How & Why Some Christians Prosper

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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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The Bible says in Matthew chapter 9, he taught, then preached, then healed. One time he now think of this. Jesus had no microphone. And he's preaching in the daytime in Israel, which has the same climate as Arizona. So he's out in the Middle Eastern sun, preaching for long periods of time, then laying his hands on the whole village to the point now you understand why when they got more people for him to bless, they said, Everybody go get our kids from the village and have him lay his hands on them. Peter said, No, that's enough. You're gonna kill this guy. He's done enough. And Jesus said, No. Don't tell him they can't come. Let the little children come unto me, for such is the kingdom of heaven. Then he laid his hands on them and blessed them. He did the work of the ministry. Can you say amen? You know, everybody say the work of the ministry. Why should somebody that works in the oil field wake up at four? How early do you wake up if you work in the oil field? Four? 4 a.m.? And then you're at the pad by what time? You need to move closer to the pad. What time are you there by? Five? Depending on where you're going. And then you work till when? Past dark? Yeah. Are you allowed to tell your boss I'm kind of tired? No, no one cares. Can you say that it's your son's birthday today? No one cares. So why should the congregation work hard in whatever they do? And the preacher should do his thing with the same intensity that it's done on the oil field. That's how I feel. Because whatever, the Bible says whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. Can you say amen? And so I wrote that book because some people have never been taught about healing. Actually, and we'll go back to this other testimony that got me riled up. But uh I hope I get to meet that girl with the liver because she's in Dallas. But I asked that guy, do you pray for the sick? No, I don't pray for we don't pray for the sick in our ministry because we have multiple services and we have to get the crowd out. Well, that's your choice. But then don't go around wondering why you don't have miracles as if it's on God's. That's like saying, How come I've never had a hole in one? And you ask, Do you own golf clubs? Uh-uh. Well, I would start with buying some golf clubs. Give it a crazy. You know, how come I've never shot a deer? Have you ever been hunting? I don't own a gun. Well, I'd start with buying a gun. If you don't at least give God a chance to move, then there's no chance for God to move. But tonight, we're opening up the curtain. We're unlocking the windows of heaven and letting God meet with his people in Texas today in Jesus' name. Can you say amen? So this is a book I wrote with my wife called How God Heals Without Doctor Medicine, doctors, medicine, or surgery. When you say that it gets quiet like it did, because people love doctors, medicine, and surgery, and they've heard their whole life, God uses doctors and God uses medicine and surgery, but you're gonna have a hard time finding that as a Bible verse. But uh doctors help people, doctors help my dad, doctors saved my dad's life. Surgeries have helped people, and um, we're all for that. But when you talk about the subject of divine healing, I noticed on Christian television they can never talk about healing without talking about supplements and vitamins and exercise. Did you know Jesus never went to a blind man and gave him a sack of carrots? Said you need more vitamin K to improve your vision. He never told a person that couldn't walk you need to exercise more. He never healed by correcting someone's diet. He didn't give them fish oil, he didn't do any of that stuff. One time he spit in someone's eyes, one time he stuck his finger in the deaf man's ear. Did I play that while I was here, the factory worker from Milwaukee? I prayed it on the first night. So I prayed like Jesus prayed. How did Jesus pray for the deaf? His old father helped them. No. Then sticking his finger in the man's ears, he said, be opened, and the man heard. Then one time he put spit on his fingers and touched the mute man's tongue that couldn't talk, and the man began to talk. So we're not talking about physical healing, we're not talking about medical healing. God has a healing remedy that's outside of medicine. Can you say amen? Yeah. Paul took garments that were on his skin. You know, one time um I was preaching at that same church where that lady had her esophagus and stomach grow back. And I was talking about how Jesus spit in the blind man's eye. And one time he spit on the ground and made mud and had him uh rub it in his eyes and wash in the pool of salon and came back. And another time he spit directly in the man's eyes. So when I was saying that, it was a good service. You could feel the presence of God. This older teenage girl came, she was legally blind, she stormed up to the front and tore her glasses off and said, I feel like if you'll spit in my eyes, Jesus will heal me. Well, I thought to myself, I don't have anything to get sued for. I was thinking, man, I could get sued, and then I thought, I live at home with my parents. It would actually be an upgrade to go to prison because that sounds cool if I'm introducing myself to a girl. I go, I'm in prison. Living at home doesn't sound cool. So she took her glass off and leaned forward, and I gave her the best spit I could give. I spit right in her eyes. And then I said, uh, now go. Now we didn't have a pool of saloon, but we had an old assemblies of God water fountain in the back. I said, now go out to that water fountain and wash your eyes out and come back and tell me how you are. And I kept preaching. And after about four minutes, she busted through that door and with her glass off, saying, I can see everything. Well, then we had about 14 people come out of the crowd and line up across the front like this. And the Lord never spoke to me to spit in any of their eyes, but I thought, when are you ever gonna get another chance like this? And I went down the line and spit on them. I don't think any of them were healed, but I had a great time that night spitting in assemblies of God church people's faces. Amen. It's a good thing to serve the Lord. Can you say amen? It's a joyful thing to serve the Lord. God has a miracle flow where the doctors don't get any money out of it. Walgreens and CVS don't get any money. God can heal you all by himself, and nobody gets the glory but him. Can you say amen? So we have that on a uh on a table back there, and that book is written differently. It's in it's broken into chapters, and it has questions at the end of it, and um, and you can answer the questions. So if you run a small group or whatever, I made it for that to teach doctrine because people don't know doctrine. All that stuff I said about not standing on the word to get healed, you need to stand on the word after you get healed, or you'll lose it. But the Bible says, or any among you sick, not keep confessing scriptures. Now notice, even in the video, I believe them that they were standing on 1 Peter 2 24. But what happened? They came to this meeting, I don't think they live near here, I could be wrong, and then they said, Now look at this as a step of faith. People would think you were a weirdo for doing this. The brother said, I have my sister on my phone on FaceTime. Will you pray for her? It was close to midnight. And I said, I'll pray. And I think she had just woken up, and I prayed in the name of Jesus. I speak to that liver, I commend all the results to be like like uh they'll say, Let's like you got a new liver. And then the next day they came in beaming that her liver. So they took the step of faith that the Bible says. I couldn't anoint her with oil, but there's laying on of hands. There has to be somebody when it comes to healing. A lot of times it's a pride thing to just say, I'm saying, you know, a lot of these people need people to lay hands on, but I I believe no. If you're gonna stand on the word, stand on the part that says what to do when you're sick. Are any among you sick? They should call on the elders of the church and be anointed with oil. And their prayer offered in faith, the prayer of faith will save the sick. I want you to say something with me. Say prayer doesn't make faith work. Faith makes prayer work. T.L. Osborne said the prayer of faith will save the sick, as opposed to the prayer of unbelief, which will do nothing at all. So it's not just prayer. I we've been having people pray. Who? Who? What's their track record? How do they pray? Do they pray for people like people prayed when I was growing up in church? Lord, if it be your will, as soon as you throw that in, you blew the whole thing up. Or is it somebody that's confident of the will of God and speaks to the mountain and tells it to move? I see every mountain that the devil's erected in your life getting thrown out of your life tonight by the prayer of faith in Jesus' name. So, anyway, I would get that book because people don't know much about healing. Most people don't know much about healing. This is called Seven Wrong Relationships. It's about the seven girls I dated in Bible school. This is called Decisions Determine Destiny, Developing a Million Dollar Decision Making System. Say with me, decisions determine destiny. Yeah, God's on your side, and the devil is too small to blame. There's nothing in the Bible about praying against the devil. The devil is under your feet. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 28, if your enemy attacks you from one direction, I will make him run from you in seven directions. Nothing about you praying. The devil is too small to pray about. Yeah. Two hallelujahs. I know that ruins a lot of people's ministries because now they don't know what to do. I was preaching in Alabama and uh three ladies that looked odd came and sat in the back of the church. Pastor Kofi, that's the campus pastor in Santa Ana, California, at our church there. He went over and interviewed them while I was preaching. Because, you know, it just seemed odd. They came in like an hour and a half late, and he said, Um, what brings you in? They said, We're witches. Well, that's odd because we don't advertise our meetings on witchesmeet.com or anything. They said, we're witches, and we were doing what we normally do in the forest, and we couldn't get anything to work. And we traced the disturbance to this building. So we came in to see what was going on. Well, two left after about 20 minutes, and the one came forward and got saved, crying her eyes out, and they were one witch down. They couldn't get what they were doing to work. I've never been preaching anywhere and thought to myself, I can't get what I'm doing to work. Let me see if I can find where the who's messing it up. There's no power that can even slow down the power of God. Can you say amen? Everybody say this that power dwells in me. Say this so the devil can hear you. I'm not in a contest with the devil. Jesus defeated him two thousand years ago. He's not over my head, he's not eye to eye, the devil is under my feet. If you believe it, shout amen like thunder. So you make decisions in line with God's word that produce a glorious destiny. This is, I think, my newest book, How to Have a Ministry with No Needs. Making impact without loans, mortgages, or the credit system. Many preachers are just well-dressed beggars. I've been invited to the White House four times. It's amazing. Along with the preachers, they'll invite billionaires that like fund conservative things. You should see the preachers just line up by them. You'd think they were Jesus. And um just to kind of not be like that, they introduced one of them to me. They said, This is so-and-so. He owns this company, which I know, I like this. Yeah, I don't care. I know Jesus. So I'll let all the other guys uh fawn all over you, but I'm not. I'm not gonna walk around you like I'm a teenage girl watching the Beatles land in America. That's a little reference for those that are 70 and older to make you feel included. No, everybody say I I know Elle should die. The God of more than enough. I'll tell you something interesting along those lines. I was at a minister's conference in 2022, and um, there's a minister, I won't say where he's from. I'll say the opposite where he's from. Let's say Oregon. And I said, uh I said, I hadn't seen him in a while. I said, hey, nice to see you. I was sitting by him at the minister's conference. So he said to me, Um, are you still in Pittsburgh? I said, yeah. He said, I'm going to Pittsburgh. I've been going every month. I said, Oh, I you should have told me. I said, I would have loved to come hear you preach. And he said, No, I'm not going to preach. I'm going to play golf with this home builder. He gives tens of millions of dollars to ministries. He's one of the biggest givers in the country. He said, You should let you should let me take you with me and you can introduce yourself to him. Maybe he'll come to your church. Now, to me, if I did that, I'd be very close to prostitution. Basically everything but the sex. You're just trying to work somebody to get their money. I will I don't read Jesus doing that. In fact, I read in the Bible specific instructions in the book of James to not treat rich people differently than you treat poor people. Can you say amen? So I, you know, I'm not gonna rebuke him. The guy's older than me anyway. I said, I said, no, that's all right, you know, enjoy yourself. Hope he donates to you, whatever you're looking for. Did you know that's the guy that ended up giving me the house? Three years later, he said he was watching what no eye has seen with his wife on YouTube. And he said, I'm gonna go to that church, or we're gonna go to that church on Sunday, and if I feel the Holy Ghost, that's gonna be our church. And he said, That was when we were in the soccer dome. He said, I walked in, and when we got past the partition where the service was going on, he said it felt like I hit a wall of the Holy Spirit. And I looked at my wife and said, This is our church. And seven months later is when he gave the house. So that you know what that book's about? What that guy was trying to get, I got. Without ever privately texting, no one has ever gotten a private text from me, making them aware of a need, making them aware of something we have coming up. I don't even have creative ways to do it. You know, it's like like preachers, you'll get a text. I have a crusade coming up, and uh it's gonna cost about 80,000, so keep me in prayer. That's code for please give me money. They don't want prayer, they want money. And so if you go after people, God will let people be your source. But if you go after God, God will be your source. And he said, if you'll let me do it, I'll make you to lend to many, but thou shalt not borrow. Can you say amen? Say this out loud, because this is going to be your reality from tonight. Say, I will lend to many, but I'll never borrow. That's right, and God did that. Let me see on the screen Jeremiah 17, 5 through 8. Jeremiah 17, 5 through 8. These are key scriptures here. This is what the Lord says. Cursed are those who put their trust in humans. Now you should memorize that. Cursed. Not I don't like when you do it. There's a curse that comes if you try to trust in people. Because people fail all the time. Now think of this. Even if I was an honest guy and I always kept my word, and I told you, you know what? I like what you're doing. I'm gonna give you a million dollars. And then, and I meant it, and I was gonna do it. And then when we parted company, I turned and went to walk across the street and was mowed down by a city bus and died. Then, as much as I wanted to help you, you're finished. Because all of that promise died with me. But when you go after God, God doesn't get hit by buses, he'll never die. He's the living one who always was, always is, and always will be. He never fails. And so I feel like um, not with church people so much, but a lot of times in ministry, people talk like there's no God. What are we gonna do? You know, and and and people would always be very dismissive to me when I was in my 20s and 30s, and I would talk like, God's my healer, and God is gonna take care of me. I'm gonna tell you something that'll keep you out of debt your whole life and make the ministry very easy. Say this with me. If God can't give it to me, may I never have it. If God can't take me there, I don't want to go. If God can't do it, let it remain undone. That takes all the pressure off of life. You know what my goal is in being in Big Spring this week? To preach. And then whoever gets saved, I'm doing my best to accommodate that. Whoever gets healed, but I can't do even that I can't do. All I'm doing is yielding to the Holy Spirit. But it's God that does the work. So instead of trying to build something and get have God get involved, find out what God's building and just get in that flow, and you'll never build anything for God. You'll watch God build for you. I said, You're gonna watch God build for you. God is gonna help you in 2026, God's gonna help you greatly in 2026. If you believe it, can you say amen? Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength, and in so doing turn their hearts. Now keep that up. When you rely on human strength, you turn your heart away from God without meaning to. I'm gonna give you an example. When we went to go build that church in Pittsburgh, that's gonna be a 3,01 cedar when it's all finished. Um that was gonna cost $10 million. We didn't have $10 million. What am I supposed to do as a pastor? What's the motive, not from the Bible, as an American pastor? What am I supposed to do when I need a church? What's the what am I supposed to do? Where do I go? Go to the bank and get a what? A loan. Now let me ask you a question. Let's say I found a bank, which I could have easily done, because there's Christian lending institutions that I made friends with going to the White House and being around people like that. Reverend, anything you ever need, let us know. But what they mean is they'll loan it to you with interest. And the Bible says, I'll make you the head and not the tail, the lender and not the borrower. Now, what I told our board of directors, our staff, my wife, which it didn't take any convincing, but I said, we're not gonna do that. We're gonna give God an opportunity to move. He made all these promises. You know, if somebody, it's like Iran. Iran ran their mouth for 47 years that we're gonna kill death to America, your streets will run red with American blood. And then when it came time to fight, they were all dead in like four days. If you run your mouth, you should back it up. Nobody ran their mouth more than God, and I want to tell you something. God didn't just run his mouth, God's looking for somebody that'll call him on it and he'll back it up for you. Can you say amen? Hallelujah! Somebody shout, Victory is mine. Praise God. So, um, now it that's a nice thing to say. We're gonna watch, we're gonna give God an opportunity to move. And then Bill starts coming doing stuff. Well, what happens? This builder in Pittsburgh sees them running hit pieces on us on the news. This church that's breaking rules and they're too loud and they're causing traffic jams. And he goes to another church. This is a different builder, and he didn't like that they were attacking a Christian church. So he called Mogales, my my uh my wife's Puerto Rican, and she's got a Puerto Rican twin sister. They're the Puerto Rican wonder twins of the gospel. And he has worked with her uh uh uh husband, Abel. He said, I want to do something to help your pastor out. He said, I'm gonna take the livery of a 60,000 square square foot building. And you guys can just pay what you want at 0% interest as you as you pay it, and I'm gonna build it out for you to be a church. Then he not only built it out, he dropped it from 10 million to uh the first phase, what should have been about 8 million, I'd say. And he dropped it to 4 million uh 50,000, I think it ended up being. Because he's a huge builder in Pittsburgh, so like the guy would quote him sheetrock, you know, materials plus labor. He'd say you have to come down. He'd give him a lower bid. He said, You're gonna have to come down. He said, That's just materials. I'm not even charging for labor. He said, I don't care. You're gonna have to go even lower than that, or I won't use you on any of my projects in the future. So if you want me to keep using you in the future, then you're gonna have to take a loss on this one for the house of God. He negotiated that himself. See, God knows I'm too dumb to do any of that stuff, and he knows I'm too busy preaching. So he actually will mobilize other people to help you do what you couldn't do. Can you say amen? So it's not just the money. Everybody say money, everybody say favor. Let me see Psalm 5 12. Psalm 5 12, King James. For you bless the God, the O Lord. Lord. For thou, O Lord, will bless the righteous. You know, if you were here last night, I was ticked off last night. I've just been finding new things that I've ticked off about every night. My daughter's seventh grade teacher at Christian school told her it's wrong to expect God to bless you. God doesn't bless people, he blesses them in uh that you can go to heaven, but these people that teach that God will bless you on earth, they're not telling you the truth. And my daughter wrote her back that she's wrong and gave her scriptures as a 13-year-old. You know, because Camila has seen that we have lived by faith. She has watched God. We live in a house that God gave us. In fact, I'll tell you something about that house. My wife and I both have SUVs, and the driveway wasn't uh wide enough for two SUVs. So I would ride my tires wide of the driveway, and it started to dig a trough, especially when it would rain. It rains a lot in Pittsburgh. So it was starting to look ugly. I came home one day and my wife had paid to have the driveway widened. So I'm playing video games, and then I just got an idea. These guys are all working to widen my driveway. There's like 13 of them. I thought, well, since they're running all these bad things about me on the news, I'm not gonna tell them who I am or anything, but I'm gonna do something nice for them so that maybe they'll just be one or two people in Pittsburgh that the next time they run a hit piece on me, they go, hey, that's that guy that did that for us. So there's all these construction guys working, and I went on Uber Eats and ordered 13 ribeyes, uh 24-ounce ribeys, medium rare, with baked potato, and I got Red Bulls. And I'm trying to think, I got them another side too. Baked potato and french fries, I think, double carbs. So uh they came and I ordered it medium rare, because if you don't like your steak, medium rare, go get your own steak. I don't want to I don't really want to be friends with you. So they came in, and I uh I got the delivery of the steaks, and I said, guys, it's time for a break. And their supervisor looked at me like, Who are you? These are my guys. I said, I got steaks for everybody. It's five o'clock, let's eat. So I passed them out, they all sat down. They went, Are you serious? I said, Yeah. And the one guy encouraged me so much, just when you thought America was a lost cause, this guy took his steak, didn't use any of the silverware, folded it in half, and ate it like a sandwich. And I thought, there's still hope for America. They haven't gayed everybody up yet. They still got this guy to deal with who has no manners. And so, did you know, this is before all that stuff happened with the church? Did you know that the supervisor was the man who built our church's brother? And so when his brother said, I want to build that guy church, and they saw the picture, they said, That's that guy I was telling you about that got steaks for me and all my people. See, that's $700 worth of steaks, which isn't even a lot of money because I own it on Uber Eats. On Uber Eats, Dunkin' Donuts is $100. That $700 worth of stakes as a seed of kindness, build a $10 million building for $4 million. When you give, you receive. Your gift comes back to you, pressed down, shaken together and running over. They call money, listen now, they call money currency. I want you to think of money as a current. If you try to stop it up and save, then you're you're actually, I'm not saying you can't save. Uh the Bible says a fool spends everything he gets, but what I am saying is, Jesus said the purpose of money is to be used to make friends. This is an actual verse. Use your money to make friends and do good for people. And then when you do that, more money comes back than you could have ever saved. Can you say amen? Abraham's here somewhere. I think he's going to pick up my suitcases. He's getting married, and um no one's helping them with the wedding. The bride's parents aren't helping, and his parents are in West Africa, and the exchange rate from Ghanaian currency to here is an impossibility. So one time I was preaching, just like when people get drunk, they lose a lot of money. When I get in the anointing, I lose a lot of money. It's the new wine. I get really happy, I feel rich, and I started looking around. I was preaching, I said, Abraham, I'm gonna pay for your wedding. And he started crying. I said, How much is it? He said, $25,000. I said, All right. So then money started coming in, all different places right after that. And today I still owe six, I told him that two months ago, I still owed him $16,500. And I just transferred that money when the stock market ripped today. I had option calls on SPY, Triple Q, and one other, and they boomed today, so I cashed them out, not for retirement, not to help Camila, not to help uh uh uh Dallas. I I sent it into my account, and he's getting a check cut tomorrow, and that'll pay for the wedding. Then I gave $100,000 to our church after I just finished giving $350,000. And what was the other thing I gave? There was a third promise I made. Oh, yeah, another guy that I that I told him I would sow $4,000 on my money. Now, I'm not saying this. I won't take any money tonight. I'm not saying this, so but I'm telling you, if you look at my account, I sowed in about eight months, I dropped my money I had from about $420,000 to now it's probably at about $11,000. Now, let me tell you something. If you think it's gonna stay at $11,000, you need to let me introduce you to Jesus. Because what you make happen for others, God makes happen for you. Can you say amen? And so I don't give to not have anything. I give because in giving I end up with more than if I saved all the money I possibly could save. God has it, listen now, God has a different system of healing. God has a different system of peace, God has a different system of honor, and God has a different system of finances. And I'm telling you, though many of you have given your life to the Lord, nobody has ever taught you how to live the kingdom way. So you love Jesus, you're going to heaven, but health-wise, money-wise, peace-wise, you're on as much medication, as many trips to the hospital, all that, as people that don't know the Lord. But tonight, all that's gonna change because I'm telling you, there's a different path. There's a path where you don't trust in men, but you trust in God, and God takes care of you, and God takes care of your family. If you believe that, go ahead and do it, you're already doing. Take 15 good seconds. Clap your hands, all ye people. Shout unto God. Hallelujah. Say it out loud, the devil is defeated. Jesus is Lord. Let me see uh uh Psalm 512 again, KJV. I don't think I finished reading it. For thou, Lord, will bless the righteous. See, my daughter wasn't really arguing from a theological standpoint, she knows it's in the Bible, but she was irritated because when she said God won't bless, these people teach that God will give you a house if you serve him. Camila said, He did give us a house. These people teach that God will give you cars. He did give my mom a car. These people teach that God will give you a private jet. Camila said, Well, God gave us a private jet. At this point, her teacher wanted to punch her in the head. Because it's one thing to hear somebody talk about it, but it's another thing to live it. See, for me, one of the reasons, and I'm not, I know this sounds like a braggadocious or cocky thing to say, but I'll it's I'm not saying it that way. One of the reasons my faith is strong is I don't just know it from the word, I know it from living with my my dad's an evangelist. I watched that. Brother Sam's been hounding me, Pastor Sam, to tell this story. I was getting ready to preach in Boston one night. This is pretty pretty powerful, actually. I was praying for the meeting, it was Friday night, and the Lord gave me two instructions. Number one, check out of it, they extended the meeting a second week. In fact, I'll tell you the whole story. I got there on Sunday night, or Sunday morning, Sunday night. It was a Sunday through Wednesday meeting. And this girl was brought to the meeting. I was walking into church, and this two sisters were walking in. And the one sister said, This is my sister, Lulu. She's deaf. And she has been watching you on Facebook and wants to come hear you preach. So we signed her out of the Boston Deaf School to bring her here tonight. I said, Oh, that's great. And she said, I said, You guys are Christians? She said, No, we're Muslims. So now I just kind of took that as like a challenge, almost like a side quest in a video game. I want to beat this. So I said, All right. So then that night, when I finished uh preaching, I said to this, the the Islamic sister, I said, Bring your sister up. And I put my fingers in her ears and prayed and cursed the deafness. And uh I said, Do you hear any better? And I could tell she didn't, because she didn't look at me, she looked at her sister. So then she signed to her. She said, No, she says she doesn't hear any better. I said, Do me a favor, come back tomorrow night and let me have another try. I said, I'm sure it's far, you have to go to the Boston desk school and bring her back here to Wayland, Massachusetts, and all that. But just please let me have one more shot. She said, Okay, we'll be here. So that day I fasted all day. Because the Bible says, Mark chapter 9, they brought a boy to Jesus who was deaf and mute. They brought to them him to his disciples, and when Jesus came off the mountain of transfiguration, he saw them arguing. And he said, What are you arguing about? The father said, I brought my boy for you to heal him, for your disciples to heal him, but they could not do it. Jesus said, You faithless generation, how long must I put up with you? How long must I be with you? Bring the boy to me. This is Mark 9, 14 through 29. And so they brought the boy. When the boy saw Jesus, the spirit threw him to the ground and began writhing. Now, where does Christ live by a mystery right now? So, how could there be any attack of the devil when the second Satan got in the presence, a demon got in the presence of Christ, it just began like like it knows it's in trouble, just throwing itself around. Can you say amen? Say this out loud. I am not in a contest with darkness. I already have the victory. So I I fat and then Jesus, the Bible says the the uh Mark 9 22, the man's the boy's father said, Do something and help us if you can. What do you mean if I can? Verse 23, Jesus said, All things are possible to him who believes. Then the the boy starts writhing around. I'll read it. Uh 24. And straightway you can do NLT. The father of the child cried out with tears. Lord, I do believe, but help me to overcome my unbelief. That's what meetings like this help. You know, it's not you, you're not somebody that hates God. Maybe the lady that stormed that left like three minutes in, maybe she does. But you'd have left with her if you'd oh, this is all junk. I didn't know this was what this is. I don't believe in any of this. People have faith. Even when you talk to reform people that teach the day of miracles is over, they still believe God does miracles. They're just kind of confused. In fact, even my daughter's unbelief-filled elementary school teacher. I bet you if I got her one-on-one, she her grandma had cancer and they prayed and she died, something like that, and she believes God can do these things, because you would really have to be, um, you don't have anything to stand on if you're scripturally or in practice to say that I don't believe God does miracles. Because you literally would have to argue with like 600 million people on earth that are filled with the Holy Spirit and have seen God do a miracle for them or their family. How many of you could how many of you could testify in a court of law of a real miracle that you know God did for you or your family? Absolutely. And so you can know those people are all stupid. All of them? There's people that God did miracles for that are lawyers and doctors and and Harvard educated, you know? You can't, you can't say that. Even the Catholic, the Catholic Church doesn't deny miracles. The Catholic Church believes in miracles. Then you have reformed people. I'm on uh X that used to be Twitter, and I follow guys that aren't in our vein of Christianity. You know, because I don't I don't need you to believe everything I believe. I just, if you're not for tearing families apart and stuff, I'm with you. So then sometimes they'll have like their wife will get sick, and they'll write something like, My wife just got diagnosed with breast cancer, can you please pray? And I'll write to them, what would you like us to pray? Because you teach that there's no miracles and people should just accept what God gives them in life. But isn't it interesting? Anytime people teach that, if an attack comes to their family, they throw that all out the window and say, Please pray. Because there's something on the inside of a man that knows I'm not meant for sickness, I'm meant for health, I'm not meant for defeat, I'm meant for victory, I'm not meant for depression, I'm meant for peace and joy, and I'm not meant to be broke, I'm meant to have an overflowing cup to be a blessing to my generation. Can you say amen? Everybody say, I do believe. Help my unbelief. 25. When Jesus saw that the crowd of onlookers was growing, he rebuked. What did he rebuke? Yeah, not unbelief. Now, I know there's a lot of people in the Word of Faith movement that teach this is a uh what it wasn't a demon, it was unbelief. But it just says he rebuked an evil spirit. Secondly, where do you deal with unbelief by rebuking it? When people want to sidestep fasting and prayer, they have to deal with this, and you can't deal with it. You have to make something up. Well, this was unbelief. It wasn't a deal. When he said this kind cometh not out but by prayer and fasting, he was talking about a kind of unbelief. No, it was an evil spirit. Secondly, you can't deal with unbelief by casting it out. The remedy for unbelief is faith, and faith only comes by hearing and hearing of the word, and this boy couldn't hear the word because he was deaf. Yeah, you can disagree, but I'm not wrong. When Jesus saw that the crowd of onlookers was growing, he rebuked, everybody said, the evil spirit. Say this out loud. As a disciple of Christ, I can rebuke an evil spirit. Yeah, you say this, I don't have to put up with the devil's mess. Listen, you spirit that makes this boy unable to hear and speak. I command you to come out of this child and never enter him again. 26. Then the spirit screamed, threw the boy into another violent convulsion, and left him. The boy appeared to be dead. A murmur ran through the crowd as people said, He's dead. But Jesus took him by the hand and helped him to his feet, and he stood up. Hallelujah. Afterward, when Jesus was alone in the house with his disciples, they asked him, Why couldn't we cast out that evil spirit? King James 29. This kind only comes out by prayer and fasting. So there's a power you have to carry. Um how many know fasting and prayer doesn't get us more power from God? Correct. But say this with me we have a treasure in earthen vessels. The earthen vessel blocks the treasure. The stronger the flesh is, the more of an impediment it is to the flowing out of the spirit. Did you know? I'll give you an example. Did any of you ever have grandparents that lived nothing for the Lord their whole life? And then when they got in their 70s or maybe early 80s, without anybody inviting them, just like got a Bible and started going to church? Anybody have anybody like that in their family? He did, I did. Adolis' dad was like that. Adolis' dad never lived for the Lord. Then when he got in his 70s, he didn't even tell anybody. He enrolled in an online Bible college and got a bachelor's in Bible and started attending uh church as an associate. You know why? You know why Joe Rogan had no interest in God? Now that he's 60 years old, he's getting interested. As you get older, your flesh gets weaker, but your spirit's still there. So people in their 20s don't care about eternity, but as people get older, they start feeling that thing on the inside of them. Well, there's other ways to weaken the flesh. The strongest desire of the flesh is to eat. When you don't eat, you know, people, you can fast anything. You can fast TV. Um, unless you've been eating TVs, you can't fast TVs. If you could fast electronics, everybody that lived before 1880 fasted their whole life. The Hebrew word for fasting is T it's transliterated T-S-O-M, I think. And it means literally to close the mouth from food. Man betrayed God with food. Wouldn't it make sense that to get something back, we push the thing away that Satan used as the betrayal? Can you say amen? So when you fast, your flesh gets weak. And then it's not just fasting. If it was fasting, every prison camp in World War II would have had a revival. They weren't eating. Everybody say fasting with prayer. Fasting makes this vessel that carries the treasure weak. And praying always in the power of the Spirit. Let me see Jude verse 20. Jude verse 20, KJV. But ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. When you pray in the Spirit, you're taking that treasure and building it up while weakening the vessel that's been obstructing it. And there becomes an effortless shining through of the anointing. And anytime the anointing manifests, it's not just for a warm feeling, it lifts the heavy burden and destroys the yoke of bondage. I see every heavy burden being lifted off your shoulders tonight, and I see every heavy yoke being sod in half by the might of the Holy Ghost. You're not leaving like you came. I said, You're not leaving like you came. There is power coming into every man tonight to trample on the head of the devil as if he were dust under your feet. If you believe it, can you shout aloud amen? Uh Mark 9, 29. This kind cometh not out but by prayer and fasting. So I took that day and fasted and prayed. And um as I was getting ready to preach, and I was praying, and I was all I was thinking about was that girl and the service and what to preach. The Lord spoke to me two things. Number one, the pastor extended the meeting until next week. I already had plans to stay in that hotel through the weekend. Why check out? The Lord said, Check out of this hotel and check into another hotel that's not here, not in this area of Boston. So I did. I texted Megal and said, put me in another hotel. And then call your grandmother and ask her, what's the greatest miracle that I ever did for her and your grandfather? Because they went to Bible school. They graduated in 1952, Zion Bible Institute in East Providence, Rhode Island. And then they went into the ministry. They had no church. So initially, my grandma they'd go to downtown farm. I don't know if you call it downtown. It's less of a downtown than uh Big Spring. Big Spring actually has like a 14-story building there. This has got like one-story buildings. So she would go down there and play the accordion to gather a crowd. Now playing the accordion is a great way to scatter a crowd. But back then people would come, and then once a little crowd formed, my grandfather would start preaching. They didn't have a church or anything. Some lady gave them like a wooden shack in West Virginia to live in, and that's where they were living. So call your grandmother and tell her what's the ask her what's the greatest miracle I ever did for her and your grandfather. So she said, Well, this may sound like a small thing to other people, but it was big to us at the time. And nobody knew this story because none of the boys had been born yet. So it would have been lost, and God obviously didn't want this story to get lost. So she said, Um, we I woke up one morning to make your grandfather breakfast, and we had no food, and we had no money. This is 1952, no credit cards. You either have money or you don't have money, no paid A loans. And she said, I started to pray because we had no way to, you can't post on Facebook, you can't start a GoFundMe. Let me see Jeremiah 17, 5. Cursed is he that puts his thus saith the Lord, NLT. Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans. See, a lot of times because of what we have access to now, people don't see any supernatural work of God because you don't need it. You need money, you go on Facebook and say, Does anyone know where I can get a couch? Does anyone know where we can get a moving truck? You know, it's just code for it. Can somebody give us a truck? Does anyone know where we can get living room furniture? Yes, at the furniture store. They sell it to everybody. Quit begging. Can you say amen? Cursed are those. So uh as long as your first reaction when you feel like you're in need is to go try to get it from people, God will let you, but you'll never be able to go further than where people can take you. And people can't take you very far. You will also always be a slave to people, because if there's somebody giving you five million dollars every six months, you have to make sure him and his wife are happy with what you're preaching, that they feel appreciated, all that stuff. And so you become a slave to other people's opinions of you. But if you put, Jesus said, Woe unto you, Pharisees, who seek not the honor that comes from God, but seek the honor that comes from men. If you will learn, I'm telling you something today, there is a real God, as sure as I'm standing here wearing black with a bolo tie on. There's a God that though you've never seen him, one day you will see him. He speaks. He owns all the silver and all the gold. He owns the cattle on a thousand hills. He's got the lease on every oil well from here through Iran. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and all the inhabitants that dwell therein. If you get on his good side and stay on his good side, you'll never have to peg another day in your life. God will anoint your head with oil and your cup will run over. I see your cup running over from tonight. In Jesus' name. I said, in Jesus' name, if you receive it, clap your hands, shout your shout, let God know. You're choosing his path. This is what the you mean see. This is what the Lord says. Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans. Find me a scripture, uh, Tessa, because I'm ornery. Normally I don't preach this because like I push enough, but I want to preach. I'm gonna do the whole thing tonight. Uh give me, give me, and Asa sought the help of doctors instead of the Lord, and so he died. Let me see that scripture. This is about the only thing you have about doctors in the Bible. And Luke was a doctor, and all he did was take notes on how awesome Jesus was at healing people. Let me see it. In the 39th year of his reign, Asa developed a serious foot disease, yet, even with the severity of his disease, he never sought God's help, but turned only to his physicians. This is this should be the verse they put on quarters and pennies. This is America's verse. In no matter, regardless of how severe his disease was, he never sought God's help, but turned only to physicians. Again, it sounds like I'm super anti-doctor and stuff, and I'm not. I got nurses on both sides of my family and my wife's uh side of the family. They're great people. I'm for anyone that's helping people, and I'm against anyone that's hurting people. But I'm telling you, there's a higher way in life for the believer if you're interested. I said, there's a higher way in life for the believer if you're interested. So I read this because even people that think they have faith, you hear this a lot of times in testimonies. They diagnosed me, like, I'll just pick something. They diagnosed me with kidney problems. But I said, Whose report am I gonna believe? I'm gonna believe the report of the Lord. So I went back to get diagnosed, and they said it got worse. But we we just decided we're gonna believe the report of the Lord. Then we went back. For somebody that's not believing their report, you should do pay a lot of money to get more reports. Now don't do, don't do what I'm about to tell you because you because you likely can't yet. But I told you about every night. I haven't been to the doctor since I was 17 because I don't need you have to be sick. You can't just go for fun. That's called being a hypochondriac. I'm not sick. Who's been watching me on YouTube or TV for more than two years? When have you ever heard an announcement made? Jonathan's not able to make it tonight because he because he's sick or you know, his voice is gone. Who's heard that ever? You never will. He didn't say I'll heal you when you get sick. He said, if you serve me and don't serve the idols of this land, I will take sickness and disease out of your midst. I'm telling you, there are people here tonight. The last sick day you had will be the last sick day you ever had. Sickness loses your address today. In Jesus' name. Say this out loud so the devil can hear you. Say, I hate sickness. Say, I make no place for sickness. You think in a million years you'd ever hear me say it's flu season? Flu season. Good. Have mine too while you're at it. Enjoy flu season for me. Where's that in the Bible? Flu season. The song says it's a new season, it's a new day. Not it's a flu season, it's a flu day. Can you say amen? So you start getting around Americans, and Americans are great people. But if you live in this country, they love sickness, man. If you, in fact, there's people, if I was at your house, some of you, and I said I haven't been sick in 45 years, and I'm not gonna get sick. I'd be careful. I'd say, oh, you're gonna jinx yourself. People, I mean, boy, that really is demonic for you to think not only is it wrong to make a positive confession, that the opposite will happen if you make it. See, that's why those that don't know the Lord and the Bible and the message of faith are constantly tormented by fear. They think if you open up your mouth and say, God's gonna keep me healthy, you know, the devil's gonna hear you. Good. He's the very jerk that I want to hear say that the blood of Jesus has broken all powers of sickness and disease, all lack of poverty. I'll never be broke another day in my life, and I'm gonna be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. Praise God! Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! I tell you, the gift of faith just dropped in this room. When the gift of faith traps, you wish the devil was out in the parking lot so you can say a few things to him before you get in your car. The last defeat you saw will be the last defeat you ever see. You're coming out of here, healed, and blessed, and heavenly favored. The devil might not like you, but it can't stop you. The greater one lives in you. Somebody shout hallelujah! Jeremiah 17, 5. Who's on drums? Was that you? Did you do a good job? This is what the Lord said. You know, Tony is so talented. This one joke, he produced Eminem's last album. So apparently he's got a thing for skinny white guys. This is what the Lord says. Cursed are those. Good luck with the Spanish translation on that. Cursed are those who put their trust. Everybody say cursed. And if you get around most preachers, they're under that curse and they don't know it. You know, you're giving them more. Now, everybody say a curse. Say the the lender, sorry, say the borrower is the servant of the lender. There's a preacher that's a friend of our family, has a big, big church. And he got cancer. And he didn't want to get chemo. He wanted to do natural holistic treatments. But when you have a church, a lot of you won't know this, but some of you do, you they make you, when you do a mortgage on a church, you're what's called the key man on the insurance policy. Meaning the bank has determined, um, like basically, like in this case, the bank would determine, okay, in our opinion, the reason this church has grown and needs a bigger building is because of the effectiveness of Pastor Sam's ministry. And if Pastor Sam were to die, the church would go down and they wouldn't be able to pay their mortgage. So we're gonna take out an insurance on his life to help back our loan. Does that make sense? So when he decided he didn't want chemotherapy, the bank told them, because we have the mortgage on it, and you're the key man on the insurance policy, we determine your treatments, you don't determine your treatments, and we have determined that you're gonna have chemotherapy. I heard that when I was 31, and that took all the taste to ever borrow money out of my life. If God can't give it to me, now there's people that say this and they don't have anything. I'm debt-free. Yes, you also don't own anything. It's not an accomplishment to be debt-free. I could take you to downtown Philadelphia and show you debt-free people laying all on the sidewalk. You gotta do something. Can you say amen? So, but then people, you know, people get cocky because they're debt-free, but they they don't they haven't built anything. And then people think to build something, you have to get help from the bank. I had people tell me when I was pastoring, Jonathan, it's gonna cost you a good $10 million to build a church minimum. Where are you gonna get money like that? I know you believe and not in being the lender and not the borrower. We do too, but you have to be realistic too. I am real now, if the Bible's not realistic, then not only am I gonna get loans, I'm done preaching. I have preached my last sermon on planet earth. If one verse of this is not true, because if I can't trust the lender and borrow part, why can I trust John 3.16? If God lied anywhere, who's to say he didn't lie everywhere? But God is not a let me see Numbers 23.19. This is a pivotal scripture. God is not a man, so he does not lie, nor is he the son of man, so he doesn't change his mind. Has he spoken it and failed the act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? God is not a liar, his word is true. You can believe his word, you can speak his word, it'll be counted as righteousness unto you. You're gonna have what God said belongs to you. Hallelujah. And once the devil realizes you've made up your mind to believe God, I'm sure that teacher with Camila, he'll go out of his way trying to get people to mock the Bible, get you to not believe the Bible. I was telling Camila that yesterday. I said, Camila, what you dealt with today with your seventh-grade teacher, I could pull up 10 accounts right now. Write nasty stuff about me right now. This health and wealth preacher with his jet. Okay. If health and wealth's an insult, I'd rather have that than poverty and lack and sickness and disease. I'm not ashamed. You know, what at Camila's church, one of the teachers said, Oh, you go to that church where everyone's rich. Is that an insult? It's amazing how they've got Christians to be ashamed of what they should love. I am not ashamed of the gospel, I'm not ashamed of salvation, I'm not ashamed of righteousness, I'm not ashamed to be healed, I'm not ashamed to be blessed. I look like my father Abraham, I talk like my father Abraham, I pray like my father Abraham because Jesus died that the blessing of Abraham would come on the Gentiles. I'm taking mine tonight. You're taking yours tonight, and the devil might not like it, but he can't stop it. I was in uh I was in U.S. history class when I was a sophomore in high school. And the teacher, this is U.S. history, goes over to the blackboard and goes, let me tell you something about evangelists. Guess what I'm I was called to be? An evangelist. This is like hell talking. It's just hell talking through a teacher. Let me tell you something about what evangelists are for. One thing. He draws a big dollar sign on the board and writes evangelists next to it. What does this have to do with U.S. history? See? One day you're gonna realize that the reason there's been such a fight over your life and people going out of their way to talk bad about you, and your parents singling you out out of all your siblings is the one they're gonna give a hard time. Is because the devil knows if you get on this message and you won't back off, he can't stop you. He can't stop God's word, he can only get you to be ashamed of God's word. But I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God at work under salvation, saving everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile. And if my father, if my father gives me a coat of many colors, I'm not keeping it hung up in my closet because my brothers are jealous. I'm gonna break that sucker out and wear it because I'm enjoying the blessing of God. You're gonna enjoy the blessing of God. Cursed are those who put their trust in human beings who rely on human strength, and in so doing turn their hearts away from the Lord. Oh, yes, it's 9-11, so if you told someone you'd stay till 9, you're 11 minutes past, so you can go. I know I'm keeping you from so many things to do in Big Spring. My deepest apologies. Verse 6. They are like stunned shrubs in the desert with no hope for the future. They'll live in the barren wilderness in an uninhabited and salty land. Now I'm gonna tell you something again. I'm not saying any of this to sound cocky, but it sounds like whatever it sounds like. The reason when I'm sitting at a table with guys that are very wealthy, I never asked them for anything, is because I've never sat anywhere without feeling like I'm the wealthiest person at the table. There's nobody, and I don't just feel like it. Like I don't have it in an account, so if you want to go by accounts, you can beat me. But like I told a billionaire friend of mine when he was asking me about what we're gonna do for our second building, he said, Well, how much money do you have? I said, My friend, what I have is the ability to call in any amount of money that's needed at any time. That's how I feel. The blessing of the Lord makes a man. I'm not trying to get rich. According to the Bible, I am rich. And I'm not trying to get healed, according to the Bible, I am healed. So you cannot sit me across from the uh son of the man who did Check filet and the Hobby Lobby guy and whoever else has money in the body of Christ. Let me hope they'll give me something. I'm always looking for who I can bless. I can't tell you how many rich people I've been with. They say you're the first person that's ever paid for a meal. You know, not first preacher, first person. Because they're all he's rich enough. You go with him, he'll pay. He might invite you to his country club. I'll never be broke, and I'll never behave like somebody who's broke. You know, the blessing of the of it, it doesn't say in the Bible that when God blesses you, it'll cause rich people to come to your ministry. It says it'll make you rich. Can you say amen? The blessing of the Lord makes that man rich, and he addeth no sorrow. Can you say amen? And I I hope he's not watching, because I don't I'm I I wouldn't want to get anything to come off from. But like, there's a there's a restaurant in Fort Worth that um they featured it in that show Landman. And there's a club underneath. Taylor Sheridan owns it. So I I had, they gave me a card asking if I wanted to join that club and I was gonna do it, and so I did. So I I thought this would be a nice place to go after church. It's down in the basement of this old steakhouse where Brother Hagin ate, T.L. Osborne ate, Bob Nichols used to do his sermons there every Saturday night before church. And I thought, you know, I'll just keep preaching, I'll keep preachers in it. So I went, I went, I joined the club, I took three people with me, and I thought it would be like an escape. You know, no one's gonna know me down there. I don't even live in Fort Worth. I kid you not. The second I sat down to eat, this tall guy looked to be in his 50s with silver hair, walked over and said, Pastor Shuttlesworth. Feel like are you freaking kidding me? I said, You know me? He said, Yeah. I watch you, I watch you every Sunday. And um I knew he wasn't lying because the guys that I brought with me, he said, I saw you today, you were sitting on the front row. He said, I was gonna get a picture with you, but they told me you can't take pictures down here. So uh he said, I stood up and shook hands with him, and I went over and met his girlfriend who was sitting at the table and talked to him. Well, then I go to church at our church in Arizona last Saturday, six days ago, and there's a row full of well-dressed guys in the front row that came to visit. And then there's this one guy there. I said, I feel like I met you before, but I can't remember where. He said, It was at the restaurant, Fort Worth. I said, Why are you here? He said, I flew out here for a car show, and I came to your church in Arizona. So it was that guy, Fort Worth. See, I felt to join that club, met him, then he was there, and then I messaged him because he, or no, he messaged me. He said, I wasn't living for the Lord, and I was miserable. He said, I was rich, but I was miserable, and I found you on YouTube. Another businessman told me about you, and I started watching you, I've given my life to the Lord. So I'm flying to Fort Worth tonight, and I'm meeting him for lunch tomorrow. And I'm gonna tell you something. I found out after he left, somebody told me, Did you know that that guy owns? I won't say what he owns, but it's in his sector of the economy, he has the fourth largest thing in the country. If he's not a billionaire, he's worth hundreds of millions. I'm telling you this, before God. I'll tell you. You can always tell in baseball. Mexican Catholics, Dominican Catholics. They add in extra things. I my my hand before God. You think I'm gonna sit there and tell him one thing that we're believing for, how much our video screen costs happen to mention? There won't be one thing in my mind or in my spirit except to listen to him, and how can the Lord best use me to help him as he's already used me on YouTube to get him saved? Now, what can I add to him at this meal? Is he struggling with anything? Is anybody sick? Is there anything that I can do as a minister to help him? You know, the more I read the feeding of the 5,000, the more miraculous it is to me. And the more it has shaped, hallelujah! Kuro stebaka bobroko reshta. To have five thousand men, not counting the women and children that are all hungry. And then the disciples say, hey, you gotta tell them they gotta go because they're gonna get hungry and we don't have anything to feed them with. And it and it would cost a fortune to feed them. Jesus said, No, you feed them. We can't, it would be cost a fortune. But Jesus said this to test them because he already knew what he would do. He didn't have access to it, he didn't have a he didn't even have what I have. Jesus had no phone. Probably people said, Jesus didn't have a jet. Yes, he also didn't have shoes or elastic waistband underpants. So if you want to go through it, well, then be consistent in your doctrine. He didn't have a phone, he couldn't have called in, couldn't have got alone. He didn't have, there'd be no way as a human being to carry enough food. Unless you're some stupid professor from Yale Divinity School who actually said on the History Channel, when they said that the boy had five loaves of bread, he said we have to remember the loaves of bread were much bigger back then. How dumb can you get and still breathe? Oh, payasso. Major idiota. It's one boy's lunch. What do you think he had? Five loaves of bread. Five loaves of bread. Jesus didn't even know they had five loaves of bread and two fish. He didn't care. He knew that whatever the need is, say with me, whatever the need is, God is more than enough. Tell the people to sit down in groups of 50. And they gave them the five loaves and two fish. Now, what would most people do if you had to feed 13, 15 17, 20,000 people, because it's 5,000 men, not counting the women and children. If you had to feed 17,000 people, and somebody handed you five loaves of bread and two fish, a human being, a normal human being, would go, thanks, but you know what? You might as well just eat it. At least there's one person eating today. So humanity talks about whack. The disciples said, Here's a boy's lunch, but what is that among so many people? But Jesus took it and gave thanks for it. Until you thank God for what you have, nothing will multiply. Complaining causes resources to diminish. I don't have enough helpers. We don't have enough parking. We don't have enough chairs. We don't have enough. You keep talking that, you'll talk yourself into a grave. But when you learn to lift your hands and say, Thank you for what you've given me, oh Lord. Thank you for what you put in my hands. Because I know that in my hand it's not enough. But I'm joining hands with you, and you're the God of more than enough. Hallelujah. He blessed it. He gave thanks for it and blessed it. Say this out loud: until I give thanks, nothing will multiply. But when I give thanks, everything begins to multiply. Feel something breaking loose and big spring. Big spring's turning into bigger spring. Hallelujah. God's got a miracle for you and your family. The one that multiplies the bread and fish, the one that can feed 17,000 people with a little boy's lunch. He's gonna take care of you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I see blessings flowing your way. I see food flowing your way. I see clothes flowing your way. I see transportation flowing your way. Give thanks unto God. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you in everything. Give thanks. We thank you, Lord. Thank you that we're not dead. Thank you that we're not on a respirator. Thank you that we're not on the ICU. Thank you, we got clothes on our back, shoes on our feet. Somebody shout hallelujah. Say it out loud. I am blessed. You be seated. See, that's why my my daughter's teacher, if she doesn't get her act together, she'll always be broke. Because she's saying God doesn't give people prosperity, and she's too stupid to realize she has prosperity. It would do people well to travel and go to different countries. There's people that live in places that you won't even put your lawnmower in. And they got a family of nine in there with no door and mosquitoes. Terrible. And they're thanking God. You're teaching at a Christian school and telling people God doesn't give everybody prosperity. You're too dumb to realize you have it. Air-conditioned classroom, full-time salary. You didn't walk to work, you drove in your own car. Your problem isn't that you don't have prosperity, it's that you're an ungrateful bastard. But we're not ungrateful bastards in Big Springs. We're grateful children of God who lift up holy hands. We thank you for eyes that see and ears that hear and legs that walk and mouths that talk and clothes to wear and toilets that flush and beds to sleep in. We return praise to you, oh God. You're a good God. You're a wonderful God. Hallelujah. I had somebody write me on Instagram about 18 months ago. They said, God, I've been following your teachings. I just want you to tell me that God's never given me anything. I said, Oh? I said, Are you in the ICU right now? They said, No, I'm at home. Oh, I said, you have a home. Did Satan build it for you? We could be having this conversation with you on a respirator. Having to get your answers by how many times you blink, you ungrateful fool. There's no problem with prosperity. There's people that don't know how to acknowledge what God's done for them. And you know what? I haven't met too many people like that in Texas. I feel that's one of the reasons Texas is the, and I'm not saying you're the most blessed state because I'm here and I'm trying to get on your good side. I'm telling you, by economic metrics, by far the most blessed state in the United States is the state of Texas. And guess where? The highest percentages of people that no matter how busy they are still take the first day of the week and decide to go into God's house and lift up holy hands under God and say, Lord, we give you the credit for this. We're not giving the Democrats the credit, we're not giving the Republicans the credit, we're giving you the glory that you are our help, you are our source. And when the praises go up, the blessings come down. You start a cycle of blessing and healing and prosperity that the devil can't break. I tell you, Texas, get ready for eight months of blessing like you've never seen. Go ahead and take 60 seconds and clap in the shot a little bit. I'm blessed. I'm blessed in the city. I'm blessed in the field. I'm blessed when I come with Hallelujah. Be seated for a little bit. I'll tell you another thing. I could prove it from the scripture, and I could prove it from my life. Don't think God wasn't in that classroom listening. When that teacher was mocking my daughter, believing in prosperity and healing, and she spoke up. God listens to what people say. God heard that little 13-year-old saying, I'm not gonna let people say to my class that God doesn't bless people. God's blessed my mother. God's blessed my father. She was with my my wife hemorrhaged 37% of her blood out of her body and almost died. She was bedridden for a year and a half. Camila was three at the time, sitting right in the bed with her, watching her. Camila had a front row seat as my wife watched Kenneth Copeland and Andrew Womack and the Word raised her up off her deathbed and put a gift to preach on her. And now she's pastoring that church in Pittsburgh. More people come when she's preaching than when I'm preaching. Because what the devil means for evil, God will take it and turn it for good. The word of God is working mightily in you. The people can mock it, but they can't stop its power. If thou canst believe, if thou canst believe, all things are possible. I am blessed. When I wake up in the morning till I lay my head to rest, I am blessed. I am blessed. You want to know how the verse goes? I've got shoes on my feet. See, we gotta be careful in America that we don't forget there was a day, people, not long ago, 120 years, 140 years, it was a big deal to have shoes without holes in them. People had a pair of work clothes and maybe a pair of Sunday clothes. And God has blessed us. And we gotta, as He blessed us, remember we could have no shoes. We could have no clothes, but God's given us a closet full of clothes. God's given us a home, God's given us a bed, God's given us electricity and sewage and toilets and all these great things. We are blessed, we're a blessed people, but we're about to get even more blessed. Verse goes like this I got shoes on my feet. Hey Otessa, can you cue up that song? It's my season to be blessed. I just feel like giving God some praise tonight. I've got shoes on my feet, I've got plenty to eat, and a home in heaven. You know how blessed we are in America? We're the only country that's got poor fat people. Telling you the truth. There's no such thing as poor fat people in other countries. You can see their ribs. In this country, you actually have to be rich to be skinny. You have to buy things to inject into your stomach to help you not eat because there's food everywhere. Can you say amen? They must say, I got shoes on my feet. I've got plenty to eat. And a home in heaven by and by. Then it finishes like this: friends and loved ones on that shore where we'll meet to part no more. In that home beyond the sky. You want to know how I got that Falcon 900 that's sitting out there waiting for me? I didn't even think I'd ever be able to afford a car. And God, supernaturally, a guy told me he'd sell me a car for $4,000, which was all the money I had. I drove to New Jersey to buy it. I gave him the $4,000 and he went like this. He wasn't a Christian, he went like this. Just take it. And I never said anything about I had a suit on. Just take it. Okay? You only gotta tell me once. I got out of there. Drove to that little Hyundai with little wheels when it rained at hydroplane. That was such a you guys were laughing at me almost dying. Very odd sense of humor. I'd be driving in that car for dollars, thanking God. All the time. God, you gave me a car. My credit score was like 13. I actually, this isn't a joke. I actually got rejected for the Montel Williams prepaid Visa card. The one they advertised on the price is right for if you're poor, they'll give you that card. I call them, they want to give it to me. And so God miraculously gave me a car. I was thanking God for that. The car got miraculously upgraded when we started going on TV and had that little car packed with television equipment. God miraculously upgraded it to an SUV. Went to the dealership. The head of sales son had been healed of Tourette syndrome at a youth camp. I didn't know that. So he said, I'm gonna sell you this car for $700 more than the dealership paid for it. I'm gonna sell it to you for what the dealership paid plus the cost of putting new tires on. And I ended up with an SUV. And now I'm thanking God for my SUV. Then the Lord spoke to me one day to sew that Cadillac Escalator's black. And I got it shined up, got the deed, and gave it to the pastor I was preaching for. I said, Do you like my black Cadillac Escalator? I said, Oh yeah, I love it. Since years now, gave him the keys and the deed. And I didn't even think far enough ahead that now I had no way to get home. For the first time since I was 14, I needed a ride. I called my brother-in-law and he picked me up and took me home. And then God bless. I I I thanked and praised my way. From no car to car, from car to SUV, from SUV to Falcon 50, from Falcon 50 to Falcon 900. Because I never thought I could even get a car. But I found out if you trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not under your own understanding, acknowledge him, acknowledge him, acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will direct your past. What your family thought you'd never have, what you thought you'd never have. God's gonna go out of his way to show the blessing in your life, and nobody will get the credit but God because it'll be so great. If you receive it, clap your hands one more time under the Lord. Turn it up, listen to this song. It's been ringing in my spirit for three weeks.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:56

I'm gonna clap your hands. Listen.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:05

Pause it. How many ever heard people say they're going through a dry season? Have they ever heard they're going through a season of attack? You know, if you'll switch your confession to this song, it's my season of being set aside where God just has me in a wilderness time. Why don't you switch it tonight? It will say, It's my season to be blessed. Go ahead, roll it from the beginning.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:32

I'm gonna clap your hands. Listen. It's your season to be blessed. Help me, you a plumber. He's gonna open the window and bless. I bless coming in. He's gonna open the window and call you out a blessing you shall see blessed. Come on, you shall see this. I think through the flood I pin through the flood But I'm standing here because this blood He's gonna open the window.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:06

Oh yes, we didn't see It's your season to be blessed, everything's turning around for your good. I'll tell you right now, there's nobody in Texas on this Friday night that's drunker than I am right now. I'm full of new wine. Hallelujah. And I'm just getting started drinking. I'm gonna drink more. Hallelujah. I'm not gonna wake up in the morning and throw up. I'm gonna wake up in the morning strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. I tell you, get your eyes off of what went wrong in the past. That was the season of attack, but that season's over. This is your season. God didn't bring you here so the same cycles could continue. I tell you, in big spring, it is your season to be blessed. Say it so the devil can hear you. It's my season to be blessed. It's my season to be blessed.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:21

Yes, Amen.

SPEAKER_07 1:25:28

Jesus Let me pray for this guy. You were here on the first night, I think. Yep. Yes, you. Lift your hands, brother. It's your season to be blessed. God doesn't have to make you wait till you're 55 before He can start blessing you. He'll bless you in your youth. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You be seated real quick. Everybody say it's my season to be blessed. I'm gonna tell you something. People can think whatever they want, but I'm proving what the word says. It's getting harder to argue with me because I don't just say it now. I got it. Then Camila's sticking up for the blessing. And it's wrong, teacher, for you to say that God doesn't bless people. He blessed people in the Bible, and he blesses me, and he blesses my mom. Did you know I bought her? Now don't get ticked off. I'm going somewhere with this story. And I never told people this, but I feel like telling it tonight. I I got her uh um, her grades weren't too hot in second grade, and then she got her grades up. I took her to Louis Vuitton and I bought her a Louis Vuitton purse that had paint dots on it. Some artists had put paint dots on it. You said that's a ridiculous gift to get for a nine-year-old. You're right, but she's my nine-year-old. She's the only kid I got, and unlike many of the contestants on afternoon talk shows, I'm sure of it. Amen. I brought her there and bought her that gift. Then Jesse DuPlanis, when we met up with him, he said, The Lord spoke to me today to buy Camila a purse at Louis Vuitton. She got number two. She ended up with five. And she took them all on vacation with us. She's never lost them in four years, never lost one. He takes really good care of them. And she left them all. When we, well, before we leave, she said, Has anybody seen my black quilted bag with all my purses? I haven't been able to see it. We said, Oh, the dullmen probably took it. And we kept putting it, and then when they were packing the plane, she said, Anybody see those bags? I said, They probably already loaded it. We got home. And she didn't have it. She cried her eyes out because it wasn't just the purses, it was for making honor all. It was just seeing the planet spider one, they're all memories. And so, I mean, that's like 22 grand worth of purses, probably. And you know that kid telling that teacher, God blesses us. But you know, we didn't call. I'd be I figured it was gone. The hotel called us. The maid found a black bag with five Louis Vuitton purses in it. I think they're your daughters, because the lady knows us there. What maid finds 20 a half years' salary of purses and doesn't just run off with it? Kept it in the bag and they Mailed it and she called me and she said, Hey, Pa, the bag came back with all my purses. Now, I knew that wouldn't get much response, but you know what I'm telling you? When you talk about how God's a blesser, God'll make sure not only that you get blessed, He won't let any of the blessings be lost. Everything that's been stolen, everything that you thought you lost, it's coming back with interest in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. God's gonna take care of you. I'm not gonna play that song again, but I'll tell you, if you can memorize that feeling, that's what's supposed to be on Holy Ghost music. It's not supposed to be some guy with an acoustic guitar moaning about his problems. How many of you had a hard week this week? Shut up. I'm telling you, if you can see what the Holy Ghost has us on, if we will mix in continuous thanksgiving and positive speaking and rejoicing, you will see God sprinkle his favor and his blessing on your employment, on your house, on your children. It is your season. Not one blessing, not two blessings, it's your season to be blessed. And if the devil took anything, he's paying it back sevenfold in Jesus' name. I said it in Jesus' name. If you receive it one more time, clap your hands on you, people. Let the redeem of the Lord. God is pouring out his blessing in the United States of America. Hallelujah. Say it's my season to be blessed. Let me see Jeremiah 17, uh, six or seven. Where were we left off? Seven. But blessed, they're going to say that's me. Blessed are those who trust in the Lord. Now, if you miss church this Sunday, I pray you get the worst case of hemorrhoids in recorded history. They must say, put God first. But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They're like trees planted along a riverbank with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. That's right. Made a ton of money today. Because when everything was going south during that Iran bombing, people saying the oil's gonna go to $200 a barrel. One of the experts that wrote it, you can go back on my X feed, oil's gonna go to $250 a barrel. I wrote, want to bet $100,000 on it? Or are you just writing fear? I'll bet you $100,000 today ain't gonna go to $250 a barrel. Never heard? Yeah, dropped to $86. There's more. The U.S. moved five million barrels in one day of oil. That's a record. This basin, is are we in the Permian Basin? This Permian Basin is already blessed. But I am telling you, this is going to be a wonder eight months, and 2027 will be a year of heaven on earth for this place. In this basin. Eastern New Mexico, Midland, Big Spring. Give me some other premium basin towns. Odessa, where else? Abilene. Call your city out. Everybody say, I'm blessed in the city. I'm blessed in the field. Praise God. Let me see my scripture. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Yep. I bought calls on everything you could buy calls on. And then there's a prediction market where you can buy options on political predictions. And uh there there was you could buy, will the U.S. have a recession in 2026? And it went where almost 53% of the people now thought there was gonna be a recession because everybody panics. And I wrote, no, I bought no, and now that thing I've I'll end up quadrupling or quintupling my money. Because there ain't gonna be no recession. This is not America's time to go down. This is a miracle. This is a stay of execution for this country. America was almost dead, and God gave us a miracle, and we're watching the black clouds of Satan get rolled back off this country, and the light of heaven's breaking forth. We're having people baptized by the I don't hear anybody tonight. We're having people baptized by the tens of thousands all over America on the universities, in the oceans, in the stadiums. The devil's giving the worst year he's ever had, and it's about to get worse. You're gonna have the best year you've ever had, and it's about to get better. Congratulations in advance. It's your season to be blessed. It's your season. Their leaves stay green. But say, my leaves stay green. They never stop producing fruit. Praise God. I'll be starting churches in my 80s by accident. An apple tree doesn't try to grow apples, it just does. And the people of God don't try to produce fruit, they just do. Even in old age, they'll remain vital and green and shall produce fruit. Let me see Psalm uh uh sorry, Joshua 14, 8 through 11. You enjoying it? Appreciate it. I'll quit soon. But you see, they keep going to only like six. I promise you, I'll wrap up soon. But my I'm telling you, if you miss church on Sunday, I pray your house gets an infestation of crickets. You see more tarantulas this year than you've ever seen. Joshua said, But my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the promised land. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God. So that day Moses solemnly promised me. This is Caleb talking, the land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the Lord my God. Now, as you can see, the Lord has kept me alive and well. Not just alive, Joe Biden's alive. Everybody say alive and well, as he promised all these 45 years since Moses made me this promise, even while the Israelites wandered in the wilderness. Today I'm how old? Now I want to ask you a question. Are we at the part in the Bible where people live till they're six and seven hundred years old, or people live until they're 120, like us? 120. So it's not a different 85. You know, even when morons teach that um you can't preach healing and protection because the apostles all died? Did you know, like like um most scholars say Paul made it to 70 or 71? Some put it as young as 68. Even if it was 68. Do you know what the average lifespan was in the first century in the Roman Empire? 38. So when these Christians were living till they were 70, 71, John died at 102, I think. And people lived till they were 38. I mean, you gotta be some kind of blockheaded payaso to teach that there's no healing or protection. Everybody say I'm blessed, and I'm getting more blessed. Today, I'm 85 years old, and I'm as strong now. Flip it. Verse 11. No time like the present. I'm as strong now as I was when I was 40, and I can still travel and I can still fight. Give me the mountain that God promised me. I tell you, when you're 85, you're gonna be stronger at 85 than you were at 40. You're getting stronger every day in Jesus' name. It's your season to be blessed. All right, I want to hear about the girl with the liver now. Let me watch it.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:59

Hello, my name is Dina. My daughter, um Samantha, is in Dallas. She lives in Dallas. We got a phone call Monday that they had admitted her back in the hospital. She had just had her um a lap hole again, which is her gallbladder, removed ten days ago. Um she had she was admitted back into the hospital in Dallas in medical city. And um her her blood tests were um her liver enzymes were high, her white blood count was high. She wasn't feeling well, so they didn't know what was going on. They thought maybe a possible call stone had got away and they started running tests. Ultrasound just confirmed that there was a stone and not just a shadow. After that, they drew her blood, her blood, her liver enzymes were outrageous, three times as high as what they're supposed to be, is what the doctor said, and her white blood count was really, really high.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:43

And Monday was the Mother's Day's next month, I think. But that mother is a good mother to come to church and make a move of faith. And who who had the uh who had the phone? And that's your boy? See, that's what a family of faith does. That's why you should raise your children and you in church. It's a wonder. We have over a thousand people in our church in Pittsburgh. It's a wonder we have more than eight. There was a family that was always missing for travel baseball, which is fine. You can miss for whatever you want. This isn't Pakistan, where we enforce religion by sword point. Come to church or don't come to church. Not my problem. And the kid said, our son's having problems. He needs prayer. I said, I have a little thing, could you pray for me? Go where you prioritize. Have him rub an Eastern aluminum bat on his head. See how it works out. I'm not using God like a hooker. He's my God. I'm in his house. And I'm telling you, if you'll cross that line from being a casual American Christian to be, I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. The blessing will never leave your family. Can you say amen? You know what I like about that mom and her son? They showed it only takes two people in a family. And the daughter, too. We're gonna stand in the house of God. And they got a miracle for their daughter, and the miracles of God will never leave your house from today in Jesus' name. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:18

Let me see the rest. First service here with the evangelist Jonathan. I came, I was just standing on his word. Um, I was standing on uh first Peter by his stripes. Um, you were healed, and I was putting myself in my daughter's place. Jonathan had said something about sometimes we have to speak things into existence. Her blood work, her blood tests were still outrageously high. Her white blood count was extremely high. Her liver enzymes were three times as high as what they're supposed to be. So the doctors were still very concerned. They needed to know where if there was a leak in the bowel duct, um, a leak in her. What what what was causing these um enzymes to be so high? So they were just like, okay, well, we're gonna have to do a liver biopsy. Of course, she was a little bit frightened. I told her we're still standing on First Peter, you know, by his stripes, you are healed. My son called. So she picked up a foam. It was about maybe 10 o'clock at night, and Jonathan was on was on their FaceTime. She said, Mom, I don't know this man.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:16

Um, I've started This happened in the church in the healing line. I don't even think I'm FaceTiming people's daughters uh at 11 in the morning when I or eleven at night when I finish preaching. Hey, I'm Evangelist Jonathan. How are you? Continue.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:29

Bottom, but I don't know this man. He started speaking words. I just felt um like this heat come over me. He just started saying um that I was healed, that something about new blood. Um she's just like, and I was just receiving that. He prayed for me, spoke some words again, and um the doctors had said they were gonna draw my blood that night and that morning to see if any of the liver enzymes or white blood count has had come down. Well, they ended up just drawing it one time, about two, three o'clock in the morning. All of her blood tests came back, and they were normal.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:08

What a mighty go we serve. You know why that happened? Because it's your season to be blessed. Praise God. I know you just got the video, but have Ben make it where the ending isn't such a train crash at the end. It'd be nice to have like a softer landing on the ending. What other testimony do we have? But in January I found myself No, no, wasn't there one from here? Didn't a lady give one last night?

SPEAKER_01 1:41:34

My name is Osaka Still, and I'm from Snyder. And I can't tonight, you know, keep passing the front for a prayer where my knee was hurting real bad. When you touch my head, I feel like I want I always kind of go down, but I hold on because my knee was hurting.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:51

Plus, I lay hands on people's heads usually because my Uncle Ted prays for the sick, and one time he said to a lady, what can I pray for you for? She said, My knees. So he got down on his knees and started rubbing her knees, saying, In the name of Jesus, I come in new cartilage and come in these knees, and she went, My niece. He said, I'll be right back up. So just in case, just so there's no misunderstandings, I like stick with right here. Go ahead from the beginning.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:20

My name is Osaka Steel, and I'm Front Snyder, and I can't tonight, you know, keep passing the front for a prayer where my knee was hurting real bad. When he touched my head, I feel like I want I was gonna go down, but I hold on because my knee was hurting, and uh now I can move in everything. You don't hurt or nothing. So praise de Jesus.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:48

Come on, give Jesus a great hand clap one more time. Say, God's got a miracle with my name on it. So there's the mom. Where's the the son that had the FaceTime thing? Oh, that was you. Oh. Congratulations. See, that's what you gotta have. You gotta have people that'll take action. Instead of saying, well, I guess she's gonna lose her liver. No. Do something about it. Can you say amen? People say I can do something about it. I'll close with this. Go to Genesis 28. So my grandma said, I looked out the window as I was getting ready to pray, and 21 chickens were coming down the hill. And they came into our property and all laid eggs on the grass, and then got up and went back up the hill. My grandma got a basket, put the 21 eggs in the basket, and followed the chickens up the hill. And the pen that they went to, she went to the house and knocked on the door. Lady answered, smoking a cigarette. She said, Can I help you? My grandma said, Your chickens got loose and laid eggs on my property. I brought you the eggs. And the lady said, Those can't be our chickens. Our chickens ne have never, my husband hates those chickens. They've never laid one egg. She said, No, I'm telling you, they're yours. She said, Well, if they laid them on your property, you can keep them. From that point until they moved, the chickens would go down the hill every time they were getting low on eggs, relay eggs, and go back up. My grandma never had to feed the chickens. My never grandma never had to clean up after the chickens, just collect the eggs. They got a pastorate in Virginia, and when they came back for a funeral, that lady that owned the chickens was there, and she walked up to my grandma and said, It's you. Did you know ever since you left, those chickens have never gone back down the hill and they've never laid another egg? Yep. So that's what my grandma and grandpa told me. That's why when some schmuck starts telling people God doesn't bless people, I don't think the devil was feeding my grandparents. That was God. And see, I started talking about five loaves and two fish. You actually don't need money to do anything. It's nice to have. But Jesus didn't have the money with him to feed all those people. You can make moves and God will back you with favor. You know, you have pastors a lot of times, they say we don't have any rich people in our church. Was it rich people that fed Elijah with bread and meat twice a day? No, ravens did. And Jewish books tell us that King Ahab kept ravens in the palace because where were they getting the meat? There's no raven carnaisseria. And they say the ravens were taking the bread and meat from Ahab's palace and flying it to the prophet. The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just. Can you say amen? Yeah, I didn't have money to build a church. God mobilized that builder. Then God, a lady sent us $1.26 million right when a big bill was coming due. I never put sent a newsletter out. I got saved under Billy Graham. I've never met the lady. If she was sitting here, I wouldn't even know who she was. I got saved watching Billy Graham. I got healed under Catherine Kuhlman's ministry, and it's been delighting me to watch you carry on their work. Here's $1.26 million. First, first seed they've ever sown. Then I came out of my spirit the other day on the broadcast. I said, if anybody wants to give a million dollars, I'll fly to your house and come pick it up. Somebody called and says, Is the preacher serious? We have a million dollar check for him. If he wants to fly, we'd love to meet him. Flew right out there, picked up the million. There was 2.26 from two seeds right there. And then it just kept flowing like that. You don't go by what you have in the bank, and you don't talk about yourself by what you have in the bank. Talk about yourself by what the Bible says about you. I am the seed of Abraham. Abraham's blessings are mine. The windows of heaven are open over my life. God is pouring out a blessing that's so great, I won't have room enough to take it all in. The hand of the devourer is being rebuked for my sake. It's my season to be blessed. I went and shared that story that night in Massachusetts. If you remember what I had the story I was telling about an hour ago. And uh Lulu was there. And she brought an interpreter with her from the deaf school who was not a Christian. And so when the gift of faith dropped, and I could feel it, I said, Come up here, Lulu. The interpreter told her to come up. And I said, Lift your hands. Put my fingers in her ears. And I got ready to pray, and before I could even get the words out, I felt that the ear come open. And I said, It's done. And when I took my fingers out, her eyes got bright. They got that like disconnected, deaf look out of the eyes. She went looking like this, and she looked over at the interpreter and signed, I can hear, I can hear everything. And I'm telling you, that interpreter, she was a Portuguese lady. She didn't fall under the power, she passed out. Nobody caught her. Boom. It blew her away. And then we have the video somewhere. My wife filmed it of Lulu hugging her sister and jumping up and down. And we taught her a couple words. Their voices are real high-pitched because they haven't talked, you know, talk like on the A.A. Island videos. Say Bible.

unknown 1:48:23

Bible.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:24

Say Jesus. You started to get their voices working and get them talking. And I'm telling you, that was a great day. Because the Lord got me in a flow. Call your grandmother and ask her what the best thing is and check out of this hotel. So by the way, that Saturday was the Boston Marathon when the Boston bomber detonated his bomb, and that was on the block outside of my hotel window where I was staying at. So God protected me. God gave me a great story of provision. God gave me a miracle for Lulu's ears that sent shockwaves through that place. They extended the meeting even further. And then I'm still going off of that today. And the more I've been preaching, that's the second time something like that's come up in my spirit this week that if you'll pray and get into a flow of what the bullseye is, it not only helps that service, it gets you in a flow of the Holy Ghost. Pay attention to the leading of the Spirit. If you drive by a piece of land and you feel a certain way about it, I feel like that would be a good piece of land to buy. Pay attention to the Holy Ghost. He knows more than any realtor in the state of Texas. He knows where all the oil is, he knows where all the lithium is. He knows where future materials are that they haven't even discovered that they need yet. Pay attention to the voice of the Spirit, and it He'll lead you forward and not backward. Can you say amen? Go to Genesis chapter 28. Were you blessed this week? You've been a blessing this week, being with I'm not talking about the offerings. I haven't counted them. We don't dump them out on our hotel bed like heroin dealers and count it. We'll get counted next week, but you're a blessing to preach to. A real blessing. If you're watching on TV or uh YouTube, our church meets in Phoenix, Revival Today Church, Arizona. It's in Phoenix tomorrow at 10 a.m. If you're near Fort Worth, I'm going to be there at 9 a.m. on Sunday. My wife is in Pittsburgh at 10 a.m. And I wanted to help this young, struggle, struggling evangelist with his ministry. So Sunday in California at our church there, I'm giving a guy named Jesse DuPlanis the opportunity to preach and hoping I can get the ball rolling for him, you know. Genesis 28. Meanwhile, Jacob left Beersheba and traveled toward Aran. At sundown, he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone to rest his head against and lay down to sleep. As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway. At the top of the stairway stood the Lord, and he said, I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham, the God of your father Isaac. The ground you're lying on belongs to you. I'm giving it to you and your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth. They will spread out in all directions to the west, to the east, to the north, and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. What's more, turning page. I am with you. It was a God's with me. It was a God's not with me just to be with me. I will protect you wherever you go. One day I'll bring you back to this land. I'll never leave you till I finish giving you everything I've promised you. These were special meetings this week. You won't be the same after tonight. You won't want uh you won't want alcohol anymore. You won't want it. Oh thanks. You won't want cigarettes anymore. Every unclean thing that affixed itself to your life is like getting washed off right now. You're gonna get stronger every day this year 2026. You old ladies, your knees are getting stronger, your feet are getting stronger, your elbows are getting looser. Can you say amen? God's even tightening up the bingo wings on the underside of your arm. Just as a miracle bonus. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I wasn't even aware of it. But he was also afraid and said, What an awesome place this is. It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven. The next morning, Jacob got up very early, took the stone he had rested his head against, and set it upright as a memorial pillar. Then he poured olive oil over it. He named that place Bethel, which means house of God, though it was previously called Luz. Then Jacob made this vow if God will indeed be with me and protect me on this journey, and if he'll provide me with food and clothing, and if I return safely to my father's home, then the Lord will certainly be my God, and this memorial pillar I have set up will become a place for worshiping God, and I'll present to God a tenth or a tithe of everything I own. I read you that story because I was sitting in a meeting when we were going to buy our first church. Our first church, we had to pay a $550,000 down payment due Monday. It was Sunday. I had $720 in the bank. So I had enough barely. You know, then it's not like I could just go buy ice cream with the rest. I got payroll and all that other stuff. So I got just enough. A little extra. And so Jerry Savell was preaching, and um he was taking the offering, and I already made up my mind, I'm not giving him the offering. I gotta I'm giving I'm paying $550 tomorrow, so I need my money. And he's taking an offering for another minister for his church. And uh when he did, I felt the Lord speak to me, even though I was trying to not have the Lord speak to me. I'm not joking. I came with the intention to not give. Are you believing me for favor tomorrow with that guy that you're gonna buy the building from? I said yes. Then take a hundred thousand dollars and sew it to this man's building. Now, when people say we don't give to get, that makes as much sense as saying we don't breathe to live. Well, you do, whether you know it or not. Jesus is the one that said, When you give, you will receive. He didn't say, When you give, you'll help me, so thank you. He already owns all the silver and all the gold. When you give, you'll receive. Your gift will come back to you, pressed down, shaken together, and running over to cause room for more. You know, there's a there's a uh Bible teacher, he said something very interesting. He said, In the Roman Empire, people had sex with everybody, but they wouldn't give their money to anybody. And Christians stood out because they won't have sex with anybody but their spouse, and they gave their money to everybody. So God flips what the devil does. In the devil's economy, you throw your body around and you're stingy with your money. In God's economy, you're guarded with your body, but you're free-flowing with your money. Can you say amen? So people say it's wrong to give an expectation of a harvest. But if it is, then Genesis 28 needs ripped out of every Bible. Because Jacob said, if you'll protect me and give me clothes and food and bring me safely to this place again, and listed a couple other things, then I'll give you a tithe of everything I own. Now, he didn't come up with his own things. All he did was say the things God said he would give him in that dream. He said, I expect you to do what you said, and I'm giving that with that expectation. Can you say amen? I didn't know any of that three years ago, what is it, four, four and a half years ago? But I ended up stumbling into it because that hundred thousand was such a sacrifice for me where it's like, okay, well then now, now when when I pay that tomorrow, I don't know if I can make payroll and stuff. I started mumbling to myself in the front row. I'm telling you the truth. God, I'm gonna obey you and I'm gonna give that 100,000. But I need you to give me favor tomorrow. I started, see, that's why you can give in every offering and never see anything happen, because if you don't give one that takes something, then it won't start provoking you to believe. So I wasn't doing that because I'd been taught now confess over your seed. I wasn't doing that, but because now I was given a spirit-directed offering, God, you you you must give me favor tomorrow in that meeting. And I actually texted Patrick that runs our money. I said, I don't need his permission, but I just wrote, listen, when you see the offering that I gave, I want you to know that I'm not an idiot. I know what's going on tomorrow, but I felt God speak to me to sow this hundred thousand dollar seed. He said, Yeah, no, don't worry about it. Well, I he wasn't worried about it. I kind of was worried about it. So the next day, I get a call. I had like nine missed calls from my wife. She never calls like that. I mean, she might call like three times when I'm gone a week. She's she's she's low maintenance. I can call her, she's self-sufficient. She calls nine times, so I'm like, oh man, who died? So I called and and she switches it to FaceTime. She goes, You're never gonna believe what happened. She said, We met with that husband and wife about buying their building. And the man said, How much does it say you owe for a down payment today? He said, 550,000. He said, You can keep it. Just give me $10,000 a month for the next three years, and the building's yours. The building's worth $5.3 million. It's 0.8 miles from the airport in in uh in Pittsburgh, and uh it was three stories. We needed the first story to be the sanctuary, it was unfinished, it was bare, so we didn't have to do any demo. We needed the second floor for media, it was bare. We needed the top floor for offices, it was their offices for their headquarters, and they gave us all the furniture as a gift, almost two million dollars worth of furniture, all furnished. Now, now they're gonna give it to us for for uh $360,000 over three years. December at Christmas time, the owner walked in with all three of our checks uncashed and the deed to the property and said, I like what you people are doing. The building's yours. Now, I say that because I could tell you a few other instances. But what happens when you give a spirit-directed offering is many times because you were raised in the American debt system, as was I, you get ready to pay a down payment. But if you'll give God whatever He speaks you to give, but like down payment money, God will gift you the thing that you were gonna finance. And that's how I went from being the borrower to the lender and not the borrower. That's one story, and that's all I got time for tonight. And then I found I could I didn't have to keep that story to myself. It's in Genesis 28. That when you sow, you can put an expectation on what you're believing God to do. That needs to be in the Bible, but there's all kinds of things in that Bible. Do you know that building that was perfect for our church? The Bible says you'll inhabit homes that you did not build, furnished with goods that you did not finish. Did you ever think that somebody might be building your building right now and they don't even know it? They're wondering why they're building it, they're wondering why the things don't really match up. It's like they can feel it's not for them. Because God has a system for you to get in. Where what others struggle for for 30 years, God can drop it in your lap in 90 days, and the only one that gets the glory is Him. Hallelujah. I believe God is opening up the windows of heaven to do miracles like that for all kinds of businesses tonight, all kinds of people tonight. If you've outgrown your home, God's got a home with your name on it. God's got chickens with your name on it, laying eggs with your name on it. God is a good God and He takes care of all His people. Get ready for the best testimonies that you've ever had. In Jesus' name. If you believe it, can you shout out receive it? On this final night, I'm gonna do a couple things before we take off for Fort Worth. One of which is I'm gonna receive the final offering of this night, and I don't want anybody to give unless you're gonna allow the Holy Spirit to speak to you like I did that night. Because in this kind of service, if you'll let the Holy Ghost put his finger on something is seed, the thing that you have a plan to do in 10 years or 15 years, God will expedite it, and it'll be done before 2026. But you have to get into that flow. Let each man give as he's directed by. Let each man give as he's directed by the Spirit, not reluctantly or in response to pressure. And I don't know what I could have said this week to put you under any less pressure than I did. We're not hurting. God's been good to us. But the offering is not so God can help the church, the offering is so that God can help his people. Elijah never mentioned one thing to that widow in 1 Kings 17 about how the brook dried up, and he never said, if you'll help me in another chapter, I'm gonna call fire down from heaven and deliver Israel. He talked to her about her, her cruise of oil and her jar of meal. And I'm doing for you tonight what Elijah did for that lady. What are you believing God to do for you? What supernatural thing has God put in your heart to acquire or to make a move in business that in the natural you don't have the resources. This is an opportunity to trigger with a seed the resources that come from heaven. Tessa, in the Amplified Classic, put 2 Corinthians 9, 8 through 11. If you don't have Amplified Classic, then you can do Amplified. If you don't have Amplified, do New Living Translation. And God is able to make all grace, every favor and earthly blessing come to you how? So that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient, possessing enough to require no aid, no support, furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation. As it is written, he, the benevolent person, that means a giver, scatters abroad. He gives to the poor. His good deeds of justice and goodness and kindness and benevolence will go on and endure forever. And God, who provides seed for the sower and bread for eating, will also provide and multiply your resources for sowing and increase the fruits of your righteousness, which manifests itself in act of goodness, kindness, and charity. Thus you will be enriched in how many things? And in how many ways? So that you can be generous. And your generosity, as it is, administered by us, will bring forth thanksgiving to God. Feels good to pay for somebody else's wedding. And then one day when Camila goes to get married and somebody dumps a boatload of money in her meeting, I'll be the least surprised person on planet earth. Anybody see when I went to go preach in Nigeria in January at that big pastor's conference? There was a pastor there, he said, we have uh churches in Pakistan, and then the Lord spoke to us to start one in Orlando, Florida. And he said, When we went there, homes were very expensive and we didn't have enough for it. And a businessman that doesn't go to our church called us and gave us a beautiful home. And show me the picture. And he kept saying, I don't know how it happened. I said, How many homes would you say you provided for poor people in your congregation in Pakistan over the years? He said, Oh, hundreds, if not over a thousand. I said, mystery solved. And I never thought of that because he didn't come from that kind of background with seed time and harvest. Say with me, decisions determine destiny. When you make a decision to build God's kingdom, God makes a decision to give you the desires of your heart. And even, I'm ashamed to say, as somebody that preached it for 20 years, I thought I was walking away from $100,000 to help that other guy's church. But what that $100,000 turned into $5.3 million, and who knows what else it turned into. Probably still producing a harvest. So don't give reluctantly, don't give in response to pressure. Give knowing the Lord. Anytime God speaks to you about a seed, he has a harvest in mind. If you need an envelope, hold your hand up, ask the Lord what He'd have you to give, and they're gonna play the four-year journey of that church while you're filling your offering envelope out. And I want to say thank you as we get ready to do phase two, which is three and a half million. So whoever the Lord's speaking to, watching on TV or the internet or here, I want to say thank you. Go ahead and roll it, Tessa.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:59

We're going to announce the launch of Revival Today Church. We're going to hold Holy Ghost church services. We're going to give you and your church a place you can go. It's a soul-winning church that values the presence of God.

SPEAKER_07 2:07:45

This is the new building. Nine hundred parking spots. From the bottom of my gringo heart, thanks for standing with me as we build these four churches in in uh four different cities. You're a blessing. Thanks for standing with me. We're going to see many, many people come to Jesus Christ, many marriages saved. Many people that they've given up to die get healed. We're going to be a major frustration to the devil before Jesus comes back. Can you say amen? Hold your seat up before the Lord if you're watching on television and you'd like to give or um YouTube, whatever, at the app, revivaltoday.com. You click give now, and then we're believing for a thousand monthly partners. I'm off TV, huh? East Coast time. Everybody that's written in for prayer, I gotcha. Seattle, Youngstown, Ohio, Orlando, Florida, Portalis, New Mexico, Longview, Texas, Lovelady, Texas, Snohomish, Washington, Seattle, Washington, St. Louis, Missouri. And Sefner, Florida. Praise God. Revival today, P.O. Buck 7, Prosperity, Pennsylvania, 15329. Thank you for your giving tonight. Before they receive the offering, I'm going to pray over the offering. I'm going to pray. Two more prayers before I get out of here. Hold your seat up before the Lord. If you gave my phone, you can hold your phone up. Father, I thank you for a hundredfold return. What you did with the five loaves and two fishes. Thank you for doing that for every one of us, myself included. That what's not enough becomes more than enough. Every need met with baskets left over. In Jesus' name. Everybody said amen. Go ahead and receive the offering. Maybe they were intentionally dehydrating me so I would be quiet. Who could blame them? What a blessed church. Privilege to be here all week. All these pastors that have come. I bless you. I'm gonna pray a prayer for everybody real quick. Thank you, my friend. Congratulations on your sister. Every head bowed, every eye closed. If you're here and you've never received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, that's where the blessing begins. You need to know you're born again. You're always struggling for blessing and trying to chase it when you don't know Jesus Christ. Even going to church and stuff. Like, can you pray for me? Can you pray? Because you're on the outside trying to get what's on the inside. But when you become a child of the family, born into God's family, the blessings aren't something you chase, the blessings chase you. They pursue you and overtake you all the days of your life. And on this final night before I leave Big Spring, I would love to have the privilege of having new names written in the Lamb's Book of Life. For people that didn't know God and thought they screwed up too bad to ever be saved. There's nothing you've done that can keep the blood of Jesus' forgiveness from washing those mistakes away in sin. The only thing you can do is refuse to receive it. That's why the sin God hates most is pride. Pride will keep you sitting in your seat when you know you need to come up and get prayer so that other people think you're alright. That's pride. But if you'll humble yourself before God, his mighty hand will lift you up. And I'm going to give you the opportunity to do what everybody in this church is rooting for you to do. We don't stare around in judgment. People have been praying and fasting that people would come to Christ this week. If you're here and you say, Jonathan, I need Jesus to heal me from the inside out. I need him to be my savior, to come into my heart, be my Lord. I want to lay my head on my pillow tonight and know that I have peace with God. That my sins are all forgiven, and I'm not putting it off. One more hour. Tonight, I know one of the reasons God brought me here was to surrender my life to Him. If you'll do that, God will wash away all your sin. He won't remember one thing you did before tonight. And you'll become a new creature. But it starts. If you will draw near to God, God will draw near to you. You have to take the first step. But then God will take the next step, and that step will cover a lot of ground. If you're here and you say, Jonathan, that's me. When you pray tonight, please pray with me. Let me see your hand up high. As a sign to me and a side to God. When you pray, I want you to pray with me. I want forgiveness. I want peace. I want all the things that come with salvation with Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord. I see your hand. I see your hand. Both of you that lifted a hand, come with me. I'm gonna pray with you right now. Come. Come, I'm gonna pray with you. Vamo no bonita, vamos no guapo. Thank you, Jesus. I'll make it easier on her and stand over here. You can help her up.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:19

Yes, you can help her forward.

SPEAKER_07 2:14:32

Good. Come over here. Now, all of you pray this prayer with me. Say this out loud. Heavenly Father, I 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, I am saved. In Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_09 2:15:17

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