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Preparing for a Miraculous Mission: Faith and Humility for El Salvador! ... English
Just 21 days stand between us and an incredible mission to El Salvador, a land where we anticipate witnessing the miraculous unfold. Join our team of 40 dedicated individuals from all across North America, as we prepare to embark on a journey filled with faith, unity, and the anticipation of experiencing the boundless power of God. Imagine being part of a movement where lives are transformed, the sick are healed, and countless hearts are touched in ways reminiscent of biblical miracles. Our mission transcends the ordinary as we gather in prayer, prophesying an extraordinary outpouring of the Holy Spirit that will leave an indelible mark on El Salvador.
As we prepare our hearts and minds, the importance of humility and vigilance emerges as a guiding theme. We turn to biblical examples, learning from the stories of Saul and Uzziah, to remind ourselves that only through humility and seeking God can we achieve true success. The episode captures the privilege and responsibility we have been given to cry out to God for the spiritual transformation of a nation. Armed with unwavering faith, we stand resolute in the belief that through intense prayer and dedication, we will witness the transformative power of divine intervention.
Practical preparations are equally vital as we approach this mission with attentiveness and respect for El Salvador's culture and customs. Our conversation covers everything from attire guidelines and travel logistics to health and safety precautions, ensuring a respectful and successful mission journey. We also touch on the passionate desire to lead by example, emphasizing the role of sacrifice and guidance in making a lasting impact. Prepare to be inspired by the heartfelt plea for healing, protection, and divine intervention as we commit to our mission with courage and conviction, anticipating a ripple effect of miracles and transformed lives.
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Well, praise the Lord, everybody, and welcome to our second El Salvador Crusade team meeting, and I greet you from Columbus, ohio tonight. And why don't we just start this team meeting the way that we start every team meeting, and let's take ourselves off mute and let's begin to lift our voices and pray together in the power of the Holy Ghost. We're going to see.
Speaker 2:I will see you in the next one.
Speaker 1:Thank you, oh over these sinners.
Speaker 2:God in Talmud angels, god and God is Lord, and every child church.
Speaker 1:God is Lord and God over this team tonight in Jesus, the most over this team tonight In Jesus' name, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen Amen.
Speaker 2:Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. Thank you, oh, to be anointed in your spirit and heart. To be anointed in your spirit and heart. To be anointed in your spirit and heart. To be anointed in your spirit and heart. To be anointed in your spirit and heart. To be anointed in your spirit and heart. To be anointed in your spirit and heart. To be anointed in your spirit and the heart. The morning of your words. The Lord is the name of the Lord.
Speaker 1:Praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord, oh, praise God. Well, what a joy that it is to be with each one of you tonight. And I'm counting down the days, friends, until we are boots on the ground in the nation of El Salvador, together, seeing the great move of the Spirit of the Lord upon that nation and upon the nationals there and the national church leadership. I am counting down the days. We are 21 days away from 40 of us being boots on the ground in the nation of El Salvador, and I know you feel it, I feel it. I feel it.
Speaker 1:There is this growing anticipation and growing expectation for this tremendous moment that God is going to give us in El Salvador, and it is going to be a tremendous moment. Multitudes are going to be filled with the Holy Ghost. We're going to see a minimum, a minimum of one day of Pentecost. But I got a feeling in my spirit, brother Cantillo. I just feel like we're going to see at least two day of Pentecost in that nation in four days. I just feel it. I feel this anticipation, expectation that we're going to end this year with this new day of Pentecost, back to back in that nation, and what a way to end the year to see God fill over 6,000 people with the gift of the Holy Ghost, with the evidence of speaking with other tongues, of speaking with other tongues, and to see multitudes being baptized in Jesus' name and the blind seeing and the deaf hearing and the lame walking, and, oh, what a great moment it's going to be when all diseases are cured and cancer is gone and tumors are gone, and believe these meanings, saying there is a God in heaven and he is able to do, exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or think.
Speaker 1:And I know that you have been prophesying these things, as I have been prophesying these things, I tell you every day. I've just been walking around and I catch myself prophesying. I prophesy that two days of Pentecost are going to happen. I prophesy the blind are going to see. I prophesy the deaf are going to hear. I'm walking around just letting these words flow out of my mouth and I just want to remind you tonight, as we open this meeting, don't you dare forget.
Speaker 1:I know that as we draw closer to being deployed by the King and I know that as we're getting closer to our boots being on the ground accomplishing his mission, that the enemy is going to try to attack our minds and attack our spirits and get us discomforted and frustrated. And I just want to remind somebody God chose you. I want to remind somebody God anointed you for this time to accomplish his purpose. I want to remind you God gave you the money to be on this mission. You didn't do this on your own. God did this for you. I want to remind you, god gave you the money to be on this mission. You didn't do this on your own. God did this for you. I want to remind you that God has already dispatched angels and they are standing guard over you, your family, your children, your church, your city, your finances, church, your city, your finances. I want you to know that God is preparing you even right now, that there are gifts that are just being imparted into your spiritual system, and you may not understand it and it may not be bubbling up the way you think it should yet, but when you put your feet on the ground in El Salvador, these seeds that God has been sowing into your spiritual system are going to all of a sudden bloom and blossom and much fruit, much kingdom fruit, is going to begin to manifest through each one of you. I just want to remind you tonight. I just want to remind you tonight God has awakened and God is activating apostolic offices and apostolic gifting in each one of you and because of that, this is not the time for you to just take it easy or to get lifted up in your spirit. Because of the late kingdom hour we are living in and because of the greatness of kingdom gifting that God is planting in your spiritual system right now, you have to be so careful in this moment that you don't get lifted up in yourself.
Speaker 1:One of the most revelatory scriptures in the Bible about the source of victory is in 1 Samuel, chapter 15 and verse 17. Where the Bible said Samuel said Little in thine own sight was thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel. That's the word that you got to remember tonight, dear friends, in all of this elevation, activation, empowerment, new levels, new dimensions, new exposures, new opportunities, as God is giving you these things and he's planting these seeds in your spiritual system and he's allowing you to see things you've never seen and do things you've never done and walk in ways you've never walked. You've got to be more prophetically powerful, that you pray every day and that you ensure that you are walking in humility and not in pride and arrogance. Nothing unravels kingdom victory like pride and arrogance. Nothing dismantles kingdom future like somebody who gets lifted up. That's why Samuel was saying to Saul don't you remember?
Speaker 1:You got this when you were small in your own eyes, when you were prayerful, when you didn't think you deserved it, when you were walking in the spirit, when you were just hidden amongst the stuff. That's when God said this is the one, I'm going to choose him, I'm going to use him. When you didn't see yourself all high and mighty, when you hadn't seen today, a podcast, when you didn't lay hands on somebody and their leg growing. But before that moment, when you didn't think so highly of yourself, god thought highly of you. God chose you, god picked you, god selected you to be on this mission, on this year, at this time, to see an outpouring of the Spirit that you didn't think you were worthy of. But God said I've got places I'm going to take you to. You know not of you, don't even think you're qualified. I've chosen you, I've anointed you. And here tonight I just want to see the atmosphere with just just a little thought this evening, as we are 21 days away. You got to guard your heart, guard your attitudes, guard your words. Don't get lifted up. Don't talk smack about what you're getting to do. Don't get all lifted up in your spirit. You need to remain humble. Keep yourself pure, keep yourself humble, keep yourself right before God, because where we are right now is just the beginning. You've not arrived. You're going to get to do so many greater things. If you can stay little in your own sight, that's the key. Stay little in your own sight.
Speaker 1:When you look at 2 Chronicles, chapter 26, verses 5 through 16, I'm going to jump around here, I just want to share this word with you. But in verse 5, in the latter part, it said and as long as you sought the Lord. Speaking of Uzziah, it said as long as you sought the Lord, god made him to prosper. How amazing is that? I mean, it's the trick of the trade baby. All you got to do is seek the Lord, walk with the Lord, be faithful to God and you prosper. My goodness, that's the keys to the kingdom, pastor Cantillo. It's the keys to the kingdom. Just walk with God, just seek God. Just stay small in your own sight. You want to prosper? Walk with God, just be faithful.
Speaker 1:Verse 8, it said and the Ammonites gave gifts to King Uzziah how amazing is this? Even his enemies are giving him gifts. That just walking with God and your enemies can't help themselves. But they want to bless you. And his name spread abroad, even to the entering in of Egypt, and he strengthened himself exceedingly the latter part of verse 15,. And his name spread far abroad and he was marvelously helped until he was strong. How crazy is that? He was marvelously helped until he was strong.
Speaker 1:And verse 16 said but when he was strong, his heart was lifted up. He wasn't small in his own sight anymore. He was like look what I've done, look how big I am, look at the gifting operating in me, look at the power that I have accumulated and look at all the gifts and treasures. And all of a sudden, what made him to prosper faded and he picked up this arrogance and this pride. And the Bible said his heart was lifted up to his destruction, for he could transgress against the Lord, his God.
Speaker 1:Friends, here we are, the end of time. We're getting ready to see the biggest revival we've ever seen, and it's gonna be billions, it's gonna be big, it's gonna be great, it's gonna be powerful, and God is looking for an army. That's why he chose you for this mission in El Salvador. God is building an army, but you cannot make the same mistake of King Uzziah. You have got to remain small in your own sight. God has set before you open doors that no man can shut and you're going to see things you've never seen before.
Speaker 1:And you're going to come back from this meeting and you're going to have everybody wondering and asking you questions and you're going to have the opportunity to say, well, I did this and I did that and I saw this and I was there. And you're going to have to reign in that flesh and say, look what God has done, look how God worked through a team, look how God worked in the national church. You're going to have to reign in that flesh. The devil's going to put your flesh and try to get you to talk about yourself and to lift yourself up and to be King Uzziah, and you're going to have to say no, no, not me. I've not even scratched the surface of where God's taken me and I'm not going to ruin it now. I'm going to stay small in my own sight. I'm going to walk uprightly before God, because that's where I prosper.
Speaker 1:That's why Paul said in Galatians 3 and 3, are you so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are you now made perfect in the flesh? Oh, hallelujah. You cannot allow yourselves to get lifted up in your human spirit. You can't allow even an ounce of pride inside of your spirit, not one ounce of arrogance, not one ounce of self-reliance, not one ounce of self-promotion. King Uzziah was marvelously helped until he was strong. King Uzziah was marvelously helped until he was strong. King Saul was marvelously helped and promoted when he was little in his own sight. Hallelujah.
Speaker 1:Matthew 23 and 5, jesus spoke to the Pharisees when he said. He said look, he said, but all their works they do to be seen of men. Oh, god, help us. God, help us. I don't want, I don't want this to be about being seen of men, pastor Stoops, I don't want to walk with such a spirit that everything we do is about my praise and my glory and my honor and me being lifted up. The Lord of Lords said everything the Pharisees do is to be seen of men. They make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments and love the uppermost rooms at feast and the chief seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets to be called rabbi, rabbi. And Jesus said it's all show for them, it's all about them. They want the big spotlights, they want to be in the pulpit, they want to make a name for themselves, they want the corner on the market.
Speaker 1:But regarding that lifted up way of speaking, jesus said woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees. You are hypocrites, for you are like underwided sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. Even so, ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you're full of hypocrisy and you are full of iniquity. And then he went on and took it a step further. Five verses later, in 23 and verse 33, he said you are full of iniquity. And then he went on and took it a step further. Five verses later, in 23 and verse 33, he said you are serpents. Your arrogance, your pride, this spirit that's in you, that just wants to make a name for yourself. You are serpents. You're a generation of vipers. How can you escape the damnation of hell?
Speaker 1:Jesus did go on to give us the keys to the kingdom and the keys of how to walk in kingdom positioning. He said in Matthew 23, 11 and 12,. He said but he that is greatest among you shall be your servant, and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. When it comes to kingdom power, kingdom victory, kingdom positioning, kingdom opportunities, kingdom doors that no man can shut, oh, the Bible said the Lord must increase, but we must decrease. That's what I wanted to talk to you about tonight. I want to talk to you about here we are 21 days until we do things we've never done before, and 21 days before we see things we've never seen before. This is the time to get our spirits right, to make sure we don't stumble the same way King Saul did, that we don't stumble the same way that King Uzziah did, that we don't stumble the same way the Pharisees did, but we stay little in our own sight.
Speaker 1:This kingdom mission in El Salvador is not about me, it's not about you, it's not even about this team. It's about God pouring out his spirit upon all flesh and friends. We get the opportunity to be a part of God's mission in God's field, with God's people, and nothing else. No other thoughts should be in my mind, but decreasing so God's victory can increase. I want us to take a few moments here and lift our hands, take ourselves off mute, and I want you to pray over yourself and use the words I prophesy. And use the words I prophesy, but pray and say, god, I prophesy humility in me. I want you to pray and say I prophesy that I will stay little in my own eyes. I prophesy that.
Speaker 2:I will prosper as the. Lord of glory, keeps me little in my own sight.
Speaker 1:Would you pray?
Speaker 2:for yourself right now. Would you pray for your son right now? I'm a sign God. I'm a sign God. I'm a sign God. I'm a sign God. I'm a sign God, I'm a sign God, I'm a sign God. I'm a sign God. I'm a sign God, I'm a sign God, I'm a sign God, god, god, god, god God.
Speaker 3:God.
Speaker 2:God, god, god, god, god, god. Humility, be stubborn, I can't be fair, I can't be like. Cover me with humility. I like you, so Forgive me. Lord of self-emotion Forgive me, god, forgive me, god. Forgive me God. Forgive me, god. Forgive me, god. Forgive me, god. Forgive me, god. Forgive me, god. Forgive me, god. Forgive me, god. Forgive me, god. Forgive me, god. Forgive me, god, forgive me, God. Thank you hallelujah.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's too much at stake there, friends, too much at stake. I need god to keep me pure. There's too much at stake. Your families, your families, are depending on you remaining humble. Your kids are depending on you to remain humble. The kingdom is depending on you to stay small in your own sight. Please, please, don't make the same mistake as Saul. Don't make the same mistake as King Uzziah. Don't walk in the footsteps of those Pharisees. Stay humble. Stay humble in your own sight. Italabashata.
Speaker 1:Well, it's such a joy to be on here with you and to see the Lord working together in us. It's a joy, what an honor it is to have Pastor Cantillo with us tonight. I love this man of God. Pastor's great. Well, not just one church, he pastored many churches, church plants. He's got church plants in other countries. He's a great man. Well, not just one church, he pastored many churches, church plants. He's got church plants in other countries. He's a great man of God. We've had the privilege to serve in El Salvador together already before and to get to do this again, to run it back again, but see it greater, it's such a great honor and a joy. I love you, pastor Contillo. Please speak whatever the Lord's told you to say to us Amen.
Speaker 6:Thank you, pastor Contillo, please speak whatever the Lord's told you to say to us Amen. Thank you, brother Robinette. I feel like I shouldn't be speaking. I need to be on my knees someplace repenting, and you know you spoke to all of us. What a powerful word about you know, keeping what's real and what's important Not ourselves, but the kingdom of God. And I have a very simple word to share, but it goes right along with what was shared with Brother Robinette, and that is he spoke about what not to focus on, which is ourselves.
Speaker 6:I want to talk about what the Lord laid in my heart. It's so simple, but I think it's what we need to hear, what we do need to focus on. And Romans 8.15, let me start the timer, I don't want to go over and get my mic cut off Amen. Romans 8.15 says you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba, father. And I want to focus on that word, that we cry, the same word that Bartimaeus, that the Bible just uses for Bartimaeus when they told him to hold his peace. The Bible says that he cried the more, a great deal.
Speaker 6:And I want to talk about crying out to God. The word that we see in the Bible is the word kraso. Kraso it's Greek to me, but it means croak like a raven. It means scream out loud in need, and there is a whole tradition, history, of crying out to God. Samuel cried out to God for deliverance from the Philistines and in fact, the people told him cease not to cry unto the Lord, god for us. Keep crying out to God. The Israelites cried out to God at the Red Sea. Elijah cried out to God for a dead child, and the child came to life. Asa cried out to God for deliverance for the city, and God gave him the victory. King Hezekiah cried out to God, and God gave him victory over the Assyrians.
Speaker 6:And what I felt from the Lord today as I was preparing, is our job as we prepare for this crusade, is to cry out for the nation of El Salvador. If you just think about all the people that are going to have a miracle and the impact of that miracle, not only on that life but on that family and on the neighborhood and people they know at work, it's going to be a ripple that's going to spread out throughout the country. And when you have thousands of miracles, there are thousands and thousands of people that will be affected by that demonstration of the power of God. And we can say the same thing about people receiving the Holy Ghost. When thousands receive the Holy Ghost, it isn't just one person in this little church that got a blessing. No, no, no. That spreads out to other people, to the family, to the neighborhood. They're going to be changed and God has put the burden for this country, for those people, on us. What an awesome privilege. And, as Brother Robinette said, we are not deserving of it. We are not the people that deserve this, but God has chosen us to go there and to have such a powerful impact on this nation.
Speaker 6:David cried out to the Lord many times and you see that all over the Psalms this poor man cried and the Lord heard him. Psalm 34, I cried unto the Lord with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill. Psalm 3. And crying out to God is different from praying. David many times says I pray and then I cry unto the Lord. In Psalm 55, he says evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud Later in Psalm 61, hear my cry, o God, attend unto my prayer. Psalm 102, hear my prayer, o Lord, and let my cry come unto Thee.
Speaker 6:And so what I want to share today, very so briefly, is to focus on crying out to God for the people of El Salvador. And crying out means praying with intensity, it means praying out loud, it means praying in the Spirit, it means praying with our whole heart for those people that are going to be drastically changed by a demonstration of the power of God. Psalm 119 says I cried with my whole heart unto the Lord. And there's a promise in Jeremiah from the Lord. He says then you will call upon me, and the word is cry out and you shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you.
Speaker 6:And so the message that I want to bring to us today is let's focus on crying out to God for the nation of El Salvador, let's focus on praying for those people that are going to come to a Pentecostal altar seeking a miracle, seeking the power of the Holy Ghost. Let's just open our hearts to that burden. Jesus had compassion on the people. He looked at them, he had compassion on them. They were like sheep without a shepherd, and that motivated Jesus, the man, to do everything and to die for them.
Speaker 6:And so our job and what the Lord told me to say is, if we will accept it, he will lay the burden of this country upon this team.
Speaker 6:If each one of us, individually and as a team, if we will accept it going to lay a special burden on us, if we're willing to humble ourselves and to say yes, lord, I am going to cry out to you, I am going to receive this burden, so that when I pray, it isn't just a prayer, it is crying out to God, it is an intense prayer, it is a prayer with a whole heart, it is a prayer that is going to cost me something but that's going to bring a result that God wants to have happen, and that is thousands and thousands of souls transformed, healed, filled with the Holy Ghost, and then that ripple effect to so many other people that are going to be affected.
Speaker 6:If it would be okay, brother Robinette and I see that my time is over, I'm watching my timer but can we have a moment of prayer and can we just all of us, if you're willing, say God, hit me with it, lay it on me, lord, I'm willing, whatever it takes, amen. And I know that we're doing it, I know that we're praying and we're fasting, but let's just take it up to a whole other level. Amen, if we can unmute the microphone and just pray together. God, we come before you in this moment.
Speaker 4:Oh God, hit me with a song.
Speaker 2:Oh Jesus, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God.
Speaker 4:Oh God and praise the Lord. Amen in the name of jesus. Oh, oh Jesus, the.
Speaker 2:Lord is with you. I have a plea for you, lord. Hallelujah morning to you, god may I pray? For you, lord, for those souls that need you, the Holy Spirit of our lives. In the name of Jesus, the Lord, hallelujah morning to you, oh, shout out to Jesus, oh, shut up, cry out, cry out, and for the souls.
Speaker 4:And for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls, and for the souls for demonstration.
Speaker 1:Shaddaa oh, what a powerful, powerful word that Pastor Contillo just delivered. Something jumped in my spirit just now as we were praying. I felt like God put this in my spirit, but I felt like this is what the Lord said to me. He said you can't have a selfless burden for the people of El Salvador and be burdened with selfishness at the same time. You won't have to worry about arrogance and pride and self-promotion. If you are consumed with a selfless burden for the people of El Salvador, you can't think about El Salvador and yourself at the same time. That's why what Pastor Cantillo said is so important. You've got to be praying oh God, burden me with a burden for the people of El Salvador, because you will be eclipsed by that burden for El Salvador. Those people there will completely eclipse any selfishness and self-promotion and selfish desires and selfish ambitions. You can't have a selfless burden for the people of El Salvador and be burdened with selfishness at the same time. You can only run, and I choose to be burdened with a burden for El Salvador. That's what I choose tonight.
Speaker 1:Thank you, pastor Contillo. That was right in the spirit. Right in the spirit the partnership of faith. I love this partnership of faith in God's kingdom. Hallelujah, hallelujah, shandala Basi. Well, it's so good to have Brother Bird with us tonight. Love this man of God. Privileged to be on many crusades and many different fields with Brother Bird and to have seen the Lord do so many great things in so many different areas, together in God's kingdom, working with God's people, and I'm so thankful to have him here with us tonight. Brother Bird, take your liberty, deliver whatever the Lord says.
Speaker 5:Thank you, brother Robinette, for the time and I'm honored to be here with all of you. I remember the first time I walked onto a crusade ground with Brother and Sister Robinette in Bangladesh. It was the first time I'd ever flown overseas and that was quite a trip. And God does incredible, incredible moves when you make an effort for His kingdom. And I can tell you and testify that God called me to missions and he called me, called me to these nations because that's where I feel like I'm supposed to be. The Lord spoke to my spirit this week and he gave me a word, a phrase, and it's to be resolute in absolutes. You must be resolved in the finality of God's word. The terms absolute and resolute is what I want to define.
Speaker 5:In the book of Psalms 1830,. It says the word of the Lord is proven, it's absolute, it's total and complete. The word resolute means to be purposeful, determined and unwavering. When Daniel in Daniel 10, 13 said he set his mind for understanding and he humbled himself before the Lord, god heard his words. I'm telling you today that if you are absolutely solid in your belief with God and in his word, he's going to do great and mighty things. The book of Psalms it says forever the Lord. Thy word is settled in heaven. The Lord said in Proverbs 16, three, commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established.
Speaker 5:There are phrases and things that man tries to say and man tries to get their head wrapped around, but the point that I think Stonewall Jackson makes a great statement. He says you are what you resolve to be. You are what you resolve to be. You are what you resolve to be. It's printed on the Virginia Military Institute's walls you are what you resolve to be. I am resolved to be a child of God. I am resolved to be humble before the Lord. I am resolved to do the will of God. I am resolved to do anything and everything that it takes. I am resolved to accept the sacrifice and the pain if it means that the purpose of God can go forward. I am resolved.
Speaker 5:In the book of Psalms 89 and 28 says my mercy will I keep for him forever, for my covenant shall stand fast with him. If I stand in the covenants of God. That's how I can stay resolved in the absolute word of God. In Psalms 111 and eight it says they stand fast for truth and uprightness, galatians five. Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. In first Thessalonians three and eight if you stand fast in the Lord, we live. Romans 12, six.
Speaker 5:The way that you stand fast in the promises of God is that you prophesy according to the proportion of your faith. In the Romans 12, you must prophesy according to the proportion of your faith. God is a promise keeper and he is a promise maker. A man by the name of Dr Everett Storms, from Ontario. He has read the Bible 27 times. He passed away in 1983. He's quoted as saying there are 8,800 promises of God. Some people believe it's as minimal as 3,000 and as many as 30,000 promises of God.
Speaker 5:In 2 Corinthians 1, 18 through 24, verse 20 says for all the promises of God in him are yea and amen unto the glory of God by us. Now which he will establish us with you in Christ and hath anointed us. Romans 12, three. Every man has been given the measure of faith. So my statement to you, while simple and hopefully exact.
Speaker 5:The book of Isaiah, 55, 11, says so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper wherein I send it. In Isaiah 40, all flesh is grass, is what the scripture says, but the grass wherewith the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever. You must be absolutely resolved that the word of the Lord is perfect and that it is final. So when you begin to prophesy and you begin to speak these things, you cannot do it from a position, as Brother Robinette has so eloquently said, I must be submitted unto God, I must be radically humble, as his book says, I must be radically sacrificial and I must be radically submitted. Without these three things, you cannot have what God has ordained, you cannot have mercy, you cannot have grace. If you're willing to go above and beyond those things, you must stay under the cross. Because when you stay under the cross, when you present your body as a living sacrifice fully acceptable unto God which is my reasonable service, that I can pray and I can seek the face of God and I can turn from my wicked ways. I can pray and I can seek the face of God and I can turn from my wicked ways, Then God will forgive their sin and he will heal their land. Anointing comes from under the cross and my finishing thought. The Bible says that I will pour out my spirit. He says it in Proverbs, in Joel and in Acts. I will pour it out, but it comes with prophecy.
Speaker 5:If you're going to do the will of God and you're going to be absolute in the word of God, you must prophesy. You must prophesy as we go into this land, that God will give you greater dominion and he will give us greater dominion. You must prophesy that we will see two days of Pentecost. You must prophesy that the blind shall see. You must prophesy the deaf shall hear, the lame shall walk. God will heal. 100%, 100%, not 98, not 99. You must be absolute, for the word of God does not lie, it does not return void. You must believe in the word of God and you will to not only just go there in victory, but you will take it home with you in victory. You will walk in victory.
Speaker 5:This isn't just a moment in time. It is a forever changing moment when you begin to prophesy. It is infectious, it gets into your spirit, it gets into your world, it gets into your prayer life. You take it home with you, you take it where you walk. You walk down the streets, you walk in your home and God ordains the words you speak. So if you're not prophesying, you're missing the moment of what God has put in your mouth, for life and death is in the power of the tongue. I choose to speak life. I prophesy life Right now, for the next couple of minutes, I want you to prophesy what God has been showing you in prayer.
Speaker 5:If God has been showing you that the blind person in front of you is going to see, you prophesy it. If God is reaching into your community at home, you prophesy it. You begin to speak in faith. At home, you prophesy it. You begin to speak in faith. Speak beyond your faith. I believe personally that God is going to fill thousands and hundreds of thousands in my city with the baptism of his spirit.
Speaker 5:I prophesy that the Lord's going to reach into non-denominational churches, not only there, but here back home. You cannot have anything if you do not speak it. What are you speaking? What are you saying? I challenge you what are you saying unto the Lord? What are you speaking? Can the Lord put his hand upon it? Can the Lord anoint it if you do not speak it? Speak it before now and never stop, never change. I will continually prophesy in the name of Jesus, I charge you now, right now. Begin to prophesy in faith what you want to see, what you believe will be seen, what you cannot even imagine, for God can do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that I can ask or think. Speak, prophesy now, in Jesus' name. Why don't you take it off mute and begin to prophesy the things that you need to see? I know that you need to speak and step out in faith, operate in the gifts of the Spirit.
Speaker 2:He's trying to. I am Jesus. Thank you. The ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you, the ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you. The ancestors will be proud of you. Hallelujah.
Speaker 1:Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Oh, thank you, Brother Byrd. What a powerful word tonight. Thank you, Pastor Contillo. Thank you for the direction that the Lord gave both of you, men of God, and thank you for delivering that to his people. I appreciate that so much. So good to have Sister Robinette here tonight. I appreciate her. I wish she was going with us to El Salvador, and I know all of you veterans do as well. But I'm so thankful that we have her voice and her wisdom and she's going to give us some direction tonight and make sure we cross our T's and dot our I's and we're ready to get to work in the kingdom of God without incident. And we're ready to get to work in the kingdom of God without incident. So thank you, Sister Robinette.
Speaker 3:Go ahead, baby girl. Thank you Again. I wish that I could be in El Salvador, but there are enough veterans going on this trip that, for all of you who have not attended a crusade, you just watch carefully and listen. So I know a lot of you are nervous and this is all very new, but if you will heed to the information that is given to you, you can be sure that your time will be great. There are some practical guidelines and realistic items that we must go over before we are boots on the ground. We will cover a lot of information in a short amount of time, so, if you will, please bear with me and be attentive. This vital information will ensure that the crusade experience, your crusade experience, is comfortable and successful.
Speaker 3:Many of you have been on a crusade and much of this will be repetitious. However, it will be a refresher course for each of us. Remember that every crusade is different and, no matter how many crusades we have led, each crusade has its own dynamic. We have led. Each crusade has its own dynamic. As it has been mentioned already, we are a team that has been handpicked by God and when we are boots on the ground, we are all there to learn to grow, to serve and unify together as the body of Christ serving the kingdom, together as the body of Christ serving the kingdom. No matter how many crusades you have been on, you can always learn, grow, serve and remain humble. We are not there to compare or to say I've been on 10 crusades with Brother Robinette, this is how it goes or this is how it has been. There has never been a crusade that I have ever been on that I have not said is this normal? Is this supposed to be happening? Should this be happening? And I've been on a lot of crusades and when sometimes I go back to my room and I tell Brother Robinette, I've never seen that happen before, wow, that was unexpected. So none of us, no matter how many crusades you've been on, you can still learn, grow, serve and be humble.
Speaker 3:The El Salvadorian people are precious. They want to be loved. They want to be healed, delivered and filled with the Holy Ghost. So do not be intimidated by the culture or their faces or their responses or the language barrier. They have the same desires, concerns and hurts as all of us do. Allow God to speak through you. If you don't know what to pray, pray in tongues and allow the Lord to speak through you, god will give you mighty boldness in the altars. However, we ask that you will use wisdom in the altars. Stay in groups of two and never go off in a crowd alone. Also, as you are praying with people, do not pray in the direction of where they are able to spit on you or sweat on you. Use wisdom and don't get right in people's faces.
Speaker 3:Once we are boots on the ground, brother Robinette will go over how we will share the report of the Lord, how the report is given. He will also go over social media etiquette and crusade ethics. Please understand the holiness guidelines that we are about to discuss are to protect the global harvest team, the missionary family and the national church in El Salvador. Remember, we are in El Salvador to be a blessing and to lift the arms of the national pastors, their wives and their children and team. We are not there to complain, to criticize or to be a distraction. These great people were there before us and they will remain there when we leave. We must protect what we leave behind.
Speaker 3:As we prepare for the crusade in El Salvador and we are finally boots on the ground we must have an open mind, a sense of humor and we must be adaptable. The schedule, times and places may change. You may be a speaker for one of the services and God has other plans. Please know that although you may have been asked to speak, sing, preach or harvest, this can also change. Crusade schedules are fluid and subject to change at any time. As we cover the holiness guidelines, understand that if your pastor or your church or your personal convictions go beyond these guidelines, by all means we are not asking you to do less than what is expedient for you.
Speaker 3:As in 1 Timothy 2.9, it says we want to be modest in appearance, wear decent and appropriate clothing to not draw attention to oneself, and I will send some photos in the WhatsApp chat of how we dressed at the last crusade in El Salvador, just for reference. I get a lot of questions of how dressy we should be or what is the ideal look of how we should dress during the day, during our tour sessions, during apostolic mentoring, and I will send a few photos in there for you to look at that In El Salvador. Remember that the temperature during the time that we will be there will most likely be in the high 80s and can possibly drop in as low as 68 degree Fahrenheit, with a humidity of 84%. This is something to keep in mind when you're packing. The forecast during this time of the year shows that there is a great possibility of rain, and so you will want to bring an umbrella. Will want to bring an umbrella.
Speaker 3:The Church Crusade attire for men. Because of the heat, we ask that you wear light colored long sleeve shirts, and also this allows us to be seen better in the crowd of people when we're a little bit more uniformed as a Global Harvest team. We are asking all men to wear a necktie for the Crusade services. You do not need to wear a sport coat or a suit jacket. Wear dress slacks, shoes that are appropriate for the attire, and when I say that I am being specific to not wear like flip-flops or sandals with your dress slacks. I'm only saying this because it may or may have not been done before Yet. You'll want to wear shoes that are comfortable. We will be walking on gravel and uneven ground a lot of the time, so we are also asking that no facial hair, that you have no facial hair. You must be clean shaven when you arrive in El Salvador and clean shaven during the entire trip. No jewelry. Wedding bands are accepted. However, if your ring is flashy or very expensive, we advise that you leave it at home. For casual attire for men for tour days and during our apostolic mentoring sessions, you can wear jeans and khakis, polo shirts please. No shorts. You can wear tennis shoes and any casual, comfortable shoes that you would choose, and, of course, no jewelry. Brother Robinette is having a blast with whatever is going on in this chat.
Speaker 3:Church and casual attire for the touring episode. Mentoring. For ladies, since our attire really doesn't change much during the day or for services, I've combined this. So we must wear skirts or dresses must be worn. They must be below the knee, with no slits. No low cut blouses. Shirts and dresses must have a sleeve or undershirt. No jewelry this includes promise rings, necklaces, earrings and, as mentioned before, a wedding band is acceptable, but flashy diamonds are just not advisable. No makeup or colored painted nails. This would include French manicures. If you have any questions, you can privately message me and I will answer your questions about any of this. Please wear comfortable shoes. We would suggest not to wear high heels. We will be doing a lot of walking, standing and worshiping on unpredictable surfaces.
Speaker 3:Practical list of items to bring as a team. We are asking that, if you have not already downloaded the app called WhatsApp, if you would do so following this Zoom call, please send me your name and number and the crusade you are attending, and we will add you immediately to this chat. This will be our means of communicating before, during and after the crusade, and Brother Robinette will put my phone number in the chat so that you have that number to contact me with your information. We will also be sending very soon a questionnaire of whether you sing, you play an instrument, you lead worship. I have already been notified that we do have a nurse that is on our team, and so that is very important. She's retired nurse. There will be different jobs that Brother Robinette will appoint to some of you, and that will be your responsibility for the time of the crusade. Sometimes you will find out before and sometimes you will find out upon arrival. If you have already ordered your Global Harvest shirt and it has not arrived yet, we apologize for the delay. Sister Emily assures us that everyone will receive their Global Harvest shirt no later than November 23rd. We will be wearing our shirts for the day that we are touring the volcano, and we will be taking a group photo together to represent El Salvador and the Global Harvest team.
Speaker 3:Global Harvest team. When asked at customs why you are in El Salvador, you can feel free to say you are there for a church gathering or touring or visiting friends, depending on what airline that you are traveling with. You may be limited to one 50-pound suitcase, one carry-on and one backpack. I want to say this is how Brother Robinette and I pack to ensure traveling is not overcomplicated and that there is room for all of us and our luggage to get on the buses and on the vans for the Robinette. You best behave. You are acting up in this chat, I can tell. I can tell you are distracting these poor, precious people.
Speaker 1:We're all enjoying you and a lot of the veterans are talking about you in the chat and privately chatting with me About the term, but the term bow and brother stoops they're also involved.
Speaker 3:I want to say that right now oh, brother bird, brother bird, help us out a little here as I, as I, mother him back to life.
Speaker 1:And Brother Andrade was also doing stuff in the chat.
Speaker 5:If I'm going down, we're all going down brethren, we're all going down.
Speaker 3:All of the people that are doing this, have needed me at one moment in time, on a crusade. Let me tell you and I won't always tell you what they needed.
Speaker 2:They needed me at one moment in time on a crusade. Let me tell you, and I won't always tell you what they needed.
Speaker 3:So, sister, imagine if it's acting out like this when you're here, you've got to be there. I know you have to be there to keep them under control. Hey, if I had someone to keep my girls during this time, I would be there for sure, lord, lord, okay, so let me get back on track. Okay, so we are. We're just saying that you so we were at the travel of the suitcases, of what to bring, so this is very important to note. I do want to say oftentimes, traveling overseas, your bags can be delayed. We highly suggest bringing an extra change of clothes in your carry-on and any medication that you might need and a few hygiene cosmetics to hold you over in case your luggage is lost or delayed. You will not be disappointed if you make room in your carry-on for these emergency items and I promise you, if it has never happened to you before and if it does, you will be so thankful.
Speaker 3:It's miserable to be in a foreign country and be without something to change into or to at least shower and clean and feel good about yourself. Again, as we stated last week, please check your passport expiration date and make sure that it is not within six months of expiring and that you have one page open, we often say for the visa stamp. Brother Robinette or Brother Andrade can cover that. I actually cannot remember if we have to get a stamp or a visa upon arrival. So we can discuss that now or in just a minute. What would you like, brother Robinette?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no matter what, when you travel, the law is that they have to have a minimum of I believe it's actually three pages open in order to have stamps. But yeah, you need to make sure that you are ready for a stamp. Everywhere you go, you're going to have to get a stamp.
Speaker 3:If you are traveling with anyone under 17 that is not your biological child, you must have documents of parental permission of traveling with them. Print all of your travel documents, a copy of your passport and the team information such as your hotel, and I'm pretty sure that that is all in the email, that you can just copy and paste that and make your own copied document for yourself to have a hard copy with you. You will want to notify your bank and let them know what countries you will be in during your travel. This way, you will have full access to using your debit and credit cards to ensure that they do not get cut off during the time of your travel. Contact your cell phone provider to check on your overseas usage for data. As last week we stated, the electrical plugs are the same as in North America, so you will have no need for adapters or transformers. Please remember to wear comfortable shoes that are pleasing to the attire you are wearing. And then I'm just going to go over a few practical suggested items to pack. This would be that you would want to bring an umbrella. You will not be disappointed if you bring a pair of air plugs If you are on the platform or anywhere near the platform. Speakers at a crusade. You will understand what I am saying. The volume is like nothing you've ever experienced. So you will want a pair of air plugs, crossbody bags or a backpack that zip closed to protect your personal belongings. You can bring these on the crusade grounds. Oftentimes they will delegate a section for us and your stuff can all be in one area. But things that you will want to bring in there, such as your umbrella, your earplugs, antibacterial wipes and hand sanitizers You'll want that in your backpack because you will be traveling on a bus for a long period of time and then you will arrive. You will want to maybe bring a few snacks on your trip in your backpack. These would include personal snacks such as gum, mints, protein bars, peanut butter crackers, slim Jim beef sticks, flavored water, packets with electrolytes such as Propel, crystal Light or Gatorade.
Speaker 3:During our apostolic mentoring, you will want to have a journal or a Bible and a pen. You will want to have a journal or a Bible and a pen, or apostolic mentoring sessions. As any veteran would say, these sessions are life-changing and often the thing that you remember the most out of the crusade, and so you want to have a means of being able to write in your journal or do whatever the Lord asks you to do. To write in your journal or do whatever the Lord asks you to do, you will want to carry a small pack of Kleenex and bathroom supplies for emergencies.
Speaker 3:The public restrooms are hit or miss and definitely use the restroom before leaving the hotel at all times. At all times, if you don't have to go, you try to go, just like you tell your child at home I don't care, if you don't have to go, go, try. You won't be disappointed if you do that. So some of the churches we will travel to will only have outside toilets and sometimes they will be very small and dark. Always have toilet tissue with you. Bring a small travel medical kit as far as band-aids or whatever you would need for your own person, because it will be hot. If you aren't able to adapt to the heat, you will want to bring a hand fan or a battery operated fan. Please remember to stay hydrated and at this moment I'm going to ask Brother Robinette to explain to us what Brother Dr Jackson says about hydration.
Speaker 1:She did that because she doesn't think I'm paying attention, but I know exactly what she's saying right now and so, um, yes, listen, um, doc says, when it comes to hydration, that when you think you're dehydrated, you've already been dehydrated. He says you need to be drinking something at all times and he said, uh, um, he said a good way to know if you're dehydrated or not. Um, look at Sister Robinette. She's trying to see if I got this. I've got it. I've got you figured out. Girl, we'll talk about this later. If you go to the bathroom and your urine is like a bright yellow right, baby, is that right, Bright yellow that means you are dehydrated. You are so dehydrated and so you want to keep fluids in your system. Don't wait until you're thirsty to take a drink. You drink all the time. If you're thirsty, it's because you're already dehydrated. So your urine is a good indication of where your body is. So if it's bright yellow, you're in trouble. You need it to look a little less bright yellow. I don't know what those colors are. Tell me, baby.
Speaker 2:Very good.
Speaker 3:I know that we are going by faith and we can lay hands on the sick and they shall recover cover, but I am advising that if some medication we suggest bringing, of some kind, is some kind of antibiotic like a Z-Pak anti-diarrhea medicine, motion sickness, anti-vomiting, Benadryl, Claritin, tell your doctor. You are going to El Salvador and they can prescribe you a few of these things and some of them are over the counter. If you ever get motion sickness, I will say, in El Salvador, this would be a great trip to bring some kind of Dramamine. We will be traveling in a bus and the roads throughout El Salvador are very narrow and windy, and so the last time we were in El Salvador, many people who had motion sickness did not do very well, and so we want to tell you that you want to bring motion sickness medication if you get any kind of motion sickness.
Speaker 3:We advise you not to eat from street vendors On every crusade. My husband and I practice only eating food that is baked, boiled, fried and able to be peeled. Is that all, Brother Robinette? Baked, boiled, fried and able to be peeled?
Speaker 1:Yes, and we sometimes venture out into grilled. If it's grilled, it's good too.
Speaker 3:And he would say we can drink the coffee if it is, of course, boiled. It's hot. Of course there are some people who, like Brother Andrade, who would say you can drink Starbucks. Are we getting Starbucks drinks that are cold with ice? But me and my husband not that I know of drink iced drinks in El Salvador. But we may have.
Speaker 3:Okay, all jokes aside, we do not drink the tap water and we do not use ice or brush our teeth with the water. We would highly suggest that. We would suggest to bring some kind of mosquito spray or citronella bands to protect yourselves from being bit by mosquitoes, especially if you choose not to be vaccinated. We suggest, when you arrive in El Salvador, to purchase one bottle of water. That way, if you get in late, you have at least a bottle of water to brush your teeth with until you can get more things. When the stores are open. You can bathe and shower with the water. You can bathe and shower with the water. We have a lot of stories about this topic, but be sure not to get it in your mouth. We will demonstrate here how you should keep the water out of your mouth. Okay, so we're going to go like this. We're going to be in the shower and we're going to go. Okay, so we're going to do it.
Speaker 1:We're going to be like do do that one more time.
Speaker 3:I don't think everybody got it okay, that is how you're gonna shower and how you're gonna keep the water out of your nose and out of your mouth. All right, okay, so most hotel rooms will have a refrigerator and an iron. Also, if you are accustomed to washing with a washcloth, we suggest that you bring your own. For vaccines, like we said, check with your doctor and your travel provider. As mentioned in the chat, most of you have found there are no required vaccines. However, still do your own research based on your layovers and entry points Because, depending, maybe, el Salvador does not require any vaccinations. Layover and say, you are there for a 24-hour time and you leave the airport and you come back in, they may require you to have a yellow fever vaccination, for example. So you do need to check that For your safety.
Speaker 3:It is important that when you arrive in El Salvador El Salvador, I said that that you do not go off on your own. We ask that you stay in groups of two to four and that you inform someone that you will be going to your room. This is to the restroom restaurants. Please be accountable to one another. Do not be a lone ranger.
Speaker 3:We want to remind everyone and I'm coming to a close, if you have not already sent in your flight information, please send that to Brother Robinette immediately. Also, please send Brother Robinette your confirmation that you have booked your hotel and send your confirmation that you have booked your hotel, and send your confirmation that you have sent in your $1,000 global harvest investment. The additional funds you should bring will cover security, transportation and touring. You will need to bring $300, and this must be in crisp, clean $100 bills. Finally, we are asking each Crusade member to bring one bag of candy. During the children's service, we will hand out candy to all of the children and that is always a very, very exciting time for us and for the children. Always a very, very exciting time for us and for the children. So, unless you have any questions, I'm sure that you do and we're coming. Our time is cutting short for the Robinette. I'm going to turn this back over to you.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, sister Robinette. Let's see here Any questions. Anybody have any questions about what you said? Here's the good news she will put this in the WhatsApp group chat, this list of things that she discussed. She'll put it in the chat for you so that you can go back to it. You also will be able to go back to this video, which we will post on YouTube and then send out in our post team meeting email as well, so you can go back and review this and make sure you cross your T's and dot your I's. So no worries about that. It was a lot of information, but it's all very critical information. Important question, sister Robinette. Brother Stoops wants to know, in your absence, will you be preparing candy bags for the bus rides?
Speaker 3:I sent candy last year and or whatever crusade. I just went on and he came back. I don't even know what happened to it because no one on the bus got it he ate it in his hotel room okay, let let's mute Sister Robinette.
Speaker 1:There we go, Very good.
Speaker 2:I apologize.
Speaker 3:He gives it away, Sister Robinette.
Speaker 1:All right, are there any real questions other than questions trying to get me in trouble? All right, I don't see any questions. I don't see any questions. I don't see any hands raised. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. You can always ask questions in the chat, uh, the whatsapp chat, and that way, um, sister robinette will be glad to answer those if you have any. Okay, all right, what an honor to have brother.
Speaker 3:Yes, baby girl I I will say if you have like a generic question that you think that someone else may have, just ask it in the chat, because brother Aguirre is awesome at answering questions for me if I don't get to them right away. And I'm in all sincerity, I am really being serious, he does a great job and it does help me a lot. So if it's like something not personal, just put it in the chat, because if you're wondering, someone else probably is too.
Speaker 1:Nice. Well, I'm just so thankful that Sister Alvinette is picking on everybody equally. That way, nobody gets offended, everybody gets offended. That's wonderful, okay, praise God. What an honor to have Brother Gleason with us tonight. I love this man of God as well. We've done so many things together in the last couple of years and God has just really used this man of God in great ways. From the Philippines to Mongolia, whatever, el Salvador, I don't know. We've been so many places I keep losing track. But we're honored to have you here tonight. I'm asking you to say whatever the Lord said to say, and lead us in prayer here at the end.
Speaker 4:Thank you, brother Robinette. So good to be a part of this team. I'm excited about what God is going to do in El Salvador. I'm going to dig right into what I feel the word of the Lord is for this time tonight.
Speaker 4:The prophet Elijah first appears in 1 Kings, chapter 17. And the very next chapter, elijah is on Mount Carmel along with 450 prophets of Baal. The prophets of Baal build their altar and place a bull on the altar, and Elijah did the same. And the prophets of Baal called out to their God from morning until noon, and they leaped upon their altar and began to cry even louder and what would appear to be a dramatic scene of bloody men dancing around a dead animal on an altar of stones. And after, of course, great failure and no fire on their altar. Elijah the man of God, then it says they repair. Elijah repairs the altar of the Lord that was broken down. Elijah repairs the altar of the Lord that was broken down.
Speaker 4:Elijah goes to work to repair an altar that was once ready for the fire of God to fall upon it. He went and repaired the altar of the Lord that his surrounding circumstances damaged. He made sure the stones were just right and the wood ready to be set on fire. The sacrifice of the bullock was cut in pieces and then he had four barrels of water that was poured on the burnt sacrifice and on that wood. And of course we all know the story. The fire of God fell and it consumed the sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Speaker 4:And next thing we see in this story of old is Elijah telling Ahab there is a sound of abundance of rain. There is a sound of abundance of rain. And a few verses later it says the heavens what were? Black, with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Why this story, you may ask?
Speaker 4:And I began to look up a little bit about the God Baal. This was a God that worshiped in the northern region of Israel and it was a Canaanite, phoenician God of fertility and of rain. The God Baal was a God of fertility and of rain. It hadn't rained in three years and there was a drought, there was no crops, there was barely any water. And the people, they were desperate. They were desperate for a miracle. The prophets of Baal couldn't do it, but a man of God who repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down and sacrificed himself to the hard work of building an altar, was able to get the attention of God Almighty, and the rain came and there was fertility in the land again. And the Lord began to speak to me about El Salvador the other day and said if we would repair the altar of the Lord, if this team would repair the altar of the Lord, he would rain down upon El Salvador and there would be fertility and abundance of rain in the land. If we would give until we can't give anymore, if we would work in the kingdom of God until we can't seem to work anymore, and if we would love until there's just no more love, as that old song goes, then God Almighty will reign in El Salvador, fertility of souls and the abundance of the reign of his Holy Spirit.
Speaker 4:Romans 12 and verse 1, it's interesting, brother Byrd mentioned this scripture. No, I did not talk to him about this, but it's the spirit, is what the spirit is saying to the church. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. It is the will of God that we present our bodies a living sacrifice to repair the altars that have grown cold in our lives. It's his will for there to be an outpouring of the spirit in the nation of El Salvador, but will you and will this team repair those cold altars? Because it's not about us, friends.
Speaker 4:It's about the harvest that God wants to pour out at El Salvador, but it starts with an altar. It starts with the team repairing those cold altars and humbling ourselves on that altar and becoming the sacrifice that God's fire will fall on. That's what it's about, and so I'm going to close us in prayer, but, everyone, you can take yourselves off mute and, over the next 21 days, begin to repair the altar in your life. Even as I'm now speaking, god is saying what you need to repair. I don't have to say it, I don't have to speak it, but the spirit of God is telling you hey, this area needs to be it. I don't have to speak it, but the Spirit of God is telling you, hey, this area needs to be fixed, this area needs to be repaired. Can you fast one more day? Can you spend another hour in prayer? Can you read one more chapter of my word? Because that is what a living sacrifice does Lift your voices, take yourselves off mute and let's begin to pray God we want to know who we are.
Speaker 2:Thank you, God. I want to be a leader.
Speaker 3:I want to be a leader. I want to be a leader.
Speaker 4:I want to be a leader. I want to be a leader.
Speaker 3:I want to be a leader. I want to be a leader, I want to be a leader, I want to be a leader.
Speaker 2:I want to be a sacrifice for you people.
Speaker 4:I want to be sacrificial and prepare you to kingdom, come I want to see you and your tears and your water.
Speaker 2:Lord, you've got to heal the people of Memphis. I don't want to see you in the air. Lord, I pray that you're covering them. I pray that you Amen, thank you, amen.
