Street Preachers Podcast Tour | Behind the Scenes | Part 7 | Jacksonville

In this special Behind the Scenes episode from our Jacksonville stop, we’re pulling back the curtain on what Jesus did — the prayers in the hallways, the moments off stage, and the powerful encounters where God met people right where they were.

This isn’t just about a tour stop… it’s about transformation.

“Come and see what God has done; He is awesome in His deeds toward the children of man.” (Psalm 66:5)

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

What's up, Street Team Family? You're watching this episode of the Street Preachers podcast with your hosts Tim Timberlake and Philip Anthony Mitchell. You are tuned in to our special behind the scenes series of our very first Street Preachers podcast tour. Stay locked. Listen to me, man. Listen to me. What is Duval? What is that chapter talking about?

SPEAKER_02 0:20

Is that the county? I don't know what that chapter is. It's the most famous county in the world.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Duval County. I'll let you have that right now. I ain't gonna argue that. You know what I mean? I'll let you have that right now. Absolutely. But you know what blew my mind at Jacksonville, bro? Over a thousand people. Ah man, yeah, it was nuts. Over two thousand people. Nuts. And that in that mini arena that you preach in every Sunday, bro. My man Tim Timberlake preaches in a mini arena every single Sunday. I remember walking on the platform saying my man, you gotta do this every Sunday. I mean, we walk out, there's like 2,300 people in that room, and they stacked all into the rices. I feel like we're in the Coliseum in Ephesus. And uh and um my um my book agent was there that night. Um, you know, my shout out to Javon Bolden at um Emboldened Media, uh, who landed me my first book deal. And um, and uh and and that night was powerful, man. I remember being in the hallway, uh, right, and just I don't know what area that the tunnel, that's what Jack call it. And I remember worship being so powerful. I was just on my knees, just weeping in that tunnel. I had my face to the wall. I remember getting out on my knees, I remember praying for you, praying for Jen. I remember praying for your staff, praying for Celebration Church. I prayed for the whole celebration family, and uh because the power of God was in that arena, in that room. Um, I mean, essentially it's like a small arena. Yeah. The power of God was in that room at Celebration Church, and I could just feel the energy of, I could just feel the power of God in that room. And I had such a joy that night.

SPEAKER_02 2:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

It was that there was a joy that night, right? And uh I remember we walked out on a platform that night. I said, now it's my turn. And I did an altar call. It's my turn. And it was right everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

Remember, I did an altar call before we even got started. There was no room for for us to walk anywhere from from the the altar to the back of the door, just bodies all over the place.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

And and I remember during that altar call at Celebration Church, the amount of tears I seen when people was putting their head on the platform. I seen people hugging each other on the floor, brothers and sisters hugging each other on the floor, white brothers hugging black brothers, and black brothers hugging white brothers, and you know, Hispanics and Asians, and it was this beautiful mixture on the floor, and people on their knees weeping. It was like, it was like the glory just fell. And the Holy Spirit was doing a supernatural work on the hearts of the people, and um and uh and I and I just think about that, man, because like behind the scenes, I remember there was moments both at your your parents' um, your parents' ministry, and some of these things, I would just be in the back hall, I put my face to the wall and weakness. I was wary. I remember putting my head on the floor, uh, put my forehead to the wall, just weak and wary. I remember our team praying for me in the back, and man, I was tired, man. But we would walk out there, man, and like God, we just feel the spirit of God, and like God, this is this is beyond belief. There's over 2,000 people in here, there's people in the lobby. This is revival. You remember that? I mean, now we at your we at your spot. I mean, how did that feel for you being at your spot?

SPEAKER_02 3:41

Well, I just uh a very selfish response. Be selfish, bro. I was so happy to have my brother in Jackson. Come on, man. You know what I'm saying? And so for me, yeah, man. And you you remember this, every every city, I marvel at the gift of God in you. And both of us are sensitive enough to the spirit of God to know what the room needs. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

Yo, that part right there, Tim, Timothy Timberlake, let me call you by your government. That part blew my mind. The fact that we did not script one episode, yeah, but the Holy Spirit would know what to do through each of us in every room, and how we it was like a symbiotic flow we had in each room, knowing when to push, when to dig, when to pull back, when to sing, when to land the plane, when to prophesy, when to do the altar call. I would hang back. You would lead the room. I would hang back, I would lead the room, and it was just so symbiotic. It was, and and you know what? When I look back on it, the fact that we had no script, you know what gets the glory for all of that? God. God, man. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, he was leading us and guiding us through every single place, man. Even in Jacksonville. Are we in your house and you let me do an altar call?

SPEAKER_02 5:05

I'm watching, and so one of me and Phil's ongoing jokes right now is me watching him is like poetry emotion. You know, there is a noticeable, undeniable grace on his life to do things in the kingdom and in the culture that are not being done right now. And so when when we are out on the road and I'm watching, I am marveling at the grace, marveling at the gift of God in Phil. And I would tell Phil, go, go, dig, dig, dig. And to see him go and dig, and to have that gift in Jacksonville, and to see how the seeds of faithfulness and righteousness are being sown, not just around the world, but in the place that I get a chance to steward, that was the greatest blessing, man.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

I appreciate that, man. You're too kind, bro. So thank you. And you know what? I want to say this too, man. You are probably one of the most humble men I've ever known, and one of the most supportive, and one of the most godly, you know, that you you you push, you celebrate others, you know. And I think that's why God trusts you with so much. I I think a lot of people don't realize the level of influence uh that God has given my brother Tim. Um, you know, obviously he leads uh a very fruitful uh ministry in Florida. And Jacksonville has two national television programs, has relationships with some of the most influential people in America and industries y'all would never even imagine from business to ministry to entertainment to sports, uh, athletes. Uh Tim, Tim is, I mean, just when I think about all the people he mentors and pours into all around the country, you would never even know. Don't even post about it. And um, and the fact that you do that with such grace, you know, and you encourage each other other people with such grace and such a barnabase. Um, I think that level of humility that you have is why God trusts you with so much. Why he trusts you with the kind of relationships you have, the platform you have, the national television programs you have, the influence you have. He trusts you with all of that because your heart is so humble, right? And it it has not ruined your head, right? And I admire that about you. I admire that, especially all the years you've been a public figure, you know, and being on TV and all the things. You know, I will I it's crazy. I'll call Tim, he'll be like, bro, what's Tim, what's going on? Like, yeah, man, I'm here with so-and-so. At your house? Like, yeah, so-and-so and I were just hanging out the house. Like, you're talking about the quarterback from that team? Like, yeah, we're here with so-and-so. You here with you here with so-and-so? Like the person that owns that company? Like, yeah, we're just here with so-and-so. It's like my man Tim be like, yeah, I'm just hanging out with the truett family. I'm just here with the Green family, like the people that own Hobby Lobby.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

Like, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:10

Yeah, you know, you know, I'm I'm I'm just here with this the quarterback from the Texans? Like, yeah, we're just here doing Bible study. I'm like, okay. Like this man right here. So we're not we're not I I love it. I love it because you know, I uh I I love it. I I love that. I love you don't promote it. I love you don't put it on social media. And when I just think about the network of relationships that you have across the country, um, God has trusted you with that because you're so humble, right? And so I just um I thank you for celebrating me and for you know for being a barnabase in my life, man. And and you you just steward it all so well, you know. And even allowing me to dig at your at your spot, right? Even even the fact that you stepped back and let me dig at your spot, I thought that was pretty dope. You know, I thought that was pretty cool. Because when we was at your parents' spot, I backed up. Like, nah, my man on home turf right here. Like, nah, Tim. Like, go ahead, Tim, do you this shit? You grew up in this house right here. You go and do you.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

But you but even then though. But Jacksonville was powerful. You know, I it's it's an insecure person that can't honor the gift of God and someone else. Yeah. Um Scottie Pippen knew he was playing with Michael Jordan. Yeah, he did. Right? Yeah, he didn't think I'm Mike. Yeah, he knew, no, no, I'm Scott. And he's securing that. I'm securing who I am, you're securing who you are. I think that's what makes us work. Yeah. Because we both identify the grace that both of us steward and the gifts that we we carry well. 1000%. And one of the things, I don't know if you remember this, even after Dallas and you was like, man, I don't know if I got it in me to finish the tour. I said, Well, Phil, just pray about it and keep this in mind if we don't finish this. These are not events we're gonna do for a short time. Yeah, this is a call that I believe God has given us for the rest of our lives. I remember that. And uh, you know, to be able to run alongside of an integral, godly character, wise beyond your years, great man, is an honor of a lifetime.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

Man, I appreciate you, brother. Man, my man. I appreciate that man. You know, and so I I also think I think something very important you said when you talked about being secure and who God has called us to be. I think I want to encourage a lot of believers who are not secure, and because of that, there's a lot of jealousy and a lot of envy, a lot of comparison, and also a lot of slander because of that. Um, my friend Preston Perry, shout out to my friend Preston Perry, shout out to Jackie O'Perry. I love them. Um, they're family to me. I uh Preston and I we were in South Africa and we was we was on a flight between Johannesburg and Cape Town, and Preston leaned over the aisle at me, he was on the aisle seats, and he leaned over me. He said, Bro, you know what? He said, if the devil could find a jealous heart, he can make a slanderous mouth.

SPEAKER_02 11:23

Come on.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

Right. Such a powerful statement. Yeah. He said, if the devil could find a jealous heart, he can make a slanderous mouth. Right? Because we was talking about like how we deal with a lot of slander and things like that, and he was saying, you know, like, bro, I just think a lot of people just mad at you for the wrong reasons, bro. You said, and I just think so we was talking about this, and you know, they're all and and and it goes back to what you're saying, you know. I you know, we I want to pray just healing over the body, you know, that God would just heal his children in their hearts, that we would we would get to a place where we're not always slandering each other all the time, where we're not being driven by jealousy and envy and strife all the time. You know, as a father with with children, I have five teenagers, you know, and uh, you know, when you when you hear your kids sometimes tussle with each other, how it breaks your heart when you hear them tussle, and it's like, come on, we got the same father, the same, like we're all in the same home. And so it just breaks my heart sometimes to just see the vitriol and the fights across social media with God's children. And the unbelievers are watching that. And and and I think there is a time for righteous critique, right? Let's let's let's not let's not act like there's no space for that. I think there's a place for righteous critique, and there's a place for calling out false prophets, like what the like what Paul did, what John did, right? So I'm not talking about that. Right. I'm not talking about calling out false prophets, I'm not talking about righteous critique. I'm talking about when brothers are slandering brothers and sisters, slander slaves because of misunderstandings. We don't practice Matthew 18, we don't have talks in private, and uh and a lot of us just need healing, you know, and so I I just pray healing for the body of Christ that we'll be more focused on the Great Commission and slandering each other because time is running out, and a lot of the things we're doing is futile, and it's an exercise in futility, yeah, right? And so um anyway, so I just appreciate you doing that and talking about security and um and and celebration, our time at Celebration Church was powerful. It was special, man. It was special, it was our largest audience on tour, over 2,000 people, our largest audience on tour. I was shocked to see that many people in the room for a podcast recording. And um, and uh it was it was just a very, very special night, you know. And um, I mean, we at your house, how'd that feel for you?

SPEAKER_02 13:44

It was I was greatly encouraged, man. You know, again, to have and and you know this, but some of our audience doesn't anointings are not just given, there's an impartation that takes place, and so you know, mantles don't leave the earth, they fall. And that night I really felt like we received a fresh mantle and impartation of the Spirit of God, and our church uh has benefited from the deposit we made that night. Um, and just to see how far people came, uh how people were blessed, uh, people that don't belong to Celebration Church, I would say the room was probably uh 60% people that don't go to Celebration Church or 40% people that do. And Jesus. It's a constant reminder to me of how diverse our street team is. Like I'm meeting people in Wisconsin, I'm meeting people in Idaho. Uh I'm in Appleton. Wisconsin. I'm in Appleton, Wisconsin. And met somebody from the street team. And I'm on I'm on the plane, leaving Appleton, Wisconsin, and the flight attendant taps me on the shoulder and says, I watched the sh I watch the street preachers podcast. I'm part of the street team. I said, Where are you from? So I'm from Wisconsin. I'm on my way to Atlanta in Wisconsin. We got street team in Wisconsin? All over the world. I I am humbled by how far God has taken this thing. And so shout out to the whole street team. You know, right? Matter of fact, put in the comments where you're watching from the city.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

Yeah, if you're watching right now, man, just drop in the chat what city you from. Shout out to the whole street team. Man, shout out to the whole street team, man.

SPEAKER_02 15:27

So just blown away.

SPEAKER_01 15:29

And Charlotte. I'm at uh at uh Jacksonville. You know, I love that you said you felt like a mantle was picked up that night. I don't think I told you this, but when when we were standing on that platform the night and I'm looking out at at the brothers and sisters in the room, um that night I felt like something shifted that night. At least from yeah, something shifted that night. I'm looking out and I'm saying, Yeah. Yeah, God. You are you are gathering your end time harvest, and you're just allowing Tim and I to be a part of it, you know. Um like that night to me was it was like, yeah, this is the end time harvest. They're coming in through proclamation, through podcasts, through he's just gathering his people, he's he's preparing his bride. That night I felt like, yeah, God, you're preparing your bride. Yeah, you know, and then we went on to our last spot, Miami, Miami.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

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