WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.928 The Bibles, wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:02.928 --> 00:00:12.746 And let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, I'm here on Sunday night not by accident, but by divine appointment. 00:00:12.746 --> 00:00:34.914 I have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to me concerning my ministry at this point in time, because I understand that these are the last days and I'm unwilling to miss one thing you have for me in Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:34.914 --> 00:00:37.848 Let's turn in our Bibles to James, chapter 5. 00:00:37.848 --> 00:00:44.607 I know we just taught a couple of weeks on prayer, but tonight we're going to teach on end time praying. 00:00:44.607 --> 00:00:59.783 James, chapter 5, verse 16, second part of that verse, the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man or woman, of valeth much. 00:00:59.783 --> 00:01:03.148 And then it goes, verse 17,. 00:01:03.289 --> 00:01:13.271 Elijah was a man subject to like passions, as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain. 00:01:13.271 --> 00:01:16.147 Have you ever prayed that it might not rain? 00:01:16.147 --> 00:01:18.784 Well, with a storm, yeah. 00:01:18.784 --> 00:01:21.966 But I mean, did you pray for a punishment? 00:01:21.966 --> 00:01:24.519 Well, let's hope that's the best of it. 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:30.007 Well, why is it in the New Testament and why is he talking about it in the book? 00:01:30.007 --> 00:01:31.391 That is an end time book? 00:01:31.391 --> 00:01:33.445 See, I want to talk about some of these things tonight. 00:01:33.445 --> 00:01:37.147 So he prayed that it might not rain. 00:01:37.147 --> 00:01:40.746 And it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 00:01:40.746 --> 00:01:50.004 And he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit End time praying. 00:01:50.004 --> 00:01:58.292 So Elijah is a type of the end time church. 00:01:59.620 --> 00:02:01.167 Well, how in the world do you get that? 00:02:01.167 --> 00:02:07.344 Well, just look back at 1 Kings, 17 and 18, what Elijah the prophet did, in fact it talks about. 00:02:07.344 --> 00:02:10.484 You know that Elijah is coming again toward the end. 00:02:10.484 --> 00:02:12.370 I don't know. 00:02:12.370 --> 00:02:15.323 I mean, I know that he's going to be here during the tribulation. 00:02:15.323 --> 00:02:21.962 Elijah will be here and Enoch, because neither one of them have ever died. 00:02:21.962 --> 00:02:30.368 They will be killed and then, after the third day, they'll rise again and of course, everybody is going to see them ascending to heaven. 00:02:30.368 --> 00:02:30.981 I was going to be. 00:02:30.981 --> 00:02:35.245 You know we'll be up there, but the people down here, they're going to see something. 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:44.225 But you know, you could take it like the church is Elijah and I kind of lean toward that. 00:02:44.225 --> 00:02:46.207 I can't prove it, but I'm leaning toward it. 00:02:46.207 --> 00:02:47.564 You can't prove, it's not true. 00:02:47.564 --> 00:02:50.044 I like what Brother Hagin used to do. 00:02:50.044 --> 00:02:53.088 He said well, I can't prove it, but you can't prove it's not true. 00:02:53.088 --> 00:03:00.889 So, but why do you think the church is a lie, is a type of lies, a type of church. 00:03:00.889 --> 00:03:03.448 Well, first of all, he prayed for the famine. 00:03:05.103 --> 00:03:08.539 God in first Kings 17, you never heard of Elijah, says Elijah the tish-pite. 00:03:08.539 --> 00:03:09.685 All of a sudden he appears. 00:03:09.685 --> 00:03:20.165 First thing you see is God told him to go to Ahab and Jezebel, two of the most wicked I think we just kind of reminds me of the Clinton, sorter and maybe Obama too. 00:03:20.165 --> 00:03:23.961 I mean, they're kind of equal to that Wicked. 00:03:23.961 --> 00:03:30.330 And he said go, tell him it's not going to rain till you say so. 00:03:30.330 --> 00:03:32.183 I'm just kind of cutting it. 00:03:32.183 --> 00:03:37.847 You can read the exact words, but it's kind of like tell him it isn't going to rain till you let it rain. 00:03:37.847 --> 00:03:42.329 And then so he prayed judgment. 00:03:42.329 --> 00:03:43.365 He prayed judgment. 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:45.907 Famine was judgment, punishment. 00:03:45.907 --> 00:03:49.289 Why was God punishing the Northern Kingdoms? 00:03:49.289 --> 00:03:53.449 Elijah, I mean Ahab, was the king over the Northern Kingdom. 00:03:53.449 --> 00:03:56.587 Well, because they were worshiping idols. 00:03:56.587 --> 00:04:00.930 They had horrible things they did to children. 00:04:00.930 --> 00:04:05.349 I won't go into any detail, but we're seeing some of that right now. 00:04:05.349 --> 00:04:07.665 How about the Netflix program? 00:04:07.665 --> 00:04:09.746 Are you keeping up with things? 00:04:09.746 --> 00:04:12.086 Are you too holy to see what's happening? 00:04:12.086 --> 00:04:17.363 I mean, if we don't raise our voice against Netflix, they need to go broke. 00:04:17.363 --> 00:04:23.346 Horrible and people are making excuses for them. 00:04:23.346 --> 00:04:25.684 People are making excuses. 00:04:25.684 --> 00:04:27.968 I heard them make excuses. 00:04:27.968 --> 00:04:32.071 A woman made excuse on Fox News last night for them. 00:04:32.071 --> 00:04:38.201 Well, they're trying to show you how, how, if you don't watch your children, how, no, come on, give me a break, anyway. 00:04:39.625 --> 00:04:45.161 So famine, and then, of course, god said immediately go to the Brook in the carith. 00:04:45.161 --> 00:04:47.209 And he got a supply during the famine. 00:04:47.209 --> 00:04:48.644 I mean, he had to live through the famine. 00:04:48.644 --> 00:04:50.043 So God gave him a supply. 00:04:50.043 --> 00:04:51.862 Who brought him the food? 00:04:51.862 --> 00:04:52.545 Twice a day? 00:04:52.545 --> 00:05:03.581 Ravens, unclean bird, unclean that's an unclean animal, see type and shadow, with the Gentiles getting involved in the supply. 00:05:03.581 --> 00:05:04.504 In the last days. 00:05:04.504 --> 00:05:09.223 I'll tell you I'm so glad I'm not Jewish, but I'm glad I got saved. 00:05:09.223 --> 00:05:10.502 I was plugged in. 00:05:10.502 --> 00:05:15.120 I was a Gentile, I'm a new creature, amen. 00:05:16.220 --> 00:05:21.947 So then you had that, he was supplied, and then, when the brook dried up, can you imagine drinking that muddy water? 00:05:21.947 --> 00:05:29.733 You know, every day it was getting a little thicker and a little superior, and until finally God told him okay, now go. 00:05:29.733 --> 00:05:33.470 You know, deseraphat, I've commanded a widow woman to feed you there. 00:05:33.470 --> 00:05:42.826 Now, this widow woman was not a Jew, another Gentile, another type and shadow of the church, another type and shadow of harvest. 00:05:42.826 --> 00:05:43.529 Are you with me now? 00:05:43.529 --> 00:05:45.757 Come on making the point. 00:05:45.757 --> 00:05:53.610 So he goes and you know, as the Lord thy God liveth, I'm going to cook my last meal and die. 00:05:53.610 --> 00:05:55.569 That's what she said, is the Lord thy God? 00:05:55.569 --> 00:05:56.649 See, she wasn't saved. 00:05:56.649 --> 00:06:00.358 She, in other words, she didn't recognize the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob. 00:06:00.358 --> 00:06:05.810 And so we know the story she, she, was given a miracle each day. 00:06:05.810 --> 00:06:07.290 She went to cook every day. 00:06:07.290 --> 00:06:12.415 It was a miracle every single day for a whole year, and then her dinner. 00:06:12.415 --> 00:06:15.218 And so there you have supplied during the famine. 00:06:15.218 --> 00:06:16.778 I believe all this stuff. 00:06:16.798 --> 00:06:18.889 With COVID, the church can be blessed. 00:06:18.889 --> 00:06:26.654 Let's not get all depressed, god's not through showing us the treasure of the darkness, the hidden riches of secret places. 00:06:26.654 --> 00:06:32.499 This church was blessed during the 9-11 attack. 00:06:32.499 --> 00:06:43.033 This church, financially, was blessed because we had a man that that made so much money shorting the stock market. 00:06:43.033 --> 00:06:48.314 After the 9-11 attack and the stock market went down, remember, he shorted the market. 00:06:48.314 --> 00:06:51.555 He shorted the market, he made so much money. 00:06:51.555 --> 00:06:53.276 He used to be our landlord. 00:06:53.276 --> 00:06:55.377 We had bought the property down the street from him. 00:06:55.377 --> 00:06:57.416 He said, john, I need a tax write-off. 00:06:57.416 --> 00:07:00.819 And he gave us this 85 acres, free and clear. 00:07:00.819 --> 00:07:04.737 We gave him the land back that we still had a note on. 00:07:06.769 --> 00:07:23.317 So 9-11 was a tragic thing, it was a horrible thing, and the reason I'm kind of preaching this is because 9-11 just anniversary was Friday, and I just I've got to get this out, for we put us all on the same page here so we can understand what kind of church this is, what kind of a call this church has. 00:07:23.317 --> 00:07:33.817 And 9-11 is a big, big turning point in this church and a lot of reasons so supplied during judgment. 00:07:33.817 --> 00:07:38.589 And then, you know, the woman's son died here. 00:07:38.589 --> 00:07:40.076 He had survived the whole year. 00:07:40.076 --> 00:07:41.535 The woman's son died. 00:07:41.535 --> 00:07:42.110 What are you? 00:07:42.110 --> 00:07:43.615 What have I got to do with you? 00:07:43.656 --> 00:07:44.278 Man of God? 00:07:44.278 --> 00:07:46.076 Did you come to kill my boy? 00:07:46.076 --> 00:07:47.434 Did you come to kill him? 00:07:47.434 --> 00:07:49.877 And he cried out to God? 00:07:49.877 --> 00:07:52.338 He took the son and went upstairs and cried out to God. 00:07:52.338 --> 00:07:58.213 He raised him from the dead and presented him alive to the mother, and then she said what? 00:07:58.213 --> 00:08:01.476 Now I know you're a true man of God. 00:08:01.476 --> 00:08:08.641 I'm telling you, the signs and wonders on the church are ready to break wide open. 00:08:08.641 --> 00:08:13.180 God wants to have a witness in this generation. 00:08:13.180 --> 00:08:15.576 He wants to have a witness in this generation. 00:08:15.576 --> 00:08:19.072 Are y'all following along now, all right. 00:08:19.072 --> 00:08:22.139 So the power is being manifest. 00:08:22.139 --> 00:08:33.743 And then he went from there In 18, he slew the 400 prophets of Baal and he called down fire from heaven. 00:08:35.032 --> 00:08:35.715 Separation. 00:08:35.715 --> 00:08:37.394 Notice he didn't get them saved. 00:08:37.394 --> 00:08:39.515 Notice he didn't make converts. 00:08:39.515 --> 00:08:44.258 Notice he didn't reach across the aisle and try to compromise with the devil. 00:08:44.258 --> 00:08:53.741 And he demonstrated the power of God and he divided that wicked from the good. 00:08:53.741 --> 00:08:55.913 He demonstrated it. 00:08:55.913 --> 00:08:57.639 Nobody could doubt it. 00:08:58.191 --> 00:09:00.558 Ahab, can you imagine what Jezebel gave? 00:09:00.558 --> 00:09:04.594 She was so mad she was I'm going to kill you, boy. 00:09:04.594 --> 00:09:05.376 They want to kill us. 00:09:05.376 --> 00:09:09.452 They don't want to just take our guns, they don't want to just shut us down, they want to kill us. 00:09:09.452 --> 00:09:13.275 And if they have half a chance, they just might try. 00:09:19.035 --> 00:09:20.519 So everybody say separation. 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.053 I mean, I hear people all the time. 00:09:23.053 --> 00:09:25.759 Let's get together and let's pray for unity in our country. 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:29.470 I'm not praying for unity, I'm praying for a sword. 00:09:29.470 --> 00:09:32.317 I'm praying to separate the wheat from the chaff. 00:09:32.317 --> 00:09:35.577 Who wants to be united with the devil? 00:09:35.577 --> 00:09:38.697 Well, we can get them saved. 00:09:38.697 --> 00:09:40.174 They would have already gotten saved. 00:09:40.174 --> 00:09:41.495 They have no excuse. 00:09:41.495 --> 00:09:43.796 They've rejected the gospel. 00:09:43.796 --> 00:09:52.735 Oh, you're going to get a little few of them here and there, but that's the main group of them we need to be separated from. 00:09:54.029 --> 00:09:55.995 And then, finally, he brought in the rain, didn't he? 00:09:55.995 --> 00:09:58.916 He went up on Mount Carmel. 00:09:58.916 --> 00:10:06.841 He said I hear the sound of rain, I see a cloud about the size of man's hand. 00:10:06.841 --> 00:10:12.520 You know, it doesn't look like much right now, it doesn't look like a revival, but I tell you, I see the cloud the size of a man's hand. 00:10:12.520 --> 00:10:16.052 I'm telling you there's coming a rain, there's coming a rain, it's coming a rain. 00:10:16.052 --> 00:10:20.033 And then he got caught up into heaven. 00:10:20.033 --> 00:10:22.676 That's where we're headed. 00:10:22.676 --> 00:10:24.976 We're going to get caught up. 00:10:24.976 --> 00:10:27.352 I said we're going to take the. 00:10:27.352 --> 00:10:31.091 We're not looking for the undertaker, we're going for the uppertakers. 00:10:31.091 --> 00:10:37.049 Whether I was staying used to say so. 00:10:37.090 --> 00:10:41.961 9-11, and I remembered a lot of these things. 00:10:41.961 --> 00:10:48.839 And I got back and I started looking at some of my things that God began to show me. 00:10:48.839 --> 00:10:52.075 And 9-11, of course, 2001,. 00:10:52.075 --> 00:11:08.099 And I remember that morning, when they started flying into the buildings, jay called me Glad it's not getting ready to go to TBN, to the station we were going to host the Praise the Lord program. 00:11:08.099 --> 00:11:11.613 He said, dad, turn on the TV, we're under attack. 00:11:12.350 --> 00:11:17.260 And I turned them on just to see the second plane hit the other tower. 00:11:17.260 --> 00:11:23.523 Then we had to leave on the way the tower fell and I called the station. 00:11:23.523 --> 00:11:28.022 I said hey, station manager, we're going to have a prayer meeting today. 00:11:28.022 --> 00:11:29.212 We're not going to have a normal. 00:11:29.212 --> 00:11:33.215 Let the guests know I'm not interviewing, they just need to be prepared to. 00:11:33.215 --> 00:11:38.535 All of them come out on the set and we're going to have a prayer meeting. 00:11:38.535 --> 00:11:40.235 We're not going to have Praise the Lord. 00:11:40.235 --> 00:11:44.120 And so the manager said, yeah, we were thinking about it. 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:45.856 I said no, I'm not thinking about doing it. 00:11:45.856 --> 00:11:48.236 I'm telling you this is what's going to happen. 00:11:48.236 --> 00:11:56.172 I'm going to be there and get it set up, get the chairs out there, Get the microphones out there, tell everybody. 00:11:56.172 --> 00:12:03.793 I mean, I was just so bold, I didn't want to hear what they had planned, because if I'm going to be involved, we are going to pray. 00:12:05.549 --> 00:12:11.889 And we knelt down and we repented on behalf of this nation and all of the sin that it's committed. 00:12:11.889 --> 00:12:19.169 The killing of babies, especially the way we've treated Israel, made them sit down with their enemies. 00:12:19.169 --> 00:12:20.625 That's the number one, by the way. 00:12:20.625 --> 00:12:23.706 And so this is 2001. 00:12:23.706 --> 00:12:39.124 Now, I began to realize some of these because of 1999, when Pastor Osteen passed in January of that year, and then in March, god woke me up one morning and said wake up the church. 00:12:39.124 --> 00:12:44.844 They're sleeping their beds with the covers pulled over their head and when I talk to them they think it's the devil. 00:12:44.844 --> 00:12:46.746 So I got busy. 00:12:46.827 --> 00:12:48.639 I started trying to find out what have I missed? 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.559 Because I had to be awakened. 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.806 I thought I was pretty awake myself, but not according to God. 00:12:53.806 --> 00:12:56.330 There were some things I was missing. 00:12:56.330 --> 00:13:01.206 I think there was some mandates for this church that I was definitely missing. 00:13:01.206 --> 00:13:06.330 You don't know what you don't know until he shows it to you. 00:13:06.330 --> 00:13:08.927 I found out a little while after that. 00:13:08.927 --> 00:13:11.369 I began to look into it. 00:13:11.369 --> 00:13:21.831 I realized 100 million Christians in this country don't know anything about Israel and the fact that they have a right to their land, that they are the biggest signboard that Jesus is coming. 00:13:21.831 --> 00:13:26.249 100 million Christians, much less everybody else. 00:13:26.249 --> 00:13:28.245 There's great ignorance. 00:13:28.245 --> 00:13:37.647 That's why we're teaching a little class on foundation faith, foundations on rise up over Israel, and so then. 00:13:37.647 --> 00:13:40.735 So here, this goes on. 00:13:40.735 --> 00:13:43.869 I started getting into that. 00:13:44.100 --> 00:13:48.586 I began to preach on some of these more controversial subjects. 00:13:48.586 --> 00:13:58.490 This we'd already kind of gotten into it with Clinton and Clinton's whatever he did in the Oval Office. 00:13:58.490 --> 00:13:59.462 I won't be explicit. 00:13:59.462 --> 00:14:10.183 Everybody knows we spoke out against the fact that a big, famous prayer breakfast where he supposedly had repented, and I said, no, he didn't, because he should have resigned. 00:14:10.183 --> 00:14:11.722 If he's repented, he resigns. 00:14:11.722 --> 00:14:17.745 He doesn't go up there and buy his bottom lip and then go in the back room and laugh. 00:14:17.745 --> 00:14:41.696 And I spoke out publicly because three men of God, one of which I greatly respected, the other one was probably a false prophet and then the third one I can't remember, but one of them, td Jakes, I respected at that time and after that I didn't, because I felt like he contributed to the delinquency of a president by saying that he oh yes, I'm gonna look over him. 00:14:41.696 --> 00:14:42.179 He's subject to us. 00:14:42.179 --> 00:14:44.450 He never was subject to anybody. 00:14:45.846 --> 00:14:47.879 So I said it and it hurt the church. 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:49.539 I had people leave over it. 00:14:49.539 --> 00:14:51.006 They didn't like it. 00:14:51.006 --> 00:14:52.340 It sounds racist. 00:14:52.340 --> 00:14:53.460 See, I didn't know it was racist. 00:14:53.460 --> 00:14:54.172 We are new creatures. 00:14:54.172 --> 00:14:56.299 I don't look at skin color. 00:14:56.299 --> 00:15:00.592 My spirit is doesn't have a skin color, it's new creatures. 00:15:00.592 --> 00:15:07.234 We've got to be new creatures and in fact it makes me cringe to even say black church or Hispanic church. 00:15:07.234 --> 00:15:11.774 We ought to have just the church, just ought to be the church. 00:15:11.774 --> 00:15:18.739 But anyway, these are things that we're developing and 9-11, you know, here it comes. 00:15:19.041 --> 00:15:24.653 And so in June of, or actually January of that year, I had a word from God. 00:15:24.653 --> 00:15:27.360 He said this is gonna be a premier year, 2001,. 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:33.489 A premier year first in a series of years, and we're thinking of the Hollywood premiere. 00:15:33.489 --> 00:15:34.644 I thought about those lights. 00:15:34.644 --> 00:15:39.285 You know, here's the red carpet here, and I was thinking in the positive. 00:15:39.285 --> 00:15:44.107 I was thinking about, oh, there's gonna be some first time miracles, there's gonna be first things that we haven't seen before. 00:15:44.107 --> 00:15:45.284 This is gonna be a great year. 00:15:45.284 --> 00:15:46.865 First time, this is the first. 00:15:46.865 --> 00:15:51.831 But I saw in the little vision I saw I didn't see that. 00:15:51.831 --> 00:15:55.951 I saw 2001 comma 2002 comma dot, dot, dot. 00:15:55.951 --> 00:15:59.947 The first in a series of year, premier being first in a series. 00:15:59.947 --> 00:16:07.107 It wasn't so much that it was gonna be a wonderful unveiling, it was gonna be the first in a series of years. 00:16:07.107 --> 00:16:12.986 And I thought, well, is he talking about countdown to Jesus coming back? 00:16:12.986 --> 00:16:15.104 I wasn't real sure. 00:16:15.104 --> 00:16:17.201 I didn't ask enough questions Back then. 00:16:17.201 --> 00:16:25.268 I have learned you know, when God begins to show you something, he can stand to be interviewed a little more in depth for you to get an interpretation of what you're saying. 00:16:25.268 --> 00:16:27.726 But this was in the beginning of that year. 00:16:27.726 --> 00:16:31.249 All right, so that's January 2001. 00:16:31.249 --> 00:16:33.847 It's the first in a series of years. 00:16:36.001 --> 00:16:40.602 And so then, later that year, in June, I had a dream. 00:16:40.602 --> 00:16:42.109 I call it my tsunami dream. 00:16:42.109 --> 00:16:44.147 Some of you, how many of you, heard of my tsunami dream? 00:16:44.147 --> 00:16:48.726 Most of you that come here all the time did, but now I have new people that haven't heard. 00:16:48.726 --> 00:16:50.565 So I dreamed this. 00:16:50.926 --> 00:16:57.402 In this dream I was driving down a white sandy beach sand dunes on my right, gorgeous Caribbean looking water. 00:16:57.402 --> 00:16:59.008 On the left, beautiful blue water. 00:16:59.008 --> 00:17:04.651 Couldn't have been Galveston, and it was too perfect today. 00:17:04.651 --> 00:17:06.085 I mean, it was no humidity. 00:17:06.085 --> 00:17:07.127 It couldn't be Galveston. 00:17:07.127 --> 00:17:10.324 So I don't know where it was, but it was a beautiful day. 00:17:10.324 --> 00:17:15.190 I was in a convertible, not a care in the world, blue sky, no clouds, just wonderful. 00:17:15.190 --> 00:17:24.704 And I kind of see something off to my left, outside out in the water, and I look out there, tsunami Tsunamis bearing down on me, and I'm like, oh my. 00:17:25.007 --> 00:17:31.777 So my carefree attitude in the dream went to terror and I thought I gotta get off this beach, I gotta outrun that thing. 00:17:31.777 --> 00:17:53.554 But they're sand dunes, I can't turn right, so I'm looking for some kind of a road that I can hook a right on and just try to accelerate and get out of the way of this thing, maybe outrun it, and so it's getting closer and I, finally, I see a road as far as from here to the other side of the lobby. 00:17:53.554 --> 00:17:56.087 So it's not too far and I'm driving pretty fast. 00:17:56.087 --> 00:18:00.365 By that time it's not gonna take but a couple seconds and I'll be there and I can hook a right. 00:18:00.365 --> 00:18:01.442 Of course I gotta slow down. 00:18:01.442 --> 00:18:04.986 I can't just turn right driving 80 miles an hour. 00:18:04.986 --> 00:18:07.267 I mean, I've gotta slow down by the time. 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:10.147 So anyway, now I'm in the shadow of that thing. 00:18:10.147 --> 00:18:16.204 It's blotted out the sun and I look up and I see it and I know I'm not gonna make it. 00:18:16.204 --> 00:18:21.145 But I know in the dream I'm saying to myself I'm roadkill, that's it, I'm done. 00:18:21.145 --> 00:18:22.108 There's nothing. 00:18:22.108 --> 00:18:24.884 You didn't pray, no, I didn't pray. 00:18:24.884 --> 00:18:26.644 In the dream, I just nothing about God. 00:18:26.644 --> 00:18:31.068 In the dream I didn't say Jesus, nothing, I just had the terror. 00:18:32.299 --> 00:18:35.503 And then in the dream, the next instant, I'm on top of the wave. 00:18:35.503 --> 00:18:44.707 I'm being thrust forward in the tsunami, sitting right on top of it, 50 foot off the ground, and the wind is hitting me in the face. 00:18:44.707 --> 00:18:49.761 The exhilaration and the power of that wave behind me, it was like man. 00:18:49.761 --> 00:18:51.548 I was a giant killer and I woke up. 00:18:51.548 --> 00:18:58.068 I woke up and I felt like I'd been in Maytag washing machine, in the spin cycle. 00:18:58.259 --> 00:19:03.366 I mean, I didn't know whether to be happy, sad, frightened, what I mean, sweating and everything else. 00:19:03.366 --> 00:19:04.944 I didn't know what this can be. 00:19:04.944 --> 00:19:06.864 Modulated is a good word for me, I think. 00:19:06.864 --> 00:19:15.891 And then I thought of a word that Billy Brim attributed to John G Lake and he said at one point. 00:19:15.891 --> 00:19:22.950 He said the same glory that brings the same wave that brings the glory brings destruction. 00:19:22.950 --> 00:19:29.172 The same wave that brings the glory will bring destruction. 00:19:29.172 --> 00:19:39.006 And so I, just I experienced the possible destruction, but I didn't get destroyed. 00:19:39.006 --> 00:19:45.442 Instead, I experienced the power of the and the glory, really, of that wave. 00:19:45.442 --> 00:19:46.403 Are you with me now? 00:19:47.126 --> 00:19:48.029 So that was in June. 00:19:48.029 --> 00:19:52.523 So I began to pray and nothing else. 00:19:52.523 --> 00:20:04.352 I didn't get anything else until that day, 9-11 hit and I felt, frankly, I felt bad because I didn't feel like I had been warned, and yet I had been. 00:20:04.352 --> 00:20:05.949 I just got through telling you I had been warned. 00:20:05.949 --> 00:20:07.093 See, that's how you are. 00:20:07.093 --> 00:20:09.644 You don't know how to connect the dots. 00:20:09.644 --> 00:20:11.570 I've learned a little bit since then. 00:20:11.570 --> 00:20:14.111 In 20 years, you learn how to connect the dots. 00:20:14.111 --> 00:20:18.596 I realize that God had been warning me all along about the Premier. 00:20:18.596 --> 00:20:20.613 You're going to see something you've never seen before. 00:20:20.644 --> 00:20:21.890 It was a historic event. 00:20:21.890 --> 00:20:24.311 It wasn't positive, it was terrible. 00:20:24.311 --> 00:20:36.873 It could have been the turning of a revival, but because of the backslidden nature of the church and the backslidden nature of the country, they just said well, we're going to build taller. 00:20:36.873 --> 00:20:40.644 Jonathan Cahn has got a book about this. 00:20:40.644 --> 00:20:41.608 You ought to read it. 00:20:41.608 --> 00:20:45.294 He has all the scriptures that back it up. 00:20:45.294 --> 00:20:47.605 I mean this was not right. 00:20:47.605 --> 00:20:50.585 This was not the response God was looking for. 00:20:50.585 --> 00:20:53.250 God didn't knock the building down. 00:20:58.496 --> 00:21:00.644 Well, god, I like what Billy Brim says. 00:21:00.644 --> 00:21:11.644 We just shoot holes in our covering, our hoopah by our insisting that Israel sit with her enemies and all of that. 00:21:11.644 --> 00:21:13.699 Israel is the biggest reason. 00:21:13.699 --> 00:21:23.960 And then there are all the other sins the killing of babies is certainly terrible, abortion and all the other things, the iniquities and just what they had, jezebel and they had. 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:30.451 They practiced all the same things that people like Epstein and Clinton and all the others do. 00:21:30.451 --> 00:21:45.443 I mean there's no question that there are these kinds of children trafficking type of activities going on right now in our power centers, in New York, washington DC, among our politicians, our movie stars. 00:21:45.443 --> 00:21:47.250 Are you with me now? 00:21:47.250 --> 00:21:51.093 So, but I still. 00:21:51.133 --> 00:21:55.291 At the time that 9-11 hit, I was kind of I felt bad that. 00:21:55.291 --> 00:21:57.882 I thought you know, I must be hard hearted. 00:21:57.882 --> 00:21:58.644 I should have seen this coming. 00:21:58.644 --> 00:22:00.625 We should have been able to warn. 00:22:00.625 --> 00:22:02.644 We should have been able to pray in advance. 00:22:02.644 --> 00:22:04.372 Instead, we're caught flat footed. 00:22:04.372 --> 00:22:17.644 And so I went to Galveston a couple of weeks after that to pray, and then I began to start connecting the dots and I realized that he had warned me. 00:22:17.644 --> 00:22:20.032 I just didn't pick it up. 00:22:21.489 --> 00:22:24.605 And on that trip God told me about a hot, dry wind. 00:22:24.605 --> 00:22:33.771 He said I'm about to release a hot, dry wind and I'm going to blow on people and they've been sitting in their church it's many of them for a long time. 00:22:33.771 --> 00:22:40.910 They're going to get so uncomfortable they're going to have to rise up, just like the proverbial guy in the desert that's crawling through the desert looking for water. 00:22:40.910 --> 00:22:46.729 And when they come to your place, you make sure there's plenty of fresh living water for them. 00:22:46.729 --> 00:22:49.111 And that's all he said. 00:22:49.111 --> 00:22:49.945 Well, I didn't. 00:22:49.945 --> 00:22:52.394 You know, I didn't connect it with 9-11. 00:22:52.394 --> 00:23:00.230 I connected it with just God's going to grow the church, because at that time we were in the seventh day Adventist church and nobody even knew we were there. 00:23:00.664 --> 00:23:12.035 We had rented a seventh day Adventist West Houston seventh day Adventist down on Hammerley and the Beltway Just about a mile and a half north of I-10. 00:23:12.035 --> 00:23:14.791 And they were there Saturday. 00:23:14.791 --> 00:23:15.595 We were there Sunday. 00:23:15.595 --> 00:23:22.890 They wouldn't let us put our sign out except Sunday morning early to Wednesday, and then we had to take the sign down, so a lot of people just missed it. 00:23:22.890 --> 00:23:30.644 If you didn't drive by the church between Sunday morning and Wednesday night, you didn't even know we were there and so there was no growth. 00:23:30.644 --> 00:23:43.255 I mean, when we had a visitor, it was a red letter day when we had a visitor and we lost about half the church when we moved from this area and moved over there and we had to believe we were a regional center. 00:23:43.255 --> 00:23:57.228 It forced the group that was still here how many of you made the move with us from the Baptist church to there's a few hands so they had to believe we were a regional center and that proved it. 00:23:57.228 --> 00:24:01.196 That proved that we were, because a local church cannot move 15 miles. 00:24:01.196 --> 00:24:07.192 You're gone, that's it, but a regional center, see, you draw from different. 00:24:07.192 --> 00:24:18.625 So we actually picked up a few members from that direction Katie and other places, spring Branch so I didn't hook it up with 9-11. 00:24:18.625 --> 00:24:22.594 I just thought God was trying to encourage me, which I certainly needed at that time. 00:24:25.467 --> 00:24:30.436 So I went to Galveston and then so that's in 2001. 00:24:30.436 --> 00:24:34.374 And he talked about the hot dry wind. 00:24:34.374 --> 00:24:37.605 I wanted to tell you about another intersection. 00:24:37.605 --> 00:24:53.545 It took quite a number of years for me to find out what the hot dry wind was all about, but in November of 2008, right after Ike and Ike was a tough storm, wasn't? 00:24:53.545 --> 00:25:10.644 It Did a lot of damage, and so, just a few weeks after Ike, I drove to Galveston and I got there and got the notes here. 00:25:10.644 --> 00:25:11.648 Here it is. 00:25:13.207 --> 00:25:16.721 And I noticed how devastated Broadway was. 00:25:16.721 --> 00:25:25.517 All the beautiful oak trees Almost all of them were dead, crispy brown, and just a few, about five, all the way down that big long Broadway. 00:25:25.517 --> 00:25:27.644 Only about five of them survived. 00:25:27.644 --> 00:25:38.644 All the rest of them, the salt water had killed them and eventually, I think most of them got chopped down, even if that lived, because they were sick, and the only thing that survived was the palm trees. 00:25:38.644 --> 00:25:43.570 It doesn't even look like the same city and, of course, the devastation there. 00:25:47.048 --> 00:26:01.151 And so I was there to pray and I began to pray in the Holy Ghost and then I heard sirens outside my hotel, a bunch of stuff, and I heard a helicopter. 00:26:01.151 --> 00:26:04.040 I looked at the clock it was 9-11. 00:26:04.040 --> 00:26:06.050 And here comes life flight. 00:26:06.050 --> 00:26:14.307 It lands next door I'm in the Holiday Inn and it landed next door in the law what's the name of it? 00:26:14.307 --> 00:26:23.403 The one that's got the old fort in the front, the old gun in placement San Louis. 00:26:23.403 --> 00:26:27.617 So they landed in the front of San Louis and I looked out the window. 00:26:27.617 --> 00:26:32.153 There was lights, there was a stretcher, a guy was getting hauled and life flight fell. 00:26:32.153 --> 00:26:41.878 And what was prophetic was it's 9-11 and I'm seeing a 9-11 call that's been made and life flight is activated. 00:26:41.878 --> 00:26:46.714 And so God began to show me. 00:26:46.714 --> 00:26:49.332 It was the first time that ever happened to me. 00:26:49.332 --> 00:26:56.432 All the times that I've gone to Galveston, I saw this thing going on, and so I began to meditate on that. 00:26:56.432 --> 00:27:09.044 And this is what the Holy Ghost said to me that night when I saw that 9-11 and I saw the emergency helicopter, the hot, dry wind was all about 9-11. 00:27:09.144 --> 00:27:18.672 For this church, it was to gather a people to pray mercy over a land where God's hand is removed from time to time, you know, in wrath, remember mercy. 00:27:18.672 --> 00:27:21.250 I mean we deserve judgment. 00:27:21.250 --> 00:27:24.053 God does not want to fully judge America. 00:27:24.053 --> 00:27:28.644 America is doing the most for anybody in the whole world. 00:27:28.644 --> 00:27:30.605 Why would he destroy America? 00:27:30.605 --> 00:27:33.700 So our role as a church is to pray mercy. 00:27:33.700 --> 00:27:35.829 In wrath, god, remember mercy. 00:27:35.829 --> 00:27:55.239 And so to gather a people who have the courage to move out of their comfort zone, put aside their past hurts, disappointments and traditions, and cleave to the Word and the Spirit To enter into love and unity with those of different backgrounds and experiences and be used of God as agents of change. 00:27:55.239 --> 00:28:15.980 As winds of doctrines blow, waves of people roar and tides of tradition pull, this church is called to stand strong as a stabilizing force of truth that will not be swept away, but act against those forces and, out of it all to bring in the last harvest. 00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:17.625 Glory to God. 00:28:17.625 --> 00:28:20.246 Do you see yourself in that I said? 00:28:20.246 --> 00:28:25.247 Do you see yourself in that Hallelujah? 00:28:25.247 --> 00:28:28.250 I'll tell you, we're a people of destiny. 00:28:28.250 --> 00:28:39.555 We're a people that have a very important task to hold notice stable, to be stable, a force of stability in a time of instability. 00:28:39.674 --> 00:28:41.080 Just think about when this was written. 00:28:41.080 --> 00:28:43.661 I mean, I wrote this in 2008. 00:28:43.661 --> 00:28:46.300 Obama had just taken office. 00:28:46.300 --> 00:28:58.406 We had yet to discover how much evil was gonna happen in eight years Gay marriage, biggest LGBTQ push in history. 00:28:58.406 --> 00:29:01.394 He was the one that opened all the doors. 00:29:01.394 --> 00:29:02.941 He persecuted Israel. 00:29:02.941 --> 00:29:06.382 He took God out of almost everything. 00:29:06.382 --> 00:29:13.742 Oh, the most beautiful sound in the world to me is the Muslim called a prayer. 00:29:13.742 --> 00:29:23.698 Yeah, you awake yet. 00:29:23.698 --> 00:29:32.478 Yeah, this is getting so heavy. 00:29:32.478 --> 00:29:33.260 I had to laugh. 00:29:33.260 --> 00:29:33.982 He's gone. 00:29:33.982 --> 00:29:55.104 So that night, that night, after the helicopter landed at San Luis, next door to me, I wrote this about James, chapter five in Elijah, those notes that I just shared with you earlier, right here 2008. 00:29:55.104 --> 00:29:57.300 That's what God showed me that night. 00:29:57.300 --> 00:30:00.721 I'm not a prophetic about it. 00:30:00.721 --> 00:30:14.132 I've never seen that about Elijah, but I believe that he is a type of the church and I believe that this is a type of church that we have to be. 00:30:14.132 --> 00:30:16.136 So, 2008,. 00:30:16.257 --> 00:30:22.521 So 2007, I stood up here and I said, in the run up to the election, there was a McCain. 00:30:22.521 --> 00:30:28.136 It's just like hold your nose, which thinker, who's gonna vote for? 00:30:28.136 --> 00:30:30.021 Well, I'm gonna vote for McCain. 00:30:30.021 --> 00:30:33.941 I know him and I said so. 00:30:33.941 --> 00:30:36.067 He's a Muslim plant. 00:30:36.067 --> 00:30:53.782 He went to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years and Jeremiah Wright is more closely akin to Farrakhan than anybody else, and he preaches liberation theology, and liberation theology is a doctrine of demons. 00:30:53.782 --> 00:30:55.997 It's demonic. 00:30:55.997 --> 00:31:03.124 It's similar to what the Catholic church and the Jesuits preach in Nicaragua. 00:31:03.124 --> 00:31:10.242 They cooperate with communism there and all down in Central and South America. 00:31:10.242 --> 00:31:20.539 The Catholic priests down there are Marxists this present pope is a Marxist Jesuits, and they're bad news. 00:31:20.539 --> 00:31:26.327 You got a daughter that's dating somebody that's a Jesuit. 00:31:26.327 --> 00:31:33.997 Get her out of that situation, but anyway, so, anyway. 00:31:34.096 --> 00:31:39.210 So we began to pray and we had a lot. 00:31:39.210 --> 00:31:44.025 I mean, we had lost a lot of people because not everybody was drawn for the right reasons. 00:31:44.025 --> 00:31:51.759 So notice what God said about that taught dry wind and see, it's not about numbers, it's about people that can get in agreement and pray. 00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:53.628 This end time praying. 00:31:53.628 --> 00:32:01.539 I mean we've got to pray some things that are gonna be kind of difficult and it looks, I mean, not a lot of people know anything about it. 00:32:01.539 --> 00:32:06.864 I mean, god has had to teach me over many, many years about what time we're living and how it has to be prayed. 00:32:06.864 --> 00:32:13.247 It can't just be Nambi, pambi, let's all get together and sing kumbaya and all of that. 00:32:13.247 --> 00:32:16.325 No, it's gonna be confrontational. 00:32:16.325 --> 00:32:20.065 We're fighting demon powers that know their time is short. 00:32:20.065 --> 00:32:23.536 Amen, praise God, all right. 00:32:24.518 --> 00:32:28.367 So in 2009, I went back. 00:32:28.367 --> 00:32:32.344 I go three or four times a year, much as I can. 00:32:32.344 --> 00:32:38.679