SPEAKER_00: Hi, my name is Michelle Steele.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's go to First Corinthians, chapter 16.
SPEAKER_01: And verse 9.
SPEAKER_01: And this, of course, is our quarterly strengthening meeting.
SPEAKER_01: And we have different ones ordained with our fellowship.
SPEAKER_01: Those that have graduated, some are not ordained, but they have graduated or licensed, but they've graduated from our Bible school.
SPEAKER_01: And so these meetings are geared towards encouraging, strengthening, but also dealing with where we're going, what God is doing in the fellowship and what he wants us to do.
SPEAKER_01: And in 1 Corinthians 16, and verse 9.
SPEAKER_01: Notice what the Apostle Paul says.
SPEAKER_01: He says in 1 Corinthians 16, 9, he's talking about an opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: And he says here concerning this, for a great door, when it says a great door, an effective door is what it says.
SPEAKER_01: An effective door is open to me, and there are many adversaries.
SPEAKER_01: The Amplified Bible says, for a wide door of opportunity, for effectual service has opened to me, and a great and promising one, and there are many adversaries.
SPEAKER_01: The CEB Bible says, in spite of the fact that there are many opponents, a big and productive opportunity has opened for my mission there.
SPEAKER_01: Notice what he says.
SPEAKER_01: Never allow the size of the opposition to get your focus off the size of the opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: Don't allow the size of the opposition to stop you from seeing the size of the opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Anything that any of us do for God is going to come with challenges.
SPEAKER_01: It's going to come with opposition.
SPEAKER_01: All right?
SPEAKER_01: Now, not something that just drags on and drags on and drags on.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's going to be opposition to it.
SPEAKER_01: You know, the Bible's very plain to tell us we have an enemy, we have an adversary.
SPEAKER_01: The Bible says he's your adversary, the devil.
SPEAKER_01: He is defeated.
SPEAKER_01: That's how we approach him, that's how we deal with him, as though he is defeated, and he is defeated.
SPEAKER_01: But the issue is that he tries to be this adversary to resist what God is trying to do in the lives of his people, in the ministries of his people.
SPEAKER_01: So I never can allow the size of the opposition to get my focus off of the opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Whatever it may be.
SPEAKER_01: When we we talked about things that you're going after and you're believing God and God says that's yours, and the first thought will come is, don't you know how much that is?
SPEAKER_01: Don't you know how much that costs?
SPEAKER_01: Immediately, the opposition, the problem, is trying to get bigger than the opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: When Joshua was dealing with Jericho, you know, we talk about how Jericho was so wide that they could race chariots on top, and and I get it.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, the Bible doesn't say that, but I mean history does, and and I understand.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know how it all was, but here's the issue is that God took Joshua and he said this in the book of Joshua.
SPEAKER_01: He said, See, I have given into your hand Jericho and the king thereof and the mighty men of valor, right?
SPEAKER_01: He said, I've given it to you, but there had to be a taking of it.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: They couldn't focus on the opposition.
SPEAKER_01: They had to focus on the opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: When God asks a church to do something, there's gonna be, there's gonna be opposition, right?
SPEAKER_01: The enemy doesn't want a church in a city accomplishing what God has for them to accomplish.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: So he puts pressure, he puts financial pressure, other pressures on that church.
SPEAKER_01: And if that church is more focused on the opposition than the opportunity, they'll miss what God has for them.
SPEAKER_01: And Paul said this: he said, in spite of all the opposition, I'm focused on the great door that's open.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Tell your neighbor, I'm focused on the door.
SPEAKER_01: Tell them, say it's a big door.
SPEAKER_01: It's an effectual door.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Tell them one more time.
SPEAKER_01: If you see somebody don't have a neighbor, make sure and make yourself neighborly.
SPEAKER_01: Say to them, I'm focused on the door and not the opposition.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Do you see that?
SPEAKER_01: Because the opposition is designed to get you to back off, it's designed to get to get you to stop moving forward in whatever the situation may be.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, the Bible says in the book of Ephesians, and I've taught on this, taught on it in Bible school, when I taught the series Dress to Kill.
SPEAKER_01: And the Apostle Paul says this.
SPEAKER_01: He says in the book of Ephesians, he said, We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against spiritual wickedness in high places, against these rulers of the darkness in the heavenlies.
SPEAKER_01: That word against means face to face, eyeball to eyeball.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody's gonna, if you're gonna do anything for God, you're gonna have a face-to-face confrontation with the one that wants to stop you from accomplishing what God has for you.
SPEAKER_01: You can't, you can't you can't worry about that.
SPEAKER_01: There's opposition there.
SPEAKER_01: Focus on the opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: You've heard people say this before.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody else was talking about how big Goliath was, right?
SPEAKER_01: And David was focused on, yeah, so big you can't miss.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: You you I've told you that story.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody else is hiding.
SPEAKER_01: And David comes up.
SPEAKER_01: What's the first question he asks?
SPEAKER_01: What do you get if you kill him?
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that what he said?
SPEAKER_01: Now that's that a large part of our misunderstanding about that story comes in that we think David was this little boy.
SPEAKER_01: Read your Bible.
SPEAKER_01: Don't just read your Bible.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Remember what it says when it says we need to search out a man, not a boy, a man that's cunning in playing, so he can come and play, and so Saul can get some relief.
SPEAKER_01: And the man stepped up and said, I know a guy.
SPEAKER_01: He said, David, the son of Jesse, who is a cunning player and a mighty man of valor.
SPEAKER_01: Mighty man, not a boy, not a little boy, not 12 years old, a man of valor.
SPEAKER_01: And this, he was the youngest, but he wasn't a little boy.
SPEAKER_01: And we have we have great.
SPEAKER_01: I took Lily to see a movie.
SPEAKER_01: That was the most unbiblical thing I've ever seen in my life.
SPEAKER_01: David, a little boy, out there fighting the giant.
SPEAKER_01: That's not how it happened.
SPEAKER_01: He was a young man.
SPEAKER_01: That's irrelevant.
SPEAKER_01: If you want to believe he's a little boy, that's fine.
SPEAKER_01: But I'm saying, a little boy don't walk up to grown men and say, Wait, wait, yeah, if you kill him.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Oh well, boy, you bother me.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: That's this young man, anointed by God, walked up and said, What do you get if you kill him?
SPEAKER_01: He's focused.
SPEAKER_01: What do you want to know?
SPEAKER_01: What's the opportunity?
SPEAKER_01: What's the opportunity here?
SPEAKER_01: Not what's the opposition.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: In order to embrace the opportunity, the opportunity has to have your focus.
SPEAKER_01: The opportunity has to have your focus.
SPEAKER_01: You're thinking about it every day.
SPEAKER_01: You're pushing into it every day.
SPEAKER_01: You're focused on the opportunity every day.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Listen, no matter what happens, no matter what happens in the ministry, no matter what we may be facing.
SPEAKER_01: And if my wife was here, you could ask her to have her stand up and she could testify.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I am just so giddy about going to the office every day because you know how many years I believed God to be in the full-time ministry and to be doing what He wanted me to be doing with my life, and now I get to do it every day.
SPEAKER_01: I'm focused on the opportunity, not the opposition.
SPEAKER_01: I may, I may, I may get reports sometime that the finances are not exactly where I would like them to be concerning a certain thing.
SPEAKER_01: I don't focus on that.
SPEAKER_01: I focus on the opportunity.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Acts 20.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord said to me not too long ago, He said, There is so much happening in the Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, All of it will occur to those that will rise up and possess it.
SPEAKER_01: Rise up and possess it.
SPEAKER_01: Acts 20, verse 22.
SPEAKER_01: And it says, Paul said, Now behold, I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that befall me there.
SPEAKER_01: Save the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city that bonds and afflictions abide me.
SPEAKER_01: But none of these things move me.
SPEAKER_01: Neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
SPEAKER_01: Now, whether you believe Paul was out of the will of God going to Jerusalem or not, many do.
SPEAKER_01: I personally believe that, but here's the point.
SPEAKER_01: Whether that's what you think or not, look at his focus.
SPEAKER_01: Even if I'm pressing in myself, look at his focus.
SPEAKER_01: His focus is on finishing his course joyfully.
SPEAKER_01: Pursuing the opportunity that had been given and making the most of it.
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, there's bonds and imprisonment, but none of those things move me.
SPEAKER_01: There's challenges, but none of them move me.
SPEAKER_01: When the door of opportunity opens, there are those who step in but never embrace it.
SPEAKER_01: When the door of opportunity opens, there are those that step in but they never embrace it.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: You've heard the story over and over again.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord uh told me I was his third choice.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Told me praying right on that platform.
SPEAKER_01: We had a baby grand piano praying under that baby grand piano, and he said, You were my third choice.
SPEAKER_01: He said, The previous two would not do what I asked them to do.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Now will you do it, or do I have to get somebody else?
SPEAKER_01: Nope, sign me up.
SPEAKER_01: I'll do it.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: You got to embrace it.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord told Pastor Calwell that he was his seventh choice for that ministry to do what he had been asked to do.
SPEAKER_01: Seven.
SPEAKER_01: He had asked seven or six other people to do it.
SPEAKER_01: See, the opportunity can open.
SPEAKER_01: You got to embrace it.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, this is what I'm gonna do.
SPEAKER_01: This is what I'm this is how I'm gonna function.
SPEAKER_01: When somebody comes and they say, I believe God's opened this door for me, they're saying a lot more maybe than they think they know.
SPEAKER_01: It's you you gotta step in there and you gotta embrace it.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: And so Paul's saying, I understand what I'm being told, I get what I'm hearing in the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Now, whether he was overriding it or not, my point that I want you to see is he's saying, Here's my focus.
SPEAKER_01: In spite of the opposition, I'm gonna finish my course.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Say it out loud, I'm gonna finish my course.
SPEAKER_01: My course is my course.
SPEAKER_01: God gave it to me.
SPEAKER_01: Someone else may have been asked first and quit or got off doctrinally or just didn't take it seriously, but regardless of how it was given to me, it's now my course.
SPEAKER_01: It's now my course.
SPEAKER_01: I've got to embrace it fully.
SPEAKER_01: I've got to take it to heart.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: This is not a game.
SPEAKER_01: This, this, this is not, this is this has to be something that you say, Lord, this is what you've asked me to do, whatever it is, and I'm gonna do it.
SPEAKER_01: It may not be in the five-fold ministry, it may be in something else, but that is nonetheless a call from God.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Regardless of how it was given, it's now my course.
SPEAKER_01: In 1995, the Lord said to me, The vision for your life and ministry is to build people's faith and frame their world by the word of God.
SPEAKER_01: In 2014, he added to it by saying that we were to raise up a spiritual production center, producing life, city, state, nation, and world.
SPEAKER_01: That's not just the vision for Michelle and I.
SPEAKER_01: That's the vision for this church.
SPEAKER_01: That's the vision for this fellowship, that's the vision for our ministry.
SPEAKER_01: God gives the vision to the pastor and carries it out through the people.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: We, all of us, are a what?
SPEAKER_01: A spiritual production center, producing life, city, state, nation, and world.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Timothy chapter 4.
SPEAKER_01: I got some things I want to deal with further down here that speak a lot to some things that we were talking about in the fellowship time about this generation.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 5.
SPEAKER_01: Notice what Paul said.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of your ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Of course, he's writing to Timothy, who was the young pastor at Ephesus.
SPEAKER_01: You have to prove your ministry.
SPEAKER_01: And people have asked over the years, well, how do you prove your ministry?
SPEAKER_01: By enduring and overcoming trials and afflictions.
SPEAKER_01: That's how I prove my ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Every time you overcome something, you have proven something.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: You know, I told somebody one time they were talking about the devil coming around.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, you know what?
SPEAKER_01: You can't stop him from coming around, but you can make him sorry for showing up.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: If he knows every time he comes around, I'm gonna smack him right in the mouth.
SPEAKER_01: He's gonna think twice about showing up.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: You what do you do?
SPEAKER_01: You endure and overcome trials and afflictions.
SPEAKER_01: Remember, trials and affliction is just pressure.
SPEAKER_01: In whatever form it comes.
SPEAKER_01: But he said, you've got to make full proof of your ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Tell your neighbor, I'm gonna make full proof of my ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: You know, the devil knows the people that offer very little resistance.
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to work very hard on them.
SPEAKER_01: There's some people just a little, a little resistance.
SPEAKER_01: And they, what do we say, fold up like a lawn chair?
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: He he recognizes that.
SPEAKER_01: But when you when you will just endure and just overcome, there's nothing he can do.
unknown: Right?
SPEAKER_01: What do you do with a person that just won't quit?
SPEAKER_01: Not what Destiny said today, don't quit.
SPEAKER_01: Don't quit.
SPEAKER_01: I've told people for years, anybody can quit.
SPEAKER_01: It takes no supernatural strength to quit.
SPEAKER_01: All you gotta do is give up.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: We're not giving up.
SPEAKER_01: Say it out loud.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not giving up.
SPEAKER_01: God has called us.
SPEAKER_01: We know how to overcome the devil.
SPEAKER_01: We'll finish our course.
SPEAKER_01: I say, we'll finish our course.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: In uh Habakkuk chapter two.
SPEAKER_01: I know this is a scripture that very often we go to concerning vision.
SPEAKER_01: But this is so important.
SPEAKER_01: Habakkuk chapter two, verse one, I will stand upon my watch.
SPEAKER_01: Everyone say, My watch.
SPEAKER_01: See, every every generation has a watch.
SPEAKER_01: Every group of people have a watch.
SPEAKER_01: And when I say a watch, I don't mean the timepiece on your arm.
SPEAKER_01: I mean a watch that they're to keep, watching over their generation.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord told Dr.
SPEAKER_01: Orl Roberts, he said, take my healing power to your generation.
SPEAKER_01: And he did.
SPEAKER_01: He took his healing power to that generation.
SPEAKER_01: And when that generation passed away, he passed away.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord told Dr.
SPEAKER_01: Les Summerall, he said, take my, he said, show my strength to your generation.
SPEAKER_01: That's what he did.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: He said, I will stand upon my watch.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody has a watch.
SPEAKER_01: Every generation has a watch.
SPEAKER_01: Notice, and I'll watch to see what he will say to me and what I'll answer when I'm reproved.
SPEAKER_01: And the Lord answered me and said, Write the vision.
SPEAKER_01: Make it plain upon tables, that he may run that reads it.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: The vision is yet for an appointed time.
SPEAKER_01: But at the end it will speak.
SPEAKER_01: I asked Pastor Caldwell one time, I said, How did you know that you were pressing into everything that God wanted you to do?
SPEAKER_01: How did you know that you were doing everything God wanted you to do?
SPEAKER_01: And he said to me three things.
SPEAKER_01: He said, first of all, he said, you know it in your spirit.
SPEAKER_01: You know you're pressing into what God wants you to do, right?
SPEAKER_01: You know it in your spirit.
SPEAKER_01: You got to know it in your spirit.
SPEAKER_01: And then he said, and he said, you got to preach the vision because the vision will speak.
SPEAKER_01: The vision will speak.
SPEAKER_01: Notice he said, for the vision will speak and not lie.
SPEAKER_01: Though it tarry, waits for it, wait for it, because it will surely come.
SPEAKER_01: It will not tarry.
SPEAKER_01: It will not be delayed.
SPEAKER_01: It will come.
SPEAKER_01: It will happen.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: That door of opportunity that God opens, you will walk through it.
SPEAKER_01: You will see it occur.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because it's the vision that God gave you.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: So we have to, all of us, have to finish the course God's given this ministry.
SPEAKER_01: We can't quit.
SPEAKER_01: We can't give up.
SPEAKER_01: We can't back away.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: We have to finish what God has asked us to do.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: I remember one day I was sitting in my Office, and this was back uh before it looked like it looks now.
SPEAKER_01: My desk and whatnot was in there, and and I was looking, I had on the wall at that time.
SPEAKER_01: I had a chalkboard, uh, a chalk wall in my uh blackboard wall in my office, and I had things written on it, and all God had asked us to do.
SPEAKER_01: And I was looking at that one day.
SPEAKER_01: I just leaned back in my chair and I said, God, how can I do all this?
SPEAKER_01: And he said to me, and it just it it it hit me right in my heart.
SPEAKER_01: He said to me, son, you must do this.
SPEAKER_01: You must do it.
SPEAKER_01: You know, whatever God's called you to do, you may think that there are people just lining up to do it.
SPEAKER_01: There's not.
SPEAKER_01: The people are not just lining up to get the job done.
SPEAKER_01: That's why God asks you to do it.
SPEAKER_01: And when you take that mindset, I must do this.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: I must do this.
SPEAKER_01: Whatever it may be, whether it's helping in the church or uh or your ministry in the church, whatever it may be, right?
SPEAKER_01: Don't get so focused on the opposition.
SPEAKER_01: It's there.
SPEAKER_01: You're facing it, you're going through it.
SPEAKER_01: But you got to keep moving.
SPEAKER_01: Because there's something more important here.
SPEAKER_01: It's the vision that God gave you.
SPEAKER_01: There are people that trade in the vision for the for the ease of the opposition.
SPEAKER_01: And whenever you give up the vision, so that the opposition will decrease.
SPEAKER_01: What have you lost?
SPEAKER_01: What have you gained?
SPEAKER_01: Nothing.
SPEAKER_01: The vision for your life is what gives you parameters.
SPEAKER_01: The vision is what speaks.
SPEAKER_01: The vision is what directs your life.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: You know, you're here tonight, not just because you want to have a good service.
SPEAKER_01: You're here tonight because you believe this is where God placed you and where God put your family.
SPEAKER_01: And I look around and I see families here.
SPEAKER_01: I see families with a vision to do what God wants us to do.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Not just right, not just you and your wife.
SPEAKER_01: You talk to your kids about it.
SPEAKER_01: You talk to them about what God wants to do, what God wants to do with their life.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And what do they do?
SPEAKER_01: Then they lay in their bed at night and say, God's got something for me to do.
SPEAKER_01: God's got a plan for my life.
SPEAKER_01: God's got something for me to accomplish.
SPEAKER_01: What are they doing?
SPEAKER_01: They're getting a vision.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: He said, though it may tarry, so there'll be challenges.
SPEAKER_01: There'll be times it seems tough.
SPEAKER_01: What's our job?
SPEAKER_01: Stand our watch.
SPEAKER_01: And fulfill the vision God's given the ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Acts thirteen.
SPEAKER_01: Am I helping you?
SPEAKER_01: Acts thirteen and thirty-six.
SPEAKER_01: This is Paul and Barnabas ministering in Antioch.
SPEAKER_01: And he's ministering concerning Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: But he says, for David, after he had served his own generation, by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.
SPEAKER_01: But notice what it says.
SPEAKER_01: He had served his own generation.
SPEAKER_01: I made a statement in ministering on the core values of the believer.
SPEAKER_01: And about, I talked about the three aspects of faith.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: That I'm seeing, I'm embracing, and I'm persuaded.
SPEAKER_01: Three aspects of faith.
SPEAKER_01: And one of the things that I said when I was ministering along that line is at the end of the book of Hebrews, chapter 11, you read these words, it says, These all died in faith, not having received the promises.
SPEAKER_01: But they saw them afar off and they embraced them.
SPEAKER_01: And what does it say?
SPEAKER_01: It says, because God had something better for us.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: We're not the promised generation.
SPEAKER_01: We're the receiving generation.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Some generation had to live in the last days.
SPEAKER_01: And it just so happened to be your generation.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Ever how old you are, ever how young you are, God allowed you to see this generation.
SPEAKER_01: Because his desire is that you touch this generation in whatever capacity that it may be.
SPEAKER_01: So we'll serve our generation.
SPEAKER_01: We'll build faith and frame worlds, raising up that spiritual production center, producing life, city, state, nation, and world.
SPEAKER_01: Notice God has given us a particular course to follow.
SPEAKER_01: And that's all we're responsible for.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not responsible for anything else.
SPEAKER_01: Except the particular course that God has asked me to follow.
SPEAKER_01: That's all you're responsible for.
SPEAKER_01: Did God tell you to do that?
SPEAKER_01: Did God tell you to that that was your vision?
SPEAKER_01: Then that's all you're responsible for.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not responsible for anything else.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: But the Lord has been dealing with me, talking to me about the generation that we're in.
SPEAKER_01: And I've uh I haven't ministered on this a lot publicly because it's some things the Lord said to me.
SPEAKER_01: But uh he began to talk to me about generational ministry.
SPEAKER_01: You know, one of the things that's that's one of the reasons we're having the clothing in the next generation conference in October.
SPEAKER_01: And uh some of the things that the Lord said.
SPEAKER_01: Generational ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Psalm 78.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna pray in just a moment, a little bit.
SPEAKER_01: Psalm 78.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna read verse 4, and then we'll read verse 6.
SPEAKER_01: It's talking about the things of God, and it said, we will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he has done.
SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna show the generation to come the strength of the Lord and his wonderful works.
SPEAKER_01: Then verse 6 says, so that the generation to come might know them what?
SPEAKER_01: The works of God, even the children, notice, that are not born yet, who should arise and declare them to their children.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: One generation, say it out loud, one generation will tell the other.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: We're the generation right now that's telling the next generation.
SPEAKER_01: This is what God can do.
SPEAKER_01: This is how God can do it, this is why you can depend on God.
SPEAKER_01: Look at where God brought us from.
SPEAKER_01: Look at what God did in our life.
SPEAKER_01: You know, I was dealing with that and God brought me out.
SPEAKER_01: And this is how God brought me out.
SPEAKER_01: How is the next generation to learn how to believe God if the current generation is not sharing it with them?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Say it out loud.
SPEAKER_01: I will tell the next generation.
SPEAKER_01: Psalm 71.
SPEAKER_01: And verse 18.
SPEAKER_01: This is something I pray all the time.
SPEAKER_01: Now, also, when I'm old and gray-headed, God forsake me not until I have showed your strength to this generation and your power to everyone that is to come.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Can we look at that in the Amplified Bible?
SPEAKER_01: This is so powerful.
SPEAKER_01: I want you to see this.
SPEAKER_01: Because it's important to God.
SPEAKER_01: It's important to God.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, even when I'm old and gray-headed, God forsake me not, but keep me alive until I have declared your mighty strength to this generation and your might and power to all that are to come.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Said out loud, Lord, keep me alive so I can show your strength to this generation and your might and power to those that are coming.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Generational ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Show your power to this generation.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Now when I start talking about this, you know, sometimes people kind of look at me funny.
SPEAKER_01: But here's the reality of it.
SPEAKER_01: When you finally understand that you've got more time behind you than you do ahead of you, it changes your perspective.
unknown: Right?
SPEAKER_01: We were talking about challenges that we face and and things that God delivered us out of and how it changes your perspective about everything.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: When God heals your body, when they said there's no hope and there's nothing that anybody can do, and God heals you, that changes the way you look at life all over.
SPEAKER_01: Little things don't matter anymore.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because look what God did.
SPEAKER_01: I say, look what God did.
SPEAKER_01: You know, sometimes we think those things that God did for us, well, you know how important is that?
SPEAKER_01: It's very important to the generation that's coming that has not faced what you face and not overcome what you overcome.
SPEAKER_01: They need to be able to look at somebody and say, if they made it, I can make it.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: That's why I'm telling you, whatever you're dealing with, it's got a it, listen, it's got an expiration date.
SPEAKER_01: It's got an end to it.
SPEAKER_01: It's not gonna go on forever.
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, after all these years, I've been doing what God called me to do.
SPEAKER_01: Weeping may endure for the night, but joy is coming in the morning.
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: And we've got to look at the generation that is coming as a tapestry, as a as a a as a blank slate that we can write the goodness of God on their heart and minister to them and show them the things of God.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Say it out loud.
SPEAKER_01: I'll show your strength to this generation.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: What God did for me, I'm gonna tell people what God did for me.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna tell the generation what God did for me.
SPEAKER_01: We got to make this, get this clear in our understanding.
SPEAKER_01: When we we we over the years we've talked about revival and we've talked about all these things.
SPEAKER_01: I believe there's a move of God on, but here's what I'm seeing.
SPEAKER_01: This generation is hungrier for the things of God than any generation previous.
SPEAKER_01: And I know we can look at us and say, oh, we were hungry for the things of God.
SPEAKER_01: There are a higher percentage of young people, teenagers, high school children that are praying in the Holy Ghost now, every day, than there's ever been in the history of the world.
SPEAKER_01: In the history of keeping statistics.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Why is that happening?
SPEAKER_01: Because somebody's telling them.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Young men right now are wanting to go back to church in larger volume than they ever have.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And when they come to church, what do they need to be met with?
SPEAKER_01: This is what God will do for you.
SPEAKER_01: This is how God will do it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm helping you today.
SPEAKER_01: Generational ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Psalm 12.
SPEAKER_01: I say, God's good.
SPEAKER_01: Psalm 12, verse 7.
SPEAKER_01: This is something I say over my family, over my children all the time.
SPEAKER_01: You, Lord, will preserve them from this generation forever.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So the the contaminating aspects of the generation, we're kept from it.
SPEAKER_01: How is that gonna happen?
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna tell this generation.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna tell them.
SPEAKER_01: Psalm 102 and verse 18.
SPEAKER_01: This shall be written for the generation to come, and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: This will be written for the generation to come.
SPEAKER_01: And even those that are not born, they'll hear it and they will praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: The coming generation must be taught.
SPEAKER_01: Must be taught.
SPEAKER_01: That's why this fellowship, this ministry has to adopt, understand, has to adopt a future ministry mentality.
SPEAKER_01: Not just your ministry in the future.
SPEAKER_01: But teaching the coming generation.
SPEAKER_01: How to what?
SPEAKER_01: How to pray.
SPEAKER_01: How to study.
SPEAKER_01: How to minister.
SPEAKER_01: How to flow with the Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: He said to me, He said, use the tools at your disposal to reach this generation.
SPEAKER_01: Go where they are at.
SPEAKER_01: Social media in all of its form.
SPEAKER_01: The staff gets so tired of hearing me say this.
SPEAKER_01: I ask them all the time, are we on TikTok yet?
SPEAKER_01: We on Instagram yet?
SPEAKER_01: Are we moving into these things yet?
SPEAKER_01: I made a phone call to my wife when I was on my way up here.
SPEAKER_01: I said, look, we got to move into this.
SPEAKER_01: This is what God told us to do.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: You know, that doesn't mean I'm going to quit wearing a tie.
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't mean I'm going to change everything that I'm doing.
SPEAKER_01: But you have to understand something.
SPEAKER_01: To reach that generation, you've got to go where that generation is.
SPEAKER_01: Find out how to best apply yourself there.
SPEAKER_01: Appeal to those who are drawn to you.
SPEAKER_01: Young and middle-aged men, he said, don't get caught in the trap of trying to please any either generation.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord said to me, There's a generation that's passing, and there's a generation that's coming.
SPEAKER_01: And you can't get caught up in the trap of trying to please either generation.
SPEAKER_01: You got an older generation that wants things this way.
SPEAKER_01: You've got a younger generation that's looking for something different.
SPEAKER_01: You got the older generation badmouthing the music, bad mouthing the methods, badmouthing all this stuff, and you got another generation over here thinking, boy, they just don't get it, do they?
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: That doesn't mean you got to put up smoke and lights.
SPEAKER_01: But it does mean you can't you can't keep badmouthing a generation and expect them to walk through your door.
SPEAKER_01: Boy, quiet in Zion.
SPEAKER_01: The one passing or the one coming.
SPEAKER_01: It's what Ecclesiastes 1:4 that says, there's a generation that passeth away and another generation that comes.
SPEAKER_01: You got to minister to both.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: The old need the young because of their strength and their innovation.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Think about this for a moment.
SPEAKER_01: When you consider that on a platform like YouTube, the information is consumed mostly by shorts.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: There are people in here, my age and older or maybe a little younger, and we watch shorts and then we criticize the generation for watching shorts.
SPEAKER_01: You know, you really shouldn't criticize those that you're not doing any better than.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Now, now understand, I have no social media.
SPEAKER_01: In my personal life, I have none.
SPEAKER_01: The the I have YouTube, that's all I have.
SPEAKER_01: That's because I don't have cable, I don't have those things.
SPEAKER_01: That's what I watch.
SPEAKER_01: Now that's not telling you that's what you need to do.
SPEAKER_01: But here's my point.
SPEAKER_01: Here's what I want you to understand.
SPEAKER_01: Don't get caught in the trap of thinking it don't matter.
SPEAKER_01: The young, the old need the young because of their strength.
SPEAKER_01: The young need the old because of their stability and experience.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: There are things that people in here in your years of serving God that you have went through that people in this generation have never dealt with.
SPEAKER_01: And you know how to tell them how to get through it.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Don't you love it when you call your pastor and you say, This is what I'm dealing with?
SPEAKER_01: And he says, Well, let me tell you how to get through that.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: I've been there.
SPEAKER_01: I say, I've been there.
SPEAKER_01: I've had the doctor look at my family and say, Look, this is bad.
SPEAKER_01: This is tragic, right?
SPEAKER_01: I've had the doctor look at me and say, We can't help you.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: I've had that trauma in my life, but here I am.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because God could help me.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: The Lord is my helper.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And so so every time, every time we go through something, it's a testimony to the generation that's coming.
SPEAKER_01: This is how you can do it.
SPEAKER_01: What we've dealt with, what the wilder bunch has dealt with, right?
SPEAKER_01: And God has brought them out and so graciously manifested his goodness in their life.
SPEAKER_01: Every person that encounters that family, it'll be a testimony to this is what God can do.
SPEAKER_01: This is how God can do it.
SPEAKER_01: It can be something that's totally out of your control.
SPEAKER_01: The doctor can shake his head and say there's just absolutely no way.
SPEAKER_01: But look, they said I'd never do this and they said I'd never do that.
SPEAKER_01: But look at me.
SPEAKER_01: I'm doing everything that they said I could never do.
SPEAKER_01: And he'll do the same thing for you.
SPEAKER_01: And so you just think about that.
SPEAKER_01: A generation at its at its minimum is 40 years.
SPEAKER_01: 40 years.
SPEAKER_01: And the Bible, of course, it says that the covenant we have with God is for a thousand generations.
SPEAKER_01: 40,000 years per person.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: So ever how old, I look around here, ever how old some of these young folks are, and and we're all young folks, but you understand what I mean.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling, I've been ministering to my generation for 30 full-time years.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: I've been ministering to my generation.
SPEAKER_01: Then I've started ministering to your generation.
SPEAKER_01: There are kids in this church that were babies when they came to this church.
SPEAKER_01: And we're ministering to them now.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Every time I look at Sarah, I got a picture of her and Angela, and I think it was your sister, all playing on the same soccer team.
SPEAKER_01: And they had on soccer shirts, looked like dresses.
SPEAKER_01: That's how little they were.
SPEAKER_01: Cindy, you remember they were just little.
SPEAKER_01: And now I look back here, and now here she's married to a pretty good guy, and right, and and and got a lot of great kids.
SPEAKER_01: Married to one of my favorite people, actually.
SPEAKER_01: But the only thing that would have made that better is if Jamie would have been here, because he'd have he'd have popped him in the back of the head.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, right, here's my point.
SPEAKER_01: So now I've been telling that generation, mom and dad.
SPEAKER_01: Now that their generation that they're raising, now we've been telling them.
SPEAKER_01: So now we're affecting two generations.
SPEAKER_01: They're gonna rise up and tell the generation that's coming.
SPEAKER_01: And what are they gonna tell them?
SPEAKER_01: They're gonna tell them the same thing we told them.
SPEAKER_01: This is what God will do.
SPEAKER_01: God can be dependent upon to do exactly what he said.
SPEAKER_01: Everything he promised in his word, that's what he'll do.
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter what you're going through.
SPEAKER_01: A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come nigh you.
SPEAKER_01: You may be in the car accident, but you're gonna walk away from it.
SPEAKER_01: You may be in the tragedy, but God's gonna preserve you and you're gonna be made whole.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Generational ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Generational ministry.
SPEAKER_01: He said, repackage the ministry so it appeals to all.
SPEAKER_01: Refrain from calling things old school.
SPEAKER_01: Repackage old school and take it to this generation.
SPEAKER_01: Don't make them conform to what was.
SPEAKER_01: Take what was and conform it in such a way that it appeals to this generation.
SPEAKER_01: Don't be afraid to go a different direction.
SPEAKER_01: Not compromise, but a different direction.
SPEAKER_01: Another route.
SPEAKER_01: For what?
SPEAKER_01: In order to reach the current harvest.
SPEAKER_01: Will you change if it means souls saved and lives changed?
SPEAKER_01: Will you change if it means that the truth that transformed your life transforms the lives of your grandchildren and great-grandchildren?
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Do you see that?
SPEAKER_01: This generation.
SPEAKER_01: Say it out loud.
SPEAKER_01: I'll minister to this generation.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Because what has been decreed will come to pass.
SPEAKER_01: As it is acted upon.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: This generation.
SPEAKER_01: Brother Dave was mentioning in the back.
SPEAKER_01: You know, I make much of my heritage.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord told me years ago, He said, He said, you stay with your fathers in the faith and you'll stay safe.
SPEAKER_01: And so what they say means so much to me.
SPEAKER_01: And much of that I I lived in.
SPEAKER_01: I lived those tent revival days.
SPEAKER_01: I remember, I rem and understand, you know, sometimes that's that's viewed with like nostalgia.
SPEAKER_01: And oh, wasn't that wonderful?
SPEAKER_01: Well, I don't know if you've ever sat in the tent for two hours, it wasn't that great.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: But but the point was why they had to be in the tent because none of the churches wanted them.
SPEAKER_01: So they had to put up a tent.
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, we saw those miracles.
SPEAKER_01: We saw things.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: I had a cavity in one of my teeth and uh went to RW Shambach's meeting in uh Fort Myers, Florida when we lived there.
SPEAKER_01: And uh he had an anointing with oil service.
SPEAKER_01: And he he took oil and put it in my mouth and prayed for me.
SPEAKER_01: And and instantly I knew something was different.
SPEAKER_01: Um this was in like 1977, 1978, and I went out in the car and turned the inside light on, looked in the mirror, and there's a brand new tooth in my head.
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't because we were in a tent, it's because we had an anointed man of God, not the tent.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: We can get so wrapped up in, well, let me let me tell you what we used to do in church.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I understand, and and and I get it.
SPEAKER_01: But you know, an upright piano is not what made the anointing.
SPEAKER_01: It's not that you're singing songs that are 40 years old that makes the anointing.
SPEAKER_01: Now don't misunderstand me.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not talking about moving away from what we believe.
SPEAKER_01: You you hear what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01: How do we repackage that?
SPEAKER_01: Now that's not just full stop and change all these kinds of things.
SPEAKER_01: It's it starts here.
SPEAKER_01: It starts with my thinking.
SPEAKER_01: It starts with my thinking, it starts with my thinking.
SPEAKER_01: He said, Can you redirect this if it means change lives?
SPEAKER_01: Can you redirect this if it means people being saved?
SPEAKER_01: Can you, right?
SPEAKER_01: Can we?
SPEAKER_01: We can.
SPEAKER_01: This is important.
SPEAKER_01: And so what I'm saying is, I tell a lot of those stories, miracles, things that I've seen.
SPEAKER_01: I saw those.
SPEAKER_01: That impacted my life.
SPEAKER_01: Early on in my life, you could not convince me that serving God was not the right thing to do because I had seen too much.
SPEAKER_01: I saw too much.
SPEAKER_01: You couldn't convince me.
SPEAKER_01: When I decided to give my life to Jesus, I didn't give my life to Jesus because my parents were preachers.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't give my life to Jesus because somebody coerced me.
SPEAKER_01: I gave my life to Jesus because I was sitting on the front row of A.J.
SPEAKER_01: Lewis's church in Houston, Texas, and he was preaching on the fact that you needed to make Jesus your Lord and Savior.
SPEAKER_01: And at eight years old, I was convicted in my spirit that I needed to be born again.
SPEAKER_01: And I looked at my mother and I said, I need to know Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: I need to be born again.
SPEAKER_01: I wasn't doing it because anybody else wanted me to do it.
SPEAKER_01: I was doing it because it impacted my spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: You could not convince me that serving God was not right.
SPEAKER_01: Even in the days that I wanted to do my own thing for a year and a half, two years.
SPEAKER_01: You could not convince me even during that time that serving God was not the right thing to do.
SPEAKER_01: I'd seen too much.
SPEAKER_01: I had tasted and seen that the Lord was good.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: You want to keep people from the evils of this generation?
SPEAKER_01: Show them how good God is.
SPEAKER_01: Show them the power of God.
SPEAKER_01: Manifest the presence of God in their lives.
SPEAKER_01: That changes everything.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And so those testimonies are wonderful and and they're tremendous, and we need to tell them all the time about the goodness of God.
SPEAKER_01: But think about this.
SPEAKER_01: Now we got a generation that's got something to say to their peers.
SPEAKER_01: This is what God did for me.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is what God did for them, and this is what God did for brother so-and-so.
SPEAKER_01: But look at what God did for me.
SPEAKER_01: Look how God brought me out.
SPEAKER_01: Look how God healed me.
SPEAKER_01: Look how God preserved me.
SPEAKER_01: Look how God turned this around for me.
SPEAKER_01: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_01: Am I helping you?
SPEAKER_01: This generation.
SPEAKER_01: You know, the generation that I learned from, they're going to heaven.
SPEAKER_01: And they're going to heaven quickly.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: I'm always stunned when I think about uh uh flying with Brother Jerry to Branson to be in uh the the believers meeting that was there.
SPEAKER_01: And uh enjoying my time, wonderful friend of mine, mentor to me.
SPEAKER_01: And and and then flying back home, flying back to Little Rock, we flew back to Little Rock, and and uh I got back into my you know my daily life and everything that I'm doing.
SPEAKER_01: And I still remember the Monday that my phone rang, and it was my pastor.
SPEAKER_01: And and he said, Philip, he said, I need to call you and ask you something.
SPEAKER_01: I said, What's that?
SPEAKER_01: He said, Have you heard about Jerry?
SPEAKER_01: I said, No, I haven't.
SPEAKER_01: What happened?
SPEAKER_01: And he said, Well, he passed away this morning.
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
SPEAKER_01: Man, the the man that taught me to expect the favor of God.
SPEAKER_01: The man, when I read his book in the footsteps of a prophet, my life changed.
SPEAKER_01: I was forever changed.
SPEAKER_01: Forever changed.
SPEAKER_01: I would take that book out in my prayer place and I'd be fasting and praying and seeking God, and I have my Bible in that book.
SPEAKER_01: And I'd go over his outlines and I'd preach his outlines.
SPEAKER_01: He gave outlines in that book, the the the word of faith, the greatest faith, right?
SPEAKER_01: Real Bible faith, all these different things.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm standing there in my house, and there's just this stunned disbelief, he's not here.
SPEAKER_01: I'll never hear him preach on favor again.
SPEAKER_01: Not physically, not in person, right?
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Other other people going to heaven.
SPEAKER_01: James Robinson going to heaven.
SPEAKER_01: A better evangelist, a more fiery evangelist, the world has never known than James Robinson.
SPEAKER_01: There are so many ministers that got saved in his ministry.
SPEAKER_01: He's in heaven.
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna turn around twice, and the people that have impacted your life so much are gonna be in heaven.
SPEAKER_01: They're gonna be that great cloud of witnesses.
SPEAKER_01: It's what we do now.
SPEAKER_01: What do we do with what they taught us?
SPEAKER_01: Do we just bottle it up and hold on to it and use it ourselves, or do we share it to this generation?
SPEAKER_01: Every one of us, here's our goal.
SPEAKER_01: When they put us in the ground, when they say those words over us, dearly beloved, they should say, Here lies an empty man.
SPEAKER_01: They gave everything they had to this generation.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: I still have people say, When are you gonna slow down, Pastor?
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01: How can we slow down?
SPEAKER_01: How can we back off?
SPEAKER_01: How are we not pushing for more ways to do what God wants us to do?
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying, I'm saying I say that to them.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying that to you.
SPEAKER_01: You're pushing, you're pressing.
SPEAKER_01: How how can we not do that?
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: We can't we can't slow down.
SPEAKER_01: We can't slow down.
SPEAKER_01: And people say, well, doesn't that get old, you know, doing what you do and all these.
SPEAKER_01: How can it get old when it's the vision?
SPEAKER_01: How can it get old when that's what God asked me to do?
SPEAKER_01: It's it's something, you know, may you may not think this is a miracle.
SPEAKER_01: I was talking to Hannah today, and she said, and she can she can you can correct me on the dates, I don't remember when it is, but sometime soon.
SPEAKER_01: She said, our first Bible group starts meeting at our school.
SPEAKER_01: When is it, Hannah?
unknown: Next Friday.
SPEAKER_01: This Friday?
SPEAKER_01: Coming up?
SPEAKER_01: Your first Bible group in your school.
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody made her do that.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody forced her, her parents didn't say no.
SPEAKER_01: You go to school and you start a Bible group.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Nobody did that.
SPEAKER_01: It was in her heart.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not I'm not bragging on her per se.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying, where where did that come from?
SPEAKER_01: Where did she understand I can do that?
SPEAKER_01: There's a vision on the inside.
SPEAKER_01: I want to change people's lives.
SPEAKER_01: It's a thing of God.
SPEAKER_01: Are you following me?
SPEAKER_01: How can we slow down?
SPEAKER_01: How can we back off?
SPEAKER_01: When we see the generation that's coming.
SPEAKER_01: There's all these influencers that are getting born again, that are getting saved.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Anybody in here you ever hear of Ryan Trahan?
SPEAKER_01: Anybody?
SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all know him, right?
SPEAKER_01: Y'all know him?
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Only has like, I think, six million followers on YouTube.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Came from a broken home.
SPEAKER_01: Called himself pretty much an atheist, right?
SPEAKER_01: But he married a young woman that was born again.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, I was searching, I was searching.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't know what to do with my life.
SPEAKER_01: And here's how he put it.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, But one day I landed on Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, I saw where he said he came and he died for me.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, That changed everything.
SPEAKER_01: Anybody that would die for me has to be worthy of following.
SPEAKER_01: And he gave his life to Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Now, why is that important?
SPEAKER_01: Because that is one of the main influences in the generation that we're living with and living in, and they're saying Jesus is the answer.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Now, see, if you're not careful, your mind goes tilt.
SPEAKER_01: Well, what do I need to do?
SPEAKER_01: Where do I need to keep?
SPEAKER_01: Listen, you just need to keep doing what you're doing.
SPEAKER_01: Don't try to overload yourself.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I need to do more and I need to do more.
SPEAKER_01: You just need to keep doing what you're doing.
SPEAKER_01: But you need to understand the emphasis.
SPEAKER_01: You need to understand the focus of this is the generation that we're in.
SPEAKER_01: You know, here's the reality of it.
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna turn around in 30 years, and I'm not gonna be here.
SPEAKER_01: Not gonna be here.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be in heaven.
SPEAKER_01: I will have run my race, I will have finished my course.
SPEAKER_01: That's what it's all about.
SPEAKER_01: That's why we got to deposit everything we can right now.
SPEAKER_01: I'll share this with you.
SPEAKER_01: Is this okay?
SPEAKER_01: I remember, now this is supernatural, and if you don't believe in the supernatural, I'm giving you a warning right now.
SPEAKER_01: You can.
SPEAKER_01: I when we lived in Gardner, we lived in Gardner, and that's where we bought our first home.
SPEAKER_01: And boy, we thought it was a palace.
SPEAKER_01: It was it was a mobile home.
SPEAKER_01: And the people that sold it to us, boy, they hadn't took good care of it and upgraded it.
SPEAKER_01: It was a wonderful place.
SPEAKER_01: We we eventually gave that home away.
SPEAKER_01: And uh, but they had a shed, we had a shed out beside it, and the men in the church came and insulated that for me and and put an air conditioner in, and and my wife got me a uh, now this is how long ago it was, a little TV and a VCR.
SPEAKER_01: Actually, it was really cool, it was really up to date.
SPEAKER_01: It was a little TV with a VCR in it.
SPEAKER_01: I was top of the line.
SPEAKER_01: And uh so I I would watch different things, things from the Brownsville Revival and different things on pastoring.
SPEAKER_01: And we used to have Friday night service then, and Friday night service was what then we called our revival service.
SPEAKER_01: And here's why.
SPEAKER_01: When we took the church over, it was very religious.
SPEAKER_01: And so they didn't, they didn't like a lot of the moving of the spirit and and a lot of the manifestations of the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: So I started a Friday night service, and none of those religious folks came.
SPEAKER_01: It was, and I'll tell you the truth, it was people that were 18, 19, 20, 25 years old.
SPEAKER_01: This place would be full of young adults.
SPEAKER_01: And uh, Buzz, you remember you were here and you weren't even a young adult.
SPEAKER_01: But you were an adult, so we let you come.
SPEAKER_01: I still wonder if you're an adult.
SPEAKER_01: I just I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: But anyway, I was out preparing.
SPEAKER_01: And and you gotta understand then, even now, but especially then, but even now, but especially then, I if I had the minister, that's all I did all day, was I just would fast and pray and seek the Lord and and and go over what he wanted me to do.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm sitting in that shed, and all of a sudden, the only way I noticed, I had my chair, it was towards the door, and the only way I noticed is a presence came in that room, in that shed.
SPEAKER_01: And it was so heavy I could not keep my head up.
SPEAKER_01: And I I fell out over the desk.
SPEAKER_01: And I couldn't move, I could not move.
SPEAKER_01: People say, What'd you see?
SPEAKER_01: I didn't see anything, I I couldn't move, I was out.
SPEAKER_01: But I began to feel something and hear something, and I I can't explain it.
SPEAKER_01: If if you've ever had water on your hands and you kind of flicking the water, and you know, you see how it is on the mirror on a paper, and you can hear the water hitting the paper.
SPEAKER_01: I was I was laying there and I felt this substance coming on.
SPEAKER_01: I heard it and I felt this substance coming on my face.
SPEAKER_01: When I felt that substance, I was out.
SPEAKER_01: I woke up, I don't know how long later, I woke up.
SPEAKER_01: Now you do whatever you want to do with this.
SPEAKER_01: I I I had the proof, and it's it's just, I don't.
SPEAKER_01: But when I woke up, there was oil on my face and all over my Bible.
SPEAKER_01: And it smelled like the sweetest rose you would ever smell in your life.
SPEAKER_01: Just phenomenal.
SPEAKER_01: I had that Bible with that oil on it for years, and the Lord told me to give it to a young man that was that was wanting to do some things for God, and I gave it to him.
SPEAKER_01: But here's here's the point.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord said to me one day, I was meditating on that, and he said, He said, that was the anointing for your first phase of ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Man, the power of God would move in this place, and it still does.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just telling you what happened.
SPEAKER_01: Well, you fast forward, this is then probably five years later, Dr.
SPEAKER_01: Ed Dufran is here, and I've been focusing on some things.
SPEAKER_01: My focus has been on something that Brother Hagin said.
SPEAKER_01: And Brother Hagin said, most ministers live and die and never get out of the first phase of their ministry.
SPEAKER_01: And I was always focused on that.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Lord, I've entered into the first phase of my ministry.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be one of those that never gets out of it.
SPEAKER_01: Well, he never said anything to me.
SPEAKER_01: Ed Dufresne came to the church, and he's ministering on a Sunday.
SPEAKER_01: He ministered that Sunday morning, and uh, we took him to the room.
SPEAKER_01: I went and picked him up, we picked him up, and we're back here in the office, fellowshipping before church.
SPEAKER_01: I say fellowshipping, not so much talk, just enjoying each other's company.
SPEAKER_01: And we were sitting there, you know, Dr.
SPEAKER_01: Dufresne was a prophet, and we're just sitting there and sort of nonchalantly, he just looks at me and he says, Oh, and by the way, the Lord tells me you've entered your second phase of ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Well, that was Sunday, and then he left, and we went that whole week Sunday morning.
SPEAKER_01: I was sitting right there in that front row, right there, not that chair, but in the same spot, right?
SPEAKER_01: And the Holy Spirit just came in here.
SPEAKER_01: Now, at that time, the only person here now that was there then was Brother Buzz.
SPEAKER_01: And he can tell you the power of God.
SPEAKER_01: There were times you couldn't see the lights.
SPEAKER_01: The power of God would flow, the glory of God would manifest itself.
SPEAKER_01: That was one of those Sunday mornings.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you looked around, you saw people laid out.
SPEAKER_01: If there were people in here that didn't understand that, you had to explain it to them.
SPEAKER_01: But they were laid out.
SPEAKER_01: I was sitting on the front row, I couldn't move.
SPEAKER_01: The power of God was so mighty.
SPEAKER_01: And I looked up and standing about right here.
SPEAKER_01: I never looked up.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't, I don't, I don't know who it was.
SPEAKER_01: I know it was a supernatural being.
SPEAKER_01: And he stood here, and there were two buckets, and in that bucket was glistening oil, and all I saw was feet and buckets.
SPEAKER_01: And the Lord said, I brought you the anointing you need for the second phase of your ministry.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Now I'm telling you all this for a reason.
SPEAKER_01: So that first phase anointing in my study, beside my trailer, second phase in service on Sunday morning.
SPEAKER_01: He said to me, the third phase anointing is coming.
SPEAKER_01: Be prepared.
SPEAKER_01: It will be the last and most powerful yet.
SPEAKER_01: Third phase is coming.
SPEAKER_01: That's it.
SPEAKER_01: There's no more phases for me.
SPEAKER_01: It's coming.
SPEAKER_01: Don't feel bad.
SPEAKER_01: Because it's a long time from now.
SPEAKER_01: Not getting it before, right, we go home.
SPEAKER_01: But we're all going.
SPEAKER_01: All of us.
SPEAKER_01: If Jesus doesn't return, the rapture of the church doesn't occur, we're all leaving.
SPEAKER_01: We're all gonna, one of these days, everybody's gonna say, What'd they leave me?
SPEAKER_01: But here's what I want you to grasp.
SPEAKER_01: This is why this is so important to me.
SPEAKER_01: It will be the last and the most powerful yet.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Do you see this?
SPEAKER_01: This generation has to have that.
SPEAKER_01: Before we go home now, I'm gonna lay hands on everybody that wants hands laid on them.
SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna impart into you those things.
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, by the by the the verity of the scripture, I'm gonna impart into you some spiritual gift that you, the end that you may be established.
SPEAKER_01: That's that's what my focus has to be now.
SPEAKER_01: That's the office that I'm in, that's the room that I'm in.
SPEAKER_01: Is what is he said, propelling, producing, promoting the work and the vision.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody say it is the most powerful yet.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: It's the most powerful yet.
SPEAKER_01: So God's good to us to show us this was the first phase, this was the second phase, the third phase is coming, and it'll be the most powerful yet.
SPEAKER_01: And he said, It'll be the last one, it'll be the final one.
SPEAKER_01: I love that about the Lord because it encourages you.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, this will be the final one.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get this done.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna stand before him, he's gonna say, Well done! Well done, not half done.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna stand before him, he's gonna say, Well done, not just well.
SPEAKER_01: Say it out loud.
SPEAKER_01: When I stand before God, He's gonna say well done.
SPEAKER_01: I say, He's gonna say well done.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but you don't you don't know what I'm going through and what I'm facing.
SPEAKER_01: He's gonna say well done.
SPEAKER_01: My wife just gave her testimony recently, and she made a statement, and it so blessed me, it so helped me.
SPEAKER_01: I've heard her say it over and over again.
SPEAKER_01: She said, God says this.
SPEAKER_01: He says, despite everything you've been through, despite all your failures, despite all your mistakes, despite everything that you did, I still want you.
SPEAKER_01: That's his goodness and his mercy.
SPEAKER_01: No matter what I go, it may be my fault, your fault, nobody's fault.
SPEAKER_01: God says, I still want you.
SPEAKER_01: I still want you.
SPEAKER_01: What disqualifies you from what God asked you to do?
SPEAKER_01: The only thing that disqualifies you is your quitting.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: I'm helping somebody.
SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, when when God when God when God brought me, you know, I've told you the story of walking.
SPEAKER_01: Who's hot?
SPEAKER_01: And walking through that, uh, it's not hot because the temperature is that anointed.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: Uh walking through that little apartment that I lived in in Lanexa.
SPEAKER_01: Every time I go by Lanexa, I drive down 95th Street and I go by that apartment because it was in that, I had a little one-bedroom apartment.
SPEAKER_01: And I I had I had gotten things right with the Lord, and I was I was walking in that apartment early in the morning, probably five o'clock in the morning, four o'clock, with my Bible, and I had Romans chapter eight.
SPEAKER_01: And it said, you know what verse one says, right?
SPEAKER_01: There is therefore now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Boy, I read that, and I stopped, and I held my Bible, and I raised my hand to the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I said, Father, I don't know if you want me.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you can still use me.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: But if you can, I'm yours.
SPEAKER_01: From this moment forward, my life is yours.
SPEAKER_01: Whatever you want me to do, however you want me to do it, I'll do it.
SPEAKER_01: I'll not complain, I'll not gripe, whatever you want, I'm yours.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: My life changed.
SPEAKER_01: I say, my life changed.
SPEAKER_01: And I and I and he didn't ask me, he didn't say, How could you do this and how could you make these mistakes?
SPEAKER_01: He just said, Of course I can use you.
SPEAKER_01: Of course I want you.
SPEAKER_01: Of course I can use your life.
SPEAKER_01: You know, there were people that thought I was damaged goods.
SPEAKER_01: There were people that thought God was done with me.
SPEAKER_01: After all, he's been through a divorce.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, dear God, you know, you can murder your wife and still be used by God, but you can't have a divorce and be used by God.
SPEAKER_01: Makes no sense.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: I started on a journey that day.
SPEAKER_01: All I want is what God wants from me.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: So can God use you?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Will God use you?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: And he says, look, I see everything you did.
SPEAKER_01: I see all your failures.
SPEAKER_01: I see all your mistakes.
SPEAKER_01: And I still want you.
SPEAKER_01: Aren't you glad?
SPEAKER_01: You know, there are people in this room that you have gone through things in your past that should have destroyed you.
SPEAKER_01: Tanya, you should not be sitting in that chair tonight.
SPEAKER_01: Those things that happened to you when you were a little girl and a kid, they should have destroyed your mind.
SPEAKER_01: They should have destroyed your thoughts about yourself.
SPEAKER_01: You should have died a long time ago.
SPEAKER_01: But here you are.
SPEAKER_01: Here you are.
SPEAKER_01: Right?
SPEAKER_01: Julie, those things happened in your life.
SPEAKER_01: People wrote you off.
SPEAKER_01: But here you are, writing books to the glory of Jesus.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah! I say, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Heather, you should have died in that pickup accident.
SPEAKER_01: You shouldn't be here tonight.
SPEAKER_01: The doctors, when they shook their head, they were right about what they were saying.
SPEAKER_01: They had no hope.
SPEAKER_01: But here you are.
SPEAKER_01: Amen.
SPEAKER_01: And you know what else they told her?
SPEAKER_01: You can't have children.
SPEAKER_01: Bruh.
SPEAKER_01: Right.
SPEAKER_01: Well, watch that sound.
SPEAKER_01: They missed that one.
SPEAKER_01: Somebody tells you you can't do it, just look at them and say, I can't even with you.
SPEAKER_01: I can't even with you.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: I have a nine-year-old.
SPEAKER_01: She keeps me up to date on what to say.
SPEAKER_01: Mess with me.
SPEAKER_01: I'll bring it out.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: This is important.
SPEAKER_01: And I could go down the line of people in this room tonight that you you shouldn't be here.
SPEAKER_01: You shouldn't be doing anything for God.
SPEAKER_01: Didn't have a father, didn't have a mother, didn't have any training, didn't have, but yet God said, I can use you, I will use you, I want to use you.
SPEAKER_01: I've told this story over and over again.
SPEAKER_01: Family members looking at me and my wife and saying, Who do you think you are?
SPEAKER_01: You've always been the bottom of the barrel in this family.
SPEAKER_01: You'll never amount to anything.
SPEAKER_01: And I just took my wife's hand and said, Honey, let's just go do what God told us to do.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: Can God use you?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Will God use you?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Are you going to be preaching?
SPEAKER_01: Are you going to be teaching?
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: If that's the call of God on your life, you may.
SPEAKER_01: But how about can I impact this generation through what God did for me?
SPEAKER_01: There are people under the sound of my voice.
SPEAKER_01: You were, whatever your addiction was, I don't know what it was.
SPEAKER_01: That, right?
SPEAKER_01: There are people that your life was just a mess.
SPEAKER_01: And God came, Jesus came walking in your life, and the hand of the master delivered you and set you free.
SPEAKER_01: And there are people dealing with the same thing that you dealt with.
SPEAKER_01: There are people in the sound of my voice.
SPEAKER_01: Relationships were shattered.
SPEAKER_01: You didn't know if you'd ever find love again.
SPEAKER_01: You didn't know if God ever cared enough about you to bring that into your life.
SPEAKER_01: And here you sit tonight with the love of your life, a man or a woman that loves you like sugar candy.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: That's a lot of love.
SPEAKER_01: And here you are.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: It will be the last and most powerful yet.
SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_01: If you would like hands to be laid on you,