Speaker 1: Pick your Bibles up and wave them around.
Speaker 1: Y'all been sitting a while, some of you have, some of you have been on the floor.
Speaker 1: Some of you are drunk and you might wobble.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's possible you wobble.
Speaker 1: It's okay, blas, he might wobble.
Speaker 1: He looks drunk already.
Speaker 1: He went to the clinic and got drunk at the clinic, but at least they didn't charge him a copay, I mean.
Speaker 1: Or you can drink for free, I mean I All right, let's wave those Bibles around.
Speaker 1: Let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I thank you for this service tonight.
Speaker 1: Miracles, miracles are in the atmosphere.
Speaker 1: But thank God for this word, lord, this word instructs me, this word guides me.
Speaker 1: The word and the spirit always agree and I thank you for this word tonight that's going to inform me and give me faith to receive all that you have for me.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name amen.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Acts, chapter 2, and 1 Corinthians, chapter 12.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to teach you on the ministry of visions.
Speaker 1: Acts 2, verse 14.
Speaker 1: On the day of Pentecost, peter, after they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, verse 14, but Peter standing up with the eleven.
Speaker 1: See, they stood up from the ground because they were on the ground.
Speaker 1: They're drunk Nine o'clock in the morning, lifted up his voice and said to them you, men of Judea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you and hearken to my words, for these are not drunken as you suppose.
Speaker 1: See that it's just nine o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: But this is that.
Speaker 1: This is the beginning of that spoken by the prophet Joel, and it shall come to pass.
Speaker 1: In the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams.
Speaker 1: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out, in those days, of my spirit and they shall prophesy.
Speaker 1: And of course, the last day started at the day of Pentecost, and we're at the last of the last days now.
Speaker 1: And so then we're going to look at 1 Corinthians, chapter 12, talking about the ministry of visions, which you were taught by example tonight, because I had some and those I can't.
Speaker 1: I mean I'd love to have them all the time, but I mean there is a spirit wills.
Speaker 1: That's what we're going to read here.
Speaker 1: First Corinthians, chapter 12, verse one.
Speaker 1: Now, concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
Speaker 1: The word gifts there is italicized so it literally it says now concerning spirituals, or you could say it this way Now things concerning the spirit.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to be ignorant the things concerning the spirit.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to be ignorant about things concerning the spirit.
Speaker 1: Ignorant can be totally ignorant, it can be partially ignorant, or you can be ignorant, you can know about it but you kind of don't regard it.
Speaker 1: It just kind of goes over your head.
Speaker 1: You exclude yourself.
Speaker 1: And so, and then in verse 7, but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit with all.
Speaker 1: For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit to another, faith, miracle operation of faith.
Speaker 1: It's not talking about normal faith, but it's talking about the gift of faith.
Speaker 1: The gift of faith is what you need when you're going to raise the dead.
Speaker 1: Dr Pei was here in the church, you know, a few weeks ago, and he's raised about eight people from the dead, one of them a long-distance telephone call to Europe.
Speaker 1: Raised about eight people from the dead, one of them a long-distance telephone call to Europe.
Speaker 1: You believe somebody in America would talk on the phone and raise a dead person out of the dead on the other end of the line.
Speaker 1: Hold the phone up to a dead man.
Speaker 1: That's pretty unusual.
Speaker 1: Takes the gift of faith to even try that.
Speaker 1: Much less do it.
Speaker 1: Then you've got what?
Speaker 1: The working of miracles.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, let's get back to the Word.
Speaker 1: So to one is given by the Spirit the Word of wisdom.
Speaker 1: To another the Word of knowledge by the same Spirit To another, faith by the same Spirit To another, the gifts of healings.
Speaker 1: That's really literally, it's the gifts of healings, plural by the same Spirit To another.
Speaker 1: The working of miracles to another, prophecy to another, discerning of spirits to another.
Speaker 1: Diverse kinds of tongues to another, the interpretation of tongues.
Speaker 1: But all these worketh that one in the self-same spirit, dividing to every man, severally or individually, as he wills.
Speaker 1: He gives these gifts as he wills, not as we will.
Speaker 1: Not, I can't turn them on and off, I can't just say I'm going to go to church and have visions tonight.
Speaker 1: I knew what I was preaching, I suspected I might see, and sure enough at what happened.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't have to happen, I'm not going to make it up.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to just invent it.
Speaker 1: I can't, so, uh, or I could, but that wouldn't be good.
Speaker 1: So, um, here, uh, it doesn't say visions, pastor.
Speaker 1: Well, discerning of spirits.
Speaker 1: Notice, it says discerning of spirits, it doesn't say discernment.
Speaker 1: I hear people say this Well, I've got the gift of discernment.
Speaker 1: No, you've got suspicion, and that's not a gift.
Speaker 1: Discerning, you know, I can discern.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not what that means.
Speaker 1: Discerning of spirits is seeing into the spirit realm.
Speaker 1: And you can see, like a vision, into the spirit realm, like I did tonight.
Speaker 1: I saw the train, I saw you know the plans.
Speaker 1: I saw the cornerstone, I saw the train, I saw you know the plans, I saw the cornerstone, I saw these things.
Speaker 1: That's a vision, but sometimes you can just know, you can perceive, you can discern.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just know there's demons and I don't see them.
Speaker 1: The discerning of spirits, so it's not necessarily a vision, but visions are included in that gift.
Speaker 1: So you know, the gifts of the spirit can be, can be divided in three, three areas the vocal gifts, tongues, and interpretation and prophecy.
Speaker 1: The gift of tongues is not your prayer language.
Speaker 1: The gift of tongues is meant to be interpreted, so you know when sister Trina comes and brother Mark comes.
Speaker 1: They often function in the gift of tongues and interpretation.
Speaker 1: She'll come up here and she'll sing a while and then the spirit of God will come upon her and she'll issue forth a message and usually it's mixed between English and tongues, you know and she'll say some things and she'll go back and forth and then he'll come behind her and he'll give the interpretation and the equivalent is the gift of prophecy, that's the vocal gifts.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, you have the power gifts, which is the working of miracles, the gifts of healings and, uh, the miracle operation of faith.
Speaker 1: The gift of faith is a power gift.
Speaker 1: I mean you have to have faith to walk on the water.
Speaker 1: That's the gift of faith.
Speaker 1: I mean you're going to suspend natural, and I don't know anybody that walked on water except Jesus and Peter.
Speaker 1: I don't know of anybody else that's done that.
Speaker 1: Maybe there have been somebody, I don't know who they are, but he did it in the Bible.
Speaker 1: So that's the gift of faith.
Speaker 1: I mean you can't do that any other way.
Speaker 1: So the gift of everybody, say the gift of faith.
Speaker 1: So then the revelatory gifts, the gift of the word of knowledge, which is part of God's knowledge about a person, place or thing in the present or in the past.
Speaker 1: The word of wisdom, which is a part of God's knowledge about a person, place or thing in the future.
Speaker 1: The word of wisdom which is a part of God's knowledge about a person, place or thing in the future.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, discerning of spirits.
Speaker 1: Those are the revelatory gifts, and so we function tonight in revelatory gifts, gift of prophecy.
Speaker 1: So one of the signs of the end times are visions.
Speaker 1: Your young men shall see visions.
Speaker 1: Your old men shall dream dreams.
Speaker 1: Prophet Joel is prophesying and Peter says this is the beginning of that.
Speaker 1: So it started in the church on the day of Pentecost.
Speaker 1: They had tongues, and then they had these people with a miracle of hearing.
Speaker 1: They heard them magnify God in their own language.
Speaker 1: There was a miracle of hearing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a tongue and interpretation.
Speaker 1: A tongue is meant to be interpreted and it's a message from God through a vessel to a person.
Speaker 1: They weren't, they weren't doing that.
Speaker 1: They were magnifying God in the languages of the other people, and so they had a miracle of healing.
Speaker 1: It was really not a, it was a miracle.
Speaker 1: The working of miracles is what it was.
Speaker 1: And so the Amplified says this is the beginning of that spoken by the prophet Joel.
Speaker 1: So we're living in the days right before the Lord's coming back.
Speaker 1: I don't have a date for you, we're not going to know ahead of time.
Speaker 1: I don't believe we might know the season.
Speaker 1: I believe we're entering the season.
Speaker 1: We're on a countdown.
Speaker 1: God started giving me years to count down.
Speaker 1: The day, you know, started in 2001,.
Speaker 1: A premier year.
Speaker 1: It's the first in a series of years dot, dot, dot.
Speaker 1: 2001, dot, dot, 2002, dot.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and here we are, 23 years later, and we're that much closer to the rapture and in the church we're going to be sparkling with the supernatural.
Speaker 1: We're going to have more gifts of the Spirit flowing among believers.
Speaker 1: Well, we've been so separated from the gifts of the Spirit in the ministry that believers hardly have a chance.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they're not taught and, more specifically, if there's no example of gifts flowing, then people don't.
Speaker 1: They're not hungry for them, they don't want them.
Speaker 1: Now, you know, it's not proper for me to come here and say now, god, I pray.
Speaker 1: Now you give me the gift of visions, give me the gift of discerning and spirits.
Speaker 1: I never pray for gifts, but I always desire them.
Speaker 1: It's scriptural to desire the gifts.
Speaker 1: I desire the gifts.
Speaker 1: I desire services that have the gifts in them.
Speaker 1: When I'm coming to church, I pray Lord, just confirm your word with signs, wonders and miracles, gifts of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: I pray that every time I come to church I want demonstration.
Speaker 1: Paul preached the word with demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that their faith would not stand in the wisdom of man but in the power of God.
Speaker 1: When you go to a church where the gifts of the spirit are are given place.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm not talking about performing and I'm not talking about you know well, he does this.
Speaker 1: On Thursday night, he, he, he has this happen and on Friday night he has.
Speaker 1: No, that's a bunch of bunk.
Speaker 1: It's as the spirit wills.
Speaker 1: But you can make it.
Speaker 1: You can have an atmosphere that's conducive for the Holy Ghost to move and you can invite Him to move, and then you be prepared to have a good night in the Word.
Speaker 1: You know we can have a good night in the Word and not have any gifts manifest and I'm satisfied as long as we gave Him an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: So we're talking about tonight specifically visions, because visions are a revelatory gift and all believers can potentially be given the manifestation of each of these gifts.
Speaker 1: And just because you get the manifestation of a vision and maybe God gives you a vision I'm going to talk about the kinds of visions tonight Just because you have one doesn't make you a prophet, Doesn't make you really anything other than a believer.
Speaker 1: I mean, believers should have gifts.
Speaker 1: And then it goes on to tell you the main gift that you should desire is to prophesy.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because prophesy edifies, exhorts and comforts the church.
Speaker 1: So major in your heart that you want to be a blessing to the church.
Speaker 1: God, if you can use me in prophecy, I tell you I'm willing to stand up.
Speaker 1: It's nerve-wracking Most people.
Speaker 1: The biggest fear anybody has is public speaking.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you, just you freeze up.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time the Holy Ghost came on me to prophesy at Lakewood and it was, thank God, it was not a Sunday morning, it was a Sunday night.
Speaker 1: But it was only slightly better because we had 3,000 people there instead of five.
Speaker 1: So what's the difference?
Speaker 1: I'm standing there, you know just, my knees are knocking.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just you know, I knew I had a word and you know there, you know, in order to.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting on the side of the church kind of, and I'm looking to the side of the pulpit and side of Brother Osteen.
Speaker 1: He's facing perpendicular to me so he can't see me.
Speaker 1: But the usher in my section, his job is to watch over that section.
Speaker 1: He's standing there looking down that road.
Speaker 1: His job is to watch over that section.
Speaker 1: He's standing there looking down that road.
Speaker 1: So I stood up and I made eye contact with the usher and let him know that I had a prophecy.
Speaker 1: I just went like that microphone prophecy and so he got Brother Osteen's.
Speaker 1: Brother Osteen, he's got a prophecy.
Speaker 1: Oh, we got a prophecy.
Speaker 1: And so they brought me the mic and I mean, you know that takes a while, and then you're sitting there and you're about to melt, you're about to fall apart and thank God I got through it, you know, and that was my very first time to ever do that.
Speaker 1: So every believer I mean every believer can prophesy.
Speaker 1: The Bible says but not every believer is going to manifest all the gifts.
Speaker 1: That's not normal to have all the gifts manifest through one believer.
Speaker 1: I don't really know very many preachers that have that, much less lay people.
Speaker 1: But it's right to want to bless the church.
Speaker 1: It's right to want to be used to edify the church.
Speaker 1: God wants you to be like that.
Speaker 1: So it's right to desire spiritual gifts.
Speaker 1: You see the difference between desiring them and praying for them.
Speaker 1: You can't pray for them because it's as the Spirit wills.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: So just because you have a vision doesn't make you a prophet.
Speaker 1: But yet just because you proph, it doesn't make you a prophet.
Speaker 1: It just means you're a blessing.
Speaker 1: You want to be a blessing.
Speaker 1: God will use you to be a blessing.
Speaker 1: He started using me to be a blessing that way, and and one thing led to another, and one gift led to another.
Speaker 1: And here we are all these years later, and I have learned a few things about the gifts.
Speaker 1: So so it only verse 11 tells us it only happens as the spirit wills.
Speaker 1: So in visions now there's let me just give you a little teaching about visions the three main classifications of visions is the highest level is the open vision visions.
Speaker 1: The highest level is the open vision.
Speaker 1: Underneath that, the next level is a trance.
Speaker 1: And then there is the spiritual vision.
Speaker 1: Also, a dream would fall under that category, or what the Bible calls a night vision, a spiritual vision, with your eyes closed, you know, and you just see something.
Speaker 1: You know in your mind's eye.
Speaker 1: It's a vision, it's the lowest form, but they're all gifts of the Spirit.
Speaker 1: So we talk about the open vision.
Speaker 1: The open vision is your physical senses are not suspended, your eyes, your physical eyes are not closed and yet one still hears and sees in the spirit realm.
Speaker 1: So that's the highest of these.
Speaker 1: So when Jesus, every time Jesus appeared to his disciples after the resurrection, they all had an open vision.
Speaker 1: That's what that was.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: Jesus just appeared.
Speaker 1: They're, you know, they're in there, fixed to have dinner or lunch or whatever.
Speaker 1: And pop.
Speaker 1: Here comes Jesus, pop, I mean, you know, one time he walked through the wall.
Speaker 1: He left through the wall after he ate with them.
Speaker 1: That'll make your head explode.
Speaker 1: I mean, how did that happen?
Speaker 1: See, it's a spiritual.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he's got a flesh and bone, not a flesh and blood.
Speaker 1: There ain't no blood in him.
Speaker 1: He left all the blood down here and now it's up in heaven.
Speaker 1: He shed all the blood here and then he collected the blood and it's up there at the right end of the father.
Speaker 1: So he doesn't have blood in his body.
Speaker 1: We're not going to have blood in our body but we have a fresh flesh and bone body.
Speaker 1: We don't need blood.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: So, uh, but it was a spiritual vision.
Speaker 1: Their, their eyes were open, their physical senses were not suspended, and yet here's Jesus talking to them.
Speaker 1: Um, so uh.
Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about when, I you know, in 1996, it's been all those years ago I was out looking at property for the church.
Speaker 1: We were in the first building and run out of parking and our landlord offered to build us a building if we would sign a five-year lease for the same money we were spending for this old decrepit building with leaks and rats and everything else.
Speaker 1: I had the river of life running through my office in the back every time it rained.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we had to put the computer up high.
Speaker 1: Back in those days we had these big old computer hard drive.
Speaker 1: They'd sit on the floor.
Speaker 1: We couldn't let ours sit on the floor.
Speaker 1: It drowned, so we had to pick it up, put it in a chair.
Speaker 1: I think Jay and Claire shared a little closet.
Speaker 1: I think that was their office.
Speaker 1: But you know, he offered.
Speaker 1: He said you know you're doing so well, man, you're growing, why don't you let me build you a 15 or 20,000 square foot building on five acres and sign me a five-year lease for the same money you're spending now, and I'll build it for you.
Speaker 1: That sounded like a really good deal.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost said no, he wouldn't let me do it.
Speaker 1: And so then I had a release to go look at land, and we were going to build our own building.
Speaker 1: So I said have you got five acres?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he had several tracts.
Speaker 1: I went and looked at five acres.
Speaker 1: I'm out there looking at it.
Speaker 1: It's on Haynes Road, over here little narrow street, two cars can't even go.
Speaker 1: Today, all these years later, two cars can't go like this on Haynes.
Speaker 1: It's just a little narrow pig trail.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we didn't build a church there.
Speaker 1: That would have been a nightmare Actually.
Speaker 1: I think, though, it was the next street over, which was Shallow Church.
Speaker 1: I think it was Shallow, not Haynes.
Speaker 1: I think I rejected Haynes, it's too narrow, so I went over to Shallow Church.
Speaker 1: That was a little better not much, but a little better.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at five acres, I'm looking at it and something catches my eye in the sky above.
Speaker 1: It's a nice day in the afternoon, like two o'clock in the afternoon, beautiful day, and I look up and I see this big circle with a star in the sky and I'm wondering, I'm thinking, what is that?
Speaker 1: And first thing that hit my mind, I just have to tell you it was Marshall Dillon, matt Dillon, gunsmoke.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought about a Marshall's badge.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought about.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you why.
Speaker 1: So here it is.
Speaker 1: I watched part of Gunsmoke the other night laughing.
Speaker 1: I said, well, you kind of started me off in my faith.
Speaker 1: Walk here, let me look at that badge, but anyway.
Speaker 1: So I saw that and it lit on the property and it was about as big as a center section.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at that and there's a couple with us and Gladys and me and this couple from the church we're looking at that land with this circle and star and it's lit.
Speaker 1: It came out of the sky and lit on the property.
Speaker 1: And then suddenly I've just taken up to where I look down on the property and this star got smaller and smaller until it became like a capital mark and it looked like a capital, like you'd see Austin on a map, and it's got a circle with a star by the capital or Washington DC or whatever capital you want to look at.
Speaker 1: And I said, lord, and I, out loud, I said this.
Speaker 1: I said, lord, what are you saying You're going to make us a capital?
Speaker 1: What, what, what are you showing me?
Speaker 1: And he's just spoke two words regional center, regional center.
Speaker 1: And so I, you know I left there and he said you know you, you came out of a regional center.
Speaker 1: Lakewood was a regional center.
Speaker 1: A regional center is a church.
Speaker 1: It's not a local church, it's regional in nature.
Speaker 1: It has people that come to it from a large area.
Speaker 1: When we were borrowing the money on this building, we had to give a list of zip codes of our givers.
Speaker 1: They didn't want the givers' addresses, but they just wanted a list.
Speaker 1: They wanted to know where is your support coming from?
Speaker 1: What are the zip codes of your givers in your church?
Speaker 1: And at that time we had 100 and some odd.
Speaker 1: We still have 110, but 100 and some odd zip codes.
Speaker 1: That's huge.
Speaker 1: That's not this neighborhood, that's not 77069 or 77066.
Speaker 1: That's huge.
Speaker 1: That draws and that's Lakewood, lakewood.
Speaker 1: Nobody from that neighborhood in East Houston came to Lakewood.
Speaker 1: Nobody walked to church.
Speaker 1: People drove there from someplace else.
Speaker 1: Every service I drove there 28 miles each way for 15 years times, four times a week, wore out three cars, amen.
Speaker 1: So he said, so I could relate to what God was telling me.
Speaker 1: He said you came out of one.
Speaker 1: Well see, I thought.
Speaker 1: When I heard Lakewood, I thought, well, god, you're planning on building some big church.
Speaker 1: I wasn't planning on something big and huge.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to build a church, I'm just trying to pastor a church, and here you're talking about something like Lakewood Regional Center.
Speaker 1: It sounded huge to me.
Speaker 1: So I had five acre faith and so suddenly, instantly, I had 10 acre faith.
Speaker 1: I went back to our landlord, whose land it was, and he was going to, you know, finance the property.
Speaker 1: And I acted on this vision.
Speaker 1: I acted like it was God, even though it seemed to be a fantastic or pie in the sky.
Speaker 1: You know a God, god gives you visions and sometimes you don't understand them and you've got to pray a while to get up to speed and find out what it is he's trying to say to you.
Speaker 1: It's taken me many years to even catch up with what he really was talking about in 1996.
Speaker 1: We're just now getting into what he was talking about right now from 1996.
Speaker 1: Because what I saw was capitals, capitals, and what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Capital worship?
Speaker 1: I didn't know, I had no idea.
Speaker 1: Years and years went by before all that started manifesting, but anyway.
Speaker 1: But even in those days we did have a regional center, because everybody that came to our church, even back when we first started, they came from all over Houston.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really a local church.
Speaker 1: We had a few people from out here, but most everybody drove.
Speaker 1: So that's why I laugh.
Speaker 1: Anybody says, well, I'm not, are you looking for a church?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need something a little closer.
Speaker 1: I said, well, where do you live?
Speaker 1: Well, I live in Cyprus.
Speaker 1: I just laugh at them.
Speaker 1: I laugh right in their face.
Speaker 1: Cyprus, that's in our backyard.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Cyprus?
Speaker 1: I've got people drive here from Sealy.
Speaker 1: I've got people drive here from Galveston, from Conroe.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: Cypress, that's right down the street.
Speaker 1: I mean, some people just, they want to, they want to go to church next door to where they live.
Speaker 1: Well, there's no, there's no church.
Speaker 1: Have you looked?
Speaker 1: Have you found anything next door?
Speaker 1: Anyway, so everybody say open vision.
Speaker 1: And so we eventually did get 92.7 acres.
Speaker 1: I mean, god parlayed that vision into the property down the road here that Cypress, champions Crossing, subdivision Champions, crossing right down the street.
Speaker 1: That was our property and we used that property to attain this property and then we sold part of this property for the subdivision next door.
Speaker 1: So we've been in the real estate business, you know.
Speaker 1: We've been parlaying our property that we bought, you know, into paying off our land.
Speaker 1: We've got 10 acres paid for and this church paid for everything's paid for.
Speaker 1: We have no debt, praise God.
Speaker 1: God knew what he was doing An open vision.
Speaker 1: So a couple of months late, a couple of years later, in 98, 1998, we were still in our first building, we were having a Thursday night prayer meeting.
Speaker 1: Gladys is running the Thursday night prayer meeting.
Speaker 1: It's her prayer meeting and I'm there, I'm always there, but she leads it and I'm just kind of sitting there and all of a sudden I get into the spirit realm and I start seeing I've got an open eye vision.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, just I mean, you know we'd just gotten started and I'm about a hundred feet above South Post Oak Boulevard in the Galleria, looking right at the Williams Tower.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it's called nowadays but back then it was Williams Tower.
Speaker 1: I'm across the street from Williams Tower, 610 Loop is behind me and I'm just 100 foot above the sidewalk looking at that building and I've got my eyes open.
Speaker 1: I know we're in a prayer meeting, I see everything going on, but I'm seeing this all just like color, you know, technicolor.
Speaker 1: And out of the corner of my eye, to my right, I see something moving and I look and I see down the sidewalk across the street, this eight-inch, what I call a pipeline of fire running down the sidewalk and I'm looking at that and it's going right down the sidewalk next to Williams Tower.
Speaker 1: It stops, it takes a right turn, right angle, and goes right up the steps into the front doors, over to the elevators and goes all the way up to the top of 60 floors, all the way to the top of fire.
Speaker 1: And the Holy Ghost spoke to me and he had a loud voice and he said I am about to judge corporate America and I, I said what corporate America?
Speaker 1: And I'm in wonder, I'm in awe.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just, I'm just, I'm taking in everything I'm seeing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to understand why he's telling me and what it is, what it means.
Speaker 1: This is two years after the regional center and now we're just.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not praying about big stuff.
Speaker 1: Gladys's heart was to pray over the church.
Speaker 1: She didn't.
Speaker 1: She took us a long time to get people not.
Speaker 1: Don't come for your needs.
Speaker 1: Come to pray for the church.
Speaker 1: Don't come here looking for healing.
Speaker 1: Don't come here looking for your personal needs.
Speaker 1: You give your time to pray for the church's needs.
Speaker 1: We need covering.
Speaker 1: We need the ministry to be covered.
Speaker 1: We need we need to pray for the church's needs.
Speaker 1: We need covering.
Speaker 1: We need the ministry to be covered.
Speaker 1: We need we need to pray over the church.
Speaker 1: We're not praying.
Speaker 1: We have three services a week.
Speaker 1: You can come and get hands laid on you.
Speaker 1: You get your personal needs met.
Speaker 1: But tonight you're coming to give your time and it's one hour.
Speaker 1: We're not going to go around the room and lay hands on people and of course she's so merciful She'd do that a lot and it wouldn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'd tell her please don't do that.
Speaker 1: You just, you know, make people come to.
Speaker 1: They need to come to church.
Speaker 1: They don't need to have that ministry at the prayer meeting.
Speaker 1: The prayer meeting is for corporate prayer.
Speaker 1: So she, you know she would obey me some.
Speaker 1: My wife, she'd know, obey me.
Speaker 1: So, uh, my wife, she don't obey me.
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting there and I'm thinking I'm in this vision and I'm saying, okay, where did the fire come?
Speaker 1: It came from my right.
Speaker 1: What is over there?
Speaker 1: Where did that fire come?
Speaker 1: It came down the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: Where did it come from?
Speaker 1: And so I turned Again.
Speaker 1: I'm 100 foot off the ground.
Speaker 1: I look down the street.
Speaker 1: I did it come from and so I turned again.
Speaker 1: I'm a hundred foot off the ground.
Speaker 1: You know, I look at, I look down the street.
Speaker 1: I'm looking due East now, toward West timer, and I look way in the distance and I see the faint outline of Washington DC.
Speaker 1: I see the Capitol and the white house and by that I knew that before judgment hit corporate America, god was going to judge our government, regional center, executive, legislative and judicial authority.
Speaker 1: Now, see, back, then I didn't put all those together.
Speaker 1: I didn't put all that together back then I, you know, I'm just wet behind the ears, I'm just trying to do everything I can to pastor a church.
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking all this high and mighty stuff and the government, governmental authority, and all of that, I'm, I'm sitting there wondering why are you showing me all of this stuff?
Speaker 1: Why are you showing me Washington DC?
Speaker 1: I just didn't get it.
Speaker 1: He, you know so much clearer.
Speaker 1: Now I'll come to the mystery of visions.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot of prayer to really you think you know what you saw, but you don't know what you saw a lot of time unless you really pray.
Speaker 1: And when people like brother uh Roberts has a vision and he can't get anybody that knows how to interview him properly to draw out of him the revelation that God gave him in that visitation, I didn't have anybody to interview me and I didn't know how to interview myself and I did pray but I didn't get all these dots connected for a long, long, long time.
Speaker 1: But I'm connecting some of them tonight.
Speaker 1: So, okay, so I see that God said I'm going to judge corporate America, but now I know it starts in Washington with the federal government he's going to judge.
Speaker 1: I did know back then that judgment is exposing sin.
Speaker 1: It's exposing what is hidden, as well as correcting and punishing that which is out of order.
Speaker 1: Okay, god has not forgotten how to punish.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a whole lot of people punished for what they've done the last number of years.
Speaker 1: And we're going to pray it in, we're going to, we're going to issue forth those, those kinds of judgments.
Speaker 1: It's not, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not revenge, it's justice, it's reckoning.
Speaker 1: There has to be a reckoning for the people that have been responsible for the terrible things that have happened with an open border.
Speaker 1: Think about the ruin of, not only of our country, but the people came across the border.
Speaker 1: They've been ruined.
Speaker 1: These children have been trafficked, in most cases raped, impregnated on the way over here, drug addicted.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm telling you, god is not happy.
Speaker 1: And so, anyway, I knew the order.
Speaker 1: I said yo, okay, I get that.
Speaker 1: So I, you know, I take a breath.
Speaker 1: And now I'm back in the room.
Speaker 1: I'm, I'm, I don't know how I got off a hundred foot ground and got back in that room, but somehow I'm.
Speaker 1: I'm not on South Post Oak anymore.
Speaker 1: That all went away.
Speaker 1: And I'm standing there and I feel something and I look down and I'm standing in blood this deep, it's over the tops of my shoes, thick, dark red blood and I break.
Speaker 1: I mean I just began to sob from just my deepest you know belly.
Speaker 1: I had to go down like this and grab my knees and just I began to just cry and I said, oh God, the blood of all your soldiers that have died for this nation.
Speaker 1: I was going to begin to pray, you know, in a session for the country, for the judgment that was about to happen, and all of a sudden I heard the louder voice.
Speaker 1: No, I thought everybody heard that.
Speaker 1: No man, I shut my mouth because I was on the wrong track.
Speaker 1: God did not want me to pray for the country, he did not want me to intervene on what he was about to do Not what he did, but what he was about to allow to happen.
Speaker 1: If God doesn't do it, God just takes his hand of protection off.
Speaker 1: That's what happened 9-11.
Speaker 1: God didn't send the planes, god didn't ship the planes over there and fly into the World Trade Center.
Speaker 1: He took his hand of protection off our nation Judgment.
Speaker 1: So I said, okay, lord, then the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Then, lord, I don't know what to do and I was unnerved.
Speaker 1: I mean we wound up the is anybody here that was at that prayer meeting?
Speaker 1: I mean we sometimes we have people that were there at the prayer.
Speaker 1: I don't see anybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, claire was there.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, and all right.
Speaker 1: Praise God, teresa was there.
Speaker 1: Am I telling it right?
Speaker 1: I don't know how much I actually said out loud.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just.
Speaker 1: I mean this was a powerful thing and I was unnerved, I didn't know what to think about it.
Speaker 1: I got to home and I felt like I'd been on a Maytag washing machine on spin cycle.
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't know what was going on so early the next morning I get up and I get the news that exactly five hours after I stood in blood in that prayer meeting, two of our embassies in Africa had been attacked by Al Qaeda.
Speaker 1: Anybody you know remember Al Qaeda and so Tanzania and Kenya, and we lost 250 Marines that were guiding or were guarding the embassy and over a thousand Africans that were working at those two embassies were killed in these horrible explosions, terrorist attacks.
Speaker 1: Osama bin Laden and you know he had already attacked us in the World Trade Center in 1993 with a bomb in the garage A lot of people forget that we did nothing about it.
Speaker 1: Clinton is like Biden and all the Democrats they do nothing.
Speaker 1: They do nothing in response and in response of these two embassies being attacked and us losing 250 Marines.
Speaker 1: And think about the Angel families, the hurt, the absolute ridiculousness of that.
Speaker 1: Why didn't we know that was happening?
Speaker 1: You know God wants those boys to die.
Speaker 1: No, but his hand of protection came off and I didn't understand that either.
Speaker 1: I just knew what happened, that five hours after I stood in those boys' blood that's what blood I was standing.
Speaker 1: I was standing in their blood and God wouldn't let me stop it.
Speaker 1: He said you know, I can tell you those leaders are accountable.
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton is accountable.
Speaker 1: He bombed an aspirin factory after that.
Speaker 1: That's the best he could do in response, slick Willie.
Speaker 1: So I saw that, you know, and I knew what I had done.
Speaker 1: I knew that God wouldn't allow me to intercede, he wouldn't let me change what happened.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 1: So a few weeks later I don't remember exactly the time frame, but we had someone who and in Washington DC, they got into the Capitol building with arms and they went through the metal detector and they got in there and they went up on the second floor of the Capitol with Tom DeLay, who was the Republican majority leader at that time, admired him.
Speaker 1: He got a raw deal.
Speaker 1: He was lied about and he got out of Washington way too soon.
Speaker 1: And that we that's another one of these terrible things that these Democrats do.
Speaker 1: They lie, lie, lie.
Speaker 1: He's a fine man.
Speaker 1: Claire and James met him recently and I can't wait to meet.
Speaker 1: I hope I get to meet him, because this story, this testimony involves him, because this man was able to get into the Capitol armed.
Speaker 1: He went to Tom DeLay's security detail and he killed two men the head of his security and another guy up on the in the Capitol.
Speaker 1: And they the Capitol police finally got there and they got the guy and they arrested him.
Speaker 1: You know it all over the news and I didn't, I didn't think that much about it.
Speaker 1: But one day after this visit, visitation, after the embassies were bombed, one day I'm watching the news, the evening news, and it says so.
Speaker 1: And so uh, who, uh, went through the capital and and undiscovered and went up and killed two men, murdered two men, you know, went through the whole thing, has been arraigned in court in Washington DC.
Speaker 1: Today, and while the guy on TV is talking about this man, he was arraigned in Washington for his crime.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost said see, you can't protect yourselves.
Speaker 1: Now I'm connecting some dots, talking about the ministry of visions, starting to connect some dots because I knew that I'd prayed, that God wouldn't allow me to pray to save their lives.
Speaker 1: And now God is saying see, you can't protect yourselves.
Speaker 1: So I realize that God's protection, see, I mean, we try to protect ourselves, but if God ain't, if God ain't keeping the city, the watchman waiteth, but in vain.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now and then?
Speaker 1: So what is that, pastor?
Speaker 1: Well, that is Washington being judged.
Speaker 1: That's Slick Willie, that's their Department of Defense, that's all of their high-end military.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, we've had rotten chiefs of staff in the services for a long time, too long.
Speaker 1: I'm praying that changes.
Speaker 1: I hope they fire everyone.
Speaker 1: I hope Millie just gets.
Speaker 1: He belongs in a court-martial.
Speaker 1: He lied about our president and all the ones that had anything to do with Afghanistan ought to be court-martialed, and really and truly I wish they could court-martial the commander-in-chief.
Speaker 1: He's the really one that needs to be court-martialed, but he's a civilian.
Speaker 1: My guess is he won't suffer any consequences.
Speaker 1: That'll come later, after he dies.
Speaker 1: He'll suffer then, believe me.
Speaker 1: Pastor, this is well.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about.
Speaker 1: It's a listen.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost can get you informed.
Speaker 1: We're moving into the end days.
Speaker 1: We're moving.
Speaker 1: The whole book of Revelation is one big vision.
Speaker 1: Did you ever know that?
Speaker 1: I mean you're reading.
Speaker 1: You're reading a guy that I mean.
Speaker 1: He wrote and wrote and wrote.
Speaker 1: He said write this down and tell all the churches in Asia Minor what you saw.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad he wrote it down.
Speaker 1: We're going to be gone for a lot of it.
Speaker 1: We're going to be up.
Speaker 1: We're going to be up in heaven at the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: Unless you all want to stay in tribulate, I'll leave you all behind.
Speaker 1: You want to say goodnight?
Speaker 1: Okay, praise God, come on, let's lift our hands.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you for the gifts of the Spirit.
Speaker 1: So then again, right at the end of this, I want to say August this was June that I had the visitation.
Speaker 1: Then, after that was see, you can't protect yourselves.
Speaker 1: And then after that, it came out about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and what he did in the Oval Office, in the people's house.
Speaker 1: See, they're so religious about the.
Speaker 1: Oh, january 6th, you did that insurrection.
Speaker 1: Well, what about Slick Willie, what he did in the Oval Office?
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 1: How about that scumbag?
Speaker 1: What a disgusting excuse and disgrace.
Speaker 1: Elected twice.
Speaker 1: I mean these people, they've got it coming.
Speaker 1: They haven't gotten away with anything.
Speaker 1: What was that?
Speaker 1: That was judgment coming.
Speaker 1: They haven't gotten away with anything.
Speaker 1: What was that?
Speaker 1: That was judgment.
Speaker 1: God just opened the curtains and said here's your president, here's what he's, here's what he's all about.
Speaker 1: And so all of that came and God gave me advanced warning.
Speaker 1: See, so he's.
Speaker 1: He's getting me ready as the pastor of this church and getting this church ready to pray the kinds of praying and the kinds of anointing that have to be prayed for the end days.
Speaker 1: It's not this little little uh, let's God's bless.
Speaker 1: It's always on this paper I've president, yes, let's pray God bless.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not praying for his blessing on them at all.
Speaker 1: I'm praying them out and I'm praying that they get punished.
Speaker 1: Anybody here for the Tuesday night prayer meeting after the election was, you know, the Tuesday night man.
Speaker 1: That was some kind of prayer meeting.
Speaker 1: People that are uninitiated in our way of praying.
Speaker 1: They left with their ears on fire.
Speaker 1: They probably were like me the first time God began to show me.
Speaker 1: You're not praying for these boys, their lives to be saved, they're going to give their life for this country.
Speaker 1: They're going to give their life for this country and I'm going to hold these people accountable because what they've done is they sinned against these boys, they sinned against their families, they sinned against the country and they're up there in the Oval Office treating some young intern.
Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine if that had been a Republican, he would have been arrested and charged with rape at least, but he gets off with just a slap on the wrist.
Speaker 1: He has a prayer meeting.
Speaker 1: It made me vomit to see people that call themselves men of God.
Speaker 1: By the way, one of them that was there is a disgrace.
Speaker 1: He's been caught in scandal and his church is going down the tubes.
Speaker 1: I don't have to mention names.
Speaker 1: You probably know who I'm talking about, but he was one of the famous ones that went over there to tell everybody that Bill is accountable to me.
Speaker 1: He's going to be praying with me and we're going to watch over him.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, sure thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm an astronaut.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be in the space station next week.
Speaker 1: If you're a preacher, I'm an astronaut.
Speaker 1: If you're somebody that's going to counsel the president of the United States, are you with me now?
Speaker 1: Oh, I tell you, this stuff comes out.
Speaker 1: Amen, glory to God.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm running out of time.
Speaker 1: It's getting late, but the trance, you know, paul had a trance in Acts 22 get out of jerusalem.
Speaker 1: Jesus told him they won't accept you.
Speaker 1: Uh, peter had a trance from remember acts, chapter 10.
Speaker 1: He was on the roof, you know, and he was hungry and he had a vision of a sheet knit at the corners.
Speaker 1: And here comes all these unclean animals out of heaven.
Speaker 1: Rise, peter, and eat.
Speaker 1: I've never eaten anything unclean.
Speaker 1: Don't call what I've cleansed unclean Three times.
Speaker 1: And then he went and got the Gentile saved.
Speaker 1: You know, he found out that salvation wasn't just for Jesus, it's for the Gentiles, for everybody.
Speaker 1: And then the spiritual visions.
Speaker 1: Those are like dreams, closed-eye visions, night visions.
Speaker 1: Paul, the Macedonian man, come over here and help us.
Speaker 1: First of all he had to obey the witness of the Spirit that forbade him to go to preach in Asia Minor.
Speaker 1: They were forbidden by the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: How did that happen?
Speaker 1: He didn't have a witness to go, they say, to go to Bithynia, and the Spirit suffered them, not that number two, two.
Speaker 1: And so he obeyed the witness.
Speaker 1: And then the night vision came and he got guidance through a vision and the Macedonian man said come over here and help us.
Speaker 1: And they went over there and he needed that spectacular see.
Speaker 1: I had a spectacular visitation back in 1996 and in 1998 at the beginning of this church so that I would stay on course.
Speaker 1: All these years later this church has been selected from way back and I know I wasn't his first choice.
Speaker 1: I know other people have come up and he's wanted them to be a regional center.
Speaker 1: He wanted them to take their place of authority in this nation.
Speaker 1: And now, finally, in the year 2024, and especially coming in next year, 2025, we're going to see more and more pastors and more and more churches step up to the plate and they're going to step up and occupy their proper place of civic duty and turn this country around so that we can get a harvest out of it.
Speaker 1: What do you think you think we're going to correct all the ills of the society?
Speaker 1: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to have enough reprieve, drive back the spirit of Antichrist so that we can get a mighty harvest out of this nation.
Speaker 1: And you know God wants to bless America.
Speaker 1: You know there's a lot wrong with America, but I think about the gospel being preached from here.
Speaker 1: This country is still the biggest blessing to the world, even now.
Speaker 1: It's the biggest blessing to this world and God does not want it to wind up on the bottom of the scrap heap.
Speaker 1: I believe he's got good plans for America.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how, whether we're going to get to be able to see it or not, but I believe he's got good plans for America.
Speaker 1: I don't know whether we're going to get to be able to see it or not, but I believe that we're going to see a lot of good, and so let's lift our hands.
Speaker 1: I'll wrap it up now.
Speaker 1: Let's lift our hands.
Speaker 1: Father, we thank you tonight for the gifts of the Spirit, especially the gift of visions and discerning of spirits.
Speaker 1: Lord, we glean from what you have done in the past and we bring it up to the 21st century, and we're going to obey and be the kind of church you want us to be in this day and time.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen, amen, did you get anything out of this?
Speaker 1: I rambled a little bit, but I like to tell our testimony.