We're meant to be new creatures in Christ. We're
not supposed to look like the old. We're not
supposed to sound like the old person that was
unredeemed. But as we're drawing closer and closer
and closer to him, we're getting more and more
glory and to be more and more like him. to pour
out His Spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global
Outpouring, where we contend for that promised
outpouring, we equip for that outpouring, so
that we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm
Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to
the podcast today. We're so glad that you are
with us. We have just come back from our Global
Outpouring Convention 2025, and we want to give
you a report of all, well, I don't think we can
give all that God did, but we can give you an
overview of what God did during that time in
His presence. It was an amazing, amazing time
where we were focusing on being on the threshold
of outpouring. Thank you so much for joining
us today. We bless you. And we just know that
this is an opportunity for you to get to know
us better. And for us to get to know you better,
if you'd like to give us some kind of feedback
from how the Lord is using this podcast in your
life, we have a feedback form on our website,
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to us at feedback at globaloutpouring .org. We
would love to hear from you. We would love to
hear from where you're listening. all around
the world. We know that people are listening
all around the world, and we just want to connect
with you. And there's lots of things on our website
that you can connect with, and we just encourage
you to do so. So today we are... going to talk
about what happened at this convention. We've
been talking about it for weeks and weeks and
weeks, trying to get you to come to the convention,
and some of you did, and we're so glad that you
did. It was amazing. And if you didn't get to
come, you will want to listen to some of these
speakers. It's just powerful. Yeah, the whole
thing is on our YouTube channel. We have a whole
playlist for Convention 2025, and everything
is there, including the worship and everything.
Everything. So you're welcome to go there and,
you know, you can fast forward through something
that you don't want to listen to, but you really
need to hear these messages that were given.
But the anointing was so on the worship as well.
So we trust that you will enjoy this and we'll
put a link to the playlist on our YouTube channel
in the show notes. And we know that you're going
to be blessed by it. You know, it was exciting
to us to see, even though this was kind of like,
This was a restart for us. Yeah, this was a restart.
Because for five years, we have had our conventions
in a very small way, in our very small location
here in very small Jasper, Arkansas. Which is
hard to get to. It's hard to get to. A lot of
people couldn't get to. But we felt that the
Lord was leading us this year to go back to St.
Louis, where we had been. Oh, man. 14 times,
I think. We were 14 times at the Marriott, and
then we were at other hotels probably another
six times or so. You know, probably something
like 20 years that we spent in St. Louis. Sold
a lot into St. Louis. Yes. Payback time. Oh,
yeah. Wow. It was, too. It was tremendous. And
people came. It wasn't as big as we used to have,
but I think it's going to double next time. 220,
230 or so at any one time in the place. I know
some came and went. But everybody that I spoke
to were so blessed and felt so encouraged and
so refreshed and so built up. It was exciting
to me to hear their responses, because that's
really what we were expecting from the Lord,
that this was going to be a time of refreshing.
And it was. It certainly was. And the thing that
was really a surprise to us was the number of
people that came from the nations. There were
14 nations represented. That's just amazing.
There was United States and Canada, Bangladesh,
Angola, Belgium, Pakistan, Bolivia, Israel, Congo,
China, New Zealand, India, Japan, and Haiti.
All represented. Now, they may not have come
from those nations. to the convention, but they're
people from the nations that maybe have settled
here or that are visiting here, or maybe they
were missionaries to those nations and they were
here. But they were representing the nation.
It was their culture, their people. Yeah, it
was just stunning to see. And we had translation
in three different languages. Yes. And to translate
into Chinese, into Spanish, and to French. Yeah.
You know, to have that kind of situation. It
was a glimpse of what we've done before in the
past when we had much bigger conventions with
lots more people. To have that many nations showing
up for as small a group as we had, I thought
that was stunning. Pretty amazing, yeah. Absolutely
stunning. And I was really, really encouraged.
And I loved the worship that we had together.
We have one of the ladies on our staff is, first
of all, the worshiper. She heads up our accounting
department. But during convention, she is a worshiper.
And she's not concerned about the accounting
department. She's set up other people to take
care of that. But she gets out there with her
flags and her beautiful pageantry kind of things.
And we had this discussion before convention
that there wasn't anybody else that normally
comes. to do that kind of pageantry. Yeah, normally
we have a list of people that have a whole thing
to show. Or that's what they do. Or sometimes
with a soundtrack or something, which is hard
to do anymore because of copyright issues. Sure,
especially since we're streaming it now. Yeah,
streaming it. Back in the day when we weren't
streaming it, we could do it. It's changed the
whole pattern, so you don't get a lawsuit on
your hand. Sure. She just was thinking she was
going to be all by herself, dancing before the
Lord. And God brought people from the nations.
Yeah, we had 10 people from mainland China. It's
amazing they got out and that they got in. Right.
You know, like, wow. And they came with a passionate
desire to worship the Lord. And the folks from
New Zealand came with their way of worship, which
is... Totally unique. They're Maoris. So if you
know anything about the Maoris and how they do
the haka, which is, you know, they've redeemed
this haka before the Lord in ancient times or
even probably more recent times. Their haka dance
was. Very intimidating to the enemy. So before
they, in fact, they do that on the soccer field.
Yeah, they do that before their soccer team comes
out, I think. And it's very, very intimidating.
But now they're doing it to be intimidating to
the devil. Yeah. And in spiritual warfare. So,
you know, they did some of that with this rawr
kind of, you know. And then there were those
that. were coming from other places and places
around the United States, and they brought their
flags and their worshipers too. And I'm telling
you, the place was just... bursting with worshipers.
And thankfully, the Lord had showed us how to
lay out the room that left lots of space for
worship. So they could swing around with their
flags and their banners and dancing and just
all the things that they were doing, showing
worship to the Lord. And it was just, just marvelous.
And our friend Dean Braxton was one of our speakers.
And he's spoken on this podcast probably 15 times
already. And he made the comment that he had
never been in a place on the planet, as he calls
Earth, that he saw such a mingling of the cultures
that reminded him of heaven. He said, normally
where he goes, you'll see a group of people that's
from one culture or maybe two. But he'd never
seen this mix of cultures worshiping before the
Lord together. And he said it was just so much
like heaven. He said coming to this convention
was a gift from the Lord to him. Wow, that's
amazing. It is absolutely amazing. Absolutely.
So we'll talk more about what he had to say.
I just want to give kind of a play -by -play.
Kind of make you jealous that you weren't there.
Oh, yeah. But you can watch it. You can watch
it. It will be there. And I know that the anointing
is still on it. I've heard that from people who
were listening who couldn't come. They said the
anointing came through. It was there. So you'll
be blessed by it too. We had Siggy Oblander as
our opening night speaker, and she's one of the
founders of this ministry. And she's probably,
I don't know that she was the opening speaker
for the First World Convention, but I know she
spoke many times during our conventions through
the years. And so it just was so right in our
hearts because this was our 50th. annual event.
We had a few years where we did camp meetings
instead of what we'd call a convention, but every
year we were doing something. So this was our
50th year, our 50th time, I should say. And so
she brought a tremendous message about the five
things that will give you the grace to go on.
And she talked about looking back into your history,
looking back, looking behind you, Which was ideal
for what we're doing. We had put together a slideshow
of pictures from the last 50 events that we've
had and mission trips. That was quite amazing.
It really was. There's only a handful of pictures.
I mean, how many pictures was there? Oh, I don't
know. Well over a hundred. There's thousands
of pictures. There's thousands of pictures. We
just didn't have time to... to put that together
because that was a last minute thing. Yeah, we'll
probably figure out a way to put it on our YouTube
channel. But, you know, it's just pictures of
our history looking back. So she said, the first
thing you have to do is look back and then you
have to look up. And she talked about how Abraham
was told by the Lord to look up to the stars.
And as you look up, you see promises of things
to come. And then she said, you have to look
around. Look at the things around you. Look at
the people around you. And then you look within.
Self -examination. Yeah. Check things out. Where
are you at with the Lord? And you have to do
all of those things before you can really look
forward. Yeah. And so, you know, as we're talking
about our first 50 conventions, we're also looking
forward to what the Lord has for us. And we'll
get to that at the end of this episode. She had
a... One of her statements was where Jesus, to
let him put his nail -scarred finger in the keyhole
of your heart. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's from Sago
Solomon where the bride has taken off her shoes
and she's washed her feet and she's gone to bed.
And he says, open to me. And the way, if you
have a chance to listen to that, the way she
presented that, it's just like the bride had
his hand open the door, but she was supposed
to come to the door and open it and she didn't.
Yeah. And he didn't come. Yeah. Well, the way
she said it was, the bride wanted him to come
in to her, and he wanted her to come out to him.
Come out to him, even though the door was unlocked.
Yeah. I mean, I'd never seen it that way before.
Yeah, the way it was presented, it was just so
powerful. It really was. And a lot was on the
bride. Yeah. I mean, and this is someone who
grew up in communism. Right. Grew up in East
Germany under the Soviet system, which was brutal.
what the Germans did to the Soviets. And the
Soviets did to the Germans. Yeah, so they're
not going to be nice to any German, and they
weren't. It was tough growing up in Berlin. Sure
was. So that was just powerful. So then the next
day, we had Dean Braxton. And he said, this is
something I've never shared before, about the
eight things that God showed him that would happen
in the end times. And I think you just need to
go and listen to that one to get it for yourself.
I don't think we need to try and recap it for
you. You need to hear it because it's important.
What was fun, but we had a question and answer.
Two of them. Two of them were people. We had
a basket up front and it said questions for Dean
Braxton. Yep. And so we had. had an hour and
a half session for a couple days where he would,
this is what the Lord showed him, what he saw.
It was powerful. It really was. And the thing
that touched my heart the most was when I asked
him, because I had the privilege of pulling people's
questions and asking them. And I sneaked a few
of my own in. Yeah, I won't say it's not fair,
but it really is. I asked him about the scripture
in Revelation where it says that the living creatures,
I think it was, were speaking to each other and
saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
who was and who is and who is to come. I said,
did you hear that? And he said, yes. He gave
me those short answers sometimes, and I would
ask for more, more detail, tell me more. And
the thing that he said really... struck me, and
it's changed how I worship, which is the whole
point of us having Dean Braxton, in order for
us to find out more about how it is in heaven.
so that we can practice it here on earth in answer
to the prayer that the church has been praying
ever since Jesus taught his disciples to pray,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as
it is in heaven. So the more we find out about
how it is in heaven, the more we can do it on
earth. So what he said was that, you know, we
think, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, you
know, kind of fast. Like the hymn. Yeah. But
what he said was it's very slow. Like, holy.
A little longer than that. Very, very, very long.
And so that gave me a whole new thought about
how I worship. To stretch it out. To make it
longer. To make it more sustained. To make it
deeper in me. That every sound that I make, I'm
doing it more deliberately. just taking it deeper.
So that was a thing for me in that. Then that
night, I guess it was Thursday night, we had
what we call Israel night. And we focused on
Israel and we sang songs of worship that was
more Israel style. And we had dancing that was
more Israel style. And Dr. Gene Little, he and
his wife, Mary Lois, run our house of peace in
Jerusalem for us that we've had now for... Almost
27 years. This fall will be 27 years. I think
so, unless it already was. I've lost track. We
were going to celebrate 25 years, and we had
just bought our ticket on October 4th when October
7th happened. So I guess we're probably at 26
and a half years. Anyway, they shared the need
that we have for renovating our kitchen. in the
house of peace we've been doing renovations and
they gave a report on the renovations we've been
doing and how the lord has provided and if anybody
wants to sow into that we now have a button on
our website that's specifically for giving to
our israel ministry and it goes directly into
our israel account so we don't have to transfer
from one account to another so we've got that
set up and i'm very happy that it's saving on
our bookkeeping yeah and If you want to contribute
to that, it's a big project. And we've been doing
big projects and the Lord has provided, so we
fully expect him to provide for this as well.
And then Gene went on to talk about many things
about Israel. And there's just so much to say
about Israel. It's such a major, big subject.
Then the next morning we had Jeff Simons. And
we had him on the podcast some weeks ago. I was
very impressed with his well -balanced message
about all of these exposures that have been going
on and how it's important for us to have the
right heart and the right attitudes for dealing
with these things, that they really need to come
forth in a correct manner because there are people
that have been hurt. And you can't just sweep
these people under the rug. I mean, that's an
expression, but you can't just push them aside
and say, no, no, this is our pastor or this is
our whoever and only just defend. There's a point
and a place where things have to be dealt with.
So I just appreciated that very much, how beautifully
he did that and the compassion that he expressed
about the people that have been hurt. And I loved
how he brought an altar call at the end for those
who are having trouble forgiving, forgiving people
who have hurt them. And it's really a call for
repentance because unforgiveness is a sin that
can take you to hell. You know, we've had podcasts
about that in the past. I think it's one of the
hell's best kept secret. Unforgiveness. Unforgiveness
is his best kept secret because he can take Christians
to hell because they won't forgive. Because it
says very clearly at the end of the Lord's Prayer
that if you don't forgive, you won't be forgiven.
So it's pretty critical. And then that evening,
Pastor Tony Kemp gave his first message. And
Philip, you had a couple of notes there that
I'd love for you to share. He was referring,
I mean, he's a wealth of just revelatory knowledge.
Absolutely. But he made a statement, a brilliant
strategist in me, the Holy Spirit. It gives me
a revelation not only who he is, but who I am.
How many people really know who they are in the
Holy Spirit? Yeah. I thought, wow. And the only
way you find that out is by hanging out with
them more. Mm -hmm. I'm preaching to the choir.
I'm like, I've got more than you. No, uh -uh.
Everybody's on a journey of their own. Absolutely.
And the more we can connect with him, the more
he will use him. In fact, he did make a statement
that was really amazing. He says, what you overcome,
we're always working on overcoming. He says,
what you overcome, you have authority over. Yes.
You know, that is really good. So if you're having
difficulties in some area, you just have to remember
that. You know, the only way to get authority
over this is to overcome it. Yes. Yeah, and he
made a statement like, you remove defilement
out of your life and you will have discernment.
Ooh. And now you think about that. You know,
remove defilement because the more, it's like
that song we used to sing. I want more of Jesus,
more and more and more. I want more of Jesus
than I've ever had before. We all want that.
I want more of his great love, so rich, so full
and free. I want more of Jesus, so I'll give
him more of me. And that's the hard part. It's
giving more of yourself to him. So the more you
give to him, the more he gives to you. Beautiful.
Yeah. And so that was just... And he made a statement.
If you don't get revelation, you're stagnant.
Wow. Ouch, you know. Wow, wow. So it's, you know,
we heard some powerful things that were there.
Yeah. Yeah, and just a lot to chew on. I just
recommend everybody, you know, that Tony Kemp
first night. That is just very powerful because
there's something there for you. Yeah, it was
from the Thursday night meeting. Our Friday night
meeting, rather. We went through Saturday. It's
like the absence of light keeps you where you're
at. Wow. So we have to press in to that. And
this comes from somebody that has done this.
I mean, Pastor Tony was a bad dude in his early
years. You know, he was a street guy. Yeah. And
no telling how many people he beat up. You know,
he doesn't talk about that, but he lets you know
he used to do stuff like that. Yeah. You don't
want to mess around with him, you know. And to
see where he is now, you know. Oh, yeah, here's
one he had. The light in you depends on who will
follow you. You mean determines. Determines.
Yeah. Yeah, determines. Sorry, when I'm trying
to write things and I keep talking, you know,
sometimes you mess things up, you know. It's
like you've got to go back to the recording.
Yeah. But so the light on you depends who will
follow you. Yeah. Wow. And the absence of light
keeps you where you're at. Right. Wow, wow. So
it's all about stepping out of the darkness into
the light. And here's one he had. Enoch didn't
ask God to walk with him. Yes. He walked with
God. Right. Yeah. So we can't expect Jesus to
just come in and fix everything. We have to walk
with him. Kind of like the Song of Solomon we
talked about. The door's unlocked. I think he
talks about his hand on the door, if I remember
right. He put his hand through the lattice. He
put his hand through the lattice. He didn't open
the door, though, because he wants you to open
the door. Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
Yep, I stand at the door and knock. Oh, and he
had another statement. Walk in his story to walk
in his glory. Ooh, yeah. It's about walking in
his ways. Uh -huh. When we walk in his ways,
we'll get the glory that comes with his ways.
So that was a powerful message. You know, there's
so much there. Yeah. I just got to go back. You
couldn't write fast enough. You can't write fast
enough. Yeah. So the next morning I spoke and
I felt like I needed to start talking about the
glory because that's what Pastor Tony had started
with. took it a little bit further into 2 Corinthians
3, where it's talking about going from glory
to glory. And we talked about how the new covenant
is operating in our lives and his word being
written in our hearts, at the fleshy tables of
our hearts instead of in stone. And we talked
about, let me just read 2 Corinthians 3 and verse
18. I'm reading from the Amplified Classic. And
all of us, As with unveiled face, because we
continued to behold in the word of God as in
a mirror, the glory of the Lord are constantly
being transfigured into his very own image in
ever increasing splendor and from one degree
of glory to another. For this comes from the
Lord who is the spirit. And we were talking about.
This Greek word for transfigured or transformed,
it's the word metamorpho. And it refers to the
kind of transformation like a caterpillar into
a butterfly. Yeah. Where it's a completely different
creature. We're meant to be new creatures in
Christ. We're not supposed to look like the old.
We're not supposed to sound like the old person
that was unredeemed. But as we're drawing closer
and closer and closer to him, we're getting more
and more glory and to be more and more like him.
And you see that in Galatians 5, where it talks
about the works of the flesh and how the Spirit
is working. his fruit in us, the fruit of his
presence, that turns us into Christ -like creatures.
And that when you have a caterpillar that goes
into the chrysalis, they absolutely are like...
digested down into green goo. Yeah, we opened
one once as kids, I remember. And there's nothing
in that at that stage that looks like either
a caterpillar or a butterfly. Everything has
to die. Green slime. Green slime. But there's
a structure in the caterpillar that has the DNA
of the butterfly. It's there hidden in the caterpillar.
But everything that is of the fleshly nature
of the caterpillar has to be like digested. Don't
we have the DNA in Jesus when we get... Exactly.
Exactly. That is the point. We shall be changed.
Right. Metamorpho. Right. Greek word. Right.
And so when you run around thinking, oh, I want
to be a butterfly. Oh, I want to be a butterfly.
You have to realize that there is a process where
you have to die to all of these things that are
the fleshly nature. All of those things that
are listed as the works of the flesh, you know,
all of the outbursts of anger and jealousy. You
know, of course, sexual immorality and all those
things, too. You know, everything has to go and
everything can go and will go as we cooperate
with the Holy Spirit who is working in us to
push the flesh out of the way so that we're becoming
more and more like Jesus, which is going from
glory to glory. You don't get there suddenly.
That's right. I mean, you know, Jesus was transfigured
before his disciples. and met Elijah and Moses
on the Mount of Transfiguration. But it was for
a brief moment. And sometimes we have those moments
of glory when the Holy Ghost comes down and,
oh, God does amazing things. And then we just
kind of become ordinary people again. But there's
a process where he's making saints out of us.
That's what he's doing. He's consecrating us
to himself more and more and more and more. And
it's a series of saying, will you give me that?
I want to give you something else in exchange.
Wouldn't you rather have love than an outburst
of rage? Wouldn't you rather have patience than
jealousy? Wouldn't you rather have the things
that I have to offer instead of... the fleshly
nature that causes people to become offended.
Especially, you know, here we are supposed to
be Christians and we have a flesh flash. And,
you know, it's off -putting. You just, people
don't like that. And then we start feeling badly
ourselves about it because we don't like it.
We don't want other people to do that to us.
That's where repentance comes in. And the quicker
you repent, the faster you will get back to the
glory. Yeah, that's good. And into the things
of the Spirit. So those were just some of the
ideas that came forth in that message. And then
Pastor Tony had the final message, and that was,
he preached for about five minutes. And he said,
okay, that's enough of that. There's people here
that need to be healed. And he just had word
of knowledge after word of knowledge, and people
came forward. What a gift. tumors were disappearing
and pain was going away from this and that. And
it was just, it was absolutely glorious the way
that the Lord met people and brought healing.
It was really tremendous. The other thing I wanted
to mention that we rolled out, shall we say,
at the convention, the Lord put it on our hearts.
Well, I'll just give you a little backstory.
On December 31st, 2024, We were having our staff
devotions, and we were singing that song. And
I think we've told this story before, but we
were singing that song day and night, night and
day. Let incense arise. And the Holy Spirit was
just heavy on it. And the Lord spoke to Mary
Lois on our staff, and he said, I want that in
Engeltal. Now, Engeltal is the name of our headquarters.
It means Valley of Angels in the German language.
And he said, I want that in Angletal. Now, prior
to that, I had had several reports from Catherine
James, who was answering the phones at the time,
saying intercessors were calling and saying,
we want to come to Angletal to pray and draw
from this great well of intercession that's here
in this valley. And in my mind, I would go to.
we need to do an event. We need to do a prayer
event. How can we do a prayer event? We don't
have a cook to take care of the people. And I'm
thinking, well, I guess we could call a fast
or something. Have a three -day fast and have
people come. But I would kind of dismiss it because
I couldn't see how it could work. So that's the
backstory. Then the Lord spoke to Mary Lois,
I want day and night intercession in Angletall.
And she said, Lord, how shall we do it? And he
said, take the house where Philip and I lived
for over 20 years. We raised our daughter there.
And make that a place where people can come,
bring their own groceries, cook for themselves,
and they can pray in our chapel where there's
a tremendous flowing of the Holy Spirit in that
place. There's a tremendous well of intercession
there. And they can come for three days up to
two weeks and just soak in the presence of the
Lord and pray and intercede and bring forth that
intercession incense before the Lord. So that
was New Year's Eve. And then just a few days
later, I was speaking with Valerie Melroy, who
is on our board of directors. And she was telling
me about how Their branch of our membership,
their branch is so spread out in Pennsylvania
that they meet once a month by Zoom. And it hit
me like, oh, we could have been doing this all
along. We could have been having a Zoom call.
So we immediately set up a time where people,
particularly members, but it's not exclusively
to members, could come together in a Zoom call
once a month just to get to know each other better.
And we're calling it network connection. So that
was something that was established at that point.
But the reason for her call was to say, Sharon,
I feel like now remember, she's a board member
and she's a strategist. I feel like we need to
have a strategic plan for global outpouring.
And honestly, I was never particularly educated
on what that is. You and me both. She explained
to me how one of the people that we knew as a
child who was actually in our wedding has grown
up to become an expert in creating strategic
plans and helping with marketing and that kind
of thing. And she's just a delightful, spirit
-filled woman of God. And so we reconnected with
her to create a strategic plan. So we put together
a committee. started this process. And so we
rolled out what we've got so far of the process
of the strategic plan. And I just want to share
with you a little bit about that. And just as
another backstory, the Lord gave us a mandate.
I think it was middle of 2019. The Lord spoke
through Etienne Blom and said, he showed him
a banner flying by that said facelift. And the
Lord said, end time handmaidens needs a facelift.
So we sought the Lord on that. And the Lord spoke
to or gave a vision to Rona Sporopoulos of a
shield that had a ribbon across it that said
Joel 228 and underneath it said mandate. So when
the word of the Lord came later that year, a
few months later, that we needed to change our
name, I began seeking the Lord. What is it? you
know, what's this new name? And some years prior
to that, I think it was years, maybe it was the
same year, maybe it was a previous year, the
Lord had spoken through, I believe it was the
Lord, Claren McQueen gave us the word from Hebrew
about when the Lord says, I will pour out of
my spirit on all flesh, that word pour isn't
like a pitcher pouring out water or wine or whatever.
It's more like Niagara Falls. It's that kind
of a continuous, thunderous, huge, huge kind
of an outpouring that never stops. Never stops.
Never stops. And so from that time on, I was
looking. Every time we'd go to Niagara Falls,
we have a house there. The ministry has a house
there. And we lived there for a year. Yeah. So
we were used to... as the traffic sounds would
die down, we would hear this roar in the background.
You could hear this continuous roar. And to me,
it was so exciting to hear that the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit is something like that. Yeah,
powerful. And to have the privilege of living
there in Niagara Falls, New York. Yeah, and every
time we try to do a... recording right by the
falls. What were the decibels? 110? I don't remember.
It was very high. The decibels were so high you
couldn't even do a recording real close. Yeah,
I kept trying to record with my phone, you know.
I'd hold the phone in front of my face, getting
a picture of this roaring waterfall. I would
repeat Joel 2, 28 and 29. And the roar was so
loud you couldn't hardly hear my voice. Yeah.
Even though I was right in front of the microphone.
Absolutely. I mean, that's the roar. That's the
outpouring. So when we were waiting on the Lord
about what is this new name, I felt like the
Lord took me back to Joel 2 .28, and I read it
over and over and over until I realized that,
well, would you read it, Philip? And it shall
come to pass afterward that I will pour out my
spirit on all humanity. Your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams.
Your young men shall see visions. Joel 2 .28.
So as I read it over and over, I realized that
the sons and daughters prophesying and the old
men dreaming dreams and the young men seeing
visions had to do with the outpouring of his
spirit. Yeah. So I knew it had to have that word
outpouring. Well, as we took it to the board.
of directors, and we prayed about it for three
days. Don James came back and said, I believe
it's supposed to be Global Outpouring. And we
went out to the internet and discovered that
the domain names, globaloutpouring .com, globaloutpouring
.org, globaloutpouring .net, globaloutpouring
.us were all available. And so we scooped them
up. We knew that that was a confirmation that
this is our new name. So that's how we got started
on it. So our mandate for this ministry is this
global outpouring, this outpouring that was prophesied
in Joel 2 .28. And then, you know, we gave this
little brief history of how our founder started
out as a missionary to China in 1947. Then in
1963, she had this time of fasting and the 21
-day fast that... brought a new anointing into
her life, where everywhere she went from then
on, revival fire followed her everywhere she
went. And then in 1970, she was fasting again,
and the Lord spoke to her through a prophet that
you are raised up of God to call out the end
-time handmaidens. And of course, that refers
to Joel 2 .29. that goes on talking about what
happens in the outpouring that on my servants
and my handmaidens will I pour out of my spirit
and they shall prophesy. Then in 2019, we received
this mandate to change our name. And now here
we are in 2025, taking a new look at where are
we going and celebrating these 50. conventions.
So the process, and we're not quite finished
with it, but it's supposed to be a total of three
months and it probably should have happened a
little faster, but we were very careful with
our committee to pray into and get a consensus
of what is the Lord saying. And so we just made
a commitment to hear and to honor what the Lord
was saying. And then we came up with this mission
statement, encountering Jesus. engaging people
so that is what we do and i i think that's so
clearly spelled out in what happened at the convention
that here's all these people came together to
encounter jesus yes and as we go out from there
we're ready to engage people and one of the things
that i talked about was and i've mentioned it
on the podcast before of this um praying effectively
for the lost, that we get a heart for the lost.
When the Lord spoke to me, giving us the new
name of global outpouring, I was really waiting
on him. And he spoke to me, don't pray for the
outpouring, pray for my heart for the outpouring.
And more recently, I mean, I've been praying
that prayer ever since 2019. And I haven't really
gotten any fresh revelation until recently. where
I realized that his heart for the outpouring
is a heart for the lost. And how Sister Gwen,
in her early days, was all about being quite
evangelistic. She took a tent across India evangelistically.
And when she came to the States, all of a sudden
her message changed, I think. Not so much about
the loss, but it was about preparing the bride
and about helping people go deeper in their walk
with God. And so that's kind of where our hearts
are in this idea of our mission, that we encounter
Jesus and then we engage people. That's what
he has on his heart for us to be doing. That's
what we do. And then our purpose is sharing the
Father's love for humanity. Because his love
for humanity is what makes him pour out his spirit
on all humanity. And so that's why we do what
we do. Our purpose is to share our father's love
for humanity. So many people just think that
he's some mean old man in the sky that is waiting
to strike you with a thunderbolt, a lightning
bolt, when you do something wrong, which is not
his. way at all. He is our father and he loves
us dearly. If you are a parent, you know what
it's like to, no matter what your children are
doing that's wrong, you still love them and you
want to engage with them and you want to help
them. You want to help them with their life.
I remember when our daughter was little. the
things that I would do for her, all of a sudden
there was a turning point where I want to do
it myself. And it kind of hurts as a parent.
Well, I wanted to help you. I wanted to do that
together. But no, no, I want to do it myself.
And that's our father's heart. You know, how
much is he hurt by all of us trying to do things
by ourselves instead of engaging with him? So
our core values or how we do what we do, our
core values is that we want to serve in truth
and humility and compassion. It's so important
that we be bearers of truth, that we're true
to ourselves and that we're true to others, that
we can speak the truth in love and we can speak
the truth in humility and we can be moved with
the compassion of the Lord. So our vision is
the whole earth experiencing the presence of
Holy Spirit. And that's partnering with the mandate
of the outpouring. So that's our vision. We want
to see the whole earth experiencing the presence
of the Holy Spirit. So our future is, you know,
we're looking for people to partner with us in
all of these things that I'm going to share.
Intercession is probably the number one thing.
Intercession, because, you know, he gave us these
words, contend, equip, engage. And we use it
every podcast that we're contending for the outpouring,
we're equipping for the outpouring so that we
can engage in the outpouring. But the contending
is intercession. And so. That is a major core
thing that we're going to keep moving forward
with. It's what we've been known for in the whole
existence of this ministry. Previously, intercession
is a major, major piece. Of course, we're grateful
for financial support, and we need financial
support. I don't like to talk about it. I want
to be like George Mueller and move men by God
through prayer alone. Sometimes men need help.
Yeah, sometimes people... don't get it. They're
not hearing the Holy Spirit, so they need to
know what the needs are. Missions. We love the
nations, and I just loved how God brought the
nations to this convention to illustrate that
that is our heart. And if you go to the YouTube
channel, you'll see that we had flags up all
over the room. flags of the nations. We couldn't
begin to put all of our flags up because the
room was too small. But that is what God has
put on our hearts. We have flags from the nations
where our members have gone and ministered. So
we love the nations, and we love missions, and
we want to encourage people to go to the nations.
We actually are sort of partnering with, I would
say, their sister ministries with World Missions
Alliance. A lot of our people go to the nations
with World Missions Alliance on short -term missions.
We also have another missionary group that is
headed up by people who are members, and that's
CMM, Christ's Mandate for Missions. We'll put
a link to their website there. We just want to
help people obey God in going to the nations.
And we have our retreat center here at Angletal.
You know, we're open to having retreats here
and welcoming, as I mentioned earlier, about
our people coming here to intercede. And, you
know, we're open even to the possibility of people
coming here with a retreat of their own. And
we have family and youth events. We've got our
youth retreat coming up, but we call it Generation
Awakening, July 9th through the 12th. And we'll
put a link to that. If you are young, like mid
-teens up through around age 30, young adults,
teens, we want to encourage you in your calling
and help to build you and equip you so that you
can participate in the outpouring as well. And
we have lots of resources. We have tremendous
books and recordings and all kinds of treasures.
And there's treasures in our archives that we
haven't managed to get out there into YouTube
or wherever that's really on our hearts to get
our Bible school out there so that people can
get trained wherever they are in the world. And
of course, we have this podcast and we trust
that you're enjoying it. And we have social media.
These are ways that you can partner with us.
in helping us to do the things that God has called
us to do. And the other thing that we rolled
out at this convention is we have our own app.
Yes. And I'm really excited about this. We've
connected with the ministry company, I guess
you'd call it, called Tithely, and we are using
them for processing. online donations already
and they've developed an app for us. And so from
that app, you can see our calendar and you can
connect with our podcasts and you can shop in
our bookstore and you can see our daily devotional
that we have. It's pretty much the same stuff
that's on our website, but it's easier to get
to from this app. And we also have a prayer wall.
I'm really excited about this. If you have a
prayer request, you can get the app and sign
in and post a prayer request and people will
step up and pray for you. And I think that's
just a huge, huge thing. And we can have groups
where we can interact with one another in this
app. And that's so easier than people calling
in with a prayer request. You only have access
to just a... handful of people right but this
way intercessors that are out there can just
yeah you know they go they get a burden and just
go for it exactly and it's it's instant or almost
instant you know somebody has to approve to put
it up on the wall make sure that we don't get
any goofy things up there but it's pretty much
instant and then you've got instant prayer people
are going to start responding so we've already
had 70 people that have downloaded the app and
just in a week, in a week's time, that really,
really blessed me. And I just encourage you,
so far, we have it in the Apple App Store. We're
still waiting for the Google Play Console or
whatever it is that regulates that. We are waiting
for them to approve it. And as soon as they do,
it will also be there so that it'll be available
for Android phones as well as Apple phones. So
we're really excited to see what God is doing
moving forward. Yes. Amen. It's our kickoff.
Yes. It's a brand new start. After a 12 -year
transition. Yes. 12 -year holding pattern. Imagine
sitting up in the sky in an airplane for a couple
hours in a holding pattern. Yeah. But this has
been about a 12 -year holding pattern. Yeah.
Just waiting for things to work themselves out.
Uh -huh. And we had our start. New start. Beautiful
new start. So we encourage you to go out to the
Global Outpouring YouTube channel and watch these
videos as you're able. Some of them are long
meetings, so you watch while you've got time
and then come back and watch some more later
and then come back and watch some more later.
That's how I do with some of these long things
that I want to listen to. So I just encourage
you to take advantage of this treasure. It really
was a wonderful feast of the Lord, and he called
us together, and we'll just announce that we
have dates for next year, and we'll be in St.
Louis. I can't guarantee exactly where we'll
be in St. Louis, but we have the dates. It's
the same numbers, May 21st through 24th, but
we're starting on Thursday and going through
Sunday so that people who have jobs don't have
to take off as much time from work. They can
come in on Thursday night and they only have
to take off Friday because they're already off
the weekend and they can travel home on Memorial
Day. And it's just going to be another glory
time in the presence of the Lord. So put it on
your calendar now and believe God for the ability
to get here for this event and bring a friend
or bring your family. We want to minister to
the family. Or you can get yourself an envelope
and every time you get a paycheck, put something
in there. Yes. And just let it build up. And,
you know, many people do that. Yeah. It's a very
good way to do it. So we pay our car insurance.
Yes. Like so much a month, you know. It's true.
Well, Philip, do you want to close with prayer?
Yes. Well, Father, we thank you for this restart,
Lord. Yes. The messages that your people have
brought forth, oh God, that just have a, they've,
connected in that place with you, and now they're
sharing their experiences, O God, and sharing
your glory. So we thank you for your glory, Lord,
which the knowledge of the Lord shall be over
all the earth. Yes. And it's just getting there.
Not all have the knowledge, but they're getting
there. But the glory of the Lord is here. Yes.
It's everywhere, and we're just... Lord, as our
dedication to you opens it up even more. So we
thank you that this podcast would be a blessing
to those. And Lord, they have a desire, Lord,
to get to know you more and more. In your name,
Lord Jesus, whom we give all the glory. Amen.
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