Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com. And now here is Evangelist Jonathan.
SPEAKER_05I want you to take your Bible. Turn with me to 2 Timothy chapter 3. Whether you're watching online or on television or you're here, I want you to say this out loud. Embrace the supernatural. So 2 Timothy. Yes. Delayed reaction, but still counts. 2 Timothy chapter 3. The dangers of the last days is the subheading in my Bible. The dangers of the last days. What days are we in right now? 2 Timothy 3.1. You should know this, Timothy. This is Paul written by the Holy Ghost to his son in the faith, Timothy. You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They'll be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They'll be unloving and unforgiving. They'll slander others and have no self-control. They'll be cruel and hate what is good. They'll betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. Basically, all that deals with the world. Then five's going to deal with the church. They will act religious in the King James. They'll have a form of godliness, but they'll reject the power that would actually make them godly. Have nothing to do with people like that. Now, I don't shun anybody. I was just in the in the gay burhood getting my hair cut, talking to all kinds of people. As you can tell by my sport code, I'm not anti-gay. They helped dress me tonight. So I'm not shunning people, but you've never seen me in this ministry make any kind of effort to round people up. And let's get all the pastors together praying. We need to be united. You can't unite with people that the Bible tells you there's no unity with. It says when people make a decision to reject the power of God, that you can't flow with them in the last days. Because if you do, what starts out as not believing in tongues, not believing, I don't know about healing, it'll go when you start cutting the supernatural out. TL Osborne said, if you take the supernatural out of this book, he said, I can't go four paragraphs without bumping into a miracle. So I mean, I don't know. I'm not really comfortable with the supernatural. What about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ? What about the resurrection of the dead? What about God creating the heavens and the earth? Well, I mean, if uh Noah's Ark, if you're going to get away from the supernatural, you might as well just leave Christianity. The Bible is a supernatural book that doesn't just tell you life principles, it tells you about a supernatural God who sent his supernatural son into a flesh body to shed his supernatural blood and supernaturally redeem you from the supernatural power of sin. If you cut all that out, then what you're gonna be is what there is in most churches. How many of you need a breakthrough tonight? Every hand goes up. How many need a healing tonight? Every hand goes up. I got news for you. That's not how it was in the early church. The book of James, he said, Are there any among you sick? In other words, I'm gonna give instruction for the sick to get ministered to, but I'm not even sure anybody's sick. If they wrote that today to the American church, they'd have to say, Are any among you well? Because when you ask, is anybody who needs prayer? Every hand goes up. Same people next week, but those days are over. God is raising up a supernatural group called the church. He's not coming back for a weak and defeated and groveling church. He's coming back for a glorious, spirit-filled, on-fire church, and you're part of that church tonight in Jesus' name. If you receive it, go ahead and clap your hands to the Lord. So you're gonna move one of two directions. You're either gonna get in to the supernatural that God uh tells you to, or you're gonna go in a bad direction. This guy I'm gonna play you if you follow me. I've played him a lot, but I mean this is this was like nine Sundays ago, eleven Sundays ago in America. This is a senior pastor of a church. And when you start, when you don't obey this instruction and you start having a form of godliness. Hello, I'm gonna share a few thoughts. I know you've driven a long way in how many know we've worked today, so I'm not gonna be long. And just get into that kind of flow. You're probably not even gonna make heaven yourself. Because people ask, do you need the baptism of the Holy Spirit to go to heaven? Um, technically, you don't. Doctrinally, you don't. But I don't know if you're gonna make it in 2026. Picking and choosing which parts of the things God gave you. You know, I'm not just saying that about tongues. I'm talking about, you know, do you really need the full armor of God? What if I just want the breastplate of righteousness in the shoes of the gospel? Then your chest is gonna get hit and your head's gonna get hit. I'd made up my mind, everything that's in that book. I'm not picking seven out of ten. I want everything God has for me to not survive in the last days, to run the devil over in this last hour of time. Can you say amen? Or you can be like our friend here. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01Why do we still go to church? Besides the fact that we started one, and I guess we should show up. Um for me, kind of memorize this voice.
SPEAKER_05Because when you hear someone that talks like this, they don't have the Holy Ghost. There's a weight, I'm not saying you have to shout or anything, but there's like when Bob Nichols, before he went to heaven, the pastor in Fort Worth at 87, if I gave him the mic and he prayed, you could feel God in his voice. The guy was like, his body was gone. And he was still having people, you know, shuttle him to church, sitting there in the front row, could barely stand up. If I gave him the mic, you could feel him. There was a an authority on his voice. They said that about Jesus in the Bible, that the people were amazed because he had real authority when he spoke, quite unlike the teachers of religious law. So I'm in this. I don't know. It's like everything's coming from here. There's nothing here. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01I'm a little bit uncomfortable. Pause.
SPEAKER_05One more thing and then I'll leave it alone. That stool's doing some serious work. Keep going.
SPEAKER_01A little bit uncomfortable with spirituality. Uh with the miracle. Pause.
SPEAKER_05You know what? You know why it's uncomfortable with spirituality? Because your flesh is uncomfortable with spirituality. That's why, if you're not careful, you you'll use even me. Like if I was a normal person, I would use the Holy Ghost to get into the church that we're going in. And then once the 3,000 seaters built, then you know, let's be obviously we don't want to freak out visitors, and so let's let's go to the middle. Let's I and then you become a normal American church that all your testimonies are. How many of you remember when we used to meet in the hotel? How many of you remember when we were in the old building? But then you got, and like Paul said to the church in Galatia, why after starting in the spirit are you now trying to finish in the flesh? I want you to make a covenant with God tonight. I started in the spirit, I'm staying in the spirit, and I'm gonna finish in the spirit. Can I tell you something? In the name of Jesus, all of you will finish strong in Jesus' name. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01With um God supernaturally intervening in our world, um, and when I say I'm a little bit uncomfortable, I might not even believe that it happens at all. Uh which is probably a big downer for you to hear from me on a Sunday as a guy who runs a church. So if I don't believe in that, I'm not someone who believes that you know the real thing. So if I don't believe in that, why am I here? I have a what I think is a really good answer. Reason number one, I like the fact that Christianity is a code that teaches me what I think is like maybe the best way to live. The best way to interact in the world, the best way to treat people.
SPEAKER_05Even that, I don't just I don't agree with you because the Bible doesn't teach you how to live, the Bible transforms you. The Bible tells you that you don't have the power to make correct decisions. Man's heart is desperately wicked, who can know it? You cannot beat that by the Bible tell you like be a good person, treat people better. What happens is it puts to death. The Bible says, mortify the deeds of the flesh. Then there's a life-giving spirit named the Holy Ghost, who when you feel like punching somebody, just gives you a little tapar on the shoulder and goes, uh-uh. We don't do that anymore. So I don't even agree with that. The Bible is not something that teaches you how to live well. You can't teach people. The government wastes money putting up billboards, domestic abuse hurts everyone. You think anybody that beats their kid ever drove by that one? You know what? That's true. I never thought about that before. I'm gonna talk my problems out. No, they're controlled by a spirit of anger. And I don't write everything off the devils. I wish everything was caused by demon spirits, because you can cast out demons, but you can't cast out stupid. I wish you could. Make pastoring easy. Stupid, come out, and then they're they're good, but you can't do it. But one out of every three people Jesus dealt with, there was a spirit that had to be dealt with. And anytime someone came to Jesus and said something like, My boy is deaf and mute, because he's held captive by an evil spirit. Jesus didn't put his hand on his side and say, Now listen, I know it's the first century, and you people are very primitive, but you'll find out as time goes on that there's actually a chemical imbalance. He never said that. He dealt with devils, he dealt with demons of infirmity, he dealt with a spirit of deafness and muteness that seizes this boy. And the church must come back in a pronounced way to getting full of the Holy Ghost and dealing with things. You know, even this revival that's happened. Something happened with God's people praying, where God has like broken some kind of hold of the devil in this nation. I went to uh uh uh a store, that Westfield Mall you guys have up in La Jolla. I had to buy some stuff, so I went up there, and the lady that was uh checking me out of the uh cash register, she had a cross around her neck, no big deal, but I just was curious because she's like 19 and it was a pretty prominent cross. I said, uh nice necklace. You go to church? She said, I do. I said, what kind of church? And she told me it was a spirit-filled church. I could tell by the name of it because they have like weird names, like hell thumping assembly or whatever. It's not always something like aggressive, overcoming Faith Victory Center. That's how you kind of know you're on the right track. So she told me, I said, Did you grow up in church or did you just start going recently? She said, I just started going recently. She said, uh, I said, when? She said, September. I said, so you didn't go to church growing up. No. Why did you decide to go? She said, I don't know. I'm a student. I was a student at San Diego State University, and I didn't find my people there. I went to go, I thought I'd find like a community there, and I just ended up gravitating to church. That's not normal to go to San Diego State University as an unbeliever and go, you know what, I'm not really making any friends. Let me go to the altar. People don't do that. There's a flow happening right now where you're not going to have to try to make things happen. All you're gonna have to do is get in the flow, and God's gonna use you beyond your wildest dreams. I tell you one more time get ready for more happening in the next seven months than the last ten years put together.
SPEAKER_01All right, go ahead. Um, I still find a ton of value in that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, so that's it. So then that's why for me, there's no middle ground. You're either going to end up like that and you don't do it overnight. You know about there was probably a time where that guy had just as much passion like he's saying. You don't start a church and go there at 8 a.m. and crawl under the stage and plug in cables because uh because you're unsure about the Bible. What happens is that as you live in this world, that spirit of this world starts to jerk with the Bible. I mean, think about it. If I follow God's plan for my life and the ministry continues to grow, there'll be a time where CNN or MS now calls me on, and what's the first things they're gonna do? Do you really believe something about tongues? Do you really believe that homosexuality is a sin? Do you really believe people go to hell for anything? They all the devil always wants you to jerk with the foundation of God's word. Because if you mess with it, then it becomes unstable. If the foundation is demolished, what hope do the righteous have? But if you refuse to compromise on the word of God, the Bible says, he that builds his life on my word and my teachings is like a wise man who builds his life on solid rock. The winds still blow, the waves still crash, but when they're all done, the righteous man is still standing because nothing in this world has the power to take out the man that's rooted to the word of God. Embrace the supernatural. So now that we know that's going to be a problem, what was Paul's charge to Timothy? So I felt like the best way to do it would be to read where it says Paul's charge to Timothy, which is verse uh 10. But you, Timothy, certainly know what I teach and how I live, and what my purpose in life is, my love and my endurance. You know how much persecution and suffering I've endured. Now, this is a great scripture. These guys preach prosperity. The Bible talks about persecution. Yes, it does. And look at what he says. You know how harshly I was persecuted in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. But the period's not there. There's two dashes, like on ChatGPT. And it says, But the Lord delivered me out of it all. In this life you will have trouble. In this life you will have persecution. But there's nothing the devil will ever send your way that God already hasn't given you power and made a plan to get you out to the other side stronger than you were before. Don't focus on the persecution, focus on the victory. But evil people and impostors will flourish. So don't get freaked out and upset. Can you believe this person is running for governor of California? Yes, I can. Because it says evil people and impostors will flourish. How can anyone vote for that person? Because evil people and impostors will flourish. So freaking relax. God's not up in heaven hoping Spencer Pratt gets enough votes. I don't know what I'm gonna do with you. It'll be nice. I'm not saying politics aren't important. Leadership is very important. But don't be some Christian that's on like mind medication because you're you're so freaked out about things that aren't even in your control and that God's not nervous about. Our churches will grow in Canada and in every state in this country that God puts them in, regardless of who's in charge. Because he said, no matter who's in charge, not I'll help you survive. I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. If you believe it, can you shout a living amen? They will deceive others and will themselves be deceived. But you must remain faithful to the things you've been taught. You know they're true, for you know you can trust those who taught you. You've been taught the holy scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes from trusting Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God. All scripture is God breathed. How much of it? You know, Jesus never mentioned homosexuality. The Bible's not four books, it's 66 books. So you can't take the parts. You guys get quiet. You're still a little controlled by the LGBT people.
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SPEAKER_05Yeah, so that they try they try anything they don't like. They just say that's not mentioned. That's Jesus never said that. I like to go with the red letters. You better go with all the letters. All scripture is inspired by God. Because that's the devil's point to get you off of the Bible. Like uh put Proverbs 1022 up. Proverbs 10.22. The blessing of the Lord makes a man rich and he adds no sorrow. Well, you can't use that because that's a wisdom book. Psalms. This is what they'll teach you if you go to Bible college. Not my Bible college, because if somebody taught that, they'd be out. We'd turn the cameras off and then fire them. The blessing of the Lord makes a person rich. And he adds how much sorrow with it? What does the blessing do? Makes you what? Yeah, not meets your needs, makes you rich. Well, no, you can't claim that scripture though, because these are what's called the wisdom books. Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs. Those are poetic, and they're more meant for inspiration. Said who? Where's that? All scripture is inspired by God. Put 3 John 2. 3 John 2 in the King James. King James. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest what? And even as your soul prospers, which breaks it down to all three. So that's are you one of those health and wealth preachers? How do you interpret that? This is the apostle, John, writing to a church of believers and saying, if I had my way. And remember, the Bible says about itself. No man wrote what he wanted to write. Everyone wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. So what did he write? This is the Holy Ghost writing through John. If I had my way, says God, I want you to prosper materially and be in health in your body to the same degree that your soul's prospering. So you know how you throw that verse away? That was a common greeting of the day. That's what they teach in Bible college. Because anything that deals with healing, prosperity, victory, they write the whole thing off. Then you can write the whole Old Testament off. That was to the Jews. Oh yeah? Let me see uh let me see Romans chapter 2. You're gonna have to find the verse. A true Jew is not one who's one outwardly, but one inwardly. I think it's Romans 2. Romans 2 22-ish. I'm just throwing darts. 2 29. He is a Jew. Go to 28. For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is the circumcision which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew which is one inwardly. And circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God. Put Galatians 3, 13 and 14 up. But Christ hath redeemed us from all the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For it is written, curse is everyone that hangs on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come on who? Gentiles is King James for Californian. Through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Holy Spirit by faith. So that was for the Jews. The reason Abraham was rich? No. The Bible says that when God told Abraham, I will make you a blessing, that through you all nations of the earth will be blessed. The fulfillment was in Christ, the seed of Abraham, who brought the blessing of Abraham to all who put their faith in Jesus Christ. NLT, uh, verse 26 through 29. For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on a new garment. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true seed of Abraham, and you are his heirs, and everything God promised Abraham belongs to you. Yeah, go ahead. That's the power of the word. All you gotta do is read it. It has its own power. Say this out loud. Whether I feel anointed or not, the word of God is always anointed. That's right. You just can quote scripture and talk Bible, and it carries power. Um, so from those verses, I know that you can't tell me that I don't have a right to those Old Testament things. Because the Bible says that those things, and it even says, I don't know if you can find it, Tess, I'm not trying to overwork you, but um, it says all of these things are given as an ensample in the King James E-N-S-A-M-P-L-E, which is an example, I think, in in newer translations. Meaning, when I read about Abraham, I'm reading about what God will do for me because God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation, Acts chapter 10, 34 and 35, God is no respecter of persons. Persons, but in every nation, he accepts those who fear him and do what is right. That's why it says in James chapter 5 that Elijah was as human as we are. King James, Elijah was a man subject to like passion. NLT, he was as human as we are. He got sad. He asked for God to kill him. He got tired. He will he these guys weren't walking around with halos over their head. They were as human as you are. But when he prayed, the fire came down. When he prayed again, the rain came down. Then he outran the king's chariot. Then the Bible says the prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available, dynamic, and it's working. Not the prayer of Elijah, not the prayer of Elisha. What made them powerful was that they believed God and they obeyed God. When you read the Old Testament, it's showing you what God will do for you and through you and more. 1 Corinthians 10, 11. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Let me see NLT, just out of curiosity. These things happen to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age. The old test it says they're right there. No, it's not for them. It's written for us that live at the end of the age. The Bible was written for you. It's God's word written to you. When my Bible calls I went to got accredited, they fired all the old pastors that taught there and hired these new group of jabronies. I don't know what that means. I heard Tony Soprano use it disparagingly and figured I'd pick it up. So if somebody's watching from Sicily and offended, my apologies. And you know that's what they taught. Isaiah had three authors. You can't, you uh Jeremiah 29, 11. I know the plan I have for you, says the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope in a future. You can't use that because that was written to the Jews that were in captivity for them. No, I'm not reading letters to somebody else. Put up Joshua chapter 1, verses 2 through 9 in the NLT. Moses, my servant, is dead. Therefore, the time has come for you to lead these people into the land that I'm giving them. Three. I promise you what I promised Moses. Wherever you set your foot, you'll be on land that I've given to you. Then it says where all the land is. Five. You no one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. And I will for I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will never fail you, and I will never abandon you. Be strong and courageous. For you are now at this point, Joshua's writing this down. You know Moses isn't writing it because he's dead. So Joshua wrote Joshua. Not too hard to understand. How come when he's writing this, God didn't say, What are you doing writing this down? Oh, I just, this is not for everybody. This is a private covenant between me and you. Why is it written? The Bible told us in 1 Corinthians 10. All these things were written as warnings and examples to us who live in the last hour of time. So what God said to Joshua, I'll be with you. Now obviously you can't go in and invade Palestine single-handedly as a Lahoya citizen and take the land. The land covenant was for them. But the principles of any enemy that comes against you, they'll come against you one way and flee seven ways. That I will be with you and I will see to it that you inherit everything that I've promised you. Only be strong and courageous. What's that guy's problem on the stool? He's not keeping his end of the deal. He's not strong or courageous. You missed that part. It doesn't work in a position of backsliding. You have to, you have a part to play. Everybody say, I have a part to play. That's to be strong and courageous. I just don't feel strong. Who cares how you feel? Put your shoulders back and make up your mind. I'm gonna have everything God promised me. Be strong and courageous. For you are the one who will ever say, be strong and courageous. I landed in Congo, and uh when I went to Clear Customs, the guy said, I need your yellow vaccination card. I said, I had to turn that in to get my visa, which you know. He said, I was 34. He said, Oh, that's gonna be a problem. You know, maybe I was like tired, but I wasn't in a good mood. It's not a faith story, it's just me not being in a good mood story. But but it's also a strong and courageous story. Um, I said, Oh, what kind of problem? The kind that ends with me giving you money personally? Well, it's gonna be uh $60. I said, I'm not giving you anything. Then I turned and walked like if that was the door that I had to get cleared to go through. I just went there. Well, I didn't have clearance to go through there. So he starts yelling exactly that. You don't have clearance to go through that door. Get back here. Now it's starting to make a scene. Well, it felt good in the moment to tell him I'm not giving you anything, and it felt good to turn and walk, but suddenly I was not feeling strong or courageous. I was feeling I'm gonna be on that program locked up abroad that my mother watches. Because they had the power to do it. Well, I didn't know what to do, but I knew don't stop. They were gonna say, Don't stop. Yeah, once you commit, keep going.
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SPEAKER_05I had the posture and attitude of someone that was strong and courageous, so that the devil couldn't know. But if the devil could have seen my insides, he'd know I was like this. Yikes! And I as I got through that door, the guy's saying, Come back here. And I pushed the door, the double doors open, and there was a soldier that was about this tall, big Congolese soldier with an AK, uh, not an AK-47, I can't remember what machine gun he had, in a beret. And I thought, well, this is where it ends for old Johnny. He turns around because that guy's yelling, and he goes, his eyes get big, and he goes, I can't do accents. I make everybody sound like Dracula. But he goes, uh, Bruno Jonathan. I said, You know me. He said, Yes. I watch you on Faith TV. I forgot I was on TV in Africa. Watch you every night with my family. I said, You do? Would you tell him to leave me alone? And he turned at that guy, and that guy turned and ran back to his desk, and that guy got my luggage for me and walked me through the rest of the way. Only be strong and courageous. When you don't know what to do, move forward. When you don't know what to do, speak boldly. Don't ever slump your shoulders. Don't ever say, I don't know if I'm gonna make it. He that began a good work in you is bringing it to completion. For you are the one who will lead these people to possess all the land, I swear to their ancestors I'd give them. Seven, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Don't deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you'll be successful in how many things you do. How many know the Bible doesn't promise success? It promises um, I don't even know what they say because I start tuning out. You know, God never called us to be successful, he called us to be faithful. Shut up. The faithfulness to God's commands produced success. God's not giving you random commands like some scavenger hunt, move to California. Oh, look at this guy, just doing whatever I tell him. No, all of his commands are for your profiting. Can you say amen? Your amen was weak. Can you say amen? Yeah, I'm not talking about gay stuff anymore. You can say amen. Be careful, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Don't deviate from them. That's what that guy's doing on the stool, deviating from them. Make your own Bible. I don't like that part. Tough luck. You don't bring God down to where you can understand him. You let God's spirit bring you up to his level. Do not deviate from him, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you'll be successful in how many things that you do. Eight, gets reiterated. Study this book of instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night. So you'll be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed. There is a second time to get through people's thick heads, and they still can't get it. Prosper, not just succeed. Everyone say prosper and succeed in everything you do. Praise God. I mean, if that was the only verse in the Bible, that'd be worth becoming a Christian. Prosper and succeed in everything you do? Every church of our revival today churches is bigger than when we started. They're all prospering and they're all succeeding. Toronto will prosper and succeed. Because there's a word over the believer's life. Not because I'm special. It's because if you do what God said, He didn't say hopefully it'll work out. He said you'll prosper. And why do you think Isaac kept digging another well? You can't stop me. Go ahead and take my well. You can take my well, but you can't take my blessing. How many preachers, oh, I'll give you one. Tessa, do you have um Brother Shambok getting arrested in Farr, Texas? This is my command. Because this will illustrate it. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid. If fear comes, you don't get prayer for it, you just quit. Say out loud, I refuse to be afraid. We had um, you know, building these buildings, we had our money dipped to its lowest point in years of what's left in the bank. So you don't let your mind roll. Well, you know, if this keeps up for six more weeks, we'll be out of it. Yeah, it's not six weeks. It's now. Don't let your mind run down worst case scenarios ever. That's not God talking to you. The Holy Ghost doesn't say, you know, if this keeps up, this conflict you have, it could be pneumonia or lung cancer. That's not the Holy Ghost. That's WebMD. Man, my arms hit you. What is it? AIDS? Oh. Don't let your mind go down worst case scenarios. There's a storm. Peter, Master, carest thou not that we perish? Jesus rebuked him. Don't fear. That's not God's job. That's your God. That's your job. There's certain things that you solve by just saying, I'm not doing that. I refuse to fear. I refuse to contemplate worst-case scenarios. Can you say amen? The last eight days, we had a little over a million dollars come in. 1.1 million in the last eight days. And it's, I think, in the banks up like triple where it was when we were, if I could have worried. So all that was gonna happen anyway. So why worry? Sometimes I used to have them send me a half-weekly report on Wednesday of where we were at financially. Because you know, I got you got to make decisions. I got 90 employees and stuff. And then I cut it back to once a week because, you know, uh 20% of what needed to come in had come in by the half of the week. Then you spend the last part of the week, oh man, and then you get the report at the end of the week. Wow. You know, somebody sent a check in for $600,000 from United Arab Emirates. Oh, wow. So I spent the last three days worried about nothing. The check was already in the mail. I pray, oh God, I need help. Say, just wait till Friday, it's in the mail. And even God can't make the Postal Service speed up. Just say, just wait. And then I'm thinking about cutting it back to once a month. Because it's just, you know, it's been 25 years. And we've never hit zero. And I've been trying hard to hit zero. I've been spending lots of money. I'm spending money like the Los Angeles Lakers. Or the Dodgers. And it won't run out because my life's governed by a word. So why worry? You know, Bishop David Oyadepo that built the largest church in the world. He said, Judas held the money back. You can't preach and hold the bag. You can't look at him. I don't know if we have enough. You have to do what God told you to do. Can you say amen? I tell you, a spirit of fear is broken on any person that's watching. You're going to stop dwelling on worst case scenario. I got this is not hope. This is not encouragement. This is the word of God. Your latter end will be greater than your beginning. Things are not getting darker, they're getting brighter for you. You will prosper and succeed in everything you do, whether the devil likes it or not. If you receive that, go ahead and do it, you already do it. Give the Lord the mightiest hand clap in the greatest shout. Man, I feel victory in here. Somebody shout, be strong. Those who say this is my suggestion. Says this is my command. Be strong. I'm not paying you anything. That's strong. I don't think I should have to pay a bribe. This is offering money. No, that's weak. More, you'll get you'll have to pay more bribes. I actually did that, whether it makes sense to you or not. It was my first time ever being asked for a bribe overseas. I wanted to send a message to hell that I'm not paying. Yeah. That was my way of shooting the collection guy that came from a rival cartel. Terrible church analogy, but I'm sticking with it. Let word get out in hell that this ministry doesn't pay one dollar in bribe. Then I did it again in that. I won't say word because people get offended. I went in November and the same thing. But see, once you start developing strength, then it becomes easy. I got off the plane and the guy goes, Um, where's your other form? I said, What other form? I said, My whole office. It's not my first rodeo. We have all the paperwork. That's why they gave us a visa. No, you don't. Let me see your paper. Shows it to me. In four-point font, there's another form that has to be printed off of a website from their country and filled out manually and signed, or it's a fine. Oh, I said, Oh, I don't care if you have a brain, AK 47. You don't make any deal. So did all the guys that mess with Rambo, and he still won. He's not even born again. He's a fictional character. So I said, uh, I said, Oh, you put something in four-point font that no one would ever find, so that we have to pay a bribe. Guess what? I'm not paying. No, you have to pay. I said, Wanna bet? He goes, he takes a leather satchel and opens it up like this to put money in. I said, Oh, what's that for a bribe? I said, I'm not paying anything. So another guy comes over with a gun, and I said, I'm not trying to make enemies here, but my blood pressure was up, and I'm telling you what I said. I said, I said, Oh, you're coming over with a gun? I said, Then you better shoot me because my president's looking for somebody to blow up. He put his gun back. And then I said, I'm not paying. So then the supervisor comes over. What's the problem? I said, You want to know what the problem is? Your man's trying to get a bribe from me to enter the country when I have all my paperwork. And he goes, No, I never, I never did ask for a bribe. I yanked that leather thing out of his hand. I said, When you open this, what did you want? Pictures of my children and gave it back. And then because I they they went, please be quiet. I said, I'm not being quiet. You're doing illegal things. You can go. Yeah, I know I can. I know how to get kicked out of places on purpose. There's places, when I first got married, there were places my wife liked to go. I would get kicked out of them and banned from the store or whatever, so it's just like, hey, we're gonna go, you we're gonna go to Talbot. You want to go? No, I remember they kicked me out and said I can't come back. Yeah, I got in a fight with a mannequin. They said I can't come back anymore. I've been getting thrown out of stuff my whole life. Got kicked out of class in seventh grade and never looked back. Amen. And I know how to get kicked out of a bribe military thing or anything else. I'm I'm not playing the world's game. That's why I didn't realize at the time when I went to that country in Congo, and that guy asked me for a bribe and I stood up. I didn't realize I was developing strength to go against Dr. Fauci and the Pittsburgh Department of Health and to tell people, you don't understand. I'm on a mission for God and I'm not backing up for any adversary. Hallelujah. I'm gonna tell you something. It may not happen the first time or the second time or the third time because the devil's a moron. But eventually he starts getting the word that you're not somebody to get shoved around. That's why that demon said, Peter, we know, Paul we know, and Jesus we know, but who are you? We don't know you. You don't have their power, but Paul we know. He's been kicking our tail all over the Roman Empire. You're gonna get on that list tonight. I said you're gonna get on that list: the list of boldness and strength and victory. Somebody shall be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid or discouraged. Refuse it. For the Lord your God is with you. Wherever you go. Man, and then you get men. I'm getting off. I haven't even I was gonna say I was gonna I'm getting off my message, but I haven't even started it. It's good, it's good to get strong in the Lord and the power of his might. So then when somebody with khaki pants pulled up just below their nipples in a polo shirt and a laminated tag tells you you can't have church on Sunday, you say, Who are you? I've yelled at people with berets and machine guns. You think I care about your little laminated name tag? You start getting too strong for the devil. You start developing a strength where you can't get shoved around. See, I other than the choice is either that or you're gonna become a run-of-the-mill Christian. But the first sign of any kind of problem, you wilt. Jonathan, um, you preached on victory, but then when I went home, they said that um I had 30 days to shut down what I was doing. Yeah, because you mistake a challenge for a defeat. That's why I preached Genesis 26 for three straight days. Dig another well. They seized this well, dig another well. Don't stop. If you don't stop, the devil will surely stop. Because the devil's a quitter, the devil's a failure, but you're not a quitter, you're not a failure, you're strong in the Lord and the power of his might. Say out loud, never mistake a challenge for a defeat. Yeah, when I was in the second country, he said, Well, we won't allow you into the country. I said, Then go then walk me back onto the plane. I said, You think I care if I go to your country? You think I care if I have to get back on business class and go see my wife and daughter? I don't want to be here in the first place. I'm here on a heavenly assignment. So if you shut the door, I I see, I listened to too much Bishop Oyadepo. Where they they told him he was gonna have to jump through all these hoops to go to a country to preach. And he told him on the, he said, I'm not doing anything. Send the visa or don't send it. I don't have to force anything. If you have to force it, it's not God. Can you say amen? We need you to do this, this, and I'm not doing I'll do, I'll do what the Lord tells me to do. I don't have to get my way. All these guys, I had to get vaccinated because that's the only way I could travel. I don't care if I travel. I'm not, I'm not, you know, it's hard to preach using only half your face. Because the vaccine paralyzed the other half. Great to be with you in Botswana today. No, I don't have to. That's how the devil will get you. I had an older pastor call me when the when the lockdown first hit, because I made the news. He said, uh, you know, you can do more for the Lord out of prison than in prison. I said, my goal number one is not to do anything for the Lord. My goal is to do what's right, and to not violate my conscience or good sense or what the Bible says, or when I can feel something evil's happening. Because that's how you compromise. The devil can always give you check. Check, check, check. Hello. Guess I'm going, no Mike. Until they get me a microphone. I guess we only have one. Do what they do is about what they have meaningful for people with severe autism that are bothered by sound.
unknownEvery time you want to support me, go like this. Mike? Maybe.
SPEAKER_05Check, check. Check, check. Can I get a little volume? Feels like there's a Presbyterian work in the sound room. Check. Little. Alright, there you go. You found the knob. Give the sound team. We hired an Amish sound team, which I knew was a mistake. But give them a big hand clap. Thank them for trying tonight. You're doing your best. Praise God. Everybody say, be strong and courageous. That's right. Don't back down. You can't do it in your strength. If you do it in your strength, you're going to be worn out and in the vacation every other month. But there is a limitless fountain of strength from the Holy Ghost. It's an internal volcano that He gives you. That the Bible says, be strong in what? Say, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. That's right. So you don't try to be strong. Pray always in the Holy Ghost, building up your most holy faith. When you pray in the spirit, you're working up an internal combustion engine on the inside of you where even your enemies know. I'm messing with the wrong guy. There's something inside of him where I know. Miss Tessa, find a scripture for me. By the way, Miss Tessa is in charge of the video, not the audio. She's cool. Can you find a sign when you're not in, don't be intimidated by your adversaries, and it will be a sign to them that they're perishing. People don't know what to do when you're not afraid to die. Guy comes with an AK-47. You got a gun? Shoot it. See if I care. I've already lived nine lifetimes in 45 years. Got four churches back then and did everything I've wanted to do. You think I care about you and your stupid gum? Don't kill me. That's what everybody was talking about in Nordstrom when I was in there. Everybody that was my age and older. I live close to um the Scripts Hospital. You know, you start thinking about that when you get to be our age. What if something happened to me? I don't want there to have to be a long trip. No, I'm actually not thinking about that at 45. And I'll tell you another thing. If Jesus tarries, I won't be thinking about it at 95. I'm not thinking about death. Life belongs to me, healing belongs to me, increase belongs to me. You gotta receive that tonight. If you don't get the Holy Ghost, your thoughts revolve around death, bankruptcy, hantavirus, every wicked thing. But when you get full of the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead, all you think is I cannot be defeated. I will not give up and quit. Somebody shout hallelujah! Yeah. Also, Miss Tessa, grab my dad preaching during COVID in New York so you can see where I got it from. Philippians 1 28. This is a command. Just like don't commit adultery. This is also a command. Don't be intimidated in any way by your enemies. We'll sue you. Sue. One one preacher friend of mine, somebody set him up for a lawsuit, and the lawyers went and said it'd be better to settle. They were at a conference room. And the preacher friend of mine leaned across the table and said, Here's something you need to understand. Because they're saying, you know, by the time you go to court, send the money, you might as well just settle. He said, I'll gladly pay two million dollars to make sure you don't get one dollar. Lawsuit went away. People don't know what to do with a lunatic. People don't know what to do with a bold person that has no regard for their life or manners. Or no. The suit's just to fool people for a little bit. For there is this guy's nuts. This guy is the best dressed lunatic I've ever met. I was in Denver, Colorado, which is make Seattle and Portland look like Mayberry. Methed out homeless people all up and down the street. I'm not taking lip from anybody. I'm telling you. I'm not, especially demons. This guy crosses the street and goes up to me with my wife and daughter. There you go. Starts yelling like profane stuff. So I responded like Chris Farley did in the movie Dirty Ware. Right over top of my blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You've never seen a demon with this person again. You think you're the only one that's crazy? I'm crazier than you. Paul said the same thing. If I'm in my right mind, it's for your sake. But the world says I've lost my mind long ago. That's what he said. They're still trying to figure out whether I'm nuts or not. When he was on trial, the guy blurred, the king blurted out over top of him. Paul, too much learning has made you insane. Let me find that, Miss Tessa. Then we'll go back to Philippians 1.28. Too much learning hath made thee mad. And I want to read what Paul said next. So he's listening to him talk. He's on trial. Too much learning has made thee mad. Mad like British mad, crazy. Suddenly fest and shout. Let me see what he said that made him say he's crazy. Go to 20. I preach first. So he's on trial, right? He's supposed to say, like, I'm not guilty, you know this. He just starts preaching. And telling, Paul's giving like his eulogy. Telling about his ministry, telling about his heavenly call. Let's back up even further. Go to 14. I want to see everything he said. He's on trial for doing this, and he does it in the trial. It's like being on trial for drugs and shooting up in the courtroom. Paul's saying, What happened? Go to 12, and I won't go back any further. One day I was on such a mission to Damascus, armed with the authority and commission of the leading priests. About noon, Your Majesty, as I was on the road, a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shone down on me and my companions. We all fell down. And I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It's useless for you to fight against my will. Who are you, Lord? I asked. And the Lord replied, I'm Jesus, the one you're persecuting. Continue. Now get to your feet, for I have appeared to you to appoint you as my servant and witness. Tell people that you have seen me, and tell them what I will show you in the future. And I will rescue you from both your own people and the Gentiles. Yes, I'm sending you to the Gentiles to open their eyes, so they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to the power of God. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God's people who are set apart by faith in me. And so, King Agrippa, I obeyed that vision from heaven. 20. I preached first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all Judea, and also to the Gentiles that almost repent of their sins and turn to God and prove they have changed by the good things they do. Some Jews arrested me in the temple for preaching this and they tried to kill me. But God has protected me right up to this present time. So I can testify to everyone, from the least to the greatest. I teach nothing except what the prophets and Moses said would happen. Let me see that in the King James. Pretty powerful verse if it's the one I'm thinking about. Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both the small and great, saying nothing other than the things which the prophets and Moses said would come. Go back to NOT 23. That the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead and in this way announce God's light to Jews and Gentiles alike. Suddenly, Festus shouted, Paul, you're insane. That's how people should feel about you. He's preaching to him about the resurrection of Jesus Christ on trial, and he's on trial for preaching about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He was ordered to preach no more in the name of Jesus, and they give him the opportunity to speak, and he goes right at it. Too much study has made you crazy. Keep it there. That's how people feel about me that are in the ministry. No, I believe what he believes. I don't think you have to jump on the chairs and stuff. Yeah, because you're not crazy. But crazy people jump on chairs. Crazy people act crazy. And it arrests the attention of people because they can tell that guy believes what he's saying. Sane people sit on stools with their arms crossed with a Starbucks strawberry refresher questioning Noah's Ark. 25. But Paul replied, I'm not insane, most excellent Festus. What I'm saying is the sober truth. Let me see the King James. I bet you it says it more poetically. But he said, I'm not mad. I speak forth the words of truth and soberness. NLP 26. Anybody getting anything out of this? King Agrippa knows about these things. Yeah, so he's telling uh Festus said that because he's Gentile. But Agrippa's Jewish. He goes, Ask your buddy next to you. He knows everything I'm talking about is true. That Jesus rose from the dead. I speak boldly, for I'm sure these events are all familiar to him, for they were not done in a corner. Jesus was having huge meetings. 20,000, 30,000 people when he rose from the dead. The Bible says all of Jerusalem was in an uproar. I'm not crazy. I know you didn't hear about it out here in Rome. But ask your Jewish buddy there what happened, he'll tell you all about it. King Agrippa, now he starts trying to convert him. King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do. Agrippa interrupted him. Do you think you can persuade me to become a Christian so quickly? And Paul replied, No, I'm not trying. I'm just saying. Whether quickly or not, I pray to God that both you and everyone here in this courtroom becomes the same as me, except for these chains. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 30. Then the king, the governor, Bernice, that was like his side chick, and all the others. I want to tell you, I don't care how pretty someone was, if their name was Bernice, I'm I'm good. Then the king, the governor, Bernice, and all the others stood and left. Can you say amen? And he kept rolling. And he told Timothy, the same thing you see me do, you do. Stay in on the word, preach the word. Live your life like me. I showed you an example of how to live. Can you say amen? Go back to the sign of your uh perishing, whatever it was. Something 128, I think it was. Philippians 128. Don't be intimidated in any way by your enemies. You know, an easy way to not be intimidated by your enemies is to realize they don't have power to do anything to you. If you make Jesus your Lord, no one's allowed to touch you without his permission, and he doesn't give permission. And the amens are dropping off. No, Paul was martyred. Yeah. On what attempt? The first try? They were trying to kill him since chapter 13. He died after 28, and scholars say he was about 70 years old. Do you know what the average lifespan was in the Roman Empire in the first century? 38. Yeah. People died all kinds of stuff. There was no refrigerators, people drank water and died. It was like that up through the 1800s. John lived till he was almost a hundred years old when the lifespan was 38. Psalm 91 is a real thing, my friend. No weapon formed against you will prosper is a real scripture, my friend. I order my angels to protect you wherever you go is the real thing, my friend. With long life will I satisfy you. This will be a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you are going to be saved even by God Himself. In other words, it freaks them out when you're not afraid. And basically, if you'll just settle, I mean, just when you go home, use Chat GPT. Get 20 scriptures on long life. Get 20 scriptures on God's financial provision and that you'll never lack anything. Get 20 scriptures on victory over death. Get 20 scriptures on healing. There's 80. And just read them. Because if you take those three bullets out of the devil's gun, he doesn't have any more bullets. Gets you afraid of death, gets you afraid of sickness, and gets you afraid that you're going to lose everything. But if you're not afraid of the money part, you're not afraid of the health part, and you're certainly not afraid of the must say death. We started to find out that the reason a lot of these pastors didn't shut uh shut their church down for COVID wasn't because they didn't believe the faith message, it's because it came out five years later. They had mistresses on the side. So if you're not righteous, you can't be bold. The righteous are as bold as a lion, but the wicked run when no man pursueth. If I had a mistress, I want to keep my church open. I don't need them shining a light around here. If I'm doing funny stuff with the money, I don't need them coming here. So you have to hide. But when you live holy, you don't have to hide because your life is pure before God, and God defends his own elect.
SPEAKER_04God defends his own elect. I see God taking your case today.
SPEAKER_05The battle is not yours, it's the Lord's. Go ahead, take 15 seconds, tap a little bit. And I'm not strong. I'm not trying to sound, but I'm telling you, those three soldiers in that country, when I started talking to them like that, they knew they were in over their heads. We can send you back to America. Send me. That's where my wife lives. I'd be happy to go right now. But I'm not giving you any money. Oh, you got a gun? Shoot me. My president will blow you up. Oh, he's been following the news. He's just been blowing up. He thinks life's a video game at this point. Boats, kidnappers, anybody. Just blowing people up at night. He's playing real life call of duty at two in the morning. Yeah. So God gave me the words to say that put a little fear in him. But I don't care. And I wasn't, it's not like if he cocked the gun and pointed out at this point, I've done everything I want to do. Even my NHL 26 team is a level one champion with my three friends. I've accomplished everything that I want to do in life. And I'm basically just playing with house money at this point. So it don't matter to me. And when the devil gets a whiff of that, I don't have to protect my church. It's not my church, it's Jesus' church. See, there's people that think if they seized my bank account and took my YouTube channel and uh seized our buildings and padlocked them, that I'd be done. But what they don't understand is you can take the things that the spirit produced, but you can't take the spirit that produces them. And once you filled up that well, I'd have three more wells within about two weeks. People would hear about it and what the devil meant for evil, God takes it and turns it for good. I said, what the devil means for evil. Everything the devil's been jerking with in your life, you're not only coming out with the victory, you're coming out stronger than you were before. Somebody say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. So my dad that likes to be Mr. Calm, your trusted voice in Bible prophecy, has another side to him. And this is him. This is him preaching in New York, June 2020. So I want you to hear what Holy Ghost boldness sounds like and spirit filled. Remember, remember the guy on the stool. In fact, play the guy on the stool and then go to my dad. A little bit of the guy on the stool. And I want you to just catch, and then this is called discernment. Then you can start telling who's who. Hello, I pastor a church. I recognize that voice. And then preachers talk different. I mean, Clarita's mom, uh dad that's been singing, you know, you don't even have to know what he did for work. When he talked, you can tell he's been preaching for 60 years. You got the voice of an anointed, authoritative man of God. And I like that guy. I like our mom. She talks like a woman of God. You can spot the voice, you can spot the posture. Hallelujah. Who told you being a Christian is walking around like the third guy from the left on the evolution chariot? Keep me in prayer. Tonight, every person in attendance is getting delivered from Keep Me in Prayer Christianity. The only person that's going to be need kept in prayer are your enemies. Because they're going down, but the righteous are being exalted. This is not the hour of your defeat. This is the hour of your victory in Jesus' name. Play the man on the school.
SPEAKER_01Why do we still go to church? Besides the fact that we started one, and I guess we should show up. Um for me.
SPEAKER_05Pause, Tessa, real quick, just out of curiosity, find out what church that is and let me know if they're still open. If they're I'd be I wouldn't be stunned if they're still open, because people hang on to a sinking ship for a long time. But I also would be not stunned if it's already closed down from a few. I mean, who would go back after that? The pastor can't even tell you why we go to church. Why do we go to church except we started one? And I guess we should come. I will tell you, if you're a pastor here, learn eight scriptures on why people should go to church. And says, hey, let's come back next Sunday, amen. Can you can you even doctrinally tell people why they should be in church? They go from strength to strength, those that appear before the Lord at Mount Zion. Tell them the reward for being in God's house, and you won't be able to keep them out. I'm looking at the people that are gonna run the devil ragged in Southern California. You're coming up out of this meeting to make the devil sorry he didn't kill you when he had the chance.
SPEAKER_01Two more sentences.
SPEAKER_05It's not often you can diagnose somebody with low testosterone just by hearing them. And then here's the other side of the spectrum. This is my father preaching in New York, June 2020, against the governor's orders. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_03And don't live in dread of what you hear the voice, Holy Ghost voice, estrogen voice.
SPEAKER_05Keep going. And by the way, he's 63 there, and that guy's 42. Who would you back in a fight? Holy Ghost will make you strong.
SPEAKER_03Can you say amen? Keep going. He is the one who should make you tremble, but he will keep you safe. Praise God. That is the promise of God. I'm not afraid of anything in this world. I'm certainly not afraid of some damn flu. And I use that word biblically. I am not gonna stop the work of the Lord for some bacteria or virus. I'm not gonna be an idiot. I'm gonna be courteous. I'm gonna do my best to be gracious, but I am not gonna stop building the church for some demonic virus or some demonic mandate. I am on a mission for the Lord Jesus Christ. Pause it.
SPEAKER_05Now that rubbed off on me. I sat in those meetings Sunday through Friday, every night of my life till I started school at five, and then I went every summer. And I got some of that spirit. It's called impartation. You hang around weaklings, you become a weakling. You hang around people that need prayer the rest of their life, you need prayer the rest of your life. You get around people that carry the fire, and the fire gets on you. Continue. You know though? You know why I had to say it though? Why do you have to ask it? Worried about getting fined by the state of New York. Quit worrying. Throw you in jail, go to jail. The jail they would throw me in in Pittsburgh, I hold I just wouldn't preach last month. So I know people in there. I'm not I'm not getting shanked. I got friends. I know the guards. I know the uh I met the Jamaican gang this last time. We made friends. I would join every gang. I'd get all their tattoos on my whole back. Like some kind of collage of MS-13 uh Jamaican, just have like a tapestry of gang tattoos on my back. Use your head. I could go to jail. Go to jail. Go to jail ahead of time like I did. Make friends. Sister Warden's my cousin. I'd get cigarettes and everything. Let's go. Thirty years before that. And God fearing America. I mean, remember back when America feared God? Well, this is 1980 in Farr, Texas, where they go to arrest Brother Shambok for preaching because they don't want him preaching that. So if you have this view that America used to be so close to God we drifted, it's actually the best now it's ever been. Yeah. I don't know. You're not Amen in because you don't study history, and I ruined all your sermons. America's drifted so far. No, actually it hasn't. 17% of people went to church at the Revolutionary War. It's at 43% right now. Pugh just did a uh a thing. 66%, 66% of Americans said they have made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that's still meaningful in their lives. I can't even go to a Nordstrom in Southern California or a barbership in the gamerhood without talking about Jesus in church and all that stuff. The devil's in for the worst year that he's ever had. He's losing his grip on you, he's losing his grip on your family. You've already seen victories, but the best victories are in the rear in the front. In Jesus' name. Say this: I have the victory. And I'm coming out stronger than I was before. Stronger than I was before. Because God not only gives you the victory, He gives you a reward for standing. So you're not just getting the answers to your prayers tonight, you're getting a reward for standing. After you've done all you know to do, keep standing, and God's gonna reward you. He didn't just take them out of the fiery furnace. They were promoted to even higher positions in Babylon. Daniel wasn't just delivered from the lion's den, they promoted him higher and fed his enemies to the lions that wanted eat him. I see you having one testimony after another testimony. In Jesus' name. Listen to this, R.W.
SPEAKER_00Sandbuck. I'll never forget I put this tent up in the valley in Texas. We're going down there in November again, Rio Gran Valley. And I'll never forget the first night the mayor came out. Oh Lord, the mayor's coming to my meeting. I went back at the stage and shook hands with him. I said, Glad you're here. Going out there and greet the folks. He said, I'm here on official business. I ain't shaking your hand. I said, Where's the key to the city? He said, I got the key to the jail. I said, Oh Lord. I said, I just got here. He says, You're going to take this tent down. I said, I just put it up. We're going to be here 17 days. He said, I come out here to tell you I don't believe in what you're doing. Oh, I said, now I see why God sent me here. I said, that's why I'm here to make a believer out of you. He said, you're taking the tent down. I said, no, sir. He said, this is my city. I said, there's where you're wrong, mister. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. And I'm here under direct orders of God, and I'm gonna have revival here. He said, if you persist in doing this, I'll have to arrest you. I said, You do what you gotta do, and I'll do what I gotta do. Turn around and walk out. I felt so bad. I wanted the key to the city. Now the crowd, we didn't have a big crowd at all. Just in this section. Never been there before. Why in the world would God send me down there? Because he had somebody to get saved down there, man. Bunch people in that area. No sooner when I walked off that platform, two policemen asked me. They stopped me. Are you Reverend R. W. Shambh? Yes, sir. That's me. You're under arrest. I said, What's the charge? Preaching the gospel with a loud speaker. Oh, I said, My God, I'm guilty. Got a loud speaker? Thank God he said I was preaching the gospel. Now, a lot of preachers would have been found innocent, but at least they said I was preaching the gospel. That kind of made me feel good, so I shouted a little bit on that. Took me down, a judge was waiting on me. She said, A woman judge. I said, Oh, I'm a goose goat. She said, How do you plead? I said, I plead guilty, Your Honor. She said, The fine's $52.50. Oh, I said, That's cheap enough. I paid it all in nickels. That's all they had down there. And they were Mexicans coming over, you know. I paid, oh, I never seen so many nickels in all my life. I paid it cash, and they're taking pictures of me. And I'm wondering why do I have to go through this humility of being arrested? I didn't know until the next day. Had my picture on the front page. Eyewitness news, they gave me eight minutes. Only had about 500 people opening night. The next night the tent was full, and they were standing on the outside, coming to see the crazy preacher. Are you listening to me? All things work together for good to them that love God, to those who ought to call according to his purpose. Hear me, preacher. I stood up and gave an altar call, and a thousand people come to get saved. I said, devil ain't got no sense. Lord, let him arrest me again. So guess who was waiting on me? Two more policemen. Are you RW Shambach? Yes, sir. Let's go, man. Let's go. Got in that cabin here. I said, What's the charge tonight? Same thing. Preaching the gospel with a loudspeaker. I said, Let's get this thing on the road, man. I got down there, the judge said, How do you plead? I said, Guilty, yes, sir. I mean, yes, ma'am, guilty. She said, the fine's $102. I said, You believe in a double portion, too? Got some more nickels for you here, girl. Front page again? Eyewitness news? 12 minutes now. Never had so much publicity. I got about a quarter of a million dollars of publicity, and it didn't cost me a dime because my father has everything under control. My God, I gave another order call, and a thousand more people come to get saved. Are you listening to me? Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Rested me the third night. Now eyewitness news was Shambhok news. Now I had it all. The whole front page. Everybody in that valley knew I was there. The fourth night, something happened. I got in the car and I saw this blue light flashing. Before I got to the tent. Instead of stopping, I floored it. I don't recommend that, especially on radio. But I recognized the dude. He's one who arrested me in the last three nights. I said, What's he trying to get me before church? I said, if I can just make the tent grounds, I got sanctuary. But I found out what a two-way radio was. Because they had the exit block, and I had to come to a stop. And he came up to my car and he said, Are you Reverend R. W. Shaman? I said, You've been arresting me for three nights and still don't know who I am. And he had a whole stack of warrants. I said, Looks like I got company tonight. He said, They're all yours tonight, preach. I said, What's the charge? Preaching the gospel aloud, speaker. He took me in to the judge. I said, I ain't never heard of this in my life. I ain't preaching. I ain't got no microphone in my car. He said, We're gonna arrest you tonight before you do it. I said, That's like arresting a man for murder before he commits a thing. I said, I don't believe this. She said, Your fine tonight is $7,680. She said, You don't have that many nickels. You ain't gonna preach tonight. I said, Pardon me, ma'am. If I don't preach under that tent, I'm gonna preach in jail. But I'm gonna preach somewhere. God called me to preach, and I'm gonna preach. My son came over and he said, Dad, the biggest crowd we ever had under that tent, they're waiting for you. I said, Get them pastors over here. They come over and I said, You want me to preach? You better go and get an offering. Tell them to keep their nickels at home. This is big money. One of those men wrote a check for the whole amount, and that judge said, No check. I want cash. He said, Your Honor, I'm your neighbor. I live next to you. He says, I ain't resting you, I'm resting that man. He's not preaching none of that stamp. He went back and took an offering in 20 minutes, laid the cash in front of that judge. I got out of there in 20 minutes, and we had church till 1:30 in the morning. Hallelujah. Listen, Lester Roloff is a Baptist. He heard about my plight, and you know what he did? That Baptist preacher came to the rescue of this Pentecostal preacher. He sent me his attorneys and said, Go on down there and help that preacher. And I'll tell you, they got an injunction against the whole city. I didn't know what an injunction was. I thought a junction was 65 crossing 20. I didn't know what it was, but they forbid the city to come under that tent, that no police were allowed in there, no mayor, no judge, no anybody. They said, You cannot stop that man from preaching. Let him finish the service. And I went back and fought it out in court for two days, and the judge said to the mayor, You've arrested this preacher falsely for four days. You took $10,000 from him that don't belong to you. I order you to give it back and change the law on your book. This is still America. He can preach the gospel with a loud speaker anywhere he goes. My God, I want you to know all things work together for good to them that love God, to those who are the call according to his purpose.
SPEAKER_05Hallelujah! But you must remain faithful to the things you've been taught. You know they're true, for you know you can trust those who taught you. You've been taught the holy scriptures from childhood, and they have given you wisdom to receive salvation that comes from trusting in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we're wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people for every good work. I solemnly urge you, in the presence of God in Christ Jesus, who will someday judge the living and the dead when he comes to set up his kingdom, preach the word. Be prepared, whether the time's favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching. For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They'll follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They'll reject the truth and chase after strange myths. But you should keep a clear mind in every situation. Don't be afraid of suffering for the Lord. Work at telling others the gospel and fully carry out the ministry God's given you. As for me, my life has already been poured out as an offering to God. The time of my death is near. I have fought past tense the good fight. I have finished past tense the race, and I have remained past tense faithful. Nobody took Paul's life. He said, I did everything God told me to do. And now the prize awaits me. The crown of life that the righteous, the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on the day of his return. And the prize is not just for me, but all who eagerly look forward to his appearing. Can you say amen? Can you say a better amen? I want to give a call tonight. This is, I mean, if the Bible says that five were wise and five were foolish and five let their oil go out, then tonight would be a good night to make up your mind. My oil's not going out. I will not be embarrassed of the fire. I don't want less of the Holy Ghost. I want more of the Holy Ghost. I want to be a peculiar person. I don't want to be a Christian that the state of California is comfortable with. I want to be somebody that troubles the plans of the devil in my generation and makes great impact for God. And that's where God's taking you tonight. I said that's where God's taking you tonight. Fresh oil, fresh fire, fresh oil, fresh fire, fresh oil, fresh fire in Jesus' name. And when you open your mouth, people will be able to tell. You don't just know about Jesus, you have a relationship with the living Jesus Christ. That's what tonight's about. It's about getting the four of the same spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead. Can you say amen? Say it out loud. I refuse to be a community prayer project.
SPEAKER_04Tonight, I take dominion over the forces of darkness that are trying to shut me down. I will not be defeated. I shall not give up and quit.
SPEAKER_05He who began the good work in me is bringing it to completion. I'm not backing up. I'm moving forward. Now lift your hands if you're filled with the spirit. Begin to pray in the spirit. Pray! Stir up your internet.
SPEAKER_04Building up your most holy space. In the midst of it, two more minutes. I refuse to be a weak. I refuse to be a free. I refuse to be a free. I refuse to take the body. You're going over to the other side. You hear me on television. You hear me on YouTube. Everything. Wait a little bit. Oh no rest. Thank you. I'm not a cat. I'm out of the past day.
SPEAKER_05Baby ada ball. I lose the glory of God over his people tonight. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Billy, Charles, Jason, Diana, Virginia, Wendy, Cali, Tavon, Stephanie, and Riley. If you want to be included in prayer, that's why we have that thing on the screen. This is live. Text prayer to 75767. And I'll include you as we pray right now. Everybody lift your hands all over this place. In the name of Jesus. Father, let an impartation, a holy impartation, be loosed into every person tonight. That they won't be let them carry that shambachy type thing of strength to stand the devil down. Thank you that everything those men worked for won't be flushed down the toilet in one generation of patsies. Thank you for strength coming into your church today. That stop taking orders from the devil and from the people who work for the devil and stand for God in Jesus' name. I thank you for your word that says no weapon formed against you will prosper. Everything that represents a weapon formed against any marriage, any child, weapons that attack health, weapons that attack money, weapons that attack peace, those weapons fall for your sake now in Jesus' name. Somebody shout right now. Amen. Do you want to know a key to struggle your whole life? Say these words, don't say them. Say these words if you want to struggle your whole life. Please keep me in prayer. You know what you've said by that? This is gonna be a long, drawn out thing. God, you know, one prayer, God's gonna need like nine nine uh months to take care of this. How long did it take God to create the world? Six days. How long do you think if He created the whole world in six days? How long do you think He'll need to sort any person out? How long? Minutes. Good answer. That's why immediately he's used 55 times in the King James Bible, all of them are in the New Testament. And the bulk are with the apostles and the ministry of Jesus. Immediately the man saw. Immediately the man that couldn't walk for 38 years got up and walked. Let me pray for you. Uh it's not Liana. Is it Liana? Did I Caucasian it? What is it? It's Lianna. I gotta pray for my friend here in the Yes. Jesus Christ. I'm gonna pray for everybody. I'm gonna pray for some people first. I'm gonna pray for the easy ones first. Jesus Christ. I'll work my way up to the arms cross people. Lift your hands where you're at. If you fall over backwards, I know it's the Holy Ghost and not so long for. Praise God. Congratulations if you live in San Diego and you weigh under 500 pounds. I don't know how you do it. I heard your great testimony. We have it on video. Dallas prayed for her without her telling her what the problem was, and multiple lumps in her breast all immediately went away. Power. We need more women like that. We need women that pray and loose the power of God into people. You're gonna be one of them in Jesus' name. Enough is enough. Everything that's out of whack in your family, the Lord restores it right now. In Jesus' name. Who else? Who else is easy? We look for some easy people. Praise God. Hallelujah. I pray for you. How come I know you? You go to the Say Diana. There's both hands closed, both eyes. Thank you, Jesus, for power and impartation. Now do me a favor, when I'm praying for people, make sure to watch like you're an episcopal and you've never seen the Holy Ghost before. Don't lift your hands or pray in tongues or enter in. Just watch. It helps the atmosphere. If you just observe like a skeptic from Harvard University, act like it's your first Pentecostal service you've ever been to. In Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Then you're gonna stand there like a British soldier guarding Buckingham Palace, and when the service is over, no, you missed it. Because when the Holy Ghost was moving, you were an observer instead of a participator. But not you. You're gonna participate tonight. You will get everything God has for you. Learn to enter him while the anointing's moving. Can you say amen? I honestly, I don't know any pastors that are here, other than the my my uh our associate in Santa Anna. I don't know if you're a pastor and you're here, I don't know you. So it's not, but I promise you, I probably could pick out who the pastors are because they I don't know why they come. They all come one night so they can say, you know, we supported the meeting we went to see. You know, I I God, make me never be an old pro that's been in so many meetings. I just observe and watch. I want the fire. I want more. I promise you before God, you will never see me at 55 or 60 or 65. Clapping like I've my my both of my shoulders dislocated. Spotted them all week, all sitting in the back corner. Why don't you sit out in the parking lot and just listen to it on YouTube? Do more to show that you don't want to participate and then wonder why things are falling apart. When the Holy Ghost is moving, jump in with both feet. Get so much there's not enough for anybody else.
SPEAKER_04Go ahead, let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Clap your hands, shout your shout.
SPEAKER_05Let the devil know he's lost you for good.
SPEAKER_04Somebody shout hallelujah!
SPEAKER_05How many know it's not about how much we lift our hands or how much noise we make? No, it kind of is. Let me see Psalm 150. Psalm 150. Praise the Lord, praise God in his sanctuary, praise him in his mighty heaven, praise him for his mighty works. I mean, no, we don't praise him for what he's done. We praise him for who he is. No, praise him for his mighty works, praise him that he's a cancer destroyer, praise him that he's a family restorer, praise him that he's a marriage restorer. Ah, now I hear you.
SPEAKER_04Now that's what I'm used to in Southern California. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. The shout of the Lord is in the camp. Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_05Praise him for his unequaled greatness. Three, praise him with the blast of the ram's hord, praise him with the lyre and harp, praise him with the tambourine and with dancing, praise him with strings and flutes, praise him with a clash of symbols. Go back to four. Praise him with strings and flutes. We have strings. I'm not trying to be disobedient. I can't find any flute players. It's like after the Revolutionary War, they're all gone. Five. Praise them with a clash of symbols, praise them with loud clanging symbols. Let everything that has breath praise ye in.
SPEAKER_04Now you got it. That's how you enter in. Enter in, enter in, enter in, enter in. Hallelujah. You're getting it right now. Enter in. Enter in. Enter in. Enter in. He abides in the praises of his people. He's going into your home right now. He's going into your jail cell right now. He's going into your house this room right now.
SPEAKER_05Let me pray for a core eats. Let me pray for this couple. You were like the first couple I ever met when I came to California. This nice silver hair and blonde hair. This couple right here, row three. You two? Yes. You're like my two favorites. You two. Yes. No, no, you two. I'll pray for you guys too, but they're my favorites. Praise God. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Praise Jesus. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray for this lady in the green. I don't think I've ever met you before. Yep. You got a nice green top on. Hallelujah. Oh, you can feel it broke now. Praise God. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ. Lift your hands across the front. Total family restoration. Total family restoration. Total family restoration. Let's see your hands. Be healed. Be healed in Jesus' name. Let me have this whole second row. Let me pray for the whole second row. Unless you don't want prayer, but I thank you. Let me have the whole first row too. Right across the front. This lady with the blonde hair and denim jacket. Just step to the island and pray for you there. In Jesus' name. Go ahead and sing that one time. I want more of you. Anointed.
SPEAKER_04That's a great song, couldn't you go? I forgot about that song.
SPEAKER_06They take it too.
SPEAKER_05One second. Everybody on this left side that would like prayer, line up the stairs with your back to the seat. Like like just blocking the row. And then everybody that's on this half, go up the other side of the aisle. If you like prayer. And same on this side. Mikey, let me pray for you. Praise God. Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_04Fresh anointing. Fresh fire. In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_05The snap offer. And then everybody on this side, go up there. Go ahead and sing it as they line up. Every hand lifted, say it loud enough that the devil can hear you. Say tonight by the laying on of hands. By impartation, I receive victory. All around victory. Over every enemy that's aligned itself against my life. My family. My destiny. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. No two ways about it. In Jesus' name. Now with your hands, listen, just shut yourself in with God if you're filled with the Spirit. Pray in the Spirit, they're going to sing more highly anointed music that's conducive to the move of God. Indiana Mon die. Or would it be, I hope so. You know, like here when I when I'd fly on airplanes, people would give the craziest answers. I hope so. I hope my good outweighs my bad. I hope God would look at my heart and know I always tried my best. None of that gets you into heaven. Jesus is the door. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but through him. But every man can come to the Father if they'll go through the door. But if you've never done that, I want you to do that tonight. When I pray, it would be my privilege to pray with and for you. If you say, Jonathan, when you pray tonight, I want to be included in that prayer. If you're watching on television or online, text prayer to 75767 and let me know. That's the only way I can communicate with you right now. But uh we can communicate because you're here, you say, Jonathan, when you pray, I want to be included in that prayer. I want to make Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. I want to tell the devil me and you are through, and I'm living for Jesus all the days of my life. If that's you and you say when you pray tonight, please include me in the prayer. Put your hand up on waving and I'll pray with you. Jesus forgiveness.
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