1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,480 You do not understand how the kingdom of heaven works. 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:04,760 You don't think you have anything, but what do you have?" 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:05,600 And they said, 4 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,160 well, we only have five loaves and a couple fish. 5 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,080 And he said, give it to me. 6 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,760 And when they gave it to him, he blessed it and gave it back. 7 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,040 That's what Jesus is asking us to do. 8 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:16,680 We come to him with these attitudes 9 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,560 of we don't have anything to give, I'm not good enough. 10 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,440 Because of the things I've done in my life, 11 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,020 how could Jesus ever use me? 12 00:00:24,020 --> 00:00:25,680 What Jesus is saying to you is, 13 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,840 look, I don't care what you have. 14 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,080 I just want what you have to be given to me. 15 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:31,840 I'll bless it and give it back. 16 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,040 Then when I give it back, you give it away. 17 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,400 And when you give it away, look what I do with it. 18 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:37,400 God promises in Joel 2.28 19 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:44,400 God promises in Joel 2.28 20 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,840 to pour out his spirit on all humanity. 21 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,640 Welcome to global outpouring, 22 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,120 where we contend for that promised outpouring, 23 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,960 we equip for that outpouring, 24 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,000 so that we may engage in that very outpouring. 25 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,200 I'm Philip Bus. 26 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:01,200 And I'm Sharon Bus. 27 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,080 Welcome to the podcast today. 28 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,000 We're so delighted that you're with us. 29 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,920 And we are delighted to have with us 30 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:08,800 some very, very special guests, 31 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,840 very, very dear friends of ours, John and Linda Thomas. 32 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,280 They are neighbors and they are close to us, 33 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,480 helping us in lots and lots of ways. 34 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,320 And they have testimonies that are going to help you 35 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:26,200 to grow in your walk with God as you prepare 36 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,640 for the outpouring. 37 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:28,640 Thanks so much for joining us today. 38 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,640 We just want to encourage you, 39 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,520 if you haven't already done so, 40 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,040 to go to our website, globaloutpouring.net, 41 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,120 and be sure that you have gotten onto our email list 42 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,040 so that we can be in touch with you, 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we've got wonderful things for you to explore 70 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,120 on the website too, our blogs and our bookstore and so on. 71 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,680 So make sure that you have taken the opportunity 72 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,240 to look around there and get fed. 73 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:06,360 That's what this is all about. 74 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,360 We want to equip you to be ready for the outpouring. 75 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,120 So today we have with us John and Linda Thomas. 76 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,440 Welcome to the podcast today. 77 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,040 Thank you so much. We're so honored to be on here. 78 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:21,040 Yeah, thank you guys. 79 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,640 We love you and we just appreciate the opportunity. 80 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,520 So God brought you here sovereignly. 81 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,840 Tell us real quickly about how God brought you to this place. 82 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:33,960 God is so good. 83 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:37,000 We were in North Dakota, actually. 84 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,760 We're from Washington state originally, 85 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,160 but we had moved to North Dakota. 86 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,960 And through a long story for a different time, 87 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,960 He showed us, He showed John in a dream, Springfield. 88 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,080 And we realized after about a year 89 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,280 that it was Springfield, Missouri. 90 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,440 And so we had God used people in our lives. 91 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,600 We had people we just met give us verses from Him, 92 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,640 like go into the land that I've sent you 93 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,880 and I'll tell you what to do. 94 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,720 And so we were hearing His voice 95 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,280 and we were having confirmation coming at us 96 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,360 from all directions. 97 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,640 And so we packed everything up and we moved to Springfield. 98 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,320 And so He planted us in Springfield, 99 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,280 but the very first weekend we got to Springfield, 100 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:26,160 there was ministry going on in Jasper, Arkansas. 101 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,400 And so we followed a friend of ours 102 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:29,880 who was ministering up here 103 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,440 and walked into global outpouring, 104 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,760 brand new in the state, had only been here two days 105 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,960 and got to meet Phil and Sharon and it was amazing. 106 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,640 So that friend of yours is Dean Brexton. 107 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,720 And we have come to love him so much. 108 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,720 That was his first time here 109 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,080 and you showed up for his first time here 110 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,080 and it's like, click, something happened in the spirit. 111 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,880 And we're so excited how God has just knit our hearts 112 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:04,000 together and so you've been really mentored by Him 113 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,400 in a way that a lot of people 114 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,440 have not had opportunity to do. 115 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,240 So John, tell us a little bit about your background 116 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,880 and how you came to the Lord. 117 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,600 Well, I was raised in the church. 118 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,360 My mom took us to church every Sunday. 119 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,920 And from the time I was very little, 120 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,720 I would say I was very close to Jesus. 121 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:28,520 When I was like two years old, three years old, 122 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,480 my very best friend in the world was Jesus. 123 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,320 My mom used to say that I would go into my bedroom closet 124 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:35,840 and she'd go, John, what are you doing in there? 125 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:38,320 And I'd say, I'm spending time with Jesus. 126 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,400 I'm with Jesus. 127 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,680 I had this little white Bible that had, 128 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:46,400 it was a kid's Bible, so it had lots of pictures. 129 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,680 And my favorite thing in the world when I was young 130 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,760 was to open up that Bible and read the words in red 131 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,360 that I knew were the words of my Jesus. 132 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,280 And so I was really raised close to Jesus. 133 00:05:57,280 --> 00:05:59,960 I loved Him from the time I was very little, 134 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:03,080 but then the world got involved and my flesh got involved. 135 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,040 The next thing you know, I was out 136 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,840 really living a lukewarm life. 137 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:10,680 I spent my teenage years into my late twenties. 138 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,360 Well, really all the way up until just a few years ago, 139 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,760 very, very lukewarm. 140 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,360 What I like to tell people is is that, 141 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,840 yeah, I really believe I was still born again, 142 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:24,360 but I wasn't operating in the spirit. 143 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,120 I was living by my flesh. 144 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,200 And so I was really my own God. 145 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:30,360 I was my own God. 146 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,480 I did things the way I wanted to do them. 147 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:33,880 I did what I wanted to do. 148 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:35,960 I paid zero attention to what the Holy Spirit 149 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,000 was saying to me other than occasionally, 150 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,360 He'd give me a drain that I would know, 151 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:42,640 okay, that is from the Lord 152 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,200 and I need to pay some attention to that. 153 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,680 But still for literally decades, I was my own God. 154 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,280 And Jesus was basically somebody 155 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:52,640 who I put on the back burner. 156 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:54,440 I don't want you to be Lord of my life. 157 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,600 I do want you to save me and I wanna go to heaven. 158 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,560 I don't wanna go to hell, 159 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,040 but I wanna be in charge for now. 160 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,200 That was basically my attitude. 161 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:04,920 And one of the amazing things that happened 162 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:06,480 when Linda and I were in North Dakota, 163 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,440 we had moved there to be near family 164 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,680 and that relationship with my brother who lived there 165 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,440 really fell apart at the same time. 166 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,600 The relationship with my dad really fell apart. 167 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,920 I just was left in a spot where I had to go, 168 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:20,800 you know what Lord, 169 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,200 I am done trying to please my earthly dad. 170 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:24,880 I really only wanna please you now. 171 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,360 And it led me to doing a three day fast. 172 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,800 And after I did that three day fast, 173 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,000 basically the Lord moved me into a spot 174 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,880 where he gave me a dream about Springfield, Missouri. 175 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,480 And at that same time, 176 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,960 he was just starting to move in my life. 177 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,760 Basically what it was was I came to this point 178 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,840 where I was done doing things my own way now 179 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,120 because of these relationships that were falling apart. 180 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,160 And you know, when you're doing things your own way, 181 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,680 the enemy just gets to come in 182 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,160 and he operates in these cycles. 183 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,320 Things happen over and over again. 184 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,320 I was involved in addiction to pornography. 185 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:01,320 And you know, it is so hurtful to Linda 186 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:02,800 when I was involved in that stuff. 187 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,680 And so thankfully the Lord just got ahold of me 188 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:06,800 and broke my heart for that. 189 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,800 Like Lord, I don't wanna be this person 190 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,080 that's acting like this anymore. 191 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,360 I'm done doing it my own way. 192 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,400 Through our friend Dean Braxton, 193 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,440 after I had done this three day fast, 194 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,000 Dean texted me and he said, 195 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,320 John, I really believe the Lord wants you to be praying 196 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,080 in tongues for an hour a day for a month. 197 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:25,680 And then at the end of that time, 198 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,200 do a seven day Daniel fast. 199 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,080 And he's really gonna be showing you 200 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:31,320 what he wants you to be doing. 201 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,280 Well, not too long before that, 202 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,000 I didn't believe praying in tongues was for me. 203 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,400 Basically, I thought it was weird. 204 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:42,040 I didn't want to do something that wasn't controlled by me 205 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:44,920 because I'm still dealing with being in control 206 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,040 of everything myself, you know? 207 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,520 But I knew the Lord, actually, 208 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,600 he had given me a dream during that time period 209 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,840 where he showed me becoming a prayer warrior. 210 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,600 And I knew he wanted me to be praying 211 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,000 in my prayer language in tongues. 212 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,640 And so when Dean reached out to me, 213 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:00,760 I just said, Dean, help me out with this 214 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,600 because I've basically told the Lord, 215 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,200 if you want me to be praying in tongues, 216 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,080 you have to force it upon me and it just has to happen. 217 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,280 And Dean really outlined the scriptures 218 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,200 that went through praying in tongues. 219 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,560 Paul says, I wish you all prayed in tongues. 220 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:18,280 It's something that the Lord really has 221 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,800 for everybody that's born again. 222 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:23,560 And what I came to find out is that really, 223 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:27,160 anybody who's born again has access to that prayer language, 224 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,200 but so many of us, because we're stubborn, 225 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,640 because we wanna be in control, 226 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,600 we choose not to access that. 227 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,200 We say, if it's gonna happen, it's gotta happen 228 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,280 the certain way that I predetermined, Lord, 229 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:39,200 that you get to do it. 230 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:40,600 And if you wanna do it any other way, 231 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:41,680 then it can't happen. 232 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:45,480 And just being my own God, right? 233 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,680 I'm dictating to God how this has to happen. 234 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:49,800 And that's not how things work. 235 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,080 And so thankfully, you know, he got through to me 236 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,680 and I just said, I came to a spot where I said, 237 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,240 Jesus, I trust you. 238 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,040 I don't trust me, but I trust you. 239 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,520 And if you want me to be praying in tongues, 240 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,040 then I'm just gonna trust you and go for it. 241 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:06,520 And so I had to transition from a spot 242 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,800 where I wanted the Lord to just force it upon me 243 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,280 and realize, no, it's something 244 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,000 that he's already deposited in me. 245 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,880 And by faith, I'm gonna get ahold of it. 246 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,920 So I just started praying in tongues and pretty darn soon, 247 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,560 I'm like, this is my prayer language. 248 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:20,920 It became very clear. 249 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,040 And so I went ahead and I did that 30 days 250 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,440 of praying in the Spirit. 251 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,720 I did the seven day Daniel fast. 252 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,640 And really during that time, 253 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,760 not understanding all the benefits of doing that, 254 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,560 but during that time, the pornography just melted off of me. 255 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:38,400 Glory to God. 256 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,080 Linda had an addiction to alcohol 257 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:41,560 that literally melted off of her. 258 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:45,040 It was like the praying in tongues in the house 259 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:48,200 was literally changing the atmosphere in the house, 260 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,200 bringing down a heavenly atmosphere 261 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,360 instead of a fleshly earthly atmosphere. 262 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,320 And it literally was just changing all this stuff, 263 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,760 all the junk that we had been involved in in our flesh. 264 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:00,040 It was just melting it off. 265 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:01,160 Praise God. 266 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:02,880 Glory to God. 267 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,840 That is a key for contending. 268 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:05,960 Yeah. 269 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:06,800 Wow. 270 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:07,640 Absolutely. 271 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:08,520 It was amazing. 272 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,680 I didn't even realize he was praying in tongues. 273 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,000 And all of a sudden, within a few days, 274 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,960 it was like I woke up from almost like a fog 275 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,040 and was like, wait a minute, 276 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,960 I'm drinking wine every day after work. 277 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,400 I don't need to do this anymore. 278 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,920 I don't need this anymore. 279 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:27,280 I can actually stop doing this. 280 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:28,920 And it wasn't just that, 281 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,240 it was even the fact that I was focusing on my own needs 282 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,800 to try to get them met as far as physically, 283 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:39,600 taking medicine for pain and all kinds of other things, 284 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,800 trying to make myself feel good 285 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,640 instead of letting the Holy Spirit do it. 286 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,160 And once all those things melted off of me, 287 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,760 it was like I had brand new eyes to see and hear God, 288 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,320 and he was able to take care of those needs for me. 289 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:56,160 It was amazing. 290 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:57,240 Praise God, amen. 291 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:58,400 Wow. 292 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:03,400 So how long was it before you moved here after that fast? 293 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:07,160 It all happened pretty quick. 294 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:11,160 The fast, I think, was at the end of the year 295 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:12,520 prior to when we moved. 296 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,280 So probably in like September or October, 297 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,600 and we were moved down there by what? 298 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,480 June or July of the next year? 299 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,240 Yep, late summer. 300 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,600 And so, yeah, from that point, 301 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,400 when I decided that I was done doing it my way, 302 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:32,000 and tongues, praying in tongues, 303 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,720 it's not the end-all answer. 304 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,240 It's just part of the toolbox, 305 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,920 the tools that God gives us, 306 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:41,800 but it is a very powerful tool. 307 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,000 And so you can get to the places 308 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,720 where the Lord wants you to be without that, 309 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,560 but what we saw demonstrated is that praying in tongues 310 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:50,880 is so powerful. 311 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,120 It was literally shifting things quicker 312 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,360 than they could ever be shifted in the natural. 313 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,760 And I really believe it's because when, 314 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,040 Jesus says if you pray without doubting, 315 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,640 knowing that you have what you pray for, 316 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,640 you're gonna get what you are asking for. 317 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:08,720 And when you're praying in tongues, 318 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,000 Bible teaches us that we're literally praying out 319 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:12,400 God's perfect will. 320 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,720 The Holy Spirit is praying out the things 321 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:17,400 that we don't even know how to ask or what to say. 322 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,360 He's praying it out perfectly in that prayer language. 323 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:21,880 And so we're getting it, 324 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:23,520 whether we know what we're praying for or not, 325 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:24,360 we're getting it. 326 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:25,520 So it is so powerful. 327 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:27,200 So I would encourage anybody 328 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,800 if you've been kind of hesitant in that. 329 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,120 You know, the biggest thing is I was worried about, 330 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,040 basically because I was operating through my flesh, 331 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:39,520 I was worried about having control over it. 332 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,400 I thought, well, if I don't have control over it, 333 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,680 then maybe the enemy could operate through me in some way 334 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:46,640 because I don't know what I'm saying. 335 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:47,480 But I would say to you, 336 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,600 if you're someone who is thinking that way, 337 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,440 because I think that a lot of people do, 338 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,440 and that's actually taught by several groups, 339 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,400 is that if your heart is that you do not want to say anything 340 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,040 that's not honoring to God, 341 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:01,880 then you don't have to worry about it. 342 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,360 If your heart is that you want to honor God 343 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:05,880 in your prayer language and you're worried 344 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,160 about something coming through that's not from him, 345 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,920 then you're really in the perfect spot to engage in it. 346 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,560 So I would just encourage you to just go for it. 347 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:15,400 It is so powerful. 348 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:16,240 Amen. 349 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:17,080 Amen. 350 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,160 That reminds me of a scripture. 351 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,560 Luke 11 says, 352 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:25,040 "'If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, 353 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,000 will he give him a stone? 354 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,680 Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a snake? 355 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,880 Or if he shall ask for an egg, 356 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,000 will he offer him a scorpion?' 357 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:36,940 Verse 13 says, 358 00:14:36,940 --> 00:14:39,000 "'If you then, being evil, 359 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,360 know how to give good gifts unto your children, 360 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,840 how much more shall your heavenly father 361 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,040 give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?' 362 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,000 And that's part of the Holy Spirit, 363 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,480 part of the Holy Spirit is this wonderful gift 364 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,580 of a language to communicate directly 365 00:14:55,580 --> 00:14:56,720 with our Father's heart. 366 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:57,760 It's wonderful. 367 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:58,600 Yeah, same there. 368 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,280 I don't know how we have managed without it. 369 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,520 I mean, there's a whole lot of things that God does 370 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:10,520 that it's just beyond our ability to really comprehend 371 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,780 all the things that he manages to put in place 372 00:15:12,780 --> 00:15:14,040 with such broken people. 373 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,000 That's amazing to me. 374 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,040 Yeah. 375 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:21,920 So John, you are a master electrician 376 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,800 and God is using you in the workplace. 377 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,840 He's really given you a burden as an evangelist. 378 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:29,880 Tell us how you came to that 379 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:34,120 and tell us some stories of what God has done. 380 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:35,220 Yeah, wow. 381 00:15:35,220 --> 00:15:37,280 He's been so faithful. 382 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,640 When we moved down here, I immediately got a job. 383 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,480 This was a miraculous event in its own right, 384 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,760 but I got a job subcontracting for a company 385 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,680 where I get to drive all over Missouri, 386 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:51,200 sometimes down into Arkansas, 387 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,440 but I'm going to these mental health facilities 388 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,160 and mostly doing access control work 389 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,040 where you have to swipe a key fob to get in. 390 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,160 And because I'm at these facilities for several days 391 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,420 and because the Lord has just made me 392 00:16:04,420 --> 00:16:06,040 so that I'm on fire for him now, 393 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,560 I get to go into these places and pray over them, 394 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,160 pray over these people, pray over their destinies. 395 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,120 But what was happening as I started to do this 396 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,680 is I would go out after work and go to the Minute Mart 397 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:21,760 or go to the park down the road, spend a little time, 398 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:23,480 because most of this I'm on the road 399 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:24,720 and I'm staying in motels. 400 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,520 And so I'm just trying to keep myself busy after work. 401 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,800 And I'd go talk to people about Jesus 402 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,520 and man, it just wasn't going well. 403 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:33,840 It just wasn't going well. 404 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,600 And what I realized is, 405 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,840 Lord, I'm really trying to do this in my own strength. 406 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,040 I haven't asked you to be involved. 407 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:42,340 And yeah, I was giving them scripture 408 00:16:42,340 --> 00:16:44,600 and I was talking to them about Jesus, 409 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,440 but I was really trying to do it on my own strength. 410 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,960 And so after going to this Minute Mart for a snack, 411 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,520 this one particular day where I talked to these two guys 412 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:53,680 and when I witnessed to them, 413 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,480 man, one of them just got angry and bounced out of there. 414 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:00,240 And the other one, he was nice and listened to me, 415 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,120 let me pray for him, but literally nothing happened 416 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,100 in terms of them giving their life to Jesus 417 00:17:05,100 --> 00:17:07,120 or making a decision or, you know, 418 00:17:07,120 --> 00:17:09,600 it just was hard for me to deal with. 419 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,320 I said, I went back to my hotel room. 420 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,360 I literally just laid down flat on the floor. 421 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:17,160 I said, Jesus, I cannot do this on my own. 422 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,840 I so greatly want to be involved in getting people saved, 423 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,060 getting people to know you, 424 00:17:22,060 --> 00:17:24,200 getting people to experience your love 425 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:26,100 the way that you have shown it to me, 426 00:17:26,100 --> 00:17:29,280 getting people to experience getting set free from the junk 427 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:31,080 like you've done from me. 428 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:33,900 And so I just, I started crying out for souls. 429 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:36,000 Literally I was saying, Lord, give me souls. 430 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,200 Father, I just want to have souls and it can't be me. 431 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:40,160 It has to be you. 432 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,200 I just, however I can help in that, Lord, 433 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:44,920 just show me. 434 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,920 And literally the next day after work, 435 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:48,680 after praying that prayer, 436 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:50,220 I'm working up in Columbia, Missouri, 437 00:17:50,220 --> 00:17:51,280 which is a college town. 438 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,520 They have these electric scooters all over the place. 439 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,400 You can get an app on your phone and rent these scooters. 440 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:57,240 And I'd never done that. 441 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,320 I thought I'm going to take one of these scooters for a ride. 442 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:01,680 And so I rode this scooter down into a park 443 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:03,840 where this young man walked in right by me 444 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:07,860 with his little German shepherd puppy, tiny little puppy. 445 00:18:07,860 --> 00:18:09,960 And so I had to go talk to him. 446 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,000 I said, man, that is the cutest little dog. 447 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,600 And I just started chatting with him with, 448 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,080 actually I was not thinking about witnessing to him 449 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:18,520 about Jesus and this is how good Jesus is. 450 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,880 He just set this appointment up. 451 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,760 As I'm talking to this kid, all of a sudden, 452 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,160 I heard in my spirit, here you go. 453 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,920 Here you go, son. 454 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,160 I said, whoa, really? 455 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,760 Okay. And so this is just going on in the back of my mind. 456 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,640 Really, Lord, this is an appointment for me. 457 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:36,020 You want me to talk to him about you? 458 00:18:36,020 --> 00:18:38,800 And next thing you know, and he just let it in. 459 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,760 Jesus led the conversation so smoothly and perfectly 460 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,720 into this spot where I shared Jesus. 461 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,520 I shared what he's done in my life. 462 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,560 I shared how good he is. 463 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,720 And this kid had been involved in drugs. 464 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,200 He'd been involved in witchcraft. 465 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:52,920 He told me that at 13 years old, 466 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,520 his mom called him into the living room with his stepdad 467 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:57,760 and got him hooked on methamphetamines. 468 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:58,920 Oh, wow. 469 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,320 And so he just had this broken life 470 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,120 and I got to share with him, hey, Jesus is the chain breaker. 471 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:05,560 Here's what he's done in my life. 472 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:06,400 He is so good. 473 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:07,600 He loves you so much. 474 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,200 And that young man accepted Jesus Christ, 475 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,480 gave his life to Jesus Christ right there in the park. 476 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:13,320 Thank you, Father. 477 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,160 How long do you? 478 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,840 And so immediately I was on cloud nine like, whoa, Jesus. 479 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:18,680 Thank you. 480 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,400 You mean all I had to do was invite you in 481 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:21,400 and give it to you? 482 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:26,400 What a concept, right? 483 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:27,480 Praise God. 484 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:28,480 Amen. 485 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,800 When we try to do it on our own, it just doesn't work. 486 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:33,640 But inviting him in, he brings the power. 487 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:37,400 And so the little that we bring to the table, 488 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,180 if we'll just give it to him, he brings all the power. 489 00:19:40,180 --> 00:19:41,360 He sets it all up. 490 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:44,000 He really does all the work. 491 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,280 Amen. 492 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,080 That is so powerful. 493 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,960 So the Lord spoke to you 494 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:55,120 about starting to have a healing meeting. 495 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:58,320 And when you preach Jesus as the healer, 496 00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,800 he begins to show up as the healer. 497 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,260 When you preach him as the savior, he shows up as savior. 498 00:20:03,260 --> 00:20:05,920 When you preach about him as the baptizer 499 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,040 in the Holy Spirit, he shows up as the baptizer 500 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:08,880 in the Holy Spirit. 501 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:13,880 So he will accommodate how we follow his spirit 502 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:15,640 to present him. 503 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,360 So tell us something about some of the healings 504 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:20,240 that you've seen. 505 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,360 Yeah, that's been incredible too. 506 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:23,680 You know, when Dean had told me 507 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,040 that the Lord wanted me to do that, 508 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,800 praying in tongues for 30 days, then do the Daniel fast, 509 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,920 he told me after that, the Lord would reveal to me 510 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,440 what he wanted me to be doing. 511 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,120 And after I did those things, 512 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:36,840 I had two different dreams about healing. 513 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,960 In the first dream, I was in a place that looked to me 514 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,820 like down on the piers in Seattle, right? 515 00:20:42,820 --> 00:20:44,760 By the Puget Sound there, 516 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,820 there's elevated highways overhead. 517 00:20:46,820 --> 00:20:49,200 And then there's a bunch of businesses underneath 518 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,880 that sort of in a rundown area, 519 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,320 you know, not a very good area down there anymore. 520 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,200 And I was down there and I walked into this building 521 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,360 that happened to where somebody was living. 522 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:00,800 This couple was living in there 523 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,800 and a man was sitting on the bed. 524 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,560 He was hunched over, his whole body was deformed. 525 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,120 And I didn't see him from the front, 526 00:21:08,120 --> 00:21:11,080 but I knew by the spirit that even his face was deformed. 527 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:12,980 And I just walked up to him in this dream, 528 00:21:12,980 --> 00:21:15,760 I put my hand on his back, I said a real quick prayer. 529 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:17,920 I didn't even get to hear what I prayed. 530 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,080 I just prayed a quick prayer, put my hand on him 531 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:22,800 and instantly Jesus healed him. 532 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,120 He straightened up, his body was restored. 533 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:26,680 And then I knew also by the spirit 534 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,760 that his face was fully restored. 535 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,680 And then I looked at his wife, 536 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,200 who was standing there on the other side of him. 537 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,080 And I said, that is our Jesus. 538 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,040 That is our Jesus. 539 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,840 And then the Lord gave me a dream like a few days later, 540 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:41,920 same sort of a thing. 541 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,960 I was in a place where actually this young lady 542 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,680 was riding her bicycle and got into an accident 543 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,280 on her bicycle and opened up a wound on her wrist 544 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,880 that was pretty major. 545 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,180 She was on the ground, like in the fetal position 546 00:21:56,180 --> 00:21:58,240 with her wrist underneath her in pain. 547 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,660 And I just walked up to her, I put my hand on her shoulder, 548 00:22:00,660 --> 00:22:02,360 I said a quick prayer again. 549 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:04,680 And then instantly the scene changed. 550 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:09,520 She, this young woman was in a bathroom sort of washing up 551 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,840 and all the concerned family was outside. 552 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:12,680 I was there with them. 553 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:13,960 She walked out of the bathroom. 554 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,720 And this was really moments after I had prayed for her. 555 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:17,840 She walked out of the bathroom 556 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,880 and her wrist was completely healed. 557 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,200 Glory to God. 558 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,000 And everybody was just flabbergasted. 559 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,720 And I looked at that girl's mom and I said, 560 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,660 that is our Jesus. 561 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:29,720 But you know what? 562 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:34,080 I was still not really understanding of the whole thing. 563 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,700 And so I talked to Dean not too long after that. 564 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,520 I said, Dean, I did this 30 days of praying in tongues. 565 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:41,880 I did the Daniel fast. 566 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,320 I don't know what I'm supposed to do. 567 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:44,320 The only thing that's happened 568 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,440 is I've had these dreams about healing. 569 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,420 And he said, John, that's it. 570 00:22:48,420 --> 00:22:49,360 That's it. 571 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:53,280 Lord wants you to be involved in healing 572 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,600 and move into a healing ministry. 573 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,760 I said, whoa, Lord, whoa, okay. 574 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:01,360 So, you know, then immediately 575 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:03,520 I started reading scriptures about healing 576 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,680 and because Linda and I, we came up in churches 577 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,900 that really didn't teach healing. 578 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:12,520 And we sort of were taught that, yeah, 579 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,400 Jesus is still the healer, 580 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,940 but we weren't taught that we could know 581 00:23:16,940 --> 00:23:18,720 that his will is to heal. 582 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,200 And so as I started studying the scriptures, 583 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,160 it just became more and more clear, 584 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,160 it is his will to heal. 585 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,840 Part of one of his names is healer. 586 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,280 Your name is your character. 587 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,800 If your character is healer, then it is always healer. 588 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,400 He had never changes his character. 589 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,440 The Bible says that he never changes. 590 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:44,440 If he was healer, he is healer, he always will be healer. 591 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,600 And so our attitude, my attitude just shifted on that. 592 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,840 And then of course, Mark 16, you know, 593 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:53,120 and to any who believe they'll lay hands on the sick 594 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:54,920 and they shall recover among other things, 595 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:56,620 but I was focused on the healing. 596 00:23:56,620 --> 00:23:59,240 So I just said, Jesus, if you say for me 597 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,320 to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover, 598 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,440 that's what I'm gonna do. 599 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,000 And I'm gonna believe you for it. 600 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:04,840 Amen. 601 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,720 And so, yeah, we started praying for people for healing. 602 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,300 And you know, the Saturday night healing service 603 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:11,640 that the Lord had a start there 604 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,160 at the Global Outpouring Campus, 605 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:15,220 that's just been incredible. 606 00:24:15,220 --> 00:24:16,940 We started that last May. 607 00:24:16,940 --> 00:24:19,080 And of course, our good friend, Bob Baldwin, 608 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,000 who's been part of the ministry for years and years, 609 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,160 he joined up with us. 610 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,560 And really quite a bit of the community 611 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,360 had started to come in right in the beginning. 612 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:30,200 Bob was driving around inviting people 613 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,520 and telling people to show up. 614 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,080 And so it was neat because right off the bat, 615 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,080 we just had a bunch of people from the community 616 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:40,320 who weren't really going for it with Jesus strongly. 617 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,760 You know, we had a few people who maybe were born again, 618 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,640 but still living in the flesh like I had been. 619 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,800 And we just said, hey, listen, 620 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,960 the Bible says that Jesus is still the healer. 621 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,480 So let us lay hands on you and let's see what happens. 622 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,160 You know, what do you got to lose? 623 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,160 What have you got to lose? 624 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,600 And so we had, of course, you guys know Jesse. 625 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,680 Jesse, I think this is one of the most incredible 626 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,320 healings we had down there because Jesse literally, 627 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,560 he went into the doctor with some chest pain. 628 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,320 He smoked for many years and the doctor said, 629 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,320 after they did x-rays, Jesse, we found two lumps 630 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:18,080 on your chest or two masses in your chest in this one lung. 631 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,320 And we think it's cancer, but we're gonna send you in 632 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,760 for a more detailed test. 633 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,800 I think they sent him in for an MRI. 634 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,320 And so he came to us one Saturday night and he said, 635 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,960 yeah, I just went to the doctor this week. 636 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,360 The doctor saw these two masses in my chest on the x-ray. 637 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,280 They're sending me in for more testing. 638 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,520 But he said, the doctor also told me, Jesse, 639 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,080 did you know that you were only born 640 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,680 with half a lung on this side? 641 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:42,960 And he said, no, I had no idea. 642 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,040 Nobody's ever told me that 643 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,600 or nobody's ever x-rayed my lungs anyhow. 644 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,560 So we just started praying over him 645 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,680 and several of us prayed over Jesse 646 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,400 that not only would those lumps be gone, 647 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,200 but that his one half lung would be turned into a full lung. 648 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,360 Our good friend, Pam True saw in the spirit a full lung 649 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:02,680 appear right in front of him. 650 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,840 And by faith, she just moved her hand toward it 651 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,880 and pushed it into his chest. 652 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:07,720 And- 653 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,280 I love it. 654 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,680 And so, you know, that might seem out there 655 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,800 for some people, but you know what? 656 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,880 She did this and what was the report? 657 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,920 Jesse came back after this MRI. 658 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,760 I actually got a call from Bob Baldwin who's 85 years old 659 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,280 and he was giggling like a little kid. 660 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,360 He said, Bob, what's so funny? 661 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:26,000 He said, I just talked to Jesse 662 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,680 and Jesse just talked to his doctor. 663 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,840 And the doctor after doing this MRI said, 664 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,040 not only can we not find those lumps in your chest anymore, 665 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,800 but you have two full lungs. 666 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:37,640 Wow. 667 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:38,640 That's just awesome. 668 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:39,480 I love that. 669 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:40,320 Yeah. 670 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:41,160 Incredible. 671 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:42,160 That's Jesus. 672 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,360 That is our Jesus. 673 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,720 Yeah, that's my Jesus. 674 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:47,960 Yeah. 675 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,360 You know, and one of my other favorite ones is 676 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:52,400 we got word from someone that was coming to our 677 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,320 Saturday night healing service that a good friend of theirs, 678 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,120 actually a niece of theirs, 679 00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:00,000 really had been told by the doctors that 680 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,240 they couldn't do anything more for her. 681 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,760 She was at the hospital down, 682 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,680 oh, south of us, Linda, do you remember that town? 683 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:09,840 Outside of Little Rock. 684 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,360 Yeah, Conway. 685 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:13,400 And she was down there in the hospital. 686 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,480 She had two masses in her, inside of her stomach cavity, 687 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,840 not in her stomach, but inside of her stomach cavity. 688 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,640 Each mass was the size of a watermelon. 689 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,920 They'd grown so large, she could no longer eat. 690 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,560 She hadn't been able to eat for weeks. 691 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:27,960 She couldn't keep anything down. 692 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,840 The doctors could not do anything for her. 693 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,560 They said, we're gonna send you to hospice. 694 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,280 You probably have a couple of weeks. 695 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,760 Get your affairs in order, basically. 696 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,480 And so Linda and I and Bob Baldwin went down there 697 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,360 and we were fired up in the power of the Holy Spirit. 698 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,360 When we got there, we were proclaiming healing. 699 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:48,400 The Lord just had us so confident that we knew 700 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,120 we were getting what we prayed for. 701 00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:51,560 That was just one of the coolest times 702 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:52,840 because there was no doubt. 703 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,600 We knew we were getting what we prayed for. 704 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,960 Jesus was gonna touch this woman. 705 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,400 And as we were praying for her and talking to her, 706 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,000 her countenance just completely shifted. 707 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,880 She went from no hope to all of a sudden 708 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,320 she had this incredible hope. 709 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,480 And this woman has an incredible singing voice. 710 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,680 She went from having no hope to singing 711 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,760 and praising the Lord with this beautiful voice. 712 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,440 And I said, you know what? 713 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,600 When you get out of this hospital, you're gonna come 714 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,640 and you're gonna sing for us at our Saturday night 715 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,120 healing service and do worship with us. 716 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:24,800 And she smiled and she said, I will, I will. 717 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,880 Well, a couple of weeks later, we heard back that 718 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,560 almost instantly things started shifting for her 719 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,320 and the doctors started seeing enough change in her 720 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,920 that they decided, well, we probably aren't gonna send you 721 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:37,000 to hospice now. 722 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,520 All of a sudden she was able to start eating food 723 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:40,960 and keep it down. 724 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,080 All of a sudden her strength started coming back. 725 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,400 And then fast forward, you know, a few weeks later, 726 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,600 we hear that she is doing just miraculously well 727 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,360 and the doctors are just flabbergasted. 728 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:57,080 A few weeks later, we hear that she was driven to her church 729 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,320 on a Sunday where she got up and sang at her church. 730 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,040 And yeah, they took her back to the hospital, 731 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,600 but the hospital is just, these doctors are going, 732 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,080 we don't even understand how this is happening. 733 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,720 You know, a few weeks ago now, the doctors went in 734 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,920 and they were able to take one of those masses out. 735 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,480 The other mass, I think it has some blood vessels 736 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,560 wrapped around it where they're concerned about 737 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:19,520 how they're gonna do that. 738 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,200 So we just continue to believe for her healing completely. 739 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,760 We've seen what Jesus has done and we know that 740 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,160 He's gonna complete that work that He started in her. 741 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,360 And so we're just so excited about this. 742 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:31,600 Amen. 743 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,720 He's literally just, He's just waiting for people 744 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,600 to believe His word when it says that He's still a healer, 745 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,920 when it says to go pray for people and they'll be healed, 746 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,840 when it says to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover, 747 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,840 when it says to have the elders anoint people with oil 748 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:48,560 and the prayer of faith will heal the sick. 749 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,320 He's just waiting for people to believe it. 750 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,280 And He's so excited to do it. 751 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,400 Yeah. 752 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,440 Amen. 753 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,720 Oh, that's powerful. 754 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:57,560 Powerful. 755 00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:58,600 Yeah, solid. 756 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,160 You know, there's one other story I want you to tell. 757 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,520 And that is how you were the answer to someone's prayer 758 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,480 when you were on vacation. 759 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:08,920 Do you know what I'm talking about? 760 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,560 Oh, yeah. 761 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,480 Yeah, that was good. 762 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,560 Well, Bob Baldwin and I and Linda, 763 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,560 we were down on vacation at the Gulf Coast 764 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,040 and Bob and I had gone for a walk. 765 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,240 I think we were trying to do a little bit of shopping. 766 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,320 There's some shops across the street there 767 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,800 and we were just walking around checking them out. 768 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,720 And because of our Saturday Night Healing Service, 769 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,600 we had these shirts made that say, how can I pray for you? 770 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,280 It says, how can I pray for you on the front? 771 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,360 And on the back it says, Jesus loves you. 772 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,600 And I just love wearing these shirts because quite often, 773 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,480 people will say, hey, you can pray for this 774 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,240 or you can pray for that or, wow, 775 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,080 thank you for wearing that shirt. 776 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,000 They see on the back where it says, Jesus loves you. 777 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,120 And they say, wow, thank you. 778 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,720 He loves you too. 779 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,600 So anyways, I love wearing these shirts around 780 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,520 and I was wearing this particular shirt. 781 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,560 And so when Bob and I were walking back 782 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,720 to where we were staying, 783 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,680 there's a safety gate that closes at night 784 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,440 and it hadn't been working. 785 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,840 And so there were some people from the condos there 786 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:12,680 that were working on it. 787 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,520 And I believe she had just prayed for some help. 788 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:16,360 Yeah, she had. 789 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,480 She wrote us a letter afterwards and she said, 790 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,160 I need help here. 791 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,400 God sent somebody. 792 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:25,080 Yeah. 793 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,680 And so I walk up and I've done so much access control 794 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,320 as an electrician, I've done a lot of gate access control. 795 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,120 I've done gate installs. 796 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,440 And so here come Bob and I and she sees the shirt 797 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,880 that says, how can I pray for you? 798 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,880 And she was basically like, well, I was just praying 799 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,880 for somebody to help us fix this gate. 800 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,680 And I said, well, actually I'm an electrician 801 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,080 and I work on these things. 802 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,800 And so she was just blown away by that. 803 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,600 And so it was really neat because I got to sit there 804 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,960 and work on that gate for probably a good hour, 805 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:55,960 hour and a half. 806 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,280 And meanwhile, Mr. Baldwin was able to just talk 807 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,040 to those people and share Jesus. 808 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:06,520 And it didn't sound to me like they were fully going for it 809 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:07,360 with Jesus. 810 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,320 And so that encounter would just, 811 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,720 they had the faith to say a prayer, boom, we showed up. 812 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,480 I was able to help with the gate. 813 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,880 Bob witnessed to them and shared the love of Jesus. 814 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,160 I just know that was so powerful, 815 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,000 powerful enough that you guys got the letter afterwards 816 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,400 as a testimony. 817 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,360 It meant a lot to them what happened. 818 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,400 And that's really just a picture of how much Jesus 819 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,560 cares for and loves each individual person so much. 820 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,840 There's nothing too small that he doesn't care about. 821 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,880 He just wants you to reach out to him, 822 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,080 father, here's what I need, help me. 823 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,080 And boom, here we go showing up to help her out. 824 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,360 Yeah, that's so amazing. 825 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,080 Yeah, awesome. 826 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,880 The reason why I wanted you to tell that story 827 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,120 is to emphasize how important that it is 828 00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:00,880 that we simply give ourselves to the Lord 829 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,160 and make ourselves available so that, 830 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,360 cause he knows how he wants to use us. 831 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,200 He knows what's out there. 832 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,920 He is the amazing strategist and knows how to put 833 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,720 all the pieces together of every puzzle 834 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,160 so that all things will work together for good to them 835 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,880 that love him and that are called according to his purpose. 836 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,880 So that thing of being available for whatever the Lord has. 837 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,640 And you were the man with the right skillset 838 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,800 to walk into that situation in answer 839 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,680 to that person's prayer. 840 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,400 So as we close here, I would like for you, if you would, 841 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,880 to pray for our listeners, to have the thing 842 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:46,880 that God has for them, to turn that into something 843 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,040 that he can just shine his glory through, 844 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,560 like he's been doing with you. 845 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,400 And it all started when you finally said, 846 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,040 okay, I'm done, you do it, Lord. 847 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,400 You take over. 848 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,600 Can you pray that for our listeners? 849 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,880 Yeah, and I'm gonna share a scripture if I can 850 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,480 that the Lord gave me that goes right along with this. 851 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,440 This is so powerful. 852 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,920 I hadn't really looked at this this way until yesterday. 853 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,920 I was just asking the Lord what he wanted me to share 854 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,160 in the scriptures. 855 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:16,160 And this is what he gave me. 856 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:17,640 It might seem a little weird at first, 857 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,680 but I'll go back through and tell you what he gave me in it. 858 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,360 This is when Jesus fed the 5,000. 859 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,920 Jesus had just found out that John the Baptist 860 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,080 had been killed. 861 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,640 And it says, now when Jesus heard it, 862 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,000 he withdrew from there in a boat 863 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,640 to a lonely place by himself. 864 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,180 And when the multitudes heard of this, 865 00:34:33,180 --> 00:34:35,600 they followed him on foot from the cities. 866 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,880 And when he went to shore, he saw a great multitude 867 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,800 and felt compassion for them and healed their sick. 868 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,920 And when it was evening, the disciples came to him 869 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,680 saying, the place is desolate and the time has already passed. 870 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,120 By the way, this is in Matthew 14. 871 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,280 I should let you all know that. 872 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,840 Matthew 14, starting in verse 13. 873 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:55,960 Back to verse 15. 874 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,640 And when it was evening, the disciples 875 00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,640 came to him saying, the place is desolate 876 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,040 and the time has already passed. 877 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,000 So send the multitudes away that they may go into the villages 878 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,080 and buy food for themselves. 879 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,360 But Jesus said to them, they do not need to go away. 880 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,360 You give them something to eat. 881 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,920 And they said to him, we have here only five loaves 882 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,600 and two fish. 883 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,520 And he said, bring them here to me. 884 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,040 And ordering the multitudes to recline on the grass, 885 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,560 he took the five loaves and the two fish. 886 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,880 And looking up toward heaven, he blessed the food. 887 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,840 And breaking the loaves, he gave them to the disciples. 888 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,800 And the disciples gave them to the multitudes. 889 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,000 And they all ate and were satisfied. 890 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,920 And they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, 891 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,000 12 full baskets. 892 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,160 And it says that this fed about 5,000 men, 893 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,560 plus the women and children that were with them, 894 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,360 five loaves and two fish. 895 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,000 And so what the Lord was showing me about this 896 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,040 is right off the bat, when the disciples came to Jesus 897 00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,840 and said, hey, we need to send these people away. 898 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,160 It's desolate, it's late. 899 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,760 We need to send them off to give them something to eat. 900 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,120 Lord told me, John, that's how you operated 901 00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,680 before you gave your life to me. 902 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,200 This is operating in the flesh, 903 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,000 not understanding how the things of the kingdom work, 904 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,240 not understanding how this full surrender to me works. 905 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:09,080 So the disciples came to him and said, 906 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,320 there's no way that this can work in the natural. 907 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,600 So let's do it in the natural way. 908 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,360 Let's send them to get food in the cities, 909 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,440 get them out of here so they can get food in the cities. 910 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,040 And really what Jesus said to them is, 911 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,580 look, you guys don't understand how this works. 912 00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:26,040 You do not understand how the kingdom of heaven works. 913 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,320 You don't think you have anything, but what do you have? 914 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,000 And they said, well, we only have five loaves 915 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:31,880 and a couple fish. 916 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,840 And he said, give it to me. 917 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,520 And when they gave it to him, he blessed it and gave it back. 918 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,800 That's what Jesus is asking us to do. 919 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,560 We come to him with these attitudes of, 920 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,000 we don't have anything to give. 921 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:43,300 I'm not good enough. 922 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,180 Because of the things I've done in my life, 923 00:36:46,180 --> 00:36:47,760 how could Jesus ever use me? 924 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,700 What Jesus is saying to you is, look, 925 00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:51,600 I don't care what you have. 926 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,840 I just want what you have to be given to me. 927 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,600 I'll bless it and give it back. 928 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,680 You give it to me, I'll bless it and give it back. 929 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,160 Then when I give it back, you give it away. 930 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,320 And when you give it away, look what I do with it. 931 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:04,940 Watch what I do with it. 932 00:37:04,940 --> 00:37:08,320 And so that's really the picture of where we came from. 933 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,720 You know, we had these excuses and Jesus took them 934 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:13,960 and said, no, you just give whatever you have to me. 935 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,840 I'll bless it and give it back. 936 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,400 And then you give it away. 937 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:18,720 So that's how we live our lives. 938 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:21,160 We just want to give our lives away to him. 939 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,040 We say yes every morning when we wake up, 940 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,760 Jesus, you have our yes, do with us whatever you want. 941 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,600 And that is so powerful. 942 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,800 And so for those of you who are listening, 943 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:33,540 I just want to encourage you, you know, 944 00:37:33,540 --> 00:37:35,880 if you're at this point where you're feeling the same way 945 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:36,920 that we felt before, 946 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:38,840 look, you're tired of being your own God. 947 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:40,640 You're tired of doing things your own way 948 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,080 and making your own decisions 949 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,880 and not letting Jesus Christ be the Lord of your life. 950 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,840 Then now's the time to say, Jesus, I give it all to you. 951 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:50,760 I give it all to you. 952 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,120 So you can just repeat after me if you want. 953 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:54,580 You know, it really is more about what's coming 954 00:37:54,580 --> 00:37:56,280 from your heart than the words that you say, 955 00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,380 but you can say, Jesus, I'm done doing it on my own. 956 00:38:00,380 --> 00:38:03,080 I want you to have your way in my life. 957 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,280 I want to do things your way now. 958 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,120 I want to learn from your word 959 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,760 and learn from your Holy Spirit 960 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,160 and start living my life 961 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,960 according to how you would have me live it. 962 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,000 Because Lord, I know that you are the only one that is good. 963 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,560 And when I've tried to do it on my own, 964 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,780 it's nothing but a mess. 965 00:38:20,780 --> 00:38:23,500 So Father, I give to you all that I have, 966 00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:27,240 even as little as it is, I give it to you. 967 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:28,460 I ask you to bless it. 968 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,720 And now Lord, I will give my life away. 969 00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,760 I will give my life away for you, 970 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,840 whatever you want me to do, 971 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,080 however you want me to do it. 972 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,940 I say yes, in Jesus' mighty name. 973 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,360 Heavenly Father, I thank you for each person 974 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:47,740 that was listening today. 975 00:38:47,740 --> 00:38:49,360 I thank you that they got 976 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,080 and are getting everything you want 977 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,440 for them to get, Lord God. 978 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,600 I thank you that you are working in their lives, 979 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,400 that your Holy Spirit is speaking to them now. 980 00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,160 I ask Father that you would help them 981 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,420 to surrender to you completely and wholly, 982 00:39:02,420 --> 00:39:04,720 that everything they have, Lord God, 983 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:07,920 that you would give them the wisdom and the strength 984 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,120 to turn it over to you, 985 00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,920 that they would just fall at your feet 986 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,060 and say, Jesus, I will make you Lord of my life. 987 00:39:16,060 --> 00:39:19,680 And Lord, I ask that as they come to you 988 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,460 and just give it all to you, Lord, 989 00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:24,800 that you would show them who they are in you, 990 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,960 that you would show them who you made them to be, 991 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,960 that you would make it clear. 992 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,400 The day that you created them, 993 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,120 you spoke over them, Lord God. 994 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,560 Here is what I have created you to be. 995 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,520 Maybe an evangelist, maybe a pastor, maybe a teacher, 996 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,680 maybe somebody who still works in a trade, 997 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,520 but is just so on fire for Jesus 998 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,880 that those people around them can't help, 999 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:44,880 but catch fire too. 1000 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,280 Whatever it is, Lord God, 1001 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,720 I just pray that you would reveal to them 1002 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,000 their identity in you, 1003 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,400 that they would be so clear on their identity in you, 1004 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,940 that the identity that the world has given them 1005 00:39:56,940 --> 00:39:59,720 would just fall off, melt away in Jesus' name. 1006 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:02,080 And that they would be able to operate 1007 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,120 in the identity of who you made them to be, Lord God, 1008 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,180 that they would be able to just glorify you 1009 00:40:08,180 --> 00:40:09,160 in all that they do. 1010 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,120 I ask for a blessing over them now, Lord, 1011 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,700 that you'd bless the work of their hands 1012 00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:14,300 and the meditations of their heart, 1013 00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:15,560 that as they seek you out, 1014 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,440 that you'd protect them from the evil one, Lord, 1015 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,100 and that you would just allow them to grow 1016 00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:22,600 so in love with you, so in love with your word, 1017 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:23,480 that they couldn't help, 1018 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,040 but be absolutely on fire for you. 1019 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:26,880 In Jesus' mighty name. 1020 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,220 Thank you, Father. 1021 00:40:28,220 --> 00:40:29,060 Amen. 1022 00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:29,880 Amen. 1023 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,880 If you enjoyed today's podcast, 1024 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,620 please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast 1025 00:40:39,620 --> 00:40:43,100 on Apple podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. 1026 00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:45,400 Your review helps the podcasting platform 1027 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,600 suggest this podcast to other listeners 1028 00:40:47,600 --> 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