Welcome to the God's Goodness podcast, where
our mission is to encourage and highlight God's
goodness and modern day miracles. We are your
hosts, Josh and Shelly Hankins. Today we have
with us a special couple. We have Delissa and
Justin Buckles. They are evangelists that we
met just last week, and oh my gosh, we were going
to a healing ceremony at Wendy Lawson's. She
has had a couple episodes with us, so go check
her out. There's a playlist in YouTube. And she
said, come to a healing ceremony. Check it out.
And I had no idea what that would entail. And
it turns out there was a whole sermon. And it
was so good that I said, hey, can we go live?
And so there is actually a live in Facebook with
Justin and Dalisse. So you get to see what they
look like and if you're interested in that. And
they were just it was on everything's on fire
that night. It was so good. People are getting
healed and it was just God's goodness being revealed.
And with that, the Holy Spirit, it was obvious
they had to come on. And they're two evangelists
and they're going to tell you about a little
bit about that. That's my jam because on the
gifts test that's what I tested very high for
and so they're my people So with that but we're
first we're gonna have them open us up with an
opening prayer and then we'll get into it Father
we just thank you for this evening in your presence
with these wonderful people Every person that
listens to this broadcast God I ask you to touch
them in a special way a profound way That does
something great to their life and the increase
of your kingdom In the mighty name of Jesus,
I pray that out of this service that people get
saved and that believers are raised up to be
mighty soul winners for you before you come back,
Jesus. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank
you for that. So, tell everybody a little bit
about you guys and then what the Holy Spirit
led you to share. Yeah, amen. Thank you for being
here. Thank you guys for having us on the show.
Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thanks for
coming. We do appreciate it. Thank you very much.
We've been on radio, we've been on television,
but never podcasts like this. Checking all the
boxes. Checking it. Yes, definitely. And it's
new. We've had a couple people say it was their
favorite interview. I believe it's going to be
our favorite. We believe it. But I'm evangelist
Justin Buckles. This is my wife, evangelist Delice
Buckles. And God called us to Central America,
Honduras. That's our main mission. We're evangelists
here in America as well, you know, we come back
every couple months and like we're here right
now and we're gonna do a couple month tour here
and we're gonna be preaching in New York next
week. Then we'll come back to Pennsylvania and
do a big meeting here and then we'll go out to
North Carolina, back to Pennsylvania, Alabama,
and then in Jesus name we'll get back to Central
America. Where we preach every night of the week.
So tonight I'm preaching a message called doing
the work of an evangelist. And we believe with
all of our hearts, according to the scripture
and Bible prophecy, that we're living in the
last seconds of the last days, and that Jesus
is coming soon. And the Bible says the only reason
He hasn't returned yet is because He is waiting
in heaven. He's being patient because He wishes
that none perish. So, we're giving our all to
the ministry of the Kingdom of God, and I couldn't
do without my wonderful wife, evangelist, Alicia
Buckles. Want to say hi to the people then? Yes,
definitely. I just want to say thank you to Shelly
and Josh for having us here. It's amazing. And
I do believe in divine connections, you know,
and I believe we met them for such a time as
this. And as my husband was saying, we do believe
we're in the last days. So if you're listening
to this podcast, I just want to tell you, listen
to every second of it, because there's something
for you today. God has a word for you. God has
called us to preach the gospel. And we were just
talking to my husband that this is what we love
to do the most. You know, we were on the car
saying, The Bible says our nourishment comes
from doing the will of God. Like, our fulfillment
comes from doing the will of God. Seeing souls
being saved. Seeing people's lives transformed.
And we are a miracle, you know? We came out of
the darkness into the light. And as the Bible
says, God has called us to bring the lost, those
that are lost, into Jesus Christ. Jesus did the
same yesterday, today, and forever. That's what
we believe. We're preaching non -stop, and we
believe that the soon return of Jesus is right
here, you know? And that's the message that people
need to hear. He can't get here soon enough.
Even in the New Testament, they were always praying,
Lord Jesus, come. Soon, come. Amen. That's one
of my favorite songs is, Come, Jesus, come. Amen.
And He is coming. Amen. But the Bible says the
gospel... must be preached across the whole earth
and then the end will come. And that's why this
message is so important because it's up to us
as believers to get the gospel, the good news
out to the entire earth. You know, Jesus said,
occupy until I come. What I love that Jesus told
Peter, he said, Peter, I'm gonna make you a fisher
of men now. You know, I'm an evangelist. The
gift of an evangelist is to be able to win people
to Christ in mass, really. You know, we do mass
crusades, and you see that in the book of Acts
where we'll see thousands come into the kingdom
in one night. But Paul also told Timothy, who
was a pastor, Timothy, do the work of an evangelist.
Make full proof of your ministry. Paul was telling
Pastor Timothy to make full proof of your ministry,
do the work of an evangelist. And then the Bible
says that every believer has the ministry of
reconciliation. And that's why tonight's message
is so important because, yes, there are gifts
in the kingdom of God, like a pastor, an evangelist,
prophet, on and on, but the Bible is very clear
that every believer has a ministry. And I believe
the greatest ministry we can have is winning
souls to Christ. So tonight, I really want to
see, as I'm preaching to people, to get hunger
in their hearts for souls and actual Bible tactics
on how to do it. You know, I found out, Josh,
is that a lot of believers have the desire to
win souls, but they don't know how to do it.
And that's even why we started a Bible school
over in Honduras called the School of Evangelism.
And it's for this very reason because we're going
to reach people that you're never going to be
able to reach and vice versa. You're going to
see people on a daily basis and everybody listening
to this podcast who I will never get to, you
will never get to. And God is relying on His
army. God is raising up an army in these last
seconds of time. In Isaiah 2, it prophesies that
in the last days, The mountain of the Lord's
house, the church, will be the highest mountain
of all, the most important place on earth. And
people will be coming from everywhere to come
into the kingdom of God. So, before I really
get into the message tonight, I want to tell
you guys our story how we got into ministry and
I believe it's gonna be inspiring to the people
that are listening that God not only can he use
anybody he can raise people up quickly because
we were in the last seconds of the last days
and God the Bible says he's looking to and fro
through the whole earth looking for somebody
whose heart is willing you know his heart is
a pure heart that wants to win souls. And when
he finds that person, he will show himself off
mightily on his behalf. And I believe tonight,
as the word goes out, it's gonna touch people
and God's gonna see their hearts and he's gonna
mark them and use them in a great way in these
last seconds of time. You know, the gospel is
the good news and that's what we preach to people,
you know, that Jesus is the only way to heaven.
Jesus said, I am the way. I'm the only way. I'm
the truth. I'm the life, and I'm the only way
unto the Father. And, you know, it's only through
Jesus Christ that our sins can be forgiven, that
we know heaven is our home, and it's only by
the power of God that we can have a transformed
life. So, I'm a preacher. Amen. And I think I
always say this when I'm preaching. I think I'm
a pretty good preacher. You know, I dress nice,
you know, and I look presentable. I wasn't always
like that. For most of my life, I was addicted
to heroin, methamphetamine, and many drugs, and
I was bound. I tried everything to get off drugs.
I didn't even want to be on drugs. I just couldn't
stop. I tried rehabs, medicine, herbals, you
name it. I tried it. It ended up coming down
to, well, actually on this street that you guys
are on right now, right here on Bower Hill, I
got my first DUI driving under the influence
of heroin, where I ran into the police station.
Well, I ran into another police station in Washington
as well, and I would say, what kind of idiot
runs into two police stations if somebody under
the power of the devil? The kind God wants to
get sober. Amen. Exactly. That too, Josh. So
I had four DUIs, and I was looking at a 10 -year
prison sentence. Wow. And I had never been to
jail in my life. But in one year, I went to jail
eight times. Was it the Allegheny County Jail
by chance? Washington County. A lot of people
get saved in the Allegheny County Jail. Hey,
I think God saves a lot of people in a lot of
jails. For sure. So anyways, I was looking at
a 10 -year prison sentence. Now I'm in handcuffs
for the ninth time. And my probation officer
says, listen. You've been to jail eight times
this year. There's no more chances for you. You're
going to go and serve your 10 -year prison sentence
now. Chances up, you know, at that point. And
at that moment, I cried out from the bottom of
my heart. And I said, Lord, if you'll deliver
me and you'll save me, I'll serve you. I'll do
whatever you want me to do. And this judge that
I would go in front of, he would always do what
the probation officer recommended. So she said,
go to jail. He was going to do it. Well, she
recommended for me to go to prison. And this
day, something different happened. He got this
crazy look in his eyes. And now I know it was
the Holy Ghost coming on him. And he dropped
his glasses and he said, you know what? I think
we're going to give Justin one more chance. Instead
of sending him to prison, he says, no, we're
going to send Justin to rehab in a halfway house.
And I already told you, I've already been to
rehab. That never worked for me, anything like
that. And I determined from that day that I was
going to serve the Lord. And I was going to do
whatever I had to do. And it was during that
time I started to do what I never did before.
I started to seek the face of Jesus in the Word,
in the Bible. I started a Bible study. I won
the whole halfway house to Jesus. So I became
evangelist at that point. And I found out it
was during that time that I got totally free
from drugs. It was my relationship with God that
destroyed the yoke that could never be destroyed
before. Jesus is the only way out of addiction.
He's the only one. He's the only one who has
the power to do it. Amen. It's very powerful.
You know, the Bible says the devil has come to
kill, steal, and destroy our lives. But Jesus
said, I came to give you life. and life abundantly.
So I went to college to be a physical therapist,
and I ruined that career because of my four DUIs,
you know. And I was praying one night and a half
way, and I said, God, everything I thought I
was supposed to do with my life is not going
to happen. Now, see, I knew what a prophet was.
I don't recommend this prayer. But I said, God,
would you send a prophet to me to tell me what
I'm supposed to do with my life? Everyone wants
to be told what to do. Yeah, everybody does.
That would be nice, right? Yeah, he definitely
made it a little bit easier for me. We were like
a prophet to do it. At the same time, if somebody
came up to you and said, God told you that you
need to do this, would you him and haw? Would
you say, hmm, is this guy really from God? And
so at the same time, it seems like it'd be the
easiest thing in the world to do it and also
not. Yeah, definitely something to pray about.
I'm going to tell you this part of the story,
and that's actually exactly what you're saying,
Josh, is what happened. So after so many months,
you're allowed to get a job. So I have to catch
a bus on the other side of town. I have a job
set up at one more job interview, and I'm late
for my bus. So I'm going down this road, and
I decided I'm going to take this back alley to
avoid traffic and just be able to stroll. So
I'm flying down this back alley, and I see this
African -American man coming from a far distance
way off down. And as he draws closer to me, I
don't want to talk to nobody. I just drop my
head, and I pick up speed, and I start walking.
And this man jumps right in front of me, puts
his hand on my chest, and says these words. He
said, the Lord Jesus Christ has sent me to you
today to tell you you're going into the ministry,
and that you'll lead thousands to Christ before
Jesus returns. And that's why I even said this
message says, because Jesus is about ready to
return. This man went along his way, and guess
what? I didn't believe anything he said. Never
once did I think about becoming a preacher. I
couldn't speak in front of public. I was never
able to do it, you know? So never did that cross
my mind. I cannot imagine this, because I know
you now. Right. You guys have seen me preach,
and I can preach in front of thousands, millions,
no problem. because that shows you the power
of the Holy Ghost. That's what's going to help
the people tonight. That power is going to help
everybody start to witness for Christ. So, I
couldn't do it in my own human strength. So,
anyways, two weeks ago, but I never even thought
about this because I didn't think it was real.
And somebody asked me. I've been praying. Yeah.
I knew what a prophet was, but I guess just I
didn't think it was going to be preaching. So,
I feel like it was just off the radar. You know
what I mean? For me, as far as faith was concerned.
Two weeks go by, I get invited to a church service.
I go to the service, the preacher, he's late
coming, and now finally he makes it there and
takes the microphone and I look up and I realize
it's the same man from the back alley. And he
turns and he looks at me and he says, I've been
fasting and I've been praying all week. And the
Lord told me, showed me in a vision that you
were going to be here tonight and that you didn't
believe anything that I told you on that back
alley. He said, but I'm going to tell you again.
You're going into the ministry. You'll lead thousands
to Christ before Jesus returns. You'll have a
ministry of miracles. You'll pray for the sick
and the sick will get healed. And then he said
this, God's going to send you places that nobody
else wants to go to. And the last thing he said,
which is very powerful, is you'll be in a full
-time ministry in exactly six months from now.
I've never preached once in my life. But two
weeks after that, the first door opened for me
to preach. I'm still living in a halfway house,
and a pastor asked me to come preach at the church,
which is a miracle in itself. And I gave my first
altar call. Eleven people came up and gave their
life to Christ, and it's all history from there.
I never stopped preaching. And exactly in six
months, I was already in full time. ministry,
opened up my own church and was doing evangelistic
services. So God did that in me so quickly, so
quickly delivered me and trusted me into full
-time ministry because time is short. So Daniel
12 says, actually let me go on with the story
a little bit. That prophet, I used to talk to
him on the phone on a regular basis and I was
getting ready to hang up with him one night and
he said the Spirit of the Lord is coming to me
and wanted me to tell you that before the month
of December, your ministry is going to go international,
and the probation system is not going to allow
you to go. But God's going to work a miracle
for you, and God's preparing a wife for you.
That's what he said. That was, I believe it was
nine months, or I think maybe even 11 months
away from December. He said, but before the month
of December, this was going to happen. So I knew
when he spoke, put it in my heart and believe
it so just like you said just like you said the
first time within you know all this stuff's gonna
happen and happen and uh the doors opened up
to preach in central america honduras i went
to the probation i was on probation at this time
i'm a full -time pastor showing probation i think
that might have been the only one in history
but yeah god has a sense of humor he's powerful
god and and he's he's funny he'll use anyone
he'll use exactly he will use anyone he's available
that's it just that simple available So I asked
them, hey, I want to go preach in Honduras. They've
asked me to come preach. And they said, absolutely
not. You're not even allowed to leave the county,
let alone the state, let alone the country. Just
stopped it like that. Just like he said. Well,
there was this lady that started coming to my
church. She liked my preaching. I didn't know
it at the time, but she was the sternographer
for my judge. She worked with my judge. And when
she found out that they said no, she made a special
appointment with my judge. She said, listen,
I attend Justin's church. God has really transformed
his life around. You have to let him go on this
mission strip. And just like he said, God would
work a miracle. The same judge who was supposed
to send me to prison who let me go, God did that
first miracle. It's the same judge who now said,
yes, we're going to let him go on this mission
strip. And it happened in the month of November.
He said, before the month of December, you will
go. And God is preparing a wife for you. And
that wife is sitting right next to me right now,
who was my interpreter when I went to Honduras.
And I say that because not only did build your
faith on the awesome miracle power of God. But
when you say yes to God, when you say yes to
building His kingdom, miracles start to happen
all around your life and through your life. I
remember when he was about to come and everything
seemed like he was not going to be able to make
it but got opened away and the lady that was
the judge's sternographer actually you met her
through street evangelism you used to do street
evangelism and somebody at the Christian outreach,
saw him do a street evangelism, connected him
with another prayer group, and that's how he
met that lady, through doing the work of the
Lord. So God did those divine connections, you
know, and then we ended up meeting in Honduras,
I was his translator. Then, in a couple of months,
He proposed, and I moved up here, and we've been
in full -time ministry since then. So, God has
those mighty, it's like a Wi -Fi, like it's a
spiritual Wi -Fi that He connects us with the
right people at the right time. Social equity.
Amen. Amen. Oh, my gosh, but that puts the, you
know, that's how important it is, sowing seeds.
Yeah, exactly. You never know. You never know.
Yes, you never know. Seek first, the Bible says,
seek first the advancement of my kingdom and
I will add all things unto you. At that time,
I was a wife and many other things, you know,
that I was praying for. Oh, yeah. And actually,
that lady ended up paying for part of our wedding.
Wow. So, yeah, it was supernatural. Incredible.
Yeah. Miracles after miracles. But let me get
into this now a little bit. The Word of God.
Start off that testimony. Daniel 12 says, and
it's actually speaking of the rapture, the last
days, right before Jesus comes back. In verse
3 it says, Can I say something? Yeah, go ahead.
The tagline in my emails is, we're here to make
God a star, something they'll always remember.
So, for you to say that, the star. Amen. I love
it. Amen. And that's exactly what we want to
do. We want to make the name of Jesus famous
on the earth. So the question is, is how do we
do these things? You know, and you have to look
at the book of Acts. Now, the Holy Spirit gives
us many ideas on how we can reach people. But
today I just want to give some practical things
on how we can reach people and get people hungry
to do it. Get out your pens. Get out your pens.
Exactly. See, Jesus said, go out into the highways
and byways. and compel people to come into my
father's house so that my father's house might
be full. Jesus also said, you know the saying,
four months between planting a seed and harvesting
a seed. Then Jesus said, wake up and look around
for the fields are already ripe for harvest.
I'm going to tell you, the world is hungry for
a Savior. It's actually not that hard to lead
people to Jesus. We just need the skill, the
knowing how to do it through the Word, and the
power of the Holy Ghost flowing through us. And
the willingness. And the willingness. Once again.
When you're willing, but that's good. That's
such an important thing. When you're willing,
when you... See, that's how it started for me,
doing street evangelism. You know, when I got
into ministry, I didn't have any preaching opportunities
right away. You know, God opened things up. as
time went on. But I decided, God, I'm about your
kingdom. See, the first commandment, the best
commandment of the Bible, it will fill all the
commandments, the Bible says. Love God with all
your heart, all your strength, all your mind,
and love your neighbor as yourself. So I decided,
listen, I'm going to go out on the streets. I'm
going to lead people to Jesus, because every
person that walks by you is a soul that will
spend eternity in one of two places. And we have
to get the compassion of God in our hearts. And
one way to really encourage somebody is to realize
that heaven is a real place, hell is a real place,
and everybody will spend eternity in one of those
two places. And we see from hell that it is...
Jesus talked about hell more than he talked about
heaven. It is more about hell than heaven in
the teachings of Jesus. Why? Because Jesus was
warning us of this terrible place where there's
weeping, gnashing of teeth for all eternity,
and the thing about it is, is Jesus never made
hell for human beings. He didn't. The Bible says
he doesn't get any pleasure out of seeing the
wicked perish. The Bible says He set before His
life and death blessings and cursings how He
wishes we would choose life. See, everybody has
to make a choice, but for me it all started with
the compassion of Jesus for the lost and dying
souls of this world, realizing that every person
is going to spend eternity somewhere, and Jesus
already did all He can do. He did it all. He
laid down His life for God so loved the world
that He gave everything, His only begotten Son,
that whoever would believe on Him would not perish
but have everlasting life. Jesus said, I am the
way. I am the truth. I am the life. See, even
the Pope, he's one on national television and
said, the Pope, this is, you know, supposedly
a Christian denomination. It doesn't matter if
you follow Buddha. It doesn't matter if you follow
Muhammad. It doesn't matter if you follow Jesus.
God knows your heart. And ultimately, one day
you'll make it to heaven. That's the biggest
lie from the pits of hell. Jesus said, I hold
the keys of death, hell, and the grave. So, when
we have the willingness to go out, I always say
this. It actually takes more faith not to believe
that Jesus is the only way than it does to believe
He is. And this is how the early church evangelized
a lot. They evangelized through proof, and that's
what I'm going to teach tonight. It is a fact
that Jesus is the Son of God, and he's the only
way to heaven. And how do we know that? It's
the same way Paul evangelized. It's the same
way that Philip the evangelist evangelized. Number
one is through prophecy. Buddha never prophesied
anything that came true. Nothing. Muhammad prophesied
nothing that came true. No so -called God prophesied
anything that came true. but 33 % of the Bible
is things that were foretold by the prophets
thousands of years ago, and they have all happened
with complete and total accuracy except the soon
return of Jesus Christ, and we know why he hasn't
returned yet. One, through prophecy. Two, and
you don't have to necessarily go through this,
but it is good for people to know that the resurrection
of Jesus, there's more proof of the resurrection
of Jesus than there is of many famous people
who have lived on the earth. I could take you
to Buddha's grave. I could take you to this grave,
Muhammad, all of them. They have a grave and
you can go to it. But the most famous man that
ever lived, and this is not my opinion, this
is a fact, Jesus is the most famous man that
ever lived. They have never found his grave after
2 ,000 years because just like the Bible prophesied,
that he loved us so much that he's seen us when
we were in our sin and Christ still loved us
and died for us and that he rose from the dead.
He is alive today. He's in heaven waiting for
us to do the Great Commission and get the gospel
out. Prophecy, the resurrection of Jesus, the
Word of God, which my wife's going to teach on
a little bit tonight, on how to lead somebody
to Jesus in one minute, because we want to be
a little bit practical tonight. Because like
I said, people want to do it, they just don't
know how. So for me, it all started with willingness,
Josh. I started going out on the street, not
getting a lot of results. Getting a little bit,
I started leading people to Jesus. People would
think, what do you even say? What do you start
with? Exactly, what do you start with? You know,
I did the best I could, and God gave me results,
but I got hungry for more. I knew, God, there's
got to be something that works. And ultimately,
it is the Word of God, which she's going to get
into in a second. And it's just preaching the
Word. That's what Peter did on the day of Pentecost.
He preached the Word to them, and it pricked
their hearts. You got to lead people to a decision
with the Word of God, like she's going to get
into. And one other thing I want to talk about
is miracle signs and wonders, what the early
church had. and we've seen great results with
it. The Bible says many believed on Jesus, seeing
the miracles that He did. Romans 15, Paul said,
I have fully presented the Good News, the Gospel.
Why? He said it this way. He said, the Gentiles
are fully persuaded that Jesus is the Messiah
through miracles, signs, and wonders. And through
the power of the Holy Ghost, and in this way,
I have fully presented the Good News of Christ.
See, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Good News,
it's a miracle, signs, and wonders. And the Church
of America and around the world has to get back
to that place where miracles are the regular.
And that's the problem is people go through church
for years and they don't see miracles and then
their faith isn't alive. But when people start
experiencing the power, we see blind eyes open.
We see deaf ears open all the time. It's not
like a random thing. It's a regular thing. And
many believe on Jesus singing. Babe, I want you
to tell them the story about the crusade we did.
Let me just give you a little underline. I gave
an altar call, like I always do, from preaching
the Word, because the Word works. Sometimes you
have to have a little extra for some people who've...
been in religion for a long time or you know
and just don't believe you know they don't like
the Christian thing and so anyways the altar
call was full I don't know how many there was
50 to 100 people it was packed and then tell
them what happened after that bit well usually
whenever he does the altar call then he just
prays for people right but he tells me the the
holy spirit is leading me to do something else
let's do another altar call so he does a second
altar call call for salvation. He starts doing
the altar call. But before doing the altar call,
he said, I feel there's people here that are
deaf and God's going to heal them right now.
So there's this girls that came to the altar.
and he prays for them. Two deaf girls. Two deaf
girls. One of them immediately. She was only
deaf in one ear and immediately the power of
God hit her. She fell down on the floor. She
was crying. She could hear for the first time.
The other girl was totally healed as well. Both
were immediate. And both are on the floor crying,
right? So then he does the second altar call.
Which I never do. Like honestly, since we've
been in ministry, I don't even remember another
time he has done that. And I'm like, he's doing
a second altar call? But that's just me, right?
Because I'm translating. So the second altar
call, powerful. And the altar is packed. And
there's this tall man in the back, like Josh.
He's tall as Josh. 101 people are not told, Josh.
So for us to see a tall man, he could pop up
in the middle of the crowd. He's in the back.
He was staring at us full of tattoos. Arms crossed.
Like he didn't have a face that he was receiving
the work. But as he does the altar call, he comes
to the front, right? He gives his life to Jesus.
He's holding the girls. hand. She was his daughter,
one of the girls that got healed, that she was
deaf. And they both come to the altar crying.
And I remember Justin praying for him. He went
out into the power of God on the floor. touched
by the Holy Spirit and we have talked to the
people from the church that was their first time
coming to church and since then the whole family
is saved they're all serving God in that church
they're all together and their lives have been
totally transformed and it all started with one
miracle actually being obedient and hearing the
voice of the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit
told Justin like pray for deaf people then do
a second altar call they got saved and their
lives are totally transformed and the awesome
thing is that they're serving God you know so
we just give glory to the Lord and the second
altar call was bigger than the first one yes
because the people witnessed all the miracles
you know and it really awakens people up amen
amen I just want to say this like we've ministered
tons of times in many places like the last four
months we preached almost every night but that
night probably it's in our hearts you know it's
one of the biggest moves of God we've ever seen
and it's just for being obedient to the voice
of the Lord yeah and that works anywhere back
when I used to do a lot of street evangelism
I can remember going into Walmart and I seen
a lady she just looked like she was in pain wasn't
like God told me she was in pain she just looked
like she was in pain And I went up to her and
I preached to her like we're going to teach you
guys to do, which is a very high success rate
of working. And she said, no, no, I don't want
to hear about God, you know? I said, well, you
look like you're in a lot of pain. Where's your
pain at, you know? And it's in my back. I said,
what if God heals you right now? When did you
do it then? There's another lady who looked pretty
mean and rough. I didn't know how it was quick.
I said, I'm going to pray for you. I prayed for
her. Immediately, all of her back pain left.
She said, one out of 10, there was a level of
10 back pain. So full. pain, you know? Immediately
she bends over before she even reaches back up.
Tears are streaming down her eyes and she gives
her life to Christ. The woman whose heart was
so hardened towards God was immediately opened
up to God. So we have to, as the body of Christ,
we have to believe for the power of God to be
manifested. And early on in my ministry, I didn't
see results right away. I prayed for people in
there to get healed. But I kept going because
I knew that it was the master key of the gospel.
Jesus said, go into all the world. See, people
already have religion. Go into all the world.
They've already had something they believe and
preach the good news to them. And these signs.
will follow them who believe. They'll lay their
hands on the sick, the sick will recover. They
will cast out demons. Usually not services that
go by when we don't see demons cast out of people.
And it changes people and it makes God, then
you start to really realize God is in your midst
all the time. He's here right now, you know?
And he's a powerful God. So miracles are important.
It's something we should be hungry for. And I
got really hungry for it at the beginning of
my ministry because I didn't see the results
right away. Same thing happened in the great
evangelist T .L. Osborne. He was preaching in,
I believe it was India. And even in their religion,
they believe in Jesus. He was a prophet. They
just cut it off where they say he's the son of
God. And they would listen to his preaching,
but he wasn't getting results. He got hungry.
He started fasting, praying God. You've got to
give me something that's going to reach these
people." And Jesus actually visited him and released
the power of God to him and he went back to India.
We preach in Honduras and we hear stories of
T .L. Osborne coming and the government coming
and the multitudes coming because God gave him
something that was able to reach the people beyond
the word. Now the word is the most powerful thing,
you know. It's what pricks the heart. There's
something, when you release the Word, the Holy
Ghost moves. It's a miracle in itself, really,
because people just think it's telling somebody
the Word. It's just like a dry thing. It's not.
It is a powerful thing. I always encourage people,
go out and approach people. Your flesh doesn't
want to do it, trust me. The Bible says your
flesh is at war with your spirit, and your spirit
is at war with your flesh to keep you from doing
the things you really want to do. See, there's
things as believers, we really want to do, and
the flesh gets in the way. And so I always tell
people, go up to somebody with a teardrop tattoo,
the biggest looking guy, and start with him.
If you can get to him, you can talk to anybody.
That reminds me of what Todd said in his, look
for the person in the family that can change.
Everyone else after them in sales you can call
it selling to the monkey the one is more agreeable
So if you're sitting down with a husband and
wife and you're talking and you're using all
that the body language and the wife is doing
this You talk to her. She's gonna convince him.
Yeah, and if he's the one that's enthralled with
what you're saying Then you talk to him and you're
selling him put your foot in he will lead the
other one. And so you focus on the one that's
more agreeable and let God work through that
person closer to everybody else in his family
or her family. That's smart. And the Holy Ghost
gives us great ideas like that because that's
a promise of the Bible that, you know, I said
in the book of Acts all the time, you and your
whole household will be saved. So sometimes you
got to pinpoint a certain person first, you know.
What we're about to teach the last part is we
do this in a multitude of people, too. Like,
I'll be out in the streets. I won't always go
up to one person. Sometimes we'll go up to five
people at a time, get a whole group together,
and hit them with what we call the soul -witting
script. Quickly, though, before she teaches on
that, I'm just going to give an altar call to
the other people that are listening. You know,
we're going to finish this teaching on how to
win souls, but there could be people listening
right now that even their own soul isn't won.
The Bible says, what does it profit a man if
he gains the whole world but loses his soul?
And there could be people that's listening that
they've gone through their whole life and they've
never given their life to Jesus. I want to just
tell you what the Bible says. Today is the day
of salvation. If there's ever a time in history
where you do not want to put off being right
with God, it's in the time we're living in right
now. If Jesus is coming back at 12 o 'clock,
it's 11 59 59 right now. The disciple said, Jesus,
how will we know when you're going to return?
And he said many things, but he said something
very specific. He said, when you see the fig
tree, but again, he was talking about Israel.
The generation that sees it with their eyes will
not come to pass before I return." So, Israel
was not a nation, and people never thought it
would be a nation again, but just like Jesus
said, the Bible also prophesied about Israel.
Could a nation be born again in one day's time?
So, in the 1940s, the devil raised up a man named
Adolf Hitler. See, that's an important thing
too, a man. The devil needs a man, and God needs
a man or a woman to do his work. None of them
are just working on their own. They're working
through humans. And he raised up a man to wipe
off the Jewish population off the earth, to stop
that prophecy from being fulfilled. But the devil's
a failure, and just like the Bible prophesied,
in one day's time, in 1948, Israel became a nation
again. And Jesus said, when you see this happen,
the generation that sees it with their eyes will
not come to pass before I return. If you do the
math on what 1948 was, we're coming to that very
end right now. The last person to be able to
live a life, let's just say a generation is 100
years. You know, people not fully sure on that
part, whether it's 80, 70, or 100. Still, there's
not much time left. Tick -tock. Tick -tock. And
it's up to us. And if you're listening to now
and you've never given your life to Christ, I
urge you to do it now. Paul said, I work hard
to persuade men knowing the soon terror of the
Lord. And Jesus does not want you to experience
that terror. And that's why we're preaching to
you tonight. That's why they have this podcast,
because we love you and we love people like Jesus
loves you. Two, maybe you're the same now and
you once gave your life to Christ, but you've
fallen away from Him. You're just not living
for Him as you should. I got good news for you,
too. Jesus leaves the 99 to get the one who has
fallen away. You can come back to Him tonight
and determine you're going to live for Him until
you hear that trumpet sound, which is called
the rapture of the church. It is a real event
that's going to happen, and Jesus is going to
come get us soon, and we're going to catch away
out of this world into heaven. and I'm looking
forward to it. So if you fall into any of those
categories, I want you to pray with me right
now. The Bible says if you believe in your heart
that Jesus is the Messiah and that he rose from
the dead and you confess it with your mouth,
you will be saved. This isn't some religious
prayer. Jesus is with you right now. Don't let
this moment pass you by, for God so loved you
that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever
would believe on Him would not perish. So pray
this with me right now. Say it from your heart.
Say it out of your mouth loud to God, and God's
going to meet you right now in your living room,
right in your car, right in your office, wherever
you're at. Say, Lord Jesus Christ, I call on
you today. Forgive me of all my sins. Cleanse
me of all unrighteousness. Jesus, I believe you're
the only way to heaven. I believe you rose from
the dead. Make me new right now. And from this
day forward, God, I will only follow you. God,
you are my father. Heaven is my home. And I will
not turn back in Jesus' name. If you pray that,
I'm telling you, your sins are forgiven. Heaven
is your home. Going into the last part right
now. Tell them, babe. How to lead somebody to
Christ in a minute's time? Well, we learned this
strategy last summer. We went to a summer school
of evangelism in the River Tampa Bay. And I remember
that they would say, you just, you can lead somebody
to the Lord in a minute. And I'm like, how is
that possible? You know, like it seems impossible,
but with God, all things are possible. So God
gave this, this is just a strategy. If somebody's
listening and you're listening to this, this
is just a strategy. It's not written down in
rocks. You can let the Holy Spirit lead you on
how to do it, but this is how we do it. First
of all, as we were all talking, we have to be
willing to go. And the Holy Spirit is the one
that touches people's hearts. So you have to
be full of the Holy Spirit, pray it out, and
then you just go. Because God doesn't sit with
the sitters. He goes with the goers. So we need
to go. It's not gonna happen in your couch. It's
not gonna happen watching TV. You have to go
to the street. So you just go to one person.
We recommend that you always go in couples. The
Bible says that Jesus sent the disciples in couples,
in twos, you know? So there should be always
somebody with you, just... It's good to have
somebody with you. I used to go alone all the
time. Just for wisdom, you know? Yeah, just for
wisdom. It's an advice that we give, right? So
the first thing, this is called the Gospel Soul
Winning Script. It's in all the languages. It's
online. You can look it up or we can post it
whenever... We can put it on the notes and the
description. And the first thing, you ask a question.
Has anyone ever told you that God loves you and
that he has a wonderful plan for your life? You
just approach people. You don't ask them if they
have a minute. You are compelling people. There's
an urgency. You know, American people, if you
ask them, hey, do you have a minute? People are
gonna say no. So you just go straight. All right,
can I pray for you? No, and people are gonna
say no. Just go right up to them. So you ask
them something. It's a yes or no. Question has
anyone ever told you that God loves you and that
he has a wonderful plan for your life? So you
say yes, no, nobody has told me or most people
say yes. And then you go quickly to the second
question because remember, people don't have
time. This is not something that they want to
be all day long. You got a minute. You have a
minute to do this. I have a real quick but important
question to ask you. If you were to die this
very second, do you know for sure beyond a shadow
of a doubt that you would go to heaven? Some
people would say, yes, because I've been a good
person. Other people would say, no, I'm not sure.
And that's whenever you tell them, we recommend
you to get this script and you just read the
script. And you say. Depending on what they answer
you say, let me quickly share with you what the
holy Bible reads We are teaching we're preaching
the word because the word always works as I'm
telling you this I remember going out in Tampa
I was in Walmart and I was doing my training
with the soul winning script we go to this couple
and I did the same thing I'm like, has anybody
told you that God loves you and he has a great
plan for your life? And the husband said, no,
we are Catholics and we don't want to hear about
it. So you keep going with the script. That's
what you do. So then I'm like, let me ask you
a quick question. If you were going to die today,
do you know without a shadow of a doubt if you
would go to heaven? And they said, no. They didn't
know. They weren't sure if they were going to
go to heaven. And then I went with the script.
Let me quickly share with you what the Holy Bible
says. It says that we have all sinned and come
short of the glory of God and for the wages of
sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord. And the Bible
also says that whosoever calls on the name of
the Lord shall be saved. And you're a whosoever,
right? That's what I told them. And they said,
yes. And then we kept going with the script.
And then I'm like, just repeat after me. Dear
Lord Jesus. And they said, dear Lord Jesus. As
they said, dear Lord Jesus. The wife starts crying
like a baby. Dear Lord Jesus, come into my heart.
Forgive me of my sins. I repent of my sins today.
I ask to be away from my old life. My sins are
forgiven. Write my name in the Lamb's Book of
Life. From today, I'm a new person. And they
prayed with me. Both of them prayed with me,
the prayer of salvation. Then as we are praying,
the Holy Spirit showed me like a vision of her.
She had problems to sleep. She was suffering
of anxiety. So I started praying for her and
she was totally delivered. She was totally free.
And they asked me for the information of the
church, and they said they were going to start
going to the church. Three scriptures. Three
scriptures. Tell them real quickly again, three
scriptures. The three scriptures. Everybody has
sinned. Everybody has sinned and has fallen short
of the glory of God. And the wages of sin is
eternal death. But then it says, but the Bible
also says that the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. And whosoever
calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
are the word. Everything that I said is the word
and the word always works. So we just want to
encourage you. This is a strategy. As I said,
they're going to write it on the description.
It's a way that you can win somebody to the Lord.
And maybe you might be asking, what if I cannot
take them to church? What if I cannot? The Bible
says that somebody plants the seed, another person
waters the seed, and probably another person's
going to see the fruit of that seed that you
planted. But definitely invite them, though.
Invite them to church. But you need to go. Yes,
you need to go and you need to start going and
letting the Holy Spirit direct you, because the
time is now. And as my husband said, today is
the day of salvation. Amen. We've seen tons of
people. This thing works. I've been doing it
for years before we went there. It works. Last
time I said, do the work of an evangelist and
make foolproof of your ministry in Jesus. Amen.
Amen. I have listened to a YouTuber. He does
more than YouTuber. His name is Ray Comfort.
Oh, yeah, right. And he has Church of Living
Waters. And his evangelism is almost spot on
to that. He has a few other qualifying things
and gets them going. He modifies. It makes it
his own. But he starts off with that. Do you
know where you're going to go? Yes. Yeah. And
so when you said that, I was like, hey, that
sounds very familiar. And he evangelizes. testimonies
he's got lots of people that have been changed
yeah by the power of jesus in their life when
they when they realize like when they get all
the pieces laid in front of them they can see
all the information and they can finally make
an informed decision sure right i've watched
his videos as well yeah it's it's it makes total
sense yeah yeah absolutely so when you said that
i was like oh this is so incredible you know
yeah that's exactly what this other guy does
yeah that's fun yeah yeah he what he does works
well he does it longer i think he tells him ahead
of time though you know take a little time but
But you just have to trust the Holy Spirit. It
works. Because it does work. In the last testimony
about that, one of the girls that was part of
the School of Evangelism, she said that somebody
approached to her, because in Tampa this is common.
This church goes out every day with tons of people
to do evangelism. She did the script. She said
that at the moment, I'm like, I don't care. I'm
just going to do it for this lady to leave me
alone. But something was planted there. Months
went by. She was on drugs. She was addicted to
heroin. She was addicted to meth. She was about
to go to jail. She was in her car and she said,
Lord, I cannot do this anymore. She said that
she remembered the prayer that she did with this
lady that was the script. The power of the Holy
Spirit came upon her. She said that day she was
free from addiction, from heroin, from meth.
She found the church, the river church, and she
started assisting to the church, congregating
there. She's in Bible school, and now she's in
full -time ministry. And she says, it started
with a script. I didn't understand what I was
saying. I didn't understand what I was doing,
but the Holy Spirit knows your heart. And He's
the one that leads you into salvation. Praise
God. We praise the Lord for that. Yeah. I was
wondering if we can end this if you can end it
with a blessing and if you could translate into
Spanish as you know for the start of our new
our new season to just include another group
of people that we are unable to reach because
you know we don't speak Spanish and so I'd love
that I'd love to have a blessing if you could
just speak a blessing and if you could repeat
that blessing I think that would be a wonderful
thing. Well thanks again for having us on and
yeah amen let's pray. Father, we just thank you
for this wonderful evening. Don't let this word
come back void. but transform these people into
mighty soul winners. And we bless this ministry
in Jesus' name. Let it bear double the fruit
this year than it did last year. For the glory
of your name and the increase of your kingdom.
And every person listening at the sound of my
voice, God is with you right now. And I call
you blessed in Jesus' name. And may the days
ahead of you be the greatest days of your life.
Because the Bible says we go from glory to glory,
victory to victory, strength to strength. So
God bless you in Jesus' mighty name. I love you
so much. Amen. Amen. And no vemos pronto. See
you soon. That's awesome. Thank you so much.
I love it. Thank you guys. Thank you so much.
I can feel the Holy Spirit. I got the tears going
and stuff and it was just a delight to have you
guys with us. We have to do this again soon.
Yes. We can do that. For sure. Because we can
do what we want. That's good. You guys can. That's
good. And whatever the Holy Spirit wants for
sure. Amen. All right. And then if this has been
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we got a new studio that we're sitting in these
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and just update the studio so it's good gets
for professional studio in -house what a blessing
God has blessed us with and it's just I can't
wait to see what He does this next year Guys,
you're believing for video stuff this year? Yes.
I have people that the Lord keeps placing me
within, like their expertise is in these things.
And so I just pick their brain. I'm like, what
do I do? So I got lighting. So that'll be neat.
And then, well, I got one light that's for social
media, but just baby steps and we'll have like
a wish list. and then God will make it happen.
He has so far. We are definitely believers. We
have definitely been through some things. We
definitely know His power. We definitely know
He is for us. We have seen healings. We believe
miracles. There is nothing this world can throw
at us that would dissuade our belief in our God.
I was also on heroin once. And I was healed of
17 years of chronic neck and shoulder pain for
those of you who don't know yet. So we'll just
throw that out there. So I'm a believer. Hallelujah.
Oh, goodness. Well, with that, we'll talk to
you next time. Thank you.