WEBVTT 00:00:01.564 --> 00:00:03.870 Let's wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:03.870 --> 00:00:11.053 Let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, we thank you for this nation entering our 250th year. 00:00:11.053 --> 00:00:13.185 We couldn't do it without you. 00:00:13.185 --> 00:00:17.210 Jesus is Lord of the United States of America. 00:00:17.210 --> 00:00:37.509 We boldly declare there is no higher name and Lord, we're under that name, we're one nation under that name, and we're here to be the clarion call to everybody that lives in this land that Jesus is Lord. 00:00:37.509 --> 00:00:41.530 In Jesus' name, amen, you can be seated. 00:00:41.579 --> 00:00:50.304 Let's turn in our Bibles to two places Isaiah, the 65th chapter and Isaiah is in my normal reading right now. 00:00:50.304 --> 00:00:57.862 I hadn't gotten to 65th chapter yet, but I want to give it to you this morning and also 1 Timothy, chapter 2. 00:00:57.862 --> 00:01:04.174 The prophet Isaiah is prophesying here. 00:01:04.174 --> 00:01:11.650 The prophet Isaiah is prophesying here, verse one I am sought of them that ask not for me. 00:01:11.650 --> 00:01:14.894 I am found of them that sought me not. 00:01:14.894 --> 00:01:24.013 I said behold me, behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name. 00:01:24.013 --> 00:02:10.295 And then, in 1 Timothy, chapter two, verse one I exhort therefore, brethren, first of all, everybody say first of all, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 00:02:10.295 --> 00:02:15.050 And so my message today is happy birthday, america. 00:02:15.050 --> 00:02:21.969 Happy birthday, happy 244th to 249th birthday to everybody. 00:02:21.969 --> 00:02:22.953 We're all Americans. 00:02:22.953 --> 00:02:24.645 I trust we all are Americans. 00:02:24.645 --> 00:02:29.250 There might be some folks that are visiting our nation right now, hopefully legally. 00:02:29.250 --> 00:02:33.223 Glory to God, what a great country. 00:02:33.223 --> 00:02:44.592 I'm grateful every day to be born in this place, to witness what I've witnessed, and I believe Isaiah the, the prophet, saw America. 00:02:44.592 --> 00:02:57.927 You can differ with me, I can't, you know, I can't prove it, but I believe that verse I read out of Isaiah is a prophetic word that God reached in his vest pocket and pulled out a secret. 00:02:57.927 --> 00:03:05.230 America was his surprise in the last days, 250 years we've been here. 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:14.133 And then, just a little bit before that of course, in 1620, the pilgrims came to what is now New England. 00:03:14.133 --> 00:03:16.868 You know they called it New England. 00:03:16.868 --> 00:03:18.014 They came from England. 00:03:18.014 --> 00:03:19.379 Why did they come? 00:03:19.379 --> 00:03:25.187 They were persecuted for their belief that you must be born again. 00:03:25.187 --> 00:03:28.790 You see, the Church of England was a high church. 00:03:28.790 --> 00:03:39.449 They believed in liturgy, they believed in candles, like the Catholic Church, they believed in a lot of pomp and ceremony and circumstance, but they wouldn't let the people read their Bibles. 00:03:39.449 --> 00:03:49.413 They kept the Bible shut up and it was reserved for the high, muckety mucks that supposedly knew better than the common folk. 00:03:49.413 --> 00:03:50.925 You know that wasn't God's plan. 00:03:52.622 --> 00:04:02.528 The word of God is given to every believer and so you know, thank God for the Puritans and they fled that they had to pray. 00:04:02.528 --> 00:04:12.729 You know they were commanded to pray for the king and at some point, praying, I tell you, prayer, is the cornerstone of this nation. 00:04:12.729 --> 00:04:16.110 Prayer is the cornerstone of why we're still here. 00:04:16.110 --> 00:04:23.608 Most democracies don't make it this long folks, but prayer is the cornerstone. 00:04:23.608 --> 00:04:28.228 And they prayed and at some point in time they realized and they got a release. 00:04:28.228 --> 00:04:28.728 They got us. 00:04:28.728 --> 00:04:33.064 You know, the Holy Ghost said you don't have to pray for this jerk any longer, you can leave here. 00:04:33.064 --> 00:04:36.786 I'm sure God didn't call him a jerk. 00:04:36.786 --> 00:04:44.612 He might've called him something else A despot, a despot. 00:04:44.612 --> 00:04:45.678 So. 00:04:45.699 --> 00:04:53.987 So I believe Isaiah saw America and God sought us out. 00:04:53.987 --> 00:04:57.870 He said behold me, behold me, look at me. 00:04:57.870 --> 00:05:03.927 I tell you, I'm so glad that we had our founding fathers. 00:05:03.927 --> 00:05:07.249 You know there's been a lot of lies written about them. 00:05:07.249 --> 00:05:12.471 I'm not here to do a history lesson, but just to touch on some things that we need to give thanks for today. 00:05:12.471 --> 00:05:25.194 I just say it this way all good that this nation has, and all good that it's performed as a result of God revealing himself through prayer. 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:36.620 And this nation I heard one prophet say this and I know it's true this nation is a headship gift to the rest of the world. 00:05:36.620 --> 00:05:48.829 The world was crying for this nation to occupy its place and in less than six months, look at what we're doing in this. 00:05:48.829 --> 00:05:50.786 I mean, look at the peace that's in. 00:05:50.786 --> 00:05:57.588 Yeah, I mean y'all, there's been some missiles launched, but look at the people signing peace treaties. 00:05:57.588 --> 00:06:00.329 You know, in Africa they're signing peace treaties. 00:06:00.329 --> 00:06:05.423 I believe they're gonna have some kind of peace in Gaza, even though we know the end of the story. 00:06:05.423 --> 00:06:06.545 We know it's temporary. 00:06:06.545 --> 00:06:09.894 We know it's just a, you know it's just a temporary thing. 00:06:09.894 --> 00:06:12.206 We know that the Bible is true. 00:06:12.365 --> 00:06:19.410 Everything that the prophets have said about the Middle East there's, no, there's not going to be an enduring peace there. 00:06:19.410 --> 00:06:27.745 We know that, but it doesn't make it wrong to seek it and, uh, it doesn't make it wrong to seek it. 00:06:27.745 --> 00:06:38.954 And it doesn't make it wrong for us to seek peace for the Ukraine and for Russia, as unlikely as it could be, doesn't hurt for us to try to make peace with Iran. 00:06:38.954 --> 00:06:42.697 Iran, they have a history of helping Israel. 00:06:42.697 --> 00:06:46.541 They've got a blessing somewhere in this. 00:06:46.541 --> 00:06:51.692 We can help them discover the blessing and get rid of that evil empire that they have ruling them. 00:06:51.692 --> 00:07:02.711 So this nation has been a gift to all of the world, along with Israel, but to whom much is given, much is required. 00:07:02.711 --> 00:07:06.870 Thank God we finally are beginning to see some breakthroughs. 00:07:06.870 --> 00:07:16.754 It's right and proper to celebrate the good in our history on our birthday and not just dwell on what's wrong and what's failed. 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:23.865 In 1620, you know we talked about the pilgrims. 00:07:23.865 --> 00:07:42.492 But they came to what is now New England, fleeing persecution, and they formed a government and I'm quoting now from the Mayflower Compact In the name of our God, for the furtherance of Christianity. 00:07:42.492 --> 00:07:45.689 This nation is founded for the purpose of the furtherance of Christianity. 00:07:45.689 --> 00:07:49.175 This nation is founded for the purpose of the furtherance of Christianity. 00:07:49.175 --> 00:07:54.146 And, yeah, we've had trouble when we've drifted away from that. 00:07:54.146 --> 00:08:01.711 We've had trouble when the church has been asleep and not praying and taking its place of prayer. 00:08:01.711 --> 00:08:05.045 But, thank God, there's been remnants of the church that never quit praying. 00:08:05.100 --> 00:08:06.225 This is one of those places. 00:08:06.225 --> 00:08:14.028 We're not the only one, but we're discovering others across this country as we get out and obey the mandates. 00:08:14.028 --> 00:08:18.886 Remember my church, my mission, our mandates are all of us. 00:08:18.886 --> 00:08:21.704 We have a mandate, we have a mission, all of us are part of it. 00:08:21.704 --> 00:08:28.502 And capital worship in every state capital is becoming a reality. 00:08:28.502 --> 00:08:37.123 We came across a lady in Idaho that's been doing capital worship in her state capital, in Salt Lake City. 00:08:37.123 --> 00:08:42.572 I mean, that's the capital of Mormonism. 00:08:42.572 --> 00:08:51.705 And here they are praying and, you know, having a church service and they heard about my God Votes and instead of being intimidated, oh, she's excited. 00:08:51.705 --> 00:08:56.009 She wants to hear all about it and help us spread to the states around her. 00:08:56.009 --> 00:08:56.951 I mean praise God. 00:08:56.951 --> 00:09:05.427 I tell you there are people of prayer, people, believers are praying all over this nation for revival and their prayers are being heard. 00:09:05.427 --> 00:09:08.533 Folks Glory to God. 00:09:08.533 --> 00:09:26.168 And so here you know, after a while 1620, all the way to 1734, which was the beginning of the first great awakening lasted nine years under Jonathan Edwards. 00:09:26.721 --> 00:09:46.288 Men of God like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield went across the colonies and preaching the gospel, the Wesleys preaching the gospel and it prepared the colonists, it prepared them for revolution. 00:09:46.288 --> 00:09:53.667 You know, up until then, you know, I'm sure they're praying for their king, king George, at that time. 00:09:53.667 --> 00:10:11.423 But because of the preaching of the gospel, revelation came in their praying, revelation that King George is a despot, that he's not worthy of your praying for him any longer. 00:10:11.423 --> 00:10:14.849 What you need to do is rebel. 00:10:14.849 --> 00:10:17.894 They didn't do that because they were offended. 00:10:17.894 --> 00:10:20.524 They didn't do that just in the flesh. 00:10:20.524 --> 00:10:22.410 They had to have God's permission and they had to have God's plan. 00:10:22.410 --> 00:10:23.735 They had to have God's perspective, they had to have God's power. 00:10:23.735 --> 00:10:25.259 They had to have God's permission and they had to have God's plan. 00:10:25.259 --> 00:10:34.613 They had to have God's perspective, they had to have God's power, they had to have God's prominence in order for that to happen. 00:10:34.613 --> 00:10:36.585 And it happened, didn't it? 00:10:36.585 --> 00:10:39.945 But it happened because of the gospel. 00:10:39.945 --> 00:10:42.753 It's amazing. 00:10:42.753 --> 00:10:53.000 They rebelled against the abuses of power taxation without representation. 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:53.964 You know they're colonists. 00:10:53.964 --> 00:10:54.346 They just. 00:10:54.346 --> 00:10:56.989 You know, the king just said well, let's tax the colonies. 00:10:57.864 --> 00:11:04.360 You know, I get so aggravated, some of these skulls full of mush that accuse this country of being a colonial power. 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:07.403 No, we were the victims of colonial power. 00:11:07.403 --> 00:11:08.125 You idiot. 00:11:08.125 --> 00:11:09.831 Why don't you see? 00:11:09.831 --> 00:11:13.261 They're just skulls full of mush, rush Limbaugh used to call them. 00:11:13.261 --> 00:11:13.743 Why? 00:11:13.743 --> 00:11:15.388 Because they're indoctrinated. 00:11:15.388 --> 00:11:18.703 Instead of taught anything, they're not taught, they're indoctrinated. 00:11:18.703 --> 00:11:23.081 Told how to think and if you think differently you get persecuted. 00:11:23.081 --> 00:11:29.153 Well, I've got a group of people now that aren't worried about being persecuted. 00:11:29.153 --> 00:11:31.900 We're going to speak the truth in love. 00:11:32.902 --> 00:11:44.115 So it all came down to the Declaration of Independence which, by the way, you know, we read the part you know we usually we leave the indictment off. 00:11:44.115 --> 00:12:01.004 It's included in the declaration is the reasons that we're getting rid of King George in England An indictment and terrible list of grievances of colonial abuses of power. 00:12:01.004 --> 00:12:02.246 If you will, you ought to read it sometime. 00:12:02.246 --> 00:12:04.511 Go down the list and see how many of them are right now. 00:12:04.511 --> 00:12:08.783 We have right now in this nation. 00:12:08.783 --> 00:12:20.414 If you're wondering whether we're on the right side, no, god has a side and prayer brings us on the side of God, god's perspective. 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:31.034 So these signers 56 of them pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor and signed this declaration of independence. 00:12:31.034 --> 00:12:41.743 In other words, as far as England and King George were concerned, they were traitors to the crown. 00:12:41.743 --> 00:12:44.405 When they wrote their names down, they said yeah, you want to call us traitors. 00:12:44.405 --> 00:12:49.672 No, you call us that, but we on God's side. 00:12:49.672 --> 00:13:05.669 God gave us this permission, god gave us his perspective, god has given us this power and they defeated the greatest military might that was ever known to man. 00:13:05.669 --> 00:13:07.360 I mean, it's said that the sun never sets on the British Empire. 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:14.932 That's who we took on A bunch of squirrel farmers, a bunch of squirrel hunters and farmers, and all of that. 00:13:14.932 --> 00:13:28.408 I mean, we had our professional army, was very small, and when the British Army showed up, of course at first Washington had to retreat, but I tell you, we didn't retreat for very long. 00:13:28.408 --> 00:13:35.304 I'm telling you, god began to undertake, god began to give us victory after victory, after victory, and the rest is history. 00:13:35.304 --> 00:13:39.567 I mean, come on, let's just lift our hands, lord, we give you all the credit for this. 00:13:42.120 --> 00:13:44.807 And yet men had to put their lives on the line. 00:13:44.807 --> 00:13:52.888 Many of them died, many of their families starved to death during the Revolutionary War. 00:13:52.888 --> 00:13:57.426 I mean, they entered into poverty, some of the signers of that declaration. 00:13:57.426 --> 00:14:00.917 Why? 00:14:00.917 --> 00:14:08.356 Because they agreed to pledge their lives, and they did why? 00:14:08.356 --> 00:14:09.720 Because they agreed to pledge their lives and they did. 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:11.563 They did their fortunes. 00:14:11.563 --> 00:14:15.424 They lost it all, many of them their sacred honor. 00:14:15.424 --> 00:14:17.547 Well, you know, they didn't lose that. 00:14:17.547 --> 00:14:21.225 They didn't lose that. 00:14:21.225 --> 00:14:25.327 There was much bloodshed. 00:14:27.321 --> 00:14:28.908 And then we had the Constitution. 00:14:28.908 --> 00:14:31.566 They got together and of course, they struggled. 00:14:31.566 --> 00:14:33.610 You know the story. 00:14:33.610 --> 00:14:38.130 Benjamin Franklin said oh look, we prayed about a lot of things. 00:14:38.130 --> 00:14:39.284 We haven't prayed about this. 00:14:39.284 --> 00:14:40.465 We better pray about this. 00:14:40.465 --> 00:14:43.692 We're not gonna be able to get together unless we pray. 00:14:43.692 --> 00:14:55.019 And it's just when they prayed they came up with this beautiful constitution that we hold so dear today. 00:14:55.019 --> 00:15:02.182 They had the Geneva Bible that the kings tried to get rid of. 00:15:02.182 --> 00:15:02.741 That the kings made illegal. 00:15:02.761 --> 00:15:06.667 So I kind of laugh about people that are just so religious about the King James Bible. 00:15:06.667 --> 00:15:11.371 Well, king James, that was the Bible that was watered down. 00:15:11.371 --> 00:15:22.668 I'm not saying it's watered down, I'm just saying it has words in it that make it a little bit more acceptable what the kings were doing. 00:15:22.668 --> 00:15:28.668 So that's why you need to read the Bible with the Holy Ghost shining his light on it. 00:15:28.668 --> 00:15:30.673 I have no problem looking at a lot of Bibles. 00:15:30.673 --> 00:15:33.500 I read the Amplified Bible, I read the Passion Bible. 00:15:33.500 --> 00:15:37.091 I mean I even use the Message Bible. 00:15:37.091 --> 00:15:40.600 I don't care, it helps me understand what the guys were saying. 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:45.288 I don't use it exclusively, but I consult it. 00:15:48.153 --> 00:15:51.485 But I've heard preachers say well, if it's not the King James, it's not the authorized. 00:15:51.485 --> 00:15:52.227 Well, come on. 00:15:52.227 --> 00:15:54.201 Authorized doesn't mean that's the only one. 00:15:54.201 --> 00:16:00.720 I mean, I heard them, I said it with my own ears, I don't just want to thump them in the head. 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:01.662 What's wrong with you? 00:16:01.662 --> 00:16:03.965 You got to stick with the word of God. 00:16:03.965 --> 00:16:06.990 You know, the word is bigger than just one translation. 00:16:06.990 --> 00:16:08.952 Are y'all with me now? 00:16:08.952 --> 00:16:14.403 And so the Bible inspired these documents. 00:16:14.403 --> 00:16:15.004 How do you know? 00:16:15.004 --> 00:16:20.120 Well, 1801, right after all that I mean we just went behind the ears. 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:23.408 As a nation, we defeated the greatest military might. 00:16:23.408 --> 00:16:26.162 We're just, you know, we've got George Washington. 00:16:26.663 --> 00:16:37.472 And then here comes Thomas Jefferson, one of our founding fathers, and he said in 1801 that the Mayfire Compact was the foundation of our constitution. 00:16:37.472 --> 00:16:47.352 The second president, john Adams, said our constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. 00:16:47.352 --> 00:16:49.607 It is wholly inadequate for any other. 00:16:49.607 --> 00:17:00.447 I wonder why George W Bush didn't know that before he pushed for Iraq to have a voting, remember, they dipped all their fingers in ink and did a vote. 00:17:00.447 --> 00:17:01.471 How long did it last? 00:17:01.471 --> 00:17:02.625 Not any length of time. 00:17:02.625 --> 00:17:08.007 They have no ability to have a democracy in the Middle East, except for Israel. 00:17:08.007 --> 00:17:12.240 It's the only one that is, and it's the only one that ever will be. 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:14.846 None of them will ever be a democracy, folks. 00:17:14.846 --> 00:17:22.887 So this whole nation building thing is a ruse. 00:17:22.928 --> 00:17:42.127 He went on to say there is no authority, civil or religious, there can be no legitimate government, but that which is administered by the Holy Ghost Glory to God Kind of settles it, doesn't it, and settles the issue about whether our founders were really Christians or not. 00:17:42.127 --> 00:18:01.650 I mean, when you read their letters, when you read their writings, when you get back and get rid of all the disinformation and outright lies that modern Ivy League schools and others have put into the mix to try to get us to doubt our founding. 00:18:01.650 --> 00:18:26.996 If you can doubt the legitimacy, if you can doubt the morality of our founding and blame it on racism, for God's sake, just because some of them owned slaves, well, slavery was the way things were back then in every nation of the earth, this one too. 00:18:26.996 --> 00:18:28.002 And guess where? 00:18:28.002 --> 00:18:30.123 We got it From? 00:18:30.123 --> 00:18:33.948 England, and they wanted to get rid of it. 00:18:33.948 --> 00:18:41.669 They couldn't politically do it because the South economy was intrinsically linked with slavery. 00:18:41.669 --> 00:18:46.388 They couldn't just wave a magic wand and free the slaves and stay in business. 00:18:46.388 --> 00:18:50.890 Well, you're apologizing. 00:18:50.890 --> 00:18:51.884 No, I'm not apologizing. 00:18:51.884 --> 00:18:53.982 I'm telling you there's reasons for things. 00:18:53.982 --> 00:18:56.121 It took a while to get rid of it. 00:18:56.121 --> 00:18:57.125 Guess what we did? 00:18:57.125 --> 00:19:06.580 We had another war and that war was prepared by another revival, the second great awakening. 00:19:06.580 --> 00:19:13.047 It prepared our population for getting rid of slavery. 00:19:15.196 --> 00:19:47.082 You know there was a great revival it's called the businessman's revival in New York City, of all places, and it happened in 1857, where you have Lamphere got his name here somewhere, jeremiah Lamphere and they had the old Fulton Street Church which still stands and it survived 9-11. 00:19:47.082 --> 00:19:51.375 Buildings collapsing all around this church, and it's still there where they prayed. 00:19:51.375 --> 00:19:52.298 They began to pray, businessmen at lunchtime. 00:19:52.298 --> 00:19:54.681 Buildings collapsing all around this church, and it's still there when they prayed. 00:19:54.681 --> 00:19:55.781 They began to pray. 00:19:55.781 --> 00:20:01.630 Businessmen at lunchtime gathered to pray and it got bigger and it got bigger and it got bigger. 00:20:07.174 --> 00:20:16.798 Right before the Civil War, god prepared this nation and over a million unchurched people got saved out of that revival before the Civil War broke out. 00:20:16.798 --> 00:20:19.682 750,000 people died during the Civil War. 00:20:19.682 --> 00:20:22.928 A lot of those people went to heaven because of that revival. 00:20:22.928 --> 00:20:23.869 Are y'all with me now? 00:20:23.869 --> 00:20:32.394 A lot of the people that died in the Revolutionary War went to heaven because of the first revival. 00:20:32.394 --> 00:20:36.884 I tell you, god doesn't lose his fruit. 00:20:36.884 --> 00:20:37.906 So glad for prayer. 00:20:37.906 --> 00:20:39.596 I'm so glad that people prayed. 00:20:39.596 --> 00:20:43.022 This nation would not exist if it weren't for prayer. 00:20:43.022 --> 00:20:50.340 A rich history of great revivals, all of them anchored in prayer. 00:20:50.340 --> 00:21:02.090 And so let's continue to pray for President Trump and for his cabinet, for all of his administration, for our governor, for our city, for our counties. 00:21:02.090 --> 00:21:08.115 Some of you are not in Harris County, some of you live in Montgomery County, some of you live in Liberty County. 00:21:08.115 --> 00:21:10.039 I mean, we're a regional center. 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:11.603 We got people coming from all over. 00:21:11.603 --> 00:21:18.902 Let's take our counties back and the counties that are right, let's make sure they stay right. 00:21:18.902 --> 00:21:22.962 We've got the next midterms coming up. 00:21:22.962 --> 00:21:24.227 Let's not lose ground. 00:21:24.227 --> 00:21:26.281 Let's gain ground in 2026. 00:21:26.281 --> 00:21:27.244 It's gonna take prayer. 00:21:27.244 --> 00:21:31.016 I said it's going to take prayer. 00:21:31.016 --> 00:21:42.665 You know, because of prayer this church is. 00:21:43.267 --> 00:21:47.190 I just think about the eight years of Obama. 00:21:47.190 --> 00:21:50.092 I mean you talk about crying against somebody. 00:21:50.092 --> 00:21:54.305 You know I prayed for him at first. 00:21:54.305 --> 00:21:55.315 Like the Bible says, I didn't like him. 00:21:55.315 --> 00:21:56.661 I didn't vote for him. 00:21:56.661 --> 00:22:00.986 I thought I knew what he was before he. 00:22:00.986 --> 00:22:05.263 The news media painted a bit different picture of him. 00:22:05.263 --> 00:22:11.038 I said in this church in 2007, he's a Muslim plant, he's not a Christian. 00:22:11.038 --> 00:22:11.902 Forget about that. 00:22:11.902 --> 00:22:12.785 He's not a Christian. 00:22:12.785 --> 00:22:15.838 There's nothing Christian about him or his wife. 00:22:15.838 --> 00:22:18.644 I think that's kind of proven now. 00:22:18.644 --> 00:22:20.749 They're frauds. 00:22:20.749 --> 00:22:25.798 I mean, on July the 4th he's rebuking the country. 00:22:25.798 --> 00:22:29.564 I rebuke you, you weasel. 00:22:29.564 --> 00:22:32.887 Go back where you came from, go back to Kenya. 00:22:32.887 --> 00:22:34.529 But anyway. 00:22:35.010 --> 00:22:42.128 So we prayed and in a few months into it he said you don't have to pray for him, he's a despot. 00:22:42.128 --> 00:22:44.657 So we started crying against him. 00:22:44.657 --> 00:22:47.124 I just frustrated. 00:22:47.124 --> 00:22:51.203 I mean I hear people that I love and oh, we need to pray for the president. 00:22:51.203 --> 00:22:53.855 No, I'm not praying for him, I'm praying against him. 00:22:53.855 --> 00:22:56.403 Here's not one thing he's doing that I agree with. 00:22:56.403 --> 00:22:57.404 I cry against him. 00:22:57.404 --> 00:22:58.336 I want him out of there. 00:22:58.336 --> 00:23:03.612 I mean we got to learn how to not be religious in our praying. 00:23:03.612 --> 00:23:07.519 Let's get the Holy Ghost to direct what direction we go in. 00:23:09.522 --> 00:23:11.105 But it was eight years, man, man. 00:23:11.105 --> 00:23:18.682 I mean we, how many of you remember the Wednesday night before they passed the 2,300 pages of Obamacare? 00:23:18.682 --> 00:23:19.683 We prayed against it. 00:23:19.683 --> 00:23:27.965 On a Wednesday night, we prayed and cried against it and during that night I saw a bunch of dominoes. 00:23:27.965 --> 00:23:29.715 You ever see what these dominoes arranged? 00:23:29.715 --> 00:23:33.626 And they knock one domino wall and it takes about 15 minutes for all the dominoes. 00:23:33.626 --> 00:23:42.642 I saw that and I just thought the interpretation I thought was oh, we're going to get no, and you know it hadn't. 00:23:42.642 --> 00:23:43.624 They're not. 00:23:43.624 --> 00:23:45.428 They're just about finished falling. 00:23:45.468 --> 00:23:59.202 Right now, this last big beautiful bill that president signed on July 4th, I think it's going to be the death knell of Obamacare, where Obamacare funds abortion. 00:23:59.202 --> 00:24:04.678 And I hear people griping well, we didn't do it long enough. 00:24:04.678 --> 00:24:06.683 You know it's good that we did it for a year. 00:24:06.683 --> 00:24:07.575 At least we did it. 00:24:07.575 --> 00:24:09.720 Let's wait for the next. 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:27.421 You know we have a razor thin majority in the it's not even a majority, it's a plurality in the Senate and a very tiny one in the House, and yet we passed the most complex reversal of policies this nation has ever seen. 00:24:27.421 --> 00:24:31.743 In my lifetime, we have never seen a bill like that passed. 00:24:32.095 --> 00:24:34.765 I don't wanna hear about the things that are wrong about it. 00:24:34.765 --> 00:24:36.422 There's a lot right about it. 00:24:36.422 --> 00:24:47.837 So I've been thanking God for what he's done through this church, and we're not the only ones. 00:24:47.837 --> 00:24:48.740 I don't say that. 00:24:48.740 --> 00:25:02.385 I'm not bragging, I'm reporting, but I wanted to read this to you again from the 12th of February 3.08 am. 00:25:02.486 --> 00:25:12.188 I got up in the middle of the night on that day, three weeks after President Trump has been inaugurated, three weeks. 00:25:12.188 --> 00:25:23.330 And I woke up with the word reckoning and I prayed a little bit, but I just tried not to think too much about that word. 00:25:23.330 --> 00:25:24.900 I knew it was going to be part of a prophetic word and I prayed a little bit, but I just tried not to think too much about that word. 00:25:24.900 --> 00:25:30.530 I knew it was going to be part of a prophetic word and I wanted the prophetic word to come as the Spirit willed. 00:25:30.530 --> 00:25:39.372 I didn't want to compose something, bring something in, you know some kind of poetry or whatever. 00:25:39.372 --> 00:25:51.728 I just knew it was a prophetic utterance, the beginning of one, and I waited till the next Sunday, which was the 16th, and I delivered this prophetic word. 00:25:51.728 --> 00:26:01.769 I'll just read it again to you, and again, this is less than a month after he got inaugurated. 00:26:03.517 --> 00:26:14.836 The word of the Lord comes to me saying this year, 2025, the year of milestones is a time of reckoning for those who have illegitimately operated the levers of power in the USA. 00:26:14.836 --> 00:26:24.586 We, the people, a group of Americans, many of whom are my sons and daughters, americans, many of whom are my sons and daughters have awakened. 00:26:24.586 --> 00:26:38.167 They have elected a champion, a deliverer, donald J Trump, who has blown the trumpet and assembled a mighty men and women backed with the sword of my spirit, my holy word. 00:26:38.167 --> 00:26:50.590 With supernatural weapons, they are exposing the hidden corruption, breaking apart the unholy alliances and driving back the spirit of Antichrist. 00:26:50.590 --> 00:27:04.746 Yes, reckoning has begun for these demonically controlled individuals Politicians, judges, ceos, media magnets and entertainment giants. 00:27:04.746 --> 00:27:08.816 They have been weighed in the scales and found wanting. 00:27:08.816 --> 00:27:21.287 So with this reckoning, there shall come a vast transfer of wealth and power to my church for the purposes of harvesting the precious fruit of the earth. 00:27:21.287 --> 00:27:26.663 You are living through the initial stages of the end time revival. 00:27:27.255 --> 00:27:30.164 Rejoice and be glad, says the Lord of hosts. 00:27:30.164 --> 00:27:33.926 Well, I think we ought to rejoice and be glad about that Hallelujah. 00:27:33.926 --> 00:27:44.500 I have to say that, since that word, it's not even been six months now since he was inaugurated. 00:27:44.500 --> 00:27:46.486 Look at what has happened. 00:27:46.486 --> 00:27:49.780 Has this word not begun to come to pass? 00:27:49.780 --> 00:27:56.957 And it's rolling I mean, his judgment is rolling like a river. 00:27:56.957 --> 00:28:00.321 It's going to come, it's going to consume. 00:28:00.321 --> 00:28:06.570 Every one of these people that God said has been weighed in the scales and found wanting. 00:28:06.570 --> 00:28:11.786 Every one of them is going to be exposed for what and who they are. 00:28:11.786 --> 00:28:13.861 Make no mistake about it. 00:28:13.861 --> 00:28:14.143 Why? 00:28:14.143 --> 00:28:15.400 Because we're praying. 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.117 We're going to continue to pray. 00:28:18.117 --> 00:28:22.127 Hallelujah, glory to God. 00:28:22.127 --> 00:28:27.441 We're so glad for this nation, father. 00:28:29.766 --> 00:28:34.784 Now you know, I got three things about prayer. 00:28:34.784 --> 00:28:38.382 I want to talk about that. 00:28:38.382 --> 00:28:51.490 God gave me back when we had the word about 2020 going to be a year of the greatest year. 00:28:51.490 --> 00:28:53.396 Yet I had that in 2019. 00:28:53.396 --> 00:28:56.481 And 2020 was a year of COVID. 00:28:56.481 --> 00:29:01.318 2020 was the year the worst year yet from lots of people, millions of people. 00:29:01.318 --> 00:29:08.684 And yet God gave me a word that went the opposite direction and laid out what you could believe for 2020. 00:29:08.924 --> 00:29:10.689 And we started talking about greatest year. 00:29:10.689 --> 00:29:12.218 Yet Anybody remember the greatest year? 00:29:12.218 --> 00:29:12.478 Yet? 00:29:12.478 --> 00:29:15.545 I mean it was a Sunday night and it was. 00:29:15.545 --> 00:29:19.739 I mean the Holy Ghost was just ripping off the walls. 00:29:19.739 --> 00:29:20.881 It was prophetic word. 00:29:20.881 --> 00:29:22.965 It just went on and on and on and on. 00:29:22.965 --> 00:29:38.961 It took me five or six pages to put everything down and, uh, when they started closing everything down and trying to close the church down, we had to rely on that word. 00:29:38.961 --> 00:29:40.444 We prayed all the way through that. 00:29:40.444 --> 00:29:42.517 Then we had a lection stolen. 00:29:42.517 --> 00:29:44.019 We prayed all the way through that. 00:29:44.019 --> 00:29:44.659 Then we had an election stolen. 00:29:44.659 --> 00:29:46.000 We prayed all the way through that. 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:47.742 We cried against it. 00:29:47.742 --> 00:29:50.425 We cried against Biden. 00:29:50.425 --> 00:29:51.807 We cried against the whole thing. 00:29:51.847 --> 00:29:52.970 Guess what's going on now. 00:29:52.970 --> 00:29:54.250 Look at our prayers. 00:29:54.250 --> 00:29:59.559 I mean they are being answered right now. 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:07.356 I said they're being answered, and we're not the only ones I'm just saying about. 00:30:07.356 --> 00:30:19.726 I can only be an expert about what we have, what we do, but as we pray, we this God gave me this back then as we pray, we number one we get God's perspective, and we say this all over the country. 00:30:19.726 --> 00:30:25.759 Now, god has a side, so simple. 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:27.584 Well, you know, god's not a Republican. 00:30:27.584 --> 00:30:28.165 He, god, has a side, so simple. 00:30:28.165 --> 00:30:29.569 Well, you know God's not a Republican, he's not a Democrat. 00:30:29.569 --> 00:30:33.464 Yeah, but he's got a side and he ain't on the Democrat side. 00:30:33.464 --> 00:30:34.066 I'm sorry. 00:30:34.066 --> 00:30:38.923 He's not on the side of evil. 00:30:38.923 --> 00:30:43.624 They're a crime syndicate bigger than the mafia ever thought about being. 00:30:43.624 --> 00:30:51.567 It's rotten to the core, from top to bottom, in and out. 00:30:51.567 --> 00:31:03.667 Yeah, they've got a handful of people that seem to be decent on occasion, but really I mean they're rooted in ungodliness. 00:31:03.667 --> 00:31:08.603 There's no reaching across the aisle. 00:31:08.603 --> 00:31:09.738 I don't want to hear about it. 00:31:09.738 --> 00:31:12.708 They have to be defeated. 00:31:12.708 --> 00:31:15.785 They have to be defeated in Harris County. 00:31:15.785 --> 00:31:18.721 They have to be defeated in Houston. 00:31:18.721 --> 00:31:20.483 City of Houston, they have to be defeated. 00:31:20.483 --> 00:31:22.567 What does it. 00:31:22.567 --> 00:31:24.621 Take Prayer, you get God's perspective. 00:31:24.621 --> 00:31:26.336 There's no room for doubt. 00:31:29.060 --> 00:31:38.276 Now, going back to 2016, I had a Tuesday morning private prayer meeting. 00:31:38.276 --> 00:31:44.449 In other words, by private, I mean not everybody could come to that meeting, it was by invitation, only in my invitation. 00:31:44.449 --> 00:31:50.605 Now, thursday night, gladys heads up Thursday night prayer. 00:31:50.605 --> 00:32:08.926 She's taking a break right now till she gets back on her feet and gets her strength back, but it's always been her heart to pray over the church and pray over the needs of the church, and I'm not meaning another church service, I just mean that she prays, processes God's plan for the church. 00:32:08.926 --> 00:32:13.384 But Tuesday morning was my prayer meeting and I directed it. 00:32:13.384 --> 00:32:14.646 I wasn't present there. 00:32:14.646 --> 00:32:16.058 I had a leader, nancy Drewster. 00:32:16.058 --> 00:32:35.787 She's in heaven now and I'd meet with Nancy every Tuesday morning for about 45 minutes, go over the prayer notes, talk to her about what I wanted to accomplish that day, and her job was to keep everybody in one accord, in one place and praying along with what I dictated. 00:32:38.575 --> 00:32:48.007 And so in the primary of 2016, you know, there were 16 Republicans running, of which Donald Trump was one. 00:32:48.007 --> 00:32:58.763 He was like a bull in a china shop, I mean, he started swinging the sword on the very first debate and some of them bit the dust right away. 00:32:58.763 --> 00:33:00.318 I mean, some of them just went ahead. 00:33:00.318 --> 00:33:01.662 Okay, I'm not up to this. 00:33:01.662 --> 00:33:03.606 Huckabee was one of them. 00:33:03.606 --> 00:33:05.842 You know I give Huckabee a lot of credit. 00:33:05.842 --> 00:33:22.497 He turned right around and he put all of his support on Trump, admire him, and now he's, you know, ambassador to Israel, praise God, anyway. 00:33:22.497 --> 00:33:29.565 So you know we had Ted Cruz running and we know his dad has been to the church. 00:33:29.565 --> 00:33:37.547 He hadn't been to the church in those years but I had met him and right after that I met him, his dad, ted Cruz's dad. 00:33:37.547 --> 00:33:43.980 But anyway, ted was a good Christian and so I was really for Ted and I liked Trump. 00:33:43.909 --> 00:33:45.147 I started listening to what was really for Ted and I liked Trump. 00:33:45.147 --> 00:33:47.210 I started listening to what he was saying and I liked it. 00:33:47.210 --> 00:33:50.663 Gladys and I both we kind of wow, this is different than what we thought. 00:33:50.663 --> 00:33:58.606 I'm kind of dubious, like a lot of people were, but I've been watching him for years, years. 00:33:58.606 --> 00:34:09.440 I watched all of his apprentice programs and then before, when it was just like business people, and then later on, the celebrity. 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:10.764 I watched every one of them. 00:34:10.764 --> 00:34:12.340 They were on Sunday night. 00:34:12.340 --> 00:34:13.978 I recorded it when I got home from church. 00:34:13.978 --> 00:34:14.559 I'd watch it. 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:15.744 I enjoyed it. 00:34:16.695 --> 00:34:19.081 I liked hearing him, I liked to see what he would do. 00:34:19.081 --> 00:34:20.268 And I know it's just a. 00:34:20.268 --> 00:34:23.168 You know it's a TV program, I know it's all arranged and I know it's just a. 00:34:23.168 --> 00:34:23.963 You know it's a TV program, I know it's all arranged. 00:34:23.963 --> 00:34:31.009 But yet he, as you found out, he can speak off script like nobody. 00:34:31.009 --> 00:34:33.702 I've never heard anybody like him. 00:34:33.702 --> 00:34:38.164 You don't even know when he's reading the teleprompter and when he's not. 00:34:38.164 --> 00:34:40.103 He's just seamless. 00:34:41.195 --> 00:34:45.724 But anyway, I voted for him in the Texas primary. 00:34:45.724 --> 00:34:47.288 Gladys didn't want to. 00:34:47.288 --> 00:34:48.981 I said, honey, we got to vote the same. 00:34:48.981 --> 00:34:49.786 I don't know. 00:34:49.786 --> 00:34:51.735 I think she might've voted for Trump in the primary. 00:34:51.735 --> 00:34:55.204 I think we, I think our, I think our vote split. 00:34:55.204 --> 00:34:56.427 I'm not, didn't ever ask her. 00:34:58.217 --> 00:34:59.860 But then there came the Iowa. 00:34:59.860 --> 00:35:03.706 There came the Iowa, the Iowa caucus. 00:35:03.706 --> 00:35:05.170 I've got a purpose for saying all this. 00:35:05.170 --> 00:35:12.969 Iowa caucus came up and Trump won it, and so we're staying up late to watch the Iowa caucus. 00:35:12.969 --> 00:35:15.617 It's like March of 2016. 00:35:15.617 --> 00:35:19.561 You still got a few people work running like a horse face. 00:35:19.561 --> 00:35:20.262 What's her face? 00:35:22.164 --> 00:35:27.230 I'm sorry I had to last Fiorina. 00:35:27.230 --> 00:35:29.112