I've seen too much. I just CANNOT stay silent anymore.

Fresh from trips to India, Nigeria, Egypt, and the Middle East, Sean Feucht urgently highlights the extreme persecution of Christians—murders, church burnings, government complicity, and media coverup. He contrasts this with American comfort, calls believers to pray, give, and go, and insists on new efforts to defend religious freedom globally

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SPEAKER_01 0:20

Good evening. Welcome to Breakthrough Hour. I literally just got back from the Middle East and I had to come on tonight live. I just got to share with you uh what's burning in my heart. And I'm just praying, even right now, just begin to invite people to join us, post this, share this. You're gonna hear some stuff tonight that you're not gonna see in the media. You're gonna hear about some firsthand encounters of what's really taking place around the world. I want to talk about something most of the world, the globe, media is trying to ignore, and something the church can no longer afford to stay silent about. We are living in the most dangerous time in history to be a Christian. Not metaphorically, not emotionally, quite literally. Right now across the earth, our brothers and sisters are being hunted, imprisoned, tortured, and killed simply because they refuse to deny the name of Jesus. And I've just come from the Middle East. I've walked the streets of India where believers are beaten for gathering in homes, where pastors are jailed under false accusations, where entire villages turn against them when they follow Jesus. I've stood in Nigeria where the ground is still fresh, over the mass graves, where families are being wiped out overnight, where terrorists don't just threaten the church, they are actively trying to erase it. And I've just come from Egypt in hidden places where believers worship with joy, but always with the awareness that it could cost them everything. This is not history, this is not theory, guys. This is right now in 2026. And while they are risking everything just to whisper the name of Jesus, much of the American church is distracted, distracted by comfort, distracted by politics without purpose, distracted by endless noise that keeps us busy, but not really effective. We argue online while they are dying in silence. We scroll while they are hiding. We complain while they are praying simply for survival. That's got to change because we have something that they don't. We have freedom. Every time I step back into the US, I just want to scream that. And that freedom wasn't given to us so that we could sit back and just consume. It was given so that we could contend. We stand for religious liberty in America, not just for ourselves, but because this nation has been a lifeline to the persecuted church all around the world. And let me say this clearly that freedom is not guaranteed anymore. We are watching other Western nations completely crumble. In Canada, pastors have been arrested for holding church services. And last summer, you guys saw I was in Quebec, someone threw a firebomb into the church gathering that I was leading worship in. Like you would think that's a headline from the Middle East, but it's happening in North America. In the United Kingdom, believers are being detained for silent prayer outside abortion clinics. Silent prayer. The erosion is real and the pressure is increasing. And the question is, will America wake up before it's too late? Because right now, this nation remains one of the last strongholds, really the last bastion of true religious liberty in the world. And I believe with everything in me that God gave us this freedom, not just to protect, but to extend. So to pray like it matters because it does, we give like it matters because it does, and we speak like it matters because it does. There are believers in Nigeria tonight praying for protection. There are house churches in India whispering worship songs so they won't be heard. There are young people in Egypt risking everything to follow Jesus. I was just with them. And they are not asking for comfort or pity. They're asking for strength. They're asking for courage. They are asking for us to stand with them. So tonight we're not just going to look away. We're not just going to keep scrolling. We're not just going to stay distracted. We're going to fix our eyes on what matters and respond the way the body of Christ was always meant to. Because when one part of the body suffers, we all suffer. And when one part rises, we all rise. So this is breakthrough hour. And tonight we contend for the persecuted church. And as I mentioned, I just got back off a plane last night from the Middle East. And this has been a series of trips for me. Um, you know, first it was Australia, then it was India, then it was Nigeria, and now it was Egypt. Not done for the year, but man, these last couple trips, guys, have just rocked me. And I want to start tonight. I want to share with you this video that um I shared just a few hours ago. It is going, I don't know what you consider viral these days, but it's it's got, you know, over probably a million views on on the collective, you know, uh posts that we've done, platforms. And it's heart-wrenching. And, you know, there's a lot of people that are like, man, Sean, stop talking about it, stop it. Or you're just capitalizing on it, like not realizing, like, literally, guys, I've I've been doing missions since I was a teenager. My dad was a full-time medical missionary. This is the world that I grew up in. In fact, I only really started focusing on America in the pandemic in 2020. And we'll get to that in a minute, why that was significant. But I want to start by what I want you to watch this video. And I I don't want you to look away, I want you to watch it. It's it's an interview of a woman in Nigeria that shares about what happened to her family in the middle of the night.

SPEAKER_07 7:38

I am getting on last year.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

I don't know how you can watch something like that and not be totally wrecked. Like, if you're not moved by that, you have lost, like, you are your heart is callous, and you just need to pray and ask God to soften it. I mean, that is a woman that had Boko Haram, falloonie terrorist, break into her house and kill her children, one of them that she was breastfeeding. And I just I I I can't I I can't focus on this enough. Like 7,300, 7,300 Christians have been murdered this year alone in Nigeria. Like I don't and I don't know if you guys understand that. That that is like that puts it on par. I mean, you talk about I think they say 50,000 since 2010. 20,000 churches have been burned to the ground. I've seen this, guys. I was just there two weeks ago. Got to worship with the Nigerian church on on Palm Sunday. And then and then on Palm Sunday, when I was there, the attack, the massacre took place. And they told me it was gonna happen. They said every year there's a massacre that happens. And they said it'll last in the news for a few hours, and then people will move on. And this has been their life since 2010. And you know, I didn't go there planning to to do a fundraiser, I didn't go there planning to uh, you know, do a big initiative. We got a lot of those going on right now across the US. We got a lot of fundraisers, we got a lot of stuff we gotta, but I I was so wrecked, and this is what why we launched that fundraiser. And in 72 hours, we raised $101,000. I think it's more than that now, and it's already been deployed uh in Nigeria and several different places, but uh it's just it's not enough for me. Like I can't just check the box and say, oh, that's good, we're we're done. No, I I can't unsee what I've seen there, and so I don't care if this makes people uncomfortable. I don't care if showing these videos annoys people, I don't care if they want to move on to a new subject. I'm not moving on. This is the worst atrocity against Christians in our lifetime. Number the most dangerous place right now to be a Christian in the entire world is Nigeria. And I'm thankful I want to share this clip clip here. Yesterday, uh Senator Ted Cruz, who's been outspoken on this issue, praise God, spoke up, and this is what he said in the summit. I want uh in this in the uh Senate. I want you guys to watch this.

SPEAKER_00 10:41

More Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world. Since 2009, Islamic jihadists have murdered more than 50,000 Christians in Nigeria, and more than 20,000 churches, schools, and religious institutions have been destroyed, most burned to the ground. Scores of Christians and several others were kidnapped over Holy Week. Nigerian officials have been, unfortunately, complicit in facilitating these atrocities. At the state level, a dozen Nigerian states implement Islamist blasphemy and sharia laws. At the federal level, the government looks the other way at Islamist violence. The result is, unsurprisingly, yet more jihadist violence. Last year I introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act, which would require placing Nigeria back on the country of particular concern list and impose sanctions on officials involved in enforcing blasphemy and sharia laws. The U.S. government knows who they are at both the local level and the federal level, and they should be held accountable. I'm sorry to say that Nigerian officials are at a minimum in denial of the government's role. In October, several officials, including the Deputy Speaker of the Nigerian House and the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and a range of anonymous officials linked to the President, directly attacked me for saying that, quote, officials in Nigeria are ignoring or even facilitating the mass murder of Christians by Islamic jihadists. Last year I met with a delegation of top Nigerian defense and security officials. They said they were committed to ending the violence. I told them I would judge their commitment by the results. Those results have yet to materialize. President Trump has established that the United States will use all tools of statecraft to counter the violence. He ordered that Nigeria be added to the CPC list, and in December, he ordered the Department of War to target ISIS terrorists in response to their massacre of Christians. I'll note that the Nigerian government said at the time that it welcomed and indeed requested the actions. I find their statements to be somewhere between hypocritical and infuriating. In December, the President said that jihadists have been targeting Christians in Nigeria, quote, at levels not seen for many years and even centuries. What does the situation look like now, several months later, and what can and should the United States do to stop the mass murder of Christians?

SPEAKER_01 13:19

Man, I was so grateful that Ted went to bat and stood and told the truth and spoke with authority and facts. And he's challenging the current uh president of Nigeria who is uh, I believe, an accomplice and is uh is holding back uh the protection from Christians. Um I just know too much. And I I'm not gonna share tons about this, although I've been in a lot of rooms with a lot of people in Nigeria and in the US discussing this very thing. In fact, you know, it's it's interesting, um, you know, the way that God works, you know, he lined these trips up. I believe he orchestrated uh me to see this. I mean, I have to come back from these nations where I'm seeing things that I've never seen before in these countries. And uh and and try to get back to my Southern California normal life with my kid. I mean, our life's not normal, but I I just can't. Like it's it's ruined it, it's it's in in in a good way. I mean, it's just ruined the status quo. It's ruined normal ministry for me. It's ruined, it's caused everything that I thought was a big deal to not be a big deal. I just want to tell Christians out there in America, like, you don't have problems. Like, like the church in Nigeria has problems, the church in the Middle East has problems, the church in India has problems. Like, we don't have problems. Like we have online squabbles and we have hit piece articles and we have slanderous stuff, and we have all these things that have now become the norm in the Christian world. But comparatively to so many of these believers across the world, like we don't have problems. You know, I tell my wife that, like, we don't have any problems. You know, we can worship freely, we can, we can, you know, go to church, we can pray, we can bring our kids to events, we can worship outdoors, like, you know, and and and we have to fight to keep that because the rest of the world doesn't have those privileges. And, you know, God, uh, over the course of the last several months, like I've stepped into these nations right at a moment where it was like, I believe God wanted me to see something. Like in India, I've been to India 20-something times. Never in my life have I encountered the backlash that came from crazy fundamental Hindu radicals and the government against us for unveiling this gorgeous building that we took years to build to save children out of sex trafficking and all the things. And I believe we were there to see this so that we can push back and contend and let the world know. Same thing with Nigeria. The night we got there, I led worship, I came out of worship. Images immediately were sent to me from the attack just a couple hours away of what was happening in Jos. Same thing in Egypt. While I was there, just there in Egypt, the trial began for this believer that's going on trial. I posted a video about it, it caused a massive stir all over Egypt. The secret police are freaking out, they're coming after pastors there now. I mean, it's just, but but God ordains these moments. And so you might be out there and and hopefully I'm praying that you're gripped by this. I'm praying that that what God has allowed me to see. I mean, all I can do is take the influence and the opportunities that He's given me and speak the truth and hopefully uh stir up the body of Christ to pray, to give, and to go. And, you know, hopefully you're out there and you're like, man, I don't want to just be on the sidelines. I want to help. I want to do something. I want to be a part of standing up for our brothers and sisters. And, you know, if you're out there, you want to help. Obviously, we're taking teams every single month to the nations through Light a Candle. I think we've done 10 short-term trips this year already. We had to, you know, delay our Israel trip and some of our Middle East trips uh to the fall because of the current war. But you need to go to lightedcandle.global and jump on a trip. Be a part of what God is doing. If you want to give, I'm gonna throw up this slide for Nigeria here. You can always give, and we're gonna continue to send resources uh to the Church of Nigeria. Here's the uh let us worship.us backslash Nigeria. That is the link there. You can watch the video where we talk about where we're giving the money to and what it's doing. And that was captured on the ground there in Nigeria again. Once again, that is let usworship.us backslash Nigeria. And uh uh you are welcome to give, you're welcome to to go. We're taking teams to Nigeria, back to India, back to many different places. Uh, but I just tonight, I think my heart is I want to I want to shake people. Like I want I want us to break out of our self-absorbed, isolated boxes where we're just in a doom-scrolling world and we're not engaging because God's called us in this hour to engage, uh, to be a part of what he's doing in this this historic moment. I mean, guys, just very honest, since I've stepped into this, you know, the the the the nations bit. And by the way, just just so you know, I mean, here's a picture of me in Afghanistan, uh, 17 years old, right here, 17 years old. This is Afghanistan. This is right after not not long after 9-11. I'm on the ground there. That was my first trip to the Middle East with my buddy Kumar, who passed away a few years ago. But that's me in Afghanistan. Literally never saw another white person that that was there uh during the uh Taliban, you know, during the uh the war that was taking place. Um, but but it was from that moment, really that first trip to the Middle East, that God began to grip my heart for uh believers that are under duress and under persecution. Um and of course, you guys know I bring my family. Here's my family in the Middle East with me last year as we're worshiping together, uh, looking at uh the Temple Mount there in Jerusalem. Um, we were in Turkey. Uh they've gone to Iraq many times with me, they've gone to India. I take my family a lot. So it's not just something that I'm I'm talking about uh as you know, this is hot in the news and the media and people are sharing about it. It's something that we've been living uh our lives. Like we we've lived this Great Commission mandate, and we're gonna continue to do that. And um, but I oh, here's another picture just for fun. This is me in North Korea in an orphanage. Um, this was back in 2010. Uh, this is an orphanage inside of North Korea. Uh, I haven't met too many people that have uh gotten the privilege to go in in that nation. And that that's a whole that's I could talk about that for a whole show. That's a whole nother show for another day, that experience. It was wild. However, um, I want to encourage you like if you want to give, you want to help Nigeria, we want to continue to send resources again. You can go to let us worship uh.us backtrust Nigeria. You can also give this way on the screen. Um, and we are raising funds to continue to help the church there. Uh, we want to do everything that we can to help the persecuted church. And uh, we've already sent over a ton of money and we're gonna continue sending it over. And for some of you, uh, that's a good first step uh to do something about it. Um, but I do want to talk about ever since this journey this year, the levels of resistance. I mean, just today, I think I got four more emails from my bank, um, American Express, uh, X, uh, and uh I think Facebook or something about hacking attempts almost literally every single day, just since we started sharing this news at the persecuted church, we're being hacked uh in all of our systems. I mean, I actually had one of my staff members, his email was hacked, uh, and they went inside his email, they got all the contacts for uh all of the churches for let us worship and the stuff that we do and the database. I don't even know how they did this because he had like all the two-factor whatever uh encryption and everything. And they took the list and they just hijacked it and started sending out crazy messages to his whole database. Um this is crazy. Like, I mean, we are we are being, and I don't want to go into the other threats, I don't want to spend time on that, but I'm just telling you, like, there, there is, like, we are the demons are screeching, is what I'm trying to tell you. Like, like, not only does the media and and and and a lot of the church not want to talk about this, but there are powers and principalities that don't want to get out the truth. Of what's taking place around the world. So even more so should we shout it from the rooftops. And I want to talk about just quickly, and then I want to share a few more stories why it's so significant, like why I believe that in America, like we have to fight for our nation. We have to fight for religious freedom. We have to fight for this bastion of freedom in our nation because we're the last stronghold for the earth. And you know, in 2020, when everything shut down, we got really good at doing what the persecuted church does every day, which is resisting the uh government authorities and the evil edicts that they say you can't worship, you can't pray, you can't sing, you can't gather, all that stuff. We got really good at saying, no, we're gonna do what the Bible says and we're gonna stand and we're gonna worship and we're gonna do what God told us to do. Now we broke the law. What's interesting is that I was getting support to break the law in other nations for the sake of the gospel. And then when it came time to break the law in my own nation for the sake of the gospel, that's when all the controversy and the conflict started. That's when uh, you know, the the woke left came after me. That's when the attacks happened, that's when Antifa happened, and that's really when even a lot of these leftist uh uh uh Christian people started coming after me for being a Christian nationalist and white supremacist and all this stuff. I was one of the first to speak out against BLM. You can go back and look at it. I was canceled immediately from basically the whole CCM circuit, like in Nashville, Spotify playlisting, um uh Apple playlisting. Like I was immediately canceled. I was racist, I was a white supremacist, whatever. You know, I mean, we the the lies know no end when you stand up for the truth. However, the reason we were fighting for religious liberty so strong in our nation is because I knew the cost. We had to push back for the sake of the world. Now, if you read this book, which hopefully a lot of you have and are, you will not find America in this book, in the book of Revelation. It doesn't speak about America, it doesn't speak about us in in Ezekiel or Isaiah or these prophetic words about the end of days, the last days. It doesn't talk about America. Now, what what happens to America? I don't know, to be honest. We're about to we're celebrating our 250-year birthday. I'm so grateful to be born here. I feel so honored and and and just thankful that I get to raise my family in this nation. And this is why we fight for it, because there's no place in the world, there's been no place in all of human history like our nation. However, it's not in the book. And I don't know why, and I don't know what God ends up doing with it, but I do know this that while we have the favor of the Lord, while we have uh uh you could say political power or military strength or whatever you might want to say, we have to utilize this place of authority to help Christians around the world. And all of this stuff, America first, America first, Sean, why do you keep going to the nations, focus on your own nation? Well, first of all, I just gotta say, like I I follow Jesus. He says the Great Commission, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth, which means that your neighborhood, your nation, and then every other nation in the world. So I follow that. So I don't care. America first, blah, blah, blah. Yes, I believe we should have strong borders. Yes, I believe in and national sovereignty. Yes, I believe we need to fix the ideal. Yes, I believe there's too much aid going to too many places. I believe all that. However, I am kingdom first, man. I believe if we have brothers and sisters being absolutely massacred and annihilated in Nigeria and we can do something about it, we should do something about it. I believe if the underground church in Iran is getting absolutely exterminated by this current regime, if we can do something about it, we should do something about it. Like I believe the blessing of the Lord is on our nation in large part because we step in and defend believers all over the world. We propagate the gospel, we send resources all across the world. America is still the number one resourcer of the Bible and the gospel on planet Earth. That has not changed. And when that does change, I believe we will lose the favor of the Lord on our nation. I believe that's why God raised up this nation. I don't know how long it's going to be around for, but I believe we have to keep the main thing the main thing. This is why we're contending. This is why in COVID it was a big deal. This is why the stakes are so high. This is why we want to win elections, not just so that we can feel good about the candidate that we love. No, so that that person can actually stand in the gap in America, can can bring us back to the foundational principles of our nation, but also can stand for true truth and righteousness for the sake of the gospel around the world. And I knew that the moment that Trump won the election, because I was I was doing missions in the Biden era, I was doing missions in the Obama era. And I'm telling you, there was not the same fear of these other nations of America. There was not the same uh, you know, uh, there was not the same uh terror about them persecuting Christians. You know, uh they they didn't have that. And all of a sudden when Trump got elected and he started laying down the hammer and Marco Rubio and all these guys that I believe God put in position significantly, things started to change. And so I started to tell my friends around the world, the missionaries, the guys in Light of Candle that are long-termers, guys, now is the time where we got to put our foot on the gas. We need to go harder, we need to plant more churches, we need to go into darker places, into places we haven't gone before. We need to press the envelope. God has given us a victory, and I would call it air covering, right? Air support so that we can actually go and bring the gospel. And we prayed and believed and stood and worshiped. Guys, I went to all 50 US capitals. Like no one put more skin in the game for two years. I traveled, I nonstop, I was away from my family, I missed my kids' football games, I missed recitals, I missed a lot of stuff because I felt like this was a mandate. Two years, go to every U.S. Capitol, take communion, preach the gospel, break off curses of darkness off of every single state, do an altar call, and and and and preach the gospel and call America back to God and raise the alarm that it was time for Christians to engage again. Remember, this is the dark years. This is 2023, 2024. There were pro-life activists being jailed. We had the J6ers that were perpetually imprisoned for walking through the Capitol, some of them. We had guys, we had uh the IRS weaponized to attack Christian charities. And this was not an hour where it was necessarily easy. Every single permit we had to get in all 50 US states was a dog fight. It was difficult. They would rather grant permits to, you know, drag queen story hour than to Christians that wanted to come and pray. However, we pressed in. And even today, we're still getting it's like we're still getting ridiculous amounts of pushback and slander over that tour. Like you did, we gave you money and you didn't actually do it. Well, yes, we actually did. We did all 50 US capitals. It took millions of dollars and probably years off of my life with the amount of time that we traveled, and I, you know, lost my voice, and I like, I mean, it was stressful and and and strenuous. And I don't know if I've gone through anything like I did. I mean, my wife came to me, you know, at the end we celebrated after all 50 U.S. capitals, and then we did a big event in DC, and she said, babe, I don't know if you're gonna make it. Like she said, I've never seen you so wore out, I've never seen you so tired, I've never seen you so depleted. And I was, man. And so I share that with you to let you know, like, I have fought for America. I fought for freedom in this country, not just online, not just America first, let's do a podcast. Oh, America first, let's post a thing. Let's no, I've literally gone there. I've spent my time, my money, my energy, I've sacrificed a lot for this country. I've sacrificed a lot. You know, I was the number one COVID violator in in dozens of states across our nation. So the fact that anybody would come and say that I haven't done a lot for America or I've moved my focus or I don't care. I care. But here's the reason I care because this is the last nation standing in the earth. Like I mentioned it at the beginning of the show. Canada's gone. Like, I want to keep fighting for Canada. I want to keep pressing in. But I'm telling you, we were attacked in a church last year by Antifa, who somehow was embedded in the government. We found out who it was that attacked us and threw those smoke bombs at us. And guess what? They did nothing about it. They did nothing about it. The UK is gone. Like for religious freedom, it's gone. They're arresting people for silently praying outside of abortion clinics, saying they're silently praying. How do you even silently pray and anyone knows it? I mean, guys, America is the last stand for religious liberty, and that's why we gave our heart and soul to flip this election and win it. So I am very passionate about this. And, you know, I think some of you like I actually just want to play this because it is just a reminder. This is this is the kingdom of the capital, 2023, 2024. Some people are saying for some reason, you know, that I never I never did this tour, um, but uh, or they helped, and I never actually did it. I want to remind you, we did it. We did all 50 capitals, and it was a lot. But here, just watch this.

SPEAKER_04 32:38

Probably the most impossible, and probably most ridiculous, and probably most expensive, and probably something that's never been done before, probably shouldn't have ever been done before, but God is calling us to do it. We're bringing the kingdom to the capital of every city across the world.

SPEAKER_06 33:09

This is amazing. We're taking off the tour tonight.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

Because the blood of Jesus is enough.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

I just I I wish I could fully explain to you, you all out there watching, but just the effort, the energy, this blood, sweat, and tears and stress that went into that moment. And that's why I think for me to be to be able to go on that, and and here, by the way, I want to just say this like God only gives us, calls us to do impossible things. Like the fact that I'm standing in the gap, like seeing what I saw in Nigeria, 7,300 Christians massacred this year. Uh seeing what I saw in Egypt and the fear that the government is imposing on the church and the torment and this guy that's on trial right now and imprisoned. They're calling him a terrorist because he wanted to change his identification from a Muslim to a Christian because he had a radical encounter with Jesus. What I'm seeing in India, what they're doing, what the government is actually doing in parts of that nation to the church. I mean, like how do you like what do you do? Like you come back from those situations and it's like how like God, how can I make a difference? Like you're so overcome with the need. You're so overcome. And it makes everything else seem so trivial. And I think that's what I want Americans to see. That's what I want people to know. Like, everything is so trivial compared to the basic survival of so many people across the world right now, so many Christians. They just simply want to worship God, and we're just over here so wrapped up in our own you know, I mean, I think I think this is why the America 250 thing hits me so differently. Like, of course, we fought, you know, everybody, uh, Christian nationalism and this and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, dude, I've I've I've gone to more nations than any of these, even missionaries or or people that like like we are invested more into the Middle East, we're invested more into Africa, more into Asia, more into these projects across the world. Uh, and and and so I don't even enter into those arguments. I just ignore them. But but I think this is hitting me differently because it's like if we don't somehow like keep keep our nation in the place, like if we don't keep the in God we trust, if we don't keep the you know, defender of religious liberty, if we don't keep this like like this for the sake of the world, like I believe that that's why God created our nation is to propagate the gospel to the ends of the earth. As I mentioned earlier, America is not in the book of Revelation. Hate to burst your bubble, it's not in the book of Isaiah, it's not in the book of Ezekiel. There's no end time prophecy that we can tell, you know, as it relates to the end time. So then we gotta say, okay, God, what is our purpose? And so here we come, America 250. Yes, I'm the most bald eagle, you know, flag waven, you know, uh uh, you know, conservative dude there is, but yet I know what's at stake for our nation. And so we're gathering in in two and a half weeks on the national mall, May 16th, and it just it's cutting me differently this time. Like there's there's more at stake. Like it's not just about an election, it's not just about the current administration, it is about the future of the world, the church, our our role in our nation. And so we're gonna gather and on May 15th, I want all of you guys to to share this and and spread the word because I'd love for you to be there. It's gonna be historic. We're gonna be on the national mall uh days before. Here it is, on the national mall. This is days before the rededicate America to God event that's happening on the 17th. Uh, we'll we're we're gonna be at that as well, but this is gonna be the night before, and it is gonna be a Holy Ghost throwdown. We have people from across America that are already coming. We have worship leaders, you have speakers. In fact, let me just throw you this quick promo. So there it is, May 16th. Guys, it's gonna be wild. You do not want to miss this. I mean, this is our seventh year in a row of being on the national mall in 2020. We came, it was our biggest lettuce, probably our biggest uh event ever on the national mall at the height of COVID. Um, the night that we were there in 2020. So, probably you guys have probably watched this or seen clips of it, but Amy Cody Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Uh, and and that that night, I believe, was the beginning of the end of Roe. And so we're so grateful. And and every year we've come back since through the Biden years and now in the Trump years. And so we're just uh we're excited. I mean, I believe God is going to move in such a powerful way on the 16th. You obviously saw the list of people coming. So this is a charismatic event. In case you're wondering, the 17th is gonna be probably a little bit more, you know, there's gonna be P, there's gonna be um, you know, people there from all different denominations speaking, sharing, whatever. The 16th is gonna be a Holy Ghost revival. Like we are going to go hard. And so I'd love for you guys to come at 4 p.m. at the Sylvan Theater, which is right next to the Washington Monument. So from the Sylvan Theater, it's like one of the only places in DC where you can see the White House and then you can look down and you can see the U.S. Capitol. That's a great place to pray from, to worship from. So that's gonna be happening on the 16th, and it's free. Um, but make sure you come early. There's gonna be a lot of secret service there. We're gonna have a lot of guests as well, and I'll uh announce some of those later. But to me, this carries a lot more weight, being that one, we're celebrating 250, two, we're in this very wild uh you know, conflict right now of the Middle East. Um, you know, we're in the middle of a war, and um, there's a lot of complexities in this war, and there's a lot of stuff happening in this war. And um, and then at the same time that it's a war in the natural, there's a war in the spirit, and we're in a spiritual war. And a lot of people don't realize that it's a war of propaganda, it's a war of messaging, and Christians are being Swept away like I never imagined. I mean, this is how I can read in the Bible. It says in the last days they're going to be swept away by this doctrine and that doctrine. And it is literally happening before our very eyes. And so even more so is the urgency for us to gather and pray. Now, I want to end uh tonight with two quick charges. Uh, one, I want to say, um, and by the way, I as I mentioned before, you know, these recent trips to India, to Nigeria, to Egypt have opened my eyes uh to the plight of the persecuted church and the need for our nation to stand in the gap. And um, speaking of standing in the gap, I'm gonna be with my family this weekend at Mar-a-Lago. And uh there's gonna be more coming about that. This is gonna be a very uh uh, I believe, a historic trip. And um I'm gonna be there with some really great friends of mine, but I'm praying that God would open the door uh for a lot of things. So if you'd just be praying for our family this weekend as we travel over there to the East Coast. But I just have two messages. One, um, I have a message to the nations tonight. So, and I realize it's it's night here in the U.S. I don't know what time it is overseas, and maybe you can send this as you're hearing this to friends of yours in some of these nations that I'm talking about, into the persecuted church right now is the highest rate of persecution in the history of the world. More martyrdoms are happening, more churches are being burned, more Christians are are being attacked, uh, more people are being threatened by governments, by radicals, by by Islamists all around the world than ever before. Um, and my message to the nations, to the church across the nations is simple. We need to be like Peter and Paul and not like former potential American missionaries. What I mean by that is somewhere along the way, there are places, and I've seen this play out in real time. Listen, being involved in Iraq over the last 10 years, having a team on the ground there through ISIS, through all of these conflicts, there have been uh people that have come from America and other nations and have instilled fear into the hearts of the people in these countries, that they need to hide, that they need to pretend that they're not Christian, maybe they can still be kind of Muslim, but not really. Um, that they need to not be vocal about their faith, they need to not preach the word of God, that they need to not do the things, heal the sick, raise the dead, do the things the Bible says. Um, but that they could be Christian and just no one can know about it. And I want to say, don't, don't be like them. That's not the role model, that's not what Jesus said, that's not what we're going for here. Be like Peter and Paul. And I want to read this. Um, it talks about here. I'm gonna just get me, let me be just a tad bit preachy. It says in Acts 4 that they called Peter and John together and they said, this is them, they got in trouble. And by the way, if you're gonna follow Jesus in 2026, whether it's America, whether it's Nigeria, whether it's Egypt, I don't care where you are, if you're not getting in trouble, you're probably not following Jesus. If you're not getting canceled, if you're not getting threats, if you're not getting cyber attacks, add that one, a new one this week for our team. Uh, you're probably not following Jesus because it's he guarantees us, he says, in this world, you are going to have trouble. You're literally coming against the powers and principalities of the world. Like in this world, you're gonna have trouble, but take heart, I've overcome the world. So it says, uh, Peter and John, they replied when they got in trouble, which is right in God's eyes, and the the not mind you, they're being threatened with jail, they're being threatened with execution, they're being threatened, threatened by their families, they're gonna be uh exterminated, they're being threatened with all who knows what. And it says, Peter and John replied to them, which is right in God's eyes, to listen to you or to him, you be the judges, but as for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard. Verse 21 says, After further threats, they let them go. They could not decide how to punish them because all the people were praising God for what had happened. The man who was miraculously healed was over 40 years old. So they healed a guy, they preached the gospel, they got in trouble. You're not supposed to do that. Or as I hear in the Middle Eastern countries, you can't change your name ID, like this is what happened to the guy in Egypt. You can't change it. If you become a Christian, you got to keep Muslim on your ID card. Well, what if you don't want to identify as a Muslim anymore? What if you want to be a Christian? What if you want to go in there and say, no, I'm not gonna allow my national ID card to say that I belong to darkness because I belong to light? Like that's a very Peter and John type vibe there. That's a very Paul type deal there. They said to the government authorities, they said, no, we're actually not gonna listen to you. We we are gonna listen to a higher authority over our lives because we know at the end of the day who we are going to face with our last breath, and it's not you, and it's not the government, and it's not the threats. And you know what's interesting about this is they did this so many times, basically calling their bluff. And the government said, Well, we can't decide how to punish them. We were just hoping they would stop. Well, guess what? They're not gonna stop. And it says that they gathered together and they didn't have a therapy session, they didn't go into hiding, they didn't take a sabbatical, they didn't go and in in and you know, sneak away. It says, No, it says that they gathered together with the church, and it says they went into a prayer meeting with the church, and it says in verse 29, now Lord, consider their threats, enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness, stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through your name. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. What does that mean? It means when you take a stand for Jesus, whatever nation you're in, whatever the consequences, God will meet you. When you gather together, you pray that He'll fill you with more boldness and more courage so you can get into more trouble and watch God move in your life in a greater way. So that's my message to the nations. Be like Peter and John in Acts 4. Be like Paul. Don't be like former scared American missionaries that somehow convinced you that you need to go into hiding and somehow not be bold about your faith. The nations need your faith. People's lives, people's eternities are hanging in the balance. Now, my second message is to America. America and the West. Wake up. Like, wake up. This is a Matthew 24 moment, and so many are asleep. This is the last verse I'm gonna read, and then I'm gonna pray you guys out. Matthew 24, it says this. It says, Watch out that no one deceives you. Many will come in my name, claiming I'm the Messiah, and will deceive many. You will hear wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen. A lot of people are saying, We just want peace. We just want peace. Can I just tell you, you're not gonna have peace? This is the era Jesus is coming back, baby. Like all of hell, every power, every principality, every demonic influence is enraged because the gospel is spreading faster and farther than it ever has in history. There will be no peace until Jesus returns to the earth. Mark my words. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All of these are the beginnings. Wow, thank you, Lord. Very encouraging. These are the just the beginnings. Then you will be handed over and persecuted and put to death. You'll be hated by all nations because of me. At that time, many will turn away. There's gonna be a great turning away, and many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other. So there's gonna be many turning away. There's gonna be a lot of scandals, there's gonna be a lot of people hating each other. There's gonna be a lot of, I mean, we're seeing this happen right now. I've never seen more like division in my life in the church than I believe we're seeing right now. It's insane. Many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. A lot of those false prophets are on YouTube. Just gonna throw it out there. A lot of those false prophets are on podcasts. Like it's as this is like people that people are listening to and watching, and you got to be like, hold on a sec. Is this really the gospel? Because of the increase of wickedness, verse 12, the love of many will will grow cold. The love of most will grow cold. But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved, and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and the end will come. So in the end, many people are going to be so consumed with darkness, so weighed down by heaviness, that they are going to allow their heart to grow cold. And we can't do that. We can't allow our heart to grow cold. We can't allow this to become our narrative of what God's doing in the world. Listen, I just came from three nations where persecution is rampant, and I'm telling you, it's happening, but there's also a church that is rising. There's also a gospel that's being preached. I mean, you should have heard the last night I was in Egypt just singing in Arabic, singing the name of Jesus. I was preaching Isaiah 19 that a highway of revival is gonna go through through Egypt, through Israel, and through Assyria, which is modern-day Iraq. Like that's happening. There's a highway of worship that's being built through the Middle East. Like God's words are going to happen. And our choice right now is are we gonna believe it? Like, what are we putting our stock in? What are we hopeful in? It's not politics, it's not a political leader, it's not an ideology. Like, guys, Jesus is coming back and he's looking for people that are grounded in his word and know who he is and know who they are. So this is not the time to be weak across America. This is not the time for your faith to be shaky. You got to know who you are, you got to lock in. So my boys would say this. I have three boys, you know. You got to lock in, dad. You got to lock in to the kingdom in this hour because the gospel will be preached. Matthew 24, 14. That's why I want to tell America, it is gonna happen. The Great Commission is gonna happen. Are you gonna be a part of it? Or are you gonna be sit back and be a keyboard warrior? Are you gonna sit back and be critical? Are you gonna sit back and be offended? Are you gonna sit back and be in church hurt? You're gonna sit back and be a victim, or you're gonna sit back and be perpetually offended, or are you gonna rise up to how God's called you to be, to be the man, to be the woman that he's called you to be, and to step up and to speak the truth and to be the voice of healing, of hope to a world that desperately needs it. Listen, you need to get to the nation. Some of you need to get your passport and get your butt out of America and watch what God's doing around the world. You can join us. We got trips happening all the time with light a candle. Some of you, you just need to go to a revival meeting, man, and get your heart lit on fire again. Guess what? I got good news for you. We're doing revival meetings all across America. Roots of revival. It's happening. You can text roots to 20221, and we'll tell you all of the places we're going across America. We are coming to a city near you. There's a good chance. We're kicking it off. Again, it happens May 15th in DC. And then we're going from DC to Tampa. We're having a massive revival in Tampa on May, I think it's May 30th, 29th, 30th, something like that. Then we're going up to Philly, and on the weekend of July 4th, we're going to celebrate 250 years by worshiping in Baltimore on July 2nd, Philly in downtown Philly in July 3rd, New York City on July 4th. And July 5th, we're going to be in Begettysburg. Like I'm telling you, yes, I've been in the nations, but we are going hard across America this year. And then we're going to be in Nashville at the Ryman Auditorium. We're going to fill that place with praise. That's going to happen on, I think, July 12th. We're going to be in Kentucky, uh, where the uh where the revival happened there in Kentucky, July 11th. Then we're coming all the way to Chicago. Uh, we're going to be in uh Rochester, New York. We're going to be all the way to the West Coast. And hopefully we'll be able to sneak back into Canada if they let us again. So, guys, there's a lot happening. God is moving in a big way, but man, it is time to wake up and unplug from all of the crap that is taking your attention and sucking the life out of you. Tap into the kingdom, tap into what God is moving. He's moving around the world. As I've testified, listen, persecution is ramping up, the darkness is increasing, but the glory of the Lord is arising on you. I want to read this one last time. But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved, and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. The gospel of the kingdom is going to fill the earth. So, on that note, before I pray you out, I want to remind you this book, No Turning Back, living as a faithful witness until the last day, I've poured my heart, soul, and guts into this thing. And it's coming out in just a few weeks. You can go to Amazon today. Go No Turning Back. You can pre-order this book so it arrives the day that it's released. I think I even have a slide on here to show you. Here it is, no turning back. That's better if I just hold it. Um, but this is coming out. I'm really, really excited. You can go and pre-order it today on Amazon. Last I checked, their stocks getting low, which is which is helpful. So anyway, order this. It's all about spiritual warfare. It's all about the end times, it's all about how to navigate the craziness of the hour we live in. Again, pray for my family as we head over to Florida this weekend. We're doing a lot of prison ministry with uh some of my great friends down there, and then we're gonna be at Mar-a-Lago for a very significant event. So pray for us and let me just pray for you today. Um, again, I I don't even know what time zone I'm in. Like I have been traveling like a madman, just got back from Egypt last night, late last night, and I'm here. And um, my heart is on fire for what God's doing in the world. But I'm telling you, it is time to wake up. So, Lord, I just pray right now, everybody that's listening and watching on all the different platforms, I pray that you would grip their heart. Lord, remove the fear, the anxiety, the offense, uh, whatever might be holding them back from stepping into the fullness of what you've called them to do. Tonight, God, we pray for our brothers and sisters around the world. We pray for Christians in Nigeria, Lord, we pray for Christians in Egypt, where I just was. Lord, we pray for believers across India. Lord, those that are facing persecution, those that are facing threats, those that are facing unimaginable consequences for following Jesus. Lord, we release courage on them. We release boldness on them. Lord, you pray that you would come and visit them with angelic protection. Lord, we pray, God, that the harder the enemy uh comes after them, the faster the gospel would spread around the world. And Lord, help us to be Christians and believers, God, that are not so self-centered and self-absorbed and worried about our own stuff, God. Open our eyes to what you're doing around the world. Open our eyes to what you're doing in our own nation, God, in our own city, God, and wake us up today, Lord, with the Matthew 24, 14 reality that the gospel of the kingdom will fill the earth before the end of days. Lord, we want to be a part of that. We want to be a big part of that. Sign us up again tonight in Jesus' name. God bless you guys. Share this with everyone. I pray this encourages you. And um, I have a really, really cool show closer coming at you right now. Last thing, please, right now, quickly go and subscribe, uh, share this. I'm telling you, just so you know we're up to date. I'm gonna come to you live, hopefully, live from Mar-a-Lago this weekend. And uh, I don't want you to miss that. So you can go here on Twit on uh on X, on Instagram, you can go on on YouTube, follow, uh, share, like, all that stuff, whatever. And we'll see you in Washington, D.C. for the Roots of Revival Tour on May 16th. God bless you guys.