Men's Conference 2026: Bishop Lance Johnson Part 2

Welcome to part 3 of 3 to this year's men's conference, Forged In Christ. On this episode, we welcome back Bishop Lance Johnson to teach, prophesy, and boldly speak the truth to different ages of men to step into their calling that God has for them. You must choose to follow Jesus and be led by the Holy Spirit daily. Your actions have value and matter not just for yourself but for those around you. During this episode, Bishop will ask you some questions to help you understand what you are supposed to be doing in the Kingdom of God. As a child of God, you must know the voice of the Lord because He says His sheep will know His voice. If you do not know the voice of the Lord, you are either a new Christian or you aren't truly saved. This is your wake-up call to take it to the next level with the Lord. To grow deeper in your relationship with the Lord. When you are born again into the Kingdom of God, you are born into a new family. As a family we are to look out for each other and stop causing religious conflict with each other. Religious people are usually miserable because they don't know their inheritance from God. You are God's masterpiece that is being changed every day to be more like Jesus. 

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Sermon from Men's Conference 2026 Part 3 by Bishop Lance Johnson

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Transcript

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Welcome to the Gathering Tabernacle Podcast. We're located in Rocky Comfort, Missouri. Our mission at TGT is to host the presence of the Lord, to see his glory fall like fire and free those who are in bondage. He came to set the captives free. On the podcast, we share our live sermons from lead pastors Dan and Sarah Ghostry, teachings from special guests, and personal testimonies. Thank you for joining us today. If you would like to contact us, you can find us on Facebook or online at www.thegatheringtabernacle.com. Let's jump into today's episode.

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We thank you, Lord, that literally it is your breath in our lives, Lord, because we are in Christ. Thank you, Lord. We're seated with you in heavenly places, Lord. Far above powers of principalities and brothers of darkness, Lord. For that's how great you are, Lord. That you loved us so much, Lord, that you come and took off flesh and dwelt among us, Lord. We praise you and we honor you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen. And all the men said, Amen. Amen. All right. Here we go, round three. Ding ding ding. In this corner, coming in at 225 pounds. From Ranger, Georgia, Bishop Lance Johnson. Hallelujah. And in this corner from Madisonville, Kentucky. Sheriff Woody!

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Amen. Praise the Lord. Well, I'm excited. Hey guys, I want to ask you all if you would to please pray for us as we get ready in April to open up our men's transformational center there in Kentucky. For those that don't know, I I was actually in Missouri when the Lord downloaded the vision and the purpose for all of that. I had kind of felt like that the season of my life for ministry and people coming out of addiction outside of just preaching and ministering to them in church and rehabs and stuff had kind of come to an end. But the Lord downloaded a ministry to me. And I was in uh uh Joplin preaching uh and I was sitting at a red light and I looked up and God had spoken to me a couple of years, years or so ago, and said, Son, I'm gonna give you a campus. We needed room in our church, and so I just started looking for a church building. That's what I did, you know. God's gonna give me a campus. I'll you know you refer to a church as a campus. I started looking while I was sitting in front of a college, and uh to be honest with you, I looked over and uh the Lord spoke to me and he said, Son, I told you I was gonna give you a campus, but because you have no faith, you started looking for a church. And it really broke my eye. I mean, it broke I I was just like, wow. I just started praying, repenting, and I asked God to help on the league. And uh so that next week or so anyway, we we just uh Todd took me by the school at Earlington. It was for sale, and uh the city was gonna sell it. And long story short, there was a guy in there working in our services, and Todd knew he got saved, he got delivered out of drugs and addiction and everything. And he said, Bitch, what are you looking at it? I just told him and he said, Come on, you gotta go meet the mayor. Next thing we're sitting in the mayor's office, and uh, you know, I mean, literally, it was almost a handshake deal at that moment, and everything just fell in place. So we we actually take over and move in on April 1st. We got a lot of work to do, but we got us in a million-dollar project. Really, it literally is a million-dollar project if we we have the funds to get it up and running. But it's going to not just be it's not a rehab. I'm done, I don't run rehabs, I won't run rehabs, I'm not against them, thank God for people that do them, but it's not my cost. We we're running a transformation center that's built on true salvation, true deliverance, and true discipleship. Uh our nation is facing two problems. We got an addiction problem in America, we got a workforce problem in America. And uh to fix that, we're gonna have to we're gonna have to get men delivered from addiction, and we're gonna have to get uh men discipled and and taught uh work ethics and and and and work principles. We don't have a workforce in America. Period. Nobody wants to work. And uh and the ones that do work can't show up on time, they don't do things with integrity, they act like they, you know, you're doing on them injustice, having to make them show up to work every day. I don't know where the work ethic went in America, but uh we're gonna we're gonna raise up a generation of men and uh instead of this being a world-begging organization where we're always behind the eight balls begging for offerings for people coming into the program, we built businesses with inside this ministry where we train men in work ethics and and and and social skills and workplace character, and they work and pay their way while they're going through there, and those companies put the put the finances and resources back into that ministry to fund it. So it's uh it it it's the intense discipleship that works to build a local church. It is not a church within a church. Uh we will put people in the local church. We will not be a church. We will we're gonna do the the work of a church, but for men coming out of the district, but we will plant them in the local churches, so uh as well as planting them back into the workforce of those regions that we're in. So guys pray for us. It's a big undertaking. Uh we got a short period of time and a little bit of time to get it done, so we just need a little bit of prayer, amen. We'll be able to house hundreds of men there. So part of the reason I feel like the Lord gave it to me was just because of this. Um the fact that um guys, we put hundreds of men here. So as many places as we're preaching across the nation, as many pastors and friends as I have uh all over the nation, this will be a place where you'll have a resource to send your family members, your loved ones, and hopefully when we send them back to you, they're gonna be transformed and ready to come into the body of Christ and be a great men, men of God. So pray for us. It's a it's a big undertaking. But uh I um just shortly after that I was in Vermont, which we're we're in the middle of a great revival in Vermont, and uh and I walked into a um I went to look at a facility there that asked about putting a min a school of ministry in it. And by the way, we will have a ministry training center at the Erlington School as well, so we'll be training up the next generation of fivefold ministry there as well. So uh that'll be a part of what we do there. But uh uh we went to look at a facility there, and I'm just gonna show you my humanity so you understand that I deal with the same things you deal with before I bring you this next message. Uh they went to show me a facility up there, and a lot of the pastors have said, bitch, why don't you put a training center up here? And I said, Well, you know, I feel like God wants to do something the region, we can do that. I go to look at it, and when I get there, I at least saw a thing on Fox look at it, it was actually a university. And and if you recently saw a thing on Fox News where a guy in Vermont is going to donate a university, this guy wanted to donate the university to me. Uh it's on 160 something acres of land. Uh it is 500,000 square feet of facility. This is not some little bitty school of 65,000 square feet. This is this is over half a million square feet, but it's on 160 acres. It's a city within itself. And uh and my knees buffed, guys. I'm not gonna lie to you. Uh God showed me how much faith I didn't have. If I can tell you, if God can give it to you, if God can give you the vision and the resources to be able to maintain it. He took me to the scripture in the Bible, and I'm gonna start from here. He took me to the scripture in the Bible where the 10 spies, the 12 spies came out and said, concerning the land of Canaan, the promised land, it is a land that swallows up the inhabitants thereof. Part of the reason they said that was because that it was so vast and so mass, and they had the evidence of it with one cluster of grapes that it took two men to carry. I just recently went and bought 200 clusters of fake grapes that are just the same size as a legitimate cluster. I put 200 clusters in a bushel box and I give it to the littlest girl in my church and had her stand on the stage holding 200 clusters of grapes in a box this big. If all your life you've harvested vineyards, that one little girl could carry 200 clusters of grapes and harvest them within an hour in an average. That you could pick it in vines that were high level, that you could just reach up and pull it and you could carry 200 clusters. Understanding that the cluster of grapes that it took those two men to carry will now in this land take 400 men to do what one woman could have done herself. Think about that. And what would your reaction be to what God wants to do in your life? That you're coming out of a lifestyle of familiarity of your inadequacies, of your personal failures, of your personal battles, of all the things that you couldn't do, that you had no confidence to do. You come out of an environment of familiarity, of what you could and could not do, what life limited you to, what your background limited to. You've got your mind boxed in by the culture of your familiarity. And now God's trying to bring you into something that only He can do and give you, and only He can enable and empower you to be able to maintain it. You understand that's what God's trying to do in this generation. And it's almost fictitious to the carnal mind. It's almost fantasy of what God wants to do in your life. For some of you in this room right here to become an author and write books that will shift a nation. That would be fabric, that would be fantasy to you. That would be like fabrication of something impossible. But yet maybe that's what God wants you to do. For some of you in this room to preach to more people than Reinhart Bunkey can just seem inimaginable because you can't even speak in front of two people, much less millions of people. But yet maybe that's the destiny of God over your life. If I had to ask any of you in this room, if you could dig past all of your inadequacies, all of your lack of education, your lack of money, lack of resources, lack of familiarity, and ask you that if you would search your God heart, the the part that God has influence over you, and you could do anything you wanted to do for God. If you could just write it down on a piece of paper, I almost got paper to ask him if you could get me pens and have y'all just write it down. Write down what would you do right now if money wasn't an object, if people wasn't an object, time wasn't an object. What would you actually do for God right now? Does any of you can any of you in the room come up with something right now, this is what I want to do for God. If money wasn't an object, people wouldn't. For some of you, it could be I want to fund the kingdom. Some of you I want to go to mission field. Some of you I want to be an evangelist, I want to build a church. How many of you can think of something you would do for God right now? If money, time, and energy, you could, you just there's something inside of you. If you got that, look at me. That's probably what God's called you to do. That's probably the thing that God's asked you to do. Because where did that come from? Where did that thought to do that come from? It sure didn't come from the devil. Look at me. And it didn't come from your flesh. Because the flesh don't long to do things in the kingdom. Listen, it doesn't desire to build things in the kingdom. The flesh runs from those kind of things. That's the reason some of you that'll always be. But listen, I don't want the grade for you to be the richest part of your life. You don't need to die with the dreams of God in you. You don't need to try, die with the call of God in your life. You need to fulfill that. You need to lay hold of that thing. Paul said, I've not yet apprehended the things that God apprehended me for. You have got to apprehend what God wants for your life. That's why, if you have your Bibles, turn to the book of Hebrews, chapter 12. I told you I was going to try to be quick today. But I want to minister to you today. I don't want to just preach to you. You've heard enough sermons and you better, a lot better preachers than I am in the room. But I'm trying to get you to a place today. When you walk out these brown doors right here, and you go through these two sets of doors here and out to the outside, and you go back home, you're not going back home the way you left, the way you come in. You're going to come home with a determined mind. You're going to go home with the faith and the made-up mind to be the man of God that God called you to be. My God, we've heard enough sermons and went home and did the same thing we were doing before we heard the sermon. Today's got to be a day of activation. It's got to, something shifts in us today. Fair enough? Can you say it? Something shifts in me. Come on, something shifts in me. I want to talk to you about Hebrews chapter 12 today, beginning in verse 13. The Bible said he makes straight paths for your feet. So he put the responsibility of making straight paths for your feet on you. Somebody say there's responsibilities on my part. You know the Bible says that as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. See, we get excited talking about, talking about I'm an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus, but the fact is you'll never walk in sonship unless you're led by the Spirit of God. That is a decision that you've got to make every day of your life. That's why Jesus' message wasn't repeat this prayer. Jesus' message was take up your cross and follow me. Everything about the Bible is about walking in the Spirit. That's the decision that you've got to make every day. There is a responsibility on your part. You don't earn salvation from it. You don't gain, you know, you can't earn that with God. That price was paid. But when you got born again, in order to be the shift and the transformation that Pastor taught today and talked about today, about being born again. Now I desire to do those things. But you still have to choose to do that every day. You have to choose to die to yourself every day. That's not, God's not going to make you do anything. It is a decision you make. If you're going to apprehend the destiny of God, you've got to make a decision to be led by the Spirit of God. He said, make straight paths for your feet. It's a decision you make to make straight paths. You have to choose that. And let me tell you why you have to choose it, because the verse tells us right here. It's not even about you. Somebody say it ain't about me. He said, make straight paths for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong. Because what decisions you make affect other people. Let me read that to you in the NLT. It says, mark out straight paths for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong. In other words, what you do impacts what happens to other people. I need you to say that what I do matters to other people. So it's not just about you, but it is about what your life does to affect other people. And you can either affect somebody for the glory of God and for the advancement of the kingdom, or you can be a stumbling block to other people. Wow. Not only just for the for the world, but for your family, for your wife, for your kids, and everyone coming up. You've got to understand your decisions and what you're doing every day matters. That's why you've got to make straight paths for your feet. That's why you know how you make straight paths for your feet? Follow the will of God. Say that with me. Follow the will of God. The steps of a good man are what? Ordered of the Lord. That means you got to walk in the path that God has for your life. You got to get in the face of God and ask Him the will of God and learn to be led by the Holy Spirit. Hello? You got to know the voice of God. He said, My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me. If you don't know the voice of God, either one thing, you're an infant Christian, or either you're not a real, true, born-again believer. Because he said, My sheep hear my voice. His words are bread for us. The Bible tells us man should not live by bread alone, but every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. You've got to posture, position yourself to know and to be led by the Spirit of God. That's why Romans 12, 2 said, Be not conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may what? Know the perfect and acceptable will of God. The will of God does not always come through the prophet, even though it does come through the prophet sometimes, doesn't always come through a sermon. Sometimes it comes through a renewed mind. It's not that I heard the voice of God, it's just that I know the will of God because my mind's been renewed. Wow, come on. I'm maturing, so I just know this is the will of God. And I've got to take up my cross and do what I know is right in the eyes of God every day. Somebody said I got to do what's right. And the reason if I do that, then I strengthen the weak. I make a difference in other people's lives. I set an example for other people to follow. Is that all right? If I want to change a nation, I need to walk the right path. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which man which man shall not shout. Without which no man shall see the Lord. So you've got to follow peace with all men. That means that I've got to do everything that I can to walk in peace with people. Quit trying to be in, try to quit trying to be in conflict with people and be a peacemaker. Well, I need to preach it here today. Listen, if we want to get rid of the drama and the religious politics in the church, it starts with us. Oh, I need you to hear that today. Listen, how many of you know the Bible says, not me, the Bible says that Satan disguises himself as a messenger of light. That word messenger says angels in the King James, but the word means messenger of light. So it's always somebody that says, I'm speaking in behalf of God. Let me tell you how else the devil comes. He disguises himself as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Everybody with me? So somebody say the devil goes to church. And listen, don't demonize people because here's what the Bible says. See, we're always getting mad. Well, it's some of the devil in the church, them hypocrites in the church, using it as an excuse for you to get out of church, for you to be offended, for you to get caught in conflict, for you to get caught in trauma. Just understand the Bible tells you Satan's coming to church. Wow. Jesus' own men that he handpicked got full of the devil. Just nearly all of them. Not just Peter. What did he say to Peter when Peter was like, Don't go to, you're not going to the cross, get behind me. So Peter got full of the devil. So just understand the devil's going to be at church. Everybody follow me. I need you to get this tonight. The enemy is trying to abort your assignment. But if you're going to stop the drama, you know what? You need to stop listening to the drama. You need to walk at peace. You know, instead of listening to stuff, sometimes you just need to stop it. Wow. Hey, how many of you remember, how many of you remember the statement of the disciples when Jesus was uh was uh was going to Jerusalem and he told them to go prepare a place, but because Jesus was going to Jerusalem and was going to pass through Samaria and the Samaritans didn't want him there. And they said, listen, the disciples had come back and said, Hey, you want us to call down fire out of heaven and kill them? He said, You don't know what spirit you're of. You understand that the devil is in the church trying to abort your assignment. He's trying to get you caught up in a wrong spirit in some kind of shenanigans. And guys, you have the power to put fire out instead of putting gas on it. And I'm not talking about the fire of the Holy Ghost. I'm talking about the fire gossip, the fire division. Walk at peace with all men. Be a peacemaker instead of an instigator. I feel the Holy Ghost. Listen, I know I know you don't understand it. The garbage that we as pastors have to put up with and have to deal with, with conflict. I'm going to give you some examples of it. Guys, I leave revival all over the nation. It is my assignment. I go places where revival breaks out. Here's what I know revival will never come where there is a restriction of the move of the Holy Spirit. That means you can't try to box in the gifts of the Spirit. You can't box in prophecy. You can't box in healing. You can't box in the methods of God. Listen, you forget I've been in North Georgia since the day it started. And guys, Todd's the one that took all the blows from the revival in the water. But I'm the guy traveling that everybody wants to be critical of if it comes to. I don't believe that. I don't believe in them order anything. You're getting baptized all over. Everybody's got an opinion. You get it. I've been the guy there for all these years watching cancer get healed, blind eyes open, deaf ears open. I've led more people to Jesus in the last eight years. At Christ Fellowship Church than all my crusades put together. Every time I preach, there's 30 to 60, 70 people get born again every time I preach there. And you tell me it ain't revival. But there's people, well, I don't believe in that. I don't agree with that. And everywhere we go, you want to move of God. But here's the problem: you got cynics that are trying to criticize things. Guys, listen, you have the authority and the power to say, hey, you know what, brother? You don't even need to be saying that. You got a power to break peace with all men. Somebody say peace with all men. I don't even know why I'm going down this road, but I am. I feel the Holy Ghost in what I'm about to say. Guys, you need to put out the fires that get started in church. Hey, guys, you really want to have revival? Learn how to open your mouth and pray. Quit praying in your heads. You want revival? You want to lead revival in your home? You want to open your mouth. Open your mouth. Quit praying in your head. Start praying out your mouth. Why? Because you're creating the image of God. When God gets ready to create something, He don't take it, He speaks it. You want to shift an atmosphere? Open your mouth and begin to release the prophetic word of God over that atmosphere. Begin to release what God's saying over Rocky Comfort, Missouri, over Venita, Oklahoma. Begin to open your mouth and release the prophetic word of God because principalities and powers are hearing what you're releasing, and you have the authority of God living on the inside of you. Become prayer warriors and intercessors that travail in the spirit and pray in the Holy Ghost. When I pray in the natural man, you know what happens when I pray in my own understanding? I'm praying what I think is right. Yeah, I'm praying. Sometimes my flesh gets involved in it. But you know what happens when I pray in the spirit? It's not me that prays, but it's the spirit of God that prays through me. So everything I pray in the spirit, I'm praying according to the perfect will of God. Whoa, y'all not hear me to me. So open your mouth and pray in the spirit out loud. Pray. Pray in the Holy Ghost. Quit worrying about what people, you know, the Bible says if you ain't gonna pray in tongue, somebody's gotta interpret. In a public meeting where there is structure and order, not a prayer meeting. Boy, y'all get mad at me. I'm gonna tell you, listen, if you want to pick a fight, I'll pick a fight with you and I'll show you what the word of God says about praying in the spirit, singing in the spirit, what it says about tongues. I just finished a book on it. And listen, guys, you gotta understand, it is significant. You keep prohibiting. The Bible said, the Bible says when you prohibit prophecy, you quench the Holy Spirit. You can't if you're gonna have revival. But guys, you as the leaders have to be the defenders without arguments to say, hey guys, we're not gonna fight about that. You know what? You're not gonna come up here and cause conflict in my church. Well, that ain't my job. Yes, it is your job. It's your job to walk with peace with people, not to be passive and let some guy come in and split your stinking church because he wants to be a religious cog in the wheel and he wants to drag people out of the church. That after he split the church, that crowd's gonna be scattered because they don't have a shepherd and they don't have a leader anymore, because he thought he was a leader, but they wouldn't nobody follow him to the creek to take a drink. My God, and he scatters sheep. That's what the enemy does. You got to be leaders that walk in peace, but walking in peace is sometimes you got to be the one to stop the controversy. Boy, I'm preaching good. I don't even, that's prophetic, really. It really has nothing to do with my message. It's not in my notes, and it has nothing. It just has to do with, I believe I'm standing in front of revival carriers. I'm standing in front of a generation that wants a move of God in the nation. And if you want a move of God, you're gonna have to learn how to put fires out. Quit running to the pastor and saying, Pastor so-and-so said. How about you just tell him he's your buddy, you ride Harleys with him, you go fishing with him, pull him off to the side and say, hey man, you're causing division. I love you, but we gotta walk in peace, and we need a move of God. You need to hush. I don't have to be mad, I don't have to punch him in the eye or nothing. I just gotta, I just need to be a man. I don't know where that came from, except the Holy Ghost. I'm just prophesying to somebody. I really am, guys. I'm telling you. Watch this. Look out after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Say this with me: look out for each other. See, we gotta look out for each other because we're the body of Christ. Not just we got to look out each other. Quit worrying about yourself and look out for everybody. Begin to think it ain't just about you and what you want, but what's best for everybody. What can I do to look out for my brothers? Here's what happens. Watch this. You ain't gonna like this. The King James says, so that you don't fail the grace of God. Everybody say that I don't fail the grace of God. Say it again, so I don't fail the grace of God. The grace of God is not the mercy of God. I love you, but if you'll look up the Greek word and you'll study the word caris, it does not mean the mercy of God. It doesn't even mean the forgiveness of God. For some reason, we think that I'm saved by grace through faith means that when I'm saved by grace, I'm saved by his forgiveness. But that is not, we are saved by forgiveness. But grace is not forgiveness. Grace, watch this. You need to hear this. Grace in the Greek, look it up in your stroll. It means his divine influence upon my heart and its reflection in my life. I don't deserve it, it's unmerited, but yet God influences me. I'll prove it to you. The Bible says where sin abounds, what abounds much more? That doesn't mean where sin abounds, forgiveness abounds much more. It says where sin abounds, the influence of God upon your heart and its reflection in your life abounds more than sin. I'm gonna prove it to you. How many of you found Jesus? Put your hands down, you're wrong. I love you, but you're wrong. You didn't find Jesus. Jesus found you. No man comes to Jesus unless the what? I had a man tell me one time, Bishop, God don't speak to sinners. I said, dude, you're biblically illiterate. If God don't speak to sinners, nobody can be saved. Because it takes God drawing us, it takes God influencing us. I feel the Holy Ghost. That's why you're saved by grace. You're saved because God influenced you, God convicted you, God dealt with you, God showed up on your Damascus road. It may not have been in an audible voice, but he showed up. In my life, it was in a Vince Gill song in the middle of a in the cab of a Ford F-150 that led to my living room. Come on, y'all need to hear me. But it was God who showed up. It was God who woke me up at 3 o'clock in the morning. I'd be high. He'd be under conviction. He'd be pulling on my heart. You remember God found you. He left the 99 and came after you. He may have used a donkey to come find you, but he found you, right? So it's grace. Everybody say grace. So see what happens when you don't walk at peace with men and you don't walk in unity with God in the will of God. You fail to receive. The Bible tells us to exactly what it's going to look out for each other so that none of us fail the grace of God. What we need as a church and men of God is we need to stay under the influence of God. I don't need distractions that pull me out from under the influence of God. I'm going to show you what happened. What happens if you walk out from under the influence of God? I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. You're going to backslide. You don't believe it? Read the parable of the sore. The parable of the sore. When persecution for the word's sake, an offense comes over the word's sake. That's not just that people attack me because I'm a Christian, but an offense comes over the word's sake. I'm offended because you believe in tongues tonight and you don't. That's an offense for the word's sake. That the truth comes in. The truth begins to deal with you. God starts dealing with you. You and your girlfriend are coming to church. Hear me, guys. Listen to me. And you're coming to church and y'all are doing the hanky panky and y'all, you know, you're engaged. I get it, but you ain't married. Listen, if you want to do the hanky panky, put a ring on it and get married. Outside of that, it's called fornication. You can get mad at me if you want to get mad at me, but all of a sudden an offense comes from the word say, because the preacher got up and told you you need to get married, quit shacking. Wow. I can go on all day long with illustrations. Let me get on you, Budweiser drinking boys. Jesus didn't drink Budweiser, and he didn't drink Miller Light, and he didn't drink Pouch's Blue Ribbon. And as far as I'm concerned, he didn't drink fermented wine either. You can get mad at me all day long if you want to. But how many of you believe the Bible when it says that God tempts no man? If you believe that the fervency of God when he saved the best wine for last was more fermented, then why in the world would in a Jewish wedding feast where he's been serving wine all day long and they had watered the wine down, and Jesus makes new wine, and that new wine is the best wine. They saved it for last, and the best means that it had more, uh, that it was uh a stronger fermenting. Let me ask you a question. Wouldn't that mean that God, Jesus being fully God in the flesh, took a bunch of guys and women that's been drinking all day and then made them a much stronger wine and said, Here, drink this when the Bible calls drunkenness a sin? Come on, guys, read the Bible. Jesus ain't no Bud Budweiser drinking. Boy, I felt that. I felt it. I felt it. I felt it. And even if you can justify in your own mind, let me ask you a question. How many of you guys in this room were like me an alcoholic? I was an alcoholic. I drank a fifth of, I drank a fifth of liquor and a case of beer every day of my life, every day, and that was a minimal. Now let me ask you a question. When you got a new convert in the room and he sees you and he sees you at Longhorns, or he sees you down at uh at the tank, and there you're sitting there drinking a beer, and he just got delivered and got saved, and now he thinks it's okay that it's all right. Let me ask you, you think God's gonna be okay with you being a stumbling block? Come on, you think he's alright with that? I'm talking about a fence for the word's sake. Listen, this is a reality of where we live. We want to carry revival, but then we don't want to put out the conflict that sometimes is caused for the word's sake. Ha! And why do we get caught up in a debate about what our flesh wants to do? Come on, somebody help me. And it ain't profiting nobody, I'm mad and I'm angry and I'm bitter because Bishop got in my grill about my Budweiser. And I don't agree with him. Bless God. I'm gonna make my point to everybody, and you've just caused a conflict to pull people away from being able to hear God, and now it's about your offense. Oh I'm talking about maintaining revival. Everything I'm talking to you about kills revival. Everything I'm telling you about kills revival. It stops the move of God because it gets people distracted. So you get offended over something that's persecution for the word's sake, that you can't come in an agreement, you don't believe it, and you get all offended, and you get your draws in a bunch. Watch what happens. And you get mad, lay out a church, because you're mad at the pastor, and you're mad at somebody to their side, and you pull away, guess what you're gonna do? You're gonna backslide. And you know what? You're gonna wither up spiritually and you're gonna die. Watch me. Are y'all hearing what I'm saying? And I wonder what kind of junk in a church that we have the power to fix. We have the power to put the fire out, we have the power to walk in unity, that we don't get caught up in little distractions that stops the influence of God over people's lives. Is this all right? I'm gonna finish this thing up for you. I promise you I told you I wouldn't be long, so I'm gonna keep my word. He said, Be careful that you that you don't fail the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous, the King James calls it, a root of bitterness grows up whereby trouble you corrupting many. King James said, beware at least the root of bitterness springing up in you whereby many become defiled. You gotta be you gotta guard yourself against offenses. Everybody say, I gotta guard myself against offenses. Say it again, I gotta guard myself against offenses. Let me tell you what happens when you get offended. When you get offended, a root of bitterness springs up in you. When a root of bitterness springs up in you, the Bible said whereby many be defiled. Not just you become defiled, but many become defiled. Why? Because when you get a root of bitterness in you, and by the way, roots of bitterness grow beneath the surface. You can't see them. Roots grow under the ground. Are y'all with me? You got it in there, but you're in denial about it. You got an offense with the pastor, you got an offense to somebody in the church, and you don't deal with it, and it grow and it gets down in your spirit. Help, help me, somebody. How what comes in? Where does the nutrients from the earth come into the fruit through? Everything that comes into a tree or a plant has to come through the root system. And if your root is bitter, then everything in your tree is contaminated. Are you following me? Is this all right? Okay, so your fruit is contaminated. You got love, you got joy, but then you got bitterness in it. It's got a little bit. Now everybody's eating on your fruit. Everybody you're in relationship with, everybody you're in friendship with is coming along and grabbing your fruit and saying, you know, I love old Dan, me and Dan, but Dan's got that little contamination in his fruit. And and what's in your heart comes out your mouth. And all of a sudden, people partaking of you, buddies, but you're sowing your discord in their life. You're sowing your offense in their life, you're sowing your hurts into their life, and they're becoming contaminated. And they're hearing because words are what? Seeds. And you're planting seeds of discord, seeds of offense and bitterness, and next thing you know, everybody around you is defiled and revival comes to an end. And you wonder where the glory went. You think, well, the praise team ain't doing their job anymore. No, the problem is possibly you. Or something you could have helped fix because it wasn't just the pastor's job. It's all of our job to look out after each other. Golly, is this all right? I'm I'm finishing to break an end to this thing. Somebody say we gotta grow up. Say it with me, we gotta grow up because what you do affects other people's lives. What you do matters. And here's the thing that gets me in this text. And I told you I'm gonna be short. It's gonna be, he said, make sure that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who traded his birthright as the firstborn son for a single meal. Let me read that verse to you. Least there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for the morsel of meat sold his birthright. In other words, the destiny of God that he chose for your life. The plan, the birthright. I don't believe this is just talking about eternity. A lot of people make this about heaven and hell, but I don't believe it's just about heaven and hell. Let me explain something to you. In the parable of the prodigal son and the older brother, the Bible said that the prodigal son said to his father, give me the what? Portion. Everybody say, portion. Because according to Jewish law, they would get a the the oldest son got a portion, and it was the larger portion than the younger son. So the younger son came and said, Give me my portion. He knew I get a portion, right? Somebody say a portion. And because he was getting a less portion, guess what he did? He said, I don't, because I'm only getting a portion, I'm gonna walk out from under the Father's wheel. See, when you don't really know what you have in God, and you don't really know the value of what abiding in God every day gets you, and you don't really understand the magnitude of what a devoted walk in a devoted life of surrender and submission to God really benefits you, if you don't know that, then you're always gonna go live on the other side of the fence because you don't know what you got to lose. People that don't know the benefits of walking in a devoted life, of abiding in Christ, that don't know what comes as a result of that, won't never stay committed to Christ. They'll take their goods and they'll take their whatever they think they have and they'll go squander it with prodigal living, with, with, with, with prostitutes. That's what the Bible said that he did. He went out with riotous living. He went out and lived in the clubs and whatever he did, and he ended up in the pig pen. Everybody say in the pig pen. And you know what brought him back to the father's house? When the Bible said he came to himself and said, Back in my father's house, the hired servants, the slaves, the the menial people have bread and enough to spare. In other words, what brought him back was not just enough to get by, but they've got more than enough. The abundance. See, people that religion has robbed you from understanding the abundance of God. God wants you to have more than enough. Life and life more abundantly, peace that passes all understanding. Come on, joy unspeakable and full of glory. Come on, the mercies of God, good measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over. Now, oh God, I feel the Holy Ghost. Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ask or think. When the Bible says he became poor that you could become rich, he meant what he said. God don't want you walking in lack, but religion tells you, oh God, don't that's just I don't want you to have that. Oh God, that's that's just not really meant to be that way. Read the Bible. Jesus gives abundant life. Resurrection power. But people that don't know that squander what little inheritance they have by living on both sides of the fence. Everybody with me? I'm talking about birthright. I'm talking about birthright. You don't know what your birthright brought you. Second thing, watch this. The older brother, who never left the house, who never transgressed the father, is mad and bitter and angry because when the prodigal comes home, he gets what? The only thing the older brother's mad about is the fatty cat. He got no problem with the shoes, he got no problem with the ring, he got no problem with the robe, he just got a problem with the fatty cat. Listen to me. Religious people that have lived in the house as good people, never transgressing the Father, but they're in there miserable and down and condemn the abundance of God, is because they don't know what they have. And they're miserable when God shows extravagancy. They're mad. They want to fight. You know, and here's how religious people fight. Y'all really want to hear this? It's alright. Here's how religious people fight. I ain't going to the dinner. I'll show him, I will not put another dollar in that offering plate. I'll show him, I'll show him by my absence. I'm pulling back until I get my way. You know what that looks like? That looks like a three-year-old kid in the middle of Walmart throwing a tantrum tantrum. Like a three-year-old in the middle of Walmart kicking and screaming because his mama wouldn't buy him a toy. Manipulation. Witchcraft. I'm just gonna sit out on my bill floor. I ain't going, I ain't participating. I'm I'll show him. And he's mad. That's religion. Talk to me. You know why religious people are so miserable? Because they don't know their inheritance. When Jesus went out, and by the way, Jesus went to get the religious man. He went after the coin, he went after the sheep. He didn't go after the the prodigal son, but he did go after the religious man. And you know what he said to him? He said, Son, did you not know that everything that I had all that I had. Not a portion. Not a little bit, not a segment of all that I have in here. See, here's what you don't understand is your birthright of the destiny and the destination of God over your life. The impact that that life has and the provisions of God for the influence to advance the kingdom and to make a difference in the world and to know that your life is going to matter, and the birthright, the destiny of God is going to matter. It matters, guys. Look at me, it matters. And it's big, it's not normal. It's listen, look what God wants for your life, your birthright, your destiny. Let me tell you what that destiny is. You want to know what your destiny is? Everybody want to know what it is? You're predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus. So you can do what he did. Period. That's your birthright. To walk as he walked. He quoted earlier. I love it. Ephesians 2, 10. Everybody knows 2.9. Not a workshop. Read verse 10. But we are his workmanship. Created unto good works. I love that. Look up the word workmanship there. The NLT translates that. Look at that. It's on the screen right there. We are his masterpiece. I love that. Somebody say this with me. I'm his masterpiece. In the making. Say, I'm a masterpiece. In the making. You know why he's molding you every day to look just like Jesus. That's my destiny. That's my destination. I'm going to walk like him. I'm going to talk. You know what? He changed the world. You know what? He changed everywhere he went, and so are you. Your life matters. Your destiny matters. Your assignment matters. And here's what happened to Esau. He sold that destiny for a bowl of soup. He sold that assignment for a bowl of soup. In a moment of weakness, in a moment when he was physically hungry, he gave his birth right away. I preached this entire message to tell men in this room, don't you give your birth right away for a stinking bowl of soup. Don't miss what God's prepared for you. Don't miss the things that He's going to use you for. To not just change your life, but to change other people's lives. Guys, let me tell you something. And what I do, there's many a time. I'm just like you. Stuff happens to me all the time in my flesh. I get things that come knocking on my door. And there's days that man, I just I just want to go home. There's days I can I can I just speak really candidly? There's kids in the room, so I'll be careful. These are just days I just want to say Y'all can hack. I'm done. I don't need it. There's days I want to get angry. There's days I want to get offended. There's some days I just want to go home and hold my wife and just be normal. There's some days I don't want to travel for 250 days. There's some days that I just get tired and I get weak. And there's some days that I just I want to get in the flag number one I want to be. But there's something else that weighs on me every day. What's it gonna do to other people? And if I fail, how many people is that gonna attack? How many people are gonna fall because I fall? How many people are gonna get angry because I quit? Guys, I've not led a few people to Jesus in thirty-five years. I've led I've led literally millions of people to Jesus. I really have. I know some people don't believe that. There was a day in my life I preached to 56 million people every day I woke up and drew opposite into my life. We were on every major television network in the nation. We preached to millions of people every day. I've led thousands and thousands of people to Jesus in my lifetime. I planned it I don't even know how many churches I planned in. I don't know how many Bible colleges I planned in. I don't know how many people I've actually read. In my day because I'm I'm I'm 60 and 59. I meant to be 60 this year. You gotta understand, I would go to bars and rent the whole bar out and film TV programs in a bar and talk about alcoholism and how Jesus comes together. It didn't matter how much money came in in my TV ministry because I wasn't after the money, I was after the money. You know, we Christian TV people don't give to people that film in bars. They don't they don't give to people that opened up their television program when they went home, Alabama because I wanted the attention of the sinner. I didn't want the attention of a Christian. I wanted him to listen to my messenger because I got a message that'll set him free for the rest of his life. Are you hearing that? So I don't know how many people I led to Jesus. What if I quit? What if I go home? What if I quit? What if I don't go preach another America? What do you say a crusade? What if I don't? I just spent last week, I just spent about eight thousand dollars doing a crusade and I took in twenty two hundred dollars in three days. Twenty two hundred dollars, it cost me eight thousand to do a crusade. And I took in twenty two hundred money and I'm spending a million that I don't have. I don't want to go home. There's just some days the drama of the people in my life. They argue with one another bigger than fussy. I'd be like I'm out here laying my life at it. Y'all want to fight over some radio non-significant? What if I go home? What if I go home? I don't want to say that ain't true responsibility. Yeah, yeah. Also, I'm free of the blood of all men because I'm not sure. I don't want to get to heaven in this world. I don't want to get to heaven. I know that I could have done this, but I didn't do it. Because of some nonsense that I let get in my head. Every one of you in this room, your life matters as much as my life matters. Your ministry may never be bigger than your family. But your family matters. Your obedience, whether you understand it or not, is going to change somebody in your life. You may never preach to a million people, but you don't know that the one you preach will preach to a hundred million people. My brother has never preached a sermon in his life. But he led me to Jesus. And he break me into the kingdom. And he's the reason I'm saved today. Even though he wasn't the one that writes a single prayer when they used to reason I'm saved. He's never held a microphone in his hand to preach a sermon. But I tell you every soul, every day into the kingdom of God, God killed my brother. You're lying. What happens when you get to heaven? I know y'all are tired, but you get to heaven. Some God fleet in the earth. You sold it for an affair. You sold it because of fear. You missed it because of a negative report from some bad person. Those ten spies cost a million people to lose their destiny. And you could have missed your destiny because you let some negative human being in your ear telling you you can't do that. That guy's full of crap. You can't never be that. He's just telling you live in fantasy. He's giving you false hope. My dad told me after I got saved. He told me so many times. Boy, you can't change the word. You know what? My daddy was wrong. My daddy was wrong. They told me the first day I ever walked into a church. I went to the altar that day in that little Holly Spring Southern Baptist church called Holly Spring Southern Baptist Church. And them four D five, six deacons took me in the back room and pointed their finger at me and they told me, this is what they said to me. I announced my call to preach, I just got born again. They were wrong. Boy, you'll never preach to God. They were wrong. I could have got mad and went home that day. Said the church is full of hypocrites. I could have went home and got mad because they judged me. I preached four out of them six deacons here, by the way. They died, they loved me, and I loved them. You can get offended or you can keep going for Jesus. You can sell your birthright, or you can lay hold of the things that Jesus laid hold of you for. I'm here to call the men of God in this room to lay hold of what God laid hold of you for. To become the men of God that when you walk out these doors, your face is going to be fixed like a flint on God. And you're not going to let anything steal your destiny, your purpose, God's assignment, and God's plan for your life. As a husband, as a father, as a man of God, you're going to lay hold of what God laid hold of you for. I don't know who God's speaking to in this room, but if it's you, raise your hand. Just raise it high. God's speaking to you right now. I want every man that has raised your hand that God's speaking to. I want you to meet me in this altar right now. I want you to come right now. Come, come quickly. I just wish I could just take every one of you and hold you right there and tell and tell you your life matters. God's going to use you. God's going to use you. Your life is going to make a difference in other people's lives. It's not just about us. It's about him. It's about his kingdom. It's about his plan for our life. It's about the destiny that God chose us. And you know what? I can't lose it. I can't lose it. I can't quit. I can't get offended. I can't stop. I can't throw in the towel. I gotta keep peace. I gotta wake up every day and say, I refuse to be offended. I refuse to get caught up in the distractions. I refuse to miss God's destiny and purpose for my life. I will not miss my birthright. Not for a bowl of soup. Not for anything. God, my life is not my home. Belongs to you. Give us a kingdom heart. Ah, take out a heart of flesh. That is of carnal self-seeking. God, take out selfish ambition. Take away that old carnal heart. And give us a spiritual heart today, God. Take it. Give us a heart for the kingdom, for your will. Give us grace, oh God, that influences us, empowers us, and enables us, Lord. That we will fulfill every assignment, every purpose, every plan, that we will walk intently with you every day, that we will abide in you, and that we won't just go to revival, but we will be the carriers of revival. But we will pour oil on the fires of revival. We will not be revival killers, we will be revival carriers. Raise up a generation of men that release glory everywhere they go. But we will release rivers in every region, every place that we go, God. And God, we will not let the enemy down upon rivers, but God, today, God, as we abide and submit ourselves unto you, that today the rivers are released and opened up in our lives. We will not let fear paralyze us. We will not let fear intimidate us. But God, we will be men of faith that know that with you, God, all things are possible. God, we will believe your word. And we will not doubt it. And God will get out of the boat. We'll get out of the boat. The boat of familiarity, the boat that we're securing, and we will walk in the realms of uncertainty. We will come out on the waters. Come out on the waters. Man, I hear the glory. I hear the word of the Lord. I hear him saying, Come out on the waters, come out on the waters. Come out into the places where only I can sustain you. Come out into the places that are unfamiliar to you. Where your steps have to be ordered by me and sustained by me. Come out of the boat. Come out into the waters. Yeah, there's a storm, but don't look at the storm. Keep your eyes on the king. God give him singular vision. Give him singular vision, God. Let him lock eyes with the one whose eyes are on fire. Jesus' name. Every weight, every hindrance, everything that my brother knows in his heart that has held him back, that has prepared him from the call, the assignment, the purpose of God on his life. That today he lays it down at this altar. Every bit of it, every bit of it, every bit of it, everything that seeks self, everything, God, everything, every weight, every hindrance, every every every assignment of the enemy, everything, whatever it is, God, every carnal, every fleshly, every worldly concept, every thought, God, everything that is not of you. God today be left in this altar, right now. Satanapobrash. God, that right now he's free in the name of Jesus. Free. Everything, God, everything, every every thought in his mind that's not of you, God, that he has the power to cash it down right now in Jesus' name. Not one person missed the assignment of God over their life. God, I see all the roar of my brother. I see a roar, God, that's heard for miles and miles. You've given a roar that is, that it just, Father, that it covers entire territories, God. It's a roar that's carried on the winds of the Holy Ghost, God. Father, that is carries further than than than a natural voice can be carried, God, to reaching into districts and places and regions, God, that could never be carried in that in that in that in that distance, God, outside of the of the glory and the anointing that's upon his roar. Now, God, I thank you for releasing that roar right now. God, thank you that you're giving him a prophetic voice, God. I'm not up on this shit, but his willingness, God, to open his mouth and release that sound. God, that his voice is an instrument in your hands. I'm reminded of what Isaiah said. He said, Take the coals from the fire of the altar. Touch my lips, Lord. Send me, God, I'll go. Send me, I'll go. God, I just sense my brother saying, Oh, God, I'll do it. I'll do whatever you need me to do. No more hindrances, no more weights, no more distractions, no more excuses. God, just my yes, God. My yes, my yes is yours in Jesus' name. God, the enemy won't even steal a minute out of my brother's life. Not even a minute, God, not even a second. That God, where the enemy would steal time from him, Lord. I see you redeeming time right now. That God, my brother, will not waste. He will not even allow the enemy to take even a day out of his life, God. That he will understand that every moment of every of every second of every hour of every day is significant to your kingdom, God. And that you're giving him a grace to not let the enemy even get a day out of his life, not an hour. Lord, the enemy has no place from this day forward, God. Thank you. That my brother, God, is going to maximize every moment of his life, God, for your glory, for your honor. That God, even today, the weightiness of your of his assignment, his purpose, of your plans, of his birthright, God, weigh on him right now. They weigh on him, God. And Lord, that's a good way because it's your purpose, it's your plan, it's your destiny. But God, I thank you that he has faith and revelation to understand that God, that is not his responsibility, God, it's his obedience, God. That Father, it's not what he does, but it's what you will do through his yes. Ah. It's what you will do through his obedience. It's what you will do through his willingness to abide and not even waste a minute. Thank you, Lord. Paul told Timothy. Paul told Timothy, you should make full proof of your ministries. You're going to make full proof of your ministries. You're going to utilize every resource, every every every every day, every assignment. You're going to make foolproof. You're going to be used to your full potential. The full potential. Some people never reach the potential, but you're going to reach the potential. Pastor Dan did such an amazing job of describing that earlier. Of the potential of a seed. And I'm telling you, you're going to reach full potential. Full potential. In Jesus' name. You'll make full proof of your ministry in Jesus' name. Can I pray for the pastors? If you're a pastor, could you come let me just pray over you for a moment? If you're a pastor in a church, if you lead a church, or if you're in full-time ministry, even please let me pray over you. I'm sorry for just excluding things to pastors. If you're if you're if you're in part of five-fold ministry, I want to pray over you. God help us to quit just recognizing pastor. If you're in five-fold ministry, I want you to come. Just come and stand. If you're in five-fold ministry, come and stand. Just pray in the Holy Ghost church. Come on, we are witnesses. I'm not preaching, we're not edifying right now. Pray, pray. This is I just turned this into a prayer meeting. So begin to pray. Pray in the Spirit right now. God, I thank you that these men, these men, these men are generals, God. They are generals. They're sergeants. They're lieutenants, God. God, they're on the front lines. They're leading the squads, God. God, they're leading the leading teams, God. They're leading your body into warfare, God. God, and we must, we must be good soldiers, God. And to be good soldiers, God, we gotta have good leaders, God. And I pray for a mantle of wartime leaders, God. Wartime leaders as we approach the second coming of your Son, God. I pray for wartime leaders, God. That know how to empower men and women, that know how to equip. God, that know how to release the next generation, God, upon the world. Raising up men and women that are full of boldness and courage and power. Men and women that are not ashamed and not afraid. God, that men and women that will walk in Christ's likeness. God, thank you for the anointing upon these men to lead, God. To Lord, to lead to the full potential of what you have empowered them to do. Ah, unashamed and unafraid. Not intimidated. Not intimidated by those who want to come and devour and destroy those that want to divide and try to conquer, Lord. They'll not be intimidated, but they will be filled with boldness, Lord.

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Ah, I'm a little sin today.

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Boldness, Lord. Boldness and courage. Strategies. Blueprints. Ah. Blueprints for their cities, God. Ah. Download strategies, God. Download wisdom. Ah. They are leading armies into their towns, their cities, their communities. They're not just raising up numbers in churches. But God, they're raising up your body. Your body that does what you do. And God, thank you for encouraging them. Thank you for strengthening them. Thank you for comforting them. Thank you for healing them today. That every wound and every scar, God, that everything the enemy ever tried to afflict them with is healed today. That these leaders lead as healed and whole men. Ah. And that God, that these men do not lead alone, but they lead surrounded by other men and women that will live and die for them as they live and die for them as well. Ah. Raise them up, Lord. Raise them up. Surround them with loyal men and women. Ah. Surround them with family of the body of Christ. Not church members. Not members of their flock. But family. Your kingdom is a family, God. Family that is faithful. Family that is loyal. Thank you, God, for equipping them and enabling them to equip others. God, none of us in this room today lack anything. We don't lack nothing. We don't lack resources. We don't lack strength. We don't lack authority. We don't lack power. We don't lack kindness, generosity. God, we don't lack compassion and we sure don't lack love. Because, God, I believe right now you're filling us with every attribute of who you are. Lord, we don't lack direction. We don't lack clarity. That God, everything needed is given right now for these leaders to lead the next generation, God. To raise up the body to build your kingdom. In Jesus' name. Fire. God, I pray the fire of the Holy Spirit. God, I pray revival over every ministry represented in this altar right now. God, I pray glory over every ministry represented right now. Let the glory, the fire, the presence, the tangible presence of God be in their ministries, be in their churches, be in everything they do, God. May they be revival carriers, God. May they have wisdom, God. May they have insight and discernment, God, to be able to lead revival in their regions, God. That God, Rocky Comfort is going to be known by the whole nation because the nation will come to Rocky Comfort. That will not be known for Route 66, but it will be known because the glory of God. Shift our cities, God. Make us the pause to our emphasis. God, may we bankrupt the meth industry. God, I pray, give us power to bankrupt the heroin industry. God, I pray that we'll bankrupt the porn industry over our cities and our regions. God, I pray for such revival that they will burn their meth. They will burn their opioid. They will burn, God, their opsies. They will burn. In the middle of the streets. Come on, I need you guys to receive this in this altar. Shake your cities, guys. Shake your cities. Quit limiting God. Quit limiting God. Come on. You say, Well, I've done it for 40 years, and this is all that's been done, but you don't know what God's gonna do in the next 12 months. When your faith shifts, your city will shift. When I change, my ministry changes. When I lose doubt in unbelief, come on, faith comes. God has no lack, guys. God has no lack. He just needs you to believe him for who he is. Todd Hill just told me a story. Man, he worked for it, worked with. Pay 10.4 million dollars for a country ham as a contribution to a nonprofit organization, and then turn around and gaze the $10.4 million country ham away to somebody. Because money did not matter to him. I'm gonna ask you, Pastor Jill, what can you do with $10.4 million? What can you do with $10.4 million? Because I know you. You won't live in a luxurious house. You won't squander it with personal prosperity. But you'll build God's kingdom with it. What would you do with $10.4 million?

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Why not? Why not? Why not?

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Why not? Why wouldn't you give it to the men today know? All we need is to do it in fear and intimidation of our past, of religious naysayers.

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Why not?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:18

I'll fill every thousand bed up in every place in Vermont. I'll fill every every thousand member bed up with somebody coming out of addiction and coming out of brokenness. I'll fill it with the greatest leaders in the nation to train and minister and disciple those men to raise another army. I know what I'll do. I know that I won't limit anything. We'll have more revivals, we'll touch more nations, we'll build, we'll build more training centers, we'll build more discipleship centers. I know. Why not? Why not? God, may you take our faith to another level today. God, may you take the faith of these men in this building to another level today. God, may not only these men be filled with faith, but may the men that stand behind them, the ones that may be there to lift their arms up. God, the ones that attend their churches, God, the ones that serve with them in their ministries, God, let their faith arise as well. That God, entire churches are rising with the faith to lay hold of the things that you laid the church to laid hold of for. That God, we are a new generation of men and leaders. That we've told the devil no more. Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. God, may this men's conference shake the entire Midwest. May the ripple effect of what you're doing here, God, touch the entire West Coast. May it ripple back and touch the East Coast. May it touch the featherest boundaries of America to the southern tip of Florida. Then may what you're doing here, God, be to this nation, God, what happened at Red River in Cambridge. God begin a third great awakening. May the Charles Cities of this generation come out of this men's meeting today. In Jesus' name.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:04

I don't want to watch out earlier, right? Don't forget, next Thursday and Friday, up at the altar in Joplin. Pastor Todd Smith's gonna be up there. It's gonna be a very powerful night. If you had never uh checked it out or anything, you can look up the North Georgia revival. Richard Lans was talked about a little bit before, but he was actually preaching there when the revival broke out. Was it from a men's gathering? Did you have a men's gathering and then you stayed and it's over? Yeah, yeah. We've been going for eight years. Eight years of encouraging on that. And then uh we got some exciting news. I'm thinking we're gonna pull it up on uh July 6th through the 10th. Uh we're actually gonna be having a an encounter youth camp. Yeah. Partnered up with uh Emmanuel Church in Venita, Oklahoma, and uh the altar in Joplin. But uh, you know, it it's exciting. You don't think how how awesome it is for a you know, how awesome it is for to go to a place that that has faith, that you're gonna be encouraged, that you're that you're gonna be be built up. And I'm telling you, this is a camp for these kids to go to realize that, you know, sometimes I think we feel like we're all alone, but but there's a remnant. There's thousands, you know, there's people out there, but there is a remnant, but I encourage you to uh get your kids signed up for this camp and then have them bring their friends. Uh it's gonna be uh uh a week of uh freedom, gonna be a week of deliverance, gonna be a week of learning their their identity, and we're fired up about that. And then on the that's July 6th through the 10th, and then on July 10th, uh Pastor Chris McDonald will be here uh uh Friday night, Saturday night, and then he'll be with us again on Sunday morning, and just uh a very, very powerful man of God that uh has his uh the Lord definitely has his hand on them. Uh I was actually blessed to go with uh Bishop and Pastor Chris over to uh Pakistan. The quickest trip to Pakistan ever, but but I was able to see the the 300,000 uh people uh born again. I was able to see 70,000 people that were healed just just instantly. Um there's a whole lot to it, but but they preached for 15 minutes with an interpreter. So at most 10 minutes. You know, more like seven and a half, probably, ten minutes, and then then you see seventy thousand people you know get get healed. It's amazing just to see, you know, when you got 350,000 people out there, that means that's stuff that w that we can't, you know, fathom in our heads. You know, they had fifty two hundred buses. Is that right? Fifty two hundred buses. Well when you go there and see it, you can, but but uh but but to see him preach on on Jesus the healer, and he says, I see all these things being healed and is he's speaking out different things, and he's like, Now, now raise your hand if you've had a touch from God. And everyone's like and he's like, Man, they they must have misunderstood me. And he's like, Now now if the Lord has touched you and there's healing in your body, then then raise your hand. And he couldn't under you know, he said, now, and the interpreter says, they understand what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, they they understand what you're saying, and and to hear the the testimonies coming back. Um guy was supposed to have was it heart surgery? I don't know, heart surgery, but the one that sticks out to me the most is I remember Pastor Chris saying, you know, bend down and pray. If you can't bend over, you know, just bend down and pray. And anyway, this guy bent down to pray and had this metal leg in his or metal rod in his leg. And uh he's gone, he's down there praying, and so the next day he goes to the ER is like, hey, I need an X-ray of my leg, and and there wasn't no, there wasn't no rod in his leg anymore, you know. And I had someone asked, Well, what happened to the rod? And I was like, Well, it didn't fall out. Rods just don't fall out. And then to see him, see him born again, and then to see him hungry for prayer, and stuff that you don't imagine like them, you know, you couldn't get down there with them because you'd actually get crushed because they're so uh hungry wanting stuff that they'll actually pile up and go. So so they'd come up and we'd be praying over them and if they might manifest and they'd jerk them up on the stage. But but anyway, I I won't go there no more. But but I'm just I'm just encouraging you know we got the the uh the youth youth conference coming up, and then uh this fall we'll be having a win's con women's conference. Uh gonna be a very powerful weekend uh with Pastor Sue McDonald, Pastor uh Mandy Adair and and Pastor Sarah. So it's gonna be an action-pack weekend, so so be sure and take care of your kids and your wives here, and and it's gonna be a blessing. So we love you guys. Just keep uh checking us out on uh Facebook or thegathering tabernacle.com and and uh there'll be other events coming up and we we put other people's events on there too. But uh thank you guys and we love you and I appreciate you. And next year I got three extra minutes if I'm sure, right? I know we're not much on time, but it is good to be done on time. So have a great day. We love you guys and bless you guys.