Storming The Gates Podcast Episode with Bishop Eugene Taylor

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The power of prayer has always been foundational to the Christian faith, but what happens when half the church stops participating? In this riveting conversation, Bishop Eugene Taylor welcomes Apostle Colton Sidnor—a man whose prayer life is so vibrant that Bishop Taylor once overheard him travailing in his hotel room before ministry, crying out "God, if you don't do it, it won't happen!"

Apostle Sidnor shares his journey from learning to pray at his grandmother's knee to becoming a prayer warrior who leads thousands in intercession. "Prayer disciplines us, but it's the word that delivers us," he explains, revealing how consistent prayer creates the spiritual foundation necessary for revelation and breakthrough. Both leaders candidly discuss how, particularly in Pentecostal churches, prayer leadership has often defaulted to women, creating a generational gap in male spiritual leadership

Speaker 1:

Well, God bless you. My friend, this is Bishop Eugene Taylor and you have tuned into the Storming the Gates podcast where we're teaching believers how to walk in the victory that God has for their life. Listen, we're here every Monday at 8 pm. I want you to tell a friend and tell a neighbor. We're storming the gates. Listen, I've got a special guest on tonight. I'm excited about the guest that I have on tonight.

Speaker 1:

This is a gentleman that I've been knowing for 25 years. He's been preaching for me for 25 years. He is the presiding prelate of the International Churches of Deliverance. He is the senior pastor of Restoration Deliverance Church right in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a friend to my wife and myself for many years and he is a man of God. I think back years ago when I used to bring him in and I would put him in a hotel right out there in the La Vista area, and I remember one day I came and I picked him up from the hotel and I was ready to knock on the door and I heard him just travailing and calling on the Lord and telling the Lord God, you do it. God, if you don't do it, it won't happen. God, you do it.

Speaker 1:

I've known him to be a man of prayer. I've known him to be a man of God. He is a dynamic preacher and I'm so blessed to have him on today. I want to introduce to everybody and I want you to let everybody know and share this podcast. Tell somebody they need to be a part of this, because tonight's theme is really the necessity for men to pray. God bless you all today. Our special guest, Apostle Colton Sidnor. God bless you today, sir, so blessed to have you on.

Speaker 2:

God bless you, my friend, my brother, the Bishop Eugene Taylor. I thank God for you and for our brotherhood, our love that God has shown towards us down through the years, and I'm grateful again for our friendship, our families that are connected together in ministry. And this is such a blessing to be here with you on this podcast on tonight. And I'm telling you as you were talking, I am the chief apostle of the International Churches of Deliverance, of the Senior Pastor, restoration Deliverance Church. But my mind goes back to the ministry work. I'm a native of Richmond, virginia, where the Lord blessed me to be a part. Prayer mantle fell right there in that church where much fasting, much praying took place there. And then the Lord saw fit amen for me to move in my adult years to the Tower of Deliverance Church of God in Christ. Move in my adult years to the Tower of Deliverance Church of God in Christ where, amen, the Lord saw fit for the prayer mentor and the evangelistic mentor to continue.

Speaker 2:

And then I got married and moved on down to Durham, north Carolina, and the apostolic prophetic mantle fell. And then the Lord shifted and I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, and God continued. Amen to do so many wonderful things in my life. I'm just grateful for all the things that God has done. I was a part of a great jurisdiction in North Carolina in the Church of God in Christ, where the Bishop Cornelius Ellis Anderson Sr was my prelate at that time, and I was a member of the Sherman Memorial Church of God in Christ and I served there as prayer captain. I served our jurisdiction as the evangelistic president and then later as our jurisdictional prayer captain. The Lord has always, always placed the mantle of prayer on my life and I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for the prayers of my grandmother, the late mother Henrietta amen Brandon Brown, who, as a young man, my mom gave me unto my grandmother, who reared me in the way of holiness and in the way of prayer, way of holiness and in the way of prayer, and I'm grateful for that.

Speaker 1:

Let me ask you a question. If I was to ask you your first influence of prayer, would that be your grandmother?

Speaker 2:

That would be my grandmother. That would be my grandmother All right, my first influence of prayer, listening to her pray while she rolled the dough out for biscuits, and just in the room moaning and groaning and praying, and I could feel the power of the Lord, amen yielding and I would submit to the will of the Father and I would just. You know, I didn't know what I was doing back then. I was a young boy but mimicking the things that my grandmother would say and the things that she would do. And then my spiritual mother, the pastor Shirley McCoy, right there at Jerusalem Holy Church, was able to take amen, that seed that my grandmother planted and was able to water, that that I would grow in the things of the Lord.

Speaker 1:

Now, you know, my first influence of prayer was my great-grandmother. Now my situation is different than yours, because I had no interest in it. I had no interest in prayer at all, but she was praying all the time. Now, this is what it was.

Speaker 1:

I love my Nana, not so much I love prayer but I love my Nana, I love to be around prayer and I always say it like this. I said it's just like if you go in the kitchen and there's cooking fish in there, even if you don't eat any fish, when you go and get in the car, you smell like fish. I smelled like fish because I was around Nana. But the truth of that is I wasn't interested in prayer. I wasn't interested in being saved. I just wanted to run out in the streets but I didn't know that something was being deposited into me. That's the thing about the anointing. That thing was resting. When I started in ministry and I began to pray for people, I could hear Nana's prayers in my ear. I could hear God lay hands and I say Satan, I don't ask you, I command you in the name. Well, the only thing I was saying is what Nana was saying. The reason I'm saying it is because I'm listening to you and it's like we're saying the same thing.

Speaker 2:

This is why the Bible says train up and the way that he should go.

Speaker 1:

I'm sorry, but when you said that you captured my attention, you captured my attention.

Speaker 2:

Oh, no, no, no, look, man of God, that is totally fine. As you were talking, my mind went back to the days where we would have three-day shut-ins, three-day, three-night shut-ins, and we would pray. We were taught to pray through A lot of people don't use that term anymore, but we were taught to pray through. I tell people all the time, bishop, prayer disciplines us, but it's the word that delivers us. All right, I like that. I like that us, but it's the word that delivers us. All right, I like that. I like that. Prayer disciplines us, but it's the word that delivers us. So, through prayer, I became disciplined to be able to be a student of his word. And as prayer guided me and I began to be in a house of prayer, a house of prayer, there was no service that we didn't have intercessory prayer. We always had intercessory prayer during our service time, even at RDC. Today, because of the prayer mantle that's on my life, every service is opened up with intercession.

Speaker 1:

Same thing at the Lord's house. We don't start any services unless they start in prayer. No services, nothing at all.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir, that's right. No praise team, no exaltation, none of that. We're going to start off in prayer and, to be honest with you, bishop, I was taught this there's a way that we come to the Father when it's time to pray, and through adoration, through praise, before we ask him for anything. And that gift of prayer. But, pastor McCoy, I remember days that she would lay hands and pray the prayer that God give him, put in him what you have allowed his mother to birth out A lot of times. The mantle of prayer, and I would say especially for men, because we're talking about the necessity for men to pray. A lot of times, bishop, I feel like some men feel like that the prayer mantle is just for women.

Speaker 2:

Yes yes, yes, they don't feel like that. The mantle of prayer is also given unto a man. I read in the Word of God when he said men ought to always pray. Now I know we're not talking about gender, but I believe that when a man prays, when a man understands the mantle of prayer and understands the posture of prayer, he gets the attention of God.

Speaker 2:

When I went to Israel, one of the most fascinating things that happened to me, bishop, was the Wailing Wall. And at the Wailing Wall, the men are permitted to pray at the Wailing Wall and to put the petitions in there. The women are on the other side, and that was so fascinating to me that the head, the head God, set Mel as the head of the house to lead them into prayer, into the posture of what he designed for the family to have. And when I went to the wailing wall and I began to link up with other men and pray and ask the father to show mercy, to have mercy, that was a great impact over my life. And when I came back to the United States, I was encouraging even more men to take up the posture of prayer.

Speaker 2:

Because what I found out? A lot of times, bishop, we have had prayer meetings and you will have the women and we always talk about. Where are the moaning women? Where are the wailing women To take up a moan or take up a wail? They'd be out moaning, but where are the men that?

Speaker 2:

will come and lay between the porch and the altar and lead these women into prayer and ask God for mercy. Yes, we don't. I feel this Bishop and I hope I'm not going too fast. No, you pray tonight. We don't have enough men that are willing to take on the masculine role of the mantle of prayer.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes.

Speaker 2:

And understand that prayer is a posture and not a gender. Yes, sir, it doesn't have anything to do with your gender, it has something to do with your posture. It has something to do, come on here, with the posture and with the submitted place that you have in the kingdom, and that's where you know, I've always believed this. Every prophet, and you know, god has placed the office of the prophet over my life, bishop, but every prophet should have a mantle of prayer.

Speaker 1:

He's got to he's got to If you're going to be perfect he's got to.

Speaker 2:

He's got to, yes, because prayer, I believe, guides us into the path where we reach the face of God, so we can hear the revelation that he has to say.

Speaker 1:

I just believe that, in the presence of God, one of the things I heard Nicholas Duncan Williams say, the whisperings of the Holy Ghost, yeah, oh God, I love it. God, we get the secrets of God. Now we come back into the earth and we come into the earth. We call it prophecy, we call it the word of knowledge, we call it the word of wisdom.

Speaker 1:

But the truth of the matter is, because we're in his presence, we begin to get his secrets, and those things happen as a result of prayer. You know, I'm going to tell you something. When the Lord was birthing me in prayer some years ago, I began to understand the merging of prayer and worship. The Bible says that the father seeketh such when worship and prayer when they get married, oh man, you're going to begin to see miracles, signs, wonders. You'll see things happen under the heavens. Let's talk about that for a moment.

Speaker 2:

That's why, bishop, I teach even the saints, those intercessors, the chief intercessors, those intercessors that are in my ministry, the intercessors, the chief intercessors, those intercessors that are in my ministry you just don't start out in prayer without giving him what's due to him, which is his worship, worshiping the Father. A lot of the older saints and I use that term older saints because we've gotten away from it, we've gotten away from the worship that leads us into intercession. That's why we would say, oh sweet wonder, oh sweet wonder, jesus, the son of God, because that worship gets his attention. And once we get into that worship that gets his attention, it leads us into a place of being able to first of all adoration, worship, and then it leads us into a place of thanksgiving, then make our requests known unto him and then we thank him for what we know he's already done. Yes, see, I'm telling you, and one of my favorite intercessors and I hope one day I'll be able to meet this intercessor is Dr Cindy Trim. She's one of my favorite intercessors, I love her ministry.

Speaker 2:

I love her ministry, I love her intercession, bishop, because she leaves no stone unturned and there is a worship there that takes place that opens the portals for us. That opens the portals for us. Yes, I believe the worship opens the portal so we can have access. Yes, if you don't have no worship, come on here, then you really don't have no foundation that you can build that prayer on. See, you got me out here today, bishop. Listen, let me tell you something.

Speaker 1:

I did a message talking about open portals, and I was talking about open heavens and a member called and they said Pastor, could you just explain to me what is really the dynamic of open heavens? And it's what you just said access. God gives you access and he was like well, give me access to what, whatever he has, you can't live. It's access to healings, access to deliverance, access to finances, accesses to supernatural miracles. What happens is that when we come into his presence, we get access, and open heaven is an access to the things of God. But you know what?

Speaker 2:

Mr, the word said, my word cannot return void. It will accomplish everything that I sent it out. God has given us that access, but we must do something to activate it and we activate it. Come on here through prayer. We activate it. We get his attention through prayer. Through prayer A lot of people by prayer and supplication, a lot of people. I feel today we're leaving out prayer. We really, really, really, really, really. We really. We have gotten to the place where we pray but we don't intercede. Yes, yes.

Speaker 1:

And that's the difference.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's a difference to pray, but it's a difference for intercession. And I will say this A lot of people love this word apostolic, they love the word deliverance apostolic, they love the word deliverance, they love it. But what is the? What word am I looking for? I don't, I was going to say the driving force, but what drives us into the areas of being able again to have the portal and the access for deliverance, for God to move in miracle signs and wonders? Prayer, prayer, prayer, prayer, even the model prayer. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done In earth as it is in the heavens.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

When we get to that posture of prayer, the heavens and the earth meets. Yes, to make those requests become manifestation, and I'm a firm believer on that. I stand on it and I believe it, bishop.

Speaker 1:

When you talk about heaven and earth lining up, you know, when you look at the tabernacle of David, first you had the tabernacle of Moses, then you had the tabernacle of Solomon, but the tabernacle of David, it was different. The tabernacle of David didn't have all the other things. The truth of the matter is it was basically just a tent and the Ark of the Covenant was underneath it. Come on, come on. The tabernacle of David. It represented something In the Ark of the Covenant. It represented the presence of God, the presence of God. Now, the tabernacle of David was on Mount Zion. Listen to me. Just like there's a Mount Zion in the earth, the book of Revelation lets us know there's a Mount Zion in heaven. When heaven and earth begin to line up, there are releases and deposits that are released into the earth.

Speaker 1:

There are some songs that we sing Apostles. Some years ago I don't know to call it a dream or an open vision, but I had a vision. You know that song Beverly Crawford sings Jehovah, we praise you. Yes, yes, all right. I saw, if I had to give it a number 10,000s of thousands, of thousands of angels, and they were white. They had on white, but listen, it wasn't a white like I'd seen before. It was a brilliant white, and all they kept singing was Jehovah, we praise you. The same melody that Beverly Crawford's song sounds yes, sir. However, that next day I heard the song on the radio and it didn't sound like anything that I heard when I was in that open vision. However, once again, I believe in my heart that there's songs that are released from heaven. When earth and heaven, when Mount Zion and Mount Zion begin to line up, I'm turning it back over to you.

Speaker 2:

The other song that came to me was Zion is calling me to a higher place of praise. You know, it's songs like that that brings us and ushers us into the presence where we can come to a place of intercession yes, of intercession. Bishop, for the last 15 years I have had a morning glory prayer line. Okay, all right, ten of those years I ran that prayer line every morning at 6.30 am I would pray. I've seen miracles, signs and wonders.

Speaker 1:

Such as Tell me about one that just sticks off the top of your mind.

Speaker 2:

There was a young boy he was in my ministry who had a Berlin heart. That means he had the artificial heart beating for him and he needed a heart. His mother had cried out and I remember us going into prayer, I remember us getting the attention of God and they said if this boy don't get a heart, he will not live, he's not going to make it. Well, bishop, we went into prayer, we went into what we did, we went into intercession. After intercession, the Lord said told me to tell the children to begin to praise God, but out of the mouth of babes and suckers, be your dang perfect praise. The next day, bishop, that young man got a heart and today he is thriving and he's living. Well. I got one more for you. Let me give you this one right here.

Speaker 1:

I want to hear it.

Speaker 2:

You want to hear it. There was a man who got he went to jail, got arrested, and I remember every morning praying on that line for his release, for his deliverance, for his release, for his deliverance. And we prayed and I will never forget. I got the phone call and his wife said you can stop praying because he's out, he's home now. Another young lady was facing felony charges. I remember getting off the prayer line and the Holy Ghost said go back into prayer, bishop. I wish she was on here tonight. Her name is Melbira Sweet. I'm going to share this podcast with her so she can hear it. Bishop, that day we prayed every hour on the hour, mm-hmm. Not only did she get released that day day and they dropped all the charges, but everybody that was in the courthouse that went. They got released that same, that day too, because we got into the posture of prayer and we seen the hand of God sign, miracles and wonders.

Speaker 2:

That took place because we had the pastor. And let me tell you something. I've got to go back to what you said. The portal was open, access was given, it was granted. I'll give you the keys to the kingdom. How do you get the keys? It was granted unto us, and guess what? We saw the word deliver her because we were disciplined in the thing that he told us to be disciplined in. I love it. Let me tell you. He had men out to always pray. He told his disciples can you not watch one?

Speaker 1:

hour, one hour, one hour.

Speaker 1:

I'm going to tell you one. I'm going to tell you one. Okay, I'm going to tell you one that stands out in my mind, and particularly when I went back last, not too long ago. I went back to my old church that I started with 30 years ago, but I had a radio broadcast and I was having a crusade and people were calling in for transportation. I don't have a way. I need transportation to the ministry. So I told the lady. I said I want to send one of my deacons in the transportation ministry. They're going to come out and they're going to pick you up in the van. The lady said. When they got there, she told my deacon I just had a stroke so I can't walk down the steps. My deacon and his wife had to carry the lady down the steps.

Speaker 1:

The lady came into the service. The atmosphere was charged with worship and prayer and people calling out before the Lord. When I got to her, I prayed for her and when I prayed for her, she began to yell and she listen, now listen. The woman was paralyzed on one side, the woman who not walked around the church. She ran around the church, wow. And then she ran a second time and then she and I'm going to call the names out, just like you did Deacon Johnny Latimer and Trina Latimer, his wife. They were the ones that went and got her. Now listen to me.

Speaker 1:

The woman came at the end of the service and I said listen. I said God is awesome. I want you to stay connected. And I said my deacon's ready to take you home. She said I don't need your deacon to take me home. She said I'm going to walk home. The woman that was paralyzed on one side, that had to come on the van, she walked home and was walking perfect. I'm going to tell you something when we pray, we get the attention of heaven. Now I want to ask you a question Now, as a husband and as a father how significant do you see that in your family?

Speaker 2:

I feel that, yes, I feel that the man, the husband, should lead the family into prayer. Yes, every night I try to lead my family into prayer. When they wake up, they hear me pray and it's significant because I'm teaching my boys, my sons, I'm teaching them To model their father and for their house to be a house of prayer. Yes, because they need to understand that my father has laid a foundation in this home and that not only do my mother pray, but my father pray A lot of times. Bishop, when we grew up, we heard the mothers pray.

Speaker 1:

We didn't hear dads?

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, we didn't hear the dads pray, and I believe it was, and that's why I believe we lost some of our males, because they did not have the model of the father to pray yes, the father to pray, and that's where I think the disconnect comes from.

Speaker 2:

It's especially in the African-American church, the Pentecostal church because the disconnect is, we have, you know, said oh, this woman is going to prayctified wife, sanctified the husband, and all you know. We said all of that. But then we did not turn around and I have to say this, and don't get me, don't, don't get upset with me when I say this, but in the Baptist church, those deacons, those men deacons, they led the prayer.

Speaker 1:

They do.

Speaker 2:

They led the prayer, they led. They led the prayer on the Mona's bench and all of that. But when we in the Pentecostal church we told the missionaries, the mothers, y'all go ahead and pray, we didn't want to go to noonday prayer, all of that kind of stuff, a weak, weak witness when it comes to seeing the hand of God, miracle signs and wonders, because we did not lead out in prayer. And that's something that I feel is essential. I feel is essential. I feel that it's lacking and we, as men, we have to lead out in prayer.

Speaker 2:

I try to teach the men of RDC, the men of ICODE you know what? When we pray, when we lead the prayer, and you know what, bishop, I think it's beautiful when a husband and wife can come together and pray, yes, when we can come together, and that husband say you know what? As for me and my house, we're going to serve God, but one of the things we're going to do is we're going to a family. They say that pray together, stay together. We're going to pray, yes, sir, many days I'll just go around the house, bishop, and my wife she said this the other Sunday all stains on my wall, different stuff that won't come out, you know, until I'm sorry, you know, but I'll anoint my children, anoint my wife.

Speaker 2:

Last night she said I have a pain in my hip. What did I do? I laid hands on my own wife. I went and got the oil and, with the prayer of faith, I said be made whole. You know, woman, be made whole my boys. I called you not too long ago about a situation concerning my son and you instructed me keep him covered. But guess what? As his dad, as the man of the house, yes.

Speaker 2:

Yes, that hell needs to hear my voice. Yes, hell needs to hear the voice of the head of the house.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, come on here.

Speaker 2:

I love to hear the mothers pray, I love to hear the women moan, know that us men, we have the access to the portals of heaven to be open for us and for our homes and for our ministries, even in our country. I feel, if us men get together and you know what, put everything else aside and let us pray, let us unite in prayer.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, yes, I agree. And one of the things that prayer does, it strengthens you. Now I'm going to say this the reason I'm talking about is strengthening you, because you're One of the things that needs to happen, because when God called me into prayer, god called me into prayer in 1996. Now I started preaching in 1989. So I preached, started preaching. I've been preaching about seven years when God called me into prayer. God told me he said I want you to become a man of prayer and I said I am a man of prayer. And God said you're not a man of prayer. He said you pray but you're not a man of prayer. But he called me into prayer.

Speaker 1:

One of the things that happened when I began to go into this place of prayer, I saw signs. I saw into that place many times. You'll begin to see unusual opposition, but one of the things that I began to realize that the opposition is temporary. The Bible said that Satan left Jesus for a season. So we've got to understand that when we go into new places, the Bible tells us in the book of Proverbs that talks about the gates when we go into new places of access, there's going to be some warfare. But if we'll be diligent through prayer. Prayer will strengthen us, because the enemy hates it when you pray. Let's talk a little bit about that. But you know what Bishop?

Speaker 2:

When you were talking about that. What does it does? It reveals, prayer will reveal, it will reveal and it reveals the plan of Satan. It will reveal the attacks, the plan of Satan. And that's where we come into the knowledge of what's going on, because we got into the posture of prayer and now we become a threat on the enemy's territory, because now you demonic force, you've been revealed, you've been exposed. Because what did I do? I prayed and got in the presence of God.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

That's why, I think, a lot of us, we get hit. You know why? Because we're not undergirded with prayer, because nothing is being revealed unto us.

Speaker 2:

Nothing is being shown unto us. You know, I think about the scripture when he said I will show you the unsearchable things, unsearchable riches. You know, and those things are revealed through an open heaven, through prayer, through the posture of prayer. That's why it's important for us to be in that place, because, let me tell you something, the Bible said Jesus, I know, paul I know, but who are you? How can you be identified if you're never in his presence?

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

There is no way for you to be identified if you're not in his presence. And how do you really get in his presence? A lot of times, I hear people say all the time well, I know God, I know him for myself. Well, how do you know him if you never communicate with him? Right, right, right, absolutely, we're communicating with each other. Yes, guess what Off of this podcast? We know one another because we become brothers. But guess what Off of this podcast? We know one another because we've become brothers, we've become a kingdom. You know brothers and united. Why? Because we've taken the time to dialogue, to conversate and get to know one another.

Speaker 2:

And that's what's missing and that's why the enemy is fighting us so hard. Why? Because, first of all, they don't know you. Secondly, you know when, when, when the enemy know who you are. That's when you become a threat to him and his kingdom. And I believe it's prayer, and you said something that I love Prayer strengthens us, it brings us to a place of strengthening. And why do you think you have so many weak leaders and so many weak out there in the Bible? Why? Because they don't have a posture of prayer. They have no prayer life.

Speaker 1:

They have no prayer life. They don't have none. And see, I had a preacher explain something to me one time. He said if you look in your yard, he said there may be a anthill in your yard. He said that anthill, you're never going to have a problem with it until somebody cuts the grass and stirs it up. He said what happens is when you begin to pray, you begin to stir the enemy up. I said if you don't pray watch this A lot of times you don't see the intense attack. But one of the things that I try to tell people if you hang in there, it's only temporary. I wish I could just get a T-shirt with that. It's only temporary. If you just hang in there, it's only temporary.

Speaker 1:

Apostle, listen, I'm enjoying this podcast. I want to end on this. This is what I want to do. I want to talk about.

Speaker 1:

It seems as though years ago, we saw the move of God and it seemed like it was in the mega setting mega churches, mega conferences, mega. It seemed like everything was going on in mega. Now, in the midst of that, when we're in that season, the Holy Ghost spoke to me and said this next move of God is going to come into the local church. Now, when God spoke that to me, everything was mega and he said I'm getting ready to shift it. I remember I told my congregation that and they began to look at me funny because mega was at its height. But God told me the that and they began to look at me funny because mega was and it's hype. But God told me the next move is going to come into the local church. Well, you don't have to wonder. We're seeing that right now. Are you noticing that there's a powerful move of God that's coming into the local, the smaller churches, a more intense type of worship and more intense type of movement. Let's talk about it.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I'm noticing that, I've been noticing it and now I notice it even more. One thing I want to say, bishop, we are getting away from being great preachers, because a lot of people want to be a great preacher, but then they don't want to be a good prayer warrior. And I do believe now that the the hand of God, the move of God, is moving where he is welcome and entertainment is going out the door. You got to. I must say this, bishop we're getting to the place where we are making church more of a place of entertainment and not a place of worship, yes, sir. And when that happens, ichabod becomes our doorpost where his glory has departed. Why? Because he's not welcome there.

Speaker 2:

Yes, sir, when he's welcome there, come on here. The power of God, the move of God that is welcome in the house. He said these signs shall follow them. That believe. Yes, sir, that's what he said. Now we are believing you, god, for this, this, this and this. So therefore, your glory come on here is not being shared with nobody else.

Speaker 2:

But when we take his glory, when we take that, we limit the access, we limit the move of God in the house, and that's why you're seeing the move of God in the hand of God, with miracle, because I'm a firm believer, bishop, that miracle signs and wonders they're still taking place, oh, they are. And wonders they're still taking place, oh, they are, they are. They're still taking place, bishop, they're still taking place. It may not be in the mass, like it used to be, but if you find my God, glory to God, a place where the heart of God is hallelujah, in these smaller dwellings that are taking place, where God said you know what, I'm welcome here. I'm welcome here, even as you go back and look in the word, bishop, it was in the little dwelling places where you could see, we have no problem with the mega church at all.

Speaker 2:

We're just talking about what's happening.

Speaker 1:

You're just seeing a move take place in the local church. This is nothing negative about anybody's church that's not what this is but this is what you see. You're seeing it around the country what the Holy Ghost is doing. I'm turning it back over to you. Apostle yes.

Speaker 2:

The other night, because here the Lord gave me Miracle Monday, and sometimes it's not a crowd, it's a few, but the power and the hand of God has been moving. You know, he said and I believe some of this is when the words say they that wait upon the Lord. He said you've been waiting on me and you've been asking. You told me something, bishop, and I'm going to go back here. You told me something because I was in a place of giving up and you told me don't give up, Hold on, wait.

Speaker 2:

I was praying, I was praying, I was praying and I know this is I don't want to get off topic, but what do you do when you're praying as a man and you feel like you're not being heard. You feel like he didn't hear you and I was praying. But it's been recently that I've seen the move of God in my local church. In this little move that he's doing that, I've seen the move of God, miracles, signs and wonders taking place. Because I did not give up, I waited, and I believe that God is honoring, he's honoring these gatherings that are taking place and he's putting his, his approval on it. You say you know what my spirit is get ready to hit all flesh.

Speaker 1:

Yes, that's what the scripture say. I want to. I want to do something. I'm going to remove myself from the podcast and I'm going to let you speak into the lives of these people that are listening right now. Whatever the Holy Ghost is putting on your heart, I want you to speak the word to them and I want the people of God to receive it. It's all on you.

Speaker 2:

Father, we thank you and we give you glory tonight. We thank you for all that we have heard tonight. Father, thy kingdom come and thy will be done in the earth as it is in the heavens. God, we thank you that your heavens declare my God. Glory to God, the glory my God that shall be revealed in each and every one of us on tonight. Father, we thank you for the posture of prayer. We thank you that men ought to always pray Hallelujah, glory to God, and we bless you for that on tonight.

Speaker 2:

God, father, I'm asking you right now to allow your spirit to arise and every enemy be scattered. On tonight, voice will stand up, my father, and take my God, their rightful place and be positioned God and postured as they supposed to be. In the name of Jesus, I speak to sons today. I speak to fathers today. I speak to grandsons today, nephews. Today, father, I speak to the household. God, hallelujah, and I say arise on. Today, in the name of Jesus, god, I ask you to do it right now, father, in your name, right now, I'm asking you to move right now, like only you can. God, ah, my God, my God, for you said in your word many are the affliction of the righteous, but I shall deliver them out of them all. Now, God, I'm asking you to do it again.

Speaker 2:

God, in the name of Jesus, Hallelujah. You told us in your word that this kind only come through fasting and praying. And, father, somebody is on their face, somebody got their face turned to the wall. Now, father, hear our cry, hallelujah, hear our plea. Here I cry, mando shia, hallelujah. Here I plead, here I petition, here I groan.

Speaker 2:

Tonight, god, in the name of Jesus, you are the son of the living God. Let miracles, signs and wonders, god, be performed. Let somebody, hallelujah, stand on the word. As you said in the book of Isaiah, they that wait upon the Lord. You said you renew strength. Tonight, god, be the strength renewer tonight. Do it tonight, father. We believe you. Tonight we stand on the promises of your word. We stand on the word. We stand in your yea and in your amen. Give us our yes, lord. We thank you tonight. We bless you. Hallelujah, we glorify you. We thank you for this podcast. We thank you. It's called Shanday. Do it again, god. Strengthen what remaineth. God, in the name of Jesus, we thank you tonight. Bishop, you got me stirred up. I get a little shot my nose. So kosher Hallelujah, don't take much, come on, do Shot.

Speaker 1:

God is moving, he God is moving, he's moving and moving, and I'm going to tell you something.

Speaker 2:

This is a wonderful interview.

Speaker 1:

If I wanted to know more about Chief Apostle Carlton Sidno, what would I need to do? What would I need to do online?

Speaker 2:

You can go to my page, cls Ministries. You can like my page, cls Ministries. You can like my page there. Rdc Restoration you can also go there. Or glory to God. You can find us on YouTube also. I'm just grateful, bishop, for all that the Lord is doing. Also, the International Churches of Delivery can go to that page and like that page also and you will see everything that's going on with Chief Apostle Carlton Lamont. Sidnor, bishop, I thank you tonight for having me on. I'm grateful for that.

Speaker 1:

You have been a good guest. I tell you, everything that I was expecting is what we got. We got you, but they used to say we got the butt out the door.

Speaker 2:

I love you always, I love you, I love the boys and I really appreciate you and appreciate your ministry so much.

Speaker 1:

Listen, I want to say to you all tonight.

Speaker 2:

We're excited about your convocation.

Speaker 1:

Yes, sir, yes, sir, you are the opening speaker in the convocation. We start off the first night with you. Listen, I want to say to everybody so tonight you have been a part of the Storming the Gates podcast, where we're teaching God's people to walk in victory that God has for their life against every attack of the enemy. Please remember that we're here every Monday. You can view us on YouTube, podcasting Spotify, and you can check some of your local social media outlets and you're going to see that the storming the gates is storming the gates and expanding the kingdom. May the Lord bless you. May the Lord keep you is always my prayer. So blessed to have you every.