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SPEAKER_02: Father, we love you.
SPEAKER_02: We come before you so grateful today.
SPEAKER_02: Grateful for your teaching, for your leading.
SPEAKER_02: Grateful that you are a rewarder.
SPEAKER_02: And we seek you with our obedience.
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SPEAKER_02: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, gentlemen.
SPEAKER_02: Praise God.
SPEAKER_02: Well, as I said, we are preparing our hearts for this assignment that God has for us concerning the harvest.
SPEAKER_02: And I want to begin today in Matthew chapter 13.
SPEAKER_02: Matthew chapter 13.
SPEAKER_02: And what a wonderful, wonderful service with Harry and Cheryl Salem on Wednesday.
SPEAKER_02: If you were not able to be here, I encourage you to go to the YouTube channel or listen to it again on the podcast because what an on-time word.
SPEAKER_02: And the the preparation and the knowledge of where we are in the plan of God is important for us.
SPEAKER_02: Matthew chapter 13.
SPEAKER_02: I want to look at verses 38 and 39.
SPEAKER_02: 38 and 39.
SPEAKER_02: The field is the world.
SPEAKER_02: The good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one.
SPEAKER_02: The enemy that sowed them is the devil.
SPEAKER_02: The harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels.
SPEAKER_02: We've been talking about having a harvest heart.
SPEAKER_02: We've been learning how to be salt and light.
SPEAKER_02: We've been learning about the responsibility of influence, the influence of the light to drive back and dispel the darkness, the influence of the salt to be preservers in the earth and to help bring people to a place of rescue.
SPEAKER_02: And we recognize that Jesus uses the imagery of a harvest when he's talking about the people being brought out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_02: We see throughout Scripture this idea of a harvest being a harvest of souls, a harvest of lives, a harvest of people, of people being of such great value that our Father desires to reap the people and bring them into a place where they are rescued and saved from the situations and the darkness of this world.
SPEAKER_02: And so when we see that the field is the world, it helps us to understand the importance of what we say and do, how we live our lives, the influence that we have in our family, the influence we have in our neighborhood.
SPEAKER_02: You can't save everybody, but you can sow the gospel seed where you are.
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to take on the responsibility of saving the whole world, but you can take the responsibility to share with those who you have connection with, those who you know.
SPEAKER_02: And you don't have to, again, take responsibility for the end result of their life, but just take responsibility for your part, which is sow the seed.
SPEAKER_02: Share the testimony.
SPEAKER_02: Tell somebody what he's done for you.
SPEAKER_02: And that telling of the testimony, that sharing of the seed, God knows how to make seed grow.
SPEAKER_02: He's the one who causes the seed to get into the heart and get that seed to produce a life change in a person's life.
SPEAKER_02: And one of the things that I want us to see is the eternity, the eternal aspect, the emphasis that God sees.
SPEAKER_02: I want us to see it from his heart.
SPEAKER_02: I want us to have an understanding of a bigger picture because it can become easy to just get focused on the moment, get focused on your life, get focused on the responsibilities you have for tomorrow, get focused on the pressure that you're facing and lose the bigger picture.
SPEAKER_02: But when we see a bigger picture, when we can look at the panoramic view from the perspective of God, we'll see outside of time, we'll see the desire of God to bring as many people who will choose Jesus as Lord out of the destiny of being separated from God.
SPEAKER_02: You know, this helped me because before I was born again, uh I had no concept or understanding about a person being eternal in their being.
SPEAKER_02: And I just thought, well, you know, those who don't go to heaven are just going to die, like cease to exist.
SPEAKER_02: But that's not true.
SPEAKER_02: Everybody will live forever somewhere.
SPEAKER_02: During this season on the earth, during this moment on the earth, we have the opportunity to choose Jesus, and by choosing Jesus, enter into eternity forever connected to God in his presence, in his kingdom, living forever with him.
SPEAKER_02: But for those who refuse to accept Jesus as Lord, for those who choose to deny the sacrifice that Jesus made for them, they will live forever, but not with God.
SPEAKER_02: Separated from God.
SPEAKER_02: And in this chapter, Jesus in verse 42 describes that separation.
SPEAKER_02: He describes what will happen to those people.
SPEAKER_02: It says, they shall cast them into a furnace of fire.
SPEAKER_02: There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
SPEAKER_02: How horrible.
SPEAKER_02: How terrifying.
SPEAKER_02: A furnace of fire?
SPEAKER_02: Wailing?
SPEAKER_02: Gnashing of teeth?
SPEAKER_02: I've never seen gnashing of teeth, but can you picture it?
SPEAKER_02: Gnashing of teeth, which is evidently such a pain, such a an expression of terror and pain.
SPEAKER_02: This is truth.
SPEAKER_02: Last year I had a television interview at PTL, and the it was at a time when there was some teaching going on that hell wasn't real.
SPEAKER_02: And without any preparation, without any clue that they were going to do this, the cameras came on.
SPEAKER_02: We are live nationwide.
SPEAKER_02: And the host turns to me and he says, Have you heard this doctrine that's being teached that hell isn't real?
SPEAKER_02: What do you think about that, Pastor?
SPEAKER_02: And I thank you for the Holy Spirit, right?
SPEAKER_02: Because I hadn't really, usually my husband answers those questions.
SPEAKER_02: Usually my husband, he's the he's the sermonator, he's got the answer, right?
SPEAKER_02: But the Holy Spirit put an answer in my mouth.
SPEAKER_02: And because in that moment when I thought, how do you answer?
SPEAKER_02: What do you say to people who are saying hell isn't real?
SPEAKER_02: Because that's a demonic doctrine.
SPEAKER_02: That's something that the devil is propagating to bring people to a place of it's not important.
SPEAKER_02: That it's not, it's if hell isn't real, if hell is just a makeup, made-up story, if hell is just a fantasy that these Christians have, then what else isn't real, right?
SPEAKER_02: But what really became apparent to me in the way the Holy Spirit told me to answer that was to say hell isn't real is to take what Jesus did and make it so little and insignificant.
SPEAKER_02: Because everything he did was to rescue us from a separation with God.
SPEAKER_02: When we realize that forgiveness of sin, forgiveness of sin is an important part of our redemption, but it's not the most important part.
SPEAKER_02: The most important part was to change our nature back to a divine nature.
SPEAKER_02: Because when Adam sinned and they fell, they died spiritually.
SPEAKER_02: That was the big problem.
SPEAKER_02: The spiritual death became their nature.
SPEAKER_02: They were dead in sin.
SPEAKER_02: And we all, coming after the lineage of Adam, were born in sin, born in a condition that God did not create us to be in.
SPEAKER_02: A condition different than the condition God created for us.
SPEAKER_02: God created us to be alive unto Him.
SPEAKER_02: He created us with the ability to have spirits who could interact and commune and relate with God.
SPEAKER_02: And when Adam and Eve sinned, yes, the sin and the forgiveness of sin being a major part of our redemption, but it's if that was the only part, it wouldn't fix the problem.
SPEAKER_02: If the only thing we had was forgiveness of sin, we'd still be in the same dilemma.
SPEAKER_02: And the dilemma was that we were dead spiritually.
SPEAKER_02: The spiritual death became the issue.
SPEAKER_02: Because of the spiritual death, sin entered.
SPEAKER_02: And because of the spiritual death, the relationship with God became limited.
SPEAKER_02: When Adam and Eve were alive unto God, they could talk with him, they could walk with him, they could commune with him.
SPEAKER_02: That's his desire.
SPEAKER_02: That's his desire for you to walk with him, to be a part of his family, to love him and receive the love he has for you.
SPEAKER_02: That's the desire.
SPEAKER_02: But that spiritual death disconnected them.
SPEAKER_02: And God became limited in his interaction with them.
SPEAKER_02: And he had to cover them with the blood of the animals.
SPEAKER_02: He had to provide a blood covering that would be a temporary covering until the appropriate, accurate blood could be presented that would solve the problem.
SPEAKER_02: So when Jesus provided redemption, he not only became the blood of the Lamb poured out to wash away our sin, but he also gave his life.
SPEAKER_02: He suffered the necessary punishment so that the peace of God could be restored to our life.
SPEAKER_02: The necessary punishment of death, because the wages of sin is death.
SPEAKER_02: He died so that you can receive Jesus as Lord and make this great exchange, giving up your death and receiving his life.
SPEAKER_02: That was the bigger picture.
SPEAKER_02: And the forgiveness of sins is a part of that.
SPEAKER_02: But without the new life, without the new life, without the spirit being changed from death to life, the forgiveness of sin would just be another covering.
SPEAKER_02: That's what they had under the Old Testament.
SPEAKER_02: They were sinners by nature who had a blood covering that would give them an approach to God.
SPEAKER_02: God was still on that side.
SPEAKER_02: God was still limited in their life.
SPEAKER_02: It was like having to visit their child.
SPEAKER_02: Anybody ever had to go visit somebody in jail or in prison?
SPEAKER_02: And you have to talk to them through a glass, and you have to talk either through a little hole in the glass or through an old telephone that you can hardly hear through.
SPEAKER_02: And you can't touch them, you can't hug them, you can't commune with them.
SPEAKER_02: It's limited.
SPEAKER_02: That was God's interaction with man under the old covenant.
SPEAKER_02: That was his limits.
SPEAKER_02: He was held at a distance.
SPEAKER_02: But glory for the blood of the Lamb that redeemed us, not just forgave us of our sins.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, it includes that.
SPEAKER_02: But he also redeemed us by bringing us back to life.
SPEAKER_02: We are now alive unto God.
SPEAKER_02: If any man be in Christ, behold, he is a new creature, a new creature born of God, alive unto God.
SPEAKER_02: The life of God now lives and dwells and abides in you.
SPEAKER_02: You are now, you are now the holy of holies.
SPEAKER_02: Know ye not that you are the naos, the temple of God?
SPEAKER_02: That word is the holiest of holies.
SPEAKER_02: Don't you know you're the holy place?
SPEAKER_02: You are the holy of holies, you are the dwelling place of the Spirit of God.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: This is necessary for us to come out of the destiny that we were born into and enter into the destiny that God desires for us.
SPEAKER_02: To accept Jesus as Lord is to receive of his sacrifice.
SPEAKER_02: To accept Jesus as Lord is to believe that he died for me, to believe that he purchased my life, freeing me from the wages of sin, freeing me from the past, and providing me a place in his kingdom.
SPEAKER_02: It's necessary for every person to make that decision.
SPEAKER_02: For every person to exit this furnace destiny path and enter on enter into the path that leads to his kingdom, his throne.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: When I look back at how I believed before Christ.
SPEAKER_02: How many people got saved when you were young?
SPEAKER_02: Got saved as kids.
SPEAKER_02: You were raised in church.
SPEAKER_02: It might have been a long time since you remember what it was like before you were a believer.
SPEAKER_02: Before you believed, before you knew.
SPEAKER_02: So behind.
SPEAKER_02: I had to do a lot of catching up.
SPEAKER_02: But to recognize how people think, anybody else just look at the news and say, what are people thinking?
SPEAKER_02: Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because they're in the dark.
SPEAKER_02: They are in the dark.
SPEAKER_02: And I remember what it was like to be in the dark.
SPEAKER_02: I can look back and I remember.
SPEAKER_02: I remember the day that um it was the day before we were going.
SPEAKER_02: Now y'all know my testimony.
SPEAKER_02: Y'all know my testimony, it's okay.
SPEAKER_02: The day before I was going to face the judge for the attempted armed robberies that I was being charged with.
SPEAKER_02: My first husband had committed the armed robberies.
SPEAKER_02: And so he he and I had to go on the same court date.
SPEAKER_02: And the day before was a Sunday, and he had promised his grandmother he would go to church with her.
SPEAKER_02: And the kids all came in begging me, mommy, mommy, mommy, go to church with us, go to church with us.
SPEAKER_02: And I said, I'm not going to church.
SPEAKER_02: No, no.
SPEAKER_02: I and then I, you know, I made jokes, you know, the the walls will cave in, you know, lightning will strike.
SPEAKER_02: I I was, you know, making light of it.
SPEAKER_02: But on the inside, I thought, God hates me.
SPEAKER_02: Why would I go to church?
SPEAKER_02: God hates me.
SPEAKER_02: I can't go to church.
SPEAKER_02: I've prostituted on the street that those people drive by to get to that church building.
SPEAKER_02: I can't go to church.
SPEAKER_02: With my arrest record, they're not gonna let me in that church.
SPEAKER_02: That was the way I believed.
SPEAKER_02: Well, he went to church that day.
SPEAKER_02: He got saved that day.
SPEAKER_02: He walked the aisles and gave his heart to Jesus and came back and wanted me to read the Bible to him.
SPEAKER_02: He couldn't read.
SPEAKER_02: And made me read the Bible to him.
SPEAKER_02: And I was like, I was I was under protest reading the Bible to him.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want to read the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: And he had questions.
SPEAKER_02: What is this being filled with the Spirit?
SPEAKER_02: What is this speaking in tongues?
SPEAKER_02: What is this?
SPEAKER_02: And he was he was it was different.
SPEAKER_02: And the next morning we go into the courtroom, and someone motions to him, a friend of his comes up, and I thought, well, how nice of this friend to come and and you know wish him well.
SPEAKER_02: And a few minutes later we couldn't find him.
SPEAKER_02: Like, where'd they go?
SPEAKER_02: And look around, and and so we found him on another floor coming out of the bathroom.
SPEAKER_02: And so I didn't realize it then, but this friend had brought him a patch.
SPEAKER_02: It was it was like a nicotine patch, but it was a morphine patch.
SPEAKER_02: It was filled with morphine.
SPEAKER_02: And it was it was when they first came out, and they were being uh still under beta, you know, still under testing.
SPEAKER_02: And so they it it had three days worth of morphine that was supposed to slow time release into his body.
SPEAKER_02: And his friend was being nice and thought if they take you into the the court today, if they take you into the prison today, you can sleep through the first three days of processing.
SPEAKER_02: And so the he he put the patch on and and and you know went on into the court and they did not take him into prison that day because he was out on bond, and they gave him a date to turn himself in.
SPEAKER_02: But he he pled guilty, and the charges were were brought against him and and the sentencing and all of that that took place.
SPEAKER_02: They released me uh and dropped the charges against me because of his plea bargain.
SPEAKER_02: And so my part was done there.
SPEAKER_02: But that night, those three days worth of morphine.
SPEAKER_02: Released into his body in one day.
SPEAKER_02: And in the night, it evidently had caused his diaphragm to paralyze and he wasn't breathing correctly.
SPEAKER_02: And in the morning, I thought he was snoring.
SPEAKER_02: I know now it was agonal breathing.
SPEAKER_02: I had never heard him snore before, and I was upset because he was high, and I wasn't the night before.
SPEAKER_02: And so he had promised me he was going to take me and get me high that day.
SPEAKER_02: And so I'm trying to wake him up.
SPEAKER_02: And we got all kinds of racket going on in there trying to wake him up running the vacuum cleaner, that that'll make him mad, that'll get him up, you know.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm letting the kids bang on the guitar over here and thinking that he's just sleeping hard because of this medicine.
SPEAKER_02: And I turned the vacuum cleaner off and I turned around and he was no longer breathing.
SPEAKER_02: And I began to scream for his grandmother.
SPEAKER_02: We were there at his grandmother's house.
SPEAKER_02: We were homeless.
SPEAKER_02: She'd let us move back in.
SPEAKER_02: I began to scream for her to call 911, and I tried to do CPR, but the bed was too soft, and so I'm trying to get him on the floor where I can do CPR.
SPEAKER_02: And uh the medics come in, we were right down the street from the fire department.
SPEAKER_02: They come rushing in and they uh they bring him back to the they start doing the CPR on him in route to the hospital.
SPEAKER_02: They were able to get him his heart to beating again.
SPEAKER_02: But by the when we got to the hospital, they took me into a room and a counselor came in.
SPEAKER_02: And I thought, that's weird.
SPEAKER_02: I I should be seeing a doctor, not a counselor.
SPEAKER_02: Where's the doctors?
SPEAKER_02: And and they said, Well, they did get him resuscitated, and I thought, well, good.
SPEAKER_02: I I thought that's it, you know, good.
SPEAKER_02: That's over, we can go on, and he'll be okay in a day or two.
SPEAKER_02: But they said, no, ma'am, he's not brain functioning, and so they ended up having to put him on machines.
SPEAKER_02: And we're in the ICU, he's on machines that are helping him breathe and helping his heart beat, and people start coming to the uh the ICU unit with needles and cocaine and dilauded, and I've got myself in the bathroom getting high.
SPEAKER_02: And the guy who had prayed with him the day before shows up.
SPEAKER_02: The guy from the church.
SPEAKER_02: I've got cocaine in my pocket, I've got a syringe in my shoe, somebody had just come and brought this to me.
SPEAKER_02: I'd done delauded earlier that day, which is kind of like a heroin.
SPEAKER_02: And and this preacher wants to talk to me.
SPEAKER_02: And I thought, I don't want to hear what the preacher has to say.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want to, but he was so pushy.
SPEAKER_02: Not in a mean way, not in a rude way.
SPEAKER_02: And he didn't look like a preacher either, can I tell you that?
SPEAKER_02: He had a ponytail, he had a big Dakes Bible, he was a biker.
SPEAKER_02: And I thought, what kind of preacher did this church send?
SPEAKER_02: First, I'm going to be critical, you know, what kind of preacher is this?
SPEAKER_02: And the next thing I'm like, I don't want to go talk to the preacher.
SPEAKER_02: And he's like, no, come to the chapel with me.
SPEAKER_02: Come to the chapel with me.
SPEAKER_02: I didn't want to go to the chapel, but I finally relented and I went to the chapel with him.
SPEAKER_02: And we're sitting in the chapel, and he is talking to me about the fact that Jesus died on the cross for me.
SPEAKER_02: He would not let me give him yes and no answers and dismiss him and get this over with.
SPEAKER_02: I tried.
SPEAKER_02: I tried to just yes, whatever, whatever.
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, fine, thank you.
SPEAKER_02: You can go now.
SPEAKER_02: I tried that.
SPEAKER_02: He wouldn't let me get away with that.
SPEAKER_02: He just kept talking to me and he kept interacting in a way that made me respond with a sentence or made me respond with something personal.
SPEAKER_02: And he presented the gospel.
SPEAKER_02: Now, I was I was raised in in Nashville, Tennessee.
SPEAKER_02: Right there in the buckle of the Bible belt.
SPEAKER_02: I was raised, my grandparents, I had been to church with them a little bit when I was younger, but I had never taken personal what Jesus did.
SPEAKER_02: Until that conversation, I cannot say that I ever considered personally that Jesus had died for me.
SPEAKER_02: That what he did on the cross, that and and it sounds clicheic, but when he said it to me, I'd never heard it before, and it caught my attention.
SPEAKER_02: He said, if you were the only person alive on the earth, he would have died for you.
SPEAKER_02: Now that sounds clicheic to us today, but at that moment, it was what brought it into perspective for me personally, and that's why it it we have to help people see God's love for them personally.
SPEAKER_02: We have to let them see that it's not just a blanket, it's for you.
SPEAKER_02: It's not just something that is touching others, it's to meant to touch you.
SPEAKER_02: And in that conversation, I didn't get a big revelation, I didn't get this huge moment where light came flooding in and I was gloriously saved completely in that moment.
SPEAKER_02: I got a little tiny glimmer of hope.
SPEAKER_02: It was just like a little light coming under the door into the dark room.
SPEAKER_02: And I remember that glimmer of hope made me say, if God would help me, because that's the first time I believed he would.
SPEAKER_02: If God would help me, I need help.
SPEAKER_02: Anybody needs help, I need help.
SPEAKER_02: If God would help me, I need help.
SPEAKER_02: And if you've read my testimony, Escaping Hell, you know by this time I had been so deep in that, what I call an emotional coma.
SPEAKER_02: The pain of the life that I had lived, the pain of the decisions that I'd made, the pain of my failures and my shame.
SPEAKER_02: I just I lived to escape it.
SPEAKER_02: I lived every day trying to escape me, trying to escape the decisions I've made, the life that I'd made.
SPEAKER_02: I made a declaration one day.
SPEAKER_02: I will never be sober another day in my life.
SPEAKER_02: And every morning, if I couldn't get a hold of enough money to get high, I would drink a bottle of Nyquil.
SPEAKER_02: I'd do whatever I could just to escape reality.
SPEAKER_02: And that little glimmer of hope is what I prayed with.
SPEAKER_02: It wasn't a big revelation, it was it wasn't a huge, wide open door for God.
SPEAKER_02: It was, God, if you would help me, I need your help.
SPEAKER_02: Please help me.
SPEAKER_02: And so I prayed with him, not realizing fully what I know about Jesus today, but realizing I'm asking for God's help.
SPEAKER_02: I went down to the emergency room, bathroom, locked myself in the bathroom to do the drugs that I had on my possession, and couldn't feel a thing.
SPEAKER_02: I was so furious.
SPEAKER_02: I was mad.
SPEAKER_02: I was like, I called the drug dealer and said, What have you brought to me?
SPEAKER_02: I couldn't feel a thing.
SPEAKER_02: Some months later, I came across the scripture in the Bible that said, You're snared by the words of your mouth, and God said, That's why you couldn't feel anything.
SPEAKER_02: You had cut a covenant with me.
SPEAKER_02: You'd open the door for me to help you, and the way I could help you the most was by making that of no effect to you that day.
SPEAKER_02: And so that prayer opened the door so that a few months later, after we had taken the machines off of my first husband, and he had passed, and we had laid him to rest, and my life was going out of control.
SPEAKER_02: And I found myself in the back of a bar doing drugs three days nonstop.
SPEAKER_02: And I put the needle in my arm, and when I did, I left my body.
SPEAKER_02: But I was standing in front of a skull, it wasn't a whole skeleton, but it was a skull that was as tall as I am.
SPEAKER_02: And as I stood in front of this skull, I was more aware than I have ever been in my life that hell was real.
SPEAKER_02: If you had asked me before, I would have laughed about hell.
SPEAKER_02: I made jokes about hell.
SPEAKER_02: We sang songs about being on the highway to hell.
SPEAKER_02: We talked about partying in hell with the devil.
SPEAKER_02: It was, I look back at the ridiculousness of some of the things that I thought concerning hell because in that moment I realized hell is real.
SPEAKER_02: I was so clear, I was so aware, I was so spiritually aware in that moment that hell was real and I still had the opportunity to escape it.
SPEAKER_02: And I began at that moment because hands began to reach out of the darkness, it was as if the darkness had hands.
SPEAKER_02: They weren't black hands, it was darkness reaching for me.
SPEAKER_02: And those hands began to try to grasp me and pull me in, and in that moment I turned and ran back to my body.
SPEAKER_02: And when I got back into my body, the person who was doing CPR on me is one minute trying to get me to breathe and my heart to beat, and the next minute I'm screaming, I'm kicking, I'm I'm clawing because I was trying to escape.
SPEAKER_02: And he let me up, and I jumped up out of the back of that bar and I began running, and it was in the projects of East Nashville, and I ran about two blocks in the rain with the blood dripping down my arm before I realized that I was back in my body.
SPEAKER_02: And I went to church that night.
SPEAKER_02: That was a Sunday morning.
SPEAKER_02: I went to church that night, the same church that my first husband had gone to, the same church where my children went to church, where his grandmother went to church, and they didn't quite know how to handle me.
SPEAKER_02: I don't think they knew what to do with me.
SPEAKER_02: I sat on the front row.
SPEAKER_02: I don't know what they preached, I don't know what they said, but the moment they closed the service and opened for prayer, I stood up and said, I died this morning, and I don't want to go to hell.
SPEAKER_02: Please help me.
SPEAKER_02: I didn't know about ask Jesus, I didn't know about the how to get saved.
SPEAKER_02: I just knew this was the only place that had said God was interested in helping me.
SPEAKER_02: And the people who had prayed with me at the hospital found out that I came that night, and they ended up coming to the house where I was and taking me to a revival that they were in.
SPEAKER_02: And it was in that revival.
SPEAKER_02: By this time, I'm trying to get myself off drugs because I don't want to go to hell, and so I'm I'm on a methadone program that caused me to total three cars, and I don't know where I left them, and I'm I'm trying to get off these drugs, but I can't keep myself awake.
SPEAKER_02: And so I'm sitting in church, and the first night in church I slept through it, and so they took me home, and the people who had brought me, they they kept me on their couch that night, because by this time I was really homeless living in my car.
SPEAKER_02: And they kept me on their couch that night and prayed over me all night.
SPEAKER_02: And the next night took me back to church, and I'm sitting there in church, and the preacher comes over and he wakes me up because again, I'm asleep.
SPEAKER_02: He wakes me up and he said, Girl, do you want help?
SPEAKER_02: And I I stood up and said, I do, I do, I want help.
SPEAKER_02: And he laid his hands on me and prayed for me.
SPEAKER_02: And when I woke up, I was mad because I thought that preacher knocked me down.
SPEAKER_02: What am I doing on the floor?
SPEAKER_02: I was and then I couldn't be mad anymore because I was realized I'm sober.
SPEAKER_02: All the anger went away when I I'm sober.
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm free from that drug, I'm free.
SPEAKER_02: And August 10th, 1992, I officially accepted Jesus as my Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_02: The difference in my life came as a result of the light in my life.
SPEAKER_02: I tried to be different before and could never fix my life.
SPEAKER_02: What made my life worth living was the light of God's word.
SPEAKER_02: The life of God came into me, and I could start living out of this life of God.
SPEAKER_02: Before that, I was dead in sin.
SPEAKER_02: And because of that condition of being death, every time everything I tried failed.
SPEAKER_02: Every time I tried to fix it, it didn't work because I was, you can't fix spiritual death unless you receive eternal life.
SPEAKER_02: Hell is real.
SPEAKER_02: It is punishment.
SPEAKER_02: It's not God's will that anybody go there.
SPEAKER_02: God desires for every person.
SPEAKER_02: No matter what they've done, no matter how they've lived, no matter the decisions they've made, if they will accept Jesus, if they will accept his sacrifice, if they will repent and accept the life of God, God will save them.
SPEAKER_02: He'll rescue them from this furnace of fire.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: But they're not gonna know it without somebody making it personal.
SPEAKER_02: Without somebody making it personal.
SPEAKER_02: Go with me to Matthew chapter nine.
SPEAKER_02: Matthew chapter nine, I want to read verse 36 through 38.
SPEAKER_02: But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
SPEAKER_02: And saith he unto his disciples, the harvest.
SPEAKER_02: He saw multitudes, and he calls them the harvest.
SPEAKER_02: He saw these people in the condition that they were in, and he saw a harvest.
SPEAKER_02: He said, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
SPEAKER_02: Pray ye therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.
SPEAKER_02: So Jesus sees these people, he sees them, and the very first response or reaction he has is compassion.
SPEAKER_02: You and I need to have the same outlook.
SPEAKER_02: Not disgust, not comparing how dark they are in their thinking and how light we are, but thinking, I was once there.
SPEAKER_02: I was in that darkness.
SPEAKER_02: I love people who are walking in the dark.
SPEAKER_02: There's some people that I love in my life, and I look at their life and I know the way that they are living is because of the darkness they're walking in.
SPEAKER_02: But I love them.
SPEAKER_02: And the compassion of God overrides what we see, overrides the disgust with the decisions, overrides the things that that would cause us to want to pull back and compels us.
SPEAKER_02: They need light.
SPEAKER_02: They need the light of God.
SPEAKER_02: They need the light I'm walking in.
SPEAKER_02: They need the light I'm living by.
SPEAKER_02: He saw them and his compassion was immediate.
SPEAKER_02: He was moved with compassion on them because he saw their condition.
SPEAKER_02: I want to give you a few of the different ways this word, when it says they were they were scattered abroad.
SPEAKER_02: This word scattered in different translations.
SPEAKER_02: I just pulled a few of them out.
SPEAKER_02: It says they were harassed.
SPEAKER_02: They were harassed.
SPEAKER_02: That makes me think of how Jesus was anointed by God, who went about doing good and healing all who were harassed by the devil.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: These people were harassed.
SPEAKER_02: Another word that is used to translate this scattered is the word destitute.
SPEAKER_02: Destitute.
SPEAKER_02: Battered, overwhelmed.
SPEAKER_02: So he looked at their life and he could see the condition of their life, how destitute they were, how scattered they were in their life.
SPEAKER_02: They had no foundation, they had no purpose, they had no life.
SPEAKER_02: And he was moved.
SPEAKER_02: He compared it to a sheep that does not have a shepherd.
SPEAKER_02: None of us were created to live separate from God.
SPEAKER_02: The design of who you are fits with the design of who he is.
SPEAKER_02: He is our creator.
SPEAKER_02: We're not made to live without him.
SPEAKER_02: We're not made to do it on our own.
SPEAKER_02: We're not made to be an island unto ourselves.
SPEAKER_02: We're made to live with him.
SPEAKER_02: To fellowship with him, to be with him, to learn from him, to receive from him.
SPEAKER_02: But they were with no shepherd.
SPEAKER_02: To have no shepherd would be a person who has no guide, no direction for their life.
SPEAKER_02: They're alone in life.
SPEAKER_02: Even in the multitude of people, you can be alone.
SPEAKER_02: Even in a multitude of people, you can feel so alone.
SPEAKER_02: You can feel like I don't have anybody who understands what I'm going through.
SPEAKER_02: You were never designed to live that way.
SPEAKER_02: They had no rest, no stability, no provision for their life.
SPEAKER_02: They were without God.
SPEAKER_02: Ephesians chapter two, verse twelve describes a life without God as being a life without hope.
SPEAKER_02: Let's read Ephesians two and verse twelve together.
SPEAKER_02: Having no hope and without God in the world.
SPEAKER_02: But now in Christ Jesus, when you're talking about yourself, but now in Christ Jesus, I am not without hope.
SPEAKER_02: I am not without God.
SPEAKER_02: Yet there are people that you know who are.
SPEAKER_02: People that you know who are without Christ, which makes them without God.
SPEAKER_02: And without hope.
SPEAKER_02: With Christ is the only way.
SPEAKER_02: He is the way.
SPEAKER_02: He is the truth.
SPEAKER_02: There is no other way to God.
SPEAKER_02: It's not possible to be good enough.
SPEAKER_02: It's just not.
SPEAKER_02: One of the most compelling testimonies I've ever heard would be to hear Kennethy Hagen talk about how he was raised in church.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I was baptized.
SPEAKER_02: I went to church every Sunday.
SPEAKER_02: I was raised in church.
SPEAKER_02: But here he is on his deathbed at 13 years old, his 14 years old.
SPEAKER_02: His body is shutting down.
SPEAKER_02: He is feeling the blood stop pumping throughout his heart stopped.
SPEAKER_02: His blood was no longer pumping.
SPEAKER_02: He said, from his feet, he began to feel this cold.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I began to leave my body and go down.
SPEAKER_02: And I thought, why am I going down?
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I kept going down, down, down.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I began to cry out.
SPEAKER_02: I've been baptized.
SPEAKER_02: I belong to the church.
SPEAKER_02: He went all the way down.
SPEAKER_02: And you remember he was he was there and and this ugly creature was was there and a voice spoke.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, when that voice spoke, he began coming back up to his body.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I came back into my body, and and I thought, what happened to me?
SPEAKER_02: And then a few minutes later, he begins again.
SPEAKER_02: And he's going down, he's going down, and the whole time he's going down second time.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I've been baptized.
SPEAKER_02: I've been baptized in water.
SPEAKER_02: I'm a member of the church.
SPEAKER_02: I signed up as a member of the church.
SPEAKER_02: He couldn't understand why he was going down.
SPEAKER_02: And for the second time he hears the voice speak and he comes back to his body.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, the third time when I started descending and he started going down, he said, this time I cried out, Lord.
SPEAKER_02: And when he came back to his body, he stayed in his body.
SPEAKER_02: And the and the compelling truth of the fact that if you don't make Jesus Lord, being a member of a church, being a good, never having committed what people consider to be terrible things.
SPEAKER_02: None of those things save us.
SPEAKER_02: Our pastor, Pastor Calwell, says that for years he he would answer, people would ask him, Are you saved?
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I'm American.
SPEAKER_02: Of course I'm saved.
SPEAKER_02: Because he didn't understand that the only way to be saved was to accept Jesus as Lord.
SPEAKER_02: And when he came to know that truth, he accepted Jesus as Lord.
SPEAKER_02: But he was under the idea that he was saved.
SPEAKER_02: Like Brother Hagin, he was under the idea that he was saved because he attended a church, because he'd been baptized in water, but he had never accepted the Lordship of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: So Jesus is the way.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus is, we must be with him, with Christ.
SPEAKER_02: If any man be in Christ, without that decision, they're not ready.
SPEAKER_02: Without that decision, they're not, they haven't escaped anything.
SPEAKER_02: They're not on the right road yet.
SPEAKER_02: We've got to help people make that decision.
SPEAKER_02: We've got to help people see Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: We've got to help people personalize what he did for them.
SPEAKER_02: Not just in a broad sense, but for you personally, for you personally, for what he did for me.
SPEAKER_02: He died for me.
SPEAKER_02: It was when I took it personally, when I for the that moment realized he died in my place.
SPEAKER_02: I accept what he did for me.
SPEAKER_02: That was what caused the change in my life.
SPEAKER_02: It says here, to be without Christ is to be without hope.
SPEAKER_02: If you back up and look at verse 1 of this same chapter, you can see the condition that caused Jesus to be moved with compassion.
SPEAKER_02: And we should have this same perception when we see people that we know need Jesus in their life.
SPEAKER_02: It says in verse 1 of Ephesians chapter 2, You have He quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins.
SPEAKER_02: Now again, this is a verse that you and I can look at from a place where we are now.
SPEAKER_02: But we're looking at it for the purpose of seeing where people are who haven't accepted Jesus yet.
SPEAKER_02: Where are they?
SPEAKER_02: They are dead.
SPEAKER_02: Dead spiritually.
SPEAKER_02: Spiritually, dead people don't see what you see.
SPEAKER_02: They don't understand what you understand.
SPEAKER_02: They don't comprehend the things that you comprehend.
SPEAKER_02: You see things through the light of the life of God in you.
SPEAKER_02: You see things because of that decision you've made.
SPEAKER_02: The light has come, the life has come, and you can perceive.
SPEAKER_02: But they are spiritually dead.
SPEAKER_02: When Adam and Eve died spiritually, they lost revelation knowledge.
SPEAKER_02: They didn't have the same emotional responses.
SPEAKER_02: They experienced fear.
SPEAKER_02: They've never had fear before.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because now spiritual death has opened them up to becoming victims to those things.
SPEAKER_02: And so that's why people who are spiritually dead are they don't have anything else controlling their soul.
SPEAKER_02: You have the life of God that that rides over, that takes a position of authority over the soul.
SPEAKER_02: And you can bring your soul under subjection, your mind, your will, your emotions.
SPEAKER_02: You can bring it under subjection to the truth of the word that's in you.
SPEAKER_02: And you can say, Yeah, I know what that what that feeling is coming to make me afraid, but I will not fear.
SPEAKER_02: So that's a spiritual decision.
SPEAKER_02: But people without spiritual life, they don't have that option.
SPEAKER_02: They're victim to whatever the emotion leads them, directs them, governs them to do.
SPEAKER_02: And so it says they were dead in sin.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 2 says, in times past, you walked according to the course of this world.
SPEAKER_02: So for those who are walking without Christ today, they are walking according to, in harmony with the direction of the world.
SPEAKER_02: Under the control of Satan.
SPEAKER_02: Satan is the God of this world.
SPEAKER_02: And so they're following that path, they're going down that avenue.
SPEAKER_02: It says, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience.
SPEAKER_02: So those people who are without Christ are walking on that path and walking under that influence.
SPEAKER_02: The enemy has influence over the way they think, over their perceptions, over their decisions.
SPEAKER_02: Not necessarily that they're possessed.
SPEAKER_02: That doesn't mean every unsaved person is demonically possessed.
SPEAKER_02: They could be if they've submitted to that, but they're still influenced.
SPEAKER_02: They're influenced by that.
SPEAKER_02: And then it says, we had our behavior.
SPEAKER_02: The word conversation, when you see the word conversation in the New Testament, it's the word behavior, talks about lifestyle.
SPEAKER_02: It said, we all had our behavior.
SPEAKER_02: They have their behavior, their lifestyle dictated by the desires, the cravings, the promptings of their flesh.
SPEAKER_02: It says the lusts of their flesh, whatever their flesh desires.
SPEAKER_02: So that's why you see the anger you see in the world today.
SPEAKER_02: Because that's what their flesh is craving.
SPEAKER_02: They're feeding it.
SPEAKER_02: And the more they feed on it, swiping through and scrolling through anger and anger and anger and anger until they explode in anger, that's because that's what they've been craving.
SPEAKER_02: That's what they've been feeding on.
SPEAKER_02: That's what they've been exercising.
SPEAKER_02: So the flesh is dictating the behavior, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind.
SPEAKER_02: Doing what the flesh says to do.
SPEAKER_02: Following that path, that prompting, and fulfilling it.
SPEAKER_02: And then it says, by nature, they are children of wrath.
SPEAKER_02: By nature, you know that you are partakers of his divine nature.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because we've accepted the Lordship of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: We've accepted him.
SPEAKER_02: He has brought his life.
SPEAKER_02: I am no longer under the dominion of sin.
SPEAKER_02: I am no longer under the dominion of darkness.
SPEAKER_02: I've been translated out of the authority of darkness and into the kingdom of God's dear Son.
SPEAKER_02: I am a partaker of his divine nature.
SPEAKER_02: My nature has been changed.
SPEAKER_02: But for anybody who hasn't accepted Jesus, their nature hasn't been changed.
SPEAKER_02: And that's why they need to accept Jesus Christ, the sacrifice for their sin.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: So that he can change their nature and bring the life of God into their spirit.
SPEAKER_02: And with the life of God comes the light for them to live by.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: That's what caused Jesus to be moved with compassion.
SPEAKER_02: When he looked at them, he saw this condition and their outcome.
SPEAKER_02: Because remember, he's seeing harvest.
SPEAKER_02: He's seeing harvest.
SPEAKER_02: The condition on this earth is temporary.
SPEAKER_02: But the separation is eternal.
SPEAKER_02: The separation is eternal.
SPEAKER_02: You can use your faith for so many things.
SPEAKER_02: You can use your faith for finances.
SPEAKER_02: You can use your faith for your health.
SPEAKER_02: You can use your faith for your house, your car.
SPEAKER_02: You can't take the house to heaven with you.
SPEAKER_02: You can't take the car or the finances.
SPEAKER_02: You can take your family.
SPEAKER_02: Your faith plays a part in the eternal salvation of your family.
SPEAKER_02: It opens the door for the power of God to move.
SPEAKER_02: As long as you're there, the door's open.
SPEAKER_02: And God's drawing them.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus said, No man comes unto me unless the Father draws.
SPEAKER_02: What is causing God to draw?
SPEAKER_02: You're standing in that place at the throne of God, saying, Father, my grandchildren need to know your glory.
SPEAKER_02: Father, my children, my aunt, my uncle, my mother, my father, whoever it may be.
SPEAKER_02: Father, I'm standing here and I'm asking you.
SPEAKER_02: Show them your glory.
SPEAKER_02: Open the eyes of their understanding that they would know what is the height and depth and width and breadth and that they would know your love.
SPEAKER_02: That they would walk in your ways.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: You can use your faith for your family.
SPEAKER_02: You can use your faith for an eternal purpose.
SPEAKER_02: And the salvation is a promise.
SPEAKER_02: The salvation of your children is a promise God gave you.
SPEAKER_02: Before they were even on the scene, he had promised Abraham about his descendants.
SPEAKER_02: I'll be a God to you and to your children.
SPEAKER_02: That's God's promise.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: He said, Well, maybe my children they don't want to know God.
SPEAKER_02: They just don't know yet.
SPEAKER_02: They do, they do.
SPEAKER_02: They just don't know what you know.
SPEAKER_02: If they knew what you knew, they'd walk the way you're walking.
SPEAKER_02: They'd be with him too if they knew him the way you knew him.
SPEAKER_02: But what's happened?
SPEAKER_01: They've been deceived.
SPEAKER_02: They're not in the light.
SPEAKER_02: But we can pray the light around them.
SPEAKER_02: We can stock their shelves with answers, spiritual answers, light of God.
SPEAKER_02: We can keep the doors open so that God is constantly, day and night, sending laborers across their path.
SPEAKER_02: He told us to pray it.
SPEAKER_02: We can pray it.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Laborers they'll receive from.
SPEAKER_02: Because sometimes they don't want to hear what I have to say.
SPEAKER_02: They've heard me, they think they know what I want to say.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, mom.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Well, God knows who they'll listen to.
SPEAKER_02: God knows who they'll receive from, doesn't He?
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Send laborers across their path.
SPEAKER_02: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because we know.
SPEAKER_02: The panoramic picture.
SPEAKER_02: We know the life people are going to live if they choose not to accept Jesus as Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: And we don't want that.
SPEAKER_02: Not for our family, not for our neighbors, not for the people on our job.
SPEAKER_02: We don't want that for anybody.
SPEAKER_02: Not even for our people who have made themselves our enemies.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want this for anybody.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want anybody to live without God.
SPEAKER_02: I want every person to know him.
SPEAKER_02: And so I'm willing to share the gospel seed.
SPEAKER_02: Mark chapter four.
SPEAKER_02: The word of God is supernatural seed.
SPEAKER_02: We have eternal life by receiving the word, believing the word in our heart.
SPEAKER_02: We are brought to life.
SPEAKER_02: It's the word, the incorruptible seed of God's word that gave you new life.
SPEAKER_02: You heard like I did the truth concerning Jesus and what he did for you, and you accepted him in your heart.
SPEAKER_02: You accepted that word concerning what he did.
SPEAKER_02: And you are who you are today, walking in the life of God today because you received the word.
SPEAKER_02: That's how easy it is is to sow the word.
SPEAKER_02: So the word of God sown into the heart of man, that's how we get the kingdom of God in people.
SPEAKER_02: Sow the word to them.
SPEAKER_02: And as Pastor has instructed us in previous Sundays, it's not that you have to know perfectly where every verse is and where every biblical answer that they have, question that they have, answers to their questions.
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to know all that.
SPEAKER_02: Tell somebody what he's done for you.
SPEAKER_02: Tell them how he set you free.
SPEAKER_02: Tell them how he changed your life.
SPEAKER_02: Tell them what he means to you.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: God provides the seed.
SPEAKER_02: He is the husbandman, John 15, 1 says.
SPEAKER_02: That means the gardener.
SPEAKER_02: It's his harvest.
SPEAKER_02: He's given us the seed to sow, but we're the ones on the planet with the authority to sow it.
SPEAKER_02: We're the ones who sow the seed.
SPEAKER_02: The laborers in the harvest.
SPEAKER_02: You may be answering somebody else's prayer.
SPEAKER_02: Somebody else who can't be here to reach their loved one has prayed for God to send laborers, and you might be the one he taps on the shoulder.
SPEAKER_02: Hey, I need you to tell that person at the checkout stand.
SPEAKER_02: Hey, I need you to tell your the person who sits in the cubicle across from your the hallway of your office.
SPEAKER_02: I need you to tell that person.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah, it's not hard.
SPEAKER_02: Just share the gospel.
SPEAKER_02: Just share the good news.
SPEAKER_02: Sow the seed, plant the seed in their heart, like that man who made it personal for me.
SPEAKER_02: That Jesus died on the cross for me.
SPEAKER_02: That God wanted to help me.
SPEAKER_02: I don't remember all the verses that he used.
SPEAKER_02: I just remember that he made it personal.
SPEAKER_02: And God was able to take the seed and produce a harvest of life.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Zechariah chapter 10 and verse 1.
SPEAKER_02: God provides the seed.
SPEAKER_02: And then he tells us to pray for the rain.
SPEAKER_02: Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the louder rain.
SPEAKER_02: So the Lord shall make bright clouds and give them showers of rain to everyone, grass in the field.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Ask for the rain.
SPEAKER_02: And that's what we want to do today.
SPEAKER_02: We want to ask for the rain.
SPEAKER_02: God has put in our heart people that we want to minister to, people that we want to invite, we want to share the gospel seed.
SPEAKER_02: We want to pray for the rain of the Spirit of God to water that seed.
SPEAKER_02: For those of you who are standing for loved ones, children, grandchildren, to know Jesus, to walk in his plans, we need to pray for the rain.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Pray for God to send laborers and pray for the rain of the word.
SPEAKER_02: The rain of God's uh of God's Spirit upon the word.
SPEAKER_02: If you did bring your children up in the church, oh my goodness, you've got an extra promise.
SPEAKER_02: You have trained them up.
SPEAKER_02: Their seed in the ground.
SPEAKER_02: You could pray for that water to hit that seed.
SPEAKER_02: You know, you can have a desert that looks so dry, and there's nothing growing.
SPEAKER_02: And then the rain comes.
SPEAKER_02: And then the next morning you see all these little flowers coming up across the desert.
SPEAKER_02: And you're like, the seed was there all the time.
SPEAKER_02: It was just waiting on enough moisture to bring life to the seed.
SPEAKER_02: And the seed of God's word is in their heart.
SPEAKER_02: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_02: And the moisture of the Holy Spirit bringing it to light, bringing those things to their remembrance, calling to mind those things that they learned when you were bringing them up in church.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: He knows how to water the seed.
SPEAKER_02: God knows exactly what it will take to reach them.
SPEAKER_02: He does.
SPEAKER_02: He doesn't expect you to do this on your own.
SPEAKER_02: Like you gotta, I gotta figure this out.
SPEAKER_02: No, he says, I'll help you.
SPEAKER_02: I'll help you figure this out.
SPEAKER_02: I'll show you.
SPEAKER_02: If you'll work with me, if you'll bring me your authority on the earth and you'll pray for the open door, I'll bring the power.
SPEAKER_02: Because it says the effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous does what?
SPEAKER_02: It makes power available.
SPEAKER_02: The power of God available for your loved one.
SPEAKER_02: The power of God available for that person you're believing to turn from their ways and turn to God's ways.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Your prayer's making that power available.
SPEAKER_02: Your prayer is opening the door.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: When you pick up the phone and call 911, 911 doesn't know they need to come to the situation.
SPEAKER_02: They don't know what the situation is until somebody picks up the phone and calls and says, I have an emergency and I need you to send somebody to help me with this.
SPEAKER_02: Well, what is it?
SPEAKER_02: Is it a fire?
SPEAKER_02: Is it a car wreck?
SPEAKER_02: What is it?
SPEAKER_02: And you begin to give details, and the exact help is sent.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because the line's been opened.
SPEAKER_02: And when you make your petition known unto God, you open the avenue for the power of God to flow into that situation.
SPEAKER_02: And you begin to work with Him.
SPEAKER_02: And you know, they don't hang up, they keep you on the line.
SPEAKER_02: They say, stay on the line with me.
SPEAKER_02: I'm going to tell you what you need to do next.
SPEAKER_02: And the Holy Spirit will walk you through how to watch in prayer.
SPEAKER_02: The Holy Spirit will walk you through how to intercede.
SPEAKER_02: He'll walk you through some life-saving techniques that may need to be administered in the Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: He'll walk you through and say, you need to take authority over that darkness that's blinding that person's mind.
SPEAKER_02: You need to take authority over that spirit of rejection that's a, that's that's uh affecting their ability to receive from me.
SPEAKER_02: He knows exactly what's holding them there, and he knows exactly what will help them get out.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: So we just stay on the line with him.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Just stay on the line.
SPEAKER_02: You walk through the store all the time, and there's people with their earbuds in, and you think they're talking to you until you turn around and see the earbud hanging out of their ear, and you're like, oh, they're on the phone.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: They're talking to somebody, but it wasn't you.
SPEAKER_02: So just keep the line open with God all day.
SPEAKER_02: Just keep your earbuds in with God all day.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Lord, I'm here.
SPEAKER_02: I'm talking to you.
SPEAKER_02: I'm connected to you.
SPEAKER_02: I'm bringing your power on the scene.
SPEAKER_02: Praise God.
SPEAKER_02: Let's pray for the rain today, would you?
SPEAKER_02: The early rain, the latter rain.
SPEAKER_02: Each one of those rains affected a different harvest.
SPEAKER_02: The early rain affected the olive and the grape harvest.
SPEAKER_02: And that would represent the oil and the wine of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: And the latter rain was what came for the grain or the wheat harvest.
SPEAKER_02: And that's the word coming forth.
SPEAKER_02: And so we want to pray for the for the rain that's going to bring the harvest of God, the the flow of the Spirit into that situation, and the harvest of the word for that person to walk in the light.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: So whoever it is that you have in your prayer focus, and it doesn't have to just be one or two, it can be the people that you're going to be inviting as well as family members that you're believing for.
SPEAKER_02: Let's pray for the reign of the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: And we as a church family desire to be a part of your harvest work.
SPEAKER_02: We desire in our individual lives, Father, to see your harvest in our family.
SPEAKER_02: Every family member, every one of our loved ones, we want them with us in heaven forever.
SPEAKER_02: We want them forever connected to the Father.
SPEAKER_02: And so, Father, we make ourselves available to pray for the rain.
SPEAKER_02: We ask for the rain of your Holy Spirit, the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, the rain that comes to bring this end-time harvest to a fruition in our family, in our community.
SPEAKER_02: Lord, send the rain.
SPEAKER_02: We ask you for rain upon their life.
SPEAKER_02: We're sowing the word.
SPEAKER_02: We speak the word to them, Lord.
SPEAKER_02: We speak the word that you do not desire that any perish, but that all come to everlasting life.
SPEAKER_02: We send your word to save them.
SPEAKER_02: We send your word.
SPEAKER_02: We ask for laborers to go forth across their path to speak to them the words of life.
SPEAKER_02: Father, cause them to encounter answers by your spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Cause them to turn on answers, to scroll across answers, speaking the answers that speak specifically to the situations that have held them in bondage.
SPEAKER_02: Father, we pray for those answers to be supernaturally upon their path.
SPEAKER_02: Laborers that will come across their path and speak those words.
SPEAKER_02: We ask for boldness.
SPEAKER_02: We thank you, Lord, for the rain of your spirit and for the harvest of our loved ones.
SPEAKER_02: Father, for those who are we are desiring to come on the 14th for this salvation Sunday.
SPEAKER_02: Father, we pray for the eyes of their understanding to be enlightened.
SPEAKER_02: We pray, Father, for you to witness to them.
SPEAKER_02: Prepare their hearts.
SPEAKER_02: Minister your love to them.
SPEAKER_02: Cause every excuse to be null and void.
SPEAKER_02: And Father, that they would yield and accept and walk in your plan.
SPEAKER_02: And we thank you for it.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: The Lord is good.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: It helps to see things from the big picture, doesn't it?
SPEAKER_02: One day, time will be no more.
SPEAKER_02: We live in such a time-centered perception that I think it hinders us from seeing what God would want us to see.
SPEAKER_02: Because he sees from an eternal perspective.
SPEAKER_02: And from an eternal perspective, his value system is different.
SPEAKER_02: Because what really matters comes to a whole nother place of importance.
SPEAKER_02: What's really important is clearer to see when it's not in the cloudy, muddy water of deadlines and schedules, and I gotta do this, and we gotta have this by this date.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Eternity.
SPEAKER_02: Praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Would you stand with me to your feet today?
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.