Apostolic Mentoring

What happens when obedience outgrows our expectations? ... English

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We call the room to burn the ships, kill the plows, and move with the cloud. Through scripture, story, and a church plant testimony, we press into radical obedience, spiritual covering, impartation, and unity that advances like a locked shield wall.

• walking in victory with no plan B
• Elisha’s plows and Esther’s risk
• obedience shaped by prayer and fasting
• submission and covering over lone-ranger myths
• bilingual breakthrough in rural Wisconsin
• hearing the Spirit over cookie-cutter models
• impartation that multiplies gifts and leaders
• faith as an offensive shield, unity as formation
• rejecting lukewarm habits, carrying fire home


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God bless you. You can be seated or stay standing if you like. What an honor it is to be here in the nation of Mongolia. Give honor to Brother and Sister Doherty. It's an honor for all of us to be here and to serve this great nation. A very humbling experience for me to stand before such a powerfully anointed group of apostolic warriors here today. And I feel like the Lord has given me something that I want to just share with this short period of time that I have with all of you this morning. And it's a it's a simple thought, but it's something that God has imparted into my spirit as we began church planting four years ago. We came into Beaver Dam and didn't feel like the first Pentecostal church of Beaver Dam was the right name for what God wanted to do in these last days or in our particular city. So God gave us the vision, God gave us the name Victory Apostolic Church. Amen. God has put this church in this place during these last days to see the greatest harvest of souls ever come into the kingdom. And that is what God is wanting in these last days: a victorious and apostolic church to bring in this harvest. First Corinthians 15, it says, But thanks be unto God. Hallelujah. Thanks be to God which gives us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord. This is a church that is risen up in these last days, walking in victory, walking in anointing, walking in power, authority, and God has called us to the kingdom for this time. I love the story of Hernan Cortez, uh that we that we know how he he uh landed in in Veracruz and what is now known as Mexico to overthrow the Aztecs, conquer the land, and just take the plunder, take the treasure. Uh and Cortez he left with only 600 men when they landed. Uh they got off, they got off the boats, they went on to the shore, and he sent a couple of the ship hands back and a couple of the lifeboats and had instructions for them to light the boats on fire to burn the ships so that everybody that was there that landed boots on the ground in that city and in that area knew that it's victory or nothing, that it's moving forward and we win and we conquer, or it is nothing else. There was no backing up, there was no going in reverse, there was no turning around, it was victory or nothing. And so I when I read that story, it just ignited something in my spirit about what I want to do, who I want to be, and who I believe everybody in this room is. That's why you're here in the nation of Mongolia. There's something in your hearts, there's something in your spirits that you want to see this great victory won for God here in Mongolia, back to the countries and back to the cities that all of you have been planted in by God, and God is gonna give us the victory. But we got to burn the ships, we got to say there's no going back. The things that happen in this country that get imparted into us, the anointings that we begin to walk in and operate in and experience here, have to go with us back into the United States. We can't just operate that way here. We've got to take these things back to North America and a light of fire in all of the cities across North America as well. Hallelujah. Elijah, he did the same thing, and that's why I'm saying it's time to kill the bull. It says in 1 Kings 19, and he returned back from him, took the yoke of oxen, slew them, boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave it to the people, and they did eat. He got a call from God, he got a man of God that says, I want you to do something important. I've got an assignment for you, and I want you to walk with me. And his response was not, Well, maybe in a couple years when I'm ready. His response was not, uh, when I get around to it, but he decided he was gonna respond immediately. He killed the bull, he killed the cows, he killed the instruments, and he lit them on fire. And so, whatever fears that you and I have had from back where we came from, whatever inhibitions that we have had back from where we came from today in this crusade is the time to kill those fears, time to kill those inhibitions, time to let those things die, to burn them and bury them here in the soil of Mongolia, and go back on fire and ready to do the will and purpose of God in our lives and in our areas of the world. No plan B. No plan B. There's nothing that we're gonna do that is gonna be different than obedience, radical obedience, radical, just walking in the authority and demonstration of the spirit of what God is asking us to do. Everybody in this room, we've heard it before, and I I don't want to belabor the point, but I think it's important that we are ordained of God. He has placed us in the kingdom for such a time as this. It wasn't an accident that you were born in this day, in this hour, in this time, right now, as the ends of the world are upon us. God hand chose each and every person in this room to be a part of the last day revival. What an honor, what a privilege. He understood that there was something that's gonna be inside of the people in this room. They will not fail me, they will not back up, they will obey what I'm telling them to do. I trust them, I trust them to bring in this great harvest. I trust the people of this room to do great exploits for my name and for my glory. And I like what uh Mordecai had said to him look, look, Esther, if you don't do it, somebody else is gonna do it. If if you decide you're not gonna go before the king and ask for these petitions and ask for the deliverance for people, it'll arise from somewhere else, it'll come from somewhere else, and I don't want it to come because I wasn't willing to go, because I wasn't willing to sacrifice, because I wasn't willing to step out of my comfort zone and do what God was wanting me to do. So we can't allow that spirit to get a hold of us. We have got to stand up like Esther and go forward and say, if I perish, I perish. Whatever I've got to do, wherever I have got to go. God, whatever you are asking of me, even if it's dangerous, even if it makes no sense. Oh, she could have been killed going in before the king. It was not protocol, it was not right. She could have died, but she went, she prayed, she fasted, and she got others to join in a partnership of prayer and fasting and faith, which is what we've been doing as we've prepared to come here. And then she went before the king, and the king gave her the desire that she had asked for. God is gonna use you greatly. This is what God does, He saves the best for last. He said in John 2.10, thou hast kept the good wine until now. The early church saw the outpouring of the Holy Ghost in the book of Acts, but what He has got reserved for us now, in these last days, He has saved the best for last. Says in Haggai 2:9 that the glory of the latter house shall be greater than the former. Hallelujah! We are a victorious apostolic church, and God has called us to walk in that victory. Coaches, uh coaches, they put the best players on the field when the game is on the line. I come from the great state of Wisconsin, the Green Bay Packers, the Lombardi Trophy. It came from our state. And and Vince Lombardi, he didn't put the third string guys on the field when the game was on the line, when they wanted to win those Super Bowls. It was the best field, the most tenacious, the most awesome, fearless warriors that were on there that wanted to win, that would fight and do anything that they had to do to see the game won, that were put on the field. And that's the team that I'm looking at here today. That's the group of people that are in this room, the best, the most tenacious, fearless, powerful, anointed men and women of God that this world has known. God is gonna use everyone in this room throughout the remainder of this week in ways that will stretch what you previously have seen, what you previously experienced, what you even thought was possible. God is going to do great and powerful things through everyone in this room. This week, I believe it, I know it, and I feel it in my spirit. God is gonna use us greatly and powerfully to do his will. Hallelujah. And and we we we we I it's been said before, but I'll just reiterate it. We need to have radical, uh, we had to have radical submission. My pastor is praying for me, he's covering me this week. I'm a pastor of a church plant now, but I I need a pastor, I need a voice in my life, I need a covering in my life. This is the army of God. This is not Rambo out there shooting up the field, because Rambo in reality would have died. Rambo would have ran out onto the field with his machine gun and would have looked oiled up, musly, the bandana on his head, but he would have been shot down within seconds in actuality and in reality. We don't need Rambo's in the kingdom of God, we need submitted, powerful, apostolic warriors that are gonna walk in authority because if we're under authority, God can trust us to be used with his authority to do great things for his honor, because that's that's what it's about. It's about God's honor, God's glory. It's an honor to serve in the kingdom of God. It's un honor servir al Señor. Amen. Amen. Amen. And so that is part of I want to share just briefly the testimony because I feel that's the other part of what God's asking us to do. Radical obedience, yes, to the authorities in our life, but ultimately to God Himself. When the cloud says to go, we gotta move when the cloud says it's time to pick up and go here. I can't just be like, well, I'm comfortable or I'm okay where I'm at. I'm thankful for what God's done in my life. We have got to pick up, we have got to move, we have got to be obedient to the voice of God. And so we started a church plant four years ago, and it wasn't what I expected would happen. We're in a very rural area of Wisconsin, a lot of burly white Americans that you would just expect that's the harvest that we're gonna have. But about a year and a half into the church plant, uh, we did a bilingual service just to see what would happen and what response we could get from the Spanish-speaking community. And when we reached out to them, God began to pour in a harvest field from Spanish people from all over our city and from all over our county. It wasn't what I expected was gonna happen, but I've got to hear what God is saying, I've got to see what God is doing, and I've got to respond, and you've got to respond to what God's asking you to do. What God is I love that the fact that you're an international church, that is an amazing thing. We have got to listen to what God is asking us to do. There's no cookie-cutter plan in the kingdom of God. You can't take some class and figure out church growth, in my humble opinion. You can learn some skills and abilities and things, but if you and I can't hear what the Spirit's speaking to us, we will not have the revival. We will not have the harvest that we want to see. And so when it doesn't look like what we expected, when it doesn't seem like it quite fits in our mold, we've got to realize the plan of God is bigger, more important, and better. And so we are now pastoring a bilingual church in Beaver Dam, rural Wisconsin. And God has been doing great things. We've seen growth, we've seen God do great miracles, we've seen God just do tremendous things. And yes, there are some people that wonder, is that what you should be doing as a NAM church? You should perhaps be just reaching uh the people that are technically a part of that community that may not leave or may not go anywhere else, but but we've got to hear what God's saying, and whatever the other voices, whatever the other naysayers say, whatever the other people that don't want to step out are gonna think about us. We've got to move with the cloud, we've got to listen and be obedient to the voice of God. Hallelujah. And and this impartation thing is essential. It's it's so essential what we're doing here and what we're experiencing here on on this create uh on this crusade. It's you can't learn this stuff in a classroom, you can't experience this self in a clinical setting. You have got to get out and just start doing it. You've got to get out and just in faith begin to operate. And when the man of God tells you what to do and and how to step out, you and I, we've got to just respond to that. We've got to do what God is asking us to do. It it's it's it's part of throughout scripture this idea of impartation, and so you're gonna go back to your communities, and you've got to impart this into other people. Moses didn't keep everything that was on him, but he imparted it to 70 other elders, and he gave a part of the spirit that was on him and and allowed it to be pushed out and put on other people, and that's what we have got to allow God to do through us is you're gonna get some powerful things here this week. You're gonna get some amazing giftings and things that are gonna happen this week, but allow what's happened to you to begin to manifest and and begin to be poured into others because that's what we've got to do when we go back. If we want this thing to grow, Paul laid hands on Timothy and imparted spiritual gifts. That's what we we see in the New Testament, and so there's great and powerful men and women of God that are in this room, and they've been laying hands on you this week, they have been imparting things, I believe that things that you perhaps don't even know, spiritual giftings, as these men and women of God have touched you, prayed for you, things have been inserted into your spirit, giftings have been placed into your toolbox now that you're going to begin to be able to operate in, experience, hallelujah. There's things that God has placed in you through the impartation that's happened this week that is gonna go with you when you leave this place. Hallelujah. We've got to wake up and we've got to work hard. We cannot be the church of Laodicea in these last days. We cannot be lukewarm, we can't allow ourselves to go back from here. We cannot go home. We cannot go home from the things we've experienced here and have church as usual on Sunday where we are at. We cannot go all through the motions. Sunday when we get home, and the next Wednesday and every day after that, we have got to take what we get here, the fire that gets put inside of us here in this place, and allow it to spread to the communities that we are a part of across the United States and across this world. We cannot go home and be lukewarm. And I'll close with this partnership of faith illustration that that that I think is very strong. It says, above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the enemy. I love this. This the shield of faith. Yes, it quenches the fiery darts of the enemy. But what you and I got to realize is this is also this is an this is an offensive weapon. In their time, they used their shields also on the offense. They had a move called a shield bash. You would bash your shield forward. It was a large Roman shield that was curved and tall, and they would use it as an offensive weapon to push the enemy off guard, to get the enemy on their back feet, where then they could take their sword and defeat the enemy that had come against them. And so our faith has got to be that as we walk forward, as we march forward, as we move forward, that the shield of faith would go before us and in the spirit create a place where the enemy is knocked on his back foot, and you can take your sword and strike at the enemy. But but the partnership of faith aspect of this was that they Roman soldiers they had this unit called or this formation called a turtle formation where they would all lock their shields together, they would all get one after another so that there could not be an opportunity for the enemy to get inside, and then there would be ones a row back that would put the shield up so that the tops of them were all protected, and there would be no way for the enemy to get in because it was a partnership, it was a partnership, it was an army, it was the partnership of faith that then allowed them to continue to march forward, continue to move forward after, and the enemy would hear that and they would become afraid. The enemy would see them coming forward together, and know there's nothing we can do to stop this. Know that there was nothing they could do against this formation, they couldn't break it, they couldn't get in because they were locked together in unity. Hallelujah! And that is what we have got to do in the rest of this crusade. You're gonna see them line you up at the crusade at the end, and that we, as a partnership of faith, will stand arm in arm, we'll stand together, and the word of faith will go forward.

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And when the man of God releases the word of faith, oh, we all move forward in unity together, and we will see great victory in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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Why don't you link your shields together with someone near you? Come on, let's link shields together. Come on, let's pray together.

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