1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,960 And I just thank God that I may be a knucklehead, but Jesus loves the people I encounter as 2 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:10,840 much as He loves me. 3 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,480 And I don't care if you're a stock trader or a doctor or an asphalt layer. 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,440 I don't care what you're doing. 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:22,000 Every person that you encounter wants and needs to hear from heaven, whether they know 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,320 they want and need to hear from heaven or not. 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:30,880 And if you can quit being a Christian long enough and just be Jesus to them, they'll 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,920 feel love that's not you, and they'll want it. 9 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:47,440 God promises in Joel 2, 28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. 10 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:52,000 Welcome to global outpouring, where we contend for that promise outpouring, we equip for 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,180 that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring. 12 00:00:56,180 --> 00:00:57,440 I'm Philip Buss. 13 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:58,440 And I'm Sharon Buss. 14 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,240 Welcome to the podcast today. 15 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:05,880 We have with us a very special guest, James Stone, and he has been kind of on our radar 16 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:11,800 as a companion in the ministry and doing all kinds of things in the background of things. 17 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,520 But we're just getting to know him better as far as what he does for a living. 18 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:24,520 He is a praying, prophesying plumber. 19 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:25,760 Thanks for joining us today. 20 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:27,480 We're so glad that you're with us. 21 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:32,960 We expect that this is going to be a life changing podcast for you. 22 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:37,320 But before we get started, we want to encourage you to go to our website global outpouring 23 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:43,860 dot net and make sure that you have subscribed to our email lists so that we can stay in 24 00:01:43,860 --> 00:01:45,320 touch with you. 25 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:50,360 And we want to encourage you to give us some feedback any time that you're able to, any 26 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:54,880 time that the Holy Spirit moves on you by something that you hear. 27 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:59,520 We'd love to hear where you're from, where you're listening from and just the reaction 28 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:00,520 that God gives you. 29 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,320 I think this one in particular is going to be something you're going to want to respond 30 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:09,160 to and say, Hey, this helped me in my life. 31 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,400 So James, thank you so much for joining us today. 32 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,460 We are so excited to have you. 33 00:02:14,460 --> 00:02:16,320 Thank you for inviting me. 34 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,160 Well, indeed a pleasure. 35 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,000 Well, we needed some plumbing done not too long ago. 36 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,960 Well, I won't go into the details of what happened, but you came to our rescue and it 37 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:28,400 just happened. 38 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:33,080 It just happened that you were able to come on a Friday. 39 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,240 So you were able to minister for our Friday night live worship service on YouTube and 40 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:38,680 Facebook. 41 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,840 And we've gotten to know a little bit more about you in this way. 42 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:48,400 And we just felt like these kind of stories that you're telling are stories that are going 43 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,400 to help our listeners. 44 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:57,020 So our thing here is about contending for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and equipping 45 00:02:57,020 --> 00:03:01,000 for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit so that we can engage in the outpouring of the Holy 46 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Spirit. 47 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,520 Well, you are a walking engagement in the outpouring everywhere you go. 48 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:10,800 Tell us what the Lord showed you about this 15 foot radius around you. 49 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:17,600 Well, that's really interesting because I began to pray about the Lord's prayer and 50 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,160 I began to study what the Lord's prayer is. 51 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,840 And part of that prayer is, Father, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 52 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:30,320 And so I asked myself, how does God's will happen in heaven? 53 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:36,280 And so I understand this, that God's will in heaven happens perfectly with no hindrances. 54 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:41,640 And heaven is eat up with raw faith, trust, love, all about God. 55 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:46,480 And this earthly kingdom is eat up with doubt, unbelief, and mistrust. 56 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,880 And we reflect in our nature the kingdom we're more rightly related to. 57 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:55,880 And so I'm looking around the world trying to find a place where God's will is happening 58 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,160 on earth the way it's happening in heaven. 59 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:04,360 And I'm convicted in my heart by heaven that it's my heart he's talking about and that 60 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,440 he wants to create in my heart a place where his will can happen perfectly. 61 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:13,960 And as I assessed my life, I realized that I've not let that happen. 62 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:19,280 I have reflected in my nature doubt and unbelief many, many times, raised in the church, but 63 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:24,600 did not understand that I was putting a cap on what God could do. 64 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,200 So I began to pray about this and the Lord began to unfold it over a period of time. 65 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,240 It didn't happen overnight. 66 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:36,080 But I realized that science tells us that our heart has an electromagnetic field that 67 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,680 goes away from us and extends out to up to 15 feet. 68 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:44,140 And so when we create that environment, we partner with heaven and create that environment 69 00:04:44,140 --> 00:04:50,360 in us where God's will can happen in our heart like it does in heaven. 70 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:54,640 Then for 15 feet in every direction from where we're standing or standing, that's the kingdom 71 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:55,640 of God. 72 00:04:55,640 --> 00:05:00,240 And that allows the authority of heaven to go before us and come behind us and be on 73 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:01,240 all sides of us. 74 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:05,320 And it allows a thousand to fall at your side and 10,000 to your right hand and nothing 75 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,320 comes close to you. 76 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,320 Amen. 77 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:09,320 Wow. 78 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:14,640 So tell us, Philip was trying to tell me a story that you related to him about a guy 79 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,680 that came into a restaurant where you were eating, then he was chewing out his wife and 80 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:19,680 what happened? 81 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:23,720 Well, we've all had these experiences where we're just sitting here and our spiritual 82 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,080 mood is hungry. 83 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,080 We're not praying. 84 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,080 We're not upset. 85 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,080 We're not interceding. 86 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,600 We're just trying to feed. 87 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:38,080 And so you're just in a neutral mentality and somebody walks into a restaurant with 88 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:39,560 a bad mood. 89 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,720 Maybe they're fussing with their spouse or their partner, whoever it is. 90 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,760 And before you know it, you're feeling uncomfortable because it's getting loud and you're hearing 91 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:49,360 things you don't want to hear. 92 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,920 And what we don't understand when that happens, we've let their spirit come and dominate 93 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,880 ours. 94 00:05:54,880 --> 00:06:02,000 And so we as Christians, as believers, as kingdom believers, we need to understand that 95 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,720 15 foot radius is the kingdom of God and the authority of heaven walks within that realm. 96 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:12,400 And so literally every demon within that radius is subject to the authority of the name of 97 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:13,400 Jesus Christ. 98 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:14,400 Amen. 99 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,200 And so literally when somebody walks into our presence with a bad mood, they are the 100 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:22,480 ones that should be altered, not because of me, but because of the presence of God that 101 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:28,080 inhabits my praise because my life is laid down worship and God inhabits the praise of 102 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:29,160 his people. 103 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,400 And so everywhere we go, people should recognize the presence, whether they can identify it 104 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,320 or not, it should change who they are. 105 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:40,360 But we've all had that experience where we're sitting in a restaurant or in a public place 106 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:45,320 and maybe a couple of walks in and they're, you know, maybe they're on a date and they 107 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:50,640 just get all ushy and icky and you know, that gets off on everybody in the room, you know? 108 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,960 Next thing you know what, you're ready to go, you know, because you want to go be alone 109 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:55,720 with your spouse, you know? 110 00:06:55,720 --> 00:07:00,440 And it just changes who we are and we let that affect us, but truly we're supposed to 111 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,880 be changing the world with that. 112 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,760 And the most incredible dynamic of that is, you know, not so much that he inhabits that, 113 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:12,800 which is a really amazing thing, is that God multiplies, he doesn't add. 114 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,960 And so if a thousand falls at your side and 10,000 at your right hand, it's a multiplying 115 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:17,960 factor of 10. 116 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:25,960 So if I do this and you do this, then that's not 60 feet, that's 300 feet. 117 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,560 And if Philip joins with this, that's multiplied again by a factor of 10. 118 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,520 So now we're going up to 3,000. 119 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:37,400 And so it just, you know, that's how 12 people could change the world in such a short time, 120 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,360 is the synergy math of God changes everything. 121 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,360 That is tremendous. 122 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:49,880 So tell us the story about the lady that was so contrary and had such an ugly atmosphere 123 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,160 around her and you were called to do a plumbing job for her. 124 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:57,880 Well, several years ago we had a bad freeze and we had put everything on hold, all of 125 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:02,140 our new stuff, and we were only doing emergency service work so that we could get people's 126 00:08:02,140 --> 00:08:04,000 water restored. 127 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:11,440 And so I had a lady call me and she wanted a faucet in a kitchen changed out. 128 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,800 And I told her, I said, well, I can't do that right now. 129 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,560 Right now I'm only doing emergency service. 130 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,360 This is an emergency for me. 131 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,760 And I was like, well, I have people that don't have water. 132 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,560 They can't flush their toilets, you know, they can't take a shower, they can't be clean, 133 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,040 they can't cook. 134 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,280 And so, you know, that's all we're doing. 135 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,080 I said the earliest I can be at your house is on a Thursday. 136 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,880 You know, it's like a week and a half out or whatever. 137 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:41,880 And so this amazing lady, she has a farmhouse that her farmhand lives in. 138 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:47,080 She turns the gas off his house, freezes his pipes, calls me back the next day. 139 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,080 I've got frozen pipes. 140 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:49,080 Can you come to my house? 141 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:50,080 Oh, she did that on purpose. 142 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:51,080 Yes, yes, yes. 143 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:52,080 Well, that was mean. 144 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,720 And so I go, I uncover what's going on in the house. 145 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:02,240 And this lady happens to be one of the most foul mouthed, filthy talking people I've ever 146 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:03,240 been around. 147 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:04,240 Wow. 148 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,960 And so in the construction trade, I'm around a lot of this. 149 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:07,960 Yeah, I hear that. 150 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:13,320 And she has eclipsed some of the worst mouthed guys I've ever been around. 151 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:14,320 Wow. 152 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,200 You know, but for whatever reason, you know, when I was younger, I may have asked her not 153 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:23,240 to talk that way around me because, you know, I'm a reverend, you know. 154 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,240 But I didn't do that. 155 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:26,880 You know, I didn't do it on purpose or whatever. 156 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,320 But you know, I learned a long time ago, people need to experience God. 157 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,840 They don't need to experience my relationship. 158 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:34,840 They need to experience God. 159 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,720 And so if I have to tell you about my relationship with God, then it's probably not very impactful. 160 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,360 And so it was really interesting, though, because I fixed the guy's water, got his water 161 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:49,840 back on and said, since you're here, would you look at my kitchen sink? 162 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,360 And so I said, OK, you know, so I go up there because I'm a nice guy. 163 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,960 I'm kind of gruff and mean sometimes, but I'm a nice guy at heart. 164 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:02,200 And so I go up here to look at what's going on and she don't have the right parts. 165 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,400 And she said, but when can you come back? 166 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,320 I said, next Thursday. 167 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:12,960 And so the following Thursday, I'm in her house and I had been back a couple of times 168 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,160 during the week to work on the farmhouse because it kept having a problem. 169 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:22,280 And I'm sitting in the middle of her kitchen floor and she looks at me from across the 170 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:27,200 room and she said the most unexpected words that I would have expected to come out of 171 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:28,360 her mouth. 172 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:33,520 And she's looking down at me because I'm sitting in the floor and she says, James, I love it 173 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:35,880 when you come to my house. 174 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,480 Goodness just comes off of you. 175 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,240 And this has been several years ago. 176 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,800 And I really did not know what to say. 177 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:47,280 How do you reply to that? 178 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,600 Do you get up and start preaching or do you just say thank you? 179 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:55,520 And I learned a long time ago that there's a lot of false humility in the church, in 180 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,920 the kingdom, in the body of Christ. 181 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,720 You go up and thank somebody for a song and they're like, oh no, that was the Lord. 182 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,520 The Lord gave me that song. 183 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:10,360 Well, I think the Lord could have wrote that last verse just a little bit better. 184 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:11,840 I don't thank God. 185 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:16,640 But you don't want to contend with people, but you bless them and they take your blessing 186 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:22,120 and push it back because they say they're not worthy to receive them. 187 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,480 And that's really what they're saying. 188 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,960 And I learned this a while back that when somebody comes up and says thank you, I say 189 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:29,960 you're welcome. 190 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:36,640 When I get in my private place, I say, hey God, look what I got that belongs to you. 191 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:38,800 Because there's nothing good in me. 192 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,640 If you look at me and see something amazing, that's Jesus in me. 193 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:46,520 And so when you're thanking me, you're actually praising God. 194 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,920 But the only God you've seen is the one I'm carrying around. 195 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,160 So you superimpose that on me. 196 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,080 And so when I get in my prayer closet, I give that to God. 197 00:11:55,080 --> 00:12:00,320 Well, everything you give to God, he blesses it and gives it back to you. 198 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:07,800 And so I began to learn through that experience that the authority of the believer is real. 199 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,160 The authority of the kingdom of heaven is real. 200 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:15,820 And I knew this in my head the whole time, but I didn't practice it in my spirit. 201 00:12:15,820 --> 00:12:22,920 And so I realized that when I walk into that room, that 15 feet radius, every demon that's 202 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:28,640 screaming in somebody's life is suspended from being able to communicate with that person 203 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:33,640 while I'm there because that demon is subject to the authority of Jesus. 204 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:39,040 And so in that moment while I'm in their house, working on their pipe, replacing the sink, 205 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,800 unplugging a toilet, I mean, whatever I'm doing, guess what? 206 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:48,160 The demons that are hindering their life is not working. 207 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:52,480 And so everything I say can go straight to the heart and penetrate to the core of who 208 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:53,480 they are. 209 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:57,120 And so the Lord had spoke to me several years previous to this. 210 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:58,840 I'm driving down a gravel road. 211 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:04,120 I'm actually listening to a Bill Johnson tape, you know, or CD or whatever. 212 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,120 And I turn it down. 213 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,640 It's a sunny spring day and I turn it down because there's people in a yard and I'll 214 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:14,760 slow way down and they're out there doing a wedding or something, you know, and I didn't 215 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:20,320 want to throw dust all over the yard and I didn't want to be a noise invasion. 216 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:24,440 And the Lord spoke to me and He said, turn that back up, slow down, but turn it back 217 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:30,780 up because I'm going to make you a Trojan horse and you're going to carry me into places 218 00:13:30,780 --> 00:13:32,280 where I'm not welcome. 219 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:33,400 Wow. 220 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,240 I didn't know what to think about that. 221 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:39,000 I didn't know that in just a few short days I'm going to be a plumber and I'm going to 222 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,560 be going into all these houses for believers, unbelievers, witches, the demonic, you know, 223 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:49,280 I mean, all of them, you know, backslidden Christians, people that have a form of godliness, 224 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:50,280 but they're denying the power. 225 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:51,680 I was in all their houses. 226 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:54,640 And you know what, when you got a plumbing problem, you don't care who comes. 227 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,640 It could be a Hare Krishna, it could be a Jehovah's Witness or a Pentecostal preacher. 228 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:02,200 Just, you know, get my sewer out of my house, you know? 229 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:08,620 And so while I was there, God allowed me to be able to speak His voice into people's lives, 230 00:14:08,620 --> 00:14:13,600 not because I had the knowledge, but because I had Jesus and He taught me this through 231 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:19,600 a process that they're open to hear from heaven because He walks before me, He walks behind 232 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,880 me, He walks on all sides of me. 233 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,720 And it changed the way I do business. 234 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:27,560 It changed the way I encounter every individual person. 235 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,120 And this lady actually winds up getting saved. 236 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:32,720 I don't pray her through to salvation. 237 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:33,720 Somebody else did that. 238 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,280 Yeah, but you did your part. 239 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:40,800 But I did my part by letting her encounter Jesus instead of encounter me. 240 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:41,800 Beautiful. 241 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,640 And I've done that quite by accident. 242 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,320 I didn't do it on purpose. 243 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:51,720 But God used that encounter to teach me that I could actually do this and be a tool in 244 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,720 the hand of the Lord and not even know it. 245 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:54,720 Wow. 246 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:55,720 So it was amazing. 247 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:56,720 Wow. 248 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,440 Well, tell us the story about the policeman that had the bad back. 249 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,180 Yeah, this was a few years later. 250 00:15:03,180 --> 00:15:05,440 There was another freeze. 251 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:10,120 And we were close to a month, month and a half, getting everybody stubbed. 252 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:14,320 And all the plumbers in the area had shut down, like I said before, doing any kind of 253 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:15,320 new work. 254 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,280 And all the contractors know that we're not going to be on the job as long as people don't 255 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:22,400 have water because it is the plumbers responsibility to protect the health of the nation. 256 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,600 And if you do not have running water, that's important. 257 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,840 And so this guy called me and begged me to come to his house. 258 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,120 And we're at the end of this process. 259 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,400 And I go over there and when I pull up in his driveway, he literally jumps and runs 260 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,140 toward my truck. 261 00:15:37,140 --> 00:15:39,280 I've not had that reaction very many times. 262 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:44,720 My wife don't even jump and run toward me, maybe away from me sometimes. 263 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,720 Depends on what you've been working on. 264 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:47,720 Yeah. 265 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:54,100 But it's just really amazing because he jumps up the truck and I jump out and we start talking 266 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:55,100 about his leak. 267 00:15:55,100 --> 00:16:01,040 And we begin to start, for whatever reason, talking about father's heart to heal his kids. 268 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,120 And I tell him, I said, it's always God's will to heal his kids. 269 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:10,640 And I go to the scripture and I talk about the Fair Phoenician lady who petitioned Jesus 270 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,600 and Jesus was ignoring her. 271 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,320 And he turns her down when she finally does ask him. 272 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:20,160 He turns her down in no polite way. 273 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,680 The second time, he tells her, it wouldn't be good for me to give the children's bread 274 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:24,820 to the dogs. 275 00:16:24,820 --> 00:16:28,680 And most of you listening to this know this story, so I don't have to give you all the 276 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:29,680 details. 277 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:34,720 But she persisted against the revealed will of heaven and said, well, even the dogs get 278 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,160 the crumbs off the master's table. 279 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:41,760 And she heard these words, be it to you whatsoever you will. 280 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:48,920 And I think that's an amazing thing because even against our trained theological doctrinal 281 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:55,940 belief structure, if we'll pursue heaven on the outside of that, we can get what we need. 282 00:16:55,940 --> 00:16:59,560 Because doctrine may tell us God don't do this anymore. 283 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,600 But we have reality that says, and we actually have scriptural reference that says, I can 284 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,840 pursue heaven if I have a greater revelation of who God is and what he wants to do for 285 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:08,840 me. 286 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:13,560 I can get from heaven what I need for my kids, for my husband, for my wife, for my mother, 287 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,820 my father, my grandkids, my cousins, whoever it is. 288 00:17:16,820 --> 00:17:19,040 And so we're talking about this. 289 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:25,800 And I talked to him about the 15 foot area around me and I talked to him about that being 290 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,120 the kingdom of God because in my heart is Jesus Christ. 291 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:31,520 And that's who I carry with me. 292 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:35,920 Quite by chance, I guess, it was actually God that did it, but I wasn't thinking. 293 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,600 I just looked at him and I said, look here, man. 294 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:43,680 I said, when I leave, you can be in pain, but while I'm here, you can't hurt. 295 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,800 Had no idea what I was saying. 296 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:51,080 He crammed his hand down his pocket and he pulls out a bottle of high-powered pain medication. 297 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:52,080 He shows it to me. 298 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:55,320 He says, I take two of these three times a day to function. 299 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,880 I was actually going into my pocket when you pulled up. 300 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:01,640 And when I saw you, I jumped and ran towards your truck for some reason. 301 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,040 And I've not hurt since you've been here. 302 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:04,040 Glory to God. 303 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:05,040 And it sounds prideful. 304 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:06,320 It sounds pompous. 305 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,800 But I looked at him and I said, well, man, you have a decision then. 306 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:15,320 When I leave, you can either take a pill or you can receive what heaven has done for you. 307 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,720 And he calls me like three months later and he says, man, I talked to my pastor about 308 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,640 it and we don't believe in this kind of thing. 309 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,440 He told me I'm crazy and you're crazy too. 310 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,720 But I've not taken another pill. 311 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:29,720 Glory to God. 312 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,200 And then I haven't talked to him in two, three, four years. 313 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,240 It's been a long time. 314 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:41,160 And one day in a local convenience store, I had went in to get a cup of coffee. 315 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,920 And while I'm walking back toward the front of the store, I see a uniformed deputy. 316 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:47,800 He walks through the door. 317 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:52,960 He looks at me and he throws both of his hands in the air and he bends over at a 90 degree 318 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,560 angle and starts twisting around. 319 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:00,680 And of course everybody's looking, what's this deputy doing bound to this fat plumber? 320 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:05,280 And he looks at me and he says, it still works. 321 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:06,280 Glory to God. 322 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:11,560 It took me a minute to make the connection because I wasn't thinking about this encounter 323 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:12,560 at the moment. 324 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,880 But as soon as I made the connection, I just wanted to get to my truck and say, Jesus, 325 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,080 look what I got that belongs to you. 326 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:19,080 Beautiful. 327 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:24,440 Because it's an amazing thing because it works and it works better than anything we can possibly 328 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,160 make up or imagine. 329 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,000 And it's just so amazing to be able to do this. 330 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Wow. 331 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Glory to God. 332 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:36,240 Well, tell us the story of the lady that you went out to her house and then you had to 333 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,840 go and get some parts and it was going to take a long time. 334 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,520 Had an entourage there waiting. 335 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:46,280 This was really interesting because I've heard other people have encounters like this and 336 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,440 they were more dramatic than what I experienced. 337 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,520 And so I never looked for these encounters. 338 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,320 When I was growing up, people talk about the Holy Ghost and fire make you want to go devil 339 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:57,320 hunting with a switch. 340 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,360 Well, see, that's just stupid. 341 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:06,040 If I'm going to go devil hunting, it better be with a supernatural weapon. 342 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:12,400 So I don't look for demons, but I encountered demons because they run from the authority 343 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,520 and I see them when they're running. 344 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:15,760 Amen. 345 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:16,760 Or they'll turn around. 346 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:22,080 I had one turn around and make a face at me one time in Branson. 347 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:23,080 I didn't know what to do. 348 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:28,280 I was like, man, we're in a mall. 349 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:34,160 I remember this lady calls me and she says, Hey, I got a problem with my sewer. 350 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,160 Can you come? 351 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,360 I was like, yeah, I can come. 352 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:44,280 And I said an appointment and I went out to her place on time and I didn't sense anything. 353 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:45,680 I didn't feel anything. 354 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,760 I knock on her door, nothing. 355 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:54,400 She's like a normal housewife or granny woman, whatever you want to call her. 356 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:55,640 She says it's around back. 357 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:56,640 You can see it. 358 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:57,640 Somebody's already been digging on it. 359 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,560 And sure enough, I get back there, identify the situation. 360 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,640 I know what I need to fix it because I'm equipped. 361 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,280 I know what I'm doing. 362 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,080 It makes a difference when you know what you're doing. 363 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:11,640 And so I go back to her door and I say, I know what I got to have, but I got to run 364 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,600 back to the supply house. 365 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,560 And it's about a 25, 30 minute drive, maybe a little longer from her house to where I've 366 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:19,600 got to go. 367 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:24,600 So I'd tell her I'm going to be back in about an hour and a half or two hours because the 368 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,200 drive in the drive back to time in the store, it was lunchtime. 369 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:29,720 So I got something to eat. 370 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:34,560 But when I got back, it was really funny because she lived way off the road, but there was 371 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,200 a bunch of cars in a driveway. 372 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,200 I just, I knew it was 12, you know, and I counted them. 373 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,480 You know, sure enough, it's 12 and there's 12 people, male and female standing in the 374 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:44,480 driveway. 375 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:48,160 And as soon as I started to open the door, I didn't know what was going on. 376 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,640 The Lord says, Hey, I got this. 377 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:55,360 So I know I'm going to be okay, whatever this is, but I didn't know this was for me. 378 00:21:55,360 --> 00:22:00,360 And as I, my feet hit the ground, the first person in the line approached me to say something. 379 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:05,480 And the Lord put this word in me and I looked at her and I said, lady, and I told her how 380 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:12,200 old she was when she laid on her bed, looking at a poster on a closet door, and she decided 381 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:16,200 to pursue the dark arts and reject Jesus Christ. 382 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:21,560 And she looked at me and she dropped the stuff that was in her hands and she got in her car 383 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,480 and she drove away. 384 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,760 And we went 11 more times. 385 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,680 Each one of them got a prophetic word or a word of knowledge that told them when they 386 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:34,720 chose to reject Jesus and pursue magic. 387 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,160 Okay. 388 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,200 Except for one who the word they got was, you never made the choice. 389 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:46,240 Your parents gave you in the womb to Satan and her parents died in an accident. 390 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,800 She was delivered on the side of the road, dedicated to Satan before she was ever born 391 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,360 with no covering now. 392 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:56,240 You know, and that person left too. 393 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:02,040 And so I'm standing there alone in the driveway, 12 clouds of dust going up the road and these 394 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,920 books and charms and potions laying in the driveway because they all left their stuff 395 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,340 there. 396 00:23:07,340 --> 00:23:10,480 And I go to the door to this lady's house and she's standing there and I said, Hey, 397 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,080 you want to have a conversation or what? 398 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:16,280 And she says, look, why don't you just fix my sewer and get up out of here? 399 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:17,680 She didn't use those exact words. 400 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:18,680 You use your imagination. 401 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,480 But I said, okay. 402 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,440 And I went and I fixed her stuff and I'm going to collect money, you know, it's time to get 403 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:26,440 a check. 404 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,640 So I go back in her house and I make her a bill out and she says, you just need to know 405 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,840 you're on our list. 406 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,360 And I said, well, you just be rest and sure that you're on my list too. 407 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:37,360 Okay. 408 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:40,040 I later found out she's the head of a witch coven. 409 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,160 Okay. 410 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:46,680 And those were 12 of her apprentice witches, you know, and, you know, so, and they had 411 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,800 came to, they had come there to curse me because she recognized in me something that they hated. 412 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:52,800 Yeah. 413 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:53,800 Okay. 414 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,440 She didn't know nothing about me. 415 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,880 And they had no idea what was fixed to happen. 416 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,720 You know, a couple of years later, this lady calls me, she asked me if I remember her. 417 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,760 She tells me where she, and I remembered that, you know, and she says, well, I need you to 418 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:06,760 come see me. 419 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:07,760 I said, where yet? 420 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,280 She said, I'm in the hospital and I show up at the hospital. 421 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:11,280 She's dying. 422 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:12,280 She has just a few days to live. 423 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,680 She has cancer. 424 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:18,320 And she said, if this Jesus that you preach is real, then I need him to show up in my 425 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:19,320 life. 426 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:23,120 And I pray for her there and she gets saved and God restores her and she lives through 427 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:28,180 four more years and she lives long enough to lead all 12 of those people to Jesus that 428 00:24:28,180 --> 00:24:29,180 stood in that driveway. 429 00:24:29,180 --> 00:24:30,180 Wow. 430 00:24:30,180 --> 00:24:32,000 You know, and so it's just really amazing. 431 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,400 So now she's on a different list. 432 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:34,400 Yes. 433 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:35,400 Glory to God. 434 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:36,400 Glory to God. 435 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,520 So how did you get into this? 436 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:45,680 Like we know that you grew up in the church, Pentecostal church, and you started preaching 437 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,080 when you were 14. 438 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:52,200 So you know, you've been in the ministry for a long, long, long time, but how did you get 439 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:59,800 to this point where you recognize this authority and where this kind of miraculous thing was 440 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:00,800 happening? 441 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,720 Well, you know, it's kind of like getting dirty. 442 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,080 You don't know what you stink until somebody else tells you. 443 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,000 And you're like, well, you're right. 444 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,240 I need to get a shower, change these clothes. 445 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:18,220 A lot of times when you pursue heaven, heaven comes along for the ride because he said, 446 00:25:18,220 --> 00:25:21,680 if you seek me and keep on seeking me, you'll find me. 447 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,560 If you knock and keep knocking, you'll... 448 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:28,440 And so, you know, we have a lot of pseudo Christians that are pursuing a lot of things 449 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:33,240 with part of their heart and they're pursuing other things with the rest of their heart. 450 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,360 Come on. 451 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:37,320 And so, you're just only getting part of anything. 452 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,240 You're never getting all of it. 453 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:40,320 Okay? 454 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,080 And so, I surrounded myself with some amazing people in those days. 455 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,680 We were going to a church in North Carolina, and I'm gonna throw their name in here because 456 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,400 I just think the world and all of them, but Doug and Kathy Rowe, they pastor a church 457 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:57,520 in North Carolina, and they had such a pastor's heart and a pastor's mantle. 458 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:58,560 And I grew up... 459 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,640 In the short time we were with them, I grew up so much in Jesus. 460 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:02,640 Wonderful. 461 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:07,360 And I've been exposed to all the different ministries that we all know and listen to 462 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:08,360 so many different people. 463 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:13,400 You know, the Bible says that there's a famine of the hearing of the Word, but there's not 464 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,040 a famine of good teaching and preaching. 465 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,040 Yeah. 466 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,040 Whoa. 467 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,400 You know, we need the Word of Heaven that reigns a word right now. 468 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:22,400 Okay? 469 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,280 And so, I began to pursue this. 470 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:32,560 And one day, I'm at home, and I'm just there with my wife and my two little ones, and God 471 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,920 begins to just deal with me. 472 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:41,080 And He tells me in my spirit that there's fixing to be a political shift in the Northeast, 473 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,240 specifically Massachusetts. 474 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:49,120 And I tell my wife, I said, something's fixing to happen in this Northeast state that is 475 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:54,160 going to change the balance of political power in the United States. 476 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,680 And I didn't tell anybody else but her, because I didn't have a platform, I didn't have a 477 00:26:58,680 --> 00:26:59,680 mic. 478 00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:00,960 Nobody was listening to me. 479 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,160 Nobody could care less what I say. 480 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,440 And so, just like three weeks later, Ted Kennedy dies. 481 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:07,440 Oh, wow. 482 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,320 And a Republican gets that seat for the first time in 50 years and change the balance of 483 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,320 the Senate, the US Senate. 484 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,320 Wow. 485 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,920 And that was God's confirmation to me that I've put something in you that's real. 486 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:19,920 Yes. 487 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,680 And like three or four days later, I had lost my job. 488 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:23,680 Wow. 489 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:24,680 Okay? 490 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,000 And we went from making $75,000 a year to $10 an hour. 491 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,800 And it changed our life. 492 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:30,800 Wow. 493 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,080 And I said, well, I'm sitting in my car. 494 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:36,800 I just got home from work and this lady calls and wants to sell me Amway. 495 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,360 And she's like, you know, please. 496 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:40,640 I told her, I said, I don't have the money to buy nothing. 497 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,040 If they were selling river boats, a dime a dozen, all I could do is run up and down the 498 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,400 river bank saying, ain't that cheap, you know? 499 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,440 Because I had $0 in my pocket. 500 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,680 I understand exactly what it's like to turn the couch upside down and shake it for coins 501 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,080 to go by milk for your kids. 502 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,800 I know exactly what that's like because I lived it. 503 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:03,580 And so she says, look, man, if you'll listen to my presentation, I get paid. 504 00:28:03,580 --> 00:28:04,880 If you don't, I don't get paid. 505 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,720 I said, I'll make you a deal. 506 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:12,640 I said, if you will give me your presentation and give me time to talk to you when we're 507 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,560 done, then I will listen to you. 508 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:17,560 Okay. 509 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:20,080 And so she spends 15 minutes trying to sell me Amway. 510 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,200 She's, are you ready to sign up? 511 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,160 I said, ma'am, I've told you, I don't have the money, but now you got to listen to me 512 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,240 because you promised you would. 513 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:33,440 And I give her a word of knowledge and I said, you was abandoned as a child. 514 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:39,800 And I said, you're a musician, but as you were passed as a teenager through foster home 515 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:45,480 to foster home to foster home to foster home, you begin to give up on the arts. 516 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:50,680 And the last thing you left behind was a keyboard and you've not touched the keys since you 517 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,680 left that last place. 518 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,500 And you're an adult now, but you don't even look back on what was given to you as a child 519 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:59,200 as a gift from God. 520 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,680 And I could hear her crying. 521 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,640 She said, I was abandoned by my parents and I came up as in foster, but because I was 522 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,400 a teenager, I was passed from house to house to house to house. 523 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:15,000 And I caught so much nonsense from people having to move my guitar, move my horns, move 524 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,920 my, you know, the last thing I left was a keyboard and I touched it since then. 525 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,520 And I began to witness to her and tell her about the love of Jesus. 526 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,880 And I said, now I know you need to go off the home because your sugar bear is waiting. 527 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:26,880 That's exactly what I said. 528 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,520 She goes, how do you know I call him sugar bear? 529 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,080 And so those kinds of things begin to happen. 530 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:35,820 You know, it wasn't in church. 531 00:29:35,820 --> 00:29:38,200 It happened outside of the church. 532 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:43,040 You know, I was doing a sales job and I encountered this lady in Waynesville, North Carolina, 533 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,040 and I'm trying to sell her something. 534 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,040 I have an appointment. 535 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,360 She's late, but I wait because I don't have anything else to do because I'm broke, you 536 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:50,520 know? 537 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:56,640 And when she gets there, I get a word of knowledge and I say, you got four kids. 538 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,080 You got a set of twins and two others. 539 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,740 These are your twins' names and this is your other kid's names. 540 00:30:02,740 --> 00:30:07,200 This is their personalities and this is how you tell your twins apart. 541 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:12,600 I'm blown away by the word I just got, you know, because I, you know, I mean, I just, 542 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,280 you can't make that up, you know? 543 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,640 And she's looking at me as stone-faced as you can possibly be. 544 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,680 Okay? 545 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,480 Doesn't move her at all. 546 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:28,000 And the Lord pushes me from the inside out and I said, well, let me tell you something 547 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000 else about you. 548 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,120 I said, I see you at nine years old. 549 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,960 You're standing at a fence in front of a house beside an oak tree. 550 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:41,400 There's an old white car there and you're holding on to a pair of jeans that's got legs 551 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:42,400 in them. 552 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,120 There's holes in these jeans around the knee. 553 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:51,440 And I see daddy's hands push your shoulders away and push you back away from away from 554 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:52,440 the car. 555 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,680 He turns around, walks and gets in the car and drives away. 556 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:57,680 That would break her. 557 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,880 And immediately it pierced her heart. 558 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:08,960 And she said, when I was nine years old, that exact encounter happened with my father and 559 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,720 I have not seen him since then. 560 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:16,320 But he called me this week and said he's gotten saved. 561 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:23,360 And he wants to come this weekend and meet his grandkids who were teenagers. 562 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,560 So this encounter, give her courage to say, God was there. 563 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,440 He saw me and I wasn't alone. 564 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,640 And that was so amazing. 565 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:38,600 And so I realized at that point that God has poured something in me. 566 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,680 Because I was doing this sales job, I was fairly good at it until I realized I was having 567 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,440 to lie. 568 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,680 The sales pitch we were giving people was bad and it was a bad product. 569 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:48,680 I didn't know. 570 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,200 I was just trying to make a dollar. 571 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:55,300 But I decided I didn't want to be in sales because it reminded me a lot of my spiritual 572 00:31:55,300 --> 00:32:02,360 upbringing that people would tell you stuff that sounded good that really didn't work. 573 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,760 And so you would buy into it and then you go and you was out there alone trying this 574 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,120 stuff out and you would fall flat on your face. 575 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,680 And so through that time, I began to quit studying the Bible to preach. 576 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,080 And I started studying the Bible to live. 577 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,800 That's so good. 578 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,240 Because every time in the past I'd ever open the Bible, I was opening the Bible to prove 579 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:23,240 what I know. 580 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,240 Oh, wow. 581 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:28,120 And when I would try to prove what I know in my brain, then I would say, yeah, I'm going 582 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,120 to preach. 583 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,420 I'll preach it like this. 584 00:32:30,420 --> 00:32:32,160 And so now I study the Bible to live. 585 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,160 That's so good. 586 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,760 I'm going to minister out of the content of my heart, out of the content of my life. 587 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,920 Wow, wow, wow. 588 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:46,880 So explain for us, explain for our listeners what it's like to get a word of knowledge. 589 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:52,800 It's kind of like having a brain that works. 590 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:57,080 Jesus says, my sheep know my voice and a stranger they won't follow. 591 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:58,320 Now I'm a radio guy. 592 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,560 So I like, I don't listen to the radio now, but when I was younger, I loved listening 593 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,240 to the radio. 594 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:07,680 And we would have favorite radio stations when you were younger. 595 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,080 And when you would get on the edge of that radio station, it would start fizzing in and 596 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,680 out, you know, and that static would take over. 597 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,160 Other radio stations would bleed over the top of it. 598 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,040 But if it was a show that you like, say it was a talk show that you really liked, you 599 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,280 could actually sit there and listen to the guys that you like to hear through all that 600 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:25,280 static. 601 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:29,160 You know, those other voices coming into that frequency. 602 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,040 And you could pick out that what you wanted to hear. 603 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,520 You remember doing that when you were listening to the radio when you was younger? 604 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,400 Okay, that's what listening to heaven is like. 605 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,520 Because heaven is always broadcasting, always. 606 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:50,100 But there's a competition for your reception in the spirit realm. 607 00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:53,560 So there's always stuff flying through the airways of your brain. 608 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:58,600 And what we have to do is be in such relationship with Jesus that we pick his voice out through 609 00:33:58,600 --> 00:33:59,600 the static. 610 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:00,600 Oh, that's so good. 611 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:01,600 That's good. 612 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,880 You know, and if we live with a lot of static in our lives, then maybe we need to move closer 613 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:05,880 to the station. 614 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:06,880 Exactly. 615 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:07,880 You know? 616 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,480 But sometimes God will send you to the limits. 617 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:15,260 And you have to be able to pick his voice out of all the static. 618 00:34:15,260 --> 00:34:19,800 Because as much as heaven's trying to get your attention, there's a demonic horde that 619 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,280 wants your attention as well. 620 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,640 Second Corinthians 3.18 says, what we look at, we become. 621 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:33,960 You know, and so if you're only dwelling on the static and saying, man, I can't hear heaven, 622 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:34,960 guess what? 623 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,400 There'll always be that for you. 624 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:41,720 But if you'll learn his character, you'll be able to pick him out of a crowd. 625 00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:45,760 And if I'm sitting in a crowd of 50 people and everybody's talking, I can hear my wife 626 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,400 talking no matter if she's talking to me or not. 627 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,880 Because I know her voice. 628 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:50,880 Beautiful. 629 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,600 Sometimes it brings me peace. 630 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,120 Sometimes it brings me a shiver. 631 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,360 You know, depending on what I've been up to. 632 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,840 But I can always pick her voice out. 633 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,680 And we should be so in tune with heaven. 634 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,160 But see, he whispers his truth. 635 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:12,240 And if we'll hear that, every person you walk into, whether you're in the supermarket, you're 636 00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:16,840 at the gas station, you're getting your hair done, you're at work, God wants to speak to 637 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,080 every person you encounter. 638 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,080 And you can do it. 639 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,540 When I first got married, I'm learning this. 640 00:35:22,540 --> 00:35:23,760 It's tough. 641 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,440 I'll sit down in a restaurant. 642 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,760 It's like listening to 50 different radio stations at one time because I could hear 643 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,480 the anxiety of every person in the room. 644 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:33,480 And you can talk to my wife. 645 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:34,480 You can ask her. 646 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,800 I would excuse myself half done with the meal because it would physically make me sick. 647 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:45,080 I had to learn how to hear this and how to discern what I need to say when I need to 648 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:46,080 say it. 649 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:47,080 Because you know what? 650 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:51,400 Jesus didn't heal every person he encountered. 651 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,360 There's times where he healed them all. 652 00:35:54,360 --> 00:36:00,280 But the man at the gate, beautiful, Jesus passed him by dozens of times in his life. 653 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,120 But he was saving that one for Peter and John. 654 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:09,240 So not every person you encounter should you stop, break down, and start trying to preach 655 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:10,240 to them. 656 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:16,820 But I do know this, is that the Bible was written as a guideline for how to be a Christian, 657 00:36:16,820 --> 00:36:18,560 not how to get saved. 658 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,880 And so we have a lot of Christians just trying to carry the Bible to the world when in fact 659 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,360 we need signs and wonders. 660 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,880 That brings them to Jesus. 661 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,600 And then they learn how to be a Christian. 662 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:30,600 Yeah. 663 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:38,080 So tell us about the time that you were fighting with your wife. 664 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,360 Which time would you like to know about? 665 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,320 You only told us one story like that. 666 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:48,560 No, we actually made a mistake one time and moved to a place that we shouldn't have moved 667 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,560 to. 668 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:50,920 We didn't hear from heaven, right? 669 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,040 And so we didn't have a good time while we were there. 670 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,080 Because when you get out of the will of God, nothing really works. 671 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:02,200 So you have to get off that wrong road and get back on the right road. 672 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:08,040 And so we had made a decision, we had issues there, but you have to walk this out. 673 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,160 And so one day we're there, we're not fighting about this. 674 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:11,620 I don't even remember what we're fighting about. 675 00:37:11,620 --> 00:37:16,840 But I know that it's not just a pokey in the belly fuss. 676 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,720 We're yelling slamming doors kind of stuff. 677 00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:25,040 And where we was at, we did not have good cell reception, nor very good internet. 678 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,760 And my phone rang in the house. 679 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,800 And so I answer it. 680 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,080 And I know I need to answer it because it rang. 681 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:35,880 And so, and this guy says, Hey, man, you don't know me, but this guy, and he gave me a name, 682 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,800 give me your number, said you could help me. 683 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,280 And I'm thinking he's got a plumbing issue. 684 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:45,000 And with the current environment in my house, I'm willing to go do whatever just to be away 685 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,580 from this for a little bit, you know? 686 00:37:47,580 --> 00:37:53,720 And so he said, man, my brother has had a wreck and he's dying on the side of the road. 687 00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:55,840 Could you please come and pray for my brother? 688 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,360 And I said, where's he at? 689 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,920 And he told me, and it's about 45 minutes from where I'm at. 690 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,160 And I said, well, I will start that way. 691 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,760 And I told my wife, I said, I got to go. 692 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,240 And she sensed it immediately and began to pray. 693 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:09,240 Okay. 694 00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:10,400 So it broke down the fight. 695 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:11,400 Yeah. 696 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:12,400 Oh yeah. 697 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,080 You can't fight in the presence of God. 698 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,080 Isn't God good? 699 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,080 Oh yeah. 700 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,080 He's so kind. 701 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,520 And so I take off and I go and it's 45 minutes. 702 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,080 I drive to where I got to be. 703 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,120 I come up on the accident. 704 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,800 There's not one single cop. 705 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,720 There's not no firefighters, no trucks, no ambulance. 706 00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:31,720 Nobody's there. 707 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:32,960 There's just bystanders that had stopped. 708 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,680 And there was a couple EMTs that were in their personally owned vehicles, had stopped to 709 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,360 check on the wreck, found the guy and was trying to do CPR. 710 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,360 Okay. 711 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,220 Well, I find the brother and I say, Hey man, I'm James. 712 00:38:46,220 --> 00:38:47,220 You called me. 713 00:38:47,220 --> 00:38:48,220 He says, yeah, thank you for coming. 714 00:38:48,220 --> 00:38:49,480 He said, my brother's right up there. 715 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,480 It's not good. 716 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,200 And so I start walking that way. 717 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,320 And when I get close, the EMTs wave me off and they said, Hey man, you don't need to 718 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:57,320 be up here. 719 00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,400 So look, man, I'm a minister and this family called me and asked me to come pray for the 720 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,400 brother. 721 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,520 And they said, there's no need for you to come up here and pray. 722 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,960 This guy was dead when we started, but we can't stop. 723 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:12,700 And I said, look, whether he's dead or not, it'll give this family great peace if they 724 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:14,200 know I came up here and prayed. 725 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,280 They said, well, you do whatever you want, but you just need to know he's dead when you 726 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:18,280 get here. 727 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:19,280 So don't be expecting anything. 728 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,040 And I said, well, that's fine. 729 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,640 And so I don't have a raise the dead ministry. 730 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:30,160 I've listened to a lot of David Hogan stuff, but I'm not going around raising the dead 731 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:34,960 every day, but I'm not even going to try to describe the shape of this body. 732 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,160 He was ejected partially from his truck and the truck rolled nine times. 733 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:43,080 Seven of those times his body was under the truck. 734 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:49,320 And so he was beat up beyond looking like a human being and he was not breathing. 735 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:50,720 There was no movement. 736 00:39:50,720 --> 00:39:52,520 There was no heartbeat. 737 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:56,520 And I kneeled down and kind of pointed my knees to where his shoulders are supposed 738 00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:57,520 to be. 739 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,180 And his head is close to my knees. 740 00:39:59,180 --> 00:40:01,320 And I just began to pray and I put my hands out in front of me. 741 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:02,320 I didn't touch him. 742 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,560 And I said, God, give this man a chance. 743 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,400 I said, give this man a chance. 744 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,920 I said it twice, 45 seconds. 745 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,640 All of a sudden this man sucks in a breath. 746 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,800 Now he can't move because every bone in his body is broke. 747 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:21,600 But he pulls in this breath and all of a sudden these EMTs who are going through motions, 748 00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,520 all of a sudden come alive. 749 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,720 It's like a Christian when the Holy Ghost falls. 750 00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:31,040 You're sitting there half asleep and somebody jumps up and shouts, you know, and all of 751 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:32,560 a sudden now you're right there in it. 752 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:33,980 Well, that's where they were. 753 00:40:33,980 --> 00:40:37,120 And they say, Hey man, you've been in a really bad accident, but you've got help on the 754 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:38,120 way. 755 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:42,080 I heard a siren four miles down the road. 756 00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:43,080 They're almost there. 757 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,200 They said, Hey, this man's a minister. 758 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,280 And they pointed at me and he's been praying for you. 759 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,720 And this guy looked up at me and I couldn't move his head. 760 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:53,720 Okay. 761 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:57,520 So his eyeballs rolled back in his head and he looked at me through the top of his head, 762 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:02,320 literally, because that part of his head was just smashed in, you know, and it was the 763 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,040 most gruesome thing I've ever seen. 764 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,340 But at the same time, I'll never get it out of my mind. 765 00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:10,040 I don't want to because I never want to forget this encounter. 766 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,840 He rolled his eyes up and looked at me and says, help me, man, help me. 767 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,720 And I said, you need to call in the name of Jesus. 768 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:17,720 He can help you. 769 00:41:17,720 --> 00:41:19,440 Probably didn't say it exactly that way. 770 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,200 I said, you need to ask Jesus for help. 771 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,320 And he said, Jesus, help me. 772 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,320 Jesus, help me. 773 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:32,000 And he sucked in a breath and released that breath and it went out of him and he quit 774 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,000 breathing. 775 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,720 And he went to heaven. 776 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:36,120 Isn't that amazing? 777 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:41,400 And so there's a lot of broader story to this, how this affected me, but we won't go there 778 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:42,400 right now. 779 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:47,640 But I walked down to his family and I looked at him and I said, hey, I said, your brother 780 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,600 just went to be with Jesus. 781 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,060 I said, but before he did, he asked Jesus to help him. 782 00:41:53,060 --> 00:41:55,680 And I said, and his hand is strong. 783 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,400 If you want to see him in heaven, you call me and I'll sit down with you. 784 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,800 We'll go through the process. 785 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,240 And they disappeared. 786 00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:04,240 I just went home. 787 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:06,320 Weren't they a rough family? 788 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:07,320 Terrible family. 789 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,200 One of the roughest families in that part of the state. 790 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,200 Wow. 791 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,440 And I didn't know them because I'm not that kind of rough, you know? 792 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,720 But I am rough, but not that kind. 793 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:23,200 Eight months later, I get a call and it's this brother and he says, hey man, we're having 794 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:24,200 a family reunion. 795 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,440 It was the first time they all had gotten together since this guy died. 796 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,320 I want you to come and minister to my family. 797 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:36,760 And that wasn't the first time that it happened for me, but it's a weird deal because he might 798 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:41,120 want me to be there, but the rest of them might not. 799 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,120 But I agreed to go to him. 800 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:46,480 I went and they pushed a cooler up next to me and it had plenty to drink in it. 801 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:52,440 I sat there for two hours and I ministered the kingdom of God to this family and close 802 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,000 to 50 of them get saved. 803 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,880 Glory to God. 804 00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:01,080 And it was the most amazing thing, but they filled up a 55 gallon trash can full of drug 805 00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:02,080 and drug paraphernalia. 806 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,080 Wow. 807 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:07,200 You know, so much I had to call a local deputy, ask him to come get this stuff and do away 808 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:08,200 with it. 809 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:12,160 And I followed up with this deputy months and months later, who's no longer a deputy 810 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:17,640 here, but he says that this was one of the roughest families in the county and now they're 811 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,160 one of the best families in the county. 812 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:23,520 And he said the generation of children getting out of high school right now is the first 813 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:29,240 generation in this entire family line that's not in trouble with the law by the time they 814 00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:30,240 get out of high school. 815 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:31,240 You know, completely changed. 816 00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:36,040 You know, they're involved in all kinds of outreach programs and celebrate recoveries 817 00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:39,460 and you know, so it was a real transition. 818 00:43:39,460 --> 00:43:47,600 So this was an amazing experience that brought forth tremendous fruit, even though you were 819 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:54,040 in a place that you really weren't supposed to be as far as heaven was concerned, but 820 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:59,400 it's kind of like, well, as long as he's there, let's get this done. 821 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:05,040 You know, my point is that Romans 8 28 works everywhere. 822 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:10,840 No matter if we've stepped out of the will of God and we've just stepped back in, he'll 823 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,400 use us wherever we are. 824 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:16,680 So I just want to encourage our listeners that no matter where you are in your walk, 825 00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:24,600 in your journey, you are in a position where God can use you if you'll just yield to him. 826 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,080 That's correct. 827 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:34,720 And I just thank God that I may be a knucklehead, but Jesus loves the people I encounter as 828 00:44:34,720 --> 00:44:36,120 much as he loves me. 829 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,120 Yes. 830 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,080 You know, and it works. 831 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:43,760 If you'll truly seek the Lord, you'll find him and you'll find him in the most unassuming 832 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:44,760 places. 833 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:49,240 I don't care if you're a stock trader or a doctor or a asphalt layer. 834 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:51,240 I don't care what you're doing. 835 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:55,800 Every person that you encounter wants and needs to hear from heaven, whether they know 836 00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,400 they want and need to hear from heaven or not. 837 00:44:58,400 --> 00:44:59,400 Yes. 838 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:05,640 And if you can quit being a Christian long enough and just be Jesus to them, they'll 839 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,760 feel love that's not you and they'll want it. 840 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:09,760 Yes. 841 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:10,760 That's beautiful. 842 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:11,760 That is beautiful. 843 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,000 That is so powerful. 844 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,280 So can you just pray for our listeners? 845 00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:18,280 Yeah. 846 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,280 Yeah. 847 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,000 Jesus, we just thank you. 848 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,080 We thank you for the sacrifice that you made. 849 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:30,160 And we pray in your name that every person that has encountered you would begin to understand 850 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:36,880 that you love your kids and every person that walks around is your children, not just the 851 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:37,880 Christians. 852 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:42,280 And so you love every person on the earth, not just the good people, and you want every 853 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:43,280 person redeemed. 854 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:47,840 And Moses said, I would that all of God's people prophesy. 855 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:48,840 Yes. 856 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:53,080 And so Lord, I come into agreement with that prayer right now. 857 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:58,160 And Lord, we ask that every person under the sound of this podcast, no matter when they 858 00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:04,040 listen to it, will be pricked in their heart that salvation is not the end. 859 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,520 It's a means to an end. 860 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,520 The Holy Spirit and His gifts are not the end. 861 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,520 They're a means to an end. 862 00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:17,680 The end is to create an environment on the earth in my heart where God's will can happen 863 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,440 here like it does in heaven. 864 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:26,040 And then to partner with those that are of like mind so that we can walk through a culture 865 00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:29,120 and change that culture. 866 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:36,920 We want to culture the earth and be heaven to those that we encounter. 867 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:38,960 I ask you for that in Jesus' name. 868 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:43,080 I speak rest and peace over those that are listening. 869 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,200 There's a lot of troubled minds, a lot of troubled hearts. 870 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:50,960 And I just thank you that you are the God of peace and that your hand is not small. 871 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:55,000 It's strong on behalf of those that you care for. 872 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,360 And I just pray for a manifestation of that in Jesus' name. 873 00:46:58,360 --> 00:46:59,360 Amen. 874 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:00,360 Amen. 875 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,560 Well, thank you so much for being with us today, James. 876 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:10,000 And I just want to mention that you run the Healing Rooms in Batesville, Arkansas. 877 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,920 And do you have a website for that? 878 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,640 We actually are part of the International Association of Healing Rooms. 879 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:20,320 And so you can go to healingrooms.com and you can actually look up Arkansas Healing Rooms 880 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:21,480 and you can find my name. 881 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,800 You can find my contact information there. 882 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:25,880 But we are part of that group. 883 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,240 There's some 3,000 Healing Rooms around the world. 884 00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:33,240 We're state directors in Arkansas and we're region 12 directors. 885 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:36,400 So we have seven states that we kind of look after. 886 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,560 We got good state leadership, so it's not a big job, you know. 887 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:44,040 But it's kind of fun to go and release healing in all these places. 888 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:45,240 That's wonderful. 889 00:47:45,240 --> 00:47:46,240 That's wonderful. 890 00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:53,360 Well, thank you so much for being with us. 891 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:59,320 If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts 892 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,920 or wherever you listen to podcasts. 893 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:06,920 The review helps the podcasting platform suggest this podcast to other listeners who are also 894 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,000 looking for a great move of the Holy Spirit. 895 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:15,320 Check out our website at globaloutpouring.org to find out more information, read our blogs, 896 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,160 connect with us, and donate. 897 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:21,620 You can also browse our web store for life-changing anointed books. 898 00:48:21,620 --> 00:48:24,160 Until next time, this is Sharon 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