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There's fresh provisions in the house of the

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Lord. Amen? Amen. What a privilege it is and

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an honor to have with us a mighty man of God.

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How many were here at the presbytery meetings

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in March? Amen. We got a chance to see Brother

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Moses and hear the... richness of the word that

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God has put in his heart. Brother Moses has been

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to over 80 countries. He's an ambassador of the

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kingdom of God. He's a father to many men of

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God, many sons in the Lord. He's a prophetic

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voice to nations and churches. We received a

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phone call here a couple weeks ago. How many

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know when God puts it on somebody else in a distant

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way? We haven't had a lot of communication, but

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just... Staying friends that when the Lord puts

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somebody on your heart you ought to hear that

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that you know God is working on your behalf That's

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a good thing isn't encouraging it says that a

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fit word brings healing and What a privilege

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it was I was studying the word and got a wonderful

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call from brother Moses He said the Lord had

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put something very strong on his heart for this

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house and for me and Jenny and it was burning

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and in him and I just was thrilled to be able

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to have a date open just to get him up here and

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to release it So would you do what we normally

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do as we welcome the servant of the Lord? Would

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you just please just honor the man of God as

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he comes? Thank you. Thank you very much. You

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may be seated. What an awesome God we have. Isn't

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it wonderful that the people of Life Bible Church

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with a sense of destiny and uncontrollable boldness.

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Amen. Living in the Word of God. Those of you

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that have received the Lord Jesus Christ, you

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live in the unrestrainable power of the Holy

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Ghost. Becoming an irresistible force. See, God's

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doing something. He's doing something awesome.

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He's not just building big churches. He's building

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big people. And that takes a whole lot of doing

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to turn a congregation into the church. I don't

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know if you've been aware of that or not, but

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how many know there's been some changes going

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on in your life? Amen. Well, get ready because

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there's more coming. Praise God. And those of

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you that have been transferred into another kingdom

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where we operate as citizens, we're not strangers.

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We're not aliens. We're citizens. We're ambassadors.

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We're militia. We belong to the glorious kingdom

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of Christ. The apostle Paul said the Father has

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drawn us to himself out of the control and the

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dominion of darkness. And has transferred us

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into the kingdom of his son. Of his love. Peter

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says we've been born anew. We're a brand new

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creation. Amen. I thought our pastor had a whole

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new revelation on the communion service. Isn't

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it amazing how we are victims of habit? That

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it confounds you when he. Serve the cup first.

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I thought I'd missed something all these years.

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I was looking for a new revelation. But I'm learning.

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I'm open. Praise God. Wasn't it wonderful? The

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efficacy of the blood. Peter said we have been

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born anew. Into an inheritance which is beyond

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the reach of change and decay. Imperishable,

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unsullied, unfading. An inheritance that's reserved

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in heaven for you. You who are guarded by God's

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power through faith until you fully inherit that

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final salvation that is ready to be revealed.

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to be revealed for you in the last times. Now

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that's in the Amplified text. I like the Amplified

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when it agrees with my doctrine. But this morning,

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I just want to say to the church again, thank

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you for having me, allowing me to be here. Thank

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you for your kindness, the great hospitality

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of this family, these precious folks. It was

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so good to be with Pastor and his wife last night.

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Of course, with his mom, who's one of the prime

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cooks in the whole world. It's just a gastronomical

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nightmare. Wonderful. And fellowship of these

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folks, this has been great. I'm going away enriched

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because you see in this whole business, When

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the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome,

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he said, I have never seen you, but I long to

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see you. I want to see you, and I'm coming to

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you. I'm coming with the intent of making a deposit.

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He said, I want to impart something to you. Romans

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1 .11, I want to impart unto you some spiritual

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gift that through this impartation, we might

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be mutually refreshed. Your faith and mine. So

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what Paul was saying is, I have a very selfish

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reason for coming. And that is that I may be

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blessed because you're being blessed. And that's

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the way God fixed this thing. He ordered it that

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way. It's not no one way street. It's reciprocal.

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Amen? And when we come together, whether we're

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aware of it or not, we're making an exchange.

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We're communicating. We're cross -pollinating.

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And we're learning and we're receiving life and

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strength from the very fact that we're here in

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the body together. Where Paul said we're no longer

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strangers. We're not aliens. But we are fellow

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citizens and heirs together of the grace of God.

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And we're members of a body. He says of which

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body is built upon. A firm foundation of the

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apostles and prophets with Jesus Christ himself

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being the chief cornerstone. In whom also you

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are fitly joined together. You're interspersed.

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You are interlocked. You are knit. That's one

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term. We are bound in another way. We are tied

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together. We are interrelated. We're interdependent.

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Isn't that marvelous? And he says we're built

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upon this foundation of apostles and prophets

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with Jesus Christ himself, the chief cornerstone,

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in whom the whole body fitly joined together

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groweth. Say groweth. That means it makes increase

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of itself. It's multiplying constantly. Just

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like your physical body is renewing itself every

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day. The outward man perishes. The inward man

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is renewed every day. But the outward man is

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also being renewed. All these vital billions

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of cells are being renewed every day. And we

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are a new person every seven years. It's a mystery.

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We can't explain that, but it's a mystery. But

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in the body of Christ, which we're related to

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so beautifully, God uses that analogy, doesn't

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he? But he has another analogy. And in the Bible,

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we have at least 70 different definitions for

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the church. We're called the born -again assembly.

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We're called the assembly of the firstborn. We're

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called the church, the ecclesia. We are called

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the body of Christ. We are called... The bride

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of Christ with combat boots on? We are all these

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different definitions of the body of Christ.

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But we are the body. But we are the bride of

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Christ. And how much more intimate could God

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be than to call us the bride? And that is our

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designation. And his purpose is that he might

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produce through us a great and awesome offspring.

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In other words, God's business is to produce

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and reproduce. And so in Isaiah chapter 49, I

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gave the church this this morning. And real quickly,

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I want to give it to you so you can study it

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at home. But in verses 13 through 40, sorry,

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13 through 17 in chapter 49, he's talking to

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his church again. Zion says, he says to the church,

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sing. Come on, get singing. Isn't it interesting?

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In James chapter five, he said, if you're afflicted,

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you pray. Have you ever remembered that? Okay.

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All right. He said, then after you pray, you're

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supposed to sing. Come on. You say, I don't want

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to pray. Well, suffer. I don't feel like singing.

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Well, suffer. After you suffered a while, you

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want prayer. And you won't probably want to pray

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for yourself anymore. You'll want your elders

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to come. That's the third phase. It's all in

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there. It's in your Bible. James 5, 16 tells

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us that. All right, now, what he's saying is

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this. When you're being buffeted by the devil,

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God wants you to pray. Don't call Tulsa. You

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pray. It's okay to call Tulsa after you pray,

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but you pray. And then, When you get prayed through,

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you're going to sing as a song comes. That's

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a healing thing in itself. People are just beginning

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to realize the awesome power of singing in joy.

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We don't really know this, but it's awesome.

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It's awesome. Do you know when you are full of

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the Holy Ghost and you pray in heavenly language?

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I've got plenty of time now that I don't have

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another meeting until six. And that's way over

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somewhere. But anyway. Listen to me. I want you

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to get this because when you pray in the spirit,

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you are building up yourself in the most holy

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ghost, in the holy faith, the most holy faith,

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in the holy ghost. Now, what does that mean?

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Physically, practically, when you pray in tongues,

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there's a part of your brain that's been scientifically

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proven that is releasing dopamines and serotonin.

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And all of these marvelous neurotransmitters

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that build your immune system. Someday you're

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going to wake up and get it all in the last gulp.

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Like the guy who never stirred the sugar in his

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tea. We're going to wake up in glory and say,

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oh my God. Yeah. I read in the book of Revelation.

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two places where the Father wipes away our tears.

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And I cried to the Lord about this. I said, God,

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what is this? We're in heaven. We've made it.

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Thank God we've made it. We're there. Now why

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cry when you're already there? Could it be that

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when we see all the untapped resources, when

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we see the warehouses full of packages that we

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never received, Because we didn't leave a forwarding

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address? Could it be that when we get there and

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we see all the gifts of the Spirit that were

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freely given to us that we never utilized? Could

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it be we think of all the suffering we went through

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needlessly when all we'd have to do was draw

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on our resources? Could it be we never learned

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how to write a check? On our joint account with

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Jesus? Did you know you had one? Could it be?

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I'm giving you a little bit of a teaser here,

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but think about it. Please. A little bit of faith

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will get you to heaven, but a whole lot more

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faith will bring heaven to you. Amen. And so

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this morning, I want to talk to you from my heart

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because I'm closing this. We're giving, this

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is a progressive dinner. We've had two servings

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already, and today and now we're going to kind

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of culminate it all together, okay? We've been

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teasing you a little bit and giving you samples

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of everything that's on the table, but right

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now we're going to move right on in, and we're

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going to have a feast in the Word of God. Isaiah

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chapter 54 is our text, our departure. But before

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we go to 54, 49 comes before 54. And that's the

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word the Lord gave for this church. He said,

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Zion says the Lord's forsaken me. Somebody here

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this morning needs to hear this. God has not

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written you off. He has your number. He knows

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all about your situation. And you've been crying

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out to the Lord. And God says, Zion says the

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Lord has forsaken me. He's already told her to

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sing. And she said, how can I sing when I feel

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like God's forgotten me? Well, God said, I cannot

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forget you. For the simple fact is I have you

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engraved on the palms of both of my hands. Anything

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I touch, everything I go after, everything I

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want to do with my hands, I see you there. Not

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like you are, but like you're going to be. You

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see, God's got your finished picture on his hands.

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He's making us into the image of his son. Now

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here's what he says to this church that has lacked

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that vision. He said, I am going to do a new

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thing among you. He said, your builders are coming

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and your children. Now notice that carefully.

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The Hebrew word for builders and building material

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and children is the same word. Those little brats

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are not brats. They're blocks. Sometimes you

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really think they are. Come on. They are part

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of the building process of God. Your builders

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come and your children, says the Lord, and your

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destroyers, those who would tear down, those

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who would destroy, those who would tear apart.

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Come on, folks. The church of Jesus Christ has

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suffered. immensely from our own members eating

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up one another. The Bible said if we bite and

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devour one another, we're going to be destroyed.

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We'll be consumed of one another. And God said,

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I'll take the destroyers out from among you.

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I'm going to give you builders. I'm going to

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give you builders and brand new babies. I'm going

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to birth something in this body. That's your

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promise. Get a hold of it. And he said, you will

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see the increase of God and you will adorn yourself

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with these new people like a bride adorns herself

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with ornaments. Wow. Are you hearing anything

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in this at all? Is there anything resonating

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with your spirit now? We're standing on the threshold

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of enlargement. A time for enlargement has come.

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And after chapter... 49, you go to 53, and you'll

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see the sufferings of Christ. But I don't want

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to stop there because it's already finished.

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And you go to chapter 54, verse 1. And he said,

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sing. First word after Calvary. The first word

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after his resurrection. The first word is sing.

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Oh, barren, sing. Hallelujah. And cry aloud.

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Thou that did not travail. with child for more

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of the children of the desolate than the children

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of the married wife, says the Lord. Enlarge the

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place of your tent and let them stretch forth

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thy curtains or the curtains of thy habitations

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and spare not, say spare not. Now listen, I'm

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talking about extravagant enlargement. I'm not

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just talking about some little addition you're

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putting on. I'm talking about extravagant enlargement.

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We are so confined to our own limitations, our

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self -imposed limitations. Whether you're thinking

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of yourself in the material world or in the professional

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world or in your domestic life or in your family

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life, whatever it is, many times our own evaluations

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of our abilities are very limited. And many times

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we are fenced in. You remember that old song,

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don't fence me in? Give me room, lots of room,

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or land, lots of land. What is that talking about?

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It's the cry of every heart. I need enlargement.

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I need expansion. I need some breathing room.

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I don't want to be suffocated where I'm at. I

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don't want to be a victim of my own self -imposed

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limitations. And he's talking to the bride now.

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In the 53rd chapter, the first verse, he says,

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who has believed the report of the Lord, or to

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whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? The

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Hebrew word there is very powerful because it's

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a feminine word, and it literally says, who is

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she? Who is she that believes the report of her

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husband? Or in the Hebrew, it even goes clearer,

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who is she that says, amen? To the report of

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her husband. There's a response that God's calling

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for from the church here this morning. God wants

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to hear it from your heart. God wants you to

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embrace that word that he gives you today. And

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he wants every one of you as the bride of Christ

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to say, yes, Lord. Amen, Lord. I believe your

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report. Your word is powerful. Amen. No matter

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what hell says, I believe what Jesus says. Now

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he says, if you believe that, start singing and

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knitting booties because you're pregnant and

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you're going to bust out on the right hand and

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on the left hand. And he said, I'm going to bring

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enlargement because the winds of God are already

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blowing and a great shaking is going on. The

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Lord said, when the Lord builds up Zion, then

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shall he appear. and his glory. There is an attendant

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glory that comes with enlargement. Listen to

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what I'm telling you. I'm speaking to you prophetically

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now. There's an attendant glory that's reserved

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for times of enlargement. I know when God called

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us in Ohio to enlarge our borders, and Carla,

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you're here today, one of our that came in and

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found us in the Yellow Pages. Would you believe

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that? Isn't that amazing? She lives out here

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now and found out I'm preaching, so she's here.

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Thank you, Carla, for coming. But in those days

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in Ohio, we came to an impasse. And we were having

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awesome meetings. The place was packed out in

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our little church, but we needed to grow. We

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needed to expand. So I got together with my brother,

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and we all prayed, praying, fasting, praying.

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And we found a piece of property and it looked

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just perfect. You know, it looked like, I mean,

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it was something we thought was great. You see,

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what you think is great is not always great.

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I found that out. But a lot of times, you know,

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I'm going to say this to you. Somebody needs

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to hear this. Sometimes good can become the enemy

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of best. So there I was thinking, this is good.

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Because all of my elders agreed on it. I thought,

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that's good. That's a miracle. So we agreed.

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And so I went to buy the piece of property. I

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went to talk to the man about it. And we sat

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down in his front room and he had the papers

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all there. And I said, okay. And I said, fine,

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this is the price. We'll buy the land. And we

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thought, man, seven acres, that's a huge piece

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of land. And we'll have, you know, we'll expand,

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we'll build and all that. And I'm sitting there

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and I think, if I remember correctly, I signed

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my part. you know, on the paper and we're talking

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away just back and forth. And all of a sudden

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he looked at me real weird and strange. He said,

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you know what? I'm sick. I need to go to the

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bathroom. I said, well, go ahead, man. It's fine.

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Don't worry about it. I'll come back tomorrow

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and we'll finish this up. Okay. Well, he went

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to the bathroom and he died. And that was the

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end of the deal because now the whole land was

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in probate. He never signed the paper. Do you

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understand? Bang, the door was shut right in

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my face, and I was upset. I went home discouraged,

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and I told my wife, I said, I don't know what

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God's trying to do here. I mean, this thing was

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in the bag. I'm going to ask you a question.

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How many of you folks, don't raise your hands,

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please, have ever prayed a prayer and are really

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glad the Lord didn't answer? Just nudge your

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wife beside you and say, thank God, honey. Ha!

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Come on. And I sat there. This is ridiculous.

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I went home and I was beat. My wife looked at

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me and said, what's the matter with you? I said,

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honey, and the door just slammed right in my

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face. I said, this guy died. And he didn't sign.

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All he had to do was sign that. If I let him

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sign first, and then I'd have signed. You know,

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I'm rationalizing all this stuff. How many of

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you have ever rationalized stuff? Okay, but God's

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fixing to do something awesome. And all of a

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sudden, out of that experience, my wife looked

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at me and said, come on, honey, God's got something

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better. And she's an amazing lady. I've been

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tracking with her for about 60 years now. We've

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been married 53. But we were good friends from

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the beginning. She's my very first girlfriend.

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She's still my very best friend in all the world.

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And we've been out driving all over the country

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trying to find a place, you know, with them looking

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around. And I teased her about this old junky

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old place that I saw on the corner of this property

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on Main Street. And we drove up by there and

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I teased her. I said, honey, what do you think

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about that, you know? We'd already committed

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our brand new parsonage. We'd just give it. We

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give it to the new building fund. We thought

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this was going to be it, you know. God knew that.

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And I said, how about if we get this old place

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right here? And I just teased him. I wasn't serious.

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But a lot of times you're spiritual and you don't

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know it. You're prophesying. You don't have no

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idea. Caiaphas was that way. He prophesied because

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he was a high priest. And he had no other reason.

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And so. He was certainly a bad man. He wanted

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to crucify Jesus, but he couldn't help himself

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when he'd come to prophesy. Anyhow, my wife said

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to me, she said, God's got a red place. And we'd

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looked at all this area out here, and I felt

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constrained to call my friend who lived near

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there. And I said, would you sell us a piece

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of your land? He said, no, I'm not going to sell

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any land. I don't have any land for sale. Oh,

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boy, that's a dead end. But before I hung up,

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I said, by the way, there's a reason I called

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you. Do you know anybody else? And he said, oh,

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yeah, that old house there at the corner. Old

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Lady Sherwood lives in there. And I said, what?

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Ain't nobody live in that house. There's squirrels

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running through the windows, and the grass is

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broken. Curtains are flopping in the breeze,

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and there's nobody there. Oh, yeah, I said, she's

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living in there. She's in there. She's an old

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recluse. And I thought, oh, God. And the Holy

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Ghost spoke to me. He said, go now. Don't wait.

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So I hung up the phone, got in my car, drove

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over there, and I walked in. I didn't even knock.

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Thank God I didn't because I'd never probably

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never got in. But anyhow, I got in. I just walked

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in. And when I walked in there, there was this

00:26:16.740 --> 00:26:19.039
old lady laying on the couch. She had grown into

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this couch. The house was filthy. It was horrible.

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I'm talking about dead animals on the floor.

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I'm talking about a groundhog that was months

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old. And it was laying there dried up like an

00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:35.759
old piece of... And I looked at this woman and

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she's laying in this couch and she had this radio

00:26:38.299 --> 00:26:41.920
on her bosom, just an old fashioned old wooden

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radio. And she's laying under this thing and

00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:49.279
she's like she's dead. I mean, she didn't move.

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And she tried to put her makeup on, but it was

00:26:52.299 --> 00:26:57.920
all over her face. She looked like a clown. I

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looked around the house, immediately took a census

00:27:00.539 --> 00:27:02.640
of what's going on here and the filth and the

00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:06.259
garbage and the fire. Her pillow had been on

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fire and she had put the fire out with a coffee,

00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:14.039
out of her coffee pot and was just like awful.

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And she's laying there. And I thought, oh my

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God, she's dead. And I found this corpse here

00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:23.579
in this house. What am I going to say? And she

00:27:23.579 --> 00:27:26.759
didn't move. And she's almost blind. She's 83.

00:27:28.140 --> 00:27:32.039
And she had a broken neck, broken hip, had her

00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:34.779
arm broken. She'd been falling all over the place.

00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:39.559
And here she was laying there. And when I spoke,

00:27:39.660 --> 00:27:47.180
I said, hey, are you alive? And she said, oh,

00:27:48.940 --> 00:27:56.829
oh, Pastor Vae. And I felt the anointing go all

00:27:56.829 --> 00:28:01.769
over me. This little lady knew all about me because

00:28:01.769 --> 00:28:03.710
she'd been saved through our radio ministry.

00:28:04.309 --> 00:28:09.009
She says, I've been waiting for you. Long story

00:28:09.009 --> 00:28:11.210
made short. It's a great story. I won't tell

00:28:11.210 --> 00:28:15.250
you all about it. It's awesome. But within seven

00:28:15.250 --> 00:28:20.809
weeks, she didn't sell us that property. She

00:28:20.809 --> 00:28:25.609
had 25 acres on Main Street. And she said, I've

00:28:25.609 --> 00:28:30.150
been holding this bean patch just for you. And

00:28:30.150 --> 00:28:33.890
she said, this is Betty's house. And I want Betty

00:28:33.890 --> 00:28:36.769
to move into this house. And I am going to be

00:28:36.769 --> 00:28:39.109
part of your family. She knew all my kids. She

00:28:39.109 --> 00:28:41.089
knew their names. She listened to me on the radio

00:28:41.089 --> 00:28:42.970
every day. And I talked about my family all the

00:28:42.970 --> 00:28:49.170
time. Are you going to sell it to us? She says,

00:28:49.250 --> 00:28:53.799
no. I said, oh, God. She says, I'm not going

00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:56.240
to sell it to you. I'm going to give it to you.

00:28:57.019 --> 00:29:05.519
I said, oh, God. Enlargement. Enlargement. Seven

00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:09.960
weeks from the time we got connected with her,

00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:13.319
we had the property in our name. She had her

00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:15.640
attorneys already signed it, had it all made.

00:29:16.220 --> 00:29:19.960
And the property was in our name. Financing arranged.

00:29:23.059 --> 00:29:27.079
contractor that we had raised in our church and

00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:29.079
he'd gone to Michigan. He'd come back home to

00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:32.000
build us the church and everything came together.

00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.519
In seven weeks, we broke ground and we were on

00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:38.000
our way to a new building. I'm talking about

00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:40.140
enlargement. I'm talking about when God says

00:29:40.140 --> 00:29:42.980
something to you. I'm talking about when God

00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:45.940
closes one door, he opens another door. How many

00:29:45.940 --> 00:29:49.000
know he always does? Okay. How many know when

00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.400
God closes one door? You open it. But sometimes

00:29:53.400 --> 00:30:01.660
it's hell in the hallway. Have you been there?

00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:04.099
You understand what I'm talking about? Amen.

00:30:04.140 --> 00:30:06.420
He closed this door and then this one's not opening.

00:30:06.460 --> 00:30:08.440
You're groping in the dark and trying to find

00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:11.779
the doorknob. Come on. But you know he's going

00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:18.299
to open it. Amen. He's faithful. Well, that's

00:30:18.299 --> 00:30:23.329
my primer. Hallelujah. So the rest of it is history

00:30:23.329 --> 00:30:26.009
because from there we went from glory to glory.

00:30:26.109 --> 00:30:28.970
We saw the goodness of God. We saw the Lord adding.

00:30:29.130 --> 00:30:31.230
We saw the Lord multiplying. We saw the Lord

00:30:31.230 --> 00:30:34.329
supplying. But he says to the church, listen

00:30:34.329 --> 00:30:37.109
to me, we're talking about new commitment now.

00:30:37.190 --> 00:30:41.170
We're talking about pulling up stakes. We're

00:30:41.170 --> 00:30:43.309
talking about pulling up stakes. If you're going

00:30:43.309 --> 00:30:45.329
to enlarge your tent, you can't leave your stakes

00:30:45.329 --> 00:30:47.549
where they are. You're going to have to not only

00:30:47.549 --> 00:30:50.509
enlarge your territory, but you're going to have

00:30:50.509 --> 00:30:52.869
to be ready for new stakes. You're going to have

00:30:52.869 --> 00:30:55.589
to be ready for new people that God's going to

00:30:55.589 --> 00:30:59.289
plant into this enlargement. Amen? And some of

00:30:59.289 --> 00:31:01.970
these will be big, powerful stakes that'll be

00:31:01.970 --> 00:31:04.849
supporting stakes that'll hold up the main structure,

00:31:05.009 --> 00:31:07.329
and there'll be other stakes that'll be little

00:31:07.329 --> 00:31:10.329
stakes that'll be seemingly non -significant,

00:31:10.329 --> 00:31:13.329
but every member of the body of Christ is significant.

00:31:14.850 --> 00:31:17.950
God, our awesome God, is an awesome God, and

00:31:17.950 --> 00:31:21.329
all of his kids are awesomeites. And our God

00:31:21.329 --> 00:31:24.309
is incapable of producing even one insignificant

00:31:24.309 --> 00:31:27.990
child. And no matter where you come from, you're

00:31:27.990 --> 00:31:31.210
significant. You belong, and you're to be placed

00:31:31.210 --> 00:31:34.250
and planted. And if you can stand the pull, God

00:31:34.250 --> 00:31:36.769
will tie you up to something that's going to

00:31:36.769 --> 00:31:39.609
hold together, and it's going to be called the

00:31:39.609 --> 00:31:44.089
church of the living God. Amen? This church is

00:31:44.089 --> 00:31:47.190
poised for production, poised for enlargement.

00:31:47.269 --> 00:31:50.509
And God said, I'm going to take away from you

00:31:50.509 --> 00:31:52.849
the shame of barrenness. Now he's talking to

00:31:52.849 --> 00:31:56.109
his bride and I'm not talking to Mary Magdalene.

00:32:00.170 --> 00:32:03.609
The devil's doing everything he can at this critical

00:32:03.609 --> 00:32:08.309
moment in the timing of God to discredit the

00:32:08.309 --> 00:32:11.670
person of Jesus and to discredit his church and

00:32:11.670 --> 00:32:15.470
his bride. But God protects his church and his

00:32:15.470 --> 00:32:18.769
bride. And he's jealous for his bride. And he's

00:32:18.769 --> 00:32:21.230
not going to let Da Vinci or anybody else tear

00:32:21.230 --> 00:32:24.970
it up. He's got a glorious church. And this church

00:32:24.970 --> 00:32:27.950
is pregnant. And this church is making increase

00:32:27.950 --> 00:32:31.650
of itself. over the world. We've been in China

00:32:31.650 --> 00:32:34.150
where they had shut it down for years. There

00:32:34.150 --> 00:32:38.329
were no religion in China for years, for 50 years.

00:32:38.549 --> 00:32:41.609
It was obliterated. You couldn't even find a

00:32:41.609 --> 00:32:44.609
denomination in that country. But God raised

00:32:44.609 --> 00:32:47.009
up a glorious church, and there are hundreds

00:32:47.009 --> 00:32:51.619
of thousands, yes, of millions now who are serving

00:32:51.619 --> 00:32:54.740
Jesus in China and they're growing at about 35

00:32:54.740 --> 00:32:59.319
,000 every day, every day, every day are being

00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:02.380
born into the kingdom of God. Tell me something.

00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:05.960
Amen. The Chinese government, they used to hunt

00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:08.339
us up and down the country and we always snuck

00:33:08.339 --> 00:33:10.759
through their lines and God took us in the back

00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:13.319
door and in the underground churches and Dennis

00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:16.400
Balcom, our dear friend. who for so many years

00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:18.420
has been over there and have been in prison and

00:33:18.420 --> 00:33:21.339
beat up and kicked out of the country and barred

00:33:21.339 --> 00:33:23.960
out of the country. They have recently invited

00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:26.740
him back. And I want to tell you something. This

00:33:26.740 --> 00:33:29.940
guy was given permanent residence in China. He

00:33:29.940 --> 00:33:33.000
has a passport. He has a residence. And not only

00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:36.220
that, he's been given access to every three -self

00:33:36.220 --> 00:33:39.579
church in China. And they asked Dennis to help

00:33:39.579 --> 00:33:43.799
them build a church on the Olympic grounds for

00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:47.480
2000. And that church is right now under construction,

00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:50.680
and they want Dennis to be the pastor of that

00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:53.599
church. They don't know anybody that knows more

00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:58.460
about China than Dennis does. This is the kind

00:33:58.460 --> 00:34:00.940
of thing that's going on right now. We're going

00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:03.579
to break forth. It's time to enlarge our tent.

00:34:03.799 --> 00:34:07.059
It's time to enlarge our vision. I told the church

00:34:07.059 --> 00:34:10.440
earlier, we've been spending so much time on

00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:17.739
brain dead. Trying to do it like grandpa did

00:34:17.739 --> 00:34:20.280
it or like somebody else suggested we do it.

00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:23.500
It's time to get a clear, concise word from God.

00:34:23.619 --> 00:34:25.900
I told the church this morning, when the horse

00:34:25.900 --> 00:34:31.349
is dead, it's time to dismount. Amen. Get off

00:34:31.349 --> 00:34:33.829
of that thing. Quit beating a dead horse. Get

00:34:33.829 --> 00:34:36.409
on with the plan and purpose of God in your life

00:34:36.409 --> 00:34:39.869
and quit looking backwards, folks. God says don't

00:34:39.869 --> 00:34:42.909
even consider the former things. I'm coming into

00:34:42.909 --> 00:34:46.329
your midst to do a new thing. Now it shall spring

00:34:46.329 --> 00:34:50.670
forth. Hallelujah. Are you going to see it? All

00:34:50.670 --> 00:34:55.769
three of you. Are you going to see it? All four

00:34:55.769 --> 00:35:00.460
of you. Are you going to see it? Hallelujah.

00:35:00.460 --> 00:35:03.860
Praise God. I don't get excited too much like

00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:13.800
this, but it feels good. God said, you're going

00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.340
to see me pulling up stakes. Now listen to me.

00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:20.519
Enlargement means discomfort. Amen. How many

00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.559
know the Holy Ghost is our comforter? How many

00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:28.429
know he's our discomforter? Yes, he is. He really

00:35:28.429 --> 00:35:32.710
is. And I've had occasions when he discomforted

00:35:32.710 --> 00:35:35.550
me. And he gets you into a situation where you're

00:35:35.550 --> 00:35:38.230
not comfortable in your situation. And you're

00:35:38.230 --> 00:35:41.170
feeling aggravated. You feel somewhat pressed.

00:35:41.369 --> 00:35:44.510
You feel somewhat oppressed. And the Lord creates

00:35:44.510 --> 00:35:47.389
situations for you to get you out of that rut.

00:35:47.869 --> 00:35:50.730
Amen. That rut you're in is just a grave with

00:35:50.730 --> 00:35:56.639
the ends knocked out. Amen. And God has not called

00:35:56.639 --> 00:36:00.519
us into that kind of bondage, but he's giving

00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:03.480
us a fresh revelation of his glory. He's coming

00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:06.380
among us. He's coming to stretch us. He's coming

00:36:06.380 --> 00:36:10.179
to move us. He's coming to relocate us. He's

00:36:10.179 --> 00:36:14.409
coming to take us out of our comfort zone. Where

00:36:14.409 --> 00:36:16.610
we've been happy just sitting here, paying our

00:36:16.610 --> 00:36:18.650
tithes, clapping our hands, shouting a little

00:36:18.650 --> 00:36:21.369
bit, and going home and doing our thing. But

00:36:21.369 --> 00:36:24.190
we've got a commission. Every one of you are

00:36:24.190 --> 00:36:27.409
to be birthers. You are to be people that will

00:36:27.409 --> 00:36:30.869
disciple others. Amen. I was just with my son,

00:36:31.150 --> 00:36:35.590
Marcus, over in Post Falls, Idaho. And I'll tell

00:36:35.590 --> 00:36:39.510
you, I'm amazed. It's the most incredible, well

00:36:39.510 --> 00:36:42.570
-kept secret in America. This church that grew

00:36:42.570 --> 00:36:46.389
out of four people about seven years ago is now

00:36:46.389 --> 00:36:51.750
averaging 6 ,500 every week in five services.

00:36:51.969 --> 00:36:55.409
Every week in Post Falls and more. At Easter,

00:36:55.449 --> 00:36:58.269
they had almost 10 ,000 people in their services

00:36:58.269 --> 00:37:01.030
over the Easter weekend. And the whole town is

00:37:01.030 --> 00:37:04.789
only 10 ,000 people. Now, what I'm telling you

00:37:04.789 --> 00:37:08.130
is happening. Why? Because this church has a

00:37:08.130 --> 00:37:11.289
dynamic vision, not just to get people to come

00:37:11.289 --> 00:37:13.769
to a building, but they are discipling these

00:37:13.769 --> 00:37:16.750
people. Every one of these people, in fact. Almost

00:37:16.750 --> 00:37:20.130
all of these people, over 6 ,100 of these people,

00:37:20.210 --> 00:37:23.710
the last count, are joined to a family small

00:37:23.710 --> 00:37:27.389
group that are being discipled every week in

00:37:27.389 --> 00:37:30.090
the word of God and being taught how to disciple

00:37:30.090 --> 00:37:33.230
others. That's their whole vision. Their whole

00:37:33.230 --> 00:37:37.070
message is to disciple people and get them into

00:37:37.070 --> 00:37:39.849
the kingdom. And the pastor came out of obscurity.

00:37:39.909 --> 00:37:42.570
Nobody knew about this guy. You hardly heard

00:37:42.570 --> 00:37:44.869
it. I never heard his name before. And he has

00:37:44.869 --> 00:37:47.329
one of the most awesome churches in all the world

00:37:47.329 --> 00:37:50.510
that I know of that's growing so rapidly. They

00:37:50.510 --> 00:37:56.610
increased 247 % last year, over this past year.

00:37:56.769 --> 00:37:59.909
And they're expanding so rapidly. And there again,

00:38:00.150 --> 00:38:03.090
they thought they had a plan. And I love this.

00:38:03.190 --> 00:38:05.429
And they thought it was all done. So they prayed

00:38:05.429 --> 00:38:08.269
and shot God. And this guy is such an incredible

00:38:08.269 --> 00:38:11.849
pastor. So humble. He drives an old beat -up

00:38:11.849 --> 00:38:14.289
pickup truck with a cowboy boots on in the back

00:38:14.289 --> 00:38:17.050
and a water jug. And he looked like an old prospector.

00:38:17.110 --> 00:38:21.789
He's not old. He's not even 40. But he was saved

00:38:21.789 --> 00:38:24.329
out of the pit. He was saved out of the pit.

00:38:24.489 --> 00:38:27.090
I mean, this guy was into drugs and alcohol and

00:38:27.090 --> 00:38:30.510
bound by the devil, but God set him free. You

00:38:30.510 --> 00:38:33.610
see, God's taken those kind of rejects and people

00:38:33.610 --> 00:38:36.949
that we think are incorrigible, and he's making

00:38:36.949 --> 00:38:40.329
them into awesome, awesome, awesome, mighty,

00:38:40.329 --> 00:38:44.449
powerful men of God. And he's so humble. He got

00:38:44.449 --> 00:38:46.989
up there. I happened to be there when he recounted

00:38:46.989 --> 00:38:48.809
the past seven years. And he's sitting there

00:38:48.809 --> 00:38:50.630
and just shaking. He said, you know, folks, I

00:38:50.630 --> 00:38:52.190
don't know what I'm doing. He said, I have no

00:38:52.190 --> 00:38:54.769
idea. I didn't know how to do this. Don't blame

00:38:54.769 --> 00:38:56.889
me. It's your fault. You brought all these people

00:38:56.889 --> 00:38:59.610
here. And you got them saved. And I baptize them.

00:38:59.670 --> 00:39:01.789
And I teach them. But he said, you go out and

00:39:01.789 --> 00:39:03.949
get a whole bunch more. And there he is. The

00:39:03.949 --> 00:39:06.250
place is jammed to the doors. You can't get in.

00:39:06.469 --> 00:39:08.909
They're from everywhere. And they're ministering

00:39:08.909 --> 00:39:11.010
to the community and starting outreach works.

00:39:11.210 --> 00:39:16.610
And he don't even know. what's going on. Isn't

00:39:16.610 --> 00:39:21.170
it awesome? There's one translation of Matthew

00:39:21.170 --> 00:39:24.449
5 .1, I think it is, that I read, blessed are

00:39:24.449 --> 00:39:31.070
they who don't know too much. We are so smart.

00:39:31.329 --> 00:39:35.329
We've got all these points. Some of these guys

00:39:35.329 --> 00:39:37.869
are porcupine preachers. They got so many points.

00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:48.579
I've been around. I'm not very old, but I got

00:39:48.579 --> 00:39:52.119
a lot of miles on me. But I'm going to tell you

00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:54.780
something. God's doing a new thing. He's breaking

00:39:54.780 --> 00:39:57.539
out of our old molds. And he says to Zion, wake

00:39:57.539 --> 00:40:00.250
up. I finished it all on the cross. Everything

00:40:00.250 --> 00:40:03.050
you need is done. It's finished. You don't have

00:40:03.050 --> 00:40:05.570
to go back to the cross anymore. Don't you crucify

00:40:05.570 --> 00:40:08.289
Jesus anymore. He's dead once and he's risen.

00:40:08.429 --> 00:40:11.130
He is no more dead. He's alive. He said, I'm

00:40:11.130 --> 00:40:14.349
alive forevermore and I have the keys. I've got

00:40:14.349 --> 00:40:17.550
the keys. I've got the keys to men's hearts.

00:40:17.730 --> 00:40:20.849
I've got the keys to wombs. I've got the keys

00:40:20.849 --> 00:40:23.369
to homes. I've got the keys to king's hearts.

00:40:23.530 --> 00:40:26.250
I know how to get into those places. Trust me.

00:40:26.329 --> 00:40:29.010
Just walk with me. and I'll take you there. Oh,

00:40:29.050 --> 00:40:32.010
it's so exciting to walk with Jesus. I love it.

00:40:32.010 --> 00:40:33.690
I get up in the morning. Where are we going today,

00:40:33.829 --> 00:40:36.369
Father? Hallelujah. I don't have an agenda. I'm

00:40:36.369 --> 00:40:41.480
in an area called sanctified I don't cares. Because

00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:44.119
any way God moves me from here on is a promotion.

00:40:44.340 --> 00:40:47.300
It doesn't matter to me. It don't matter whether

00:40:47.300 --> 00:40:49.460
I'm in Africa. I've got lots of calls there or

00:40:49.460 --> 00:40:51.559
China where we're called there. We're called

00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:53.360
a lot of places. But I pulled the plug and said,

00:40:53.420 --> 00:40:55.219
Lord, you just move me wherever you want me to

00:40:55.219 --> 00:40:57.239
go. Hell, my bag is packed here. I'm ready to

00:40:57.239 --> 00:40:59.960
go. I'll be ready in five minutes. And I got

00:40:59.960 --> 00:41:02.940
my passport. And thank God I got a credit card.

00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:06.730
And we'll go anywhere you want me to go. Now,

00:41:06.789 --> 00:41:09.170
let me say this to you. This is not being foolish.

00:41:09.369 --> 00:41:12.090
I'm telling you, we're getting ready to get moving.

00:41:12.289 --> 00:41:15.449
And when God's moving us, you better get ready

00:41:15.449 --> 00:41:18.809
to be pulled out of your comfort zone. And God's

00:41:18.809 --> 00:41:20.170
going to jerk you out. Now, he's not just going

00:41:20.170 --> 00:41:22.269
to just jerk you out of where you were just to

00:41:22.269 --> 00:41:25.590
be playing games. No, what he's doing is inspecting

00:41:25.590 --> 00:41:28.250
you. Listen to me. He's inspecting every stake

00:41:28.250 --> 00:41:32.590
to see if you can. stand the pull because now

00:41:32.590 --> 00:41:37.130
strength has to come before length. And in order

00:41:37.130 --> 00:41:39.590
for some of our stakes to be strong, they have

00:41:39.590 --> 00:41:41.809
to be shaved down a little bit and they have

00:41:41.809 --> 00:41:44.269
to be shaped and they have to get the point.

00:41:46.750 --> 00:41:49.469
And the Lord showed me this really, that he was

00:41:49.469 --> 00:41:51.570
binding some of the heads of these stakes with

00:41:51.570 --> 00:41:54.630
steel. You know why? Because he's going to put

00:41:54.630 --> 00:41:57.630
the hammer to you. And you're not going to go

00:41:57.630 --> 00:41:59.829
down in that new territory as easy as you did

00:41:59.829 --> 00:42:03.250
before. You're going in a new territory and it's

00:42:03.250 --> 00:42:05.110
hard ground. And God said, I'm going to sharpen

00:42:05.110 --> 00:42:07.389
you and I'm going to bind you up good so I don't

00:42:07.389 --> 00:42:13.309
split you when I whack you in place. Doesn't

00:42:13.309 --> 00:42:19.269
that sound exciting? Suck it to me, Jesus. Hallelujah.

00:42:21.429 --> 00:42:26.309
Amen. And he said, I'm going to give you. I'm

00:42:26.309 --> 00:42:29.349
going to give you strength. I'm going to give

00:42:29.349 --> 00:42:32.889
you strong men and women. And let me say this,

00:42:32.929 --> 00:42:35.130
not only men, but women too, because some of

00:42:35.130 --> 00:42:39.329
God's greatest men are women. All four of you,

00:42:39.369 --> 00:42:43.070
believe that. You ladies missed an awesome opportunity

00:42:43.070 --> 00:42:48.070
to shout hallelujah. That was a man that shouted

00:42:48.070 --> 00:42:51.190
that. What's the matter with you people? Amen.

00:42:54.530 --> 00:43:01.280
Hallelujah. Strength. And then length. Then lengthen

00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:03.719
your cords. And I saw this and I told the pastors,

00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:06.840
I stood in his study last night and on the map,

00:43:06.860 --> 00:43:09.760
or in the, whatever that is, the boardroom or

00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:12.199
wherever it was, up high in heavenly places.

00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.380
And I'm looking at this map and I saw this territory

00:43:15.380 --> 00:43:18.179
and this church right in the middle of it. And

00:43:18.179 --> 00:43:20.739
God's going to cause these cords to go out. all

00:43:20.739 --> 00:43:23.159
across here. And you watch and see in the next

00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:26.500
30 to 60, 90 days, we're going to see connections

00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:29.380
made with this pastor that he never, ever had

00:43:29.380 --> 00:43:31.920
before. And it's going to blow you away because

00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:35.440
the body here needs some kind of supplement that

00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:37.980
you're not getting quite yet. And God's getting

00:43:37.980 --> 00:43:40.760
you ready for expansion and growth. And there's

00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:43.920
going to be an infusion of supplemental faith

00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:46.360
and strength that's going to come to you, brother,

00:43:46.460 --> 00:43:49.949
from men that you don't even know today. connect

00:43:49.949 --> 00:43:51.969
with you, and they're going to be tied to you,

00:43:52.010 --> 00:43:53.610
but you're going to have to have strong stakes

00:43:53.610 --> 00:43:55.690
because some of these guys got quite a bit of

00:43:55.690 --> 00:44:05.650
pull. God seldom puts a one -ulser man in a three

00:44:05.650 --> 00:44:16.630
-ulser job. See, God knows your limitation. He

00:44:16.630 --> 00:44:20.449
don't put eight tons on a half -ton pickup. He's

00:44:20.449 --> 00:44:23.650
not coming to crush you, but he will enlarge

00:44:23.650 --> 00:44:28.150
you and he will add to you and he will strengthen

00:44:28.150 --> 00:44:31.110
you. And there's going to be strength and there's

00:44:31.110 --> 00:44:34.309
going to be an explosion of spiritual multiplication.

00:44:35.570 --> 00:44:39.550
Amen. This dear man of God in Post Falls that

00:44:39.550 --> 00:44:42.869
I'm telling you about was ready to build. They're

00:44:42.869 --> 00:44:46.230
ready to just build. And they prayed a whole

00:44:46.230 --> 00:44:49.860
year. And my son happens to be an elder. My son

00:44:49.860 --> 00:44:51.820
right now is in the process of coming through

00:44:51.820 --> 00:44:55.559
a very fiery trial. He's had cancer of the throat.

00:44:55.619 --> 00:44:58.920
The devil tried to choke him, kill him. And the

00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:00.860
doctors give him two or three months to live,

00:45:00.900 --> 00:45:05.039
but he's alive, gaining strength every day. He's

00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.320
got a vision to reach the world that's awesome.

00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:09.900
And he talked to him last night, yesterday, and

00:45:09.900 --> 00:45:12.300
he said, Dad, I'm feeling great. Every day I'm

00:45:12.300 --> 00:45:15.239
getting stronger. My voice is coming back. I'm

00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:19.769
strong, and I'm going for it. And I haven't got

00:45:19.769 --> 00:45:22.909
time. But this young man, this is my son. He's

00:45:22.909 --> 00:45:27.150
one of my arrows that go a lot further than I've

00:45:27.150 --> 00:45:32.150
ever gone. Amen. And God's given him an awesome

00:45:32.150 --> 00:45:36.769
vision. I said, Mark, that's God. Stay with it.

00:45:36.789 --> 00:45:40.309
I'll do everything I can to back you in it. But

00:45:40.309 --> 00:45:44.670
he said to me, Dad, he says, the pastor asked

00:45:44.670 --> 00:45:46.469
me to travel with him. Before he was diagnosed

00:45:46.469 --> 00:45:49.690
with his cancer, just. two three months ago they

00:45:49.690 --> 00:45:52.690
made a round of all the big churches in the country

00:45:52.690 --> 00:45:55.429
major ones and several of them and the pastor

00:45:55.429 --> 00:45:58.210
took his eldership along with them to show them

00:45:58.210 --> 00:45:59.929
these places to see what the kind of building

00:45:59.929 --> 00:46:02.250
they're going to build and so they had this property

00:46:02.250 --> 00:46:05.230
by their building by where they are now in kind

00:46:05.230 --> 00:46:08.250
of a remote area in post falls off the main track

00:46:09.059 --> 00:46:11.300
But the pastor is trying to be conservative,

00:46:11.380 --> 00:46:13.380
and he's thinking, you know, we've got enough

00:46:13.380 --> 00:46:15.360
land here we can add on, and we can do this,

00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:17.000
and we can do that, and we can shift around,

00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:22.539
and we'll make it. See, good sounds good, doesn't

00:46:22.539 --> 00:46:26.500
it? When you hear good, it sounds good. But sometimes

00:46:26.500 --> 00:46:30.639
good is the enemy of best. And so my son's riding

00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:34.699
along with him, and he's very prophetic. I don't

00:46:34.699 --> 00:46:36.039
know where he's getting from his mother, I guess,

00:46:36.099 --> 00:46:39.789
but anyway. He's sitting by the pastor in a plane,

00:46:39.849 --> 00:46:41.650
and while he's sitting there, the Lord gave him

00:46:41.650 --> 00:46:46.269
a vision. And he had this vision, and he saw

00:46:46.269 --> 00:46:50.309
the pastor driving in a pickup truck with another

00:46:50.309 --> 00:46:53.590
man, a stranger. I don't know this guy. He said,

00:46:53.650 --> 00:46:55.869
but you're going to be, when you get home, this

00:46:55.869 --> 00:46:58.150
is going to happen. Well, the pastor's really

00:46:58.150 --> 00:47:02.190
not into the gifts of the Spirit that much. He's

00:47:02.190 --> 00:47:06.980
coming. But he already told Mark he's kind of

00:47:06.980 --> 00:47:10.159
down on prophecy because he's seen some flaky

00:47:10.159 --> 00:47:14.659
things happen on television. I don't blame him,

00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:18.380
some of this stuff. But don't count that as the

00:47:18.380 --> 00:47:21.800
final word on it, folks. God has the genuine

00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:27.480
article. Amen? Right. So anyhow, he'd already

00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:29.260
told my son. So my son was a little reluctant

00:47:29.260 --> 00:47:33.070
to talk to him, but he had this vision. And he

00:47:33.070 --> 00:47:36.449
saw this man in a pickup truck. And this man

00:47:36.449 --> 00:47:39.190
driving along started weeping and crying while

00:47:39.190 --> 00:47:41.389
the pastor's talking to him about their new project

00:47:41.389 --> 00:47:44.909
that they want to build. And Marcus is seeing

00:47:44.909 --> 00:47:47.210
this in the vision. And when they get to the

00:47:47.210 --> 00:47:50.289
airport in Dallas to change planes, Mark goes

00:47:50.289 --> 00:47:52.309
over and he doesn't want to tell the pastor.

00:47:52.389 --> 00:47:55.340
He goes over and tells the other elders. Now,

00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:58.260
I happened to hear that pastor telling his version

00:47:58.260 --> 00:48:01.780
of this. And he said, I saw this elder. He didn't

00:48:01.780 --> 00:48:03.599
mention Mark's name. I was sitting right by him.

00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:07.400
But he said this one elder kind of walked over

00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:09.400
to these other elders and started talking to

00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:11.360
them. And I felt like maybe they're conspiring

00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:16.320
against me. He laughed. But, you know, them thoughts

00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:19.199
do cross the pastor's mind occasionally. And,

00:48:19.219 --> 00:48:25.230
you know, I've been there. And so he said. I

00:48:25.230 --> 00:48:27.250
looked over there and they're all, man, they're

00:48:27.250 --> 00:48:30.010
all into this thing. And this elder was animated

00:48:30.010 --> 00:48:32.750
and he was telling them something. And so I finally

00:48:32.750 --> 00:48:35.590
walked over and he said, what's going on here?

00:48:36.050 --> 00:48:38.170
So they turned around and said, pastor, you got

00:48:38.170 --> 00:48:41.889
to hear this. Man, this is powerful. And he said,

00:48:41.929 --> 00:48:46.489
oh no, please. Oh, God, no, I don't want to go

00:48:46.489 --> 00:48:48.789
there. I don't want to talk about any other project.

00:48:48.829 --> 00:48:51.110
We got our land, buy our church. We got enough

00:48:51.110 --> 00:48:53.989
there to do it now, and it'll be good. It's good.

00:48:53.989 --> 00:49:01.670
It's good. It's good. Don't bother me. We've

00:49:01.670 --> 00:49:04.769
already got the plans. We've already prayed.

00:49:05.469 --> 00:49:08.150
Well, pastor, please, would you just pray two

00:49:08.150 --> 00:49:10.829
more weeks? No, two more weeks. We've already

00:49:10.829 --> 00:49:16.440
prayed a year. He's telling this. I'm sitting

00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:21.239
there. And I said, uh -huh. What are we going

00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:27.719
to do? He said, just give us two weeks, Pastor.

00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:32.840
He said, well, okay. I'm going to do it anyhow.

00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:35.739
I know what we're going to do. So we just have

00:49:35.739 --> 00:49:40.360
to put it off for two more weeks. Within 72 hours.

00:49:41.050 --> 00:49:43.730
He gets a phone call from this stranger. The

00:49:43.730 --> 00:49:45.670
guy had come into the church two weeks before

00:49:45.670 --> 00:49:51.210
or so and got saved. The pastor didn't know.

00:49:51.250 --> 00:49:52.989
I mean, there's hundreds and hundreds of people

00:49:52.989 --> 00:49:55.050
getting saved, so he didn't know this guy. He

00:49:55.050 --> 00:49:57.090
didn't know anything about him. He asked the

00:49:57.090 --> 00:49:58.769
pastor if he'd like to go for a ride with him

00:49:58.769 --> 00:50:02.030
in his pickup truck. Took him on his pickup truck

00:50:02.030 --> 00:50:04.369
and started driving out towards the main highway,

00:50:04.610 --> 00:50:07.309
which is on the main route between Coeur d 'Alene

00:50:07.309 --> 00:50:10.320
and Spokane. It's the main... whatever that drag

00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:14.760
is called. And he takes him out there and he

00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:18.039
said, by now he's crying, he's weeping. He said,

00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:20.420
pastor, my brother and I own this piece of land.

00:50:20.539 --> 00:50:22.639
It's a hundred, my son had told him be at least

00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:25.940
a hundred acres. The pastor thought he was goofy,

00:50:26.019 --> 00:50:27.900
but anyhow, he said, it'll be three and a half

00:50:27.900 --> 00:50:31.099
to $4 million. And so we don't want to spend

00:50:31.099 --> 00:50:33.940
that money. He had already told my son that.

00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:36.940
So my son said, that's okay. So he's driving

00:50:36.940 --> 00:50:38.559
along and this guy's telling him, so we own this

00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:42.150
land. Absolutely fabulous piece of land right

00:50:42.150 --> 00:50:45.929
off the main highway. I mean, it's visible. It's

00:50:45.929 --> 00:50:48.710
right there in the center. And he showed a map

00:50:48.710 --> 00:50:51.769
on his video that's right in the middle of everything

00:50:51.769 --> 00:50:56.949
where all his people live. You see, God's awesome.

00:50:57.710 --> 00:51:00.429
And this guy said, well, said, my brother's not

00:51:00.429 --> 00:51:02.989
a Christian yet. I just got saved. I'm praying

00:51:02.989 --> 00:51:05.369
he'll get saved. But in the meantime, I want

00:51:05.369 --> 00:51:07.829
to give you my half of it. And so if you'll give

00:51:07.829 --> 00:51:10.889
my brother $2 million, you can have a $4 or $5

00:51:10.889 --> 00:51:16.170
million piece of property. How many know God

00:51:16.170 --> 00:51:20.570
works on time? Yeah, he may seem slow, but he's

00:51:20.570 --> 00:51:23.829
never late. And when you wait on God, you don't

00:51:23.829 --> 00:51:28.010
lose any time. Is anybody hearing me this morning?

00:51:28.369 --> 00:51:30.030
And what are we going to do, church? We're going

00:51:30.030 --> 00:51:33.989
to get up out of our old stayed place. And God's

00:51:33.989 --> 00:51:36.550
shaking you loose right now. He's creating situations

00:51:36.550 --> 00:51:39.289
that are shaking you. And you've been wondering.

00:51:39.369 --> 00:51:41.750
You call it a devil. You blame the devil for

00:51:41.750 --> 00:51:43.769
it. And God said, nope, the devil works for me.

00:51:46.010 --> 00:51:49.429
Did you know that? The devil has no authority

00:51:49.429 --> 00:51:52.889
over you. He can't go anywhere without asking

00:51:52.889 --> 00:52:01.150
Jesus. He couldn't touch Job without God letting

00:52:01.150 --> 00:52:05.360
him. He couldn't touch Peter without Jesus telling

00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:08.440
Peter, I prayed for you. Your faith will not

00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:10.940
fail. I give the devil power to take you from

00:52:10.940 --> 00:52:13.420
under my power and put you under his power so

00:52:13.420 --> 00:52:16.719
he can shake some chaff off of you. He works

00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:22.519
for me. Amen. Everything, according to Romans

00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:29.840
8, 28, works together for good. Oh, no, not this

00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:36.809
mess. Dear God, not this. Oh, yes. All things.

00:52:37.909 --> 00:52:43.010
Come on. Oh, some of you are getting it. I'm

00:52:43.010 --> 00:52:45.510
not trying to trick you. Don't get excited. Don't

00:52:45.510 --> 00:52:48.170
get worried. No, I'm not trying to paint you

00:52:48.170 --> 00:52:50.289
in a corner, and I'm not going to take an offering.

00:52:51.969 --> 00:52:57.369
So relax. We're standing on a threshold of enlargement.

00:52:58.090 --> 00:53:01.340
We're standing here today. Are you ready for

00:53:01.340 --> 00:53:05.139
God to jerk you loose from your very, very comfort

00:53:05.139 --> 00:53:08.519
zone where you've settled in for a long winter's

00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:12.539
night? Thus far, no further, Lord. Oh, no. We're

00:53:12.539 --> 00:53:15.380
going. We're enlarging. And this has to happen

00:53:15.380 --> 00:53:18.420
in your heart. Solomon had to have it in his

00:53:18.420 --> 00:53:21.989
heart before he saw it in the temple. You have

00:53:21.989 --> 00:53:24.929
to have enlargement come to you. You have to

00:53:24.929 --> 00:53:27.489
see pregnancy before it happens. You've got to

00:53:27.489 --> 00:53:29.510
have it in your faith. You've got to believe

00:53:29.510 --> 00:53:32.469
God for it. When faith comes, the Bible said

00:53:32.469 --> 00:53:35.309
Sarah was barren, but God gave her a word, said

00:53:35.309 --> 00:53:37.550
you're going to have a baby. And the Bible said

00:53:37.550 --> 00:53:42.050
she was dead. I mean, at 90, I think that's pretty

00:53:42.050 --> 00:53:47.190
accurate. There were no more hormonal functions.

00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:55.119
But God gave her an extreme makeover long before

00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:59.760
it happened on television. Amen? And God completely

00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:01.960
changed. Now, not only her, but he had to do

00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:04.320
some work on the old man, too, because he was

00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:09.659
dead, and he was 100. Cher was only 90. Come

00:54:09.659 --> 00:54:13.519
on. And God fixed her in such an awesome way

00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:16.099
that, I mean, he put stuff back that wasn't there.

00:54:17.929 --> 00:54:21.909
And he propped up stuff that was sagging. And

00:54:21.909 --> 00:54:26.389
he put her back together right. In fact, she

00:54:26.389 --> 00:54:33.530
was a knockout. Well, she was too. In so much

00:54:33.530 --> 00:54:36.030
that a king of a kingdom looked out the window

00:54:36.030 --> 00:54:38.250
one day and said, get me that woman. Man, she

00:54:38.250 --> 00:54:43.260
is a hot chick at 90. She didn't have her birth

00:54:43.260 --> 00:54:45.719
certificate, but boy, I mean, she was made over.

00:54:45.780 --> 00:54:50.019
God had made her a new person. That's in the

00:54:50.019 --> 00:54:56.659
Bible. Amen. And the miracle was that God came

00:54:56.659 --> 00:54:58.519
to that old king that night and said, you touched

00:54:58.519 --> 00:55:02.199
that woman and you're a dead man. She's the wife

00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:06.039
of my prophet. Oh, my God. He told me he's her

00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:09.320
sister. She's her sister. His sister. Whatever.

00:55:11.679 --> 00:55:15.059
That's about how mixed up the thing was. But

00:55:15.059 --> 00:55:17.159
you've got to read the story. It's in the Bible.

00:55:17.860 --> 00:55:20.380
And when you read it, you'll see God's sovereign

00:55:20.380 --> 00:55:23.820
handiwork and how God works. When God gave her

00:55:23.820 --> 00:55:27.059
that word, she got tickled. She laughed. God

00:55:27.059 --> 00:55:31.280
said, I'm going to have a baby. That's funny.

00:55:32.579 --> 00:55:35.039
God said, I heard you laughing, Sarah. He said,

00:55:35.139 --> 00:55:38.139
oh, no, Lord, I wasn't laughing. Well, when she

00:55:38.139 --> 00:55:40.489
did have her baby, she really laughed. In fact,

00:55:40.510 --> 00:55:43.090
she called him laughter. Name is Isaac. Hallelujah.

00:55:43.989 --> 00:55:47.289
It means laughter. Now listen to me. Right now,

00:55:47.309 --> 00:55:50.670
we're on the verge of increase. And God wants

00:55:50.670 --> 00:55:54.010
to bring change into your life. He's taking you

00:55:54.010 --> 00:55:56.630
out of your comfort zone. He's going to put you

00:55:56.630 --> 00:56:01.530
right where he wants you. In the economy of God,

00:56:01.670 --> 00:56:07.489
an enlargement is coming. Listen to me. The thing

00:56:07.489 --> 00:56:10.889
of which I'm a part. is greater than the part

00:56:10.889 --> 00:56:16.929
that I play. The thing of which I am a part is

00:56:16.929 --> 00:56:21.829
greater than the part that I play. I want you

00:56:21.829 --> 00:56:26.449
to see where there's unity in faith, we're standing

00:56:26.449 --> 00:56:30.750
on the grounds for the miraculous. And we're

00:56:30.750 --> 00:56:34.110
going to see enlargement coming. God's preparing

00:56:34.110 --> 00:56:38.130
all, listen to me, all over this earth today.

00:56:38.809 --> 00:56:42.110
God is shaking everything that can be shaken.

00:56:42.969 --> 00:56:46.389
He's coming among leaders. He's coming among

00:56:46.389 --> 00:56:49.809
pastors. He's coming among churches that have

00:56:49.809 --> 00:56:53.449
become very complacent, satisfied. We have some

00:56:53.449 --> 00:56:55.849
of the biggest churches in the entire history

00:56:55.849 --> 00:56:59.449
of the body of Christ. But we also have churches

00:56:59.449 --> 00:57:02.510
that are not making an effect on their neighborhood,

00:57:02.769 --> 00:57:07.320
on our society. And we have a church that's plagued

00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:11.980
with all kinds of horrible, horrible barrenness

00:57:11.980 --> 00:57:16.480
spiritually. I'm telling you, it's shocking to

00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:19.219
see how few people in the body of Christ actually

00:57:19.219 --> 00:57:22.900
reproduce themselves, actually win a soul to

00:57:22.900 --> 00:57:29.900
Jesus Christ. Amen? God's calling us, and this

00:57:29.900 --> 00:57:31.900
is what he told me to give you now in closing.

00:57:32.460 --> 00:57:37.519
He's calling us. into a new generation, a generation

00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:40.860
of well diggers. Now listen to me carefully.

00:57:41.500 --> 00:57:44.360
For the last several years, I've heard this repeated

00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:47.820
over and over again, that we are to dig the old

00:57:47.820 --> 00:57:50.820
wells. Anybody hear messages on that? Come on.

00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:54.659
I only need two or three witnesses. All right.

00:57:54.940 --> 00:57:57.039
Listen to me. Here's what the Lord said to me.

00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:00.019
God said, I didn't call you to dig the old wells.

00:58:00.650 --> 00:58:03.630
I'm calling for new prophetic voices that are

00:58:03.630 --> 00:58:07.090
going to dig new wells. We're coming into a new

00:58:07.090 --> 00:58:10.449
realm of revelation. We're in a way we've never

00:58:10.449 --> 00:58:13.409
been before. I'm telling you, the good old days

00:58:13.409 --> 00:58:18.190
are just ahead. Amen. God's calling for new visionaries.

00:58:18.190 --> 00:58:21.409
God's calling for prophetic young people, sons

00:58:21.409 --> 00:58:25.090
and daughters that will prophesy. Amen. Not looking

00:58:25.090 --> 00:58:27.630
back in the rear view mirror. but looking through

00:58:27.630 --> 00:58:29.969
the windshield because we've got an awesome vision

00:58:29.969 --> 00:58:33.010
ahead of us. Amen. We're not those that draw

00:58:33.010 --> 00:58:35.670
back. We're believers of those that go forward

00:58:35.670 --> 00:58:39.010
and see the glory of God. Can you say amen? Now

00:58:39.010 --> 00:58:42.510
God is calling us to remember the powerful effects

00:58:42.510 --> 00:58:45.570
of the cross and everything Jesus Christ accomplished

00:58:45.570 --> 00:58:49.510
on the cross is why we're going to see birthing,

00:58:49.630 --> 00:58:52.969
why we're going to see multitudes saved, why

00:58:52.969 --> 00:58:56.159
we're going to see God's kingdom expanded. And

00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:58.760
while we're going to see tens of millions come

00:58:58.760 --> 00:59:05.559
into Christ and there will be Muslims. I don't

00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:09.179
know if you heard me. We think we're fighting

00:59:09.179 --> 00:59:11.280
all these are all terrorists. No, they're not

00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:14.559
all terrorists. The devil has put these people

00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:17.460
out there to frighten us because there is where

00:59:17.460 --> 00:59:21.300
the harvest is. Let me tell you a simple little

00:59:21.300 --> 00:59:24.340
homely fact. When I was a boy, there were nine

00:59:24.340 --> 00:59:27.380
boys and one girl in our family. And when we

00:59:27.380 --> 00:59:30.880
were boys, our neighbors had gardens. We had

00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:33.780
victory gardens during the war. And I remember

00:59:33.780 --> 00:59:37.480
my older brothers teaching me how to find watermelons

00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:51.719
in the night. My brothers were smart. We go on

00:59:51.719 --> 00:59:55.460
the darkest night. And one of my brother particularly,

00:59:55.840 --> 01:00:00.840
he had an eye. And you know what he looked for

01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:04.780
in the garden? Not the watermelon. He looked

01:00:04.780 --> 01:00:09.079
for the scarecrow. Because a farmer always put

01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:13.360
the scarecrow by the biggest melon. Somebody

01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:16.400
better get this. And that's what the devil's

01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:19.860
doing right now. He's got his scarecrow up. But

01:00:19.860 --> 01:00:23.900
there's a huge melon there. Amen. And we're going

01:00:23.900 --> 01:00:26.719
to go after that melon. And I'm not afraid of

01:00:26.719 --> 01:00:30.280
the scarecrow. Nor should you be. We're going

01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:33.119
to see revival among the Muslims. By the thousands

01:00:33.119 --> 01:00:34.920
are going to get saved. And they're already being

01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:39.320
saved right now. All over the world. This gospel

01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:42.500
is prevailing. But God's calling this church,

01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:46.340
Life Bible Church, right here. We're coming to

01:00:46.340 --> 01:00:49.980
a new dimension of faith. Amen. Now, here's what

01:00:49.980 --> 01:00:53.039
I'm going to ask you to do. I'm closing now.

01:00:53.340 --> 01:00:57.900
I really am. But here's what I want you to do.

01:00:57.940 --> 01:01:00.940
The Holy Spirit, quicken me. There's two kinds

01:01:00.940 --> 01:01:03.239
of birthing we're talking about. I've seen both.

01:01:03.980 --> 01:01:07.599
I've seen God do the miraculous with barren people,

01:01:07.780 --> 01:01:10.539
people that have been barren all their life for

01:01:10.539 --> 01:01:13.900
years, and God healed them and gave them children.

01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:17.199
And if you're here today, I didn't do this in

01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:18.739
any other service, but if you're here today,

01:01:18.960 --> 01:01:21.699
I want to do something very powerful because

01:01:21.699 --> 01:01:25.739
it's first the natural, then the spiritual. Okay?

01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:28.099
Now, if you're not ashamed and you're anxious

01:01:28.099 --> 01:01:30.599
and you're eager and your husband's in favor

01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:35.059
of it, and please don't come if you don't have

01:01:35.059 --> 01:01:40.679
a husband, at this point, we'll pray for you

01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:45.739
separately in other areas. Amen. But if you are

01:01:45.739 --> 01:01:51.320
serious and you've had problems producing, don't

01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:53.559
be ashamed. If you're not ashamed of it, this

01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:56.000
is a good time to get broken and release from

01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:59.079
all the discouragement and shame that goes with

01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:01.500
it. God said three times in order in that one

01:02:01.500 --> 01:02:03.739
verse, I'm going to remove your shame. I'm going

01:02:03.739 --> 01:02:05.519
to remove your shame. I'm going to remove your

01:02:05.519 --> 01:02:08.380
reproach. That's what God wants to do. He's not

01:02:08.380 --> 01:02:10.139
coming to make you more ashamed. He's coming

01:02:10.139 --> 01:02:13.320
to get you less ashamed. Amen. Now, if you're

01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:15.500
a candidate for a miracle, I want you to come

01:02:15.500 --> 01:02:17.420
quickly and stand right in front of me here.

01:02:17.519 --> 01:02:19.599
We're going to pray for those that need physical

01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:24.460
miracles of healing in their body. Amen. Good.

01:02:26.199 --> 01:02:29.940
And I'm not going to be taken back by any kind

01:02:29.940 --> 01:02:35.519
of extraneous situation. It doesn't matter. With

01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:39.579
God, all things are possible. Amen. And if you

01:02:39.579 --> 01:02:41.360
believe that, I want you to stand to your feet,

01:02:41.400 --> 01:02:44.530
please. You're saying, well, Brother Moses, this

01:02:44.530 --> 01:02:46.369
is a very private thing with me. I don't like

01:02:46.369 --> 01:02:52.289
people to know that I want a baby. Why not? If

01:02:52.289 --> 01:02:54.989
you need a miracle, this is the time to get it.

01:02:55.949 --> 01:02:58.409
Amen. Don't go back to your gynecologist next

01:02:58.409 --> 01:03:00.210
month and say, what have you got in your bag

01:03:00.210 --> 01:03:04.389
of tricks? What is there left? Listen, God's

01:03:04.389 --> 01:03:06.869
a God that restores. God's a miracle -working

01:03:06.869 --> 01:03:11.179
God. Amen? How many believe God wants to give

01:03:11.179 --> 01:03:14.480
their sister her heart's desire? Amen. Come here,

01:03:14.500 --> 01:03:18.179
sister. And I'm going to tell you this. If you

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will read Isaiah chapter 54 for the next seven

01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:25.880
days. Amen. Your husband with you on this? He's

01:03:25.880 --> 01:03:30.980
not saved. Would it frighten him if he had a

01:03:30.980 --> 01:03:42.179
baby? He'll be all right? We want them saved,

01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:45.460
don't we? How many believe God wants to save

01:03:45.460 --> 01:03:50.699
this daddy? Hallelujah. How many believe God

01:03:50.699 --> 01:03:54.239
wants to do a miracle in this family? Amen. We're

01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:57.000
not here to embarrass you, dear. I hope I'm,

01:03:57.000 --> 01:03:59.679
you know, I don't mean that, but we want to see

01:03:59.679 --> 01:04:02.780
a victory come through for this family. This

01:04:02.780 --> 01:04:06.199
is very strategic, folks. Because what's going

01:04:06.199 --> 01:04:09.219
to happen after I pray, we pray for her. We're

01:04:09.219 --> 01:04:11.219
going to pray for you. Every one of you that

01:04:11.219 --> 01:04:15.760
wants spiritual release. You want to be spiritually

01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:22.860
fertile. Amen. God's calling us to be a fertile

01:04:22.860 --> 01:04:26.159
church. He wants this church to make increase

01:04:26.159 --> 01:04:29.599
of itself in love. God wants this to happen.

01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:33.360
Spiritual babies. We want to see just tons of

01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:36.619
people saved. In the next several months. I believe

01:04:36.619 --> 01:04:39.519
God's going to do it. Do you? Now, stretch your

01:04:39.519 --> 01:04:42.199
hands toward our sister right now. And we're

01:04:42.199 --> 01:04:44.380
going to pray the prayer of faith. In the next

01:04:44.380 --> 01:04:46.880
seven days, I want you to read that scripture

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to your husband. Okay? Even though he's kind

01:04:50.420 --> 01:04:53.980
of, you know, just kind of stranger to this all.

01:04:55.239 --> 01:04:59.739
What's his name, honey? Father, we just thank

01:04:59.739 --> 01:05:02.989
you for a miracle in this family. We thank you

01:05:02.989 --> 01:05:06.530
for opening a door of hope for my sister. And

01:05:06.530 --> 01:05:09.190
in spite of the odds, in spite of all the physical

01:05:09.190 --> 01:05:12.530
limitations that we've already calculated, you

01:05:12.530 --> 01:05:16.090
are God who does everything well. You are the

01:05:16.090 --> 01:05:20.989
creator. We ask for a creative miracle. A creative

01:05:20.989 --> 01:05:29.380
miracle. A creative miracle in this body. And

01:05:29.380 --> 01:05:32.019
there will be production for your glory, Father.

01:05:32.159 --> 01:05:35.619
I praise you for an answer to prayer and for

01:05:35.619 --> 01:05:38.760
bringing salvation to this husband and this house.

01:05:39.420 --> 01:05:43.599
Salvation is a household word. Amen. Believe

01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:47.079
on the Lord Jesus Christ. You shall be saved

01:05:47.079 --> 01:05:52.699
and your house in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Now,

01:05:52.780 --> 01:05:57.420
the spiritual birthings. This one too. Oh, glory

01:05:57.420 --> 01:06:00.989
to God. I'm happy about this. Oh, hallelujah.

01:06:02.369 --> 01:06:08.469
Put your hand. Listen to me. You've got to hear

01:06:08.469 --> 01:06:12.170
this. You've got to hear this. Amen. You're coming

01:06:12.170 --> 01:06:14.929
up on your 13th anniversary, aren't you, honey?

01:06:15.070 --> 01:06:18.789
Next Monday. This coming Monday. That's like

01:06:18.789 --> 01:06:27.829
tomorrow, isn't it? Like June. Amen. I was preaching.

01:06:28.460 --> 01:06:33.360
I was preaching in a church in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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And the pastor was a very dear friend of mine.

01:06:39.239 --> 01:06:42.619
And we had ministered together. And he was a

01:06:42.619 --> 01:06:46.280
prophetic man. Good man. But he and his wife,

01:06:46.380 --> 01:06:48.519
listen, are you really, do you want me to tell

01:06:48.519 --> 01:06:52.139
you this story? It's so powerful. And it was

01:06:52.139 --> 01:06:54.599
a Sunday morning. It was a beautiful, beautiful

01:06:54.599 --> 01:06:57.400
day. And I would just worship the Lord, minding

01:06:57.400 --> 01:07:00.420
my own business. But I knew that this couple

01:07:00.420 --> 01:07:03.179
had been praying for 10 years to have a baby.

01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:10.260
And I just minding my own business. Honest, I

01:07:10.260 --> 01:07:12.900
wasn't trying to be funny. I just sat and standing

01:07:12.900 --> 01:07:15.239
there worshiping with the worshipers. And the

01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:19.940
Holy Ghost said to me, tell dear Lawrence that

01:07:19.940 --> 01:07:24.119
they're going to have a baby. Carl's going to

01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:28.920
have a baby. And I just didn't know any better

01:07:28.920 --> 01:07:34.280
than to tell him. And he was in shock. He looked

01:07:34.280 --> 01:07:39.179
at me with those steel blue eyes and pierced

01:07:39.179 --> 01:07:44.260
holes right through me. He said, Moses, don't

01:07:44.260 --> 01:07:47.300
you know? We've been trying to have a baby for

01:07:47.300 --> 01:07:50.630
10 years. And we've had so many people prophesy

01:07:50.630 --> 01:07:54.730
and it doesn't come to pass. I said, oh God,

01:07:55.150 --> 01:08:03.210
I'm sorry, but I had to tell you. And then, and

01:08:03.210 --> 01:08:10.969
then, faith came to him. Like it's coming to

01:08:10.969 --> 01:08:16.350
you, Brad. Faith came to him and his eyes lit

01:08:16.350 --> 01:08:22.649
up. He said, yes. Yes. Then the Holy Ghost came

01:08:22.649 --> 01:08:25.029
on the whole congregation. The church was full.

01:08:25.109 --> 01:08:27.329
You guys get better and get ready because it's

01:08:27.329 --> 01:08:33.670
happening. Thank you, Lord. And I said, the spirit

01:08:33.670 --> 01:08:36.810
of faith is on this whole congregation. I don't

01:08:36.810 --> 01:08:38.329
know who you are, but I said, there's people

01:08:38.329 --> 01:08:40.909
out here and I began to prophesy. There's about

01:08:40.909 --> 01:08:43.550
a thousand people that morning. I said, I began

01:08:43.550 --> 01:08:45.989
to prophesy. I said, first and natural, this

01:08:45.989 --> 01:08:49.289
baby's coming. This is going to be a sign of

01:08:49.289 --> 01:08:54.189
an awesome spiritual increase. First the natural,

01:08:54.229 --> 01:08:57.289
then the spiritual. I stood there that morning

01:08:57.289 --> 01:08:59.270
and the glory of God fell on that congregation.

01:08:59.270 --> 01:09:01.689
They began to weep and praise God. And then I

01:09:01.689 --> 01:09:04.310
said, prophetically, the Lord showed me. I said,

01:09:04.329 --> 01:09:06.489
there's people here that have had miscarriages.

01:09:06.630 --> 01:09:10.170
And you have been so beat down with discouragement.

01:09:10.310 --> 01:09:13.390
And you've said, what's the use? It always ends

01:09:13.390 --> 01:09:17.609
up miscarrying. You know what? God said to me

01:09:17.609 --> 01:09:20.970
that that's over and you're not going to miscarry.

01:09:20.970 --> 01:09:23.850
Trust God for a complete, full -term, beautiful

01:09:23.850 --> 01:09:28.149
baby. That's all I said. And as I said it, I

01:09:28.149 --> 01:09:30.670
said, look, it's here. It's in the air. It's

01:09:30.670 --> 01:09:33.569
all around you. Reach up and grab it. Well, I

01:09:33.569 --> 01:09:37.850
didn't know that morning that so many people

01:09:37.850 --> 01:09:41.670
believed that and grabbed it. Amen. And that

01:09:41.670 --> 01:09:46.399
pastor, bless his old heart, I shouldn't even

01:09:46.399 --> 01:09:48.399
bless him for this because he made me miserable.

01:09:48.659 --> 01:09:52.500
I kept calling him. I went home. But before I

01:09:52.500 --> 01:09:55.140
left that place, I spoke to that church and I

01:09:55.140 --> 01:09:58.260
said, I don't do this lightly and I'm terrified

01:09:58.260 --> 01:10:01.359
of what I'm going to say right now. But I know

01:10:01.359 --> 01:10:03.920
God told me to tell you that I'm supposed to

01:10:03.920 --> 01:10:06.880
be back on a certain date. And I gave him a date

01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:09.600
and I don't do that lightly. Believe me, I don't.

01:10:09.600 --> 01:10:14.380
I don't even like people to do that. But the

01:10:14.380 --> 01:10:18.439
Lord... Impress me to do it. And I did it. And

01:10:18.439 --> 01:10:20.640
I said, I'll be back on this date. And I'm going

01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:23.220
to dedicate that baby right here in this church.

01:10:24.300 --> 01:10:27.420
And by now, faith was leaping out of this brother.

01:10:27.659 --> 01:10:29.920
I'm telling you. And of course, his wife was

01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:35.000
in extreme shock. But you know what? Faith came.

01:10:36.220 --> 01:10:40.939
And folks, I kept calling him. What's going on?

01:10:41.140 --> 01:10:44.829
Oh, brother, you don't know. how long we've waited

01:10:44.829 --> 01:10:47.930
and we're just still hanging on and he was pulling

01:10:47.930 --> 01:10:51.529
my leg because they were all pregnant within

01:10:51.529 --> 01:11:00.380
about a week. Not only him. I was in shock. And

01:11:00.380 --> 01:11:02.420
he called me up and he said, would you come over

01:11:02.420 --> 01:11:04.680
and preach for me? And he was acting so pitiful

01:11:04.680 --> 01:11:07.039
on the phone like, you know, he needed another

01:11:07.039 --> 01:11:10.199
little shot of faith. And I said, oh man, did

01:11:10.199 --> 01:11:13.819
you believe God? Can't you believe God? And he

01:11:13.819 --> 01:11:17.720
was just tormenting me. Because when I got there,

01:11:17.859 --> 01:11:21.680
she was four months pregnant. And he got up and

01:11:21.680 --> 01:11:23.239
told the whole church that morning. He didn't

01:11:23.239 --> 01:11:26.239
want to tell them until I was there. Think about

01:11:26.239 --> 01:11:32.569
that. Torment her. But it was worth it. But let

01:11:32.569 --> 01:11:36.109
me tell you what, on the day that God spoke to

01:11:36.109 --> 01:11:40.329
me that I was to be there, I give the date, I

01:11:40.329 --> 01:11:43.930
was there. And we dedicated, if I remember correctly,

01:11:44.170 --> 01:12:17.909
15 babies. One of those ladies had nine consecutive

01:12:17.909 --> 01:12:22.949
miscarriages. But this little baby was perfect.

01:12:23.470 --> 01:12:29.750
Full term. Oh, God, what a day. What a day. We've

01:12:29.750 --> 01:12:32.750
been on television. We've been on CBN. We've

01:12:32.750 --> 01:12:34.010
been everywhere telling about it. We've prayed

01:12:34.010 --> 01:12:37.369
for scores of people. God has done it over and

01:12:37.369 --> 01:12:40.350
over and over and over again. So I don't understand

01:12:40.350 --> 01:12:43.029
this. I just don't know how it works, but it

01:12:43.029 --> 01:12:46.550
works. I just want to tell you it works. I want

01:12:46.550 --> 01:12:49.569
to tell you it works. Faith that works. Hallelujah.

01:12:50.109 --> 01:12:52.890
And today, faith. But here's the powerful thing

01:12:52.890 --> 01:12:56.489
of it. Not only was that first sign a babe, the

01:12:56.489 --> 01:12:59.329
natural, but I said this was going to open up

01:12:59.329 --> 01:13:02.470
the spiritual birthing of this church. Folks,

01:13:02.630 --> 01:13:05.529
I'm going to tell you the truth. They had a revival

01:13:05.529 --> 01:13:09.130
that wouldn't quit. It was so great, they had

01:13:09.130 --> 01:13:11.449
to move out to the fairgrounds. Their building

01:13:11.449 --> 01:13:14.010
couldn't hold the people. If I remember right,

01:13:14.090 --> 01:13:16.289
somewhere around 2 ,400 people gave their heart

01:13:16.289 --> 01:13:22.189
to Jesus in just a very short time. I'd say that's

01:13:22.189 --> 01:13:41.539
a substantial, a substantial revival. Now, A

01:13:41.539 --> 01:13:45.619
beautiful unity of the Spirit here, Lord. A powerful

01:13:45.619 --> 01:13:53.060
confirmation for Jenny, Lord. Hallelujah. A powerful,

01:13:53.060 --> 01:13:56.819
miraculous overshadowing of the Almighty. The

01:13:56.819 --> 01:14:00.960
same Holy Ghost that overshadowed Mary and said,

01:14:01.100 --> 01:14:04.520
she said, be it unto me, Lord, according to your

01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:11.649
word. Faith. comes by hearing and hearing by

01:14:11.649 --> 01:14:15.430
the Word of the Lord. And today, Lord, we speak

01:14:15.430 --> 01:14:19.630
productivity to this precious family. Beautiful,

01:14:19.829 --> 01:14:23.630
beautiful fulfillment, Lord, in Jesus' wonderful

01:14:23.630 --> 01:14:27.850
name. We're going to shout and praise God, and

01:14:27.850 --> 01:14:49.250
I want to come back and celebrate with you. I

01:14:49.250 --> 01:14:51.609
don't want to frighten you ladies, but we had

01:14:51.609 --> 01:14:54.609
one occasion where we prayed for one sister and

01:14:54.609 --> 01:15:01.510
her two sisters took a hold of her hand. Honest.

01:15:12.390 --> 01:15:16.810
All three, all three of those sisters. Got pregnant

01:15:16.810 --> 01:15:20.590
the same week. Hallelujah. I don't know what

01:15:20.590 --> 01:15:26.649
to do here, Pastor. Are you done? Are you overwhelmed?

01:15:29.010 --> 01:15:34.850
Why not be? Come on. I'm going to pray for all

01:15:34.850 --> 01:15:36.770
of you that need a spiritual release. We didn't

01:15:36.770 --> 01:15:39.050
do this yet, did we? Oh, come on. Come on. Come

01:15:39.050 --> 01:15:41.710
on. Real quick. Hallelujah. We're not going anywhere

01:15:41.710 --> 01:15:43.170
until we're done. Hallelujah.