WEBVTT 00:00:15.310 --> 00:00:17.789 I tell you what, I have so, and I'm not just 00:00:17.789 --> 00:00:21.429 saying that, you know, I am genuinely, genuinely 00:00:21.429 --> 00:00:31.550 so blessed and spiritually boosted by the ministry 00:00:31.550 --> 00:00:40.609 of Brother Tony. And it was just wonderful. And 00:00:40.609 --> 00:00:44.750 his wife, so humble and yet just absolutely solid 00:00:44.750 --> 00:00:47.750 there, you know, make her feel welcome too, you 00:00:47.750 --> 00:00:55.009 know, as you speak. I'm sure my wife is listening 00:00:55.009 --> 00:00:59.329 in on the internet this morning, and so I, Bessie, 00:00:59.390 --> 00:01:01.590 you know, just go ahead, just tap your hands 00:01:01.590 --> 00:01:07.560 for Bessie if she's... I just want to bring under 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.379 your attention some of the material that's on 00:01:10.379 --> 00:01:18.540 the table. A lot of people have asked me through 00:01:18.540 --> 00:01:21.780 the years to put some of my stories in book form. 00:01:22.379 --> 00:01:25.939 In fact, a lot of times people say, how come 00:01:25.939 --> 00:01:29.200 you have so many stories to tell? Well, just 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.019 like with Brother Tony, you hear him as constant 00:01:32.019 --> 00:01:35.689 stories that comes in. Because when you walk 00:01:35.689 --> 00:01:39.150 with God, you have a lot of stories to tell. 00:01:40.150 --> 00:01:45.049 Because God is supernatural and then that makes 00:01:45.049 --> 00:01:50.769 you supernatural because he lives in you. People 00:01:50.769 --> 00:01:52.689 don't realize that, but you are supernatural 00:01:52.689 --> 00:01:58.209 when you are connected, when you're on because 00:01:58.209 --> 00:02:00.769 of who lives in your heart. We'll get to that 00:02:00.769 --> 00:02:04.359 in a minute. But these two books, the one is 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:08.599 called You Cannot Believe This, and the other 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:13.340 one is You Won't Believe This. Stories, some 00:02:13.340 --> 00:02:15.879 of them funny, some of them, you know, not so 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:22.520 funny, but all of them true, and they're, all 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:26.259 of them connected with God in our lives. And 00:02:26.259 --> 00:02:29.479 when these things, when I share these things, 00:02:29.539 --> 00:02:32.509 every time, when I... Even when I tell the stories, 00:02:32.629 --> 00:02:35.189 I never get tired because they were so phenomenal 00:02:35.189 --> 00:02:37.810 when they happened. But now I wrote these books 00:02:37.810 --> 00:02:43.310 in the form of bathroom reading material. And 00:02:43.310 --> 00:02:47.650 so they're short stories, and it's a compilation 00:02:47.650 --> 00:02:51.590 of short stories, and it'll be good for your 00:02:51.590 --> 00:02:56.539 health, you know, you read this. This one here, 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:58.819 I'm sure many of you or most of you possibly 00:02:58.819 --> 00:03:00.780 already have this book. If you don't, I want 00:03:00.780 --> 00:03:03.099 to highly recommend you do that. And then the 00:03:03.099 --> 00:03:05.479 second thing I want to recommend you do is that 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:09.879 you let me sign it. Then it becomes very valuable. 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.639 Once I've signed it, it becomes very valuable. 00:03:15.699 --> 00:03:19.919 The people who made the movie God is Not Dead, 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:25.240 those same producers, Later on in the weekend, 00:03:25.419 --> 00:03:27.979 I'm going to give you more information. But they 00:03:27.979 --> 00:03:32.240 have just signed contact with me, and so they're 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.340 going to turn this into a movie, this book here. 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:42.500 And what I'd like to do is later on in the weekend, 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:44.219 maybe pass will give me a little bit of time 00:03:44.219 --> 00:03:46.219 in the morning. I'd like to talk about that again. 00:03:46.659 --> 00:03:50.039 And what I want to do is give you some email 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:52.919 information for you to email the producers and 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:56.360 let them know how excited you are about. Yeah, 00:03:56.460 --> 00:03:58.460 I'm serious about the upcoming movie, because 00:03:58.460 --> 00:04:01.960 what it happens is we have to obviously they 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:06.139 have to raise investors. That's going to invest 00:04:06.139 --> 00:04:09.520 in the movie about 60 million. And they already 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.400 have some of the actors, and I'll show you that 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.340 on Sunday morning, they have some of the actors 00:04:15.340 --> 00:04:19.019 signed up already, like Morgan, what is it? Morgan 00:04:19.019 --> 00:04:26.439 Freeman. And the other one, Chris Pratt. Yeah, 00:04:26.540 --> 00:04:35.079 Chris Pratt. And he's going to play me, and he's 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:41.120 going to have a hard time. Blame me. I've given 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:50.759 these to Pastor Tony, so a few. Thank you. Let's 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:54.019 pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for 00:04:54.019 --> 00:04:56.779 this opportunity for us to just get together 00:04:56.779 --> 00:04:59.620 and just like men of old who sat at the feet 00:04:59.620 --> 00:05:03.360 of Gamaliel. That's how I felt last night while 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:08.579 I was sitting at the feet of Tony. And this morning, 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:10.399 I want to ask you, Lord, will you help us to 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:14.180 sit at the feet of the Holy Spirit? And then 00:05:14.180 --> 00:05:17.939 while I speak, let them hear not only my voice, 00:05:18.019 --> 00:05:22.839 but God, let them hear you. We ask it in the 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:30.139 name of Jesus, and we thank you. Amen. What happens, 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:34.019 you know, let me say this. We are, I was sharing 00:05:34.019 --> 00:05:39.300 with... Pastor Tony and Pastor Brad, by the way, 00:05:39.300 --> 00:05:43.439 what an incredible pastors you have in Brad. 00:05:49.620 --> 00:05:54.459 They're just phenomenal. And I was saying to 00:05:54.459 --> 00:05:58.199 them, you know, that I'm really concerned for, 00:05:58.339 --> 00:06:00.680 you know, I've been in the ministry 49 years 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:03.920 and been around the block a few times. And I've 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:06.540 seen the church go through different. phases 00:06:06.540 --> 00:06:11.860 and so always does we've seen organizations you 00:06:11.860 --> 00:06:15.160 know decline and we've seen other startup and 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:22.379 increase and the thing that troubles me is that 00:06:22.379 --> 00:06:24.680 in because I'm an evangelist and my observation 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:29.779 in that sense is of this kind that I'm concerned 00:06:29.779 --> 00:06:35.160 that too many churches in our time have no desire 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:40.360 for the supernatural. They don't have it. It's 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:44.459 just like they have church. In fact, they try 00:06:44.459 --> 00:06:46.540 and make it as short as they possibly can. One 00:06:46.540 --> 00:06:49.980 pastor told me that he's got the entire thing 00:06:49.980 --> 00:06:54.560 down to an art. He can take the entire service, 00:06:54.579 --> 00:06:57.019 everything, including the offering, which really 00:06:57.019 --> 00:07:01.240 that's what it's about, is the offering. The 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:05.180 entire service, he's got it down to 50 minutes. 00:07:05.500 --> 00:07:08.600 He said, I got it all down to 50 minutes, and 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.680 we cut them loose. I said to him, kind of in 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:16.139 a joking way, sarcastic actually, I said, well, 00:07:16.259 --> 00:07:19.259 you know, really, you should think about a drive 00:07:19.259 --> 00:07:26.439 -thru charge. And I thought he's going to recognize 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:32.519 sarcasm. Instead, he went like this. He said, 00:07:32.660 --> 00:07:37.339 man, that's a great idea. You know, now we're 00:07:37.339 --> 00:07:41.259 talking about a big church. And so he was, he 00:07:41.259 --> 00:07:43.680 said, he wanted to know from me, how would you 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:47.759 do this? You know, how do you think we can do 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:49.319 this? I said, well, you know, what you do is 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:53.600 you just record one or two choruses. And then, 00:07:53.620 --> 00:07:59.399 you know, do your sermon on the tape. Make sure 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:03.819 that you emphasize the offering very well. And 00:08:03.819 --> 00:08:07.899 then as they drive through, you give them a tape 00:08:07.899 --> 00:08:13.339 after they give you an offering. He said, man, 00:08:13.459 --> 00:08:15.620 I want to think about that. You know, there's 00:08:15.620 --> 00:08:18.139 some people that don't have time to come to church. 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:25.180 It is so, so stupid. Honestly, it is so stupid. 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:29.500 You know, I mean. How much more dumb can you 00:08:29.500 --> 00:08:33.080 get and then still keep on breathing? You know, 00:08:33.100 --> 00:08:40.039 I mean, it's so wrong. The fact that your pastors 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:47.399 emphasize this kind of subject and title, pursuing 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:50.559 the supernatural, tells you about their heart. 00:08:51.820 --> 00:08:59.200 Yeah, go ahead and give the Lord a praise. It's, 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:02.259 you know, and when we talked this morning about 00:09:02.259 --> 00:09:04.539 the subject, the great subject for me, you know, 00:09:04.539 --> 00:09:07.539 hearing the voice of God, because I believe that 00:09:07.539 --> 00:09:11.600 that's so very important to be able to hear the 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.960 voice of God. You know, I asked God several years 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:20.259 ago, how come some people in the Bible, you know, 00:09:20.259 --> 00:09:22.399 always stands out above others? There's always 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:27.059 some characters that's standing out above the 00:09:27.059 --> 00:09:31.320 others. Why is that? Even in our time, you see 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.980 that there's some churches that really excel. 00:09:35.100 --> 00:09:37.919 There's some preachers that really go up there. 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:43.299 How is it? You know, was Moses so much different 00:09:43.299 --> 00:09:49.539 than some of the other players of his time? And 00:09:49.539 --> 00:09:55.970 obviously, he wasn't. The thing that makes one 00:09:55.970 --> 00:09:59.269 person stand out above the other is there are 00:09:59.269 --> 00:10:05.049 a few people who makes it their business to hear 00:10:05.049 --> 00:10:08.889 from God. Because you understand, when you hear 00:10:08.889 --> 00:10:13.850 God, the moment you hear God, supernatural events 00:10:13.850 --> 00:10:18.529 from that moment will start to take place. But 00:10:18.529 --> 00:10:22.210 it starts with you hearing God. God speaks to 00:10:22.210 --> 00:10:25.820 you. It's like that with your healing. You see, 00:10:25.940 --> 00:10:32.100 you hear. We hear the word. And then what happens 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:35.700 is I love what he said last night. Supernatural, 00:10:35.899 --> 00:10:41.500 how do you say? The supernatural is followed 00:10:41.500 --> 00:10:46.940 by, how do you say that? Oh, oh, oh, oh. If it 00:10:46.940 --> 00:10:50.320 is, oh, oh, revelation produces manifestation. 00:10:50.340 --> 00:10:54.970 There you go. Revelation. produces manifestation. 00:10:55.529 --> 00:10:58.929 So, how do you receive a revelation? You receive 00:10:58.929 --> 00:11:03.509 a revelation by God speaking. Now, we'll hear 00:11:03.509 --> 00:11:06.750 this this morning. God speaks in many ways. God 00:11:06.750 --> 00:11:12.230 will speak sometimes without using words. When 00:11:12.230 --> 00:11:16.850 God speaks to you, you know that's God that is 00:11:16.850 --> 00:11:19.629 speaking to you. And talking about this, it's 00:11:19.629 --> 00:11:23.529 so important that you must know that... The one 00:11:23.529 --> 00:11:29.070 who lives in you. The one who's residing in you. 00:11:29.190 --> 00:11:31.610 It's not Jesus. It's not the Father. It's very 00:11:31.610 --> 00:11:33.649 important that we understand this. You know, 00:11:33.669 --> 00:11:37.649 obviously they all are in there because of their 00:11:37.649 --> 00:11:43.929 unity. The etchot of God that's so one you cannot 00:11:43.929 --> 00:11:49.139 separate. You know, that's why God says that's 00:11:49.139 --> 00:11:51.460 the way it will be with a man and his wife. The 00:11:51.460 --> 00:11:54.679 two will become one. And so they're one, yes. 00:11:54.799 --> 00:11:57.000 But the one who lives inside of us is the Holy 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:04.080 Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is God. Come on, 00:12:04.100 --> 00:12:06.159 look at somebody say it. The Holy Spirit is God. 00:12:09.399 --> 00:12:13.019 And so when you have God in you, God, you understand, 00:12:13.139 --> 00:12:18.610 God is supernatural. God doesn't produce supernatural. 00:12:18.690 --> 00:12:22.409 He is supernatural. Everything about God is supernatural. 00:12:23.009 --> 00:12:25.490 Whenever you walk with God, it's supernatural. 00:12:25.610 --> 00:12:28.370 When you have church and you make contact with 00:12:28.370 --> 00:12:31.669 God, supernatural things happen. It's great to 00:12:31.669 --> 00:12:34.450 have a sermon. It's great to be taught, you know, 00:12:34.450 --> 00:12:38.029 by the word. But there's nothing that compares 00:12:38.029 --> 00:12:42.940 with the moment of supernatural release. When 00:12:42.940 --> 00:12:46.360 a supernatural release takes place in your body, 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:49.559 in your mind, or wherever it is, nothing can 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.480 change it. You know, it's because it's God. It's 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:55.480 like when God speaks about giving a commanded 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:58.440 blessing. You know, when he speaks to nature. 00:12:59.299 --> 00:13:03.639 See, nature hears the voice of God. See, God 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:09.100 can speak to nature. And then that command of 00:13:09.100 --> 00:13:13.269 his totally changes things for you. Because you've 00:13:13.269 --> 00:13:15.870 got God involved with you in that situation. 00:13:16.090 --> 00:13:17.809 It's so important to know that, you know, he's 00:13:17.809 --> 00:13:22.789 in you. And so because God is in you, you are 00:13:22.789 --> 00:13:30.269 now supernatural. I love to tell the story about, 00:13:30.409 --> 00:13:34.690 you know, when I was flying from Africa one time 00:13:34.690 --> 00:13:37.070 in the middle of the night. The plane is full, 00:13:37.289 --> 00:13:41.629 jam -packed full. I'm sitting up straight like 00:13:41.629 --> 00:13:43.710 that on the aisle, somewhere in the middle of 00:13:43.710 --> 00:13:46.850 the plane. And here at two o 'clock in the morning, 00:13:46.929 --> 00:13:50.789 the air hostess comes and wakes me up. Excuse 00:13:50.789 --> 00:13:55.269 me, sir. You know, and you kind of wake up startled 00:13:55.269 --> 00:13:59.730 a little bit. And she says, are you a Christian? 00:14:01.769 --> 00:14:05.409 You know, that just, you know, I love to tell 00:14:05.409 --> 00:14:07.850 this story, you know, because, you know, the 00:14:07.850 --> 00:14:13.700 fact that she. obviously saw something that would 00:14:13.700 --> 00:14:17.960 bring her to me in the middle of the night. And 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:20.600 I don't know what she saw. I obviously don't 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:25.840 come into a plane saying, Dr. Jan Gabriel Venter, 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:32.120 you know, and some of my degrees that makes me 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:36.259 tired to wear them. You know, it's got nothing 00:14:36.259 --> 00:14:39.980 to do with that. You see, when God is in you, 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:46.559 people see it. They don't see, you know, degrees. 00:14:47.539 --> 00:14:53.460 They see God. And when people can recognize that, 00:14:53.620 --> 00:14:57.639 that means you are on speaking terms with God 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:01.220 because his presence becomes visible in you. 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.840 Then she wanted to know, I said, she said, are 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.120 you a Christian? And I mean, I didn't have to 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.480 think about it, obviously. Yes, ma 'am, I'm born 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:14.580 again. I mean, you know, people sit up around 00:15:14.580 --> 00:15:17.039 me, you know, because they hear my answer. I'm 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:19.440 born again. And she wants to know, can you come 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:21.360 with me? We need you in the back there. And so 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.519 I go to the back of the plane and here is the 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:26.340 captain standing there with some other people 00:15:26.340 --> 00:15:30.350 around, a demon -possessed man. The man is demon 00:15:30.350 --> 00:15:33.809 -possessed. And the captain wants to know, when 00:15:33.809 --> 00:15:35.830 he comes up, when I come in there, you know, 00:15:35.830 --> 00:15:41.110 with this aerostess, who are you? And I said, 00:15:41.250 --> 00:15:47.450 I'm Jan. You know, he obviously wanted to know 00:15:47.450 --> 00:15:52.909 some more about my qualifications. Do you know 00:15:52.909 --> 00:15:55.210 what's going on with this man? Yes, sir, I do. 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:58.700 Well, do you mind sharing it with me? No, he's 00:15:58.700 --> 00:16:04.179 demon possessed. He said, he's what? I said, 00:16:04.220 --> 00:16:09.220 he's possessed of, I think, several demons. And 00:16:09.220 --> 00:16:14.080 then he wants to know, can you handle it? Yes, 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.440 yes, I believe I can, sir. What are you going 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:21.620 to do? Well, I'm going to cast it out. Where 00:16:21.620 --> 00:16:29.330 will they go? Yeah, why am I telling you this? 00:16:29.389 --> 00:16:32.750 It's just such a great feeling to know that God 00:16:32.750 --> 00:16:36.730 is in you and other people can recognize it. 00:16:36.870 --> 00:16:39.090 And that's what is going on with the church today. 00:16:39.190 --> 00:16:42.950 It's time for the world to recognize again, we 00:16:42.950 --> 00:16:47.309 are the salt. We are the light. We are supernatural. 00:16:47.769 --> 00:16:51.750 We are phenomenal. We are the ones that brings... 00:16:51.980 --> 00:16:55.919 balance into our situation, in our families, 00:16:55.980 --> 00:16:59.879 in every area, because you hear from God. God 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:02.299 communicates with you, gives you instructions. 00:17:02.460 --> 00:17:05.299 And when you follow those instructions, phenomenal 00:17:05.299 --> 00:17:07.900 things happen. Come on, give him a great praise 00:17:07.900 --> 00:17:10.640 offering. He downloads that into your spirit. 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:18.849 Glory to God. Now, you know, When God lives in 00:17:18.849 --> 00:17:20.869 you, obviously you live in victory. It doesn't 00:17:20.869 --> 00:17:26.150 mean that you don't have problems. You have a 00:17:26.150 --> 00:17:33.190 lot of things happen to you. When they were talking 00:17:33.190 --> 00:17:35.650 about angels the other night, you know, I kind 00:17:35.650 --> 00:17:38.349 of smiled and I thought mine works overtime all 00:17:38.349 --> 00:17:40.549 the time. You know, I don't know how it works, 00:17:40.549 --> 00:17:45.180 but they definitely work overtime. They are involved 00:17:45.180 --> 00:17:50.720 with you and you have the ability to tune in 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:58.140 straight to God. Now, it's like TV channels, 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:00.980 you know, on the television. There's so many 00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:05.039 channels. When I come into a hotel room, the 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:12.609 first channel I look for is Fox News. My grandson, 00:18:12.890 --> 00:18:15.269 he's very intelligent. They asked him one time, 00:18:15.490 --> 00:18:20.990 who made you so intelligent? He said, God and 00:18:20.990 --> 00:18:30.750 Fox News. I watch Fox News. When I got here to 00:18:30.750 --> 00:18:33.450 the hotel, there are so many channels, but I 00:18:33.450 --> 00:18:37.630 had a hard time finding the right one. It's a 00:18:37.630 --> 00:18:42.329 lesson to be learned in this. You got to choose 00:18:42.329 --> 00:18:46.750 which voice you want to listen to. There's a 00:18:46.750 --> 00:18:52.069 lot of voices going on around us. And God's voice 00:18:52.069 --> 00:18:56.589 is forever communicating. But you must be tuned 00:18:56.589 --> 00:19:00.750 in. You must make sure that you want to hear, 00:19:00.890 --> 00:19:03.829 you know, what is God saying about it? I love 00:19:03.829 --> 00:19:06.990 it when Pastor Brad calls me and he'll always 00:19:06.990 --> 00:19:11.569 ask me, so what is God saying to you? in these 00:19:11.569 --> 00:19:15.210 days. Very important that we find out, you know, 00:19:15.250 --> 00:19:17.849 Lord, what is it that you're saying about it? 00:19:17.910 --> 00:19:20.210 You know, when we hear the things that's going 00:19:20.210 --> 00:19:22.930 on, you know, on the news with President Trump 00:19:22.930 --> 00:19:27.089 and so on, it's so nice to just go and talk to 00:19:27.089 --> 00:19:30.609 God. Lord, what's going on? You know, how should 00:19:30.609 --> 00:19:35.210 we pray? Don't forget that you are a representative 00:19:35.210 --> 00:19:41.579 of heaven. And Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice. 00:19:42.619 --> 00:19:45.500 Come on, can I hear an amen? That's what he said. 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:46.980 Look at somebody who said that's what he said. 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:52.319 You must hear his voice. I mean, if you don't 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:56.319 hear his voice, then there's something seriously 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.119 wrong with you. In fact, you cannot be a successful 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:03.740 believer unless you hear the voice of God. You 00:20:03.740 --> 00:20:08.759 cannot rely just on somebody's sermons. You must 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:14.000 hear God speak to you about situations. You must 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:17.359 hear God talk to you about your children. And 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:22.720 so I was preaching years ago for the state of 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:29.319 Tennessee. And they gave me a nice little evangelist 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:31.880 quarters. I had my daughter and my son there 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:35.339 at the time with me. But I also had my bus. And 00:20:35.339 --> 00:20:38.309 so what I did is I gave them the bus. The apartment 00:20:38.309 --> 00:20:43.049 had a nice little bedroom and a living room with 00:20:43.049 --> 00:20:45.549 a nice couch to pull you out. And then we had 00:20:45.549 --> 00:20:50.210 our bus, which we parked just outside of the 00:20:50.210 --> 00:20:55.630 apartment. And like 2 o 'clock in the morning, 00:20:55.829 --> 00:21:00.569 the Lord wakes me up just like that, just suddenly. 00:21:01.930 --> 00:21:07.119 And immediately, he's talking to me. And, you 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:09.000 know, when he talks to you, and we'll get to 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:12.180 that in a moment, when he talks to you, you know 00:21:12.180 --> 00:21:16.380 that's what God is saying. You don't have to 00:21:16.380 --> 00:21:20.740 hear it audibly. You know, Pastor Tony said the 00:21:20.740 --> 00:21:23.900 other night that I'm going to use that and eventually 00:21:23.900 --> 00:21:26.599 make people believe that that comes from me. 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:34.640 What I've received from the Lord, you know. But 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:37.619 he said that when you hear the audible voice 00:21:37.619 --> 00:21:40.740 from God, that means you're deaf, you know, because 00:21:40.740 --> 00:21:42.859 you're not hearing all the other types when God 00:21:42.859 --> 00:21:47.720 is speaking to you. And God spoke to me about 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:54.180 CJ, my son. So I got off from my bed onto my 00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:56.519 knees and then recognized that my wife is already 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:59.960 on her knees. Now, I want you to see the timing. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:02.380 I just want you to see the incredible timing 00:22:02.380 --> 00:22:06.859 of all of this. I asked her, I said, who are 00:22:06.859 --> 00:22:11.359 you praying for? She said, CJ. And I said, what's 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:13.940 going on? She said, I don't know. So I just reached 00:22:13.940 --> 00:22:19.400 up and I opened the blinds by my window, looking 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:22.960 towards the apartment, and I'm just in time. 00:22:23.849 --> 00:22:28.289 to see a figure, a shadowed figure, just disappear 00:22:28.289 --> 00:22:32.049 around the corner. I mean, that's how accurate 00:22:32.049 --> 00:22:35.670 the timing was. You know, had I missed that moment, 00:22:35.789 --> 00:22:37.589 I would not have known what's going on there. 00:22:38.589 --> 00:22:41.490 So important for you, when God speaks to you, 00:22:41.549 --> 00:22:45.269 respond right away. Come on, can I hear an amen? 00:22:46.210 --> 00:22:48.190 Look at somebody and tell them. See, you've got 00:22:48.190 --> 00:22:56.680 to respond immediately, you turkey. So I told 00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:59.160 my wife and I said, something is going on. So 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:03.420 I got, you know, dressed and I went over there 00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:07.900 to the apartment, went upstairs and opened the 00:23:07.900 --> 00:23:14.200 door without knocking. I'm the dad. So I go in 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:16.940 and my daughter is sitting there and I said, 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:27.859 where's CJ? She goes. So I go to the. And I opened 00:23:27.859 --> 00:23:33.960 the door, not knocking. He's like 20 years old. 00:23:34.380 --> 00:23:40.640 Doesn't matter. I'm the dad. And I'm the man 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:46.200 of God. And I'm the evangelist. And I'm responsible 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:51.359 for my family. I don't believe this junk with 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:53.890 all these liberals, you know, that. Talks this 00:23:53.890 --> 00:23:57.750 nonsense. So when I walked in there, she's sitting 00:23:57.750 --> 00:24:02.289 with her feet and shoes kicked off and dress 00:24:02.289 --> 00:24:04.549 pulled up really high, sitting on the side of 00:24:04.549 --> 00:24:07.890 the bed. And I go in there and I said, what's 00:24:07.890 --> 00:24:12.430 going on here? And CJ responds by speaking in 00:24:12.430 --> 00:24:16.670 my language. And he said, dad, you're just incredible. 00:24:20.410 --> 00:24:25.519 I said. Why? He said, the moment she walked in 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:29.680 here, I said to myself, three minutes, three 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:41.299 minutes, my dad will be here. And so I asked 00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:45.279 this lady, what is your business here? You know, 00:24:45.299 --> 00:24:46.819 two o 'clock in the morning, what's your business 00:24:46.819 --> 00:24:50.720 here? Now, she just came to visit. I said, in 00:24:50.720 --> 00:24:55.049 my son's bedroom. You know, 2 o 'clock in the 00:24:55.049 --> 00:24:57.450 morning with the door closed. I don't think so. 00:24:58.509 --> 00:25:01.490 You know, how did you get here? Well, my aunt 00:25:01.490 --> 00:25:06.730 brought me here. You know, she doesn't have a 00:25:06.730 --> 00:25:09.250 mother, so her aunt takes care of her. And the 00:25:09.250 --> 00:25:13.289 aunt brought her there. And I said, well, you 00:25:13.289 --> 00:25:16.430 need to put your shoes on. This uncle is taking 00:25:16.430 --> 00:25:28.049 you home. So I took her home and found out, and 00:25:28.049 --> 00:25:30.430 this is just kind of long story short, found 00:25:30.430 --> 00:25:33.609 out that she had become pregnant by somebody 00:25:33.609 --> 00:25:38.089 else. And discussed it with her aunt, and they 00:25:38.089 --> 00:25:42.130 liked CJ. And so the aunt said, you need to go 00:25:42.130 --> 00:25:45.990 and sleep with him. And we'll pin it on him. 00:25:47.170 --> 00:25:53.289 Because the other guy was a no -gooder. did not 00:25:53.289 --> 00:25:58.009 know is that I'm on speaking terms with Almighty 00:25:58.009 --> 00:26:01.369 God. Go ahead and praise Him with your glory 00:26:01.369 --> 00:26:06.450 to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. You know, so 00:26:06.450 --> 00:26:08.230 what you want to do is you want to make sure, 00:26:08.329 --> 00:26:12.230 you know, on a daily basis. That's daily. That's 00:26:12.230 --> 00:26:15.150 the verse he quoted last night in 1 Corinthians 00:26:15.150 --> 00:26:19.519 12. Be not conformed. To this world. But be. 00:26:19.640 --> 00:26:23.539 That's continuous sense. Be ye transformed. By 00:26:23.539 --> 00:26:25.859 the renewing of your mind. So that you may know. 00:26:26.700 --> 00:26:31.119 You know. Nobody knows how you know. You know 00:26:31.119 --> 00:26:35.519 that you know. You know what is the good. And 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:38.839 acceptable. And perfect will of God. God talks 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:41.579 to you. He's got your business at his heart. 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:45.500 God wants to direct you in your business with 00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:49.099 your family, with every situation in your life. 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:51.740 He wants to be in charge. But what is happening 00:26:51.740 --> 00:26:55.259 is most people... Do not, they're not at that 00:26:55.259 --> 00:26:58.220 level. They do their own thing. Jesus said, you 00:26:58.220 --> 00:27:02.880 must pray like this. Let thy will be done. God, 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:06.480 let your will come to pass in my life. Let it 00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:09.500 not be my decisions, your decisions. Whatever 00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:12.519 you say, Lord, let that be my instruction. Come 00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:14.660 on, give him another praise offering. Glory to 00:27:14.660 --> 00:27:20.710 God. And you know, we have a lot of voices. There 00:27:20.710 --> 00:27:25.490 is, you know, just a lot of voices around us. 00:27:26.990 --> 00:27:31.609 Speaking to you and me. Voices from your past. 00:27:34.369 --> 00:27:40.029 Voices that comes from family. Voices that can 00:27:40.029 --> 00:27:43.150 speak out of an environment. Voice can speak 00:27:43.150 --> 00:27:50.299 to you out of that environment. Friends, family, 00:27:50.420 --> 00:27:52.519 sometimes, you know, something that happened 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:55.960 in the past and you now see a car pass by here 00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:57.940 that resembles something that happened in the 00:27:57.940 --> 00:27:59.720 past and there's a connection and immediately 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:04.279 voices start speaking to you about that. One 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:07.380 of the very strong voices of our time that speaks 00:28:07.380 --> 00:28:14.039 to so many Christians is guilt. Constant guilt. 00:28:14.509 --> 00:28:19.529 overrides almost every other voice. You know, 00:28:19.569 --> 00:28:24.730 voices of bitterness. People allow those voices 00:28:24.730 --> 00:28:27.450 to speak and dominate them with everything you 00:28:27.450 --> 00:28:31.450 do. So you have to make decisions. But there's 00:28:31.450 --> 00:28:33.690 voices of bitterness that speaks to you. You're 00:28:33.690 --> 00:28:37.910 unable, you are incapable of making good decisions 00:28:37.910 --> 00:28:45.130 because you allow those voices. It is so, listen, 00:28:45.309 --> 00:28:47.789 I have a book, I don't have it here with us, 00:28:47.849 --> 00:28:50.750 but there's a book that I wrote on the seedlings. 00:28:53.309 --> 00:29:01.650 You are where you come from. You are your father's 00:29:01.650 --> 00:29:07.630 son. You understand, if you're an apple, you 00:29:07.630 --> 00:29:10.329 come not from a banana tree, you come from an 00:29:10.329 --> 00:29:13.799 apple tree. And so you have all the characteristics 00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:21.039 of an apple. You look like an apple. You have 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:28.740 the same taste as apples of that kind. You're 00:29:28.740 --> 00:29:32.299 an apple. Come on, look at somebody and say, 00:29:32.460 --> 00:29:42.799 you are whatever. You are who you are. Now, when 00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:45.140 it comes to the spiritual side of things, you 00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:54.279 understand, you are Jesus. In that sense. Amen? 00:29:54.720 --> 00:30:02.480 You are Jesus. You come from the Word. See, the 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:07.440 Word is where we originated from. And so, what 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:14.519 you need to understand, you cannot... you know, 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:19.200 kind of responses, reactions, personalities and 00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:23.660 all those things that's different from his. Let 00:30:23.660 --> 00:30:26.259 this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. 00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:28.839 I mean, be like him. You've got to be like him. 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:32.400 You cannot tell me that you are a child of God 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:36.599 who hears from God and you have a selfish nature. 00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:42.539 You cannot tell me that you are a child of God 00:30:42.539 --> 00:30:45.500 and you carry with you bitterness from, there's 00:30:45.500 --> 00:30:48.039 people that carries long lists of things that 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:50.119 has happened to them and they never let go of 00:30:50.119 --> 00:30:56.099 it. You have to sit here today and say to yourself, 00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.920 it's going to change. I must connect to that 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:04.960 one channel. That's the God channel. That God 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:09.019 channel that has all that I need for my day, 00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:12.519 for my life, for my family, for my future. Come 00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:14.920 on, give him a praise offering. Glory to God. 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.549 You know. One of the things that amazes me, I 00:31:21.549 --> 00:31:26.569 love to watch Animal Channel and you know that 00:31:26.569 --> 00:31:32.309 penguins, for example, you know, they say that 00:31:32.309 --> 00:31:36.289 some of these penguin colonies are huge. One 00:31:36.289 --> 00:31:39.730 of the penguin colonies, they say, has like over 00:31:39.730 --> 00:31:43.609 one and a half million penguins. It can actually 00:31:43.609 --> 00:31:50.390 be seen out of space. And when the... Egg is 00:31:50.390 --> 00:31:52.329 laying, you know, I'm sure you know the story, 00:31:52.430 --> 00:31:55.650 but the father takes care of the egg, and then 00:31:55.650 --> 00:32:01.910 the mother goes out far to go and get food, and 00:32:01.910 --> 00:32:04.450 sometimes months stays away, and then when she 00:32:04.450 --> 00:32:07.190 comes back, or at least weeks, I don't want to 00:32:07.190 --> 00:32:11.210 exaggerate, but when she comes back, she comes 00:32:11.210 --> 00:32:14.650 back to a colony where everybody looks the same. 00:32:17.670 --> 00:32:20.859 They all look the same. And in fact, what they'll 00:32:20.859 --> 00:32:25.059 do is the penguins, the males will line up in 00:32:25.059 --> 00:32:27.480 lines and then she'll come from the front and 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.680 walk by. You know, it's just incredible to see. 00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:35.720 And then what the husband will do, he'll sing 00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:40.440 the song that he sang to her before she left. 00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:55.000 And she recognizes him by his song. See, it's 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.660 so important that you understand there's voice 00:32:58.660 --> 00:33:04.400 recognition going on in the spirit realm. Just 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:08.059 think about that. Say it again. Can I get some 00:33:08.059 --> 00:33:11.079 water? Richard, just hand me a bottle there. 00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:16.160 Thank you so much. Pastor Tony, thank you. Thank 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:28.940 you so much. They say that a baby can get to 00:33:28.940 --> 00:33:34.160 know the mother's voice from about 30 weeks on, 00:33:34.299 --> 00:33:37.700 some earlier, can start recognizing the mother's 00:33:37.700 --> 00:33:40.619 voice so that when the baby is born, it already 00:33:40.619 --> 00:33:46.819 knows the mother's voice. So when the baby comes 00:33:46.819 --> 00:33:49.640 into this world, it already feels comfortable. 00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:57.559 For us, Jesus said that my sheep know my voice. 00:33:59.140 --> 00:34:06.140 When I speak, they hear me. That's why it's so 00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:13.659 important you must be born again. That's one 00:34:13.659 --> 00:34:15.980 of the problems of our time. I see so many people 00:34:15.980 --> 00:34:18.460 just given, you know, a couple of words to say 00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:22.539 and a couple of lines to say and then a handshake 00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:25.980 and say, you're now part of the family of God. 00:34:26.599 --> 00:34:29.460 I wish that was the way it could be, but it's 00:34:29.460 --> 00:34:32.719 not. You have to be born again. Come on, look 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:34.320 at somebody and say, you must be born again. 00:34:34.809 --> 00:34:37.230 I mean, Jesus made that an emphasis. You must 00:34:37.230 --> 00:34:40.929 be born again. Now, what happens when you become 00:34:40.929 --> 00:34:43.949 born again? Listen to this. The moment you become 00:34:43.949 --> 00:34:48.449 born again, you recognize his voice immediately. 00:34:51.210 --> 00:34:55.309 Why? It's because there was communication going 00:34:55.309 --> 00:34:59.250 on between you and God before you were even formed 00:34:59.250 --> 00:35:03.900 in your mother's womb. Isn't that what he said 00:35:03.900 --> 00:35:07.619 to Jeremiah? Before I formed you in your mother's 00:35:07.619 --> 00:35:11.360 womb, I called you. So there's obviously, it 00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:13.719 seems like there's been some communication going 00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:16.139 on. And I would not be surprised, but there's 00:35:16.139 --> 00:35:18.760 communication going on in the spiritual womb 00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:21.460 before you're birthed. And the moment you are 00:35:21.460 --> 00:35:24.440 birthed, immediately there's recognition. Oh, 00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:29.019 I know that voice. That's the voice of my creator. 00:35:29.579 --> 00:35:32.260 Oh, come on, give him a praise offering. That's 00:35:32.260 --> 00:35:35.000 what it's all about. You know him. I know him. 00:35:38.190 --> 00:35:42.489 You know him by his voice. God always talks. 00:35:43.389 --> 00:35:48.909 Say it, God always talks. Is that the time, 9, 00:35:49.210 --> 00:35:56.250 10, 12? Boy, I'm past my time, am I not? Okay. 00:35:59.929 --> 00:36:02.889 You know, someone just said, if God will just 00:36:02.889 --> 00:36:04.610 talk to me. I don't know why, but God doesn't 00:36:04.610 --> 00:36:15.699 talk to me. You know, you are so far off. God 00:36:15.699 --> 00:36:21.500 talks all the time. All you have to do is tune 00:36:21.500 --> 00:36:28.400 in. You must tune in to hear his voice. You cannot 00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:30.880 just hear his voice. In fact, you will not know 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:34.679 he's even talking. He's talking right now. God's 00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:37.579 voice is speaking right now. And all you have 00:36:37.579 --> 00:36:41.960 to do is just tune in. What does God say? Right 00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:43.940 in this moment, all you have to do, tune in. 00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:47.440 And then you're going to find out that God is 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:50.000 there. He's got something to say to you. You 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:55.559 know, sometimes people call God something. Something 00:36:55.559 --> 00:37:00.320 said to me. Something talked to me. God is not 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:04.619 a something. You have to learn when it's God. 00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:06.840 That's God speaking to you. It's not something. 00:37:07.690 --> 00:37:10.769 You're a child of God. You're a child of the 00:37:10.769 --> 00:37:15.010 most high God. You belong to the one who made 00:37:15.010 --> 00:37:18.969 the heavens and the earth. And he's recognizing 00:37:18.969 --> 00:37:23.090 you as his own. And he talks to you. And when 00:37:23.090 --> 00:37:25.670 he talks, you're supposed to hear his voice. 00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:32.139 And now in the past, you know, God would speak 00:37:32.139 --> 00:37:33.860 and people would hear a sound, but they don't 00:37:33.860 --> 00:37:37.619 know what is going on. You must say to yourself, 00:37:38.380 --> 00:37:42.159 Lord, you've got to help me recognize. It's just 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:44.780 something about that. I was in Rhodesia pastoring 00:37:44.780 --> 00:37:47.099 a church and there was a family that I was trying 00:37:47.099 --> 00:37:50.059 to reach for the Lord across the street. And 00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:54.820 their son died in a horrible car accident. They 00:37:54.820 --> 00:37:58.679 were Catholics. Then they asked me if I would 00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:05.719 pray for their son after he had died. And I thought, 00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:07.420 well, you know, that's a chance for me to get 00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:09.320 them into church. Sure. And I told them, come 00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:12.320 to church. I'll pray for your son. I thought 00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:15.699 I'd just, you know, say a prayer for his life. 00:38:17.659 --> 00:38:21.380 And they were broken. And I was so interested 00:38:21.380 --> 00:38:25.139 to reach them for the Lord. Then we had a song 00:38:25.139 --> 00:38:28.000 special arranged. You know, I had no plan, no 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:32.219 part in that. And the lady who sang the song, 00:38:32.579 --> 00:38:35.760 I don't even know what she sang, but at one place 00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:40.480 she paused, the music kept on playing, and then 00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:45.039 she recited words that caught my attention because 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:47.280 it said more or less something like this. She 00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:51.519 was talking about a motorcycle cyclist that got 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:55.219 killed and went to hell. And, you know, all these 00:38:55.219 --> 00:38:57.699 horrible things. And I almost fell off my chair. 00:38:58.940 --> 00:39:01.500 You know, couldn't believe what was going on. 00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:05.840 And my eyes on them. And I thought they were 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:07.699 going to get up and walk out. But they didn't. 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:09.780 After church, I went to go see them at their 00:39:09.780 --> 00:39:14.699 house, Missy and I. And I said to the lady, you 00:39:14.699 --> 00:39:16.780 know, I'm here to just come and sit things right. 00:39:16.860 --> 00:39:18.880 I just want you to know, I had nothing to do 00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:24.199 with that song that was sung. She said, What 00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:29.239 language did she sing in? I said, no, it was 00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:32.440 all English. Her husband was, at that moment, 00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:34.119 was in the bathroom. And so when he came out 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.980 of the bathroom, she said, Roger, that lady that 00:39:37.980 --> 00:39:40.539 sang tonight, what did we just talk about here 00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:43.960 when we came home? And he said, we wanted to 00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:46.500 call and ask you, what kind of language did she 00:39:46.500 --> 00:39:52.380 talk in? They didn't understand it. I said, God. 00:39:52.829 --> 00:40:02.630 can confound or God can amplify. It's up to the 00:40:02.630 --> 00:40:05.469 listener. Are you tuned in or is it something 00:40:05.469 --> 00:40:08.090 God doesn't want you to do and so on? It's like 00:40:08.090 --> 00:40:13.449 when Saul of Tarsus got kicked off his horse, 00:40:13.690 --> 00:40:19.170 donkey, and they heard a voice that spoke in 00:40:19.170 --> 00:40:23.949 the Hebrew language. And the people heard sounds. 00:40:27.030 --> 00:40:31.909 But only Saul recognized what was being said. 00:40:33.250 --> 00:40:38.510 You know what I'm saying? Because the voice recognition 00:40:38.510 --> 00:40:42.829 is channeled to the one that's tuned in. You 00:40:42.829 --> 00:40:45.329 cannot be halfway tuned in. You may hear a sound. 00:40:46.349 --> 00:40:49.590 But you've got to be properly tuned in and say, 00:40:49.670 --> 00:40:52.230 Lord, here am I. Speak to me. Oh, come on, give 00:40:52.230 --> 00:40:54.489 him another praise offering. Will you? Glory 00:40:54.489 --> 00:41:00.170 to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. 00:41:01.769 --> 00:41:05.349 You know, let me bring it to this point and say, 00:41:05.489 --> 00:41:12.969 how do you tune in? I don't know how other people 00:41:12.969 --> 00:41:15.269 tune in. I'll just tell you how it happened for 00:41:15.269 --> 00:41:20.550 me. Once you get to a place, it's got to be overwhelming. 00:41:20.929 --> 00:41:23.090 You've got to sit here today and say to yourself, 00:41:23.389 --> 00:41:26.969 I want to hear God more than anything else in 00:41:26.969 --> 00:41:30.650 my life. I am. Everybody say, I am a child of 00:41:30.650 --> 00:41:33.730 God. Put your hand up real high. Say, I am a 00:41:33.730 --> 00:41:38.010 child of God. But another thing that I liked 00:41:38.010 --> 00:41:39.909 what he said last night, man, you cannot receive 00:41:39.909 --> 00:41:43.929 while you keep on talking. You've got to learn 00:41:43.929 --> 00:41:50.699 to. Listen. You have to listen. Let me just read 00:41:50.699 --> 00:41:52.699 you a verse first. It's not going to be in Corinthians, 00:41:52.780 --> 00:41:54.820 so just don't go there yet. But I'll just read 00:41:54.820 --> 00:41:57.820 it to you in Isaiah 6. You remember when Isaiah 00:41:57.820 --> 00:42:01.280 prophesied and God said, go and say to this people, 00:42:01.460 --> 00:42:07.300 keep on listening, but you won't comprehend. 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:12.760 Keep on looking, but you will not understand. 00:42:14.539 --> 00:42:19.119 Make the heart of this people insensitive and 00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:24.380 make its ears unresponsive. Shut its eyes so 00:42:24.380 --> 00:42:27.099 that it may not look with its eyes and listen 00:42:27.099 --> 00:42:30.219 with its ears and comprehend with its mind. You 00:42:30.219 --> 00:42:32.179 can hear these sounds, but you won't understand 00:42:32.179 --> 00:42:34.820 them. Somebody will teach a lesson here, you 00:42:34.820 --> 00:42:37.159 know, up front and you'll sit there and all you'll 00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:42.650 hear is theology. All you hear is perhaps maybe 00:42:42.650 --> 00:42:46.369 hermeneutics or whatever, you know, they're dwelling 00:42:46.369 --> 00:42:49.909 on or eschatology or any of these theological, 00:42:50.170 --> 00:42:56.670 you know, excuse me, nonsense. I say nonsense 00:42:56.670 --> 00:42:59.389 because oftentimes that's all it can amount to 00:42:59.389 --> 00:43:02.650 when we have to make a decision between that 00:43:02.650 --> 00:43:07.239 and the supernatural. We have to have all of 00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:11.539 that stuff. But most of all, I want to see the 00:43:11.539 --> 00:43:15.320 supernatural. I want to see God, you know, and 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:18.440 I got to tune in. Jesus once, when they asked 00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:20.760 him in Matthew 13, why do you speak in parables? 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.579 He said, because it is given only to some to 00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:28.179 understand. Others don't. They don't understand. 00:43:28.340 --> 00:43:30.139 People sitting here, I see that all the time 00:43:30.139 --> 00:43:34.599 when you preach. And only some can get the revelation. 00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:37.380 It's really a horrible feeling, you know, when 00:43:37.380 --> 00:43:39.099 you receive something from God and you go home 00:43:39.099 --> 00:43:40.739 and you want to share it with your family or 00:43:40.739 --> 00:43:42.539 your friends or your church and they sit there 00:43:42.539 --> 00:43:51.340 and they just stare at you. I'll tell you, you 00:43:51.340 --> 00:43:53.440 know, just in passing why that is, though, is 00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:56.760 because you're trying to share just seed with 00:43:56.760 --> 00:44:01.460 him. People don't eat seed. If you've picked 00:44:01.460 --> 00:44:04.360 up something, you know, or have been given something, 00:44:04.460 --> 00:44:09.079 it's normally in the form of seed. And so what 00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:10.559 you have to do is put it in the oven of your 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:16.880 soul and let it develop and become bread. Then 00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:20.440 all of a sudden you find out, wow, people now 00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:22.539 are going to, they're going to receive from you. 00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:29.840 So I ask God, Lord, I want to hear your voice. 00:44:30.699 --> 00:44:33.900 What must I do? What can I do to hear your voice? 00:44:34.019 --> 00:44:36.500 And, you know, like we oftentimes do, I asked 00:44:36.500 --> 00:44:42.420 the question and then provided my answer. What 00:44:42.420 --> 00:44:45.360 should I do to hear your voice? And then I said, 00:44:45.460 --> 00:44:51.719 I'm sure I have to pray more. And I really didn't 00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:53.940 like that idea to start off with. It was just 00:44:53.940 --> 00:44:56.760 at the time. Many years ago when they started 00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:59.820 with this early morning prayer thing where you 00:44:59.820 --> 00:45:07.079 have to pray for an hour. And my prayer time, 00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:09.500 you know, is at a different time. My prayer time 00:45:09.500 --> 00:45:11.199 is 3 o 'clock in the morning. That's my prayer 00:45:11.199 --> 00:45:15.059 time. Now, 5 o 'clock I wake up and I got to 00:45:15.059 --> 00:45:17.579 go and pray now. And you got to pray for an hour. 00:45:19.279 --> 00:45:22.260 And so what you do is when you go around your 00:45:22.260 --> 00:45:25.659 daily tasks and so on, you collect, because you 00:45:25.659 --> 00:45:28.099 look at your watch and you say, ooh, I have 20 00:45:28.099 --> 00:45:29.780 more minutes. I've got to really stretch this 00:45:29.780 --> 00:45:32.900 prayer request a little bit, you know, and collect 00:45:32.900 --> 00:45:34.659 more prayer requests. You know, somebody tells 00:45:34.659 --> 00:45:37.019 you that they have a problem. Oh, wow, wait, 00:45:37.219 --> 00:45:40.079 I'm going to just put it on my notebook. That's 00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:41.940 going to give me 10 extra minutes in my prayer 00:45:41.940 --> 00:45:48.059 time, you know. I'm not putting prayer time down. 00:45:48.139 --> 00:45:51.159 I'm just telling you, this is a yawn thing. This 00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:57.860 is just my experience at that time. And you end 00:45:57.860 --> 00:46:01.820 up not enjoying it. The first time, man, you 00:46:01.820 --> 00:46:06.960 could pray on that thing and use six minutes. 00:46:09.739 --> 00:46:12.840 And I mean, after three mornings praying on the 00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:15.610 same thing. I mean, you can go through. A lot 00:46:15.610 --> 00:46:18.269 of detail. I mean, you add a lot of imaginary 00:46:18.269 --> 00:46:22.070 words in there and so on. And you get it done 00:46:22.070 --> 00:46:26.190 in three minutes. You wonder, whoa, what am I 00:46:26.190 --> 00:46:28.409 going to do? So you end up speaking in tongues 00:46:28.409 --> 00:46:34.530 and oftentimes that feels hollow. You have no 00:46:34.530 --> 00:46:42.329 encounter with God. Say encounter with God. It's 00:46:42.329 --> 00:46:44.579 got to be a daily thing. You've got to have encounters 00:46:44.579 --> 00:46:50.940 with God. So, Lord, what must I do? What can 00:46:50.940 --> 00:46:54.480 I do to hear your voice? Should I pray more? 00:46:55.300 --> 00:46:58.400 I'm sure I must pray more. And I was really hoping 00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:02.780 God wouldn't agree with me. You know, I'm talking 00:47:02.780 --> 00:47:05.079 about my, you know, early morning prayer time. 00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:09.579 You know, I was so afraid that God would say, 00:47:09.659 --> 00:47:11.980 yeah, you got to actually not only pray, but 00:47:11.980 --> 00:47:15.539 spread some glass out there also and crawl on 00:47:15.539 --> 00:47:17.980 it so you can bleed at the same time and suffer. 00:47:18.199 --> 00:47:22.539 And, you know, that's not how we hear from God. 00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:28.659 Should I pray more? And then God didn't answer 00:47:28.659 --> 00:47:31.690 me. And I don't know if I've ever shared this 00:47:31.690 --> 00:47:34.409 story with you, but I remember, I mean, I was 00:47:34.409 --> 00:47:36.389 really serious. God, I want to hear your voice. 00:47:36.630 --> 00:47:38.309 And then later that morning, I had to go and 00:47:38.309 --> 00:47:40.610 do some shopping in a stationary store. And when 00:47:40.610 --> 00:47:44.130 I went through the store, I saw a little counter, 00:47:44.269 --> 00:47:46.429 you know, those that you click and the number 00:47:46.429 --> 00:47:50.170 goes up. And clearly, I felt the Lord laying 00:47:50.170 --> 00:47:53.030 on my heart to pick that up. And he said, pick 00:47:53.030 --> 00:47:56.170 that up. And my wife already calls me Mr. Gadget. 00:47:56.469 --> 00:47:59.389 And I knew that she's going to accuse me of that 00:47:59.389 --> 00:48:00.690 when I get home. Because what are you going to 00:48:00.690 --> 00:48:05.070 do with that gadget? But I bought it. And when 00:48:05.070 --> 00:48:07.510 I got in the car, it has a little ring that you 00:48:07.510 --> 00:48:11.429 can clearly fit around your finger. And when 00:48:11.429 --> 00:48:15.710 I got in the car, God spoke to me and said, now, 00:48:15.710 --> 00:48:19.590 I want you to take that thing. And I want you 00:48:19.590 --> 00:48:25.380 to. Click every time you say Jesus or God or 00:48:25.380 --> 00:48:29.719 hallelujah, praise God. Anything to do with heaven, 00:48:29.820 --> 00:48:34.239 click. And I want you to do it 500 times until 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.900 I change that. And I'll tell you what, I'll never 00:48:37.900 --> 00:48:40.420 forget that first day, you know, glory to God. 00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:42.960 You know, you drive your car, glory, hallelujah, 00:48:43.099 --> 00:48:47.400 thank you, Jesus, glory. And then here at 3 o 00:48:47.400 --> 00:48:49.659 'clock in the afternoon, I looked at the camera. 00:48:50.269 --> 00:48:54.190 It's only 200 times. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. You 00:48:54.190 --> 00:49:01.590 know, just... And I mean, you know, just... Then 00:49:01.590 --> 00:49:05.210 the thing that followed up there several weeks 00:49:05.210 --> 00:49:10.329 later, God said, now you go up to 1 ,000. You 00:49:10.329 --> 00:49:13.309 know, when I got to 2 ,000, when God told me 00:49:13.309 --> 00:49:19.010 to keep it at 2 ,000 a day, my entire life... 00:49:19.210 --> 00:49:23.110 my perception of things, of the spirit world, 00:49:23.409 --> 00:49:27.710 of people. I would talk to people and I would 00:49:27.710 --> 00:49:31.030 literally see their lives. It was just incredible. 00:49:32.590 --> 00:49:35.949 God would show me things that I never thought 00:49:35.949 --> 00:49:39.489 could be possible. My wife said to me, she said, 00:49:39.530 --> 00:49:44.130 Jan, you don't sleep. You're praying all the 00:49:44.130 --> 00:49:46.710 time. I said, yeah, I'm making up 2 ,000, you 00:49:46.710 --> 00:49:53.949 know. But that's not what it was. I became totally 00:49:53.949 --> 00:50:00.269 heavenly minded. And so it's not about praying, 00:50:00.389 --> 00:50:06.389 church. Long, repetitive words. It's all about 00:50:06.389 --> 00:50:10.150 learning to hear the voice of God. And let me 00:50:10.150 --> 00:50:20.039 bring this to a close. When God speaks, you're 00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:22.900 going to recognize him and somebody next to you 00:50:22.900 --> 00:50:27.239 won't even know God just spoke to you. It'll 00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:30.800 be a sound like, you know, John heard the sound 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:35.719 as of a trumpet. I mean, how can you get syllables 00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:40.579 out of a trumpet sound? But he heard God speak 00:50:40.579 --> 00:50:46.639 long revelations out of a trumpet sound. Later 00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:50.500 on, it was the sound of many waters. You see, 00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:53.079 you can sit by the ocean and hear waters, and 00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:54.960 then all of a sudden, God can start speaking 00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:57.679 to you. See, God speaks to you in many, many 00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:01.219 ways. You see, nature hears God. Listen, God 00:51:01.219 --> 00:51:05.320 spoke and waters heard him. Come on, help me. 00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:11.760 God spoke and trees heard him. God spoke and 00:51:11.760 --> 00:51:18.480 bread heard him. God would speak in many different 00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:20.960 ways. You understand? You remember it was the 00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:25.139 fig tree. Wasn't it also a rock that heard the 00:51:25.139 --> 00:51:28.340 voice of God? You understand? When God speaks, 00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:33.300 the deaf ears could hear God. When nobody else 00:51:33.300 --> 00:51:35.539 could hear, they could hear. You see, the dead 00:51:35.539 --> 00:51:40.940 heard the voice of God. See, God's voice is right 00:51:40.940 --> 00:51:47.329 around. I mean, fish heard God. Now, quickly 00:51:47.329 --> 00:51:49.690 put 1 Corinthians 14 up there. You remember the 00:51:49.690 --> 00:51:52.349 teaching on 1 Corinthians 14 as I close with 00:51:52.349 --> 00:51:55.929 this in verse 14. He says, Paul is teaching so 00:51:55.929 --> 00:52:02.289 far, if I pray in a tongue, what? My what? Read 00:52:02.289 --> 00:52:06.530 it. My what? Spirit prays. So if I pray in a 00:52:06.530 --> 00:52:09.809 tongue, my spirit prays. Much different from 00:52:09.809 --> 00:52:17.010 when your earthly person prays. See, your spirit 00:52:17.010 --> 00:52:21.070 is a phenomenal thing. Your spirit is much more 00:52:21.070 --> 00:52:24.309 phenomenal than what you can imagine. You may 00:52:24.309 --> 00:52:26.789 not with your earthly ears hear God because you 00:52:26.789 --> 00:52:28.510 haven't trained yourself. You've got to train 00:52:28.510 --> 00:52:32.329 yourself to hear God. But your spirit knows him. 00:52:32.929 --> 00:52:35.570 You remember a good example is, you know, the 00:52:35.570 --> 00:52:39.969 prophet Elijah when he was sent to the widow 00:52:39.969 --> 00:52:46.329 where God says, I have instructed her. She didn't 00:52:46.329 --> 00:52:51.150 know it. You know, her idea was to make one last 00:52:51.150 --> 00:52:54.349 meal for her and her son, eat it and die. But 00:52:54.349 --> 00:52:58.010 her spirit had already received instruction from 00:52:58.010 --> 00:53:03.510 God. See, you're a spirit man. So I pray in, 00:53:03.610 --> 00:53:06.349 when I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but 00:53:06.349 --> 00:53:09.829 my mind is unfruitful. So what shall I do? I 00:53:09.829 --> 00:53:12.480 will pray with my spirit. I also pray with my 00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:14.760 understanding. I will sing with my spirit, but 00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:17.800 I will also sing, give me the next verse, with 00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:24.340 my understanding. So in verse 15, that's the 00:53:24.340 --> 00:53:32.219 one after 14. 16, sorry, yes, thank you, thank 00:53:32.219 --> 00:53:36.780 you. So, well, let's just pause there. Look, 00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:42.539 what he's saying is, I must make my spirit person 00:53:42.539 --> 00:53:50.420 active. You must decide to do that. Let your 00:53:50.420 --> 00:53:54.179 spirit man become active. It's not like, you 00:53:54.179 --> 00:53:57.480 know, you've changed in many ways. No, no, it's 00:53:57.480 --> 00:54:00.280 just the spirit man that's already alive in you, 00:54:00.340 --> 00:54:03.920 you are now teaching that spirit man to now successfully 00:54:03.920 --> 00:54:08.309 communicate with your earth man. Let your earth 00:54:08.309 --> 00:54:11.690 man now become subject to your spirit man because 00:54:11.690 --> 00:54:17.210 your earth man cannot hear God. No, cannot hear 00:54:17.210 --> 00:54:20.190 God. It'll hear sounds. It'll hear trumpets. 00:54:20.190 --> 00:54:24.250 It'll hear oceans. It'll hear the wind. It'll 00:54:24.250 --> 00:54:29.190 hear a donkey. But you cannot hear and understand 00:54:29.190 --> 00:54:32.800 God. Your spirit man can. And so what you want 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:35.400 to do right here this morning is ask God, Lord, 00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:38.440 help my spirit man to come alive. Amen. And so 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:43.079 I look at verse 2 quickly. Give me verse 2. In 00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:47.179 verse 2, Paul is saying this. For anyone who 00:54:47.179 --> 00:54:50.900 speaks in a tongue does not speak to people, 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:55.539 but he speaks to God. Indeed, no one understands 00:54:55.539 --> 00:55:02.300 them. They utter mysteries by. The spirit, your 00:55:02.300 --> 00:55:06.239 spirit man communicates with God in a language 00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:11.719 that no man can understand. Demons cannot understand. 00:55:12.719 --> 00:55:16.960 You have the incredible ability. Now, I close 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:23.739 here. You have to say to yourself, Lord, will 00:55:23.739 --> 00:55:28.420 you allow my spiritual ears to be opened? See, 00:55:28.460 --> 00:55:30.840 because... Here's the key. If you want to hear 00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:33.780 God, you have to learn that with the speaking 00:55:33.780 --> 00:55:38.320 of his voice must follow obedience. Isn't that 00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:41.619 right, Tony? You have to speak. I mean, you have 00:55:41.619 --> 00:55:46.039 to let God speak, then obey. So here's the sequence. 00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:50.360 He speaks, you obey, and the supernatural follows 00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:55.909 every time. So he speaks, you obey. Supernatural. 00:55:55.989 --> 00:55:59.010 I can show you that in every occasion in the 00:55:59.010 --> 00:56:02.170 Bible when this happened. Supernatural happens, 00:56:02.369 --> 00:56:04.989 but you must learn to obey. Somebody asked me 00:56:04.989 --> 00:56:08.510 a few months ago, they said, how can I learn 00:56:08.510 --> 00:56:12.090 to hear the voice of God? And I'm telling you, 00:56:12.110 --> 00:56:13.869 I didn't think about it. It just came out like 00:56:13.869 --> 00:56:17.190 that. Obviously, it was for him. He said, how 00:56:17.190 --> 00:56:19.489 can I hear the voice of God? I said, start during 00:56:19.489 --> 00:56:26.480 the time of the offering. Boy, it's quiet here 00:56:26.480 --> 00:56:31.519 now. So you have to learn that when you hear 00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:34.980 the voice of God, there will always be sacrifice 00:56:34.980 --> 00:56:40.340 involved. So when God speaks, you must obey, 00:56:40.539 --> 00:56:44.380 be willing to sacrifice, then the supernatural 00:56:44.380 --> 00:56:46.480 follows. Give the Lord a handclap of praise. 00:56:46.579 --> 00:56:58.769 Pastor? If you are interested in hearing other 00:56:58.769 --> 00:57:01.710 podcasts or contacting Life Bible Church, go 00:57:01.710 --> 00:57:06.329 to www .lifebiblechurch .org or call us at 541 00:57:06.329 --> 00:57:08.789 -995 -8282.