April 6, 2025 • 28 mins
Live from Revival Today Church with Pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
My name is Laura Sandifer and I'm from Johnsborough, Louisiana.
For the longest time that I can remember, I struggled
with depression and anxiety and fear, and I really just
struggled in sin. I didn't feel like there was a
victory over sin. I felt like I was trying, but
I wasn't actually succeeding in overcoming sin. And so last
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year I came to the revival meetings here and I'd
never even heard of Pastor Jonathan. The first night I
recommitted my life to Christ on June fifth of last year,
twenty twenty three, Pastor Jonathan lined everyone up to pray
for them. So when he came down the line and
he touched my forehead, I fell to the ground and
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God spoke to me. I heard him say, never again,
shall you. I freaked out a little bit, and I
didn't really hear anything after that, but I felt God
lift all of the darkness off of me. So every
bit of anxiety, depression, fear, the need to people please,
and the desire for sin all left me in that moment.
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And so it was really awesome just to see God
do that in my life. And so in this past year,
I've had so much joy. Another thing that happened in
that moment is God gave me joy. I've never heard
of the joy of the spirit, and so I was
cackling like a mad woman. Didn't understand it, but it
was just really truly awesome to experience the freedom that
only comes through Christ. And so I just I'm so thankful.
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I praise God. It's all glory to Him. And I'm
here because I know that God is doing more for
my family. I've been standing in faith and seeing God
and moving my family, and so I'm just thankful. God's awesome.
He continues to move, and He's trustworthy. So if you're
struggling with sin, God can take it. And if you're
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struggling with depression or anxiety, God can take it. I
have so much joy, and I'm just so thankful. I
serving my church now, and I was struggling so much
to even be in church this time last year. So
I came to the meetings. Haven't missed church since. God
is awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We are raising up a family in this church. We're
raising up a family in Pittsburgh, We're raising up a
family in Texas that don't just know about God. They
know God, they've handled his power, they've seen his power
flow through it. You're coming out of here today carrying
fresh fire, fresh unknowing. Take never to take another backward stamp.
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If you're waiting so people have time to be saved.
Right now, I can't travel to Iran. I mean I could,
but I couldn't hold more than like a thirty minute
meeting before I go to Heaven myself. But with VPNs
and what's that. Now I can get the gospel in Iran.
Now I can get the gospel into North Korea. Now
I can get the gospel in the Palestine. So I'm
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gonna use everything at my disposal. If the only reason
you're waiting is so people have time to be saved,
then the more I plug my life into getting people saved,
the more of the wind of Heaven will.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Come behind me.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That's why, if you haven't noticed the last five weeks,
I think a dollars ton on it last week. For
the last five weeks, we haven't had any offering time
other than take the envelopes and give no teaching on it,
no teaching on tithes. And the offering's been up between
one point five and two times what it normally is,
because I actually am getting so committed to this, I
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just don't care anymore. I can't see any money drying
up for any reason as long as my heart is
to go after God's heart and reach the lost and
the hurting and the broken. And I'm not criticizing anybody
that has churches in Malibu, Orange County, or Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But when I.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Announced We're gonna have revival today church La, all the
consultants immediately said, LA is a mess. Think about Malibu,
Think about Anaheim. Think about somewhere in Orange County that say,
you know, people are gonna want to go to a
church where they have to keep their head on a
swivel as they're walking to church.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But you know what those places have churches.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Thirty percent of churches in Los Angeles shut down during
COVID permanently never came back because they met at schools
and other rented buildings and the government shut them down
for three years.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
They're gone.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
We're going one block from skid row because we're not
there to get more income or to give people another
option for church. We're there to remind the devil that
the church is still here. And as long as the
church is still here, the church is in charge.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Can you say amen?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So go back to Matthew twenty five on the verse
whe it said, as the bridegroom delayed his coming. So
the Bible tells you there's problematic things in the fact
that Jesus has waited. Because let's put the hands up again.
How many of you if Jesus would have come back
eight years ago, you'd have missed heaven.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
But now, and obviously the people aren't here.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
There's people that were saved eight years ago that knew
the Lord, whose names were written in the Lamb's Book
of Life, that as Jesus waited as pastors, they started
attending Pete did He's parties and going to Hollywood parties,
and as the master tarried his coming instead of working. Now,
I'm gonna tell you this. I would live in la
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and I want it backslided. But I'm glad I'm going
there just to preach. I'm glad I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That city swallows people up.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know, you turn into an La social aite as
a pastor, you're at dinner parties and it all sounds good.
You know, this director wants to is having a dinner
and I could have a chance to let my light shine.
I feel like it's going to be a major protection
for everything to do with revival today, for a dollars
for myself, for Camilla, to stay.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
On the move for God.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
At this church, we stay on the move for God
because you're not gonna be in the middle if you're
hot or cold, if you're luqwarm, A vamach out of
my mouth. So I if I were you, I would
make up my mind that seeing that the coming of
the Lord is near, seeing that the coming of the
Lord is near, if there's gonna be a drifting away
and there's gonna be a drawing too, then every day
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I'm gonna make up my mind like you did. Nobody
felt like getting out of bed today. I mean to
go to church even if you woke up early. Well,
I can take the morning off. You know how many
of you by show hands. This is genuinely your only
day off in the week, your hens.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So I mean, I want to be that difficult to say.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know I need to today and I love God
and stay home, But what made you decide to come here?
Because it's a desire, I'm not going to allow myself
to be one of the people well that started strong
and finished poorly. I'm gonna stay strong now, I'm gonna
finish strong, and I'm gonna hear well done, my good
and faithful servant, and are now and to the joy
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of the Lord. If that sounds like you in Texas,
If that sounds like you and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Give the Lord a mighty, mighty handcloud when the bridegroom
was delayed. This is an interesting scripture.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I wish I could have my cousin Teddy come here
and talk about it with me a little. I'd like
to hear his take on it, because it doesn't say
some of them became drowsy and slept. It says they
all became drowsy and slipt. So say this with me.
There is a natural push for me to become drowsy
and spiritually sleepy. Some of you invited people here this
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this Sunday. You know you should come. Yeah, I'm thinking
about guy, and you're drowsy.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It doesn't say they all they all gave God the
bridegroom the middle finger and stormed off. They became drowsy
and slept. Well, what happens if you build a fire
and go to sleep and nobody tends it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
What happens, Yeah, it doesn't get it doesn't get better,
it gets worse.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
If it's in a fireplace or house, basically any anywhere
outside of southern California, fires go out somehow they do
get stronger unattended out there. So say this with me.
A fire has to be kept burning. Pulling Leviticus six
thirteen up. Remember the fire must be kept burning on
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the altar at all times. The fire must never go out.
I want you to close both eyes, lift your right hand.
That's my title and my message today. Say the fire
must never go out. And today God's gonna light a
fire in you that you're gonna be able to point
back to February whatever today is, the twenty third February
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twenty third, twenty twenty five. That's the day I cease
being an American Nornimal Christian, and I got on fire
for God. I got filled with a supernatural passion to
put God first and to make an impact on my generation.
That's gonna be you. I prophesy in the name of Jesus.
You're gonna make heaven. You're gonna overcome every obstacle on
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the way. You're gonna be strong in the Lord and
the power of his mate, and he that began a
good work in you, we'll bring it to completion in Jesus' name.
If you receive that one more time, clap your hands
and give the Lord a mighty shall.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Matthew twenty five seven. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
At six at midnight, they were roused by the shell. Look,
the bridegroom is coming. Come out and meet him. All
the bridesmaids got up and prepared their lamps. Then the
five foolish ones asked the others, please give us some
of your oil, because our lamps are going out. But
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the others replied, we don't have enough oil for all
of us. Go to a shop and buy some for yourselves.
But while they were gone to buy oil, some people
are just continually trying to get better, and they never
get better. You know, life's a continual improvement. Yeah, I'm
working on a few things. I need to work on this.
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You know, Christianity's not working on a few things. Christianity
is surrendering your life at an altar. And if you'll
do that today, you know the altar in Leviticus was
an actual wood altar where they laid animals, but we
don't lay animals in the New Covenant.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You are the.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Sacrifice on the altar, and the fire that consume those
animals is to consume you. I wanna implore every mother,
every father like me, every mother like a dollars, every teenager,
every child, every grandparent to make up your mind today.
I'm gonna get on fire for God. I'm gonna stay
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on fire for God. I'm gonna move closer to God,
not further away. And it's not one of my sermon points,
but I'm gonna tell you. You say, how do you
know you're on fire for God when other Christians have
an intervention to tell you that you need to calm down?
How many you experienced that in some form of another
during twenty one days of prin fasting And I don't
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really think you need to fast. Okay, what book of
the Bible did you write? Since you're countermanding Jesus, you
should have some serious credentials. People that never had a
problem with you drinking yourself blackout drunk would laugh when
you told them stories of what happened on the weekend
of things that were destroying you and sending you to hell.
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Now you go to a church and all of a sudden,
they never had a problem with what bar you attended.
In this family, we go to mckinski's bar. No, didn't
let you go to whatever bar you want, never raise
a concern. But now that you started coming here, your
family all turned into theologian. I don't know if I
believe in that. Yeah, you don't even read the Bible,
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and so what is that. Once the devil realizes he's
lost you, he then focuses his attention to turn you
into an americanized, westernized nothing of a Christian who never
tells anybody about Jesus.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Now, let me tell you what fire does. If I
didn't have fire.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You are not trained in ministry school to pray for
that lady whose baby has a heart on the wrong
side of a chest and one long and ten percent
chance of living, and they're telling her you need to
relax and just accept what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You're tald, you know those people are You know they're delusional.
That's the step called denial where people don't want that
to happen. And so you know what I should have
done in my training, put my hand on the lady's
shoulder and says and go into that stupid voice. It's
like if Xanax was a voice. We sometimes we need
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to accept, you know, or sneak it into your prayer.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Okay, I'll pray with you. Father. Let her accept your will.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And those many times we want something, it's your will.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Where do you get that from? Now?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Show me somebody in the Bible that came to Jesus
for healing and he tried to talk him out of it,
or told him one day, you'll get it in heaven
or Humans always want carnal things, but you should be
interested in spiritual things. When blind people came to Jesus,
he opened their eyes. When death people came to Jesus,
he unstopped their ears. When the cripple came to Christ,
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he made them walk. When the tormented came, he left
them they were naked and tormented, and left them clothing
in their right mind, Jesus was a situation changer. He
didn't teach faith.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
He didn't teach faith as a coping mechanism. He taught
faith as something that moves mountains, that you can speak
to that man. No, not faith helps us understand that
that mountain will never move. Faith will cause you to
speak to that mountain and tell that heart to get
on the right.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Side of the chest. Tell the lung to.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Grow her second love, Tell the eyes to see, tell
the kidneys to work. Faith in God, We'll move some
mighty mountain. Face in God, We'll call my trouble. Say faith,
We'll turn all your situations around.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Hi. We are Terry and Joey from New Orleans, Louisiana.
We are in Fort Worth Church and Revival today. We
came this morning and there was a healing prayer line
that went forth. Jonathan and Adallas prayed for everybody. And
I had a psiatic pain that I had been dealing
with for years that I just learned to deal with
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and I even stopped complaining about it. And I've been
believing God. But this morning, I said, Lord, this has
to be my day. And even while they were praying
on the platform, I could feel the pain going away,
and I just started praising God, and thank God, ain't
actually crying because it's just that big of a deal
to turn at night in the bed. Even I take
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care of my grandchild to pick her up, and it
hurts so badly, but I just learned to deal with it.
But I thank God I don't have to deal with
it anymore. Is gone, It is never coming back. I'm
just walking and dancing, and I just praise God for that,
so thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
When death people came to Jesus, he unstopped their ears.
When the cripple came to Christ, he made them walk.
When the tormented came, he left them. They were naked
and tormented, and they left them clothing. In their right mind,
Jesus was a situation changer. He didn't teach faith listen.
He didn't teach faith as a coping mechanism. He taught
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faith as something that moves mountains, that you can speak
to that man.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No not.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Faith helps us understand that that mountain will never move.
Faith will cause you to speak to that mountain and
tell that heart to get on the right side of
the chest, Tell the lung to grow a second love,
tell the eyes to see, tell the kidneys to work.
Faith in God will move a mighty mountain. Faith in God,
we'll call a trouble to see. Faith will turn all
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your situations around. Hallelujah. That's fire, that's faith on fire.
Passion for God, believe in God, believing His word, having
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it overflow out of you. Just to compliment Texas and
Pittsburgh like I did last week. One of the church
consultants that we have, they said, churches that have an
average attendance of forty five hundred people in a service
on Sundays have about one sixth the income that your
church has and the same amount of volunteers. Well, you
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want to know why, because if you have forty five
hundred lukewarm people, they'll do less than whatever we have.
What twelve hundred maybe today between both places will outproduce
five times the amount of people.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Because when you.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Start getting real Bible, God doesn't have to outnumber the Canaanites.
Joshua and Caleb can take it all by themselves. One
will put a thousand to flight, two will put ten thousand.
That's called exponential increase. When you start linking up with
the people of faith. And I don't know about you,
but I kind of do know about you. I made
up my mind. Let the mockers mock, let the doubters dout.
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I'm gonna go find people that have made up their mind.
I'm serving Jesus I'm gonna advancee. I'm gonna preach the gospel.
I'm gonna pray for the city. I'm gonna cast out devils.
That's what revival today is. It's like become like a
magnet where everybody that's had enough of dead religion.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I don't wanna be a pharisee.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I don't wanna have a YouTube channel where I talk
about other people that pray and preach and how their
sermons are wrong. I want to have something I produce
for the kingdom.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I want people. I want when I get to Heaven.
It takes me like nine.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Years to get through the front door of my mansion,
having the way through all the people giving me hugs,
telling me thank you for telling me the Gospel, thank
you for wanting me to the Lord. I want to
go find that evangelist from the early nineteen hundreds that
led my.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Grandfather the Lord.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I want to go find the kid that told my
mother about Jesus in New Jersey and God are saved.
Heaven is not a bunch of weak people that dragged
themselves over the finish line. Heaven is the Heaven is
the home of overcomers, of people that overcame the world.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
This is the victory.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You have things to overcome, you have things the devil
put against you.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
But I got good news. This is the victory that
overcomes the world. Even our faith. Light that faith on fire.
Today he that megan a good work.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Can you I haven't felt like this the last five weeks,
but today's like the first day. I like wish there
was seven services. I feel like I feel like I
can't wait. I'm so glad there's a Saturday church now,
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May you God, we'll give us some Monday church and
at Tuesday Church Minneapolis or the Chicago. I'm down to
clown whatever you want, God, whatever you want to do.
I'm not looking to sit around. When we get to heaven.
I'll have my first meal with the band. I'll have
my first meal with some of you. But this does
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not sit around. That's why I don't have pastor Appreciation Day.
I can't see throwing a party in the third quarter
of a football game.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Finish the game. I mean, do you remember back.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
When the Steeler had Roethlisberger and everybody is like Penguins too.
They never could just make it easy on you every
game if they were up twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You're like, just way, it's gonna be a three point game.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
If the Penguins were up five to one, it'd be
five to four, and then they let the team tie it,
and then they went down six to five, and then
they won seven to six. You know, and then sometimes
when you looked over at the sideline, twenty eight you know,
twenty eight point leads sounds like a lot till the
team gets two more touchdowns and you'd see them up
twenty eight points, high fiving, laughing. I'm not against laughing,
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I'm pro laughing, but I'd wait a little bit. Quit
dropping back in the prevent defense and losing the lead.
You have them on the back foot, take them out,
keep the attack mentality. Now, none of these are in
my notes, but I missed all eight points first service,
and it looks like I'm on the same path.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now. I want to tell you something. Fire'll do.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Fire He'll puts you on the attack. Fire will quit
having you sit back and have life happen.
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To you, and it'll put something on you where you
go out and happen to life.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You'll stop asking for prayer that the devil's attacking you,
and the devil have to have a prayer service at
the Satanic temple because this Christian keeps harassing me and
rebuking me and binding me and casting me out and
shutting down my meth laps and breaking the hold of fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's the group of Christians that I'm looking at. We're
not here to get attacked. We're here to do the attacking.
Come on, take thirty seconds and lift it up. Lift
it up.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Hallelujah, somebody say, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
On the attack.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's hard to get attacked when you're the attacker. It's
hard to get attacked when you're the attacker. Get something
in your crosshairs. Target something in the spirit. You drive
by a psychic shop every day on your way to work,
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Try cursing it on the way by, in the name
of Jesus, not f you like a Bible curse.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I curse that spirit behind that building.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I curse that foul spirit that takes advantage of people
that are breathing the loss of their loved ones trying
to contact them from the dead, You foul shop. I
curse your plumbing, I curse your electric electrical work, curse
your finances. I curse everything that has to do with
you going only wits put a curse on me. Try
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it works both ways. Turn to next thirteen. Starting to
lose people because they don't think it's in the Bible,
go to Acts thirteen. Somebody say the fire must never
go out, and I feel too good. Hallelujah, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
X thirteen one.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So rather than tell you about how contact waiting for
the coming of the Lord, let's see some guys that
did it right, like Paul x thirteen one. Among the
prophets and teachers of the Church of Antioch of Syria
were Barnabas, Simeon, you can call them that, Lucius, Manighan,
and Saul verse two. Definitely not doing that in February.
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I mean, show some respect. One day as these men
were worshiping the Lord.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And what.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Fasting is an acceller and a fire. Because your body
and your flesh comes against your spirit, the Bible says,
the war isn't between you and the devil.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
The devil's already defeated, but your flesh is strong. The
younger you are, the stronger your flesh is. That's why
let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Did anybody have a relative that had nothing to do
with Church or God? And when they turned like sixty,
sixty five or seventy, started like going to church.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You just found out they were going to church or whatever. Anybody.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, you know, I flesh that out, and the s
doesn't that they still have a spirit that longs for God.
So you know, if you have like a great uncle, No,
he was great. I'm talking like your grandfather's brother. And
he was like a known adulter. He ran around with
women all the time. He quit when he was like
sixty five, sony because his flesh got weak. You know,
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you ran around with women when you were twenty five.
When you turn seventy, it's hard to get motivated to
go to the refrigerator to get a mountain dew. Just
go thirsty and I'd like one, but it's out of reach.
So fasting crucifies the flesh. That's why even when you
get into fasting, everybody tries to get you to do
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anything but not eat. Find the fast that's right for you.
I can help you fast food. Find the fast that's
right for you. Maybe you want to fast television or radio?
And the preacher said fast radio?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
What is it? In nineteen thirty six?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Maybe you want to fast the telegram or morse code,
the phonograph, anything but food.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Fasting, and worshiping.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
The Lord the Holy Spirit said, appoint Barnabas and Saul
for the special work which I've called them. So after
more fasting and prayer, the men laid their hands on
them and sent them on their way. So what happened
when they went on their way? First missionary journey. So
Barnabas and Saul were sent out by the Holy Spirit.
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They went down to the seaport of Solution, and then
sailed to the island of Cyprus. They're in the town
of Salamis. They went to the Jewish synagogue and preached
the Word of God. John Mark went with them as
their assistant. Afterward, they traveled from town to town across
the entire island, until finally they reached Paphos, where they
were met by a Jewish sorcerer, a false prophet named
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bar Jesus. Say this out loud. The greater the anointing,
the greater the opposition. So you may not have written
one third of the New test two thirds of the
New Testament like Paul. So you might not have a
demon possessed sorcerer that's making it his business to stop you.
But everybody, nobody comes to their promised land with no giants.
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There's giants in every man's promised land. So the devil
can't stop you. He can just put obstacles that'll get
you to turn back. Nobody fought. Think of this with me, David.
Did it come on the scene And eleven hundred Israelites
had been by Goliath, and that's why nobody would fight him.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
No one had fought him.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, but no, none of the ten Spies fought any
of the giants in Canaan. All they did was get
discouraged and turned back on their own. So the devil
works by harassment. I mean they told me for two
and a half years, if I didn't stop preaching, they
were gonna they were gonna arrest me, find me, and
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they never did, because the devil is great at bluffing.
But if you'd make him pull the trigger, there's no
bullets in the gun. Remember that, they said, if I
go to church on Sunday, they're gonna fire me. Go
make them fire you, Make them throw you in the
fiery furnace, make them throw you in the lions den,
and you'll find out. Even if they do the God
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that you're serving, will save you from the lions, will
take you out of the fiery furnace. You can't curse
what God has blessed. And I see you blessed, I
see you any favor
Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
My name is Laura Sandifer and I'm from Johnsborough, Louisiana.
For the longest time that I can remember, I struggled
with depression and anxiety and fear, and I really just
struggled in sin. I didn't feel like there was a
victory over sin. I felt like I was trying, but
I wasn't actually succeeding in overcoming sin. And so last
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year I came to the revival meetings here and I'd
never even heard of Pastor Jonathan. The first night I
recommitted my life to Christ on June fifth of last year,
twenty twenty three, Pastor Jonathan lined everyone up to pray
for them. So when he came down the line and
he touched my forehead, I fell to the ground and
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God spoke to me. I heard him say, never again,
shall you. I freaked out a little bit, and I
didn't really hear anything after that, but I felt God
lift all of the darkness off of me. So every
bit of anxiety, depression, fear, the need to people please,
and the desire for sin all left me in that moment.
(01:14):
And so it was really awesome just to see God
do that in my life. And so in this past year,
I've had so much joy. Another thing that happened in
that moment is God gave me joy. I've never heard
of the joy of the spirit, and so I was
cackling like a mad woman. Didn't understand it, but it
was just really truly awesome to experience the freedom that
only comes through Christ. And so I just I'm so thankful.
(01:38):
I praise God. It's all glory to Him. And I'm
here because I know that God is doing more for
my family. I've been standing in faith and seeing God
and moving my family, and so I'm just thankful. God's awesome.
He continues to move, and He's trustworthy. So if you're
struggling with sin, God can take it. And if you're
(01:59):
struggling with depression or anxiety, God can take it. I
have so much joy, and I'm just so thankful. I
serving my church now, and I was struggling so much
to even be in church this time last year. So
I came to the meetings. Haven't missed church since. God
is awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We are raising up a family in this church. We're
raising up a family in Pittsburgh, We're raising up a
family in Texas that don't just know about God. They
know God, they've handled his power, they've seen his power
flow through it. You're coming out of here today carrying
fresh fire, fresh unknowing. Take never to take another backward stamp.
(02:46):
If you're waiting so people have time to be saved.
Right now, I can't travel to Iran. I mean I could,
but I couldn't hold more than like a thirty minute
meeting before I go to Heaven myself. But with VPNs
and what's that. Now I can get the gospel in Iran.
Now I can get the gospel into North Korea. Now
I can get the gospel in the Palestine. So I'm
(03:08):
gonna use everything at my disposal. If the only reason
you're waiting is so people have time to be saved,
then the more I plug my life into getting people saved,
the more of the wind of Heaven will.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Come behind me.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
That's why, if you haven't noticed the last five weeks,
I think a dollars ton on it last week. For
the last five weeks, we haven't had any offering time
other than take the envelopes and give no teaching on it,
no teaching on tithes. And the offering's been up between
one point five and two times what it normally is,
because I actually am getting so committed to this, I
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just don't care anymore. I can't see any money drying
up for any reason as long as my heart is
to go after God's heart and reach the lost and
the hurting and the broken. And I'm not criticizing anybody
that has churches in Malibu, Orange County, or Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But when I.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Announced We're gonna have revival today church La, all the
consultants immediately said, LA is a mess. Think about Malibu,
Think about Anaheim. Think about somewhere in Orange County that say,
you know, people are gonna want to go to a
church where they have to keep their head on a
swivel as they're walking to church.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But you know what those places have churches.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Thirty percent of churches in Los Angeles shut down during
COVID permanently never came back because they met at schools
and other rented buildings and the government shut them down
for three years.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
They're gone.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
We're going one block from skid row because we're not
there to get more income or to give people another
option for church. We're there to remind the devil that
the church is still here. And as long as the
church is still here, the church is in charge.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Can you say amen?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So go back to Matthew twenty five on the verse
whe it said, as the bridegroom delayed his coming. So
the Bible tells you there's problematic things in the fact
that Jesus has waited. Because let's put the hands up again.
How many of you if Jesus would have come back
eight years ago, you'd have missed heaven.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
But now, and obviously the people aren't here.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
There's people that were saved eight years ago that knew
the Lord, whose names were written in the Lamb's Book
of Life, that as Jesus waited as pastors, they started
attending Pete did He's parties and going to Hollywood parties,
and as the master tarried his coming instead of working. Now,
I'm gonna tell you this. I would live in la
(05:42):
and I want it backslided. But I'm glad I'm going
there just to preach. I'm glad I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
That city swallows people up.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know, you turn into an La social aite as
a pastor, you're at dinner parties and it all sounds good.
You know, this director wants to is having a dinner
and I could have a chance to let my light shine.
I feel like it's going to be a major protection
for everything to do with revival today, for a dollars
for myself, for Camilla, to stay.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
On the move for God.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
At this church, we stay on the move for God
because you're not gonna be in the middle if you're
hot or cold, if you're luqwarm, A vamach out of
my mouth. So I if I were you, I would
make up my mind that seeing that the coming of
the Lord is near, seeing that the coming of the
Lord is near, if there's gonna be a drifting away
and there's gonna be a drawing too, then every day
(06:31):
I'm gonna make up my mind like you did. Nobody
felt like getting out of bed today. I mean to
go to church even if you woke up early. Well,
I can take the morning off. You know how many
of you by show hands. This is genuinely your only
day off in the week, your hens.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So I mean, I want to be that difficult to say.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know I need to today and I love God
and stay home, But what made you decide to come here?
Because it's a desire, I'm not going to allow myself
to be one of the people well that started strong
and finished poorly. I'm gonna stay strong now, I'm gonna
finish strong, and I'm gonna hear well done, my good
and faithful servant, and are now and to the joy
(07:10):
of the Lord. If that sounds like you in Texas,
If that sounds like you and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Give the Lord a mighty, mighty handcloud when the bridegroom
was delayed. This is an interesting scripture.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I wish I could have my cousin Teddy come here
and talk about it with me a little. I'd like
to hear his take on it, because it doesn't say
some of them became drowsy and slept. It says they
all became drowsy and slipt. So say this with me.
There is a natural push for me to become drowsy
and spiritually sleepy. Some of you invited people here this
(07:46):
this Sunday. You know you should come. Yeah, I'm thinking
about guy, and you're drowsy.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It doesn't say they all they all gave God the
bridegroom the middle finger and stormed off. They became drowsy
and slept. Well, what happens if you build a fire
and go to sleep and nobody tends it.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
What happens, Yeah, it doesn't get it doesn't get better,
it gets worse.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
If it's in a fireplace or house, basically any anywhere
outside of southern California, fires go out somehow they do
get stronger unattended out there. So say this with me.
A fire has to be kept burning. Pulling Leviticus six
thirteen up. Remember the fire must be kept burning on
(08:31):
the altar at all times. The fire must never go out.
I want you to close both eyes, lift your right hand.
That's my title and my message today. Say the fire
must never go out. And today God's gonna light a
fire in you that you're gonna be able to point
back to February whatever today is, the twenty third February
(08:55):
twenty third, twenty twenty five. That's the day I cease
being an American Nornimal Christian, and I got on fire
for God. I got filled with a supernatural passion to
put God first and to make an impact on my generation.
That's gonna be you. I prophesy in the name of Jesus.
You're gonna make heaven. You're gonna overcome every obstacle on
(09:16):
the way. You're gonna be strong in the Lord and
the power of his mate, and he that began a
good work in you, we'll bring it to completion in Jesus' name.
If you receive that one more time, clap your hands
and give the Lord a mighty shall.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Matthew twenty five seven. Sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
At six at midnight, they were roused by the shell. Look,
the bridegroom is coming. Come out and meet him. All
the bridesmaids got up and prepared their lamps. Then the
five foolish ones asked the others, please give us some
of your oil, because our lamps are going out. But
(10:03):
the others replied, we don't have enough oil for all
of us. Go to a shop and buy some for yourselves.
But while they were gone to buy oil, some people
are just continually trying to get better, and they never
get better. You know, life's a continual improvement. Yeah, I'm
working on a few things. I need to work on this.
(10:25):
You know, Christianity's not working on a few things. Christianity
is surrendering your life at an altar. And if you'll
do that today, you know the altar in Leviticus was
an actual wood altar where they laid animals, but we
don't lay animals in the New Covenant.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You are the.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Sacrifice on the altar, and the fire that consume those
animals is to consume you. I wanna implore every mother,
every father like me, every mother like a dollars, every teenager,
every child, every grandparent to make up your mind today.
I'm gonna get on fire for God. I'm gonna stay
(11:00):
on fire for God. I'm gonna move closer to God,
not further away. And it's not one of my sermon points,
but I'm gonna tell you. You say, how do you
know you're on fire for God when other Christians have
an intervention to tell you that you need to calm down?
How many you experienced that in some form of another
during twenty one days of prin fasting And I don't
(11:24):
really think you need to fast. Okay, what book of
the Bible did you write? Since you're countermanding Jesus, you
should have some serious credentials. People that never had a
problem with you drinking yourself blackout drunk would laugh when
you told them stories of what happened on the weekend
of things that were destroying you and sending you to hell.
(11:44):
Now you go to a church and all of a sudden,
they never had a problem with what bar you attended.
In this family, we go to mckinski's bar. No, didn't
let you go to whatever bar you want, never raise
a concern. But now that you started coming here, your
family all turned into theologian. I don't know if I
believe in that. Yeah, you don't even read the Bible,
(12:06):
and so what is that. Once the devil realizes he's
lost you, he then focuses his attention to turn you
into an americanized, westernized nothing of a Christian who never
tells anybody about Jesus.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Now, let me tell you what fire does. If I
didn't have fire.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
You are not trained in ministry school to pray for
that lady whose baby has a heart on the wrong
side of a chest and one long and ten percent
chance of living, and they're telling her you need to
relax and just accept what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You're tald, you know those people are You know they're delusional.
That's the step called denial where people don't want that
to happen. And so you know what I should have
done in my training, put my hand on the lady's
shoulder and says and go into that stupid voice. It's
like if Xanax was a voice. We sometimes we need
(12:57):
to accept, you know, or sneak it into your prayer.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Okay, I'll pray with you. Father. Let her accept your will.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And those many times we want something, it's your will.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Where do you get that from? Now?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Show me somebody in the Bible that came to Jesus
for healing and he tried to talk him out of it,
or told him one day, you'll get it in heaven
or Humans always want carnal things, but you should be
interested in spiritual things. When blind people came to Jesus,
he opened their eyes. When death people came to Jesus,
he unstopped their ears. When the cripple came to Christ,
(13:35):
he made them walk. When the tormented came, he left
them they were naked and tormented, and left them clothing
in their right mind, Jesus was a situation changer. He
didn't teach faith.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
He didn't teach faith as a coping mechanism. He taught
faith as something that moves mountains, that you can speak
to that man. No, not faith helps us understand that
that mountain will never move. Faith will cause you to
speak to that mountain and tell that heart to get
on the right.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Side of the chest. Tell the lung to.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Grow her second love, Tell the eyes to see, tell
the kidneys to work. Faith in God, We'll move some
mighty mountain. Face in God, We'll call my trouble. Say faith,
We'll turn all your situations around.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Hi. We are Terry and Joey from New Orleans, Louisiana.
We are in Fort Worth Church and Revival today. We
came this morning and there was a healing prayer line
that went forth. Jonathan and Adallas prayed for everybody. And
I had a psiatic pain that I had been dealing
with for years that I just learned to deal with
(14:44):
and I even stopped complaining about it. And I've been
believing God. But this morning, I said, Lord, this has
to be my day. And even while they were praying
on the platform, I could feel the pain going away,
and I just started praising God, and thank God, ain't
actually crying because it's just that big of a deal
to turn at night in the bed. Even I take
(15:06):
care of my grandchild to pick her up, and it
hurts so badly, but I just learned to deal with it.
But I thank God I don't have to deal with
it anymore. Is gone, It is never coming back. I'm
just walking and dancing, and I just praise God for that,
so thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
When death people came to Jesus, he unstopped their ears.
When the cripple came to Christ, he made them walk.
When the tormented came, he left them. They were naked
and tormented, and they left them clothing. In their right mind,
Jesus was a situation changer. He didn't teach faith listen.
He didn't teach faith as a coping mechanism. He taught
(15:43):
faith as something that moves mountains, that you can speak
to that man.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
No not.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Faith helps us understand that that mountain will never move.
Faith will cause you to speak to that mountain and
tell that heart to get on the right side of
the chest, Tell the lung to grow a second love,
tell the eyes to see, tell the kidneys to work.
Faith in God will move a mighty mountain. Faith in God,
we'll call a trouble to see. Faith will turn all
(16:10):
your situations around. Hallelujah. That's fire, that's faith on fire.
Passion for God, believe in God, believing His word, having
(16:31):
it overflow out of you. Just to compliment Texas and
Pittsburgh like I did last week. One of the church
consultants that we have, they said, churches that have an
average attendance of forty five hundred people in a service
on Sundays have about one sixth the income that your
church has and the same amount of volunteers. Well, you
(16:55):
want to know why, because if you have forty five
hundred lukewarm people, they'll do less than whatever we have.
What twelve hundred maybe today between both places will outproduce
five times the amount of people.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Because when you.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Start getting real Bible, God doesn't have to outnumber the Canaanites.
Joshua and Caleb can take it all by themselves. One
will put a thousand to flight, two will put ten thousand.
That's called exponential increase. When you start linking up with
the people of faith. And I don't know about you,
but I kind of do know about you. I made
up my mind. Let the mockers mock, let the doubters dout.
(17:33):
I'm gonna go find people that have made up their mind.
I'm serving Jesus I'm gonna advancee. I'm gonna preach the gospel.
I'm gonna pray for the city. I'm gonna cast out devils.
That's what revival today is. It's like become like a
magnet where everybody that's had enough of dead religion.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I don't wanna be a pharisee.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I don't wanna have a YouTube channel where I talk
about other people that pray and preach and how their
sermons are wrong. I want to have something I produce
for the kingdom.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I want people. I want when I get to Heaven.
It takes me like nine.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Years to get through the front door of my mansion,
having the way through all the people giving me hugs,
telling me thank you for telling me the Gospel, thank
you for wanting me to the Lord. I want to
go find that evangelist from the early nineteen hundreds that
led my.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Grandfather the Lord.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I want to go find the kid that told my
mother about Jesus in New Jersey and God are saved.
Heaven is not a bunch of weak people that dragged
themselves over the finish line. Heaven is the Heaven is
the home of overcomers, of people that overcame the world.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
This is the victory.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You have things to overcome, you have things the devil
put against you.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
But I got good news. This is the victory that
overcomes the world. Even our faith. Light that faith on fire.
Today he that megan a good work.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Can you I haven't felt like this the last five weeks,
but today's like the first day. I like wish there
was seven services. I feel like I feel like I
can't wait. I'm so glad there's a Saturday church now,
(19:22):
May you God, we'll give us some Monday church and
at Tuesday Church Minneapolis or the Chicago. I'm down to
clown whatever you want, God, whatever you want to do.
I'm not looking to sit around. When we get to heaven.
I'll have my first meal with the band. I'll have
my first meal with some of you. But this does
(19:45):
not sit around. That's why I don't have pastor Appreciation Day.
I can't see throwing a party in the third quarter
of a football game.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Finish the game. I mean, do you remember back.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
When the Steeler had Roethlisberger and everybody is like Penguins too.
They never could just make it easy on you every
game if they were up twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You're like, just way, it's gonna be a three point game.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
If the Penguins were up five to one, it'd be
five to four, and then they let the team tie it,
and then they went down six to five, and then
they won seven to six. You know, and then sometimes
when you looked over at the sideline, twenty eight you know,
twenty eight point leads sounds like a lot till the
team gets two more touchdowns and you'd see them up
twenty eight points, high fiving, laughing. I'm not against laughing,
(20:33):
I'm pro laughing, but I'd wait a little bit. Quit
dropping back in the prevent defense and losing the lead.
You have them on the back foot, take them out,
keep the attack mentality. Now, none of these are in
my notes, but I missed all eight points first service,
and it looks like I'm on the same path.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Now. I want to tell you something. Fire'll do.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Fire He'll puts you on the attack. Fire will quit
having you sit back and have life happen.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
To you, and it'll put something on you where you
go out and happen to life.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You'll stop asking for prayer that the devil's attacking you,
and the devil have to have a prayer service at
the Satanic temple because this Christian keeps harassing me and
rebuking me and binding me and casting me out and
shutting down my meth laps and breaking the hold of fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's the group of Christians that I'm looking at. We're
not here to get attacked. We're here to do the attacking.
Come on, take thirty seconds and lift it up. Lift
it up.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Hallelujah, somebody say, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
On the attack.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's hard to get attacked when you're the attacker. It's
hard to get attacked when you're the attacker. Get something
in your crosshairs. Target something in the spirit. You drive
by a psychic shop every day on your way to work,
(22:21):
Try cursing it on the way by, in the name
of Jesus, not f you like a Bible curse.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I curse that spirit behind that building.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I curse that foul spirit that takes advantage of people
that are breathing the loss of their loved ones trying
to contact them from the dead, You foul shop. I
curse your plumbing, I curse your electric electrical work, curse
your finances. I curse everything that has to do with
you going only wits put a curse on me. Try
(22:55):
it works both ways. Turn to next thirteen. Starting to
lose people because they don't think it's in the Bible,
go to Acts thirteen. Somebody say the fire must never
go out, and I feel too good. Hallelujah, thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
X thirteen one.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So rather than tell you about how contact waiting for
the coming of the Lord, let's see some guys that
did it right, like Paul x thirteen one. Among the
prophets and teachers of the Church of Antioch of Syria
were Barnabas, Simeon, you can call them that, Lucius, Manighan,
and Saul verse two. Definitely not doing that in February.
(23:51):
I mean, show some respect. One day as these men
were worshiping the Lord.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
And what.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Fasting is an acceller and a fire. Because your body
and your flesh comes against your spirit, the Bible says,
the war isn't between you and the devil.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
The devil's already defeated, but your flesh is strong. The
younger you are, the stronger your flesh is. That's why
let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Did anybody have a relative that had nothing to do
with Church or God? And when they turned like sixty,
sixty five or seventy, started like going to church.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You just found out they were going to church or whatever. Anybody.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Yeah, you know, I flesh that out, and the s
doesn't that they still have a spirit that longs for God.
So you know, if you have like a great uncle, No,
he was great. I'm talking like your grandfather's brother. And
he was like a known adulter. He ran around with
women all the time. He quit when he was like
sixty five, sony because his flesh got weak. You know,
(24:48):
you ran around with women when you were twenty five.
When you turn seventy, it's hard to get motivated to
go to the refrigerator to get a mountain dew. Just
go thirsty and I'd like one, but it's out of reach.
So fasting crucifies the flesh. That's why even when you
get into fasting, everybody tries to get you to do
(25:08):
anything but not eat. Find the fast that's right for you.
I can help you fast food. Find the fast that's
right for you. Maybe you want to fast television or radio?
And the preacher said fast radio?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
What is it? In nineteen thirty six?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Maybe you want to fast the telegram or morse code,
the phonograph, anything but food.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Fasting, and worshiping.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
The Lord the Holy Spirit said, appoint Barnabas and Saul
for the special work which I've called them. So after
more fasting and prayer, the men laid their hands on
them and sent them on their way. So what happened
when they went on their way? First missionary journey. So
Barnabas and Saul were sent out by the Holy Spirit.
(25:57):
They went down to the seaport of Solution, and then
sailed to the island of Cyprus. They're in the town
of Salamis. They went to the Jewish synagogue and preached
the Word of God. John Mark went with them as
their assistant. Afterward, they traveled from town to town across
the entire island, until finally they reached Paphos, where they
were met by a Jewish sorcerer, a false prophet named
(26:20):
bar Jesus. Say this out loud. The greater the anointing,
the greater the opposition. So you may not have written
one third of the New test two thirds of the
New Testament like Paul. So you might not have a
demon possessed sorcerer that's making it his business to stop you.
But everybody, nobody comes to their promised land with no giants.
(26:44):
There's giants in every man's promised land. So the devil
can't stop you. He can just put obstacles that'll get
you to turn back. Nobody fought. Think of this with me, David.
Did it come on the scene And eleven hundred Israelites
had been by Goliath, and that's why nobody would fight him.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
No one had fought him.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
No, but no, none of the ten Spies fought any
of the giants in Canaan. All they did was get
discouraged and turned back on their own. So the devil
works by harassment. I mean they told me for two
and a half years, if I didn't stop preaching, they
were gonna they were gonna arrest me, find me, and
(27:25):
they never did, because the devil is great at bluffing.
But if you'd make him pull the trigger, there's no
bullets in the gun. Remember that, they said, if I
go to church on Sunday, they're gonna fire me. Go
make them fire you, Make them throw you in the
fiery furnace, make them throw you in the lions den,
and you'll find out. Even if they do the God
(27:46):
that you're serving, will save you from the lions, will
take you out of the fiery furnace. You can't curse
what God has blessed. And I see you blessed, I
see you any favor
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