22:13,060 --> 00:22:16,820
The power of God hits the place and they all get saved.

560
00:22:16,820 --> 00:22:18,980
You know, and that's the story of Charles Finney,

561
00:22:18,980 --> 00:22:22,060
wherever he went, did he meet opposition?

562
00:22:22,060 --> 00:22:22,900
Yes.

563
00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:23,740
Yes.

564
00:22:23,740 --> 00:22:24,580
He met a lot of it.

565
00:22:24,580 --> 00:22:26,380
And what we've always says,

566
00:22:26,380 --> 00:22:29,220
you never mock something God is doing.

567
00:22:29,220 --> 00:22:30,060
Right.

568
00:22:30,060 --> 00:22:32,620
If you don't understand it, put it on the shelf.

569
00:22:32,620 --> 00:22:34,100
That's an expression we use.

570
00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:37,020
Put on the shelf, well, maybe later on, you know,

571
00:22:37,020 --> 00:22:38,260
we'll go back and look at that,

572
00:22:38,260 --> 00:22:41,140
but don't touch it right now, you know?

573
00:22:41,140 --> 00:22:43,940
But there was a time that there was three opposers

574
00:22:43,940 --> 00:22:45,380
that were just kind of mocking him

575
00:22:45,380 --> 00:22:47,540
during a meeting and all that, you know,

576
00:22:47,540 --> 00:22:49,540
and they were drunk, they went out drunk

577
00:22:49,540 --> 00:22:51,620
and one of them fell over dead.

578
00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:53,340
I mean, the power of God was just so strong

579
00:22:53,340 --> 00:22:55,260
and moving in the place.

580
00:22:55,260 --> 00:22:56,100
And it was-

581
00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:57,540
I presume the other two repented.

582
00:22:57,540 --> 00:22:58,980
Probably did, yeah.

583
00:22:58,980 --> 00:23:00,180
I imagine so.

584
00:23:00,180 --> 00:23:02,100
Sobered up quick too, I'm sure.

585
00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:05,860
And in Oneida, New York, you know, we've been there

586
00:23:05,860 --> 00:23:08,940
because this was his area, Rochester, you know,

587
00:23:08,940 --> 00:23:10,860
and where was his Bible school?

588
00:23:10,860 --> 00:23:12,420
His Bible school was in Ohio.

589
00:23:12,420 --> 00:23:14,100
It was in Ohio, okay.

590
00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:16,980
So, but he impacted such a large area.

591
00:23:16,980 --> 00:23:19,740
That was just so powerful.

592
00:23:19,740 --> 00:23:21,780
But there was a meeting he was at

593
00:23:21,780 --> 00:23:25,140
and one of the presbytery just spoke out against him,

594
00:23:25,140 --> 00:23:26,900
you know, publicly, just really, you know,

595
00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:28,620
this, this and that.

596
00:23:28,620 --> 00:23:32,180
And the next morning he was found dead in his bed.

597
00:23:32,180 --> 00:23:35,300
You know, it was like, is that a coincidence?

598
00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:36,540
No.

599
00:23:36,540 --> 00:23:38,180
You know, I remember we were in our-

600
00:23:38,180 --> 00:23:40,660
it was Argentina and Sister Gwen, our founder,

601
00:23:40,660 --> 00:23:44,460
was ministering and all of a sudden she just stops

602
00:23:44,460 --> 00:23:48,020
and said, there's gonna be a funeral in this church

603
00:23:48,020 --> 00:23:50,980
next week and there's someone here, you know,

604
00:23:50,980 --> 00:23:52,380
if you don't repent.

605
00:23:52,380 --> 00:23:53,220
Yeah.

606
00:23:53,220 --> 00:23:54,820
There'll be a funeral if you don't repent.

607
00:23:54,820 --> 00:23:56,980
I mean, that's a strong word to say from the pulpit,

608
00:23:56,980 --> 00:23:57,980
you know? It's true.

609
00:23:57,980 --> 00:23:59,820
And it was after the meeting, you know,

610
00:23:59,820 --> 00:24:02,380
they're having a little get together with a pastor

611
00:24:02,380 --> 00:24:03,420
and all that.

612
00:24:03,420 --> 00:24:06,660
And one of the deacons runs in and says, please come.

613
00:24:06,660 --> 00:24:09,140
You know, Deacon Soso is having a heart attack

614
00:24:09,140 --> 00:24:12,860
and they rushed in there and he's gasping for air

615
00:24:12,860 --> 00:24:14,540
and his wife's trying to comfort him

616
00:24:14,540 --> 00:24:16,500
and he's pushing his wife away.

617
00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:19,220
You know, this man has real spirit of anger on him.

618
00:24:19,220 --> 00:24:20,780
I think she was saying, please forgive me.

619
00:24:20,780 --> 00:24:21,940
Please forgive me.

620
00:24:21,940 --> 00:24:23,460
He would not forgive.

621
00:24:23,460 --> 00:24:25,980
And Sister Gwen went to lay hands on him

622
00:24:25,980 --> 00:24:28,540
and the Holy Spirit said, don't touch him.

623
00:24:28,540 --> 00:24:29,980
You know, don't touch him.

624
00:24:29,980 --> 00:24:32,620
Just prepare yourself to watch him die.

625
00:24:32,620 --> 00:24:33,460
Yeah.

626
00:24:33,460 --> 00:24:35,020
And she couldn't do anything.

627
00:24:35,020 --> 00:24:37,460
And she watched him die screaming.

628
00:24:37,460 --> 00:24:38,300
Yeah.

629
00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:39,300
Unforgiveness.

630
00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:41,820
And there was a funeral in the church that week.

631
00:24:41,820 --> 00:24:42,660
Yes.

632
00:24:42,660 --> 00:24:46,060
And Jesus is very clear right after the Lord's Prayer

633
00:24:46,060 --> 00:24:49,900
in Matthew six that if you don't forgive,

634
00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:50,740
you won't be forgiven.

635
00:24:50,740 --> 00:24:51,580
You won't be forgiven.

636
00:24:51,580 --> 00:24:52,420
Yeah.

637
00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:54,460
So if you want to be forgiven, make sure that you forgive.

638
00:24:54,460 --> 00:24:55,620
It's critical.

639
00:24:55,620 --> 00:24:56,980
Absolutely critical.

640
00:24:56,980 --> 00:24:58,700
And you have to remember, you know,

641
00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:00,460
some churches you go to, you know,

642
00:25:00,460 --> 00:25:03,100
God is, he's a tremendous God of love

643
00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:06,420
and he's pouring his love out, but he's a God of justice.

644
00:25:06,420 --> 00:25:09,460
He has scales, you know, and sin.

645
00:25:09,460 --> 00:25:10,980
It's like a nation.

646
00:25:10,980 --> 00:25:14,460
I've heard our founder, Sister Gwen say it's a balance.

647
00:25:14,460 --> 00:25:17,260
You have prayers in one hand, like a balance,

648
00:25:17,260 --> 00:25:19,540
and you have sin in the other.

649
00:25:19,540 --> 00:25:24,540
And prayer has to outweigh, it has to outbalance the sin.

650
00:25:24,740 --> 00:25:26,980
Because when it turns the other way,

651
00:25:26,980 --> 00:25:29,620
then, you know, everything starts going wrong.

652
00:25:29,620 --> 00:25:31,540
And that's why we have to have the man

653
00:25:31,540 --> 00:25:33,420
that's willing to stand in the gap.

654
00:25:33,420 --> 00:25:35,540
And that's really where we are right now.

655
00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:37,420
Yeah, that's it.

656
00:25:37,420 --> 00:25:42,020
And over in Wales, you know, there was Reese Howells.

657
00:25:42,020 --> 00:25:44,820
He was the intercessor for England, you know,

658
00:25:44,820 --> 00:25:46,820
at the time of the war and he had a Bible.

659
00:25:46,820 --> 00:25:47,660
World War II.

660
00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:51,260
World War II, and his book, Reese Howells' Intercessor,

661
00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:53,460
it's a powerful, powerful book.

662
00:25:53,460 --> 00:25:55,820
And I was only saved a couple of years

663
00:25:55,820 --> 00:26:00,140
and we had had his book and we're on the plane to India.

664
00:26:00,140 --> 00:26:01,980
And I was reading it and I had to put it down.

665
00:26:01,980 --> 00:26:05,060
It was a little more than I could handle.

666
00:26:05,060 --> 00:26:05,900
Yeah, that was your first mission.

667
00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:07,260
That was my first mission.

668
00:26:07,260 --> 00:26:09,220
Yeah, it was a tough mission trip too.

669
00:26:09,220 --> 00:26:11,300
You know, and then, but some years later,

670
00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:14,140
I picked it up and I could digest everything in it

671
00:26:14,140 --> 00:26:15,860
because I realized, you know,

672
00:26:15,860 --> 00:26:17,940
I had to get a bit of flesh out of me, you know,

673
00:26:17,940 --> 00:26:19,900
so I can understand, you know,

674
00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:22,140
how God was working in this man.

675
00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:23,300
It was just powerful.

676
00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:27,740
And then the, and he was born in 1879, you know,

677
00:26:27,740 --> 00:26:30,740
and it was in the Battle of Britain is what they call it.

678
00:26:30,740 --> 00:26:35,180
It was when Germany was mercilessly dropping bombs.

679
00:26:35,180 --> 00:26:37,540
And, you know, the British airplanes,

680
00:26:37,540 --> 00:26:39,620
the Spitfires, they couldn't, you know,

681
00:26:39,620 --> 00:26:41,340
they were just outnumbered, you know,

682
00:26:41,340 --> 00:26:44,540
and London was just getting bombed and all that.

683
00:26:44,540 --> 00:26:46,740
But I want to read a quote, you know,

684
00:26:46,740 --> 00:26:49,300
this is happening at the start of the war.

685
00:26:49,300 --> 00:26:50,820
And it's on September 4th.

686
00:26:50,820 --> 00:26:52,220
I'm not sure of the year here.

687
00:26:52,220 --> 00:26:54,500
It's probably, it's out of his journal.

688
00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:57,340
The situation in the country because of air raids

689
00:26:57,340 --> 00:26:59,140
may become very serious.

690
00:26:59,140 --> 00:27:01,020
So this is just the start.

691
00:27:01,020 --> 00:27:04,140
We have never walked this way before.

692
00:27:04,140 --> 00:27:06,100
And I'll ask to our listeners,

693
00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:08,820
have you walked this way before where you're at?

694
00:27:08,820 --> 00:27:11,180
You know, as we see things

695
00:27:11,180 --> 00:27:14,460
that are presenting themselves before our eyes.

696
00:27:14,460 --> 00:27:18,500
The important thing is to find out where God is in this.

697
00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:20,460
When you are in danger every night,

698
00:27:20,460 --> 00:27:22,820
it takes you a long time to be sure

699
00:27:22,820 --> 00:27:25,500
that you are under God's protection.

700
00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:28,300
Can you say you are safe in the air raids?

701
00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:29,700
Has God told you?

702
00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:31,620
You may try to use the word of God

703
00:27:31,620 --> 00:27:34,220
without having his power behind it.

704
00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:36,940
If God is going to deliver from this hell,

705
00:27:36,940 --> 00:27:39,700
there will have to be some power released.

706
00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:42,460
Unless you are sure of your own victory,

707
00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:44,020
you will never be able to pray

708
00:27:44,020 --> 00:27:46,380
for the deliverance of the country.

709
00:27:46,380 --> 00:27:47,220
Wow.

710
00:27:47,220 --> 00:27:48,060
Yeah, isn't that powerful?

711
00:27:48,060 --> 00:27:48,900
That is huge.

712
00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:50,300
That is so huge.

713
00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:53,300
And that's like, we have to have authority in our prayers

714
00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:55,300
and what God is saying, you know,

715
00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:57,700
and if you're not living a prayer life,

716
00:27:57,700 --> 00:27:59,740
if you're not living in a place close to God

717
00:27:59,740 --> 00:28:01,420
where you can hear his voice,

718
00:28:01,420 --> 00:28:03,660
and when you're putting all the other voices out,

719
00:28:03,660 --> 00:28:06,340
and all the other stuff away,

720
00:28:06,340 --> 00:28:08,740
how will you be able to hear from God

721
00:28:08,740 --> 00:28:12,180
when all of a sudden you're in a situation like that

722
00:28:12,180 --> 00:28:14,300
that is totally beyond your control?

723
00:28:14,300 --> 00:28:17,820
Right, that's the famine that you were talking about earlier.

724
00:28:17,820 --> 00:28:18,660
That's the famine.

725
00:28:18,660 --> 00:28:19,500
The famine for the word of God.

726
00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:23,020
We've got to practice being still now

727
00:28:23,020 --> 00:28:25,820
when things haven't erupted yet,

728
00:28:25,820 --> 00:28:28,420
in order to be ready for when they do,

729
00:28:28,420 --> 00:28:31,900
because everything that can be shaken is going to be shaken,

730
00:28:31,900 --> 00:28:34,540
so that that which cannot be shaken will remain.

731
00:28:34,540 --> 00:28:38,580
You know, intercessors for the last 40, 50 years

732
00:28:38,580 --> 00:28:41,420
have been successful in fighting off a lot of stuff

733
00:28:41,420 --> 00:28:44,220
that we thought was going to happen back then,

734
00:28:44,220 --> 00:28:46,620
but now it's happening everywhere.

735
00:28:46,620 --> 00:28:48,740
You know, immorality,

736
00:28:48,740 --> 00:28:51,260
that's one of your big causes, is immorality.

737
00:28:51,260 --> 00:28:52,580
Yes, it brings a curse on the land.

738
00:28:52,580 --> 00:28:55,860
It brings a curse, and if you're looking at stuff,

739
00:28:55,860 --> 00:28:57,740
you know, you're getting distracted.

740
00:28:57,740 --> 00:28:59,980
You know, we never had phones you could look at,

741
00:28:59,980 --> 00:29:03,420
you know, and there wasn't stuff on TV way back.

742
00:29:03,420 --> 00:29:05,260
You know, there was innuendos on TV,

743
00:29:05,260 --> 00:29:09,180
but there wasn't open nudity or anything like that.

744
00:29:09,180 --> 00:29:12,940
You never heard the word hell or the word damn, you know.

745
00:29:12,940 --> 00:29:15,500
Those were words that were not even used

746
00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:17,380
when we were watching TV.

747
00:29:17,380 --> 00:29:19,620
But, you know, in 1962,

748
00:29:19,620 --> 00:29:22,220
when prayer was taken out of the schools,

749
00:29:22,220 --> 00:29:25,140
and they can mark it, there's a gentleman

750
00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:26,740
that has all this document,

751
00:29:26,740 --> 00:29:29,220
and we've heard him speak a few times.

752
00:29:29,220 --> 00:29:33,020
David Barton, if you want to check his stuff out,

753
00:29:33,020 --> 00:29:35,660
you know, he documented from 1962 on

754
00:29:35,660 --> 00:29:37,180
in our public school system

755
00:29:37,180 --> 00:29:39,660
how it started going downhill from there.

756
00:29:39,660 --> 00:29:42,420
Soon as the Bible went out, crime went up.

757
00:29:42,420 --> 00:29:46,100
Crime went up, and that's when our nation was taking a turn.

758
00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:48,260
And then the abortion issue, you know,

759
00:29:48,260 --> 00:29:51,260
what, 10 years later, I think it was, you know,

760
00:29:51,260 --> 00:29:53,660
and the shedding of innocent blood.

761
00:29:53,660 --> 00:29:54,900
Right, brings a curse.

762
00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:56,780
And the intercessors are praying, you know,

763
00:29:56,780 --> 00:29:58,900
they're praying, they're praying.

764
00:29:58,900 --> 00:30:01,260
And the big prophetic word, you know,

765
00:30:01,260 --> 00:30:04,380
going on in the late 19, like 1970, 70,

766
00:30:04,380 --> 00:30:07,420
Jesus is coming, you know, and all that.

767
00:30:07,420 --> 00:30:09,380
And that's when I backslid.

768
00:30:09,380 --> 00:30:10,940
You know, I turned my back on God,

769
00:30:10,940 --> 00:30:13,100
and, you know, in my teen years,

770
00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:15,500
and I wanted to live a little, you know,

771
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:19,700
because the tribulation message kind of shoved down my throat,

772
00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:22,500
if you want to call it that way, for years.

773
00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:24,580
And I was tired of it,

774
00:30:24,580 --> 00:30:27,220
because I wasn't seeing things happening, you know.

775
00:30:27,220 --> 00:30:29,900
And so I did my thing, and I paid dearly for it,

776
00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:32,940
and learned some lessons in life, you know,

777
00:30:32,940 --> 00:30:34,420
which I shouldn't have had to learn,

778
00:30:34,420 --> 00:30:36,300
but that was a choice that I made.

779
00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:40,140
But God can redeem our choices, you know.

780
00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:42,860
So we are now in the state of where we thought

781
00:30:42,860 --> 00:30:45,700
we were going, you know, 40, 50 years ago.

782
00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:48,300
And now the same word is going on.

783
00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:53,180
God is saying, I'm looking for someone to stand in the gap.

784
00:30:53,180 --> 00:30:55,620
And Reese Howells was one of those.

785
00:30:55,620 --> 00:30:59,140
And this Bible school, sometimes on a daily basis,

786
00:30:59,140 --> 00:31:02,020
they would shut a class down, or they'd fast that day,

787
00:31:02,020 --> 00:31:03,940
and the Lord would give them strategies,

788
00:31:03,940 --> 00:31:05,460
and they would pray into it.

789
00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:10,420
The Lord would show them things for Hitler to do this.

790
00:31:10,420 --> 00:31:13,860
And he did that, and was part of bringing his downfall.

791
00:31:13,860 --> 00:31:16,300
And that's prophetic intercession.

792
00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:18,820
And that's really hearing from God,

793
00:31:18,820 --> 00:31:22,660
because unless you're in a desperate situation,

794
00:31:22,660 --> 00:31:24,780
what does it take to call out to God?

795
00:31:24,780 --> 00:31:27,620
You know, it's hard when we have everything around us

796
00:31:27,620 --> 00:31:30,020
pulling on us to want to spend more time.

797
00:31:30,020 --> 00:31:33,580
Okay, I'll carve out another 15 minutes here,

798
00:31:33,580 --> 00:31:35,700
another half hour there, you know.

799
00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:37,620
But God wants more than that.

800
00:31:37,620 --> 00:31:39,300
And he wants us to find him.

801
00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:43,020
So when you get into a perilous situation,

802
00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:45,780
you will be able to act because you can hear his voice.

803
00:31:45,780 --> 00:31:47,700
Right, that you walk with him continually.

804
00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:49,060
It's a continual walk.

805
00:31:49,060 --> 00:31:51,900
You know, it's carry your cross daily.

806
00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:52,740
Right.

807
00:31:52,740 --> 00:31:54,260
But what is the cross?

808
00:31:54,260 --> 00:31:56,180
It's a sign of suffering.

809
00:31:56,180 --> 00:31:58,740
It's the power of God unto salvation,

810
00:31:58,740 --> 00:32:02,940
but it's also a sign of what Jesus did for us.

811
00:32:02,940 --> 00:32:04,820
We can't nail ourselves to the cross.

812
00:32:04,820 --> 00:32:05,640
It's true.

813
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,660
I mean, you can nail your feet in one hand,

814
00:32:07,660 --> 00:32:08,700
but you can't do the other.

815
00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:10,420
Somebody's gotta do that for you.

816
00:32:11,740 --> 00:32:16,180
And if you can just die daily, as Apostle Paul said,

817
00:32:16,180 --> 00:32:19,300
that you're in a whole lot better position

818
00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:21,100
to hear from God.

819
00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:23,380
And Rodney Howard Brown, he was in England,

820
00:32:23,380 --> 00:32:27,140
just recently, and the Lord spoke to him to go.

821
00:32:27,140 --> 00:32:29,500
And he just went by faith

822
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:32,660
and went to all these African nations ahead of that.

823
00:32:32,660 --> 00:32:36,420
And some of the Africans that were in London said,

824
00:32:36,420 --> 00:32:39,820
please come because our nation is getting taken over.

825
00:32:39,820 --> 00:32:41,180
They basically said,

826
00:32:41,180 --> 00:32:43,300
we cleaned out the ministry bank accounts.

827
00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:47,700
It was like $4 million, rented the big arena there.

828
00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:50,060
And how many pastors came and participated?

829
00:32:50,060 --> 00:32:50,900
There were 2000 pastors.

830
00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:54,020
2000 pastors came because they're desperate.

831
00:32:54,020 --> 00:32:57,740
London, England is in a desperate place right now.

832
00:32:57,740 --> 00:32:59,540
And when things get desperate,

833
00:32:59,540 --> 00:33:01,620
like even like it did for Reese House,

834
00:33:01,620 --> 00:33:03,740
when you're getting bombed every day,

835
00:33:03,740 --> 00:33:05,340
you can hear the bombs going off.

836
00:33:05,340 --> 00:33:07,780
And what if one of them gets off kilter

837
00:33:07,780 --> 00:33:10,300
and lands right on the building next to you

838
00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:12,000
or somewhere next to you?

839
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,700
We know a man that he was Saddam Hussein's general.

840
00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:16,540
George Sada.

841
00:33:16,540 --> 00:33:19,340
Yeah, George Sada, he wrote a book.

842
00:33:19,340 --> 00:33:22,580
And he was a believer.

843
00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:25,340
But if you said something Saddam didn't like,

844
00:33:25,340 --> 00:33:27,100
he'd just have you taken out.

845
00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:28,460
That was the way it was.

846
00:33:28,460 --> 00:33:32,220
And so anyway, America is getting ready to bomb,

847
00:33:32,220 --> 00:33:34,460
is getting ready to go into Iraq.

848
00:33:34,460 --> 00:33:38,980
So George is taking a nap in Saddam's quarters.

849
00:33:38,980 --> 00:33:40,380
Yes, in an underground bunker.

850
00:33:40,380 --> 00:33:43,440
Underground bunker, he's just taking a nap.

851
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,740
And all of a sudden he just wakes up.

852
00:33:45,740 --> 00:33:47,380
Says, okay, I'll just get up.

853
00:33:47,380 --> 00:33:49,220
Goes to make some coffee,

854
00:33:49,220 --> 00:33:50,460
walks out of that bunker,

855
00:33:50,460 --> 00:33:52,680
goes down to where the break room was,

856
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,380
and kaboom, a bunker bomb falls through that bunker

857
00:33:56,380 --> 00:33:58,300
and explodes.

858
00:33:58,300 --> 00:33:59,220
I mean, moments.

859
00:33:59,220 --> 00:34:00,500
And what was Saddam's?

860
00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:01,700
And what was Saddam's?

861
00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:02,540
Bedroom.

862
00:34:02,540 --> 00:34:03,360
Bedroom.

863
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:04,200
Holy Spirit woke him up.

864
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,020
He got up, get a cup of coffee or something.

865
00:34:07,020 --> 00:34:09,660
And that's when the bombing started on Iraq.

866
00:34:09,660 --> 00:34:11,180
And what a place to be in.

867
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,340
There's people like that all over everywhere.

868
00:34:14,340 --> 00:34:15,700
You just don't hear about them.

869
00:34:15,700 --> 00:34:16,540
Right.

870
00:34:16,540 --> 00:34:17,360
And now and then you will.

871
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,020
He was one of those men that God had sought for.

872
00:34:21,020 --> 00:34:23,020
He stood in the gap.

873
00:34:23,020 --> 00:34:24,900
He stood in the gap for Christianity

874
00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:28,420
when everybody is dying around him.

875
00:34:28,420 --> 00:34:31,180
And so Rodney Howard Brown says,

876
00:34:31,180 --> 00:34:33,140
the Lord says, I'm gonna tell you

877
00:34:33,140 --> 00:34:36,220
what's gonna happen in the next 10 years.

878
00:34:36,220 --> 00:34:37,580
And so he broadcasts it.

879
00:34:37,580 --> 00:34:39,980
Lord's gonna reveal what's gonna happen

880
00:34:39,980 --> 00:34:41,580
in these next 10 years.

881
00:34:41,580 --> 00:34:44,740
And so he's crying out to God in the bedroom

882
00:34:44,740 --> 00:34:46,020
because he hasn't heard yet.

883
00:34:46,020 --> 00:34:46,860
What is it?

884
00:34:46,860 --> 00:34:47,700
Yeah.

885
00:34:47,700 --> 00:34:49,260
And he already broadcasted it.

886
00:34:49,260 --> 00:34:51,100
And he's getting up to go to the meeting

887
00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:52,620
and he's getting desperate for God,

888
00:34:52,620 --> 00:34:55,300
crying out to God, Jesus help me.

889
00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:57,460
He's really, and all that.

890
00:34:57,460 --> 00:35:00,260
And he goes into the service

891
00:35:00,260 --> 00:35:02,620
and the praise and worship went on for a long time.

892
00:35:02,620 --> 00:35:04,940
It's finally, it's time.

893
00:35:04,940 --> 00:35:06,400
And all of a sudden, but what he hears

894
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,540
when he's crying out to God so loud,

895
00:35:08,540 --> 00:35:10,940
he just hears God laughing at him.

896
00:35:10,940 --> 00:35:11,780
Just laughing.

897
00:35:11,780 --> 00:35:14,780
He says, what are you laughing at me for?

898
00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:16,620
He has that kind of relationship.

899
00:35:16,620 --> 00:35:18,300
He can hear God like that.

900
00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:21,460
And so he's in the service and he gets up there.

901
00:35:21,460 --> 00:35:23,580
And then the Lord says,

902
00:35:23,580 --> 00:35:27,020
tell them only do what I tell you to do.

903
00:35:27,020 --> 00:35:29,100
And he says, what does that mean?

904
00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:30,660
That'll be over in three minutes.

905
00:35:30,660 --> 00:35:33,020
How can I preach on the,

906
00:35:33,020 --> 00:35:35,700
just do what I tell you to do for the next 10 years.

907
00:35:36,940 --> 00:35:38,680
And that was his message.

908
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,140
That's what God told him to tell the people,

909
00:35:41,140 --> 00:35:44,400
only do what I tell you to do.

910
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,860
That means only go to what conference I tell you to,

911
00:35:47,860 --> 00:35:50,780
only to go to what city I tell you to,

912
00:35:50,780 --> 00:35:53,940
only go to what friends I tell you to,

913
00:35:53,940 --> 00:35:55,620
learn to depend.

914
00:35:55,620 --> 00:35:57,900
You know, this is, I'm preaching to the choir.

915
00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:00,060
I'm preaching to myself, you know.

916
00:36:00,060 --> 00:36:02,140
You know, I'm not saying this trying to,

917
00:36:02,140 --> 00:36:03,060
you know, promote something

918
00:36:03,060 --> 00:36:05,500
that I'm not getting dealt with, you know.

919
00:36:06,700 --> 00:36:08,580
So that was the message.

920
00:36:08,580 --> 00:36:10,860
Only do what I tell you to do.

921
00:36:10,860 --> 00:36:12,340
And then 10 years you come back

922
00:36:12,340 --> 00:36:15,260
and I'll tell you what he says, you know.

923
00:36:15,260 --> 00:36:16,900
He'll tell me again, you know.

924
00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:18,900
What's the next thing and all that.

925
00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:20,900
It's obeying the voice of God.

926
00:36:20,900 --> 00:36:22,940
It's what we heard when we were in Florida

927
00:36:22,940 --> 00:36:25,240
on our last visit down there.

928
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:30,060
A pastor of the church that we got engaged in 43 years ago.

929
00:36:30,060 --> 00:36:30,940
It was in Georgia.

930
00:36:30,940 --> 00:36:33,020
We were there and we got engaged.

931
00:36:33,020 --> 00:36:33,940
At Dan Duke's church.

932
00:36:33,940 --> 00:36:35,900
Yeah, it was Dan Duke.

933
00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:38,940
And what happened to him, it was years back

934
00:36:38,940 --> 00:36:40,420
and he just came and his wife,

935
00:36:40,420 --> 00:36:42,500
20 years off the mission field

936
00:36:42,500 --> 00:36:45,100
and they're having a celebration for him.

937
00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:47,700
And they invited Rodney Howard Brown

938
00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:50,180
before people really knew who he was.

939
00:36:50,180 --> 00:36:51,980
You know, he was carrying something

940
00:36:51,980 --> 00:36:53,780
and that's where it broke loose.

941
00:36:53,780 --> 00:36:57,900
And that's where he got turned upside down

942
00:36:57,900 --> 00:36:59,340
and he was here in our camp

943
00:36:59,340 --> 00:37:03,300
and he brought some of that fire and that power with him.

944
00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:05,580
And it was just so powerful.

945
00:37:05,580 --> 00:37:07,460
And so that's what he does.

946
00:37:07,460 --> 00:37:10,340
You know, he says, but what you have to have

947
00:37:10,340 --> 00:37:12,260
is say, okay, God, you know,

948
00:37:12,260 --> 00:37:14,300
I wanna do what you tell me to do,

949
00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:15,940
but it has to start with a hunger.

950
00:37:15,940 --> 00:37:16,780
Yes.

951
00:37:16,780 --> 00:37:18,260
We have to have a hunger.

952
00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:19,940
What happens if we get hungry?

953
00:37:19,940 --> 00:37:22,020
You're driving down the interstate.

954
00:37:22,020 --> 00:37:24,420
You're looking for a sign for your favorite drive-through

955
00:37:24,420 --> 00:37:27,300
or something, you know, because you're hungry.

956
00:37:27,300 --> 00:37:30,140
But we have to have that same desire for the word of God.

957
00:37:30,140 --> 00:37:30,980
Amen.

958
00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:32,820
You know, we have to have that desire

959
00:37:32,820 --> 00:37:35,380
to spending more time in the word.

960
00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:38,420
And even on your Facebook and every stuff like that,

961
00:37:38,420 --> 00:37:41,140
you know, things just come up and come up and yeah,

962
00:37:41,140 --> 00:37:42,780
I'm working on it too, you know.

963
00:37:44,180 --> 00:37:45,700
Things come up just to pull you away.

964
00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:47,020
I thought, you know, you could,

965
00:37:47,020 --> 00:37:49,740
you're gonna spend that time listening to

966
00:37:49,740 --> 00:37:53,180
the book of Ephesians on your phone app, you know?

967
00:37:53,180 --> 00:37:55,340
And that's what I'm doing more and more.

968
00:37:55,340 --> 00:37:56,820
And when you're doing this,

969
00:37:56,820 --> 00:37:59,580
cause the more what you put in you,

970
00:37:59,580 --> 00:38:01,060
the more you'll be hungry for.

971
00:38:01,060 --> 00:38:01,900
Right.

972
00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:03,780
What happens if you have,

973
00:38:03,780 --> 00:38:05,620
you depend on coffee all the time.

974
00:38:05,620 --> 00:38:08,260
I love coffee, you know?

975
00:38:08,260 --> 00:38:11,180
But if you depend on it and you drink a lot of it,

976
00:38:11,180 --> 00:38:12,500
a lot of it, a lot of it,

977
00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:15,020
and all of a sudden there comes a time you can't get it.

978
00:38:15,020 --> 00:38:15,940
It's trouble.

979
00:38:15,940 --> 00:38:17,140
It's trouble.

980
00:38:17,140 --> 00:38:19,860
It's really trouble and you're gonna hurt, you know?

981
00:38:19,860 --> 00:38:22,340
And we're really hurting ourselves spiritually.

982
00:38:22,340 --> 00:38:25,340
You know, if we're not spending time in the word of God

983
00:38:25,340 --> 00:38:27,460
because we have to know what he's saying,

984
00:38:27,460 --> 00:38:29,420
it'll be a scripture can come up for that day

985
00:38:29,420 --> 00:38:32,420
for somebody, for you or for somebody else.

986
00:38:32,420 --> 00:38:35,300
But we get addicted to a lot of other stuff.

987
00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:37,860
I mean, what percentage of youth today

988
00:38:37,860 --> 00:38:39,580
are addicted to their cell phones?

989
00:38:39,580 --> 00:38:42,100
What happens if you take the cell phone away or the tablet?

990
00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:43,420
Not just the youth.

991
00:38:43,420 --> 00:38:45,300
What about the adults?

992
00:38:45,300 --> 00:38:48,460
What about those of us in our sixties?

993
00:38:48,460 --> 00:38:52,660
So we're pretty much, I mean, it's an addictive thing.

994
00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:55,460
The thing is that God created us

995
00:38:55,460 --> 00:38:57,460
with the ability to become addicted

996
00:38:57,460 --> 00:39:00,140
because he intended for us to be addicted to him.

997
00:39:00,140 --> 00:39:01,060
To him.

998
00:39:01,060 --> 00:39:04,060
And they say if you do a pattern for 21 days,

999
00:39:04,060 --> 00:39:05,700
it becomes a habit.

1000
00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:09,660
So we got on an airplane once from Paris to Israel,

1001
00:39:09,660 --> 00:39:10,500
I think it was.

1002
00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:11,340
Oh yeah.

1003
00:39:11,340 --> 00:39:12,620
And we're going through the front section

1004
00:39:12,620 --> 00:39:14,780
and this was an Air France plane

1005
00:39:14,780 --> 00:39:16,260
but it was a little older one

1006
00:39:16,260 --> 00:39:19,420
and it didn't have the TVs in the seat in front of you.

1007
00:39:19,420 --> 00:39:21,940
And I'm going by and this guy says,

1008
00:39:21,940 --> 00:39:25,420
this is an adult, maybe in his one, thirties maybe?

1009
00:39:25,420 --> 00:39:26,740
Thirties, probably.

1010
00:39:26,740 --> 00:39:28,900
And he says, well, where's the entertainment?

1011
00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:30,940
Kind of like in a, well, what am I gonna do?

1012
00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:35,060
And he said, what am I gonna do for the next four hours?

1013
00:39:35,060 --> 00:39:37,020
I just zipped my lip

1014
00:39:37,020 --> 00:39:39,260
because I didn't want to get a bloody nose.

1015
00:39:39,260 --> 00:39:42,420
I could have really said something there

1016
00:39:42,420 --> 00:39:44,180
that he may not have liked,

1017
00:39:44,180 --> 00:39:46,700
but I didn't feel the anointing to say anything.

1018
00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:47,700
Good thing.

1019
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:49,020
But that's just an example.

1020
00:39:49,020 --> 00:39:51,180
He's addicted to entertainment.

1021
00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:52,000
Right.

1022
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,620
And I remember hearing a preacher give a message one,

1023
00:39:54,620 --> 00:39:56,980
we are addicted to three things.

1024
00:39:56,980 --> 00:40:00,660
Fun, food, entertainment.

1025
00:40:00,660 --> 00:40:01,500
Yeah.

1026
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:03,740
Three things, fun, food, entertainment.

1027
00:40:03,740 --> 00:40:05,380
That's what kids want.

1028
00:40:05,380 --> 00:40:07,540
And adults too, a lot of them.

1029
00:40:07,540 --> 00:40:09,460
Fun, food, entertainment.

1030
00:40:10,460 --> 00:40:11,460
Another story.

1031
00:40:11,460 --> 00:40:14,780
So let's look at, there's one more person I want to look at

1032
00:40:14,780 --> 00:40:16,740
and that was Evan Roberts.

1033
00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:20,100
And he was one that was looking for God to move.

1034
00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:23,940
Ever since he was a youth, he had that polling to the Lord.

1035
00:40:23,940 --> 00:40:25,100
He just had this polling

1036
00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:28,540
and he worked in the coal mines and all that.

1037
00:40:28,540 --> 00:40:32,060
Then he's going off to Bible school.

1038
00:40:32,060 --> 00:40:34,300
I forget the town it was actually at.

1039
00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:36,740
Took the train there and he got there and he says,

1040
00:40:36,740 --> 00:40:40,660
I looked at the cross in the church and I didn't weep.

1041
00:40:40,660 --> 00:40:43,000
See, when he would look at the cross, he would cry.

1042
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,300
That's how impacted he was by it.

1043
00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:48,860
But it was so spiritually where he was.

1044
00:40:48,860 --> 00:40:50,580
And he was there learning,

1045
00:40:50,580 --> 00:40:52,220
learning the Bible and all that,

1046
00:40:52,220 --> 00:40:54,020
but it's totally different.

1047
00:40:54,020 --> 00:40:55,820
But they're going to a meeting

1048
00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:58,660
and the pastor driving the vehicle says,

1049
00:40:58,660 --> 00:41:02,340
I've been praying for four to five years for a lad

1050
00:41:02,340 --> 00:41:05,080
to come out of the coal mines or out of the fields

1051
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,100
for God to raise up and to preach the gospel.

1052
00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:11,220
Not someone that's in seminary that is high

1053
00:41:11,220 --> 00:41:13,400
and has a degree this and that.

1054
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,220
I want somebody, God raised somebody up

1055
00:41:15,220 --> 00:41:18,380
that's a common folk and he heard that.

1056
00:41:18,380 --> 00:41:20,060
And the next day I think it was,

1057
00:41:20,060 --> 00:41:23,120
he's in the meeting and the pastor there is preaching.

1058
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,080
And the pastor says, what if the spirit came

1059
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,000
and you were absent?

1060
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:28,840
Wow.

1061
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:29,980
Wow.

1062
00:41:29,980 --> 00:41:31,820
And he's thinking this in his head.

1063
00:41:31,820 --> 00:41:34,700
And then he said, I will have the spirit.

1064
00:41:34,700 --> 00:41:37,220
He says, I'm going to have the spirit.

1065
00:41:37,220 --> 00:41:39,780
He wants this and cause he's been praying

1066
00:41:39,780 --> 00:41:42,540
for revival for so long.

1067
00:41:42,540 --> 00:41:46,000
He had been already interceding for a long time for souls.

1068
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,820
Yeah, he had and he had four different things

1069
00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:51,940
that he stated that we must do.

1070
00:41:51,940 --> 00:41:54,020
And I'm quoting this from the book,

1071
00:41:54,020 --> 00:41:56,100
I saw the Welsh revival.

1072
00:41:56,100 --> 00:41:57,580
And I recommend that you get it

1073
00:41:57,580 --> 00:42:00,660
because it's written by someone that was not a believer

1074
00:42:00,660 --> 00:42:04,220
and he was a musician and he ended up helping

1075
00:42:04,220 --> 00:42:06,060
in the revival, quite amazing.

1076
00:42:06,060 --> 00:42:07,020
He became a believer.

1077
00:42:07,020 --> 00:42:08,100
He became a believer.

1078
00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:09,660
David Matthews was his name.

1079
00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:11,900
David Matthews and he's the one that wrote the book,

1080
00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:13,780
I saw the Welsh revival.

1081
00:42:13,780 --> 00:42:16,240
You can find it out on Amazon.

1082
00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:19,220
And so the four things it was,

1083
00:42:19,220 --> 00:42:21,080
it says you desire an outpouring

1084
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,360
of the Holy Spirit in your city.

1085
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,020
You do well, but remember four conditions must be observed.

1086
00:42:27,020 --> 00:42:28,780
They are essential.

1087
00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:31,400
First, is there any sin in your past life

1088
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,740
with which you have not honestly dealt?

1089
00:42:33,740 --> 00:42:35,300
Not confess to God?

1090
00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:39,180
On your knees at once, your past must be put away and cleanse.

1091
00:42:39,180 --> 00:42:41,660
What's happening today to a lot of preachers

1092
00:42:41,660 --> 00:42:44,140
this last while, it's their past.

1093
00:42:44,140 --> 00:42:47,620
Some of them it's their past and others it's their present.

1094
00:42:47,620 --> 00:42:50,900
And God is letting these things be revealed

1095
00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:54,100
and because of the season we are in, it's powerful.

1096
00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:57,180
So second, is there anything in your life that is doubtful?

1097
00:42:57,180 --> 00:43:00,640
Anything you cannot decide whether it is good or evil?

1098
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:01,860
Away with it.

1099
00:43:01,860 --> 00:43:05,500
There must not be a trace of a cloud between you and God.

1100
00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:07,180
Have you forgiven everybody?

1101
00:43:07,180 --> 00:43:08,340
Everybody.

1102
00:43:08,340 --> 00:43:11,500
If not, don't expect forgiveness for your sins.

1103
00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:13,300
Better offend 10,000 friends

1104
00:43:13,300 --> 00:43:16,460
than grieve the Spirit of God or quench him.

1105
00:43:16,460 --> 00:43:18,980
Third, do what the Holy Spirit prompts

1106
00:43:18,980 --> 00:43:20,940
without hesitation or fear.

1107
00:43:20,940 --> 00:43:25,940
Obedience, prompt, implicit, unquestioning obedience.

1108
00:43:26,420 --> 00:43:29,540
You know, our founders' motto was unconditional surrender.

1109
00:43:29,540 --> 00:43:33,180
Yeah, that was the title of her autobiography.

1110
00:43:33,180 --> 00:43:36,580
So prompt, implicit, unquestioning obedience

1111
00:43:36,580 --> 00:43:39,120
at whatever cost.

1112
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:43,380
Fourth, a public confession of Christ as personal savior.

1113
00:43:43,380 --> 00:43:46,500
Profession and confession are vastly different.

1114
00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:49,520
Multitudes are guilty of long and loud profession.

1115
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,860
Confession of Christ as Lord is of recent date.

1116
00:43:52,860 --> 00:43:55,580
We forget that there is a Trinity in the Godhead

1117
00:43:55,580 --> 00:44:00,300
and that the three persons are on absolute equality.

1118
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:04,020
Wow, you'd get thrown out of some of the churches back then

1119
00:44:04,020 --> 00:44:06,260
because they didn't believe that,

1120
00:44:06,260 --> 00:44:11,080
including the one that Charles Finney was, you know.

1121
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,940
And it's amazing that that Reese Howells and Evan Roberts

1122
00:44:14,940 --> 00:44:17,540
were just born two years apart.

1123
00:44:17,540 --> 00:44:20,460
You know, one was the one that used it for England

1124
00:44:20,460 --> 00:44:23,540
and the other for Wales, you know.

1125
00:44:23,540 --> 00:44:26,580
And Evan Roberts came back from his Bible school.

1126
00:44:26,580 --> 00:44:27,500
He left it.

1127
00:44:27,500 --> 00:44:28,940
He was just compelled.

1128
00:44:28,940 --> 00:44:30,220
He had to leave it.

1129
00:44:30,220 --> 00:44:33,940
And he left and came back after just a couple months

1130
00:44:33,940 --> 00:44:37,060
and said, I wanna talk to the pastor to start the,

1131
00:44:37,060 --> 00:44:39,740
you know, talk to the youth and that.

1132
00:44:39,740 --> 00:44:43,940
And within six weeks time, his name was a household word.

1133
00:44:43,940 --> 00:44:46,180
That's all it took was six weeks for the power of God

1134
00:44:46,180 --> 00:44:50,340
to fall wherever he preached and people were converted.

1135
00:44:50,340 --> 00:44:53,620
That's a man that stands in the gap

1136
00:44:53,620 --> 00:44:55,100
and paid a price for it.

1137
00:44:55,100 --> 00:44:58,820
So how many out there, how many Evan Roberts are out there?

1138
00:44:58,820 --> 00:44:59,660
Yes.

1139
00:44:59,660 --> 00:45:03,020
You know, how many Reese Howells are out there?

1140
00:45:03,020 --> 00:45:06,580
You know, how many they're out there and that could be you.

1141
00:45:06,580 --> 00:45:09,020
God can use you in whatever capacity

1142
00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:10,420
you will let him use you.

1143
00:45:10,420 --> 00:45:11,260
Yes.

1144
00:45:11,260 --> 00:45:13,380
You can be satisfied wherever you're at.

1145
00:45:13,380 --> 00:45:16,100
The thing is, don't ever be satisfied.

1146
00:45:16,100 --> 00:45:19,940
And it's like the disciples after Jesus was resurrected,

1147
00:45:19,940 --> 00:45:21,980
you know, and they're on the road to Emmaus,

1148
00:45:21,980 --> 00:45:24,100
you know, and they're talking with each other.

1149
00:45:24,100 --> 00:45:26,580
And all of a sudden, here's this person walks,

1150
00:45:26,580 --> 00:45:28,900
stranger walks up, what are you all talking about?

1151
00:45:28,900 --> 00:45:29,740
You know?

1152
00:45:29,740 --> 00:45:30,580
Yeah.

1153
00:45:30,580 --> 00:45:34,060
You know, and then he's just telling him scripture

1154
00:45:34,060 --> 00:45:35,220
like he's a rabbi.

1155
00:45:35,220 --> 00:45:37,260
Of course he was, you know?

1156
00:45:37,260 --> 00:45:40,780
And they get to the lodging place, stay with us, you know?

1157
00:45:40,780 --> 00:45:43,540
And so he did, he broke bread with them.

1158
00:45:43,540 --> 00:45:44,940
I mean, the last time he broke bread,

1159
00:45:44,940 --> 00:45:46,860
we know is with the disciples.

1160
00:45:46,860 --> 00:45:48,900
And that was the last supper.

1161
00:45:50,020 --> 00:45:51,900
And then all of a sudden he breaks bread

1162
00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:54,180
and he disappears before their eyes.

1163
00:45:55,260 --> 00:45:58,460
And they said, did not our hearts burn within us

1164
00:45:58,460 --> 00:46:00,300
while he talked with us?

1165
00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:01,820
So we have to get to the point

1166
00:46:01,820 --> 00:46:04,420
where our hearts will burn in us.

1167
00:46:04,420 --> 00:46:07,060
So he will talk to us.

1168
00:46:07,060 --> 00:46:07,900
Amen.

1169
00:46:07,900 --> 00:46:10,280
So we can feel, we can hear and know.

1170
00:46:11,180 --> 00:46:14,900
Be still and know that I am God.

1171
00:46:14,900 --> 00:46:15,740
Amen.

1172
00:46:15,740 --> 00:46:17,140
So I'm praying this will be an encouragement

1173
00:46:17,140 --> 00:46:21,140
for everybody today that don't be satisfied where you're at.

1174
00:46:21,140 --> 00:46:24,820
You know, I've been in ministry over 43 years

1175
00:46:24,820 --> 00:46:26,620
and there's so many things that I lack

1176
00:46:26,620 --> 00:46:29,980
and that now I'm just really pressing into.

1177
00:46:29,980 --> 00:46:32,260
But don't wait 43 years.

1178
00:46:32,260 --> 00:46:33,100
Yes.

1179
00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:36,620
You know, even right now, today, tonight,

1180
00:46:36,620 --> 00:46:38,300
you know, when you hear this,

1181
00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:40,340
you know, rededicate yourself to God

1182
00:46:40,340 --> 00:46:42,500
and just press into his word.

1183
00:46:42,500 --> 00:46:44,400
You'll lose your friends.

1184
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,100
You'll lose some other stuff.

1185
00:46:46,100 --> 00:46:48,820
He may tell you to get rid of all your,

1186
00:46:48,820 --> 00:46:51,940
used to be your rock records, now it's your CDs, you know,

1187
00:46:51,940 --> 00:46:54,260
and maybe your MP3.

1188
00:46:54,260 --> 00:46:55,540
Or maybe just your phone.

1189
00:46:55,540 --> 00:46:56,380
Or your phone.

1190
00:46:57,500 --> 00:46:59,820
I remember Sister Gwen saying in a meeting,

1191
00:46:59,820 --> 00:47:02,820
if your computer's sending you to hell, get rid of it.

1192
00:47:04,060 --> 00:47:07,140
So get rid of anything that is keeping you away

1193
00:47:07,140 --> 00:47:08,820
from the presence of God.

1194
00:47:08,820 --> 00:47:09,780
Amen.

1195
00:47:09,780 --> 00:47:11,820
Philip, would you pray for the listeners?

1196
00:47:11,820 --> 00:47:15,080
Oh Father, we thank you Lord for your word.

1197
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,120
Lord, that you are the word that was made flesh

1198
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,160
and you dwelt among us.

1199
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,320
And Lord, even though you're not dwelling with us physically,

1200
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,320
you're dwelling with us spiritually

1201
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,720
because you're in our hearts, oh God.

1202
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,120
Lord, even as Dean Braxton said,

1203
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,320
when he died and went to heaven,

1204
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:37,320
and he saw you and Jesus saw himself in him,

1205
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:38,760
he knew he was in.

1206
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,320
So Father, we thank you Lord,

1207
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,360
and we pray Lord that if there's any of you there right now

1208
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,760
that you have never accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior,

1209
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,120
just ask him in your heart,

1210
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,840
just ask him for forgiveness for your past,

1211
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,000
all your sins, what you've done wrong.

1212
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,680
There's nothing you've done wrong

1213
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,040
that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

1214
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,520
And just ask for that cleansing flow of his precious blood

1215
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,400
and that it would just wash you clean

1216
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,360
and you just feel his love

1217
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,720
and then you pursue after his love.

1218
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:11,520
Keep pursuing him, pursuing him.

1219
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:12,520
Hallelujah.

1220
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:15,520
So Father, we thank you Lord for what we have heard

1221
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,120
and what's in your word,

1222
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:21,320
what's reading about these men that stood in the gap, Lord,

1223
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,520
and they stood in your fire and your anointing

1224
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:24,720
and in your power,

1225
00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:28,720
and you use them to sway and to move nations, oh God,

1226
00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:30,720
and to destroy strongholds.

1227
00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:33,120
So we thank you Father that you can use us,

1228
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,720
each and every one of us,

1229
00:48:34,720 --> 00:48:37,720
because we're all unique and we're all created

1230
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:39,320
in your image.

1231
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,520
But Lord, we just have to turn ourselves totally over to you.

1232
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,920
So Father, we pray that Lord that you will just move,

1233
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,920
Holy Spirit, move on the hearts of all people

1234
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:49,920
that are hearing this.

1235
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,120
And even those that don't hear it, Lord,

1236
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,320
just move on the hearts of people, Lord,

1237
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,520
could be this mighty move is coming, oh God.

1238
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,520
And you want everybody to be in place

1239
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,720
because every person will have a place

1240
00:49:02,720 --> 00:49:05,320
to be used by you in a mighty way.

1241
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,520
In your name, Lord Jesus.

1242
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:08,520
Amen.

1243
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:37,520
Amen.

1244
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:41,520
God bless you with this overwhelming loving presence.

1245
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:10,520
Amen.