Praise Before The Battle

Freedom gets celebrated with fireworks, but it gets tested on ordinary days when fear and pressure come.

From our Fourth of July gathering, we honor the freedom we have in this nation — then turn to the greater freedom we have in Christ.

We walk through Galatians 5 and 2 Chronicles 20, showing how praise, prayer, and proclamation become powerful weapons in spiritual warfare. When we stop complaining and start declaring God’s promises, faith rises and victory follows.

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Transcript

Opening Prayer And Blessing

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Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this wonderful day that you've given us beautiful, clear skies here in sunny, hot South Texas, and we are in an air-conditioned environment. We are already so thankful and blessed just for that. And Lord, we just thank you that you use me today as just a conduit, just a vessel. I'm nothing apart from you, Lord, but I'm never apart from you. So use me to spread the seed of your word into the hearts, the plowed ground of your children today, and to all those who will hear this message or see this message on any other format or by any other means in the future. We pray for you just as if you are here with us, and we love you. We are believing for a billion soul harvest. And if you consider yourself a part of this church family, no matter where you are, we love you and you are prayed for, believe me. Every seed that is sown into this body of work, this ministry, I pray the thousandfold returnover. I pray it into the kingdom for God's blessing and his will and for it to be multiplied. And I pray a thousandfold seed back to the sower with good stewardship. So he's going to give you wisdom with it as well. Praise God. Lord, thank you. Help us to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. We give you all the glory and praise and honor today in Jesus' name. Amen.

Fourth Of July And Costly Freedom

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Well, this is happy Fourth of July weekend. Yesterday was, of course, the 4th of July. And as we celebrate, this is a special one. I remember the bicentennial. I was in fifth grade on the 200th birthday of our great nation, and they had a freedom train that came all around the country, and it was, it came here to Houston. And my fifth grade class got to come up to Houston and uh from Texas City and go on the freedom train. And I'll never forget, I saw a bunch of our bunch of history on there, but I remember one of Abraham Lincoln's rocking chair was on there. I don't know why I always remember that, but some cool stuff. But now here we are, 50 years later, and that's hard for me to say. But thank God it's a it's a 250th birthday of this great nation. And I just want to make sure that we remember how expensive the freedom that we enjoy really is. Praise God. And we're blessed to be here in the in the VFW, and we we celebrate and pray for our veterans every day. I do, and we pray for them every week. And uh everyone here is we're thankful to be in this place. There's a reason God has us here. And I tell some of the officers who were over here this morning, I say, you guys are covered because I'm praying for you all the time. And our church is praying for you, and we're blessed and thankful for this opportunity to meet here. And so we give honor to all those who have served our nation and to the many men and women who paid for our liberty with their blood. Amen. No matter what you hear from those who have been deceived, I'll call it. I don't want to start name-calling or anything like that. So I I really believe that those have been deceived into hating this country, we love them too, and we're praying for them that they will they will they will get a revelation of the truth. This is still the greatest, freest nation on earth. If we can hang on to it. And it's gonna require the church to do that. And and and I and I'm telling you, that's a fact. And and I'll uh maybe I'll try to explain a little bit of why and just remind you of some. I'm not telling most of you anything you don't already know. I'm like Peter, though. He said redundancy or repetitiveness is good in God. So we go over some of the same things a lot, and with the word, and we rehearse the things and the promises of God and all that he's done for us, and we get together and we praise him and worship him because it's good that we should stay in reminder, be reminded of all the good that we have and the freedom that we enjoy here. So we should be thankful. Amen.

Founding Faith And National Foundations

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Just a note on that, or two, our founding fathers, as they're they're called, understood this very well. John Adams famously said, our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It's holy and adequate to the government of any other. So without the principles of this and and truth of this Bible, they knew even then, and some of them weren't even full-blown Christians, and even the ones that weren't said they they still knew that this is what would hold it all together. Thomas Jefferson wrote, God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? So he was saying that it's imperative that we keep that correlation, that everything that good that we have and the freedom we enjoy is all a gift from God. And without him, there is no good thing. Because we know that the Bible teaches us every good and perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, in whom there's no variation or shadow of turning. The truth is the men who founded this nation never intended to separate God from government. That's a big misconception in this country. That's why references to God and prayer are plastered all over all the letters that they wrote back then and all the documents that they signed and over all the buildings that they built in Washington. You know what I mean? They wanted to keep the government free. They wanted to keep the church free from government. They wanted to keep the government from controlling the church. That was their their point in touching on those things, not the other way around. They fully accepted that biblical values and Christian principles would be the foundation of this country. And if anyone cared to study true history, which is something else, another topic for another day, we have to protect the truth of history, all of it. But if they studied it correctly and the and and and were open instead of closed-minding and then going trying to prove what they already believe, you see. And if they stayed objective, they would find out that it's easily proved that this is a godly nation built on godly values and and expected to rely on godly truths and morals and basically Christianity.

Freedom In Christ Redefined

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But today I want to talk to you about an even greater freedom, the freedom we have in Christ. Amen. Galatians chapter 5 and verse 13 says, You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh, rather, serve one another humbly in love. So, real freedom, the only true and eternal freedom provided by God, who by mercy and love sent his son Jesus Christ to pay for the sins of the whole world, that grace, that freedom we have in Christ through faith, through faith in his name, as Peter said on the first day of the church after Pentecost in the book of Acts, is not the ability to do whatever we want, it's the power to walk in step with God. Amen. To walk in humility and love and reverence and submission to him. That's the fear of the Lord, not fear of judgment and punishment unto perdition, but an awesome reverence and awe for a wonderful, loving, almighty God who has who even cares about the smallest detail of our lives. That's amazing. But God poses a question to us in Amos 3:3, which I like to quote how can two walk together unless they be agreed. That's God talking about us walking with him, and he's not gonna change and be like us. So, what's that tell us? We need to get into agreement with him so that we can walk. And if we were in that three-legged sack race with the Lord, we wouldn't trip him up. Amen. Lockstep. Glory to God. The safest and most powerful place we can be is walking in agreement with God. I always tell people the moment you agree with God, things start changing. And a lot of times it's everything's so compartmentalized in our life. It's like, well, we've surrendered all to you, Lord. And he's like, I got something really nice for you right here, but you got to give me what you're holding behind your back, that one thing that you don't want to let go of. I got something better, but you have to trust me. Amen. Practicing a life of thankfulness, praise, and proclamation. Thankfulness, praise, and proclamation. Proclamation is just proclaiming, speaking out loud, proclamation of his word, his promises, his greatness, his love, his faithfulness, and then, and then, and then speaking it, his love and all those things through us as a byproduct of that revelation and relationship that we have with him. We receive the help, the healing, empowerment, love, and prosperity that God has provided for us through his son Jesus Christ, the Zoe, abundant life of God. And then we we share that help out of the overflow with others. That's the point. Yes, he loves us more than what we can do for him. So he wants us to receive the help first, but then he wants us to grow and mature even past that to the point where we're overflowing, and everywhere we walk in, that's darkness, it flees from the light that you carry. Amen. Glory to God. He's had me so mindful of late of the power and of being of being thankful and and and and of praise and proclamation of his word. My wife and I, and we we we do this every day. We use my my little book, the latest one that I did that that little 30-day devotion on. We we do that every day. We've been through it several times, and you know, it just gets stronger and stronger. And it's just nothing special about that particular book. It's just about resolving to do it. You know what I mean? It's one thing to talk about these things, but when you actually start doing it, saying these things out loud, these promises, these blessings, these provisions of God, these things He said about you, you say it out loud and you hear it because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Even if you're the one speaking it, you're still hearing it. And so your faith muscles are growing. Praise God. The Bible is very clear about this. Psalm 22, verse 3 says, Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. A thankful heart is a powerful heart. God literally inhabits the praises of his people. Hallelujah. So when we were singing and praising God together just a while ago, you know, there were angels that they get excited, they're just moving around the room, joyful to hear the praises that we're proclaiming about what our how great our Lord is. When we begin to believe that and see the supernatural, the the invisible realm more clearly than we see what we we can see with our physical eyes, the more we will experience the supernatural blessings and provision of God that He has for us. Luke 6, 45, Jesus tells us the good person and who is good. See, because Jesus, this isn't a contradiction. Jesus, somebody said, Good, good master, good teacher, what should I do to inherit the kingdom of God? So this guy was trying to make himself look good. He said, and Jesus turned around and said, Why do you call me good? Only God is good. If the guy would have said, I know that's why I called you good, Jesus would have said, That's great faith. I haven't seen such great faith. He would have just like he said to two other people who weren't Jews, by the way. One was a Roman centurion, and another one was a woman who was seeking healing for her daughter. But he didn't. Jesus was trying to make the point to see if he was just doing some people just talk too much, and they they their motives and their understanding is not in a place that they're pretending to be. And Jesus would point that out sometimes by saying things that seemed odd. But nevertheless, only God is good. So when Jesus says the good person out of the good treasure of his heart, how can he call a person good when he said that only God is good? Well, because if you've been born again, who lives inside of you? And so then you are good. Hallelujah. The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So what's in your heart will eventually come out of your mouth. You're gonna say what you really believe. Amen. That's why proclamation is so important. It's sort of the evidence of what's truly in our hearts. And God is for us. There's nothing more powerful than Christ in us, the word of God, spoken in faith by God's children. But instead of telling God about our problems, we have to remember that it's our responsibility, our delegated authority from Jesus. We are supposed to be telling our problems how big our God is. God will listen to us when we go to Him and cry and beg and give Him a laundry list of things to do and we need, but if that's not working so well for you, try it this way. Because the truth is you already have everything that you're begging God for. If it's not provided by grace through the atonement of Jesus on the cross, all the divine exchanges of the cross, all provision has been made for you for this life. So it's already on account. And if it didn't come by by grace, through Jesus' precious shed blood and resurrection, then you're not going to get it by begging God. And if it has been provided by grace, then all you got to do is release your faith and lay hold of it. Glory to God.

Praise And Proclamation As A Practice

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I want to show you this beautiful Old Testament picture I was telling you about, 2 Chronicles chapter 20. I'll just give you a little background so that I don't go over there. I'm looking at it, but I'm gonna try not to look at it. I write down, I type out my scriptures here because I can make it a larger font to read while while I'm believing for my vision to be totally perfected and restored. Praise God. So in 2 Chronicles chapter 20, a massive army was coming against King Jehosaphat, the king of the Jews, and the people of Judah. They were greatly outnumbered. Greatly outnumbered. All those ites were coming against them. When you read the Old Testament, you read all about the ice except for the Israelites, which would be a type and shadow of who we are now and what we have in the spiritual realm, what they had in the natural. So it always works like that. But all the other ice are demon, demons for us, demonic forces. Our battle's not against flesh and blood as a new covenant church in this new covenant of grace and truth, the era in which we live, the church age. But for them, they had a bunch of ites that were against them. The Moabites were coming against them, the Ammonites, and then the people of Mount Seir. So there were three armies that had come together, the great horde had come against them and had crossed over the Dead Sea and were already deep inside of Judah. By the time that King Jehoshaphat was told about their progress, this huge army was already at Ngeti, a place known as uh Hazazon Tamar. We know it as Engedi. It's an oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea, about 30 miles southeast of Jerusalem. So they were right there, knocking on the door. So as you can imagine, he was he was pretty alarmed when he when he found out that they had come so far so fast, and they had this great position on them at Engedi. Right? I mean, I just want you to kind of put yourself there and see how it feels to be surrounded by people that came only to kill, steal, and destroy, which is what the devil does. So these enemies were all from what is today the nation of it'd be Jordan today, in the Middle East, east of Jerusalem. Mount Seir was, which was one of the armies, was the land of Edom, E D-O-M. And you know who those are? Those are the descendants of Esau. It's important to understand today, because ever since God said that the twin brothers Esau and Jacob in the Old Testament, God said, Jacob I have loved, Esau I hated. Ever since God said that, there's been conflict between those two lines. I'm trying to explain a little bit about the Eastern Mid Eastern culture without getting too deep. Maybe next week I'll expound a little bit more. So Esau's descendants became the Edomites, just like Ishmael's descendants became the Arab peoples. So this battle in 2 Chronicles chapter 20 is actually part of a very old conflict. The same spiritual battle that we see raging in the Middle East against Israel is nothing new. The devil has been coming against the people of God through these bloodlines ever since ancient times. And it's going to continue in some form until the closing of this age.

End Times Deception And Hope

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I'll just this a small digression if that's okay. Maybe give you a little more. It's all gonna come together for you. I'm just trying to to help you to maybe have a little better understanding of some of the things because everything has a spirit spiritual ramification. People talk about the tribulation a lot. When I say the closing of this age, I believe that we are living in the final chapter of the world as we know it. Not the world, it'll be here, but the world as we know it, the age of grace and truth, the church age that started when Jesus founded his church and ascended into heaven. Amen. After accomplishing everything he came to do, dying on the cross and then being raised from the dead on the third day, ministered for 40 more days here on the earth, then he ascended to heaven, and then 10 days later, the day of Pentecost, that the Holy Spirit was poured out, and that day the church was founded. And that began the church age of grace and truth, which is the last age of mankind until Jesus returns, okay? So I believe in what theologians refer to as pre-tribulation rapture. And you won't go to hell if you believe differently. It's not a deal breaker. As long as you believe Jesus is coming back for us, you can believe pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib. That's okay. I believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. So if you want to believe, you have to deal with the wrath and worry about going through the tribulation and all that stuff. Well, go ahead. So you just go ahead and worry about all that stuff. I still love you. But we, I, I believe that the church will be suddenly caught up to meet the Lord in the air. And fairly soon, I might say. Nobody knows the day or the hour. If they ever tell you they do, they're lying. We've seen colts come and go that way. Some very strange ones. But after that, after that catching away, and this is all from the Bible, by the way, a seven-year period called the tribulation will begin on earth. In the first three and a half years of that tribulation, the prophet Daniel, in the ninth chapter, the 27th verse, he talks about someone called the Antichrist, a powerful political leader. The Antichrist is a political leader. He's going to rise to power and he's going to deceive many people into actually believing that he is a good person, a good leader, and a man of peace. But in reality, he's going to be possessed and empowered by the devil himself. He'll even make a peace covenant with Israel during that first three and a half year period. And then, working alongside the Antichrist, there's another figure. In Revelation chapter 13, verses 11 through 15, it tells us there will be a false prophet. Now, this is a religious leader. So you have the political leader, the Antichrist, and the false prophet who is the religious leader. And he'll actually perform miracles and deceive people into worshiping the Antichrist. His miracles won't come from God. That's why knowing the word, that having a real relationship with the true and living God and the Father and His Son Jesus Christ with the help of the Holy Spirit is so essential to the end times bride, the church, to keep us from being deceived. Not that you have to deal with this. If you believe like I do, you won't be here. Nevertheless, this is all for you to come and to find out for yourself. Pray about it, study the scriptures I tell you about and see if that's what you believe. I believe it because I'm convinced. But right in the middle of that seven-year tribulation, the Antichrist, we're told in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, verses 3 and 4, he'll he'll he'll go into the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem, and he'll declare himself to be God, and he'll demand to be worshipped. That moment begins the last three years of this seven-year tribulation. In Matthew 24 and verse 21, Jesus calls this the great tribulation, and it will be the most terrible time in human history. Then at the end of those seven years, the true believers in Christ, those who 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 16 and 17 says, were raptured up, who had been taken up to be with the Lord in the air, will according to Revelation chapter 19, verse 14, return to the earth with Jesus. He will then defeat his enemies, and he will establish his kingdom from Jerusalem for a thousand years. And we'll be with him in our glorified bodies. Maybe that helps someone. I

Faith Receives What Grace Provides

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hope so. I I'll I'll I'll shed more light on on that maybe next time if you if you want me to. This is not a dress rehearsal. Yesterday really did end last night. And we need to spend all the grace God gives us for every day, every day. Our opportunity, our assignment now is what we're talking about. We're talking about the power of praise and proclamation. And I'm just going to keep driving this into you because I want you to just think about it. I want you to pray about it. And I want you to say, Lord, if it's, you know, I think about you quite a lot. And I and I hear the preacher, and I believe that, and I love you, and I belong to you. I've been saved. But if it's really important that I begin to pray and to praise you out loud and to proclaim the blessings and the favor and the promises of God over me and over others, I want to start doing that. And you can do it in your car, you can do it in your prayer closet, you can do whatever you want to. I pray all the time. I pray in my known language, I pray in the spirit. I pray, I'll be praying in the grocery store. And then when people walk in by me, I don't want to look weird. I don't want to run people away from God. So you know what I'll do? I'll start singing softly to myself in the spirit. And they don't know. Just sounds like something very pleasant. Bible says, pray without ceasing. So I pray a lot. Smith Wigglesworth, who saw a lot of amazing miracles in his ministry, people raised from the dead, all kinds of tumors and everything healed instantly. He said, I never go, I never pray for, I never, I very seldom pray for, I think he said an hour. He said, but I never go an hour without praying. I read it. Well, there was a book one time. I actually didn't read it, but there was a lady, she published a book Marilyn Hickey was promoting on her show one time with Marilyn and Sarah. And this woman had written a book talking sort of about this, about praying all the time. In other words, don't just limit your prayer life to a ritualistic uh time when you're down on your knees and praying in the King James Elizabethan language, and then you get up and go about your business and forget all about God. No, just keep on going and keep on praying, thinking about God and His goodness. Amen. So the power of praise and proclamation, he keeps reminding me of this. Because when we do this, God sees it as great faith. It represents a show of our faith to God. And and and grace is of faith is important because that without faith it's impossible to please God. Right? And then it tells us why. Not out of fear, it's just because those who come to him must believe that he is, and that he is a what? A punisher of those who don't? No, that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So that's why he wants you to walk in faith so you can receive the rewards that he has for you. He wants you to walk in the blessing in favor of that he's established for you. And he wants you to learn how to tap into that. And when we agree with the devil by complaining and saying every negative thing we see, we're actually opening doors and windows into our lives for the devil to come in. And he'll come in and eat your lunch and pop the bang. You can't send him an invitation to your party and expect him not to accept it. So I was telling you about, so anyway, it's it's just great faith. And see, grace is already established, isn't it? Like we've we've proven that over the time. That Jesus provided the grace. It's already accomplished, it's already on account. So grace provides, but our faith receives. Isn't that right? Amen.

Jehoshaphat And Praise Before Victory

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So I was telling you about King Jehoshaphat being outnumbered and opposed by all those ites, several of those Middle Eastern armies in 2 Chronicles 20 here, just to wrap this up, because there's just one point I wanted to make from it because it's awesome. And it goes with what I'm talking about here today, because I don't want you to forget. 2 Chronicles 20, verses 20 and 21. So you get all the back background story, and I didn't go over there and read the whole chapter to you like I'm prone to do, like I really want to do, because I'd start preaching something else. But 2 Chronicles chapter 20, verse 20 and 21. Early in the morning they left for the desert of Tekoah. So here they go, they're leaving Jerusalem because you don't want them coming there to fight you. And they get out into the desert toward Engedi to go oppose this vast army that they were outnumbered by. Early in the morning they left for the desert of Tekoah. As they set out, Jehoshaphat, the king, he stood and said, Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem. Have faith in the Lord your God, and you will be upheld. Have faith in his prophets, and you will be successful. After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying, Give thanks to the Lord for his love endures forever. They put the praisers, Sandy, out front. Now that doesn't seem like sound military advice. But when you when you when you're counting on the supernatural and the armies of heaven to fight for you, that takes great faith. Put your praisers out front. They praise God for his enduring love and faithfulness before the battle was won. Does that sound like what Jesus taught us in Mark chapter 11? Believe you have what you pray for when you pray, and you shall have it. See? That's how the kingdom of God works. It's opposite than what the world says. When I see it, I'll believe it. Well, you're not gonna see it. And the Bible says, when they began to sing in praise, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord set an ambush against their enemies and they were defeated. Glory to God. God is faithful. They said that his love endures forever. They said that God was faithful and good, and sure enough. How about that? So this is a perfect type and shadow for us today. Praise and proclamation come first, then the victory follows. We have to learn to praise him and trust him and sing to him of his goodness in the midst of the storms and adversities of our life, knowing that the breakthrough is coming. Even when others think you're crazy. Let them. When we do, when we do what the Lord tells us all throughout the Bible, to do, to put him first and to praise him and to give thanks in all situations, not for all situations. He's not sadistic. We're not supposed to give thanks for bad things, but in the midst of the bad things, trusting that he is going to come and do the fixing. So when we do that, the Lord sees it as great faith, and God fights our battles for us in the spiritual realm. So we have to embrace this truth and apply it to our lives and stay close to Jesus, like we've been talking about for the last few weeks.

Being With Jesus Changes Everything

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Spend time with him. You can't microwave a relationship with Jesus, and you can't do it vicariously through someone else. But he wants it very much. He wants you to be very close to him. Not so he'll love you, but so you'll know he loves you. And that you'll love him more. Great benefit to being close to Jesus. Remember when Peter and John stood before the religious leaders in the book of Acts, the beginning of the church, when they got arrested for preaching in the name of Jesus? Something remarkable happened in the fourth chapter of Acts in the 13th verse. Now, when when they saw, talking about these religious hypocrites and leaders who had had them arrested, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. That's what the Bible says. No other explanation for this. These guys have been with Jesus. Even though they were uneducated fishermen. And just remember two months prior, Peter had denied the Lord three times one night. And all of them had gone back to their day job. Discouraged. But then they received power from on high on the day of Pentecost in that upper room. And the fire of the Holy Ghost came upon them. Their boldness and authority made people say, These men have been with Jesus. That's what the End Times Church is supposed to look like. And I'm finishing here. The End Times Church is supposed to be a continuation of the book of Acts. And last I checked, not one of the 28 chapters in the book of Acts would remain intact if you took out references to the supernatural power and signs and wonders being performed by the Lord through believers. Amen. Brothers and sisters, we are blessed to live in a free nation. Anybody that doesn't know that or believe that, I think they should all have to go live a year in an unfree nation. And they'll come back being ever so thankful. With all its issues, the United States of America is still the greatest and most free nation on earth. Let's be thankful for that freedom and use it to expand the kingdom of God, to be kingdom builders, the church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Let's be thankful people. Let's be praising people.

Revival Vision And Sharing Jesus

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Let's be a proclaiming people. When we walk in gratitude and faith, we'll see the Holy Spirit move with power. We don't need to beg him to move in our midst. He wants to more than we want him to. This is how we get to see God show off. When we show up to meet with Him and give Him all the glory, all the honor, and all the praise, because He alone is worthy to be praised. That's where the good stuff takes place. We're in the third and final, I believe, Great Awakening. We are believing for revival all over America. We're believing for the blessings upon all of those who are a part of or listen to or anything to do with this grace and truth church ministry. But we're believing for, we're praying for our leaders in this nation. We're praying that that we repent and God forgive us of all of our sins and turning away from Him and that we all turn back to the Lord and that He helps us in this third great awakening and that revival breaks out everywhere, all over America, but all over the world. We're praying for the peace of Jerusalem. We're praying for a free Persia. We're praying for the comfort and the salvation of all who are oppressed of the devil. And that a billion soul harvest is what I keep seeing and keep saying. Are you with me in believing for all those wonderful things? I saw a little video yesterday, and it just really bothered me. It was just a young man. He had his camera, his phone out on the street, and I don't know where he was, but it was busy. People were walking by, walking by these shops and down the streets. And every time people would walk by, and it was usually two or two or three together, he would say, Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Do you believe in Jesus Christ? And they're all like, No, no, I'm busy. I got things to do. We're good. No, no, no. It it was heartbreaking. And I'll not Saying it's like that all over. That's what the woke media would have you to believe is that this is not a Christian nation. It really is. But the harvest is plentiful. The workers are few. Don't think you don't have anything to offer. If all you can muster up is to walk up to a stranger that the Lord leads you to and just say, you know, Jesus loves you and He died for your sins, and walk off. If that's all you can get up the courage to do, you sowed a seed that you might see that person in heaven and they'll come running up and hugging you and saying, You know, you started me. You know, that same day two other people came and said the same thing you did. And no one had ever told me that in my life. And because of it, I just hit my knees and looked up and said, Oh, God, you are real. What is going on? And I got saved and I served and I and I became the leader of a big ministry. And you know what? You'll get credit for all that. Just like they will. And what a celebration you'll have in heaven talking with them people. I believe there's going to be so many like that. For every seed you sow in this, God's word does not return void. Praise God. It does what it was sent out to and accomplish what it was sent out to do every time. So just believe that. And then you can get excited. It doesn't matter how they act, what they say. Share Jesus with others. If you have Jesus and you know He's the only way, the only truth, and the only life, if you really know that, then why would you ever, ever, ever risk letting anyone go to hell? Even your worst enemy. The best thing could ever happen to them is that God get a hold of their heart and change them. So you should be, you know what? You have not loved like Jesus tells us to love until you have prayed and loved your worst enemy. Like Larry was talking about. Praise God.

Salvation Prayer And Closing

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I pray I've been a blessing today that the Lord has spoken through me. If any of it was the flesh, just spit out the bones and just hang on to the flesh, just like fish, okay? But I think he had some things to say, and I hope you receive them. You know he loves you. I love you. If you're listening anywhere else and you heard this message, if it made a difference to you, if you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ, but you want to and you believe that he's calling you, drawing you to himself, then he is. And just say this prayer. Heavenly Father, I believe that Jesus Christ is your Son. I believe He laid down His life on the cross for me. He took all my sin and my judgment on that cross. He was buried, and on the third day, you rose him from the dead. And he lives today. He's seated at your right hand. Today I ask you, Jesus, to be my Lord and Savior. If that was your prayer, just say amen. That means so be it unto me. And if you said it and you meant it, I believe I'll see you in heaven. Love to hear from you. Love you all. God bless you. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this wonderful day. Thank you for the wonderful time we've had exploring your the mysteries of the kingdom of God, your truth, your word, and growing as we request it in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Help us to protect the seed of your word in our hearts. Don't let the devil come and steal it from us. Let it take root and bear fruit in our lives as we continue to meditate on it and give you praise and proclaim your truth and your love for us till we can look in the mirror and say, look who Jesus loves. It's me. Thank you, Father, that we are so helped by you, healed everywhere we hurt, empowered by your promises and your word, that we have a revelation of your love and that we prosper in every area of our lives, physically, emotionally, relationally, financially, and if there be anything else, that we are so abundantly blessed that we live out of the overflow, and everywhere we go, other people get it too. In Jesus' name. Amen. Somebody give the Lord a hand clap of praise. Thank you.