Having a Form of Godliness But Denying The Power PART 3

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

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Let me see you real quick in the in the New Living Translation, Romans 4, 16 to 22. Romans 4, 16 to 22. So the promise is received by faith. It is given as a free gift, and we're all certain to receive it whether or not we live according to the law of Moses, if we have faith like Abraham's. For Abraham is the father. How are promises in the Bible received? It's right there. How are promises in the Bible received? That's right. So why is there so much confusion about? I know the Bible says we're healed, but you know, I haven't received it, so I get no. Just because it's in your bank account, you can die with four million dollars in your checking account if you don't know how to work an ATM. Because you have to access what's in your account. The Bible tells you what's in your account. There's no waiting on God to do anything, and in his time, it's already been done. And then you access it. The debit card that accesses your heavenly account is faith. If I get to my notes, I'm gonna talk about prayer. What makes prayer valuable is when it's an expression of faith. The Bible calls it the prayer of faith. So prayer is a way, it's like it gives a it's the card that you can put your faith into and access the account. It would say the prayer of faith. But if you don't access it, you get nothing. It'll stay in that account and you can come up with some weird belief as to why God didn't do it or what his will is. But if you'll make up your mind that as I hear what the Bible says, I'm gonna attack it with my faith. I'm gonna do what that woman said and say, I'm if nobody else gets anything, I make up my mind. I'm gonna touch Jesus and receive what he said belongs to me. That sounds like you go ahead and give the Lord a great hand clap tonight. Praise God. And then I want to show you something cool in the scripture. It's given as a free gift, for Abraham is the father of all who believe. 17. That is what the scriptures mean when God told him, I have made you the father of many nations. This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing. And the King James called those things that were not as though they are. Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping, believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, That's how many descendants you'll have. 19. And Abraham's faith never weakened. Even though he was about a hundred years old, and he figured his body was as good as dead, and so was Sarah's womb. Check this out. Abraham never wavered in believing God's promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God. Let me see uh 20 in the Amplified Classic. Romans 4, 20. For Abraham, no unbelief or distrust made him waver, doubtingly questioned concerning the promise of God. But he grew strong and was empowered by faith. A hundred-year-old man can't have a baby. You know, everybody talks about Sarah being 90. 100-year-old man's not getting anybody pregnant either. If you're a hundred and you go to the doctor and say, I'd like to have a baby, they're gonna call the psychiatric ward and have your grandkids come pick you up. Yeah, it's not happening. And the Bible says, in the natural, his body was as good as dead, but how did his body become strong enough to bear a child? As he believed God's promise, his body grew strong and was empowered by faith. I grew up in the Pentecostal holiness wing of the uh assemblies of God. And most pastors looked like they were 70 when they were 40. They had big bags under their eyes, their wives looked old, they they looked sad and wrinkled, and then I saw these other guys come in to preach that looked fresh as a daisy. They were called faith preachers. And I noticed that the guys that talked against God's promises, it actually had a negative effect on their body. When you're negative and you speak unbelief, unbelief is a spirit. Unbelief will wear on your body. I think of in the 90s, there was a guy that had a national radio show. He would always criticize any healing preacher, any uh faith preacher. He's full of cancer now and actually said, I've changed what I believe. Think of this. He told people for 30 years that healing's not of God. But when he got cancer, he started going to a church that ministers to the sick. You know, what a wicked person to tell you you can't get healed, but then they get sick and then they want to get healed. Let me tell you something. One way you know healing is of God and sickness is of the devil. It's no matter what anybody teaches. If they get sick, they start hanging around meetings like this. We have Muslims come to meetings like this. We have Hindus come. We had a whole bunch of Hindu women healed and saved in our last meeting. Hindus, Muslims, whoever. There's no healing in that religion. When people get sick, deep down they know that this is not, I this does not belong in my body. Whether they go to church, whether they get prayer, whether they take pepta bismol or aspirin, people start doing something immediately because deep down, no matter what anybody trains you, you know down inside, I'm not meant to be sick, I'm meant to be well, I'm not meant to die, I'm meant to live. And I want to tell you something, you're exactly right. God has good things for you. Jesus said, the thief, the thief comes, not but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy. But I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. Receive that life in your body tonight. In Jesus' name. Yeah, talking God's promises, talking the word, it'll beautify you. It'll make you strong when you're when your friends are retiring. You have an idea to do something new. You'll get stronger as you get older. I prophesy, you're gonna get stronger as you get older. In Jesus' name. Finish that guy's prayer or uh testimony.

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Last year, actually, before we wanted to uh we gave up drinking. I felt like drinking kept us like warm-watered Christians, you know, just sitting on the fence, couldn't make a choice. So the other thing is that um I knew God was calling me to fast, and the enemy kept coming. Hey, just drink. Your son's not gonna come back, don't worry about him. He'll come back when God brings him. I was discouraged in every single way.

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Who did he say Tona? There's like a minister tell me for other Christians.

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He'll come back when God modern Christians, you know, just sitting on the fence, couldn't make a choice. So the other thing is that um I knew God was calling me to fast, and the enemy kept coming. Hey, just drink. Your son's not gonna come back, don't worry about him. He'll come back when God brings him to the body.

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So's the enemy. And that's how people counsel. I've heard people counsel like that. It'll all work out. Things don't all work out. That's why there's a cemetery business. They think there's a happy ending to every story. What are you, four years old? If you leave cancer unchecked, it's bad. If you leave drug drugs unchecked, the devil's not looking to make you unhappy, and he's not looking to mess with you for a few years and then leave you alone. His purpose is to steal, to kill, and to destroy. So if it seems like I'm a little intense, it's because I'm not delivering a message tonight. I came to put notice on the devil that 2,000 years ago Jesus died for you, and he's got no right to touch your children, to touch your marriage, to touch your family. We're preaching the devil straight out of this county. Can you say amen? Everybody say I'm getting it now. See, that's where things change. I want my son home now.

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Go ahead. Scourge in every single way. And um, so this past year, after we completed our first year of fasting, I had told my wife, hey, I don't know about you, but I got to do this fast for my youngest. I want him home. That's what I want. And uh so real quick, in case I forget.

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Go to Daniel 10 in the New Living Translation. Daniel 10 5. Could be wrong. Daniel 10 5. I looked up and saw Daniel's on a fast here. 21st day of the fast. I looked up and saw a man dressed in linen clothing with a belt of pure gold around his waist. His body looked like a precious gem, his face flashed like lightning, and his eyes flame like torches. His arms and feet shone like polished bronze, and his voice roared like a vast multitude of people. Hallelujah. Only I, Daniel, saw this vision. The men with me saw nothing, but they were suddenly terrified and ran away to hide. So I was left there all alone to see this amazing vision. My strength left, my face grew deathly pale, and I felt very weak. Then I heard the man speak, and when I heard the sound of his voice, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. Just then a hand touched me and lifted me, still trembling to my hands and knees. Then the man said to me, Daniel, you are very precious to God. He must say, I'm very precious to God. Start talking like that instead of whatever religion. No, you're not nothing. Even if you were a ranked sinner out on the street with a needle hanging out of your arm, you still have value. Jesus died. Man is created in the image of God and has great worth to God. He must say, I'm precious to God. So listen carefully to what I have to say to you. Stand up, for I've been sent to you. When he said this to me, I stood up still trembling. Twelve. Then he said, Don't be afraid. I must say, Don't be afraid. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven, and I have come in answer to your prayer. What was the delay? 13. But for 21 days, the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels, came to help me, and I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia. Now I am here to explain what will happen to your people in the future, for this concerns a time that is to come. I'm not trying to get spooky, but they're at the root. And prayer deals with things at their spiritual root. Can you say amen? It didn't take God 21 days to answer his prayer. He said, The first day you asked, I was sent. But for 21 days, there was demonic obstruction that kept the answer from getting to you. But as you persevered, he was saying persevere. As you persevered in fasting and prayer, more angelic help came and relieved me in that uh battle, and now I've come with your answer. You know, there's a pastor, he's got the largest church in the world, Bishop David Oyadepo. When his church was just a few hundred, he went on a three-day fast asking the Lord why it wouldn't grow. You know, one family come, two families leave, two families come, one family leave. Just staying right there. And he said, While I was on the fast, I looked at my church building when I was walking around it praying, and there was a dark cloud over the church sign. And I said, Lord, what is that? And the Lord spoke and said, See that cloud? That's the demonic obstruction that Satan uses to misrepresent what goes on in this church in the town. Now tell it to move. And he said, In Jesus' name, I curse that black thing over the uh sign and command it to go. He said, The next Sunday the crowd was doubled. When they asked people, why did you come? They said stuff like, I just saw your church van and I thought I should follow it to wherever it was going. See, there's two ways to deal with things. You can deal with it in the natural. My uncle that's in the ministry was driving to pick up chairs from Leicester Somerall's church to uh put under his tent in Indiana where he was preaching because they ran out of chairs. A bunch of people were coming. And so on his drive to South Bend, he passed Amish people that were harvesting a field with donkeys and oxen and sickles. They were collecting the wheat and putting it in the the uh uh what do you call the thing that goes behind them? The wagon. Thank you. My vocabulary is very limited. And so he picked up the chairs, drove back, and those Amish people were still on that same swath, cutting a path. On the other side, the entire field had been harvested, and there in the distance was a combine. And the Lord said, See, the Amish represent traditional religion that goes very slow. They use addition, not multiplication. They use man's ways, and they it takes them a long time to get the harvest in. But the combine represents the end time church that will operate in the power of the Holy Ghost. And what men can't do in an in several weeks, God can do in one hour when you allow him to use the power that he provided for the church. That power is coming on you afresh. It's coming on the young, it's coming on the old, it's coming on Jews, it's coming on Gentiles, it's coming on men and women alike. This is the final outpouring of God's spirit on all flesh, and I'm happy I'm in West Virginia with you to be a part of it. Go ahead.

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And uh, so my wife said, Yeah, you know, I'll do it with you. And uh, so we started fasting and praying. We're watching the services this past year. Uh Pastor Jonathan was showing the whole time, you know, it was it was the middle of the month. I was like, Lord, I need to get serious with you, and I'm sorry, you know, for for doubting you for this unbelief, but I know you can deliver. There was actually another brother, you probably heard his testimony, uh Anthony's request as well. His family actually pioneered for us several things. And one of them was they had a daughter that kind of left, was doing her own thing, went away, just living in a world whenever she was young. They fasted and prayed for their child, and they came back. So I was feeling for like God, hey, I want what they want, but God is telling me you want what they want, but you don't want to put any work at the day. And I was like, okay, you know, like if you're a gym person, you want the results, but you don't want the work. And that's what God is telling me. So I'm like, okay, well, God, you know, I'm calling you out on it. I want what you did for them, and you're the God of more than enough, I want what you did for them. So me and my wife started doing two days of fasting and praying. Uh, we were still praying throughout the week, so we kept going.

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That's a good habit. God, about the reaction on America I thought it would get. Two days a week fasting and prayer. That's what the early church did. You know when Jesus told the Pharisees uh uh or his disciples, unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the Pharisees, you can't be one of mine. The Pharisees fasted one day a week. This is not in the Bible, this is in the Didic, I think, which is an ancient book that tracked what the early church did. And the early church fasted two days, and they fasted the opposite days that the Pharisees fasted. I can't remember the days, but if the Pharisees did Tuesday, I think the early church did Monday and Wednesday. Brother Hagin did two days a week. I think he did Monday and Wednesday for the first 20 years of his ministry and would just stay at the church and pray in the afternoon. He's just a little country preacher, and by the time he was done, he was packing out convention centers when he was in his 80s. There's power in fasting and prayer, and I feel like if people would follow what God said in his word, forgetting those things that are behind and pressing on towards the mark. Instead of trying not to drink, you're not gonna fast and pray routinely and booze. It's like me. I don't even think about drinking. Not because I'm a Christian, I'm not gonna do it. When am I gonna drink that I wouldn't be at a church service hung over? I preach every night and I and I do a broadcast on TV every morning. So if you get busy pursuing what God has for you, a lot of things just start falling off. I used to have a personal trainer. I'd go to the gym uh four or five days a week. There were things that I had trouble not eating that I now had an easy time not eating because I wasn't gonna do all that work and then go and drink have a 1,400 calorie milkshake with 200 grams and and flush the whole thing down the toilet. When you get serious about a target with God, you'd be amazed how quickly people start falling off. And it's not even, it's like everything that needs to get stripped off, gets stripped off. I want you to lift your hands even right now. Whatever's clinging to you that needs to get stripped off, relationships, uh uh, whatever it is, alcohol, I in the name of Jesus, that thing won't last till midnight. You're coming out of this meeting completely free in Jesus' name. If you believe it, can you shout aloud amen? Keep going.

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Uh I was like, you know, Lord, I don't know when you're gonna do it, but you're gonna do it. I'm believing you sometime this year, you're gonna bring you're gonna bring him back. So it was in February of this year, because on our daughter's birthday, and I kept believing God. Hopefully, my son will come by because at first he was, hey, I'm coming by, hey, I'm not. And so I was like, all right, well, you know, I was a little heartbroken, but I was trying to remain strong for my family. He walks in, and I just loved him unconditionally with the love that I knew God loves each and every one of his children. And one of my kids asked, Don't you care what he did? I said, I don't care what he did, I'm just glad he's here. And God reminded me of the story about the prodigal son. When the uh son left, he came back, and the father accepted him. The whole time I was wrestling with God, like, God, when are you gonna bring him back? When are you gonna bring him back? Why don't you change him? The whole time God was saying, I'm waiting on you to change, not him. And so he came back. We had um we had uh, you know, reconciled a couple things, but he's still working in Texas. And uh, I was like, Man, Lord, I really want for my birthday nothing else, just for my son to come home. That's all I want. I've lost four and a half years. I don't want to be pause.

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Say it out loud, set a target. Set a target specific thing, specific time. God does not have a problem with that. Religion has a problem in his time. What do you think? God wants him in sin? I want healed now. That's up to God. No, it's not. It was up to God, and he already cast his vote when he sent Jesus to take 39 stripes on his back. It's time to get all that religion out and say, enough is enough. I'm taking what God provided for me now.

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Continue. Live like this no more. I just want my family made whole. I want the void filled. Lord, you're not a liar. I know you can come through, and I'm we're believing it. So we went up to Pittsburgh just to, you know, see the church campuses up there for one of our kids. We went up there to a service, we loved it up there. And my son at the time, he's or my youngest one, the one that I left, he contacted us and he said, Hey, I'm gonna be home waiting for you guys whenever you guys get back from Pittsburgh. So he moved back in August 26th. My birthday was August 29th, and he still now is living with us, and I just wanted to share that with everybody. Fasting and praying does work. He did it for another couple, he did it for me, he can do it for you. He delivered us of alcohol, uh, addiction, and he brought my son home, which is you know one of the greatest gifts he can do when he lives with us. I mean, we're just so grateful, and I just want to thank God. I want to thank uh Pastor Jonathan, uh Pastor Adallis, and uh Choose Life for allowing me to share this testimony, and I just encourage anybody that has a family member that has something, anything that matters to you, matters to God, and I encourage you just to really press in and uh fast and pray. Thank you, everybody, for allowing me to share this and thank you, Father, thank you, Jesus.

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Yeah, I don't know if you caught it when he was at the conference and said to the Lord he wants to, he got a text that night in church from his son. Where are you? Son came home, he's gone in Pittsburgh. And he said, I'm in Pittsburgh. He said, Oh, I'll be here when you get home. They went to church together that Sunday. Can you say amen? Now, I caught something he said that I never caught before. He said, There's a man named Anthony, there he's from Carlsbad, New Mexico, and a guy named Anthony from Carlsbad, New Mexico. He said, That guy, his testimony broke stuff through for me. So this is Anthony from Carlsbad. Watch this.

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Well, my name is Anthony Fyodor. I'm from Carlsbad, New Mexico, born and raised. Um, I am a first generation Christian. Um before I left to uh what no I had seen, uh my dad was inflamed with um psoriasis. Um his legs looked like they were burnt. Um his skin looked like almost like it was leprosy. He's been going and he's been suffering through pain where he's crying. My dad's 76 years old, and and um it's hard for him to deal with it. But I went to what no eye has seen in faith for my family, for my parents, for my kids. For everything that I stand for for my family. So when I went up there seeing that little boy getting healed from all that, I like this.

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I'm a first generation Christian and I went to this thing to stand for my family. I feel like that's the theme God has for tonight. Is tonight's going to be a restoration of total families. Say this with me. It only takes one person in a family to say enough is enough. Say this. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Praise the Lord. That's what's happening right now. You don't have to get a majority. One person can tell the devil, get out of my house, and he'll clear out before you get home. In Jesus' name. Go ahead.

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The eczema, the things that were on his skin and getting cleared, that gave me so much faith. And I kept that. And it was a seed planted in me. That when I came back, I called my dad and I asked him how he was doing. He said that he went to see a doctor in Lubbock. And they said they gave him some cream and they were gonna try to uh coat it with cream and that they were gonna go back, and it was the worst they have seen in anybody. I said, Well, listen here, dad. There is a little boy in Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh that got cured from this. In the name of Jesus, they prayed over him and it was cured, it was prayed over, it was done. I said, So, I said, in the same faith that they prayed over him, I'm praying over you over the phone that in the name of Jesus that has to go.

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Say this, I'm catching something tonight. In that meeting, Matthew Ashamoloa, annoying a little boy that had that same thing, and he got healed, and when they shared the testimony, he walked right outside of the tent and called his dad and said, I want to pray for you right now. Unbelief is contagious, and faith is contagious. And fortunately for you, you're not hanging out in a room full of unbelief, you're hanging out in a room where the word of God's going forth, and everything's turning around for your good in Jesus' name. Continue.

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It has to go right now. My dad can't be in this no more pain. And I can hear my dad start to get emotional on the other end. And I lifted at that. I said, Dad, in the name of Jesus, what he did for that little boy in Pittsburgh, he'll do for you. So I lifted at that, and uh, I went back a couple days later for their 53rd anniversary. And as soon as I walked into the door, my dad lifted up his pants, and glory to God, everything was cleared up. He lifted up his shirt, it was gone, he lifted up his arms, everything was gone. Because after what you prayed for me, I received what you told me. I believe we have to fit a little book because I know you went up to seek God. So thank you, Jesus, through the power of Christ. My dad is no longer paid, and everything, all that stuff, the ointment's gone, everything is gone. In the name of Jesus, all glory to God. I believe that we have to go, we have to be pioneers for our parents, for our families, and I went as a pioneer for to what Noah has seen, to get the revelation and to stand in the gap for my family, for myself, for my wife, and all my kids and my grandkids that they will never have to suffer in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah!

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Got it for his dad, and then that other guy saw him do that. See, there's people that won't listen to preachers, but they'll listen to you because they'll they they they believe you, they work with you, and they saw that through him, and they said, How did your dad get healed? We prayed. Then he told him about, you know, the only value I have is in delivering the word of God. The word has the value. Then that guy started watching and said, Wait a minute, if God can do that for that old man's legs and his belly, he can bring my son home. That's how a chain reaction hits, where God begins to shake whole cities and counties because of men and women that stand for the power of God and say, I'm gonna be a pioneer for my family and my generation. Let me see Acts chapter 12. Acts chapter 12. About that time, you can do NLT. Let me have it here. About that time, King Herod Agrippa began to persecute some believers in the church. He had the apostle James, John's brother, killed with a sword. When Herod saw how much this pleased the people, he also arrested Peter. This took place during the Passover celebration. Then he imprisoned him under the guard of four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring Peter out for public trial after the Passover. But while Peter was in prison, what happened? Prayed how? What's earnestly? I'll tell you what, it's not. Oh God, just be with Peter tonight in prison as they get ready to execute him. May he just feel your warmth as they take his head off. In Jesus' name. Amen. Earnestly. I'm gonna pray for this lady with the rating up against the back wall, the rating on your hand, the sunglasses. I'm gonna pray for you real quick. Power of God's on you. Thank you, Jesus. You're first. Lift both hands. Enough is enough. Now a miracle's loosed for you that'll go through your whole bloodline. In Jesus' name. All the junk from the enemy gets cleared out. Remember not the former thing, says the Lord. But God gives you his mercy. Let me see your hand. In Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord. Before that lady interrupted me, everybody say the church, everybody say the church prayed very earnestly for him. How come, James, what do you not see him doing when James died? Nothing. Well, did you hear James got arrested? Yeah, they said they're gonna kill him. People just repeat information like you've got no role to play in it. Everybody say there's power in prayer. And then they decided uh this is gonna keep happening until we do something about it. They might say, I'm doing something about it. I posted on X yesterday because I was looking for sermon notes on a topic that I knew I had made. And when I typed in the keyword, another message popped up. It was from 2022 in the height of COVID, and the title of my message was God's Plan to Undo the Great Reset. Remember that guy? I say guy, I'd rather say it like this. Remember that jerk, Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum? Yeah. Remember him saying that there's gonna be a new normal now and there's the great reset, everything's gonna come under a global economy? That whole COVID plan was a plan to collapse the United States. And so instead of just sitting back and go, that's a shame. Well, it's the end times. No, you have a there's always something you can do. And if you don't know what to do, prayer is a great place to start. Hallelujah. And I read that, I thought, man, that's great in 2022. I said, I didn't say, let's hope this doesn't work. I said, God's got a plan to undo the great reset. And preach that, I said it's gonna fail. Klaus Schwab has been deposed. The World Economic Forum's theme at their last meeting was why did we fail so badly? Can you say amen? Yep, there's the notes. They're popping up for me. Can you have it so they can see it? No, I'm not lying. God's plan to undo the great reset. Keep that up. You know what that link to an article was? It was a link to an article where leaders from the Southern Baptist Church were called to attend the World Economic Forum, and they told them to get rid of three things tongues, healing, and prosperity. And so I decided if those global sons of guns want you not preaching. You thought I was gonna end my ministry in West Virginia. No? Not that anybody would have cared here. I figured, you know, anything the devil tells you not to do, do it more. So I figured if all those unclean perverts that hang out at Epstein Island said, we don't want healing, we don't want tongues, and we don't want prosperity. Think about it. Why was COVID able to work? Because they control through money. If you don't get the shot, then uh you can't work. And then um, they got people afraid about their health. And then what was the third thing? They got people in fear and tongues. The Bible says that when you pray in tongues, you build up your faith, and faith expels fear. So I decided that year to preach on speaking in tongues, divine healing, and prosperity. That you don't need the World Economic Forum, you don't need any global group that are windows in heaven that God will open over you and your family and pour out a blessing that's so great you won't have room enough to receive it. Hallelujah. You can have what you say, you can speak to mountains like that and tell them to move. I got a testimony. The World Economic Forum is in shambles, the CDC is in shambles, the World Health Organization is in shambles, the United Nations is bankrupt, but the church and revival today, me, you, we're full of the Holy Ghost. Come on, celebrate it, take 30 seconds, have your hands on the people. With the voice of free. You want to know the power there is in prayer? And I want to make it more specific. It must say power in individual prayer. Brother Jonathan, we're trying to get all the pastors in this county to pray together. Best of luck. They don't even believe, half of them don't believe the Bible. Whole denominations now don't even believe Jesus is the only way to heaven. So good luck in it. You can't unite what's divided. Can you say amen? Yeah, there should be unity among Holy Ghost-filled, spirit-filled, born-again people, but you can't unite with a viper. Jesus never spent any time telling the Pharisees and Sadducees, hey, listen, guys, we all have the same scrolls. I think if we talked, you'd realize we have more in common than we have apart. No. There's people that are committed to destroying people through through misteaching. Jesus rebuked them. Jesus was very kind to sinners. You never hear him yelling at a prostitute, yelling at a woman caught in adultery. The people religion yell at, Jesus was nice to, and the people religion cozy's up to, Jesus laid them out. You whitewashed sepulchres full of dead men's bones. Send it to him in person, not by Facebook. I guess Tony liked that one. Praise God. Tony's retiring. Tony's farewell performance. But say there's power in prayer. Say an individual prayer. I'm the only one, you know, I don't know of anyone in this area that's contending for the move of God except no, you're an arrogant cuss, is what you are. There's other people that are doing it. But furthermore, I already know you're not spending time with God because why are you discouraged? You don't need to outnumber the devil's crowd. One person full of the Holy Ghost has more power than every demon in and out of hell put together. Hallelujah. Power over the devil. Power over sin. Power over addiction. Power over depression. Power over death. You shall receive power. I don't recommend you go start talking to witches and accomplish, but if you did, they all trace their route to Babylon. And the Bible says, Babylon, horde of buzzards, den of demons, wicked place. It's where all that witchcraft originated. And where was Daniel? In Babylon. And what did the top sorcerer say to the king? King, we can't do it. You know why I'm glad COVID's over? Because those three coughs would have cleared out the whole church four years ago. But now nobody cares. I'll cough with you. There. Now you don't feel embarrassed. Here's a second fake one. Daniel was in the midst of that, and all of the top sorcerers in Babylon, not some 16-year-old with a gift certificate to hot topic in the Harry Potter book. We're talking real witches with real witchcraft. Went to the king and said, King, unless you get that old guy to quit praying, nothing worth doing is gonna work. Can you say amen? And so don't let the devil tell you, I'm the only woman in my family that's praying. That's one more than necessary. Can you say amen? I'm the only pastor in my area. That's one more than's needed. Because if you'll stand for God, the Bible makes it very clear. If every man is for you, but God is against you, you're a dead man. But if every man's against you and God is for you, you're going straight to the top while they watch. I came to tell people in the Charleston area, you're going up and not down. You're the head and not the tail, you're above and not beneath. Blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed when you come in, blessed when you go out, you're going up, you're going higher. The best is not behind you, the best is yet to come. So if prayer is this powerful, let me see Bo from Louisiana. It must say power in prayer. Watch this. Tell everybody your name, where you're from, and what transpired.

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Amen. My name is Bo Johnson. I'm from I live in Calusia, and I'm a pastor in a church and me and another brother. We could take turns preaching on Sundays. But I had to actually been suffering an attack in my ministry because I believed what he believed that God can heal, and God can do anything. Well, my mother diagnosed with cancer.

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It was a real thing. Prayers to attack cancer. Prayers to attack addiction. Prayers not like, I prayed that I would see a butterfly today, and sure enough. Although you can pray for that too. My daughter prayed for that, actually. When I was staying in Logan, West Virginia, preaching down there. What's that Chief State Park? Chief Logan, how did I forget that one? Chief Logan State Park? That's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. And we were there in June, I think, and they have a part, and Camila loves butterflies. Especially back then, she was 10. And she said, Pa, I'd love to see a butterfly. And uh I heard her praying about it. And where our cabin was at Chief Logan was across from those flowers. It was like butterfly spring break out there. Butterflies everywhere. And Camila went, Look, Pa, God answered my prayer. You see, you can ask for little things, but you sure can ask for big things too. Can you say amen? In fact, many times the little things give you faith for the big things. See, even from my daughter, if God will answer and you want to see a butterfly and he'll put you in a room across from a field full of them, then you can ask him for help for disease. You can ask him to get you out of a pit. Hallelujah. You can get him to take care of your bankruptcy you're facing. You can get him to get you out of a court jam that you're in. There's nothing the devil's done to you that God doesn't have the power to get you out tonight. In Jesus' name. Keep going.

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Where was the cancer in her kidneys or kidneys? And uh, I mean, she was bad. She got to where she goes in a grate. Maybe drink some juice and so well. That's how bad it was. Brother Jonathan. I just appreciate you, brother, because you care. I care. And it's just focused, but the real reason I came here tonight was my mother has can't hear me. And I'm like, I don't want to figure it out. You leave, you'll pray your mother.

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Who said Who said the right answer? Jesus said it. So for whatever reason, some people need human encouragement. And by some people I mean almost everybody. He could have read that in Mark 16 anytime he wanted, but for some reason, because they respect you as a man of God or just, I don't know. So then use it to your advantage. So I said, now you lay these hands, and they're like, I'm not making up my own doctrine. And I said, now if you'll get a quart of frog's blood and stir it in a pot, no. But you'll lay your hands on the sick and the sick will recover. Can you say amen? Keep going.

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I said, I think I will. So at 12:30 Sunday night, I show up at Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana, from here. Which is how far? Oh gosh. Two hours. I went straight here.

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See that little girl? Full screen. They can see me. I'm like 10 feet away. That little girl on the bottom left, that's my daughter. So now you understand when her Bible teacher at school said that God doesn't heal today. And I said, What did you say? And she said, I just laughed. I don't think she hangs around the right people. That's why. Because she's around watching people get here. It's not theory. Can you say amen? Keep going.

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I drove. And listen, I got there, and I said, How am I gonna get in? They're not gonna let me in.

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You know why my daughter's on the platform? She was staying with me in the summer. She travels with me. I woke up from a nap and was getting ready for church. She was fully dressed. I said, Where are you going? She said, Somebody's coming to pick me up. I said, You're 10. What's going on? She said, Uh uh the pastor's that was coming to get me. I joined the worship team at another church. She's up there singing, going to church an hour and a half before I got there to go to practice. Can you say amen?

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Keep going. And we had been coming in on the side door. Well, I just happened to look. There's another door, and somebody had put a piece of something to propped that door open. I went right in. Pause it. I went right in general.

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Don't admit to felonies on video. Keep going.

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Went up there and I had already called my brother and told him I was coming. And I walked in the door. I said, Mom, I come here with a prayer. The evangelist told me to pray and touch him. I put my hands on you, and you're going to be healed. I pulled everything back and I laid my hands on our kidneys just like he said. I prayed and I walked out the door to leave it. I didn't stay five minutes. I told Mom, I'll see you tomorrow. I gotta go to work. I left. The next morning my brother called and said, Hey, Mama's eating. Mama's eating. Today, today she ate chicken. Wait, wait, there's more. Today she ate chicken, she ate cake, she drunk milk.

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That's the countryest meal I ever heard of in my life. I'll have the chicken. What would you like for a side? We have mixed greens, green beans, fries, cake. Then you in the country, they're the milk-drinkingest people there ever were. Everywhere else you put it in your coffee, but out in the country, it's it's a beverage. Amen. A nice, thick, phlegmy beverage. Continue.

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Everything. They ordered 15 tests today trying to find the cancer. They can't find it.

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Hallelujah. Shout it out. We serve a miracle working God. No. Everybody say what prayer can do. Now he could have done nothing, and then the mom would have died, and they could have come up and say, Well, I guess God, it was his her time. God need no. Somebody has to take what God's will is and do something about it. How many people does God want to be saved? So when you find that out, you do something like I'm doing and start going around. How do they get saved? They can't get saved. And how can they call on him whom they've never heard? How can they believe in him whom they've never heard about? So faith comes by hearing, hearing the word of God. If you know God wants people to get saved, the action point is to preach. When you find out God wants people healed, the action point's to preach and then minister to the sick like Jesus did. You don't just throw it up to God. The church is waiting on God. When's God gonna move? Why'd God allow this? And God's up in heaven going, When are you gonna move? Why are you allowing this? But not here. We got a room full of women and men that are people of action, people of faith, people by the anointing. And from this day forward, you're gonna do great feats for God in Jesus' name. You be seated. So if there's all this power in prayer, I just want to cover this and I'm going to pray for you. And if you're watching on television or online, you see in the corner, text seven five seven six seven for prayer, you can join right in. This is a live meeting in uh Ripley, West Virginia. You can join us the rest of the nights too here through Friday. I'm in uh and I'm in Pittsburgh on Sunday morning, and I'm in uh Radcliffe, Kentucky, beginning Monday night. And I'm in Toronto the week after that. Seven hindrances to effective prayer. Number one, not knowing God's will. Everybody say not knowing God's will. Yeah. I grew up in churches, they prayed for the sick every weekend, but nobody got healed because they didn't know God's will. They'd pray a real strong prayer and then they'd close, if it be your will. If is the language of unbelief. Phinnis Dake has a note in his Bible under Mark chapter 9, verse 22, when the father said, Um, do something if you can. Phinness Dake wrote notes in the bottom and it says, If, the language of unbelief. And it was such a powerful note that I preached a whole Wednesday night on it. The next week we went on vacation to Arizona. This is years ago. Camila was in her car seat, and uh I said to Camila, or I said to Adallis, my wife, wouldn't it be great if God gave us a home down here in Arizona so we didn't have to keep staying in hotels when we go on vacation? Uh and uh from the car seat, looking at her iPad, my daughter piped up. If the language of unbelief. Well, I wanted to yell at her, but she was right. I just preached a whole sermon on that. She remembered why I said, wouldn't it be wonderful if God gave us a home here? She said, if the language of unbelief. I said, Camila, what should I have said? She's without looking up from her eye past. If I was you, I'd just say, Lord, thank you for a house in Arizona. See? If, if is uncertain. If I say, uh, let me ask you, let me let me put it to you like this. If I told you every day I'm gonna, or every week I'm gonna come and cut your grass this summer. And then you told someone, Jonathan said he's gonna cut our grass this summer, if he comes, then I'm gonna have iced tea. Well, you saying that implies that you don't really think I'm a man of my word, or there's a chance that I won't keep my word. And that's why God hates that kind of language. Because where you find God plainly states something in the Bible, you can move like it's already done, because God is too faithful to fail. God can never fail, and God can never deny his word. The Bible says, even when we're faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself. Say with me, faith begins where the will of God is known. You know, if ten people came up tonight to get saved, to give their life to Jesus, I'm not gonna pray too strong of a prayer if I'm not even sure if God, if I said, now listen, well, let's pray first, and whichever ones of you God wants to save and not go to hell, he'll save. Oh Lord, uh, you know, it's gonna be a weak prayer. But when you know, how do you know God wants all ten of them saved? 2 Peter 3:9. He's willing that none should perish. So he's giving more time for everyone to repent. Paul said, I would that all men be saved, all of them, that all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. So when you settle God's will, settle it in healing. Everybody say, God wants me whole, God wants my body strong. Yeah, and then fortify it with scriptures. I can't preach a whole message on that, but I can preach a little one. Isaiah 53, Matthew 8, 1 Peter 2 24. Before he went to the cross, he took stripes on his back. The stripes weren't for your sin, the stripes weren't for your peace, the stripes were for the total healing. The Bible says he took, not will take, he took all our sickness and carried our disease. So I don't have to ask God to heal me. He already beat me to the punch 2,000 years ago. I can call those things that are not as though they are, and I can have what God said is mine. May tonight mark an end to every sickness and disease that tried to set up shop in your body. Number one, seven hindrances to effective prayer. Number one, not knowing God's will. Number two, not understanding how to pray. John 16, 23. Jesus said, In that day you will ask me nothing. Fairly, fairly I say unto you, Whosoever ye shall ask the Father, ask who? In whose name. John 14, 13 and 14, which we already read. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. John 15, 16. Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Number two, everybody say pray to the Father in Jesus' name. I wrote this down. Number of biblical prayers, number of prayers in the Bible to God, a little over 650. Number of biblical prayers to Mary or the saints, zero. And I'm not, oh you guys are you guys really are kind of anti-Catholic in this section. I'm not anti-Catholic, but I'm pro-praying right. The Pope tweeted something today about how Mary he considers her the most blessed woman and she's always watching over us, and you can pray to her. Why would you go to the boss's mom when you can go to the boss? Why pray to Jude when you can talk to the Father? Can you say amen? This is kind of weird talking to dead people. You end up in the psychiatric unit. Everybody say, how did Jesus? It's not important how Protestants teach or Catholics teach, it's important what the Bible says. Everybody say, pray to the Father in the name of Jesus. I want to deal with both those things. The Father in the name of Jesus. I hear pastors almost every Sunday, dear Jesus, he literally told you in that day, don't ask me for anything. Go to the Father in my name. You say, What's the difference? Oh, nothing. Just like there's no difference if you want to go put diesel in your car and say the gas station knows my heart or the car knows my heart. I don't think instructions are important. I think just God knows. Okay, if you think God just says, I know your heart, do whatever you want. Why did He write a huge, thick book that tells you exactly what to do? Follow the instructions and you get better results. If you believe it, can you say amen? Pray to the Father, and then everybody say in the name of Jesus. Is there power in the name of Jesus? Is there power in your name we pray? No. The name of Jesus. Let me see Acts 13, 12 to 16. Anytime I get blank stares, I use more scripture. Acts 13, I'm sorry, Acts 3, 12 and 16. There's a one in front of that three. It's messing everything up. There we go. Oh, it's on this side. Peter saw his opportunity to address the crowd. People of Israel, he said, what's so so this is when the crippled guy got healed. What's so surprising about this? And why stare at us as though we've made this man walk by our own power of godliness? 13. For it is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of all our ancestors, who has brought glory to his servant Jesus by doing this. This is the same Jesus who you handed over and rejected before Pilate, despite Pilate's decision. Peter would not let those guys forget that they killed Jesus. He brought it up any chance he got. You rejected this holy righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murderer. You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. And we are all witnesses of this fact. Through faith in the this man was healed, and you know how crippled he was before uh before. Yes, faith in Jesus' name has healed him before your very eyes. Peter attributed that miracle to the power that's in the name of Jesus. Let me ask you a question. If I was a guest on the view tomorrow, first of all, it'd be worth watching. If I was a guest on the view tomorrow and I said God, would anybody get mad? No. God's whatever you want him to be. God's a general word. Now, if you said Jehovah, then now you're getting specific. But God, everybody's got a God. So God's a generic word. That's why I don't even pray to God. Everybody say, the Father. You should call him Father, and if you can't call him Father, you should get saved. Everybody say, He's my father. Go to the Father. Nobody's got a problem with God. Nobody's got a problem with spirituality or karma or religion. But when you say Jesus, three of those women would immediately get up out of their seat and walk off set. ESPN pretends they have technical difficulties. They asked that guy, what's the problem with racism in America? And he said, the problem is sin. And the answer is in Jesus. And they went to the multicolored screen, and the lady put her finger in here and said, We're having yeah, I'm sure you are having technical problems. Whatever devil's running the company is having a panic attack because there's power in the name of Jesus. When you pray, exercise the name of Jesus. Pray it with authority. Because that name has power over everything above the earth, everything on the earth, and everything under the earth. Pray to the Father in Jesus' name. Number three, seven hindrances to effective prayer. Number three, not knowing that there's different kinds of prayer. Let me see Ephesians 6.18 in the King James. Praying always with all prayer. One translation literally says all kinds of prayer. So there's lots of different kinds of prayer, and they have their own rules. Just like, think of it like this: there's sports, but then there's individual sports that have their own rules. You can't play hockey with golf rules, and you can't play golf with hockey rules. Guy can't be setting up for an 11-foot putt, and you run over and knock him off his feet, hit him with a stick, you'd be disqualified. So what are, this is where people get, well, Jonathan said to pray and demand, but the Bible says Jesus said in the Garden of Ghessality, not my will but thine be done. That's right. Because he wasn't praying the prayer of faith, he was praying the prayer of consecration. So because people don't know different kinds of prayer, they weasel out of the prayer of faith with rules for other ones. What are the different kinds of prayer? If you're taking notes, I'm gonna give them to you. Number one, Philippians 4, 6, let your request be made known unto God. Number one, the prayer of supplication. It would say supplication. This is a heartfelt plea for personal needs or the needs of others. Number two, 1 Timothy 2, 1. I exhort that supplications, prayers, and intercessions be made for all men. Number two, the prayer of intercession. It would say intercession. Standing in the gap for others, seeking mercy and intervention. What's the difference between supplication and intervention? Supplications, where you get supplements from. If you work out or you care about your health and you're putting stuff in your body anyway, you start studying, what'll give me a little boost or whatever in this area? What's good for me? Those are called supplements. The prayer of supplication is a supplement. Supplication is for believers. Intercession is for sinners. Say with me. Supplication is for believers. So, like after I left, if you wanted to pray for me next week, you say, Father, open doors for Jonathan where he's at right now. Give him boldness to preach even more boldly than he already does. He seemed a little weak in West Virginia. Make him more sure of what he believes. Give him grace to communicate his message. Where the hearers, it'll have even more great. You pray like that. You're giving me supplements in prayer. Intercession is for unbelievers. Where you say, Lord, that guy, my son that's on drugs, I stand in the gap for him. Don't let the devil take his life. Send people into his path. That'll lead him to Christ. It would say supplication. It would say intercession. Number three, 1 Thessalonians 5.18. In everything give thanks. Number three, the prayer of thanksgiving, acknowledging God's goodness and giving him thanks in all situations. Number four, Psalm 95, 6. Oh come, let us worship and bow down. Number four, prayer of worship and adoration, expressing love, awe, and reverence for who God is. Number five, 1 John 1 9. If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sin. Number five, the prayer of confession or the prayer of repentance, humble admission of sin and turning back to God. Number six, Matthew 18, 19 and 20. If two of you agree on earth as touching any one thing they ask, it will be done. Number six, the prayer of agreement or corporate prayer. Number seven, 1 Corinthians 14, 14 and 15. I will pray with the Spirit and I will pray with the understanding also. Number seven, praying in the Spirit or praying in tongues. Number eight, Luke 22, 42. Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. Number eight, the prayer of consecration. That's right. So you pray against cancer, that's God's will. But then for my life, there's no now, God, you do this with me. And then after I'm done there, you send me here. I'm not the master, I'm the servant. So I pray the prayer of consecration. Lord, I am yours. I'll do what you want me to do. I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I don't have a will. I want to do your will. Show me your plan. Open the door and I'll walk through it. Close the door, and I won't. Whatever you can't give me, I don't want it. Whatever you can't take me, I don't want to go. I lay myself at your feet to use me. God's gonna use people here tonight. Tonight you're gonna enter into your ministry. You're gonna place the trail that God has for you. And number nine, James 5.15, and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up. Number nine, everybody say the prayer of faith. Hindrances to prayer. Number four, thinking that because God is sovereign, it's ultimately up to him. When God in his sovereignty decided to write a book called the Bible, put Numbers 23, 19 up. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the Son of Man that he should repent or change his mind. Hath he said? Let me see another thing. Everyone said, God is not a man, so he never lies. Say he's not human, so he doesn't change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? God honors his word above what? Above his name. And he honors his name pretty high. So he, if you find it in here, there's no no, this is this is how morons talk that are in church. No, I know the Bible says that, but but what? Whatever you're gonna say after that, but is probably blasphemy. And you don't have to be too bright to read this thing. Third grade, fourth grade, you can read it. And if you don't have some idiot talk you out of the way, well, I know it says, if you'll read this as written, do you think God has trouble communicating his thoughts? Do you think he needs a theologian to explain it? If you just read it as it's written, you'll find out God wants you well, God wants your family hall, God wants peace in your marriage, God wants peace in your mind, and everything he did in that Bible was not him showing his power and now he's done. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And if he promised it, you can take him up on it. Let me see Mark 11, 22 through 24, NLT. Then Jesus said to who? Have faith in God. So there's more use to faith than just becoming a Christian or a disciple. I tell you the truth, you can say, it would say, I can say to this mountain, may you be lifted up and thrown into the sea, and it'll obey your command. But you must, can you get Joy to Houston ready? But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. 24. I tell you, you can pray for anything. And if you believe, not that you will receive it, if you believe that you have received it, when you pray, just like in your mind, when you place an order on Amazon, you're done with it. When it arrives two weeks later, you forgot you ordered it. You put it out of your mind. I knew it was, I don't have it in my hand. Now, like if you ordered a pair of jeans on Amazon, and then somebody said, I'm gonna buy you a pair of jeans, and it was the same pair you bought. I said, You'd say, Don't buy them for me. I just bought that pair. They say, Yeah, but you don't have them. You'd say, No, but I'm gonna have it. It's done. And they say, Yeah, but how do you know? You say, Because I ordered it, I could show you the receipt, it's done. You'd start calling those things that are not as though they are. Because, and if I can get you to trust God half as much as you trust Jeff Bezos, you'll have miracles left and right. I'm telling you, you can ask God, you can call it done. And when you say it's done in Jesus' name, that thing's on its way. The devil might harass, there might be a limit, but that thing will keep coming if you refuse to doubt. Hindrances to prayer. God is sovereign. God is sovereign. But when people use it like, I know the Bible says by straight your heel, but you have to remember God's sovereign. In his sovereign, say with me, in his sovereignty, he will never violate his word. What do you think? You think you're gonna go to heaven? I mean, if he did, we're in trouble. What if you go to heaven? Hey, your name's not in the Land's book of life. Yeah, but I repented and and uh confessed Jesus, like you said, and refused to live in sin. I know, but I'm sovereign. So I wiped your name out of Lamb's book of life, just felt like sending you to hell. I mean, what can you trust God about? If his word's faulty, everything's faulty, but his word is not faulty. Can you say amen? The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. If you can testify to that, let Jesus hear your great hand clap in Ripley wall. Hey, I hear the sound of the alarmies of the Lord. Hallelujah. Can you get the song It's My Season to be blessed? Ready? Number five. Sometimes God says yes, sometimes God says no, sometimes God says wait. We already covered that. Everybody say this when my faith says yes, God will not say no. Put Isaiah 38:1 up, and it'll take. About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah went to visit him. He gave the king this message. This is what the Lord says set your affairs in order, for you're going to die. This is Isaiah the prophet. If he tells you you're gonna die, you're a dead man. You will not recover from this illness. Hope you took the offering first. When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his face to the wall and did what? Remember, O Lord, how I've always been faithful to you and have served you single-mindedly, always doing what pleases you. Then he broke down and wept bitterly. Then this message came to Isaiah from the Lord. I'm waiting. Go back to Hezekiah and tell him. This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says. I have heard your prayer. This is a word for somebody tonight. I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears, and I will add 15 years to your life. Everybody say a bonus. I'll give you a bonus. I'll rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. Yes, I will defend this city. When you get on the path of faith and start asking God and believing him for stuff, God won't only give you what you're asking for, you'll start having all kinds of bonus packages drop from heaven. God's told Hezekiah, You're done, buddy. And Hezekiah said, I don't want to be done. I want to live. And God told Isaiah, go back and tell him I heard his prayer, and I'll do exactly what he said. Was it ever God's will for Israel to have a king? What did he give them? Starts with a J and rhymes with budges. Judges. He said, I'm not gonna give you kings like the other nations, but they kept asking for a king, and what did he give them? Gave them a king. God will answer your prayers. You're not the last thing, the thing the devil wants most, if you've missed everything I've said, don't miss this. The thing the devil wants most, and that is not found in the Bible, is for you to be an inactive Christian, hoping God saves West Virginia, hoping God moves in America, wondering why there's all these problems. I just hope the Lord does something. The devil doesn't care if there's 10 million Christians like that because they're no threat to them. All they're gonna do is one Facebook post a day or whatever. They do nothing. But when you get it in your spirit that Jesus said, Whatever you bind on earth, I'll back you from heaven. And whatever you lose on earth, I'll back it from heaven. Now the devil has a big problem because now he has a man that's saying enough is enough. I'm gonna start speaking the mountains and telling them to move. I'm gonna tell the devil to back his short behind, right back up out of my family, and he has to obey your command. Say it out loud. He is the head. I am the body. So if the body doesn't move, the head can't get what it wants. But if the body will move in conjunction with the head, then God's will is done on the earth. I'm gonna have you say another scripture with me. Say the heavens belong to the Lord. But the earth he has given to man. Are drugs demonic? Has anybody ever bought drugs off a demon? A demon has to get a human to cooperate with them, to make the drugs and get them out to the public. Because the earth doesn't belong to spirits, the earth belongs to man. So if Satan wants his will done on the earth, he's got to get somebody to cooperate with him. Isn't it interesting when they arrested that last drug cartel leader in uh Matamoros, I think, Mexico, and they found they all had altars in the headquarters with blood sacrifice and pictures of saints and candles and all that? They were doing high-level demonic practice to stay ahead of the CIA and FBI and get a plan from the devil how to manufacture it and get it out. The devil has to have people cooperate with him to get his will done. And God, the Bible says, let me see Isaiah chapter 6, NLT. In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. And he was sitting on a lofty throne, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. They were calling out to each other Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heaven's armies. The whole earth is filled with his glory. For their voices shook the temple to its foundations, and the entire building was filled with smoke. Then I said, It's all over. I'm doomed, for I'm a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the king, the Lord of hosts. The one one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning call he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongues. He touched my lips with it and said, See, this call has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed and your sins are forgiven. Hallelujah. Any filthy thing that you're carrying with you that's trailed you from childhood, that's trailed you from your family. The Lord burns it out by his fire tonight, and you leave free and pure in Jesus' name. I said, in Jesus' name. Then I heard the Lord asking, Whom should I send as a messenger to these people? And who will go for us? And Isaiah said, I'll do it. I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I'll do what you tell me to do. You know the difference between Christians can be illustrated in 1 Samuel 17. You have a whole army listening to Goliath, blaspheme God, wondering when God's going to do something about it. Then a 17-year-old named David, that's not even in the military, comes with bread and cheese for his brother and their captain. And says, Who's this big, ugly giant mocking God? You guys hear what he's saying? Oh yes. He's been doing it for 40 days and 40 nights. No one's killed him? No, he's big. He's nine feet six. He is a spear the size of a weaver's beam. What's a weaver's beam? We don't know. We just heard other people say that. And then David got five smooth stones in a sling. So I'm gonna go kill him right now without permission. And 1 Samuel 17 would be a very short chapter if it was just about David and Goliath. But for about nine paragraphs, David has to fight through his brothers and the king of Israel and all the people that should be helping him and encouraging him, telling him that he can't do it, he's too young, he's too weak, he's too untrained, you're not gonna make it, he's gonna take you out. The devil can't stop you. Goliath never laid one hand on David. The only tool the devil has is to discourage you, to remind you of your past, to remind you of the weakness of your flesh. But all it takes is one night like tonight to get encouraged in the Holy Ghost and say, No, I'm not coming in the flesh. That's what David said. I'm not coming to you with stone and sling. I come to you in the name of the Lord who I serve and whom you have to find. Then he told him, Today I'm gonna cut off your head, and today I'm coming after other men behind you. You had an army full of people that wouldn't do anything, and you had one man that decided to take action by the power of God. I'm looking for people like that tonight that'll say, Enough is enough. Come on, take 30 seconds and clap your hands and give the Lord a mighty shout. Here I am, old cliche, but it's one of the good ones. Say this out loud: God doesn't need ability, He needs availability. You'll just make yourself available. Quit your own excuses why you can't do it. I'm a single mother. Yeah, there's like a lot of you. Big deal. We think you're the only single mother. Would that suck the air out of the room? I'm divorced. Yes, lots of people were divorced. I didn't do well in school. Lots of people didn't do well in school. If we if we had to qualify in the flesh for God to use us, there'd be like nobody he could use. But he deliberately searches out the things the world finds foolish in order to shame those who are powerful. All the women that are here. If one woman could get prayer taken out of school and another woman could get abortion legalized, what can one woman that's full of God do for a nation? Two women change the world for bad, and God's gonna take one woman out of this place and use her to change her generation for good. I'm looking at a room full of God-ordained world changers tonight. The devil might have written you off, people might have written you off, but now it's time for your comeback. God is anointing you with the Holy Ghost to do great and mighty things. Somebody shout hallelujah. You be seated. I was playing uh video games. I had a week off in November, and the Lord spoke to me and said, I mean, I was like between games with my heads on, the Lord spoke to me and said, Find a place with high childhood poverty and have a uh a festival there to make sure all the kids get toys and tell them it's from me, Jesus. So we uh picked Houston, you know, in December, you're pretty limited as to where you can have an outdoor event in America. So we picked Houston, Texas, and uh the week before Christmas, and we announced every kid's gonna get a gift. We were expecting, we've done stuff like this before, normally we have 800 to 1,200 kids show up. We had 30,000 people register in eight days, and then it went up to 50,000. Now not everybody's gonna show up, but the amount of toys we planned to do wasn't gonna now I need now I went from needing like $120,000 worth of toys to like $1.2 million worth of toys. Everybody say faith. So what I would say what most people with a brain would do in this situation would be to shut down registration and say only the first thousand can get in. But I thought, you know what? The Lord said to do it. The Lord knew how many people were gonna register. He said it's from him, so not my problem. Let it run. Let's see what happens. And so uh a friend of mine called me. I mean, the Lord did the whole thing. He said, Um, I heard about that thing you're doing in Houston. He said, I heard how many people registered. Do you have enough toys? I said, I don't think so. He said, What are you what are you planning on doing? I said, I didn't really thought about it. He said, How many days away is it? I said, nine? It was only 17 when the Lord spoke to me. The Lord's been speaking to me to do stuff quick, and I think part of the reason is it's like you can hit the devil before he even knows you're coming. Remember when Donald Trump said that thing about he thought it was stupid that the president announces tomorrow we're gonna bomb such and such a country or whatever? He said, What are you telling him they're you're coming? See, when you just hold a big gospel thing real quick, there's no time for the neighbors to make a Facebook message group. You just hit and run. Can you say amen? You must say, move with speed. So that friend that called me, his name's Jeff, he got worried for me on my behalf. And he called the White House and told them what was happening. And um he said, I have good news for you. He said, three different companies have decided to donate the toys. And they said they're gonna sell them to you for 70% off. So it was gonna be 400,000 instead of 1.2 million. This is in the middle of me building my church in Pittsburgh. So uh I said, Great. Now that's better than 1.2 million. I I'll I'll get a hold of it. Then he called the next day. He said, All those companies have decided, uh, they saw what you're doing, and they're gonna donate the toys for free. Well, that that's better. Then third, I never asked. I never asked, never whined, never called anybody. Then he said, Um, all you gotta do is pay the truckers. Then the next day, he said, the truckers found out where they're driving their eight 18-wheelers to, and all three of them, one was Washington State, one was California, and one was I can't remember where. And they all decided to donate their time. So we went from 1.2 million to 400,000 to 18,000 for the trucking fees to zero. And then I had a feeling if God was helping it that much, it was gonna be supernatural. I'm gonna tell you this, I'm throwing this in for free, and I won't keep here all night. But um, Americans are great people because those truckers weren't Christians, it's just Americans are givers and they like Christmas and they like helping people. And so this this meeting gave me real hope for this country, and then it was an answer to prayer. For the first time in America, we had more than 10,000 people gathered for a meeting. I would say 97% were completely unchurched and unsaved. And I want to show you what God did because not only did people get saved, but the power God moved on that concrete um lot, and I want you to say this with me. Say there's major hope for America. Say this God's not finished with America. That's right. You think God's gonna let the devil write the last chapter of American history? The people that are gonna write it are here in this room. God's gonna flow through you to impact your generation. Watch this.

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We felt led by the Spirit to go to a section of Houston facing some of the highest levels of childhood poverty with one simple goal to bring joy and hope to the families in the city. When God speaks, you move quickly. Revival Today went into action, and in just 17 days, this event came together. We initially planned to reach a few thousand people, but the advertising caught fire. In one week alone, more than 20,000 people registered. Paula White's Ministry, the National Faith Advisory Board, Citizer, and others donated two 18-year-olds.

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See, that's from Jesus. We didn't give people a broken game boy from 1988. That's a go-kart, a crate full of go-karts. People are walking out of there like they just robbed a Costco. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. Weren't any mosques doing that? Weren't any Hindu temples doing that? The power is in the church. And it's time to get full of that power and then take it outside and remind the devil that 2,000 years ago he was defeated. Continue.

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Yo vine a decirle algo al diablo Houston. Enough is enough. Ya es suficiente. It's time for the people of Houston to be free. Ya hay tiempo que la gente de Hispe sea libre. I tell you in the name of Jesus. Desde atrás. The tide is turning in your life today. Todo está cambiando a tu favor. As hard as life used to be. Lo más difícil que la vida has sido. Cuando tú vienes a Jesús, it's gonna lift your heavy burden. Él te va a sacar la de la cara. Y él va a romper el yugo del diablo. No more poverty. Ya no más pobreza. Struggling for food. No más escasez. No more struggling for a place to live. No more. I'm gonna introduce you to somebody. His name is El Shutana!

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As Pastor Jonathan preached, tears filled the crowd and bondages were broken. When the altar call was given, hundreds responded. In total, we saw 10,320 in attendance, and 710 people gave their lives to Christ. This is not the devil's time in America. This is America's time to come to Christ. Our generation will be saved.

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Hallelujah. I've been rebuking the fire out of preachers. I have a ministerial mentorship group that meets once a month. It's free. And all people say, we're planning a small outreach. And I'll go, let me stop you right there. Why? It can be small without planning. Why are you always planning small, crappy things? Plan big. You serve a big God. Why not get yourself like that? I got myself in major trouble. How am I going to get toys? You're looking at a guy, you see, you have to use all his faith to get one toy for his daughter and one toy for his wife on Christmas. Gift for my wife, a toy for my daughter. That is it. I didn't have enough money for that. How do you go from that to telling a whole city, come, got it, got you covered for Christmas? I didn't do it with my money. I did it with my faith. And my faith threw the money, my faith threw the 18-wheelers, my faith through the drivers. I'll tell you what else was powerful. I thought it was pretty powerful. I don't have a church in Houston. To have 550 workers show up to unload trucks from putting it on Instagram. Hey, we're going to do another thing if you'd like to come and help out. 550 people show up to help. See, the body of Christ is looking for something to do. That's why when Saul kicked David out, 600 guys followed him, or 400 guys out to help him out. They've been taught and filled with power, and there's like no outlet to do anything with it. But that's changing now. I said, that's changing now. All of these stadiums that colleges have built and professional teams have built and arenas, very quickly they're going to find out that they did not build those for them. God built those with heathen money to get buildings large enough to house the crowds that will come to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ in this last hour of time. I'm looking at the modern-day Daniels that are gonna undo the plans of the sorcerers in Babylon. I'm looking at the modern-day Moseses whose staff are gonna swallow up the snakes of the Egyptian sorcerers. The devil is in serious trouble in West Virginia because he robbed you off. But God is anointing you today to stand up, fight the good, fight a fight, win the victory in Jesus. If you admit, if you'll commit to doing that, I want you to jump up on your feet. Give Jesus the biggest head clap. Let the noise for good. I will not be defeated. I will not give up and quit. He who began a good work in me will bring it to completion. In Jesus' name. Now lift your hands and just have your little conversation with God. Tell him I'm yours. Tell him here I am, send me. Tell him whatever my part is in the Great Commission. I'm here for you to anoint me and use me. I refuse to watch my generation go to hell. I want you to use me in my old age. I want you to use me in my middle years. I want you to use me in my youth. Here I am. Here I am. Touch my lips with the coal. Touch me with your fire. Use me to do great and mighty things. To undo Satan's plan for my family, for my generation, for my county. Send me. I'm yours. I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I'll do what you want me to do. Use me, O Lord. In Jesus' name. I'm gonna pray for everybody. And uh this will make the offering a challenge because I'm gonna do the offering. Let me pray for this lady in the black. Right here. Step around if you would. Praise God. How many got something out of tonight? Here, step four to five. Sorry, I'm putting gum in. I got prayed for by a preacher with bad breath when I was nine, and I still have PTSD from it. Lift both hands. Power of God's on you. Thank you, Lord. Before I pray for you, I want everybody to say something. Say, God heals me because he loves me. That's the primary reason. But he also heals you because how are you gonna go preach in Houston, Texas when it's hot out and then pray for a thousand people or whatever, choking up blood from your lungs or on kidney dialysis? You need a strong body to serve the Lord. Can you say amen? Same with blessing. People, I don't believe in prosperity. If I had your ministry, I wouldn't believe in it either. It's not necessary to have a little meeting in a Starbucks or whatever you do. But if you're gonna go do that, you better believe in a God that anoints your head with oil and makes your cup run over. Can you say amen? The Lord's strengthening your body right now. And he strengthened your faith tonight by his word. Every challenge that you're facing is brought low now. And you have the victory in Jesus' name. Pray for this lady in the black. Come right around. Praise God. Hallelujah. Come in. Come see your hands. As you do that, you're being strengthened. That's the word tonight. You're being strengthened. You're being quick. Everything challenges took out of you. The Lord puts back into you. Power in Jesus' name. Pray for this lady in the white. Sweatshirt, come around. Praise God. Lift your hands to the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. God's strengthening you. Two things. Everybody say I'm being strengthened to overcome every challenge. Then say this. Number two, I'm being strengthened to regain what stress took away. What what what body blows took away. Yeah, when you go through a challenge sometimes, you know, it's like if you ever watch a heavyweight fighter, especially UFC. A guy can win a fight and he can't even go to the press conference because he has to go to the ICU. It's all busted up. So you can win a fight, but come through it beat up. But God will restore everything the enemy tried to take.

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Yeah, I love you. Praise your father. That praise. Receive strength in Jesus' name.

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Thank you, Lord. Let's sing that one time. The angels cry holy. Every hand lifted is Sister Clarita. Sings that. Every hand lifted. Sing it if you know it.

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You will always be. Holy holy forever hear people sing, hear people sing holy to the king of king holy You will always be holy holy Happy Jesus if you will be holy holy holy forever now here's what we're gonna do very quickly.

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Every hand you can put them back down, you can bow your head and close your eyes. If you're here tonight, and the reason things aren't working well is because you're not living like you should. You can't genuinely say, I'm living a hundred percent for God, I'm living on fire for God. Maybe one of these attacks that came, the the goal that Satan accomplished with it is you used to be on fire for God, but that fire has now burned low, or in some cases gone out, and you're not living for Jesus Christ. You're in church sometimes, prayer life, spotty, Bible reading, non-existent. But tonight, God is calling you back to Himself. Maybe like Isaiah, you recognize if I'm gonna be used, I need I need to get cleaned and purified by God's fire and by God's power. All the devil has to do to keep you bound is get you to put this off one more day. But tonight, if you'll do what Isaiah said and say, Lord, take care of this thing that would hinder me. I'm not having any little foxes that are spoiling my vibe. I'm coming out of this meeting tonight, pure and holy, sanctified by the blood of Jesus. That's not God's decision, that's your decision. And if you're here and you've never received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, or you once did but you fell away, you say, Jonathan, when you pray, and in the next couple of minutes, I want to be included in that prayer. I want you to pray with and for me. Quickly put your hand up high and wave it at me right now as a sign to me and a sign to God. I see your hands. Who else? I need to give my life to Jesus today. I want to live on fire for God. Awesome. Very quickly, everyone that lifted a hand, come and join me at the altar. Altar is where transformation happens. Come right now. Awesome. Go ahead and clap for them. Go ahead and encourage them. Keep clapping, everyone that lifted a hand.

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Awesome.

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Awesome. Anybody else?

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Jesus is the way. Sing it again. Oh, Jesus is the answer for the world.

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Anybody watching on TV button, you can join it to the buttons on the screen. Get right with God tonight.

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Jesus is the way. Come on, sing it if you know what Jesus is the answer. Jesus is the answer for the world today. Above him there's no other.

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Say this out loud. Heavenly Father, I've come forward tonight to give you my life. Forgive me of all my sins. Wash me in your blood. I believe in my heart you raised Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth, Jesus is Lord and my Savior. Right now, I receive forgiveness by the blood of Jesus. I am saved. I am forgiven. I am clean. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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