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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com. And now here is Evangelist Jonathan.

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Let me see Psalm 118, 17. You shall live and not die. I will live and not die. And declare the goodness of the Lord while I'm yet. Let me see King James. I will not die. Instead, I will live. I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord. But you can't do from a coffin. So people say, Well, I mean, you know whether we get healed here. Can you play that guy? Now, I I'm not, I don't know who this person is. I don't want to know who they are. But you said it publicly, and uh I'm gonna so people know what I'm talking about. This would be different if it was from a mainline church that doesn't believe in healing. But I started talking last night how at Azusa Street, when they uh about an hour from here, when they were seeking God and his power and got filled with the Holy Ghost, like those guys did in prison last week. Um, along with that came the understanding, well, if the baptism of the Holy Spirit hasn't died out, then neither have all these other things, like like healing and miracles and signs and wonders. And so springing out of that move came, not that nobody ever preached it before. The first person to preach divine healing in the United States was A. B. Simpson, Christian Missionary Alliance. And uh, but then now everybody from that move started preaching it because you would get kicked out of other churches or they'd ask you, we have it happen today. We'll have somebody come in from a Baptist church or um some other denomination, and they'll get healed, and they'll tell them, stop telling people in the congregation your testimony. Because, you know, we teach that healing's not for the day. So we're glad you're healed. Shut up. You know, rather than deal with the facts that you have a healed person there. Who healed them? The devil? Then why do they keep coming to church? You're healed, but listen, stay with them, they're good guys. No. So to watch, if you read the original doctrinal statement from the Assemblies of God, um, written by who was the guy in Waxahie, Texas, where they named the school after uh Southwest University of the Assemblies of God. What's that guy's name? Like anyone here's gonna care anyway. He's a good guy. Can't think of his PC Nelson. Now, this guy was not a moron, he was a he was a translator and a communicator for the military. He read, wrote, and spoke, I think 32 languages. And so his Bible was a Hebrew Old Testament, a Aramaic Gospels, and Greek New Testament. And when you read his books, anytime he quoted scripture, like we put the scripture up there and it says KJV, King James Version of the 104 that said NLT, New Living Translation, it he the scripture would be written and it would say author's translation. Because he read it and just told you what it meant. He didn't need a translation, he knew it. So this guy wrote the the 16 fundamental truths of the assemblies of God, which is a great doctrinal statement. We started a ministerial um fellowship called Revival Today Global Pursuit. And for our globe, for our uh doctrinal statement, I just took PC Nelson's and added, like uh, I think one more thing to it, maybe two more things. I did one on on uh financial blessing since that gets attacked all the time and made it a doctrine. But if you read what he wrote and what those guys wrote, it was very strong on healing. Like, like makes me seem weak on healing about how uh uh Jesus was healed, think of this. Or Jesus purchased our healing. The Bible says, by his stripes we are healed. Now, if you, Jehovah's Witness or evangelical churches that teach that healing's not for today, they say that when it says he took our sicknesses, those stripes when he shed blood were for our spiritual sicknesses. But the question then is, was Jesus whipped before the cross or after the cross? Before. So if he paid the price for our sin by shedding that blood, there was no reason to go to the cross. But by his stripes, the Bible says, put, let me see, Matthew 8, 16 and 17. When evening had come, they brought unto him many that were sick. When evening had come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils, and he cast out the spirits with his word, and he healed how many of the sick? Seventeen. No, seventeen just means I'm not challenging you. What word the communication brown went? Now listen, if it whoever did that, if your husband gets an argument with you, the husband can say, Listen, you argue with everybody, that it might be fulfilled. Why did he do it? That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. He took, so they brought unto him sick and demon-possessed people, and he healed them, and he healed them. He didn't forgive them, it doesn't say he forgave all their sins. It says he healed them that it might be fulfilled. That was the action that fulfilled what was spoken in Isaiah the prophet. And so to watch over time, just like the Christian missionary alliance, the guy that started, think of this now. The guy that started that movement started it because you weren't allowed to preach divine healing. Basically, when you see all these different church names, they were started by somebody that was kicked out of every church for a doctrinal reason. So for him, he preaches that healing's for today. We don't believe in that. We don't want that. You can't preach here. So then other ministers that uh liked that and got in with it, they started a movement. You cannot preach divine healing today in Christian Missionary Alliance. We believe God can. We believe God specially used Brother Simpson in that day, but we don't believe that he does that right now. And then uh uh now you're watching that same thing happen in many mainline Azusa Street-rooted Pentecostal groups where healing, John G. Lake and guys like that would not be welcome to speak in those churches. They'd get the mic yanked from them. We don't believe, I think you're being a little strong on that. We believe God can heal. And so this is a Sunday, it popped up in my Instagram reel. This is an Assemblies of God pastor on Sunday morning, and I want you to hit to see this because it's not to make a point and show I'm right and he's wrong. And he's wrong, though I'm right and he's wrong, which you'll easily see. But that's not the point. The point is the thing that gives you victory in life is revelation of the word of God. And anywhere you're unsure about God's revelation, you're gonna lack in that area. Now, I believe God can bless, but I don't know about for me. I believe God can heal until you have it confident, until you're confidently assured. Let me see Romans chapter 4, 17 through 21. You can do NLT. Talking about Abraham. That is what the scriptures mean when God told him, I have made you the father of many nations. This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates. Let me see King James for the last part. I like that better. Calls those things which are not as though they were. That's a problem. The Bible's telling you what Abraham's faith was like. Abraham said, Called those things which were not as though they were. So healing or anything else that has to do with faith is not denying that something that exists, exists. It's not saying, I don't have cancer, I don't have cancer, I don't have cancer. Jesus didn't die for imaginary diseases, but you call those things that are not as though they are. Let the weak say, I am. Let the poor say, I am. Yeah. You call yourself righteous because the Bible says so. You stop referring to yourself by what you see. We walk by faith and not by sight. And you begin to speak out. If thou shalt believe in thine heart and speak with thy mouth. You can't get saved without honoring that, and you can't get anything else without honoring that. The Bible way is to believe it in your heart and speak it with your mouth. So, like that 97-pound lady did. She said, No, I know they preach healing, but I'm dying. She said, I'm healed. Jesus has taken my sickness 2,000 years ago. I'm not trying to get healed tonight. 2,000 years ago, Jesus paid the full price for my healing, my deliverance, my strength, and my long life. I'm gonna tell you, if you came in here sick tonight, that sickness is staying here, and you're going home free by the blood of Jesus Christ. 18. Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping, believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God said to him, That's how many descendants you'll have, 19. And Abraham's faith never weakened, even though at about a hundred years of age, he figured his body was as good as dead, and so was Sarah's womb. Abraham never wavered in believing God's promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God. 21. He was fully, this one you can do, amplified classic. He was fully convinced that God was able to do whatever he promised, and if you're gonna do it in context, in his life. I want you to just try it maybe for the first time. Lift your right hand up to God and close both eyes and say, Father, I fully believe that you are able to do everything you said in that book concerning my life in Jesus' name. Doesn't that feel good? Speak in faith. Yeah, the devil doesn't mind if you believe it generally. You believe God can raise the dead, oh yeah, brother. You believe God can heal your diabetes? Well, my diabetes is advanced, has a college degree. So you find that all the time. People get all fired up about how God can do anything and part of the Red Sea. But all the devil needs you to do is have doubt about your particular thing for your life. And I'm gonna tell you, when you watch the news every day or whatever you see that comes through your feed and you see how crazy it is, you should more and more, like even now, I'm preaching. I'm gonna try to get the word out to as many people as I can tonight. Television, YouTube, and here in California. But when it's all said and done, I'm not responsible for San Bernardino County or Orange County or LA County. Thank God I'm not responsible for LA County. I'm not responsible for California. I'm not responsible for the United States of America. At the end of the day, when I go home and close that door, I'm focused on Adolis, Camila, and me. And I'm gonna say, like Joshua said in this last hour of time. Out there, they can do whatever they want. But in here, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. I'm not like everybody else. I'm not gonna live like everybody else. I pray something rises up in you tonight. I'm not like everybody else. I have no obligation to try to live like they're telling me to live. I'm gonna live my life for Jesus Christ and obey his word. If that sounds like you, let God hear the mighty army he has in California. Somebody shout hallelujah. Saying, I'm not like everybody else. I'm not gonna live like everybody else. I'm living my life for Jesus Christ. Fully satisfied. You can preach with me if you want. And assured that God was able. I like that. Everybody say fully satisfied. Now, people never say like I'm starting to waver. What the right is. I've been, um, why haven't we seen our breakthrough yet? What are you talking about? Where is it? The breakthrough's in you. Who does these things according to the power that works within you? Do you think if somebody were to send you two million dollars or um you get healed, you think it happened that night? Do you think Abraham's child wasn't given to him when he got it? It was given to him when he believed it. There's nothing in me timing God. I thought I'd be further than I am right now, and I thought I would have three cars and I have two. There's none of that. I I believed that God had blessed me and done whatever he's doing in the ministry. Back, I was telling somebody today when I had lunch, I said, if you watch me preach in 2009, or listen, you'd have to, 11. I'm actually like more braggadocious about the blessing of God and where I'm going. I'll listen to myself from back then. You know, I'm telling you, we're gonna rent stadiums and we're gonna see tens of thousands come to Christ and we're gonna pay cash. And I'm thinking, buddy, you got 80 bucks in the bank. But I don't have 80 bucks in the bank. I have a heavenly account. And that's what the Bible means when it talks about how God has your blessing kept where moth and rust and decay can't get to it. See, whatever, when it's all said and done, if the Lord tarries, let's say I go to 86 years old, and um I started at 21. So let's say over those 64 years, uh 65 years, that uh it ended up costing in the future with inflation, God God only knows, you know, uh 14 billion dollars that I spent from 2002 to whenever that future year would be. Well, God doesn't drop it in your account when you get out when I graduated Bible school, May 10th, 2002. Here's 14 billion, that'll be enough to take you to 86. That's what everybody wishes, because then you don't have to use faith anymore, and your flesh always wants to just have enough and have everything settled. But God won't do that. Because whatever bank I stole that in, I heard uh Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking today that nobody should be able to have a billion dollars. And so, oh yeah, we've got a billionaire over there that's angry about just finding out about it. They're starting to pass taxes like that in New York and in Washington State. I'm sure nobody's thinking about doing that in California. But but that there's you know the communistic thing to put limits on how much people can have. Well, they could they could give me four God could give me 14 billion and I put it in PNC Bank or what's a bank around here? UF PNC? What do you have? UF PNC. Mike said no. There's a division in the crowd. Wells Fargo. For whatever reason, I immediately believe you. If I put the 14 billion in Wells Fargo, the government can make a plan to seize that money. But if all of my blessing is in heaven released to me per time by my faith, it's kept where moth and rust can't decay it. It's kept where men can't steal it. And then God opens the windows of heaven continually and pours out a blessing that's so great you don't have room enough to take it all in. I want I'm diverting off what I what I was uh originally talking about. But what when we went to build that church, it ended up costing uh four million fifty thousand dollars right around there. When I started building it, I had seven hundred thousand. That's not enough. We didn't take a loan because I take that scripture literally that I'll make you the lender and never the what? Let me ask you a question. If I had gone and immediately when I found out we had to build that building, so well, we have 700,000. Obviously, you can't do that for 700,000. So, um, and and by the way, it shouldn't have been 4,050,000. It should have been like 9 million. And then uh and it should have taken minimum, from what I heard, two and a half years to get it rezoned and permitted. Ask the people that own homes in the Palisades. You can't get permits for anything. The guys that built our uh airplane hangar at our new airport that we flying to in Pittsburgh, it's two older gentlemen. They said it would have been ready sooner, but we got the permits denied. Do you want to know why? Sure. They said because we didn't have ADA compliant bathroom signs. Our bathroom signs in the pilot's lounge didn't have braille on them in case there were any blind pilots. That's how stupid it is. I'm for braille, I'm for helping the blind, but I'm not for helping blind pilots. Need to find you another line of work. So it should have taken two and a half years to get rezoned and permitted, and it should have been about nine million dollars. Now let me ask you a question. If I would have gone and got a construction loan, which I could have done, I could have put our $5.3 million office building up as collateral, they'd have shot me the money. Do you think I'd have fasted? Do you think I'd have prayed the same? See, when you put your trust fully in God, it puts a different force in a faith out. You don't you find yourself not even set in times to pray. You just find yourself mumbling in the car. Father, as we're getting ready to do this, I I require your hand of help. I don't have enough in the natural, but I have more than enough because I'm with you. Thank you for having me. I'm telling you, if you'll make God your source and you'll make him your everything, you don't have to try to fast, you don't have to try to pray, you don't have to try to have faith. You're fully reliant and dependent on God. And would you do that like your father Abraham? You get what your father Abraham got. Fully satisfied and assured. God was able and mighty. I like that. Able and mighty, not just able, able and mighty to keep his word and to do what he promised. 22. That is why his faith was credited to him as righteousness, right standing with God. What a great. Now, if you'll take those verses, let me read them again, 17 to 22. As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. Let me see, 16. Therefore, inheriting the promise is the outcome of faith and depends entirely on faith. Therefore, inheriting the promise. I won't make you bark stuff back at me all night, but say inheriting the promise. Brother Jonathan, I know, I know the Bible says I'm healed, and I know it says I'm blessed. You know, I just don't. Maybe God has another plan. No. Having the promise and inheriting the promise are two different things. And there's a fight when you go to inherit something. All right. Tessa just flashed. We have a clip of you preaching in 2010 on the blessing of Abraham. Let's see if I had anything to add that's pertinent to tonight. Let's see it. And this word of God here in Deuteronomy 28. God has a promise that if you obey him, he'll bless you in everything that you do. And the Bible specifically dealt with I have no building. I have a car that was barely able to pass inspection, and I have probably less than uh it's 2010? Oh, there's no way I have more than 4,000 in the bank. Personally, ministry, everything under the couch cushions combined. I would have had a negative net worth, probably if you added all my assets up because the car has depreciation. I'm in an apartment. And watch how I talked then, because I'm telling you, if you'll see it in the Bible and start to say, I have, you know, if you got a notice from the state of California that you let you won the lottery, you wouldn't wait until it was in your account. If you had that, you you would start acting, picking out cars, going on websites. You know, I do like the cyber truck, actually. Stuff like that, before the money ever hit your account. Because if it came from a trusted source, you'd believe it. Just like you you order something on Amazon. You don't have it in the house, but you're so confident that Amazon's gonna do what it said. Some of you have heard me say it before. The first time you bought something on Amazon, you were refreshing, checking your email. You called the customer service. Excuse me, I ordered a carpet and it said it was gonna send the confirmation email. I still don't have it. Okay, let me check. It says you did the order 37 seconds ago. Yeah, you're nervous. You had no confidence in Amazon because you'd never worked with it a little bit. But now you order stuff on Amazon and forget about it so much that you come home from work and go, hey, somebody got me something. It was me. Oh, I remember ordering this that one time at night, because the second you put submit, you forgot about it because you you knew they'd be faithful to do what they said. If you can trust Jeff Bezos like that, it would be worth your time to learn to trust Almighty God, El Shaddai, who is not a man that he should lie and will keep his word on your behalf. Can you say amen? Bump it to the last two minutes. Doctrine. If you don't understand the Bible in an area, that's not something that condemns. You wanna know how little money I had back then? That's the suit I got married in. So when I got married, I got a suit I could also preach in. Dual usage. Keep going. Somebody for, but you shouldn't pick up a microphone and address a group of people about it. And I've heard people my whole life speak on healing, they didn't know what they were talking about. They'd say, some people say God wants you healed, but then on the other side, we have to remember this. Uh, you can't, you know, they weren't even sure themselves, and so their message just produced confusion. People left out of there, they weren't sure whether God wanted them sick or God wanted them well. I've heard people say things like, Well, God's sovereign. If He wants to bless you, He'll bless you, but that's not what the Bible says. The Bible says that blessing is a choice, that's why the Bible said, Choose blessing, choose life that you might live. There's one thing that God doesn't mess with, and it's a person's choice. And I want to tell you tonight, as a born-again Christian and a child of God, God has put a choice before you. You don't have to be broke another day in your life, you can choose to enter into the blessing of God, and my brother and sister, it is wonderful to be blessed by God and to have an abundance. And for your greatest thought that you ever think is, How can I use what you've given me, God, to bless somebody today? If you believe God can do that for you tonight, I I want you to clap your hands in expectation of what God will do.

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Oh, yeah, I was still living in Virginia. Yeah, yeah, that was I was in a little apartment then. That was about a year before we hit our breakthrough. Not that anyone cares, but when I say we hit our breakthrough, it was March 2011. I had never had a meeting extended more than one day, and that was twice. And I went to preach in a town called Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, that has 1,100 people out in Amish country. And uh, I mean 1,100 people, and there's no towns close by. And it was supposed to be Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. And we had a move of God. In fact, there was 140 Sunday morning. This is before you could do digital marketing and stuff. So, you know, even if I could, nobody knew who I was. Uh, 210 Sunday night, which is like, you know, 50% more on Sunday morning. The pastor was floored. Then Monday night I announced I was gonna pray for the sick. And we had drug addicts come in, and people, a lot of, a lot of people in rural central Pennsylvania, I think it's like this in California too. The drugs aren't just in the city, it actually can be worse out in the country. So we had a bunch of people come. It had to be the God, like bringing them in because you know, you know it's God when the pastor's like, where'd all these people come from? And so I'm preaching, and uh I called everybody up that wanted prayer. So this lady that had gotten saved Sunday night that was a former drug addict, I think she got saved Sunday night out of drugs, she brought a bunch of the people that were on drugs. And she said, Can you pray for this? My friend, she's deaf in her ears from drugs, drug-induced deafness. That warm feeling you have when you take uh uh certain pills, it's your nerves getting overloaded, and then if you overload them enough, it'll blow your eardrums out. So she was deaf, not hard of hearing, deaf. So I was thinking, couldn't I have an easy one to start off? All right, yes, I'll pray. I mean, you know, I that's what I preached on. I can't blame you. So I did what Jesus said, put my fingers in her ears. I said, deafness in Jesus' name. I command you to come out of these ears. I command these ears, come open in Jesus' name. I took my fingers out, she just stayed like this. So I'm all right, did my best, went down the line, prayed for the 30-some people that came for it, and then I thought, well, I'll give it another go. Because everybody's worshiping God, so it wasn't like a big scene. So I came back and I did it again. Put my fingers in her ears in the name of Jesus, prayed the same thing, took my fingers out, nothing. So I exhorted for a little bit, and then they sang, and then I went back and I uh I did it again. And then I worked up enough guts to say when I took my fingers out, can you hear any better? She opened her eyes and went, I could hear perfectly the first time you prayed. I said, Well, you're awful calm about it. She said, You were saying for two hours that when you pray, whatever you ask God for, he'll do. And that that was the kindest rebuke I ever got in my life, that that lady had more faith in my message than I had. Thankfully, I've grown up a little, which a lot of people don't, but he had a father-in-law named Dave Kelownan, who just went to heaven a couple years back. He would he would sing, and my grandfather would preach. They traveled around. And he, you know, he went to Pentecostal Bible school in the 50s. So he he um he was saying to his son, You're not gonna stop this meeting on Friday, are you? So look at all these people. And so, and I'm gonna I'm leaving. I'm going to Ripley, West Virginia next week, so I'm not like dropping hints to stay. Though I could be talked into staying in California and not going to Ripley, West Virginia. Because no, I'm getting. If you're watching, I'm looking forward to coming. I'm gonna need a compass and an Indian guide to get me there, but I'm gonna get there. You know, I'm flying home every night because there's nowhere to stay. Sleeping bag in the grass or go home. So the pastor was doing his devotions. Everybody say, Thank God for the Holy Ghost. And he read in his devotions that morning how Jesus fed the 5,000 and it said, as long as everyone ate until full. And he said, I heard. He was like shaking up because he wasn't like like like prone this way. He said, I heard the Lord say to me, as long as the people are hungry, I fed them as long as they were hungry, as long as the people are hungry, feed them. And so he announced we're gonna extend it next week, or this weekend again, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. And then we get to Tuesday. And and he'd say, You know, the place was jammed, did it again. I stayed there for 21 days. The most money we had ever had come in an offering in 10 years was $9,600. We had $42,000 come in the offering after everything was paid. I had no staff, no overhead. I mean, I mean, I might as well. I was thinking about buying a top hat and a monocle and like swinging a cane. And then I went to the next meeting. Is that it? Yeah, March 2011. Our second less revenue in Dillsburg. So see what I mean by pact? And then it was all out the door into the coat racks. And it was like a real move of God. Like people were getting there an hour early and lifting their hands. And I'm telling you, now people talk about revival, and I'm glad they're talking about revival, but I don't think most people know what it is. And most people's definitions, if you haven't had one, you shouldn't talk about it. But revival's uh an internal work. No, not in Acts 19. There's an internal work, but it's a visible work where the Bible says the people of that town brought their witchcraft items and burned them in a public bonfire. That's revival. How many of you were here last night? Brother Shambok starting off with a couple hundred people in Farr, Texas, and they arrested him, and they heard about the arrest, and he came back the next night, and there was over a thousand people that came to get saved, not just in the meeting. There are things, um, there can be a move of God in a set of meetings that does 20 years of church growth in 10 days. It can shake a city, it can shake a city in one month. God can take 30 days and lay waste with what the devil set up for 30 years. The Lord is anointing people tonight to take that fire back to where you minister and remind the devil who he is. You're the devil. You've I read about you. You're defeated. You tried to kill Jesus, but his blood broke all your power. Then he was raised from the dead, he never died again, and he gave that dominion to the church, which is us. I'm telling you, you're leaving out of here to give the devil the worst year that he's ever had. In Jesus' name. If you receive it, take 15 seconds. Clap your hands, all ye people. Shout unto God. Hallelujah. Say with me, the Lord is good, and his mercy endures forever. Came out of that meeting, went to Boston. That was a Sunday through Wednesday, and uh, I got to Wednesday, and the pastor leaned over to me and said, What do you think about staying through Friday? And I thought, man, this thing is like not going away. And then I said, Yeah, sure, that'd be great. That's my dream, is to preach. I love preaching. I'm supposed to be home a week a month. For the last three years, I've told her, I'll be home a week a month. But I'm gonna quit telling her that because it never happens. I had a week schedule to be home at the end of May. How many of you saw when we went to Toronto? 433 in a 300-seater with nine days' notice in a place where nobody goes to church, and it was a powerful meeting. And it's weird to have a meeting that's that's kind of like a believer's meeting because you're the only people that know about is from your Instagram and stuff, and you give an altar call to get saved, and like, you know, 40 people come up that are like, no, you know, that's God. Praise God. Now, you ground yourself in the word, you do the principles of the word, but then there comes a point, and this is what people I brought up that word breakthrough. That there hits a point, and for me it was after nine years. No visible sign of anything, mocked by other preachers. I was at a ministers' conference one time, this is way back, so it's nobody anybody would know. I'm there, I think I'm the only evangelist that's there. And uh, some of these young evangelists that are here out running around, they don't realize it's not their time yet. So, you know, you're not getting encouraged by anybody. You already feel like it's not your time yet. Other people are telling you it's not your time yet, but you know, in your spirit, you're to keep going. The Bible says, having done all to do to stand, therefore, brethren, stand. What do you do when you don't know what to do? Keep punching, keep going forward. What do you do when you don't feel like preaching? Preach anyway. Who cares how you feel? Get an assignment from God. You're not finished when you're tired, you're finished when you're done. And as you keep going, God, the Bible says, Stay with me, many are called, but few are chosen. So there's a there's a choosing. You know, it's interesting. Let's just summaral time, you can break your life into three phases. Zero to 30 is your training years, 30 to 60 is your production years, 60 to 90 is your duplication years. I found it interesting that my dad had that Bible college open up to him, basically on his 60th birthday, because now it's not time necessarily. He's still traveling and preaching, but now what you have developed for 30 years, I'm gonna have you pass on to the younger generation. That's how the church has gone for 2,000 years. Because people take what God's given them. And Paul told Timothy, Timothy, trust and trust these things to trustworthy men. Talked about laying hands on them for impartation. That's what tonight is. Tonight, I don't know who's here, but to pull me off of my message, there must be some people here that God's looking to take you right now. You were called, but tonight, a choosing is coming on your life. A choosing has come on your ministry. Tonight you're not gonna be spinning your wheels and wondering what's happening. God's gonna open a door for you that no man can shut. God's gonna shut doors for you, and nobody will ever be able to open them back up.

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Tonight is a night of breakthrough for the people of God. You're going to another level in Jesus' name. How life was before tonight will not be how it continues.

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If you believe it, can you say amen? Praise God. Mind if I talk a little bit about revival more? Go to Acts chapter 19. Verse 1. This is my message called Questions on Divine Healing. Apparently the Lord doesn't care for it, so Acts 19. Acts 19, verse 1. While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions until he reached Ephesus on the coast, where he found several believers. Did you receive the Holy Spirit since you believed? He asked them. We believe every believer receives the Holy Spirit upon conversion. Well then you and Paul need to have a chat. Because if every believer, it doesn't say they were heathens, it says he met believers, and the first question he asked the believers was, did you receive the Holy Spirit since you believed? No, they replied, We haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit. Say with me, I'll never receive what I don't hear taught and preach to me. If you're a pastor and you're baptized in the Holy Ghost and you've not taught your people and given them an opportunity to receive, then don't get upset when they leave your church to go follow some Facebook prophet that's phony, but they have a craving for the supernatural. And since they can't get it at your place, they have to go other places to get it. Your church should be a place. Nobody should have to go on a retreat, no one should have to go to summer camp. Sunday morning should be a time where people have an encounter with the most high God. Anybody watch me preach last Sunday in Pittsburgh? Oh, you liked it. Good. You know, how do you run? And I I like that I pastor now, because now people have to shut up when you talk like that because you're an evangelist. No, now I'm proving what can happen in four years if you let Sunday be a place where you don't only preach the word, you let the spirit who's behind the word come and confirm the word. Not be in a rush for no reason. Now, there's nothing anointed about having long services for no reason. You be just as honest, you can be just as religious about having long services as you are about having short services. But you got to get in the flow every night. Can you say amen? Say with me. I'm gonna talk, I'm gonna do what I did in prison, like I told those 11 violent offenders. I said, for whatever reason, I'm just gonna talk to you all like you're all preachers. And talk to them about Ephesians 1 being seated in heavenly places. And I'm gonna do that here. Not everyone here is a pastor, not everyone here's an evangelist, but uh apparently God doesn't care. So we're gonna get into deeper things, and who knows what God's gonna have you do in the future. Say with me, there's a flow for every night. Used to play that clip of my Uncle Ted uh uh opening up that girl's ears by the power of God and commanding her to speak. That was right after praise and worship. It wasn't at the end of his meeting. That's not how he normally ministers. But he came under the tent that night and he said, Before we do anything, we're gonna bless the children that are here. So, God, say with me, God is not static, God is dynamic. So, you know, you go to churches, whether it's a a mainline church, they have two hymns, then announcements. If your order of service is the same every week, I can promise you you're missing it. Because God is not like that. Cults are like that. In cults, all the men have white shirt, black pants, black shoes. No offense, my Latter-day Saints, brethren, or whatever else, women on one side, all dressed the same. False religion's like that. All the women are dressed the same in church. All the everything's the same. You can't, there's not some charismatic imam somewhere having revival meetings for a week. You do what you're told, and you do what they ship you in the black book, Catholic Church. You can't preach what you want. They're gonna ship you what you're supposed to preach, Anglican church. But with the Holy Ghost, there's dynamism that every day there's fresh manna. You weren't allowed to collect manna and eat it the next day. Every day you had to give us our bread, our daily bread, that every day God has an assignment to you for you, and Friday doesn't look like Thursday, and Saturday doesn't look like Friday. But when you go about 20 years, you look back and you see that you thought you were doing all these disconnected things, but God was weaving a beautiful tapestry and taking you somewhere. My friend, his ways are not our ways, and his thoughts are not our thoughts, but his ways are past finding out. God has a plan for your life to take you higher than your mother thought you'd ever go, than your father thought you'd ever go. If you'll do what the Holy Ghost says, he never leads backwards, he only leads forward. I remember the first time that that happened to me because I, you know, most people, if not everybody, are very religious, whether they know it or not. You do what you do what you saw. So I was a youth camp speaker, and I uh, you know, you speak youth camp, you're supposed to preach to the to the teenagers. And I was praying, getting a you know, normal message ready for youth, victory over sin, whatever. And um, the Lord kept speaking to me. I was like trying to like brush it off. Uh preach to the youth pastors tonight. No, they're not gonna like that. There's like there's not even that many youth pastors there. 20, 25, 500 teenagers. Preach to the teenagers. The Lord said, No, I'm gonna tell you something. And this is how I knew it was the Lord. I wasn't married at the time. I don't know anything about marriage or what goes dynamics within loss. The Lord said, There's many youth pastors here tonight. How many of you saw that word that I gave uh heavier? Remember the testimony I played? Yeah, that that was a that was a word from the Lord. There's people from your past trying to drag you back into your life that you don't want to live. He said he was gonna leave service that night and deal with those guys. You can tell by the looks of them how he deals with people. I know they say violence doesn't solve problems, but it does solve some problems. Sometimes it solves them the quickest. Well, you guys are an interesting church crowd. I could recommend some movies to you that would teach you that kicking can basically solve all of life's problems. So he's gonna leave and go re-offend and spend the rest of his life in jail. And Jesus had a word for him. You think I had that in my notes? Now, if there's anyone there, please tell them this. There's people from your past that are trying to drag you back in. How are they trying to drag him back in? By ticking him off and suing him and trying to take his money, and you're gonna deal with it in the flesh, and you're gonna end up back in prison, and it's gonna thwart everything God has. When you dig a well, Satan goes to try to plug it back up. But everybody that's here tonight, whatever well in your life that God launched, then whatever attempt of the enemy to plug it back up, the enemy made a fatal mistake allowing you to come to this meeting tonight because you're gonna get the word in you, and that well is gonna stay dug, and that water is gonna continue to flow in Jesus' name. I got a word for everybody in here. He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion in Jesus' name. Where you are now is not where you're staying. The last backward step that you ever took will be the last backward step you ever take. From this day forward, you're going from glory to glory, victory to victory, and strength to strength. No more ups and downs, just ups and ups. If you believe it, shout I receive it. Praise God. So you it's called prophecy. It's getting in the flow of the Holy Ghost. Put up 1 Corinthians chapter 14. This is how you are used of God. It's not that difficult. Don't try to figure out whether you're a pastor, an evangelist, or a prophet, or what gifts of the Spirit you have. Just learn to be led by the Spirit. Then you'll have four churches and look back and go, I think I'm a pastor now. Without ever attempting to be a pastor. TheL Osborne said, Maybe I'll get to heaven and find out I wasn't even an evangelist. I was just a believer carrying out the great commission, doing what the Holy Spirit told me to do. Let other morons, after you die, argue about what you were and what you weren't. Whether they liked your style, what you did right or wrong. Hear the voice of the Lord. Do what he now say this. When I hear God's voice, automatically, the strength to accomplish what he says is resident in that voice. Where do you find that in the Bible? Judges 6. Oh, Gideon, mighty man of God. Me? I think you got the wrong guy. My tribe's the weakest, my clan's the weakest in that tribe, and my family's the weakest in that clan. You got the wrong guy, Mr. Angel. No. This is what you're gonna do. You're gonna deliver my people from the Midianites. Next line. Go in this, thy might. There's a there's and that's why anytime God speaks to you, you get like a um this. The time to do it is right then. I think anybody that's been here that's been any part of when you heard me announce 11 days out that I felt to go to LA, and then felt to come back, and then announced we're starting the church with zero notice. Two of the churches, the dollars, found out we were starting the church on the live stream. You finish preaching, you have nine missed calls from your wife. Fort Worth, she found out, and uh Arizona, she found out. And so did everybody else. My grandfather resigned two churches mid-service without telling my grandma. This would be my final uh uh Sunday here. The Lord spoke to him, you're done here. My grandfather would go for church, he'd stay at a church, get it going, go to another church. I bet if he had better technology, he'd be doing what I'm doing now. If there, if you know, the he you could tell he was like pushing in that kind of direction, but he was limited by 1970s and 80s technology. He'd get go to a church that was in debt, down, you know, millions of dollars in debt, down to a couple hundred people, and come and get out of debt in about two years while the church grew and then pass it to a good guy and go on from there. Can you say amen? If he felt quickened, he goes. That's where people miss it. The Lord quickens you to do something, you want an explanation on how you're gonna be able to do it. Let me give you the explanation. You can't do it anyway. But the God that calls you, see, Christ is the head, we're the body. So when the head says, I want to do this, if you make yourself a hand, the power of the head goes into the hand to get it done. Say with me, the anointing is on the battlefield. Yeah, David saw Goliath, it ticked him off, and he found stones there. He didn't now think if he was a if he was an American Christian, he said, I feel to kill Goliath, well then you need to enroll in um you in the military and basic training and all that. And I'm not knocking, not going to Bible college. If you don't go to Bible college, you're gonna have a rough time in the ministry. You need trained. You can't be, I don't know, it's the only profession people think they can just do. Well, I think I can do it. Go go just buy a plane and start flying. And let me know how soon the FAA arrests you and puts you in federal prison. You have to be trained by other pilots. There's a training process for the ministry. Can you say amen? At the same time, if you're gonna. If you're gonna wait till you feel ready, or other people uh tell you you're ready, you're never gonna do anything of value in life. You know, I used to think because I was young, I felt like I wasn't ready. But then you'd get around other guys that were 63, 65, you know. I don't I don't know if I can do this. So you start realizing it actually has nothing to do with age, it has nothing to do with being a woman, has nothing to do with race, has nothing to do with education. The flesh is frail, the flesh is weak, and the flesh profits nothing. That's why God has been calling us all week. Back to being, why was Paul's first question to that church, to that group of believers? Did you receive the Holy Spirit since you believed? Because Paul was Saul. He was nothing. He was working against God. And the first thing God did to change his path after Christ appeared to him was have a fellow believer lay hands on him to say, Brother Saul, receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost. It doesn't say Paul spoke in tongues, but we do know that he wrote in 1 Corinthians 14, I thank God I speak in tongues more than you all. So where do you think he got that gift? We heard when he was baptizing the Holy Ghost. He was telling those Christians, I used to be in bad shape, but the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire changed me into a world shaker for God. If you don't have the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you're gonna have a rough go of it. But if you have that fire, burn him on your inside and burn him on your outside. The devil has no plan to take out a woman that's anointed with the Holy Ghost or a man that's anointed with the Holy Ghost. Can you say amen? The Lord looked upon him and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent thee? Everybody say, Have I not sent thee? I had an angel appear to me in my room when I was eight years old. It's the only one I've ever seen. So all these people talking about supernatural life forms, I was ahead of the curve. My mom sent me up to change the bed, bent over, picked up my pajamas, and the angel said, There it was. Jonathan, God has reserved you for this last period of time to be an evangelist, to call men and women that are now in darkness into the light, for soon it will be eternally too late. Do you understand? I said yes, with a speech impediment. Eight sounds in the alphabet I couldn't say. C H C K S S H Z, something else. There's only 26 letters. That's a terrible batting average. How are you gonna preach when you can't speak? God doesn't care. Let me see 1 Corinthians 1, 18. NLT. The message of the cross is foolish to those that are headed for destruction. But for you who are being saved, we know it it is the very message of the cross is the very power of God. Hallelujah. That hallelujah was weak. Hallelujah. 19. Keep going as I'm reading. As the scriptures say, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent. So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, the world's brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching. Somebody say the foolishness of preaching. That means every once in a while you should get up in your pulpit and haul off and let it rip. Instead of trying to come up with some very wise, you know, the goal of preaching is not to hear your crowd go, mmm, mmm, mmm, that's a good one. Let me tweet that. To save those who believe. It is foolish to the Jews who want to sign from heaven, and it's foolish to the Greeks who seek human wisdom. So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it's all nonsense. But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. Can you say amen? Uh keep going. Remember, dear, remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes. That was me. Or powerful, also me. Or wealthy, hat-trick, when God called you. Instead, God chose things this world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they're wise. Why? And he chose things that are powerless to shame those. Now I'm gonna tell you, there was nobody weaker, foolisher, and less wealthy than me. At eight years old with a speech impediment and nothing. I had already had a teacher tell my mom. Don't worry, we haven't been able to fix any of his sounds, but there's plenty of jobs he can do without having to speak. And God said, perfect. Now nobody can get any glory for anything that happens but me. I'll put my mouth in your mouth. I'll give you my tongue in your tongue, I'll give you the tongue of a ready raider, and then you'll never get puffed up with pride because you'll remember before I got a hold of you, you were nothing, but you're not nothing anymore. When you're hooked up with Christ, I came to tell every person in this place you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Let me see 28. God shows things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. Here's the reason. As a result, nobody can ever boast in the presence of God. It's pretty easy to not get puffed up when you knew what. I've never battled pride, I promise you that. God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit, God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God, and he made us what? Who's the us? Everybody say me. So what did he make you? So why do you keep saying you're a sinner? You can't be a sinner and pure and holy, so pick a path. I was reading an athlete's testimony. I hope it gets better revelation. Yes, I am a Christian, and I uh Christ is so great, and even though I miss it every day, and even though I'm I'm a sinner, you know what translation is? I like to sleep around on the road. People like talking like that because it carves out the ability for you to live against God. And I'm gonna tell you, me and Pastor Michael were talking about this. That um, how many know the blood of Jesus has forgiven all our past sins, present sins, and future sins? No, it has not. God only forgives one type of sin: repented of sin. When you get the blood of Jesus, it does not qualify you to go out and mass murder and stab and steal, and it's all covered by the blood of Jesus. If you think I'm preaching bad doctrine, go out and kill somebody tonight and lecture the police about the blood of Jesus as they fry you in the California electric chair. That's not how it works. All of your sins have the potential of being forgiven if you'll repent. But I'm calling the church in 2026 to stop making room and allowance for the flesh. The Bible says, make no provision for the flesh. How many, how many ministers? Hundred plus, two hundred plus, do you have to watch go down in 18 months before you realize this soft spot that people have for sin is not good? Don't fall in love with God's mercy, fall in love with God's word and God's instruction. Don't pick scriptures that allow you to fall. Pick scriptures that make you strong and make you stand in Jesus' name. You say, What are you talking about? Don't pick scriptures that uh uh uh allow you to sin. I'll give you one. Though a righteous man falls seven times, he gets back up. You know what that is? That's a great verse to go preach to prisoners. You feel like you've messed up too bad, but God's gonna help you that though you messed up, you can get back on your feet. But that's not a life verse. You know, I know I'm gonna fall every day. Really? Every day? Say this out loud. Loading. I'm gonna live a holy life. Say, God has given me power to live a holy life. My wife was at an event recently at a very nice place, it was a Christian event, and they, you know, after as it got late into the night, they broke out the booze. And so Mangales and Adallis are there, and they, you know, they don't drink. And uh, you know, it's amazing how Christians that drink become evangelists for alcohol. You don't bring it up, you don't say anything about it, but they won't rest till you've and that's how you know it's a wicked thing. Because the Bible says, even if something's right to do, if it offends that person, don't get them to do it because you're teaching them to override their conscience and do the wrong thing. Oh, come on, guys, have a have some, it won't hurt you. You know, Adolis is cool, so is Mogales. No, it's all right, you know, it ain't making a big deal, no rebuking anything. They weren't saying anything. Come on, have a little. Adoles then flipped gears and said, You think I haven't ever had anything to drink? She said, I started drinking at five. And was drinking hard liquor by eight and stopped drinking at 14. And they went like this. What are you doing? Putting salt around the nipple of the bottle? Good Lord. That's what Anal said. Think I'm not drinking because I'm some prude? The street you're going down, I already wised up by 14 to know it's a problem. And I stopped. I'm gonna tell you something. How many news articles do you have to have come out of people that were mightily used of God, had God's hand on them, and lost everything because they kept a door open for sin, loose communication with the opposite sex? I saw a minor league baseball coach just got fired. He was at a bar drinking and fired off texts that were sexually inappropriate to a female intern at the club. He lost his job this morning. You gotta preach this to the church? But you do, and I'm happy to do it. I was preaching for a guy that no longer has a ministry in uh a certain state. And um, I went out with him after. He orders alcohol, whatever. You're a grown man, do whatever you want. I'm for personal freedom. I got orange juice. And he goes, uh, oh, you don't drink? I said, Yeah, I'm having orange juice. Drink every day, I gotta drink to live. He goes, No, you don't you don't have you never had alcohol? I said, I never had it. My dad, uh, I never went to the movie theater growing up. Never went to one school dance. I was raised in a holy home. And all these people talking about legalism. If it's considered legalism to literally follow what God said to do with your personal conduct, then consider me chief legalist. Don't confuse somebody being a jerk with with being holy. Ask my nephews on Adolis' side how many times I confronted them. Pito that works at our church, if you ever see him, he was in special classes for kids involved in gang-related activity. Half El Salvadorian, half Puerto Rican. He was in with bad guys at school. When I started dating Adolis at 15, ask him if I ever confronted him about it or had a talk with him. The only talk I ever had is with him was want to play Madden? Wanna go to Six Flags? I was the best Uncle of me. All I had was joy. I'm not the Holy Spirit. I can't listen, you really shouldn't hang around people and beat people up. You're gonna end up in prison. He'll nod his head and keep doing it. It's not a physical battle, it's a spiritual battle. But once you get saved, I want you to say two words with me. Say righteousness, say holiness. Tessa, find the scripture for me. Work at holiness. Righteousness comes from Christ. You're made righteous. But holiness is your participation. Everybody say participate. You can quote all the healing scriptures you want. If all you're gonna eat is fruit roll-ups and some type of uh bologna sandwich with crispy cream donuts for bread, you're gonna have trouble because you have to participate with God's healing plan. Can you say amen? You can quote all the tithing and giving scriptures you want. If you won't work, nothing's gonna work because God commanded you to work. There's always something to do in the physical realm to participate with God's plan. Work it. This is my dad's life scripture. I should have had it memorized. Hebrews 12, 14. Work at living in peace with everyone. And work at what? You sound like this is like a funeral. Say, work at living a holy life. It's not telling God to work at it, it's telling you. You work on it. You let God refine your character. I'll give, you know, I I think he shared it publicly. You know, how many of you ever seen my dad on YouTube? Do you know he used to be one angry son of a gun? You'd never know it now. He's the most docile, calm person you'd ever meet. He got sent home from Bible college. A professor made a joke about his appearance, and he knocked him out. My dad had red hair, which used to be a big deal, I guess. Everybody, redheaded stepchildren and stuff like that. I guess it used to be like bad, like being left-handed. His dad was a Pentecostal preacher back when Pentecostals were mocked by everybody. Still kind of are, but I mean weren't weren't ex-they were all small churches that no cities. How many were here last night? You know why they were arresting Brother Shambok? It wasn't the drug dealers and the bar owners, it was the other established churches that didn't want his tent there. We don't want these tongue-talking lunatics in our town. Well, my my dad's dad was chief tongue-talking lunatic. He was the pen, and they moved 11 times before my dad went to high school. So every time he'd have to go to a new place, Kenosha, Wisconsin, red hair, Pentecostal, and fight his way out of recess, like he's in so block D. Had to live like that all the time. He said he went one bully, got him at recess. He said, I waited for him on the path home. I knew where his house was, and was up in a tree with a bow and arrow and popped him on the way home. Yeah, my dad was like a half-appache Irishman. Bit of an anger problem. When you're taking 19th century weaponry to get back at your bullies, you got issues. Goes to Bible college, somebody made a joke, uh professor made a joke to him, not a student, professor, and he hauled off and knocked him out. Then they sent him home. The president of the school knew my grandfather, and that's why they let him stay. And the and my dad said, The Lord dealt with me reading the Bible. Tiff, if you don't get a handle on that anger, it's gonna, it's gonna make it where I not only can I not use you, it's gonna cause you problems down the road. When God speaks to you about something, he's not looking to hurt you, he's looking to take away the thing that's gonna hurt you. So people talk about alcohol, but there's temper, sexual immorality. You can lose your life having a bad temper as quick as you can, not being able to control your sexual appetite. Can you say amen? Work at living in peace with everyone. And work at living a holy life. For those that are not holy will not see the Lord. Is that in the Bible or not? Is that Old Testament or New Testament? And that's there whether you like it or not. I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to people watching on YouTube that are mad. Work at being holy. God's not gonna give us an account on judgment day for what he failed at. We will give an account to God for what we did in this body, even as Christians. You won't answer for your sin, but you'll answer for what fruit you produced after God got a hold of you. Let me see, let me see Luke chapter 13, verse 6, NLT. Then Jesus told this story. A man planted a fig tree in his garden and came again and again to see if there was any fruit on it, but he was always disappointed. Finally, he said to his gardener, I've waited three years and there hasn't been a single fig. Cut it down. It's just taking up space in the garden. The gardener answered, Sir, give it one more chance. Leave it another year, and I'll give it special attention and plenty of fertilizer. If we get figs next year, fine. If not, then you can cut it down. Ten. Before I read ten. Everybody say called, chosen. Say many are called, few are chosen. So this is why I'm dealing with this part before we get into revival. You feel a calling? Sometimes the reason there's not breakthrough is you're not breakthroughable. You haven't submitted yourself to God. You've kept one area back. If my dad would have would have told God silently that day in devotions, I'm sorry, I'm redheaded, we're Irish, that's how we settle our problems. I don't want to hear it. That guy gave the prophetic word to. The prophetic word didn't put him in in invisible zip ties and send him home. He could have nodded his head and gone and killed all those people that were causing him a problem and be doing 25 to life somewhere in California. You have to allow the refiner's fire to burn out all the things in you that if they're there, Satan would like to use those to mess you up. But I got news for the devil. Tonight, all those things that might have been lurking in you, the Holy Ghost is gonna burn them out, and you're going out of here to do great and mighty things for God. I said you're going out of here to do great and mighty things for God. Can you say amen? I don't want Jesus to be disappointed in the amount of fruit I'm producing. I've thought about this, probably about the third time I've thought about it in my life. But I just thought, like, I don't even want to know what my life would be like right now if God spoke to me on that December 31st and said, Build me a strong church in this city, Pittsburgh. And I went, I'm an evangelist. I got enough to do, got plenty of money in the bank. I don't need this right now. Especially this 2020, where it's not even like legal to have services. I'm I'm good. I obeyed. Then the second one in Fort Worth. How in the world? Two? I don't even believe in that. How am I gonna pastor in Texas and Pennsylvania and be an evangelist? Then I go to my uncle Ted's meeting in Mount Morris and sit in the back and he goes, Oh Jonathan, is that you? Come up here real quick. As I'm coming up, he goes, Hold out your hands like you're gonna receive a gift. You're gonna say prophetic word. Yeah. If you'll stay on the path, God will put people on that path with you that will encourage you. One of the purposes of these type of meetings is some of you have had nobody encourage you in life. Your mother discouraged you. You'll see when you get out there. Your father, if he was around, discouraged you. People that are around you now discourage you. But one of the jobs of a preacher, we read it last night, people will uh uh have itching ears and seek those that'll tell them what they want to hear, but you must rebuke and encourage. A preacher should let you know that whatever you're up against right now, greater is he that is in you than all those that are in the world. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. Say out loud, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Hold out your hands like you're gonna not you, me. Hold out your hands like you're gonna receive a gift. I never heard that before. And then literally, I was talking with Adolis on the drive down. How are we gonna keep the evangelistic ministry going and do and do a church and and and uh I feel to have a Bible school, I got no clue how I'm gonna do it. And then I guess it just came out of my spirit. I said, Well, Lester Summerlow did all those things. I'll probably just start studying his life again and role model after him. So I'm coming down, hold out your hands like you're gonna receive me, hold out your hands like you're gonna receive a gift. And he says, as you walk towards me, I see Lester Summerl's face come up in my spirit. How? How does he know? How do I know anything about that heavier guy? I never talked to him in my life. But the Lord knows everything. Can you say amen? One time my grandfather that I was been talking about, when he was getting ready to hand the church over to my Uncle Tim, this family walked in. It was their first Sunday. Nice dressed family. My grandfather leaned over to him and said, Keep an eye on them, they're gonna end up being trouble. And my uncle Tim said, I thought to myself, what a rude thing to say. How do you, you don't know? And he said, They came off super nice and they caused me more trouble. And what happened? I thought I should have listened to my dad. He was speaking by the Holy Ghost. So if you won't receive what the Holy Spirit says, there's no point in him speaking. He'll go find somebody that's dumb enough to listen to him. Can you say amen? Like when he spoke to Jesse Duplins. Well, all these people, I don't like how much money he has. Tough luck for you. You want to know one of the reasons he has so much money? Because he obeyed the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit spoke to him directly. In buy land, buy that piece of land. It was a worthless piece of land that was basically swamp water that you couldn't build on. Nobody wanted it. They made fun of him for buying it. And when they did the natural gas fracking find, guess where the richest deposit of natural gas in the state of Louisiana was? Right on that land. Because the Holy Ghost knows where all the money is. He will show you the wealth, the riches that are kept in darkness. Yay, I'll show you secret things. I'm telling you, even as I'm preaching tonight, God's going to be speaking a message to you that's alongside mine. God has a tailor-made instruction for your life. I said, God has a tailor-made instruction for your life. And the Holy Spirit never leads backwards, the Holy Spirit leads forward. If you believe it, can you say amen one more time? Hallelujah. Say with me, the Lord is good. And his mercy endures forever. Cue up Clarita's mom's prophecy, if you would. So I see Lester somewhere else's face. I thought, man, I know where this is going. Then I get closer. Thou hast said, How will I do evangelistic ministry in a church? But the Lord says, I'm giving you a church building. And I won't go into that. I mean, it would be here all night if I told all the things God's done in the last five years. It's absolutely insane. Like living in a dream. Praise God. The Lord says, hold out your hands. I'm giving you a church. I'm giving you a Bible training center. And I'm giving you the means to be in multiple places at once. Where people will even say, How can he be in that city? I thought he was just there. Finish preaching in a state. Guy comes up. Hey, I enjoyed your preaching tonight. I said, Thank you. I just took delivery of a Falcon 50 jet. It's going to take me two years to get it ready to fly. When I do, I'm giving it to you. I said, thank you. Never took his name or number. I thought he was nuts. Because people get excited when you preach and they say stuff that they don't have the ability to do. So I said, no, that's great. It's good. You're a good guy. You're special. Year and a half later, the guy calls the ministry. Got six more months left of that. The plane's ready to fly. I talked to the preacher about you. I didn't even know you needed it. I don't know what that was. I thought a hanger or something. You put your shirt on. I was going to put the plane in the back of a Walmart and hope nobody said anything. I'll tell you another one why I'm at it. Everybody say, be led by the Spirit. Let me see Romans 8. Romans 8, 1. So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ. Let me see King James. Oh, there's a caveat. There is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus. Here's the part everybody leaves out. Who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Say with me, I will walk after the Spirit and put the things of the flesh to death. Two. That's what it says. Mortify the deeds of the flesh. Not deal with it, kill it. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Let me see NLT. Go to 11. Anybody getting anything out of this? The Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives where? So why do you sing or say, Come, Holy Spirit? How about you say get it? Put your hand on your belly. Say this. Thank you, Holy Spirit. That you live in me. Where I go, you go. I ticked an assemblies of God pastor off one time doing that. Holy Spirit God said, We're not trying to get him to go. We need the Lord to send the Holy Spirit in California. No, all you need to do is learn to read. Acts chapter 2. He sent him. He didn't pull him back up and ask you to plead him back down. He's available. Say this out loud. I can get filled with the Spirit. Stay filled with the Spirit and increase my operation in the Spirit. That's going to be the difference in your life from tonight in Jesus' name. Can you say amen? The Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by the same Spirit living in you. Two, twelve. Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. I mean, sometimes temptation comes. No nonsense. You have no obligation to do. Now here's where you can um stay in victory. Say this with me. It's not a sin to be tempted, it's a sin to yield to temptation. And a 12-year-old guy in Laredo come up to me. I was preaching a youth meeting. It was great being in South Texas. Even though 12-year-olds had like a like a cowboy hat on and boots or pressed shirt. He goes, uh, preacher, I need you to pray for me. I said, What's wrong? He said, I need God to help me. What do you need help with? So sometimes a girl will walk by and I'll think to myself, man, she's really pretty. I said, I'm not praying for you. We need more little boys like you. That's not sinning, that's not committing adultery in your heart. So what happens is the devil will beat people over the head that, you know, you got mad. I thought you got filled with the Holy Ghost on Thursday night. Now you just lost, you you got really mad at that person. Did you punch them? Did you curse at them? Did you flip them off? Did you get your a key and rate I hate you in their car? I'm just tossing ideas out of here. Say something with me. Say, be angry, but sin not. That's a scripture. All of us would be doing 25 to life if every time we were in a traffic jam, somebody cut us off or want to let us over, we acted on how we felt. But you're sitting here a free man or free woman because you were angry, but sin not. Can you say amen? For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. Let me see King James. For as many as are led, capital S by the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, they are the sons, and you can add daughters of God. I want you to read that verse, and I don't want you to read it like we're in history class or something. I want you to read it and let those words penetrate your spirit. Say this I have the ability as a born-again child of God to be led by the spirit. Now read that verse nice and loud. Go. One more time. Now lift your hands and thank God that from tonight that spirit party is getting turned on. Thank you, Jesus. If you're filled with the Spirit, let's just take 30 seconds and pray in the Spirit. Maybe one minute. Go ahead and play, Brother Tony. Prosto Rishta. Stir up your spirit, man. Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

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Right now, God's taking people's temper problem away. God's taking lusts of the flesh away. God's taking unclean appetites away. God is washing his church. God's delivering his church from every snare and trap set by the enemy. What the devil, shame is heavier. What the devil has set up to destroy you, you're overcoming it tonight in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, everybody said, Everybody said amen. Hallelujah. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. There's a pastor who then became an evangelist, who then became one of the mightiest men of God in the last 200 years. His name was Kenneth Hagin. And he made an interesting statement. The only difference between ministers is their ability to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. Because if you can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, he'll show you what to do, and he'll always keep you ahead of the game. I don't know if I should tell it or not, but I always like to err on the side of telling it. We had our plane hangered at a different airplane hangar in Pittsburgh. And I just started to feel uneasy about that place the last few times I landed, and it started to like irritate me. And I called Patrick and I said, Find another airplane hanger for our plane. I don't want to be at this place anymore. And he two months went by, and he had he said, There aren't any places. There's one other place and they don't like me. The owner doesn't like me. He doesn't want our plane. I've never talked to him or met him, but he he doesn't, you it's clear he doesn't want us there. And there was a change. These people used to be super nice, and then something went squirrely, and I found out there was a change in ownership. I didn't know that until yesterday, the day before. But I could just tell in my spirit, it's time to move. Everybody say it's time to move. If you have to force anything, it's not God. There should be like a comfort. Even if you're thrown in prison, you should feel like praying and singing praises to God. Anything that feels force or makes you want to not be there, something's up. Can you say amen? Jesse DuPlanis told me he met a pastor one time and said, Tell me why I don't like you. Something's up. You're dressed like us, you're holding the Bible, but like a head of a biker gang can spot an FBI infiltrator. You got our same tattoos and clothes, and I don't like you. When you have the Holy Spirit, you can tell what the Bible calls false brethren. Can you say amen? Well, I said to Patrick, then a uh a businessman that goes to our church told me, he said, you know, they're building a new FBO up by your house. I live north of Pittsburgh. He said it's like a municipal airport. He said, and so I had Patrick contact them. They said, We don't have a hangar big enough for your plane. But then they called him back and said, We're gonna get a hanger big enough for your plane. So this last Friday, we got word that we could move our plane there Monday. And then Friday, the place we were at, sent us a termination of lease that we had to be out by the end of May. Did you know it would be impossible to find a new place for that plane in 20 days and sign the paperwork? It'd be like buying a house in 20 days that has a family. You can't do it. But the Holy Ghost keeps you ahead of the curve. So they sent us the termination of lease Friday, and the plane was gone Monday. They were probably trying to get one over on me, but the Holy Ghost got one over on them. And then I posted that video of us taking off. It's a brand new place. Now check this out. You got leadership at that other place that Brian doesn't think a preacher should have a jet or whatever. I go there, all the baggage handler guys are out. Nice to meet you. We want to see your plane. And then our pilot Aziel said, Can you go see the owner? Uh the two owners want to see you. They were in their mid-70s, and I would say, and and uh they said, Nice to meet you, Pastor. No snide comments about a pretty nice plane for a pre, nothing like that. They said, So you're preaching in California tonight? I said, Yeah. They said, How? I said, we'll pick up three hours. They said, Oh, yeah, I didn't think about that. They said, I said, yeah, this gives me two extra days with my family. I appreciate you. They said, You're welcome. Want to see the place? We just finished building it. And then went up and saw the pilots land and stuff, then walked back. Then as I'm walking back, Asiel, my pilot said, Um, they want to know if you'll pray for them. You know. I said, sure. I said, give me your hands, guys. And I prayed. And uh the Lord had me say something, made them laugh. I said, and keep them from shady contractors in Jesus' name. They both threw their heads back. Amen. They said, We like what you're doing, and we'll be here um every time you land and stuff. They stayed, they were the ones that filmed the takeoff, I think. They just like it. It was a I'm telling you, once you get the feel of what it's like to be somewhere where you're out of the will of God, and then get the feel in your spirit of what it's like. When we got on that new FBO, it was clear that other place was not the place, and this is the place. Hallelujah.

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I'm telling you here, you're gonna find your place here. God has a place with your name on it. You're not gonna be scrounging around looking for a place to live, looking for a place to work today.

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Your life is gonna sink up with the will of God. I said, your life is gonna sink up with the will of God. Your life right now is sinking up with the will of God. God's removing what doesn't belong and he's adding to you the things that need added. Somebody say, Thank God for the Holy Ghost. Inward witness. Don't try to hear a voice, that's how you end up in a psychiatric ward. Still small, inward witness. Learn to feel this doesn't feel right. Like Brother Hagen said, like taking a shower with your socks on. Something doesn't feel right. That's how that's all I feel. I didn't hear the Lord say to me, depart from this place. No, I don't like it here anymore. I don't like it. Like Jesse Deplanis, you don't have to say it out loud. You can if you want. I don't like him. Oh, he's a good guy. No, I don't believe you. He's got a great resume. Good. He's got a good heart. Awesome. Tell his cardiologist. I don't like him. And then there's other people that you have a felon come out of prison and join your church. The Lord said, say, he's a good guy. See, discerning a spirit is not always discerning bad spirits. Let me see John chapter one. I won't keep you here all night, but are you enjoying this little foray into the being led of the spirit? It'll change your life. Let me see John one. I'm gonna take a dart and go thirty-two. Eighteen? John one, eighteen. Where's uh in the wrong book? Is there is it like a super long chapter? Is it like a fifty? He's going fifty-one. Why not? I've been oh for three. Ah, perfect. Go to uh go to 45. That's it. Philip went to look for his brother Nathaniel and told him, we found the very person Moses and the prophets wrote about. His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth. Nazareth exclaimed Nathaniel. Can anything good come from Nazareth? Come and see for yourself, Philip replied. As they approached, Jesus said, So you know, how many of you grew up in a church where someone supposedly had discernment and it was always bad? She's a witch, she's a witch, she's a witch, everyone's a witch, witch, witch, witch, witch, witch, witch, witch, warlock witch. Church had 19 people because every new person that came, she's a witch. I think he smokes. But it's not just bad things, it must say good things. As he approached, Jesus said, Now here's a son of Israel. Let me say King James. Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile, NLT again, a man of integrity. There's nothing bad in you. You're a good guy. And he's still not convinced. 48. How do you know about me? Nathaniel asked. Jesus replied, I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found you. I don't know what he was doing under the fig tree, but this seems to have freaked him out. Then Nathaniel exclaimed, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, the King of Israel. Jesus asked him, this is actually one of the greatest passages on discerning a spirit, word of knowledge, and the revelatory gifts, because all three are active here. He discerned the man's spirit, word of knowledge about his past, and then this a word of wisdom about his future. Jesus asked him, Do you believe this just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this. I tell you the truth, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God going up and down on the Son of Man, the one who is the stairway between heaven and earth. Can you say amen? So that's that when Jesus saw him, he said, He's a good guy. One time my uncle Ted was coming over to do a broadcast with me, and he got there an hour early and toured my office. And then after the broadcast, he said, I got there an hour early and walked around your office. He said, uh, keep an eye on this girl that works for you. She's gonna end up leaving you. So he says, She's not bad, but just don't get too attached or give her too much of a workload because she's on her way out. Now, in the natural, if I was a moron, like many people, I'd know no, she loves it here. Well, you think she's with me today or not? She's not. Left on good terms, but he could tell she's part and company. Then he had a good one. He said, You know, Patrick that runs your money? Keep him with you for the rest of your life if you can. He's an honest man. He's gonna, God's anointed him to take care of the ministry money, and that's exactly how it played out. I'm telling you, people struggle in life chiefly because they don't value the leading of the spirit. They'll ask their aunt, they'll ask their mom, they'll ask a secular counselor that wouldn't know the Holy Ghost if he had a red hat on. They'll ask every other person what their opinion is, but they don't spend time to pray in the Holy Ghost and get a feeling from God. Where's my direction? Where am I to go? But that day changes tonight for you here. You on TV and you online. Today you're not gonna go to God last. You're gonna commit your way unto the Lord, and the Lord's gonna lead you. He's gonna lead you, He's gonna lead you in the way you should go. If you believe it, clap your hands and shout one more time. Hallelujah. Pretty cool, right? So thanks to the Holy Ghost, instead of hearing, we have to be out by the end of the month, what are we gonna do? That's not fair. I'm sure they were laughing. They're not gonna have anywhere to put that plane. Oh, yeah, no problem. Is it okay if we pick it up 20 days early? Good, and out we go. The Holy Ghost will keep you from ever getting hosed. I don't know if you know what hosed is. We would say what I would say you can't say in church. Messed up. How's that? So there's people that are trying to mess you up. But because you're God's child and God knows everything, God will tip you off about what people are planning. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. Why do you think Elijah never or Elisha never got panicked when it when they said, Hey, Elisha, the whole army's here to arrest us? Lord, open his eyes. Let him see what I see. Master, alas, for there's more with us than there are with them. Yes, no kidding. Can I get back to reading the paper? Thank you. So to keep you calm. Everybody say calm. I'm gonna tell you, if you'll get led by the Holy Spirit, say every day. What's the first thing you do when you wake up? I don't want to hear you go to the bathroom. We I I know. I should ask. What's the second thing you do when you wake up? Spend some time praying in the Holy Ghost. Who was here last night? Told a story. If you're watching online, I mean. I'm not allowed to pray for prisoners. I told him to read Ephesians 1 through 6, and I said, The God that wrote this book, when you read it, will fill you with the Holy Ghost. And a guy reading it fell over backwards in his chair, speaking in tongues, and it freaked all the guards out because they heard me saying it. And Adolis went there and heard the testimony of there's been an amazing move of God in that prison by that league. If God would do that for a convict just by reading the Bible, why should you expect any less than that tonight? Stop thinking about where you missed it. Tonight, God is pulling you right back on the path to do what he said to do and to be who? Who he said to be. Say it out loud. I'm not gonna miss it by one inch. That's how we got a building. Then the Lord speaks to me to go church number two. I have no idea how to do it. And then the Lord helped me figure out a plan that worked. And then after I did the whole plan, Clarita that was singing, Pastor Clarita, her mother is a prophet, a real one. Joyce Haddon. She's a Holy Ghost woman. She left a message for Clarita and said, give this to Jonathan, and she didn't give it to me, and I'm glad she didn't. Because after I already did everything, and after we got the building that we got, listen to this word from the Lord about Texas. Go ahead.

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It will be unprecedented the way God does it. The finances, the miracles, the signs, the wonders will follow him. Because it's as if I see him with something in his hand. It's almost like a drill. It's like a drill.

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You know, that's why Paul said to those that are perishing, it's foolishness. It's like a drill. And then speaking in tongues. These people are nuts. They've been saying that since Acts 2. But learn to speak the nuts language. My Uncle Ted got invited back to the room with Kenneth Hagin when he went when Brother Hagin was an old man. They were eating. Brother Hagin was dead quiet like he always was after he's done for never talked to anybody. Puts his fork and knife down, looks over my uncle Ted and starts speaking in tongues. My Uncle Ted's thinking, what's going on? Just staring at him. And then he said, as he's speaking in tongues, I felt three instructions. Write books, do tent crusades, and get your weight under control. And as soon as I heard the third one on my inside, he quit speaking in tongues and went, Did you get the message? And he said, Yeah. Good. Went back to eating. That stuff needs to come back. You don't start a church because you did a demographic study in the area. There's not really as many urban churches. That's what white people use for black. There's not as many urban churches here. And I need an urban church. I would like some urban coffee without cream and sugar. Yeah, and then you don't listen to people. Don't listen to people that have something that's outside of the spirit. If it's not spirit directed, I don't care. Every place we started church, when we did the one in Los Angeles, uh when we moved out to Santa Ana at the Hebrew school, I put Pastor Kofi in. Pastor Kofi's from Ghana. He's not black. He's like Matt Black. Are you laughing, Abraham? From the same town. Well, what do you think I heard there? Hey, in this part of Orange County, I don't know if like people are going to receive a black pastor. You know who told me that? A white pastor. I said, How many people do you have in your church? He said, about 90. I said, apparently they're not receiving white ones either. Zip it. That's that's the you think that's the Holy Ghost talking? I never read that in the Bible. And the Holy Ghost came to Peter and said, they don't like black people. They don't like Jewish people. No. No one care. And the people tell you they won't listen to this. Nobody's listening to them either. I don't know. They won't listen to a woman pastor. They're not listening to the men ones either. So what difference does it make? Everywhere we've gone, we've had to hear why, and the devil will make sure somebody tells you why it's not gonna work for you. I know you've been going to those meetings every night. I watched a little bit on YouTube. He says some good things. He's very passionate. Word of knowledge. But, you know, that doesn't work like that for everybody. No, it doesn't work like that for you. Because you, I'm gonna tell you something. From tonight, I pray the Lord gives you the same gift I have, where you can spot the sniffling voice of unbelief. There's a tone to it. It sounds the same in Africa, it sounds the same in Europe, it sounds the same in Canada, sounds the same in Texas, sounds the same in California. Real estate's high, churches don't grow. You have to remember, no, that's not how the Holy Ghost speaks. When the Holy Ghost speaks, there's an unction on it, there's power on it, it hits you in the spirit, it gives you encouragement, it gives you comfort that I'm gonna make it, it's gonna work for me. That's why I'm playing this for you. I want you to hear what holy you might not have anybody like this in your life, but I want you to hear how different it sounds. She didn't say, tell Jonathan he's making a mistake going to Fort Worth. Tell Jonathan he's gonna end up doing a church. Now, she didn't know I was already doing one. I was gonna do a church in Fort Worth. You know, when Clarita gave me that message, it was like the perfect time. We were on a plane flying together, and uh I was wondering, like, am I in over my head? She said, Oh, my mom wanted to give me. So think of it. So you'll start the church. This is this seems nuts. From the beginning again. Listen, listen to the tone of voice. It'll help.

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I want you guys to be sure to tell Pastor Jonathan that I hear and feel this in my spirit, that he'll do a church in Texas, that God will supernaturally accelerate it. It will be it will be unprecedented the way God does it. The finances, the miracles, the signs, the wonders will follow him. Because if I see him with something in his hand, it's almost like a drill. It's like a drill. And I'm telling you the Holy Ghost can feel him to eat oil. And I see it bursting like a like a fountain.

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So this is what she's never seen the building. Burst out like a fountain and tell him there's gonna be a fountain all around the building. Already got the building. She didn't know. Nobody knew. We had signed on it, nobody knew where we were going. But the Holy Ghost knows everything. See, if you'll understand the revelation gifts, you'll never feel like you can hide anything from God. I would just tell my mom and dad we got in trouble in school so they wouldn't have to hear from the Holy Ghost. I ratted myself out all the time. Keep going.

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We'll have a huge fountain around it. People will come from afar to be healed from that place because he would pray.

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Pause. We've had people drive seven hours from Oklahoma to come down and get healed on Sunday. When I was the only church open in Dallas Fort Worth during that ice storm, me and the Dallas Mavericks were the only people that were having church. And uh It's crazy, isn't it? You're like a you're like a reckless pastor for keeping your church open. But the Cowboys and Mavericks have never canceled a game for weather in their history. If the fans come, it's called braving the weather. If the church is open, it's called risking your life. So we kept it open. There were, you know, crowd was down, probably 200 and some people. And one of them was a guy with stage four cancer that's in severe pain, and the cold makes the cancer pain flare up even more. And he drove to get healed. Three hours or something on stage four cancer. You know why? Because that was the word of the Lord. See, I love this stuff. I love listening to it again. What the purpose of that church is. There's gonna be a place where people can come and get healed. And just like God has a purpose for that church, he's got a purpose for your life. And it's not to wake up and make money and try to save it and have a retirement. What's that? Why not just be a mouse or a squirrel gathering nuts for winter? You're not a squirrel, you're a human being. God has his productivity on you. God's gonna use your life to make an impact in the kingdom of God. Say this out loud. God will take the things the world calls foolish in order to shame those that are powerful. Want to hear something funny? The guy that said that thing about Kofi, his ministry not being able to work in Orange County? Guess who the Orange County Republican Party has? Come and pray and speak at all their events. Yeah. The whitest possible thing you could have is a Republican thing. Not counting the assemblies of God. And who do they have come? Kofi. You know why? Because God will use you to shove it in the face of every devil that thinks they can determine where you can go and what you can do. God doesn't care whether your notebook paper white or Heart of Africa black or any shade in between. Male or female doesn't matter. He sees faith, he honors obedience, and he rewards righteousness. Hallelujah! I'm too old. You weren't doing anything when you were young. It's an excuse. Everybody say, I'm not too old. I'm not too young. Say I'm the strongest I've ever been. I'm the wisest I've ever been.

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And I'm getting stronger and wiser every day. Now clap your hands and rejoice. Room full of overcomers. Room full of overcomers. Room full of more than conquerors.

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Go ahead. It'll be like intercessors. You'll it'll you'll call for intercessors and they'll come. People will move and come to that spot as if that was a spot for intercessors. And they'll be anointed for the in the same kind of way that God has anointed him. It's going to launch something that's so supernatural that it'll be like an Azusa. It would be miraculous. Supernaturally, and I see it and I know God's gonna send him. He's not gonna, it's not like he's leaving Pittsburgh, but he's going to do something so supernatural and amazing.

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That's what I was thinking. I don't feel to leave Pittsburgh, but I don't know how in the world. And then actually that I think that was when the the the Falcon was delivered, was then. And then that gave me, I actually did one service. We had all night prayer. I did 10 a.m., 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. with the church in Pittsburgh, flew down to Texas. They had been watching me on the screen, then I just walked in the door and finished the service in Texas and was in the same service in two states in the same night. You think jets were invented so Jeffrey Epstein could take kids to Epstein Island? Why are they allowed to have jets and we're supposed to be uh sorry for it? I'm not sorry. I refuse to apologize to the Philistines because we have the Ark of the Covenant, and I'm not leaving my coat of many colors hung up in the closet just because my brothers don't like it.

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It's time for you to be blessed, it's time for you to quit running God's blessing and God's plan by unbelievers. Hallelujah.

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Continue. This drill. He's drilling. It's like he's going and and and the and the drill.

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I am pause. Now you understand why I preach like like this. I'm not preaching. Apparently, I'm drilling. Drilling. Oil. Drilling for oil through rock. Had an easy meeting this week. Some place ago, rock faces. I said to this one lady at a church house, this was like a year and a half ago. You know, it's one thing. In the 90s, early 2000s. Somebody comes and doesn't like your preaching, they're like staring at you. They didn't know. I said, but now there's the internet. You you can look up who the preacher's gonna be and then watch and see on YouTube whether you like him or not. I said to this lady, she's been glaring at me for three nights. I said, What do you do? Four in the afternoon, just look up where there's gonna be a revival and say to your husband, hey, let's go glare at the evangelist tonight. Drilling. Can you say amen? Drilling for oil. And that word re-fired me up. Most people wouldn't be able to understand what she said, and most people won't be able to understand what I'm about to say. But if you want to know about me, I'm drilling for oil. They're gonna call this land dry. They want to say California's spiritually dead, maybe on the surface where you're at, but I'm going deeper. I'm drilling for oil. I'm gonna hit oil. I'm gonna hit a fountain that bubbles up in Orange County, bubbles up in San Bernardino County, bubbles up in LA County. California shall be shaken by the power of God.

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The devil will not write the final chapter. Somebody say I'm drilling for oil. Continue.

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I can feel even my bones like and he's hit oil. Oil receive the heavens.

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Receive the oil from the heavens. Nailed it in Jesus' name. Nailed it. Hallelujah.

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God'll lead you about where to put your airplane. God'll lead you where to have your church. Then don't. It's good to have a mind. Many Pentecostals don't. But don't make the mistake of giving your mind veto power over your spirit. Use your mind to best implement what the Lord told you to do in your spirit, not tell you whether it's possible or not. How are you gonna do that?

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Nobody was asking you. Don't do that at the grocery store, they'll tase you and put you in zip ties. How are we gonna pay for that? You know, it's funny. When we were doing this second church, somebody said to me, How are you gonna pay for that if you're not taking a loan? I said, How should I know? I'm in charge. How are you gonna pay for that, Reverend? How should I know? I haven't been paying for anything for 20 some years. Just been watching the Lord. Let me see Psalm 127.1. I won't keep here all night. But what you're gonna get in the next 15 minutes is gonna help you even more. Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the let me see King James. Unless the Lord builds the house, they that labor labor in vain. But if you take the flip of that, God is building something. So instead of trying to build something for God, get instruction from God, and you'll never have to build anything for God. You'll watch God build for you. We started building that building with 700,000 in the bank. It was supposed to cost nine million. You want to know what happened? I'll tell you, I'll close with this. I come home one one day, and uh Adolis is having the driveway at our house widened because we both have SUVs, because we live in Pittsburgh, that has huge hills, and in the winter, if you don't have one, you're gonna spin off the road. So we can't fit both on the driveway. So Adulus had my idea was to just dig a trough with my one set of tires of mud, but she had the idea to link to widen the driveway. So I come home, there's a there's probably 13 construction guys that are doing our driveway. Great. I wanted to play video games. I went to order dinner for myself, and the Lord spoke to me, get dinner for those guys. You know, when they keep running you down on the news, there'll at least be 11 guys that can fight that say, I like that guy. So I go, I uh I ordered them um ribeyes, 22-ounce ribeyes with vet, and it came with vegetable and baked potato, but I think I changed it because they're construction guys. I never liked the vegetables, so I did baked potato and fries. I ordered them something that would make Dr. Oz cry. So I ordered them all medium rare, because if you don't like your steak, medium rare, that's your problem. And uh they came. So the 11 come, probably cost 900 bucks on Uber Eats, you know, with the delivery fee and all that. So I passed, I go, I go, uh, you know, they have a foreman, but I went, hey, it's break time. I went to the foreman first, passed him his steak, passed everybody's steak, and then I got another, I ordered another thing like uh 35 Red Bulls in all different flavors. I said, There's Red Bulls on there for you if you want. And I said, it's a drink. And then here's uh here's your food. For us? Seriously? Yes, seriously. So they all sat down, started eating. I gave them forks, plastic forks, and knives that came with it. But they this is when I knew there was hope for America. One guy just folded the steak in half and ate it like a sandwich, and I thought, they haven't got to everybody yet. It's like he's been in a coma since 1968. So they ate. And you know, my whole purpose in doing that was to do what the Lord spoke to me to do. Give them food, give them a dinner, doing to others what you'd have others doing to you. Give them a pleasure. When they find out you're a preacher one time, now you I'm not telling you this as a rule. I don't like doing that and then telling people, I pastor, and if you want to come to my church, because then it was like bait or whatever. I'm not saying you're wrong if you do that, but I'm not. It was the whole purpose is to feed you, just be nice. So then a couple of them mumble up. Never had anybody do this for us before. And uh, thank you. Well, what I find out later is the man that's in charge of that company that was there that day is the brother of the guy that was acquiring the warehouse that our new church is in now. You think I knew that? I was just playing, I just had my video games paused. I was just trying to get dinner to some construction guys. But anytime God speaks to you about a seed, he has a harvest in mind. When that brother found out I did that and told his brother, that guy got a hold of that warehouse and it was supposed to be $250 a square foot, but he told the sheetrock guys, I don't accept your bid, you have to go lower. This is only for supplies. We're not even charging you for labor. Not my problem. Cut it down, or I won't use you for any of my future building projects. He made every contractor take a loss on our church building. And he doesn't go to our church. He doesn't go to our church, he goes to another church. I've met him twice. I met him on the day I walked through the building to sign up for it, and I met him on Easter when he came to see how the service went. That's it. No working deals, no nothing. I never went to the construction site one time. So he makes them take a loss. He told Patrick, I'm gonna front all the money for the church. You pay me as you want. Now we're all paid, we just paid. But he said, You can take as long as you want to pay. I'll put all the money up. And he knocked it down from probably what would have been $8,000,000 to $4,050,000. And it was done in 10 months, and he called in every favor he had with the permit people and zoning people and took that project like it was his, and that $900 of stake turned into $4 million of church, debt-free and under budget. Because all you have to do is follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. I said, all you have to do, you've got one inside one assignment in life. Follow the leading of the Holy Ghost, and when you do it, know that He's leading you forward and not backward. From today, you're gonna hear God's voice, you're gonna follow God's voice, and you're gonna receive the reward that's a man of obedience to God's voice. If you receive it, clap your hands and shout one more time. Come on, let a shout of victory go up in it.

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Come on, let it rip a little bit.

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Stay with me, thank you, Jesus. That you're building something.

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I'm watching you build and walking with you.

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Hallelujah! You know who built that church in Pittsburgh? Jesus built that church. We're in phase two right now. You know who's building that church? Jesus is building it. I don't have one worry about anything. We started with 700,000, everything paid, open on Easter, with 1.3 in the bank. All four. How do you do it? You know how you do it? Just do what you're told. You're not in charge. Jesus is in charge. You don't pay for it.

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The Lord is building his house. I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

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Somebody said, be led of the Spirit.

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Say, I will be led by the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. Man, I feel like a something coming.

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You know when one of the prisoners told told my wife in front of the warden when I wasn't there yesterday? When you brought him to preach, we could tell that he could knock us all over if he wanted to. Not like they said he has power. The prisoners, three of them from Jamaica, violent offender, he has power. People know who has power, and people know who doesn't have power. The devil knows who he can touch, Acts 19, 11. And the devil knows who he can't touch. He knows who's slapable, and he knows who he'll lose his hand trying to slap.

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Congratulations that tonight you have joined the company of the unharassable, unslapable, victorious children of God.

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Come on, take 60 seconds to come up your hands and shout. Somebody shout hallelujah. I just sent you a picture test to pop it up on the screen. You'd be seated. Everybody talking about aliens? I got so sick of hearing it. I met a sprint last night after I parted company with Pastor Michael, designing a graphic. We're gonna put on just this just to let you know how I feel in a nutshell. Pick another planet with a bullet hole in the head. Aliens coming? You think you're the only ones that know how to fight? We know how to fight too. But we don't fight with those weapons. Whatever unclean spirits. You know, the Bible says that unclean spirits like frogs proceeding out of the mouth of the Antichrist. These things that are are that they call aliens or unclean spirits. Yeah, guess what? Matthew 10 1. Matthew 10 1. Jesus called together his disciples and gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out. Your big stupid black eyes. Alien came to me, I'd start making fun of its appearance. Look at your big old head. Can you say amen? I refuse to be afraid of anything. I'll run my mouth from now to when I go to heaven. Can you say amen? There's a guy from the Middle Ages. He's one of my favorite guys in Christianity. They tied him to the stake and burned him for what he was preaching. And his last words recorded were, You can flip me over, this side's done. He was laughing on his way out because God will give you joy in the midst of persecution. God will give you peace in the midst of the storm. You're gonna live in the same world that everybody else is living in. But while they're crying, you're gonna be laughing.

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While they're gobbling down antidepressants, you're gonna be eating Skittles, taking your kids to the park, because God's hand is on your life, and God will take care of you.

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Hallelujah! Say it out loud. I live in this world, but I'm not of this world. I'm not dropping to their level of depression. There's a new virus with a 40% kill rate. Not for me, it's got a 0% chance. I'm anointed. Just getting started. It would say, I'm just getting warmed up. Say this out loud. When God sends me, no devil can send me back. It would say, God will send me help. Friend of mine's getting married. Parents of the bride don't want him marrying him for no reason whatsoever. And said, We're not paying for the wedding. Unfortunately for them, he's got a friend named Jonathan who just forked the whole 25,000 over. You're not keeping me down, and you're not keeping anybody connected to me down. Our boats aren't empty, our boats are full of fish. Our nets are tearing with fish. We're not going down, we're going up. Hallelujah. The devil's not gonna be able to put airplane hanger, wedding, the devil can't manipulate you, the devil can't push you around. Greater is he that lives in you. Go ahead, take 30 seconds to clap and shot one more time. Hallelujah. Who does the devil think he is? Praise God. Praise the Lord. You know, my my wedding was ten thousand. That was back in two thousand six. And so I was preaching, the Lord spoke to me, pay for his wedding. I said, How much is it? He said, 25,000. I was thinking 10. Shoot. And the Lord went, You think I didn't know? Pay for it. So I had bought an option on SPY during the Iran War when the market dipped, because it's a stupid time for the market. This market should dip. None of the fundamentals on any of the stocks have changed. Everybody just has their panties and shorts and not because uh sorry, panties slipped out. God bless who's ever doing the Spanish interpretation tonight. Dios mío. There's just long pauses on the Spanish interpretation. So um I bought an option, one, an aggressive call on SPY, and then an aggressive one on Triple Q. And then as soon as they started talking peace, they rocketed. And as soon as it hit, I had already paid, I think, eight, and then I get cashed out 16.5 and paid that on the one option, and I still got the other one cooking. And then um, so there's 25,000 out of my account, left me with about nine, because I just gave a hundred to the church when we were building that. I'd got about 38 or so in my account, and then paid the 25, I had 13, I think. And then a guy gave me a check today for $100,000 during the day. He said, This is the last one I give for the ministry, this one's for you. I took it and said thank you. When I I I fold I unfolded it, it was $100,000. You know what that is? Called a harvest. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you. When God speaks about sowing, it's basically him going, Would you quit trying to save up? Just put it in my hand and watch what I can do with it. God will outperform all the markets at once. Can you say amen? Thank you, sir. Can you say amen? Took that check, folded it in half. I was wearing a Western shirt. I put it in the pocket here so I wouldn't lose it. Got home, got a phone call, threw all my clothes in the laundry. After about 10 minutes, I thought to myself, oh no. And I went, and that check is no longer valid because it's in about a million pieces. Have you ever heard of money laundering? That's not how you do it. So I called the guy back. I said, I got two things to tell you. Thanks for the check. And two, you can avoid it, because it'll never be cash. He called me back, want to know what happened. I said, You'd probably be better off just giving it to your eight-year-old son on behalf of the ministry. Because I've got about the responsibility of a golden retriever puppy. So it's no big deal. Just I'm gonna ask for another one. So just drive by tomorrow. I've got to have a second one for you. No problem. Happy ending. You say amen. I know they say money doesn't make you happy, but money can be used to buy ice cream, and ice cream makes you happy. I'm gonna tell you one more. Everybody say, be led by the Spirit. I was coming out of Spokane, Washington. We had a great meeting that night. And apparently, I promise, you'll just stick with me a couple more minutes, I'll leave you alone. And then Friday night I'm leaving for good. You'll never have to see me again. Would you get that kid all my all my kids' books that my wife wrote? Thanks. Let me see you. Let me see you. Thanks for encouraging me. Father, encourage him his whole life. May he ever be surrounded by people that lift him up and open doors for him. In Jesus' name. Amen. Hey. Thanks. Everybody say the Holy Ghost has a plan. So we go to this place, I won't say the name of it. It's a Mexican food place in Phoenix. You know, I was preaching there almost every Saturday night this last year. So I'd finish preaching Friday and fly there. And uh they're open until two in the morning. Full menu, and they're cool. If you show up at 1.50, they're happy to see you. And not like we could just say we know we close in ten minutes. I'll tell you, I've never been so close to throwing a hostess stand through a window than when I hear that. It's like just close now. So uh got a little bit of my dad's temper in me. So I go to that place, we're like the only people that speak English, and for the first time, my pilot came with me. Aziel from the Dominican Republic. He speaks Spanish. Well, I've been tipping those ladies because I'm happy. And it's like, thanks for feeding me. I just finished preaching, I just flew here, and uh, I'm not gonna eat before I preach in the morning. So this is like my fuel for tomorrow. You serve me, they give me extra food. They're just cool. So I get um, I would tip them $100, $200, sometimes $300. They'd be real thankful. Well, when you tip like that, people end up looking you up. So I come back, even though I wasn't doing it for that reason, I promise you. I come back that night. I'm not dressed like a preacher, I've never told them I'm a preacher. And they start talking to Asiel in Spanish. And so Aziel comes over to me, I'm on my way out. Now, we just came out of an awesome service, and I'm I'm still feeling it. And Asiel says, That lady wants you to pray for her. Now, this is an outdoor place. You know, it's like folding chairs and folding tables surrounded by a barbed wire fence, you know, where the good food is. If you don't hear gunshots, it's not good tacos. Same rule applies to barbershops. So, um, I said, sure. Go over. She speaks through him. My husband is an alcoholic, and it's starting to really hurt our marriage at home. Would you pray? Crap. In the name of Jesus. And then as he holds her up, and she's like, she's like, I don't know. They're like, they're like, you know, from Mexico, from uh Sinaloa, I think. And they're and they're they're Matamorphus and they're Catholic. And she's she's going out. Gracias, Señor. Gracias. So then I finish with her, and there's three more in line. Go to her. My my son's on drugs, and I I he's a good boy, but he needs to get off drugs. Would you please pray to pray for her? Next lady, her thing. Finish with those three. They're crying with their hands lifted. And now the guy cooks and the guy manager and stuff are in line. And I had just finished having a prayer line in Washington State, and the anointing recreated the exact thing at that restaurant. And then where's Abraham? Now, again, this is he's not the best witness for me now because he's he's with me, so then you would just think he's gonna agree with whatever I said. We went back last Saturday or two Saturdays ago. Last Saturday? Two Saturdays. We pulled on the parking lot at 1.30 in the morning, and I'm telling you the truth. I don't mean some, I mean the owner. And then everybody that was eating, it was the most confused-looking Mexicans you'd ever seen in your life. I'm the only white guy traveling with a black guy who looked like the Starski and Hutch of the Pentecostal movement. Dressed like we're in organized crime at 1:30 in the morning. The only and then gringo! You got all these gay people like, who is this guy? I told you the prison story. I told you uh the taco story, and you've been here this week. The anointing doesn't work in church, the anointing works everywhere. It'll shut a prison down, it'll shut a taco shop down, it'll shut a city down. There will be revivals very shortly. That like the NFL draft shut Pittsburgh down for three days. There will be revivals in America, not one, revivals simultaneously. I prophesy in the name of Jesus. This is going to start to happen right now. I've never said this in my life. It came to me by the Holy Ghost. The same way Antifa and the pro-Palestine groups in LA shut the streets down and people couldn't drive there, the next thing that shuts cities down very shortly will be a move of God that bleeds out into the streets, that bleeds out into the universities, that will shut down what goes on that day. I'm telling you, it's happening. The devil will not write the final chapter of U.S. history. The people that are gonna write it are right here in this room. God will have the final say in our generation, and he's gonna use you to do it.

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If you receive it, jump up on your feet, give Jesus the biggest hand clap. Come on, let's take 60 seconds later.

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If you're here tonight and you say, Jonathan, I have gotten off of the spirit-led path. I didn't know, maybe you didn't even know what I was talking about till tonight. I've been making my own decisions and own plans, and it led me down a path that I know tonight is not the path God has for me. I'm not living a life that's how I should be living. But tonight I'm gonna change that. I'm gonna yield to the Holy Ghost. I'm gonna allow God to speak to me and submit my life to Him. That starts with turning your back on your own way of living, repentance. I'm not gonna do things my way anymore. I'm gonna commit my way unto you. And then confessing Christ as Savior. How are you led? The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Until Jesus becomes Lord, you're never led. But tonight, when he becomes Lord, you'll never lack divine direction. Lift your hands before I even give the altar call. From tonight, you'll never lack divine direction. And if you never lack divine direction, you'll never lack. Because God never leads you into bankruptcy, He leads you out of bankruptcy, leads you to overflow in abundance. Praise God. Hallelujah. You know, when that guy gave me that jet, I said, he said, we run a nonprofit that gives jets to other uh ministries. I said, How many of you given them to you? He said, You're the first one. What'd you pick me for? I don't have the biggest ministry by far. Probably one of the reasons he picked me is so many guys speak against jets there in the ministry. He's pretty much down to me. Because you can you'll never have what you speak against. Attack wealth, attract lack. But attack lack, you attract wealth. Can you say amen? That's right. Having debates right now whether Elon Musk can have a billion dollars or not. Why can you have it? Who's he supposed to give it to? Why is it okay for you to have it in the government and not him as a private individual? Well, he should pay his fair share. What's what's his fair share of uh what's your fair share of what he legally earned? Since when are people entitled to other people's money? I don't even take offerings like that. What if I ever said your tithe belongs? You're supposed to tithe. You don't say anything about Jonathan Shuttlesworth in Malachi III. Can you say amen? People are supposed to be free, and they're supposed to be able to acquire and accumulate for them and their family without anybody telling them what to do with it. Yeah. You could barely tell them in California with a grunting and one amen. But I stand by what I said. You think it's wrong for Elon Musk of a billion dollars? I think it's wrong for you to waste hundreds of billions of dollars promising things that you never did for the people. Running a scam, actually laundering money the proper way, not the stupid way. Can you say amen? But that's a subject for another day. Tonight's about Being led by the Spirit. And tonight God's going to begin to lead you. You don't know who to marry. You don't know when to marry. You don't know when to conceive. You don't know where to live. You'll know, God will have a place for you. God will show you where to go. Elijah, go and hide yourself by Kareth Brook and eat what the ravens bring you, for I've commanded them to give you, bring you bread and meat. Everybody else was starving, and he was just collecting sandwiches every day. If you want to go live anywhere else, he'd have starved along with everybody else. But everybody said, God has a place for me. And many of you, spiritually and physically, have been living outside of that place. Because if you're in the wrong place spiritually, you end up in the wrong place physically. But tonight you're going to return to the Lord spiritually, and God's going to line the physical place up. If you're here and you say, Jonathan, that's me. Tonight, I feel to consecrate my life to God and tell him I want you not only to call me, I want you to choose me. I want you to, I want to be a part of this last name of God. Have you ever done that at an altar before? There's something different than about that than scanning a QR code and joining next steps. To come to the altar and make a public stand that I'm going to serve Jesus Christ all the days of my life is very, very powerful. If you've never done that, I want to invite you to do that tonight. If you say, Jonathan, when you pray this prayer of consecration, I want to be included in that prayer. I want to make tonight the night on the National Day of Prayer, May 7th, 2026. This is the night that I made things right with God. And I've never been the same. And every day when they say it's the National Day of Prayer, you say, ah, one year since I got serious with God. When you get serious with God, God gets extra serious with you. He'll go out of his way to show you that you're his son or you're his daughter. If you say, Jonathan, when you pray, I want you to include me in that prayer. I want to give my life in its entirety to Christ and be led by the Spirit. Let me see your hand up and wave it at me in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. That's awesome. Very quickly, I want everyone that lifted a hand to step out of your seat and join me right here. We're going to pray in Jesus' name. Go ahead. Go ahead. Clap for him. Encourage them as they come.

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Above him there's no other. Jesus is the way.

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Lift both hands, close both eyes. Thank you for your healing power. Washing over this whole crowd tonight, oh Lord. Thank you for your healing power. Washing over this whole crowd. In Jesus' name. I thank you, Lord. I give you praise, oh Lord. Thank you for touching these tonight. Thank you for filling these tonight with your spirit. A calling and a choosing comes on their life. In Jesus' name. Everybody that's at the altar, just lift both hands to the Lord and say these words after me. But this is not a recital like to join a club or a cult. This is talking to a living God. Even as you're praying this, he's gonna do a deep work on the inside of you. Say this nice and loud. Heavenly Father, I've come forward tonight to give you my life. Forgive me of all my sins. Wash me in your blood. I believe in my heart. You raised Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth. Jesus is Lord and my Savior. Right now, I receive forgiveness by the blood of Jesus.

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Amen.

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