When the focus is on souls, God moves. From puppet ministry to prayer meetings that lead to life-changing encounters, this episode is a passionate call to reclaim evangelism as a way of life. Whether it's teaching Bible studies, praying over a "Holy Ghost Radar" list, or hitting the streets with surveys and compassion, the message is clear: if you want to reach souls, God will make a way.
Host: Pastor Ryan Brister
Co-Host: Brenden Bass
Producer: Joey Doherty
Scripture References:
Matthew 28:19-20
Acts 1:8
2 Peter 3:9
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro, video podcast launch, and announcements
05:15 – Revival highlights and guest intro: Evangelist Taylor Fish
10:40 – Evangelism roots: from puppets to soul-winning
15:05 – “Holy Ghost Radar” and finding Bible study students
22:50 – Practical outreach tips and spirit-led connections
30:40 – Evangelism events and the law of the harvest
47:10 – Blitz outreach: 238 people, citywide revival, miracles
59:00 – Final encouragement to live as a soul winner
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Welcome to the Ocala Church podcast with Pastor Ryan
Brister. Today we are talking about
evangelism. All right, we're back.
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Welcome everybody to the podcast.
These guys are about to plug something, as always.
All right, we'll plug away. 1st,we are excited for our first
video podcast, so we have put a lot of work.
And don't we look clean? They made us take our ties off
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before we started. So brand new studio.
It looks beautiful and so we're we're excited.
We just had Holy Ghost Church and me and Brother Fish was the
only ones that come out of our ties so we know who really got
where they needed to go in God. Yes, Sir.
So. But if you have any.
Questions. Easy swap that camera real.
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Man, y'all, y'all wasn't very enthusiastic about that.
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I'm going to tell you, show you something else.
We we're doing our first video deal.
So I'm showing y'all the set here.
My The church that I pastor bought me a Mercedes G wagon for
my first pastoral anniversary. That's the centerpiece on our
table. We're going to talk about Kevin
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or leave that for the. Next, we're not going to talk
about Joey's dad, right? Yeah, This is this is Kevin the
the mule. Don't get it twisted.
It's not a donkey. Yeah, ace ears are in frame, so.
Good deal. But yes, we are excited today
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about having brother fish with us and where the fish is an
awesome evangelist and man. We had church today.
We had OYC May the 1st and 2nd. The Ocala Youth Conference for
the Nathaniel Irshan preached the first night and I guess he
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did all right. No, it was it was outstanding.
He did an incredible job. 2 legsand a piece of an ear and it was
it was awesome. And then brother fish preached.
I shall be a like at the Buccaneer tree and man it was
awesome. So a lot of young people receive
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the Holy Ghost and their Friday night in that service, the
brother fish. The there was just wave after
wave of the Holy Ghost and it was awesome.
Then then today in our service today, I think 3 got the Holy
Ghost 2 baptized in Jesus name. And so excited about that.
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And so we decided to bring him on the podcast to talk about
evangelism and talk about some methods of evangelism that work
in this generation. He's an extremely effective
evangelist and we want him to goahead and talk to us about some
of those those things. Brother Fish.
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I guess what we can do is just basically talk about how you got
started as as an evangelist. Did you start as a preacher or
did you start as a soul winner? Or did you start?
How did how did you get your start in evangelism?
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Well, First things first, I wantto back up and I'll answer that,
but I want to say how honored I have been to be here in Ocala
and what an incredible youth conference that they had here.
And man, you know, there's so many different, so many
different conferences you can goto.
I know that this one is fairly new, but man, without a doubt,
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as he said, there was just wave after wave of the Holy Ghost.
They hit that place. And man, Friday night, really,
there was no dismissal, the HolyGhost, just a lot of kids
praying around the altar and just lingering.
And man, you know, there's, you don't go to a conference these
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days without someone mentioning an afterburner.
But the afterburner was a lingering prayer meeting.
And it was such, a such a great time.
So I don't know the dates next year probably around the same
time, but put Ocala Youth Conference on your on your
calendar because no doubt it will be special.
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But March 19th and 20th is why we're plugging.
Absolutely, absolutely. Thank you so much.
We were honored to have you. It was, it was a blast.
And can't say enough about the church here, Brother, I, I was
never here before, but man, there's such a incredible
atmosphere and just spirit of prayer that's been cultivated.
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Sadly, it's not like that everywhere.
But I want to tell you there there's, I mean, they were
praying in that prayer room, thewhole church an hour before and
even today. And what a great move of the
Holy Ghost that we had. But to, to answer that question,
I, I started, I started out working altars and teaching
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Bible studies long before ever preached a meeting or, or
anything like that. And I, I started youth pastoring
around 19. But even before that, if you
were going to be a preacher at Bishop White's church, you
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weren't, you weren't just going to preach.
You know, as a matter of fact, you needed you need to be it.
It was really a rule that you needed to be involved in
multiple ministries outside of the pulpit.
And I was involved in everythingfrom puppet ministry to, you
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know, I, I changed the sign. We did St.
Rage, which was going out and doing kids ministry in, in parks
and man, I can't tell you how many times I've, I've been on
the, the back of a trailer and we had megaphones going through,
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you know, just rough parts of the city screaming free snow
cones come and man, these these kids would come out and we'd see
God move on them. And it was it, man.
And at the end of the day, it was never about a puppet.
It was always about a soul. And even today, as I preach
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today, you know, I really didn'tpreach much of much of A sermon
today. The Lord gave me something, gave
me a set of scriptures. I got up and preached.
And by the end of it, we're pulling for souls.
And, you know, God's pinpointingsouls.
And that's, that's really what the focus was always on, on
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souls. And you know, Bishop White, he'd
always told me, I remember when I first went to him, he said,
Taylor, he said, you know, you, you show me ministry and I'll
show you a pulpit. And then he said, you know, if,
if you, if you truly go after ministry and you'll show me
ministry, you will never lack a pulpit.
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And you know, that's, that's proved to be true.
You know, we're, we're, we're very thankful that God has
opened doors. But above all that, it's, it's
not about the doors, it's about the souls that are behind those
doors. And I, I understand that for,
you know, a young man or a younglady that's watching this
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podcast, it's very easy because I, because I remember as a young
person looking up at the, at theplatform saying, man, how
awesome it would be to, it also would be to, to preach that
meeting. Well, now that I preach the
meeting, all I do is, you know, I'm laying on the floor
agonizing, begging God for a word.
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It's not near as cool as they say it is.
But it, it was I, I always leaned into, I always leaned
into to souls 1st. And that, that's what, that's
really how I got my start evangelizing.
Yeah. Yeah, I think it was.
It's been attributed to Brother Billy Cole who said if you, if
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you seek for a pulpit, you'll always seek for a pulpit.
If you seek for souls, you'll always seek for souls.
Even if a pulpit's in the way, you'll, you'll still have a
heart to seek souls and not justa podium.
So, and I think it's such an important thing for young people
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to start with a a desire to see people saved, not a place to be
seen. Well, and I, I want to say this
to piggybacking on that, becauseI know a lot of times we say,
you know, ministry is not just about the pulpit, but I would
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even go as far to say is as a minister, you know, when I'm in
the pulpit, it, it's still not be about being seen when I'm in
the pulpit, it's still about that lost soul.
I mean, brother, we, I mean, we saw Spanish speaking people get
the Holy Ghost today. We, we saw, I mean, all
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different walks of life, young, old, you know, ultimately it's,
it's about the soul And even, I mean, I, I guess it's cool to
preach a masterpiece, but at theend of the day, it's a whole lot
cooler when somebody's in that water being transformed because
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you just went directly after that soul And it's easy, it's
easy to get it twisted even on this side of it.
As someone who is preaching, I don't want to just preach
sermons. I want to deliver what God has
for that hurting. So I had no doubt when I walked
to the pulpit that God had a direct word for a lost soul in
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the room. And I mean, at the, at the
beginning of my ministry, it's about, it's been about, it was
about the soul. Today it's about the soul.
I'm not near as good with puppets and stuff as I used to
be. But ultimately the reason I even
brought that up is I was just involved in everything, you
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know, And it's, it's kind of amazing because today, you know,
people ask young people, would you like to be in the choir?
Well, you know, when I was when I was growing up, it didn't
matter if you wanted to be or not.
If if you wanted to be used of God, you're getting in that
choir. You know, I mean, we had a huge
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tenor section and it was not full of guys that were just
incredible singers. Yeah, I, I start, I literally
learned to sing. I learned to sing tenor because
Jim Bob Coots and Jim Bob Coots,that's his name in in Silsbee,
TX stood beside me and sang and I heard the part and you know, I
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but it was because, you know, ifyou're going to be used of God,
if you're going to be in ministry, you need to be
involved in every aspect of everything that's going on at
this church. You know, it was never like when
my pastor's wife first asked me.I had never sang a solo.
She asked when my my first my pastor's wife first.
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I said asked when my pastor's wife first invited me to sing
that solo, It was not asking. It was brother Fish, it's Easter
Sunday, come on down. Brother Taylor Fish is going to
sing this solo. I don't think she had ever heard
me sing before because I was just in the tenor section.
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But there was no warm up. It's just go for it, you know,
and that's been the majority of,of ministry for me is just
jumping in and, and you know, going for it, being involved.
And you're never going to know if you're good at children's
ministry till you go after it. You're never going to know if
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you know it. I mean, it's just a matter of
jumping in and being a part of what God's doing at your home
church. It all begins at the at the
local. Church So when we, when we think
about, you know, personal evangelism within the church, I
feel like most people's mind would go to Bible studies,
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teaching Bible studies, home Bible studies, coffee shop Bible
studies. I've taught tire shop Bible
studies. You know, just you've written a
Bible study, you're very, very passionate about teaching Bible
studies. I think one of the fears of
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teaching Bible studies is how doI, how do I get a Bible study?
How do I go about how do I go about securing that first Bible
study? If I'm a I'm a 15 year old young
man or young woman in my home church, I want to be used of
God. I want to I want to evangelize
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my town, my city. I want to teach a Bible study,
but I don't know how to approachgetting my first Bible study.
What would you say to that person?
Well. 100% I, I love what I lovethat you just like brought the
main issue up because I have a lot of people that stopped me.
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They messed me on Instagram. They stopped me at a meeting,
whatever, or in a revival and they say, hey man, I feel a call
to be a soul winner. Can you give me some tips and
tricks on teaching Bible studies?
And I always ask them, what do you have a student and they're
like, you know, it's deer in theheadlights.
Well, know what they really wanted to know was how do you
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get the Bible study? Because in 2025, it's extremely
easy to teach a Bible study whenyou have a student.
I mean, it, it consists of, of setting the date, buying Little
Caesar's pizza or, you know, and, and getting coffee, you
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paying the bill and then meetingthem and, and literally reading
through the material. Because a quick Google search or
going to your church bookstore or going to PPH or Truth Book Co
or some of these, you know, someof these resource bookstores
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online where you can get resources.
It would, it's not going to takeyou long to find a Bible study
to teach that you could pretty much read word for word.
When I wrote, that's the way we did it to where it could be read
word for word where and there's many that are like that and many
of these that these resources that are out there, they are
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proven. You know, very rarely do I see a
Bible study that is written and published that is not been
refined, you know, and proven. So a lot of these they are, you
know, they are refined, they areproven.
And your, your main deal is to get a student first, first thing
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that I would say is to anybody, you know, anybody that wanted
to, to start evangelize evangelism, teaching Bible
studies is, you know, I have something on my, on my phone
called my Holy Ghost radar. And I have it, it's a, it's a
save note. And basically I, I number it one
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to five. I've done this at maybe
somebody's heard me do this at meetings or different things,
but I'll put Holy Ghost radar and I'll number it, number it
one to five. And many people I meet, people
that I connect with the, the waitress at Olive Garden,
whatever, somebody I met at a plane, I will, you know, if
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there's a connection that's made, I'll, you know, I'll put
their name down and I'll, you know, I'll either exchange
numbers with them, reach out to them, connect with them.
I can't, I already have a Holy Ghost radar that's active.
What is a Holy Ghost radar? That, that is something that you
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use. You know, somebody's on your
mind, somebody's on your radar. Who, who is it that's on your
radar that you want to win to God?
If that answer is nobody, you'renot going to win anybody.
Don't worry about it, but if youwant to do something for God, if
you want that, if you want to beLED of the Holy Ghost, make
yourself A1 through 5. And on this Holy Ghost radar,
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make yourself A1 through 5 prayer list.
It can be your cousins, it can be your classmates.
It can be people that you know, people that you have rapport
with, people that people that would agree to go to dinner with
you anyway or go to lunch with you, people that you already,
you know, already come over to your house.
Or, you know, I would go as far to say, you know, if, if you
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want to teach a Bible study, there's somebody right now that
would agree to sit down with youand let you read a Bible study
too literally. That's what, that what it is.
And I, what, what I would do, I would make a Holy Ghost radar.
And in your note #1 through 5, take a week to pray for that
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prayer list. Every day, pray for them.
Every day, pray for Sally, pray for Joey, pray for whoever.
And just go through that. And at the end of that week?
Joey needs prayer for. Sure, put Joey on your Holy
Ghost radar, but at the end of that week, I would.
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I'm telling you, if you're just getting started, that's why I
would do at the end of that weekof praying for them every single
day, I would call that person ortext that person and said, hey,
for the last week I have prayed for you every single day.
The Lord put you on my heart. I have prayed for you every
single day. Would it be OK if we could get
together? I bought you lunch, we sit down,
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I buy you coffee and we do a Bible study.
I promise you if you did that number one, if you did one, did
that one through 5, one, maybe all of them will agree to do it.
But more than that, you need to understand that there is
probably not one of them people would ever had have ever had
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someone say I've prayed for you every single day this week.
So what do you do? First of all, first of all, you
are interceding for that soul. You are interceding for God to
intervene and move on that person.
But secondly, you're letting me know I have, I have been crying
out for you, man. There's not one person that you
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would, you know, you could say that to and them not be moved.
Well, on the flip side of that too is I feel like if there's
any prayer that got to answer, it's a prayer that God helped me
win a soul. I want to be a soul winner.
That's and and I love the idea of praying for people
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specifically and then following up with those people.
Well, it's it we always we always preach it.
We always say it that God is a God of details and man.
There's no there's no way that you're going to you are going to
call out someone's name every day for solid week for Solomon,
whatever be interceding for thatperson and there not be some
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sort of connection. God do something you know, in
one of the five. There's there's no doubt that
God will do it. And you're following up that
kind of prayer with not just theGod, let me teach them a Bible
study, and then you move on, butactual fervent prayer.
For the 100% and they're and honestly, even after I teach
them the Bible study, they're still on the you know, they're
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still on the Holy Ghost radar. I mean, I've got people on my
Holy Ghost, right radar all overthe world.
You know, that some of them I, Ipray for, I have not taught them
a Bible study, but some of them I boarded a plane and I have
taught the Bible study and some of them have been checked off,
you know, but if, and I've heard, you know, I, it's always
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funny anytime I do this, somebody's like, well, what if I
had more people to write down? And I'm just like, you know
what? You ain't wrote the 1st 5.
Now, why are you worried that like, let's start, let's start
slow, let's start small here. And you know, win one of these
five souls. And then once you won that win
1, mark them off, replace their name, however you want to do it.
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But it's it's all it always. I mean, I always love when you
know, there's an idea that's given, but.
Well, you talk about a recipe tostart seeing the miraculous,
bro. Oh 100%.
And you can you fast over this list, you pray over this list.
And I mean, I'm telling you whenthere have been revivals that we
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have been in where we we came inand I challenged the whole
church to do this and we did 5, 5 new souls.
It's never been in the church, 5backsliders that's walked away
and five personal needs. And I'm telling you, I have seen
entire lists checked off and it's because we got specific
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with God. Well, you, these guys will
probably remember when we first came, I took the, the, the
blackboard up on the platform and we wrote names of people
that were backslidden or whatever.
The young people begin to pray over these names.
A lot of those people are sitting out there today.
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You know, and you know, a lot ofthe reason why our prayers are
not answered is because we ask them is but if we'll pray
according to the will of God, our prayers will be answered.
Yeah. And we know what the will of God
is. It is not his will that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance when
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we start praying the way you're talking about praying.
And our prayers are consumed with seeing the law saved, Bro,
he's a healer, he's a waymaker. He's a miracle worker.
He's he's a deliverer. He's all these things, but he's
mighty to save. He's mighty to save.
And that's. That's what it's all about.
It's impossible to ask a miss when you're interceding for a
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goal. That's awesome man.
For sure now. I had a question on when you
talking about Bible studies and getting a Bible study with
somebody, how often? I know you do a lot of travels
so it's kind of harder for continual follow up, but how
often are you trying to say get that Bible study and lock it in
for as long as you can get it togo?
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Or like what is your goal and plan of attack for that?
Man, first of all, just this, I'm not saying this is the only
way to do it. What I typically what I'm doing,
I'm making a connection with a soul in an airport in AII mean I
I can't tell you how many times it's happened where I sat down
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and they asked, So what are you traveling for?
And I mean, I'm always travelingto go, you know, have a revival
or, you know, go preach somewhere.
And they're like, Oh my God, I can't believe I'm sitting next
to a, to a preacher. You don't know what I've been
dealing with in my life. And it's just like before the
end of it, It's so funny. They're like, what's your I had
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one guy say, what's your handle?And I'm like, what do you mean
my handle? And he was talking about like my
Twitter and or it's not Twitter anymore X handle, whatever.
I'm not. Well, first of all, I don't have
that. I was like, but you can let me
give you my number. And you know, his eyes get that
big because, Oh my God, a preacher would give me his
number, which at whatever point preachers became unaccessible,
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whatever point, you know, preachers and evangelists and
pastors were were so far up there that they couldn't reach
down and and connect that man. I don't know.
I don't know when that was, but I don't when they.
Got so busy. I, I, I had Bishop Holmes here
last year, probably probably thelargest church in North America,
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he told me, he said. Pastor Brewster.
I've never refused someone my number, he said.
The reason I've never refused someone my number is because I'm
after Eversole. I get a hold of.
If I can help him, I'll help him.
Well, let me tell you. He cannot refuse.
Somebody's giving somebody theirnumber.
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I have no excuse. Well, and what people don't
understand about Bishop Holmes and and I got to see it first
hand because we're in a nine month revival there.
I mean, a lot of times we prayedtogether and I mean, people
don't realize, but I mean, he's up on that platform and he's got
a little he's got a little paper.
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He's got a little piece of paperand little bitty notebook, flip
notebook that he keeps in his pocket.
He's writing names of people that he's he's after.
And by that, I'm telling you, I can't tell you how many times
that by you know, he, he spent all afternoon trying to contact
them people, he told me buildingthat building that church that
he would, he would, he'd spend all afternoon calling.
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He said, you know what? So you know what, Brother Fish,
he said the insurance people have this figured out.
There's a reason they have so much money, he said, because
they're always calling. They're always reaching out.
They have, no, I mean, they havenot one thought in their mind
that they're interrupting anything.
You know, I mean, I have, I'm, I'm, I'm going to go ahead and
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spill the beans here. A lot of people don't realize
it. And I think every church should
have it. And I can't tell you how many
revivals that I've had since being in that revival where we
started it. But they actually have a call
center in North Little Rock where they there are people in
there and they are calling, they're calling visitors,
they're calling people that wentthrough.
And more than that, I've been inthere with Bishop Holmes, with
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him, him and me both calling these people.
Our call center here is a littlesmaller than theirs but but we
got one. Well, he, he, it's, it's a it's
amazing. You know, I going going back to
your question, what was the original question?
What do we, what do we go, wheredo we go from, from the initial
connection? How long do you want to stretch
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it out? I mean, at the end of the day, I
am not a pastor. So I am trying to connect them
with, with churches. But I mean, there's people that
I've connected in church that churches that I mean, they've,
they win that church and they'vestarted family.
They've started a family and they're winning souls and, and
all that. And that's awesome.
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But man, you never, I'll just say I would love to teach a
Bible study as long as they would allow me in, in this day
through Zoom. You can, you can go as long as
needed. But I, I one example that I have
is particularly after that Asbury revival that I went and
preached at, we did. I think it was 1920 weeks,
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something like that of Zoom Bible studies with people that
we had, we had prayed through the Holy Ghost there and man, we
had at one point we had 2324 people at once that we were just
discipling and trying to plug inthe churches.
And obviously some of them, someof them fell off, some of them
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didn't stay. But you know, I, I hear a lot
of, you know, there's times thatpeople would will say negative
things, but I can't tell you howmany doors that I've knocked on
in cities and find out that findout that years ago they had got
the Holy Ghost and you know, there was some kind of
connection that they had with Pentecost.
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And here's a Pentecostal preacher knocking on their door.
You never know where you what you know, where they're at on
their journey, you know, towardsGod.
And if I can just connect with that person and and just get
them a little bit further, you know, obviously I want to teach
them truth. Obviously I want to lock in and
disciple. And if if that opportunity is
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there, I I will do it. But you know this despise not
the day of small things. You know, you never know what
God is using you to do to set something up for later in
somebody's life. Absolutely.
With the whole somebody plant, somebody waters.
God gives the encourage. Yeah, yeah.
And so that's that was another thing that I was going to ask
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you about is for me personally, I have never, I have never won
anybody to God that somebody else didn't have a part to play
in it. Every I've won a lot of people
to God through Bible studies andpersonal evangelism.
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And but every time somebody elsehad something else to do with it
and. You're saying years before?
Or, or even either years before,or somebody else brought them to
church and I taught them the Bible study, I discipled them,
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or I brought them to church and somebody else wound up making
the connection with them and discipling them or whatever.
But it was a group effort almost, I would say 99% of the
time. And I believe it's that that
principle of one plants another waters, but God gives the
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increase. It's it's so that nobody can get
the glory from that soul but God.
Do you have an experience similar to that or?
Man, you know, first of all, letme say, I mean, there's nothing
wrong that wrong with that. That's where we want to be
anyway, because the more connections that a soul has in a
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in a body, the more hooks you got in them, the more they're
going to stay, you know, but man, I, I'll say this, I've, I,
I just always try to do my best to be sensitive.
We, we really live a pretty on the go chaotic life.
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I mean, I've, I think I've been home six days this year and
that's not like a trophy of Oh God, I've been home 6.
No, that I mean, that's just theway I life and it's always go
pack up, go, pack up, go. But I mean, there are many times
that I've connected with someone, you know, in a in a
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convenience store. I've connected with people out
on St. evangelism or I've connected with people in prayer
booths or I've connected with people in the grocery store.
And something came of that more than just that one connection.
And it's because I pushed it that direction.
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You know, it, it would really blow our minds if we sit and
thought about it, like if we went a solid week and documented
every single outside conversation that we
accidentally had with somebody, it blow our minds the amount of
people that we actually talked to.
Do I bring up God and Holy Ghost?
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I mean, do I bring that up everytime?
Absolutely not. I've got to be sensitive to
those moments, you know, when God is when God is moving on
somebody or you know, my job is to find that hungry soul.
You know, so at at the end of the day, man, really that's
where we want to be to where as the people that I mean, if if I
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like had this one soul and you know what, that's so long way
and I'm just going to keep it right here.
What did I do? You know, I've got to I've got
to plug them into the body of Christ anyway.
So that's what it's about. But many times, many times I've
been out and about and made major connections.
They even prayed people to the Holy Ghost on, you know, on the
street and stuff. But it's at the end of the day,
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you want to connect them to the body anyway.
That's what it's all about, you know.
Yeah, So we, we talked a little bit earlier about, you know,
Spirit LED evangelism before, before we started recording.
I think this is a, a very, very important point.
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And you've already touched on ita little bit with your your,
what'd you call it, your Holy Ghost.
Holy Ghost Radar. Holy Ghost Radar, who's on your
radar? So, you know, I believe again,
like I said before, that if you will ask God for, for the
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ability to win somebody to God, that is a prayer.
He will answer. I have no doubt in my mind he
will answer that prayer. So, you know, it's a a prayer
that I began to pray as just a young man and when I began to
seek after God to be a soul winner, God begin to make these
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God connections where I didn't have to go looking for a Bible
study. Bible studies came to me and I
could I could tell a lot of stories about that.
But you know, it seems to me that that is possibly one of the
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greatest and most effective forms of evangelism that there
is just building a relationship with God and seeking God to be
fruitful in his Kingdom. It's it's, it's like a husband
and a wife. If they get intimate, there's
going to be babies. If you get intimate with God,
there's going to be souls born into the Kingdom of God.
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Can you talk about that? Yeah, well, here's the deal.
I, I want to say this, I'm a, I'm a lifestyle evangelist.
You know, I, I'm going to be looking for a soul anywhere I
go. And it's because I'm praying,
Lord, leave me to somebody, you know, leave me to somebody
praying for those opportunity, those opportunities.
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But I want to say also at the, at the same time, and I, I'm not
saying you said this, but I do, especially in the throes of a,
of a revival, I like to do consistent evangelism events.
And the reason that is, and whatI mean by evangelism events is
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we'll do a prayer booth, we'll go knock doors.
The way I like to do evangelism is to throw out the Nets.
Meaning I'm not going to just doone thing.
We're going to do many things. If, if we've got a, if we've got
100 people showing up to outreach, you know, the, the way
that I'd do it, I'd have, you know, 20 of them do one thing,
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20 of them do another thing, 20 another thing, 20 another thing,
20 another thing. I think I'm out of 20s by now
but. About 140 by.
Now, but but what I'm saying is is I don't.
I love it man. People tell me I hear it all the
time. Door knocking doesn't work
anymore. Not in this generation.
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Well, door knocking doesn't workbecause you don't work, right?
Door knocking don't work becauseyou don't door knock.
That's why it don't work. I've won many souls had several.
I can't I can't tell you how many Bible studies I've I've
received or I've I've gotten andtaught to a hungry soul that I
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knocked on the door and they said, man, I've just been
praying for somebody to come by,you know, but do I send the
whole church outdoor knock in? No, We'll do many, many things.
But a lot of times what I have learned is doing evangelism
events like that consistently and, and I know, I know people
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work jobs and I give, I give a lot of Saturdays to God
evangelism. Yesterday we went to this.
What was it? The World Equestrian Center.
It was unbelievable. If you if you ever see Taylor
fish on a horse, that'll probably be a miracle too.
But it was it was amazing. I, I didn't go soul winning as I
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give a lot of Saturdays to God going out trying to trying to
stir something up. But also I, I understand it's
the law of the harvest, You know, whatsoever, man.
So with that, shall we reap? And I always know when, when
there's a big outreach day on Saturday, it doesn't matter if
one of those people show up or not.
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That's going to be a full house full of visitors because, you
know, it's the law of the harvest.
God is going to, God's going to begin to bring in the hungry
people. Anyway.
I just learned that God works when I work, you know, and.
We, we do a lot of different evangelism, evangelism events,
as you know, prayer booths and door knocking and these
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different things. But I've learned that those will
stir up the normal God connections that happen during
the week. I mean, I've seen people say,
well, we just don't do anything.All all we do is lifestyle
evangelism. But there's not a lot of things
happening. You know, there's not a lot of
things happening as far as Biblestudies or I know all you guys,
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you teach Bible studies, but I'msaying I can't tell you how many
times I go to a place and they're like, we just don't do
evangelism events and they've got one Bible study teacher and
that's the pastor. That's not the will of God for
any place. So what do I do?
We get on the streets and we do surveys.
I've got a survey that I have. It's on my Instagram.
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You can download it for free andit's a resource that can be used
anywhere. It's been used in every metro,
any, every rule, every trailer park ever.
I mean, you name it, it's been, it's been used in that kind of,
it's been used in that kind of where.
Can they find that out? It's on my Instagram in my bio
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or I can share it with you guys and you guys can make it a link.
We can. Put that in the link below so
I'll just Scroll down and it'll be in the. 100% Well, what I've
learned is, is, you know, if thechurch will go to these, start
doing these evangel evangelism events, it'll stir something up.
And, and next thing you know, somebody comes to and you're
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like, I'm at this, I'm at this lady at the grocery store and
she's hungry and I got to pray with her.
Well, and that's because we started up at a prayer booth
somewhere, you know what I'm saying?
So. I feel like with the surveys,
the prayer booths, it gives people something to do.
I know when I was younger and wewould do like the neighborhood
outreach, I would always dread it because I didn't know what to
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say. And we would just go up to the
door and just say, hey, can we pray for you?
When they're like, who are you? But with the survey gives you
like something to do when you'rethere.
And people, we did it a lot in some place.
We'd give the survey and we got a lot of Bible studies out of it
within like 30 minutes. And so and some people wouldn't
follow up after the text comes through and all that kind of
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stuff. But we did have Bible studies.
Well, that's the nature, you know, that's the nature of
evangelism. You got busy people and I, I
mean, I've got, I don't know, 121 unanswered text message
right now. How many do y'all got?
OK, I don't even have my phone. It's because it's because of
these group texts people try to put you in, you know, But
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anyway, stuff on. Silent.
What I'm, what I'm saying is, isthat I mean, I'm busy.
Everybody's busy in the nature of soul winning is man, you got
to keep casting, you know, you got to keep casting.
We're fishing for souls here. And you know, some days, some
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days they're, they're so hungry and you're, they're weeping and
they're crying then. And you know, man, this is a
home run situation. God's going to do this and you
may not talk to him for three more months, you know, but
that's why when I, when I do, when I do outreach, I always
have a point person that will take these surveys and put them
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in some kind of excel or database and have the call team
call through those sheets. Because otherwise, if everybody
just keeps those surveys, I mean, they're going to throw
them on the dash, they're going to fall through the cracks, you
know, and man, I, I want to do my best to follow up on every,
every survey and everybody's like, what do you do for follow
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up? Well, I pick up the phone and I
call them. That's the best follow up that
you can do. Yeah, that's a novel idea.
Yeah, that's that's awesome. Well, we're going to we're going
to start bringing it to a close here.
But and I'm not going to do 3 Closings on the podcast.
That's just five more minutes. That's just that's just what I'm
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preaching. But I want you to talk about
this deal you do, called Blitz. Talk to our audience about what
Blitz is and the purpose of it and how you do it.
Yeah. So we just, we just did our
first blitz in Saint Augustine. Not far.
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How far is that from here? Yeah.
It's hour and a. Half it's not it's not very far,
but man, the Lord put put blitz in my spirit one night I was in,
I was in Zanesville, OH, we had just had 28 days of evangelism
in a row. We were on the streets and in
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Zanesville. I was preaching for Aaron
Bounds. Man, what a dynamic man that he
is. We were in, we're in prayer,
literally we had a an Angel walkinto our prayer meeting and man,
it was just so such a powerful moment.
And brother, brother Bounds said, man, the harvest Angel was
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just walked in. We begin to pray God just
bombing the place man at them 7:00 AM prayers there in
Zanesville. They happen every day.
It's just dynamic. But anyway, with the balance he
begin to prophecy. You know the Lord you know he's
sending this harvest Angel to gobefore us.
We kicked off outreach man we wepulled a guy off the side of the
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bridge man he's about to drive into the into the water.
He had he begin to say, man, I've wrecked my family, it's my
fault, I'm going to kill myself.We prayed with him.
We did a survey with him. We taught him Bible study.
We baptized him in Jesus name. He's filled with the Holy Ghost.
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I believe we baptized 49 people in 28 days.
It was just a dynamic time of outreach, door knocking, prayer
booth St. evangelism. Somebody says what street
evangelism. Well, it's when you got, you
know, your vibe on a survey and you know, you got to a few
scriptures, you know, to help you if, if somebody needs it for
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prayer and anybody you see on the street that you feel you
talk to them and you ask them, Hey, listen, I'm from Ocala
Church and I'm at we we've been praying that God will send us to
people that need us. We know everybody has a need.
Is there something we can pray for in your life?
And I can't tell you how many times we've done that different
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places and God connected, you know, made a connection.
But anyway, I remember I was we had extended one more week and
my son's school books had just came in down in Silsbee.
And my superwoman wife was goingto drive all the way down from
Zanesville to go to go get them books and start school with
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Ezra. And as I'm loading the van, I'm
telling you, the Holy Ghost hit me and the Lord begin to deal
with me. I mean, I'm having a straight up
Holy Ghost prayer meeting in themiddle of this apartment complex
where they got to stay and they had rented us an apartment type
situation that we were there. And where did I'm just weeping
and crying. And the Lord begins to deal with
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me about going and partnering with a church planner and
bringing a large army to that city.
And I didn't know where exactly at first with the Lord put my
spirit Saint Augustine and I, I called by the Joey Campatella
who was incredible prophet of God and I begin I called him on
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a Sunday morning. I begin to give him the vision
about how I wanted to bring an army to this new city and I knew
that they had wanted to plant there and I knew that they had
planned on planning a church there.
Holy Ghost begin to do with me about Saint Augustine.
I did not know it was the oldestestablished city in America.
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And man, I don't believe it's ironic.
I believe it was God appointed that it happened that way.
We brought 238 people from across the nation.
I believe it was somewhere around 30 different states that
people were represented, some ofthe greatest soul winners of
America and also some of the thenewest soul winners in America.
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People that never won a soul, people that never taught a Bible
study. And we did man.
We did 3 days of, we did 3 days of sessions and evangelism and
in three days time we knocked the entire city of Saint
Augustine and we we set up. So you knocked every door in
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Saint? Augustine every every door in
Saint Augustine and we split thesplit that team up.
There's so many reports of different things that happened.
By the end of that weekend, we had 49 people get the Holy
Ghost. We had a kind of a cool story
that I want to tell now that it's, it's as far as I know, it
hasn't been I haven't even had an opportunity to tell it.
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But we brother Dell, brother Devin Coleman from Potts Camp,
Mississippi, He was and he was there with us.
And man, there was one service Ilaid hands on and I begin to
pray for him. And he told me later that in
that moment God had given him a vision and he, God gave him a
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vision of a woman getting up outof a wheelchair.
And anyway, he was just, I don'tknow what it means.
We were out in Saint Augustine and he was he was kind of near
the square where we were going to be holding the services
outside. And I'm a firm believer in the
church getting outside. You know, a lot of the church
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knows how to operate inside the building, but not outside the
building. The majority of the miracles
that happen in the Bible happen outside the temple, outside the
building. And I believe that we, we have
to, we have to be a church that's willing to go beyond our
borders, you know, but saying that brother Coleman, he, he saw
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this, he saw the woman that he had seen in his vision in person
in Saint Augustine. And he was just kind of taken
back. And he's like, Oh my goodness.
And he went and he talks to his family.
He asked if he could pray with her.
And they, they pray together andhe, he invites them to the event
that we're having outdoors, which is not far from where he
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was. And she, she begin to say, you
know, I'm, I was actually, we just came here to eat, but we
were actually in Saint Augustineto we were actually here in
Saint Augustine to, to take cancer treatments.
She said I was taking cancer treatments.
She said, I've been dealing withthis for some time.
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He said, well, please come and to prayer at the square is what
we called it. And man, they, that family came
out and by the end of it, this woman receive the Holy Ghost.
She was baptized in Jesus name. There is a picture of her
standing up out of her wheelchair.
The only reason she was in that wheelchair is because she was
just so incredibly weak. But she's standing up with
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strength, hands lifted, God filling her, you know, God
filling her with the Holy Ghost.And we got the report, she is
100% cancer free. She went back to the doctor.
God healed her right there in that moment.
And just so many miracles. There was a man with a blind eye
that was open. So many great things that
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happened. But to answer your question,
what was blitz or what is blitz?Blitz is something that not only
are are we going to bring the cities to to partner with church
planners and bring an army that they could couldn't bring
themself, but also it's a training ground so that people
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can come to, you know, come to it and they can they can learn
and be be hands on. They can go out and ultimately
be connected with some of the greatest soul winners in
America. I can't tell you how many just
friendships and and connections that were made there.
People messed me all the time. I can't.
I'm so thankful that, you know, I got to come and I'm connected
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to so many radical people, you know, and they're from that.
There's been so many people that's done their own events at
home and ultimately that was thedeal.
This is, I mean, number one, it's the Jesus show, you know,
and I had one man call me and say, what are you going to do if
events start happening like thisall over the United States?
I said, well, I'm going to rejoice, you know, I'm going to
rejoice, I'm going to shout. I mean, it's, it's I, I did not
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coin this. I mean, this is that book of
Acts recipe, not the Taylor fishrecipe, but we, we, we've
already got plans of of 1 comingup possibly at the beginning of
next year, first quarter of the year.
And the city is, I can't say it yet, so.
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Stay tuned. So yeah, I mean, you know the
the saying is is you will becomeyour 5 closest friends 100%.
So if you want to be a soul winner, you need to surround
yourself with people that are soul winners.
I said the other day, all my allmy close friends are soul
winners. It's the truth and I understand
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I'm a little weird. I don't fit in everyone
everywhere, and I don't have to.And I'm OK with it and I'm going
to. I want to make a difference in
somebody. I want to find a soul.
Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for
listening to this podcast, watching this podcast, however
you're consuming the content. Thank you Brother Fish for
coming on. And man, you can be a soul
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winner. God wants you to be a soul
winner. It's the will of God that His
people reach the loss. If you have the Holy Ghost, you
can be an evangelist. If you never step behind the
pulpit, you can be an evangelist.
God gave us the Holy Ghost, and when He gave us the Holy Ghost,
He gave us the power to be witnesses. 100% God bless.
You and musicians come.
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I'm going to tell you, show you something else.
We we're doing our first video deal.
So I'm showing y'all the set here.
My The church that I pastor bought me a Mercedes G wagon for
my first pastoral anniversary. That's the centerpiece on our
table. We're going to talk about Kevin
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or leave that for the. Next, we're not going to talk
about Joey's dad, right? Yeah, This is this is Kevin the
the mule. Don't get it twisted.
It's not a donkey. Yeah, ace ears are in frame, so.
Good deal. But yes, we are excited today
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about having brother fish with us and where the fish is an
awesome evangelist and man. We had church today.
We had OYC May the 1st and 2nd. The Ocala Youth Conference for
the Nathaniel Irshan preached the first night and I guess he
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did all right. No, it was it was outstanding.
He did an incredible job. 2 legsand a piece of an ear and it was
it was awesome. And then brother fish preached.
I shall be a like at the Buccaneer tree and man it was
awesome. So a lot of young people receive
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the Holy Ghost and their Friday night in that service, the
brother fish. The there was just wave after
wave of the Holy Ghost and it was awesome.
Then then today in our service today, I think 3 got the Holy
Ghost 2 baptized in Jesus name. And so excited about that.
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And so we decided to bring him on the podcast to talk about
evangelism and talk about some methods of evangelism that work
in this generation. He's an extremely effective
evangelist and we want him to goahead and talk to us about some
of those those things. Brother Fish.
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I guess what we can do is just basically talk about how you got
started as as an evangelist. Did you start as a preacher or
did you start as a soul winner? Or did you start?
How did how did you get your start in evangelism?
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Well, First things first, I wantto back up and I'll answer that,
but I want to say how honored I have been to be here in Ocala
and what an incredible youth conference that they had here.
And man, you know, there's so many different, so many
different conferences you can goto.
I know that this one is fairly new, but man, without a doubt,
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as he said, there was just wave after wave of the Holy Ghost.
They hit that place. And man, Friday night, really,
there was no dismissal, the HolyGhost, just a lot of kids
praying around the altar and just lingering.
And man, you know, there's, you don't go to a conference these
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days without someone mentioning an afterburner.
But the afterburner was a lingering prayer meeting.
And it was such, a such a great time.
So I don't know the dates next year probably around the same
time, but put Ocala Youth Conference on your on your
calendar because no doubt it will be special.
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But March 19th and 20th is why we're plugging.
Absolutely, absolutely. Thank you so much.
We were honored to have you. It was, it was a blast.
And can't say enough about the church here, Brother, I, I was
never here before, but man, there's such a incredible
atmosphere and just spirit of prayer that's been cultivated.
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Sadly, it's not like that everywhere.
But I want to tell you there there's, I mean, they were
praying in that prayer room, thewhole church an hour before and
even today. And what a great move of the
Holy Ghost that we had. But to, to answer that question,
I, I started, I started out working altars and teaching
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Bible studies long before ever preached a meeting or, or
anything like that. And I, I started youth pastoring
around 19. But even before that, if you
were going to be a preacher at Bishop White's church, you
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weren't, you weren't just going to preach.
You know, as a matter of fact, you needed you need to be it.
It was really a rule that you needed to be involved in
multiple ministries outside of the pulpit.
And I was involved in everythingfrom puppet ministry to, you
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know, I, I changed the sign. We did St.
Rage, which was going out and doing kids ministry in, in parks
and man, I can't tell you how many times I've, I've been on
the, the back of a trailer and we had megaphones going through,
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you know, just rough parts of the city screaming free snow
cones come and man, these these kids would come out and we'd see
God move on them. And it was it, man.
And at the end of the day, it was never about a puppet.
It was always about a soul. And even today, as I preach
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today, you know, I really didn'tpreach much of much of A sermon
today. The Lord gave me something, gave
me a set of scriptures. I got up and preached.
And by the end of it, we're pulling for souls.
And, you know, God's pinpointingsouls.
And that's, that's really what the focus was always on, on
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souls. And you know, Bishop White, he'd
always told me, I remember when I first went to him, he said,
Taylor, he said, you know, you, you show me ministry and I'll
show you a pulpit. And then he said, you know, if,
if you, if you truly go after ministry and you'll show me
ministry, you will never lack a pulpit.
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And you know, that's, that's proved to be true.
You know, we're, we're, we're very thankful that God has
opened doors. But above all that, it's, it's
not about the doors, it's about the souls that are behind those
doors. And I, I understand that for,
you know, a young man or a younglady that's watching this
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podcast, it's very easy because I, because I remember as a young
person looking up at the, at theplatform saying, man, how
awesome it would be to, it also would be to, to preach that
meeting. Well, now that I preach the
meeting, all I do is, you know, I'm laying on the floor
agonizing, begging God for a word.
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It's not near as cool as they say it is.
But it, it was I, I always leaned into, I always leaned
into to souls 1st. And that, that's what, that's
really how I got my start evangelizing.
Yeah. Yeah, I think it was.
It's been attributed to Brother Billy Cole who said if you, if
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you seek for a pulpit, you'll always seek for a pulpit.
If you seek for souls, you'll always seek for souls.
Even if a pulpit's in the way, you'll, you'll still have a
heart to seek souls and not justa podium.
So, and I think it's such an important thing for young people
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to start with a a desire to see people saved, not a place to be
seen. Well, and I, I want to say this
to piggybacking on that, becauseI know a lot of times we say,
you know, ministry is not just about the pulpit, but I would
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even go as far to say is as a minister, you know, when I'm in
the pulpit, it, it's still not be about being seen when I'm in
the pulpit, it's still about that lost soul.
I mean, brother, we, I mean, we saw Spanish speaking people get
the Holy Ghost today. We, we saw, I mean, all
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different walks of life, young, old, you know, ultimately it's,
it's about the soul And even, I mean, I, I guess it's cool to
preach a masterpiece, but at theend of the day, it's a whole lot
cooler when somebody's in that water being transformed because
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you just went directly after that soul And it's easy, it's
easy to get it twisted even on this side of it.
As someone who is preaching, I don't want to just preach
sermons. I want to deliver what God has
for that hurting. So I had no doubt when I walked
to the pulpit that God had a direct word for a lost soul in
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the room. And I mean, at the, at the
beginning of my ministry, it's about, it's been about, it was
about the soul. Today it's about the soul.
I'm not near as good with puppets and stuff as I used to
be. But ultimately the reason I even
brought that up is I was just involved in everything, you
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know, And it's, it's kind of amazing because today, you know,
people ask young people, would you like to be in the choir?
Well, you know, when I was when I was growing up, it didn't
matter if you wanted to be or not.
If if you wanted to be used of God, you're getting in that
choir. You know, I mean, we had a huge
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tenor section and it was not full of guys that were just
incredible singers. Yeah, I, I start, I literally
learned to sing. I learned to sing tenor because
Jim Bob Coots and Jim Bob Coots,that's his name in in Silsbee,
TX stood beside me and sang and I heard the part and you know, I
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but it was because, you know, ifyou're going to be used of God,
if you're going to be in ministry, you need to be
involved in every aspect of everything that's going on at
this church. You know, it was never like when
my pastor's wife first asked me.I had never sang a solo.
She asked when my my first my pastor's wife first.
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I said asked when my pastor's wife first invited me to sing
that solo, It was not asking. It was brother Fish, it's Easter
Sunday, come on down. Brother Taylor Fish is going to
sing this solo. I don't think she had ever heard
me sing before because I was just in the tenor section.
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But there was no warm up. It's just go for it, you know,
and that's been the majority of,of ministry for me is just
jumping in and, and you know, going for it, being involved.
And you're never going to know if you're good at children's
ministry till you go after it. You're never going to know if
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you know it. I mean, it's just a matter of
jumping in and being a part of what God's doing at your home
church. It all begins at the at the
local. Church So when we, when we think
about, you know, personal evangelism within the church, I
feel like most people's mind would go to Bible studies,
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teaching Bible studies, home Bible studies, coffee shop Bible
studies. I've taught tire shop Bible
studies. You know, just you've written a
Bible study, you're very, very passionate about teaching Bible
studies. I think one of the fears of
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teaching Bible studies is how doI, how do I get a Bible study?
How do I go about how do I go about securing that first Bible
study? If I'm a I'm a 15 year old young
man or young woman in my home church, I want to be used of
God. I want to I want to evangelize
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my town, my city. I want to teach a Bible study,
but I don't know how to approachgetting my first Bible study.
What would you say to that person?
Well. 100% I, I love what I lovethat you just like brought the
main issue up because I have a lot of people that stopped me.
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They messed me on Instagram. They stopped me at a meeting,
whatever, or in a revival and they say, hey man, I feel a call
to be a soul winner. Can you give me some tips and
tricks on teaching Bible studies?
And I always ask them, what do you have a student and they're
like, you know, it's deer in theheadlights.
Well, know what they really wanted to know was how do you
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get the Bible study? Because in 2025, it's extremely
easy to teach a Bible study whenyou have a student.
I mean, it, it consists of, of setting the date, buying Little
Caesar's pizza or, you know, and, and getting coffee, you
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paying the bill and then meetingthem and, and literally reading
through the material. Because a quick Google search or
going to your church bookstore or going to PPH or Truth Book Co
or some of these, you know, someof these resource bookstores
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online where you can get resources.
It would, it's not going to takeyou long to find a Bible study
to teach that you could pretty much read word for word.
When I wrote, that's the way we did it to where it could be read
word for word where and there's many that are like that and many
of these that these resources that are out there, they are
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proven. You know, very rarely do I see a
Bible study that is written and published that is not been
refined, you know, and proven. So a lot of these they are, you
know, they are refined, they areproven.
And your, your main deal is to get a student first, first thing
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that I would say is to anybody, you know, anybody that wanted
to, to start evangelize evangelism, teaching Bible
studies is, you know, I have something on my, on my phone
called my Holy Ghost radar. And I have it, it's a, it's a
save note. And basically I, I number it one
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to five. I've done this at maybe
somebody's heard me do this at meetings or different things,
but I'll put Holy Ghost radar and I'll number it, number it
one to five. And many people I meet, people
that I connect with the, the waitress at Olive Garden,
whatever, somebody I met at a plane, I will, you know, if
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there's a connection that's made, I'll, you know, I'll put
their name down and I'll, you know, I'll either exchange
numbers with them, reach out to them, connect with them.
I can't, I already have a Holy Ghost radar that's active.
What is a Holy Ghost radar? That, that is something that you
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use. You know, somebody's on your
mind, somebody's on your radar. Who, who is it that's on your
radar that you want to win to God?
If that answer is nobody, you'renot going to win anybody.
Don't worry about it, but if youwant to do something for God, if
you want that, if you want to beLED of the Holy Ghost, make
yourself A1 through 5. And on this Holy Ghost radar,
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make yourself A1 through 5 prayer list.
It can be your cousins, it can be your classmates.
It can be people that you know, people that you have rapport
with, people that people that would agree to go to dinner with
you anyway or go to lunch with you, people that you already,
you know, already come over to your house.
Or, you know, I would go as far to say, you know, if, if you
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want to teach a Bible study, there's somebody right now that
would agree to sit down with youand let you read a Bible study
too literally. That's what, that what it is.
And I, what, what I would do, I would make a Holy Ghost radar.
And in your note #1 through 5, take a week to pray for that
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prayer list. Every day, pray for them.
Every day, pray for Sally, pray for Joey, pray for whoever.
And just go through that. And at the end of that week?
Joey needs prayer for. Sure, put Joey on your Holy
Ghost radar, but at the end of that week, I would.
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I'm telling you, if you're just getting started, that's why I
would do at the end of that weekof praying for them every single
day, I would call that person ortext that person and said, hey,
for the last week I have prayed for you every single day.
The Lord put you on my heart. I have prayed for you every
single day. Would it be OK if we could get
together? I bought you lunch, we sit down,
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I buy you coffee and we do a Bible study.
I promise you if you did that number one, if you did one, did
that one through 5, one, maybe all of them will agree to do it.
But more than that, you need to understand that there is
probably not one of them people would ever had have ever had
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someone say I've prayed for you every single day this week.
So what do you do? First of all, first of all, you
are interceding for that soul. You are interceding for God to
intervene and move on that person.
But secondly, you're letting me know I have, I have been crying
out for you, man. There's not one person that you
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would, you know, you could say that to and them not be moved.
Well, on the flip side of that too is I feel like if there's
any prayer that got to answer, it's a prayer that God helped me
win a soul. I want to be a soul winner.
That's and and I love the idea of praying for people
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specifically and then following up with those people.
Well, it's it we always we always preach it.
We always say it that God is a God of details and man.
There's no there's no way that you're going to you are going to
call out someone's name every day for solid week for Solomon,
whatever be interceding for thatperson and there not be some
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sort of connection. God do something you know, in
one of the five. There's there's no doubt that
God will do it. And you're following up that
kind of prayer with not just theGod, let me teach them a Bible
study, and then you move on, butactual fervent prayer.
For the 100% and they're and honestly, even after I teach
them the Bible study, they're still on the you know, they're
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still on the Holy Ghost radar. I mean, I've got people on my
Holy Ghost, right radar all overthe world.
You know, that some of them I, Ipray for, I have not taught them
a Bible study, but some of them I boarded a plane and I have
taught the Bible study and some of them have been checked off,
you know, but if, and I've heard, you know, I, it's always
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funny anytime I do this, somebody's like, well, what if I
had more people to write down? And I'm just like, you know
what? You ain't wrote the 1st 5.
Now, why are you worried that like, let's start, let's start
slow, let's start small here. And you know, win one of these
five souls. And then once you won that win
1, mark them off, replace their name, however you want to do it.
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But it's it's all it always. I mean, I always love when you
know, there's an idea that's given, but.
Well, you talk about a recipe tostart seeing the miraculous,
bro. Oh 100%.
And you can you fast over this list, you pray over this list.
And I mean, I'm telling you whenthere have been revivals that we
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have been in where we we came inand I challenged the whole
church to do this and we did 5, 5 new souls.
It's never been in the church, 5backsliders that's walked away
and five personal needs. And I'm telling you, I have seen
entire lists checked off and it's because we got specific
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with God. Well, you, these guys will
probably remember when we first came, I took the, the, the
blackboard up on the platform and we wrote names of people
that were backslidden or whatever.
The young people begin to pray over these names.
A lot of those people are sitting out there today.
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You know, and you know, a lot ofthe reason why our prayers are
not answered is because we ask them is but if we'll pray
according to the will of God, our prayers will be answered.
Yeah. And we know what the will of God
is. It is not his will that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance when
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we start praying the way you're talking about praying.
And our prayers are consumed with seeing the law saved, Bro,
he's a healer, he's a waymaker. He's a miracle worker.
He's he's a deliverer. He's all these things, but he's
mighty to save. He's mighty to save.
And that's. That's what it's all about.
It's impossible to ask a miss when you're interceding for a
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goal. That's awesome man.
For sure now. I had a question on when you
talking about Bible studies and getting a Bible study with
somebody, how often? I know you do a lot of travels
so it's kind of harder for continual follow up, but how
often are you trying to say get that Bible study and lock it in
for as long as you can get it togo?
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Or like what is your goal and plan of attack for that?
Man, first of all, just this, I'm not saying this is the only
way to do it. What I typically what I'm doing,
I'm making a connection with a soul in an airport in AII mean I
I can't tell you how many times it's happened where I sat down
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and they asked, So what are you traveling for?
And I mean, I'm always travelingto go, you know, have a revival
or, you know, go preach somewhere.
And they're like, Oh my God, I can't believe I'm sitting next
to a, to a preacher. You don't know what I've been
dealing with in my life. And it's just like before the
end of it, It's so funny. They're like, what's your I had
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one guy say, what's your handle?And I'm like, what do you mean
my handle? And he was talking about like my
Twitter and or it's not Twitter anymore X handle, whatever.
I'm not. Well, first of all, I don't have
that. I was like, but you can let me
give you my number. And you know, his eyes get that
big because, Oh my God, a preacher would give me his
number, which at whatever point preachers became unaccessible,
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whatever point, you know, preachers and evangelists and
pastors were were so far up there that they couldn't reach
down and and connect that man. I don't know.
I don't know when that was, but I don't when they.
Got so busy. I, I, I had Bishop Holmes here
last year, probably probably thelargest church in North America,
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he told me, he said. Pastor Brewster.
I've never refused someone my number, he said.
The reason I've never refused someone my number is because I'm
after Eversole. I get a hold of.
If I can help him, I'll help him.
Well, let me tell you. He cannot refuse.
Somebody's giving somebody theirnumber.
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I have no excuse. Well, and what people don't
understand about Bishop Holmes and and I got to see it first
hand because we're in a nine month revival there.
I mean, a lot of times we prayedtogether and I mean, people
don't realize, but I mean, he's up on that platform and he's got
a little he's got a little paper.
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He's got a little piece of paperand little bitty notebook, flip
notebook that he keeps in his pocket.
He's writing names of people that he's he's after.
And by that, I'm telling you, I can't tell you how many times
that by you know, he, he spent all afternoon trying to contact
them people, he told me buildingthat building that church that
he would, he would, he'd spend all afternoon calling.
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He said, you know what? So you know what, Brother Fish,
he said the insurance people have this figured out.
There's a reason they have so much money, he said, because
they're always calling. They're always reaching out.
They have, no, I mean, they havenot one thought in their mind
that they're interrupting anything.
You know, I mean, I have, I'm, I'm, I'm going to go ahead and
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spill the beans here. A lot of people don't realize
it. And I think every church should
have it. And I can't tell you how many
revivals that I've had since being in that revival where we
started it. But they actually have a call
center in North Little Rock where they there are people in
there and they are calling, they're calling visitors,
they're calling people that wentthrough.
And more than that, I've been inthere with Bishop Holmes, with
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him, him and me both calling these people.
Our call center here is a littlesmaller than theirs but but we
got one. Well, he, he, it's, it's a it's
amazing. You know, I going going back to
your question, what was the original question?
What do we, what do we go, wheredo we go from, from the initial
connection? How long do you want to stretch
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it out? I mean, at the end of the day, I
am not a pastor. So I am trying to connect them
with, with churches. But I mean, there's people that
I've connected in church that churches that I mean, they've,
they win that church and they'vestarted family.
They've started a family and they're winning souls and, and
all that. And that's awesome.
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But man, you never, I'll just say I would love to teach a
Bible study as long as they would allow me in, in this day
through Zoom. You can, you can go as long as
needed. But I, I one example that I have
is particularly after that Asbury revival that I went and
preached at, we did. I think it was 1920 weeks,
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something like that of Zoom Bible studies with people that
we had, we had prayed through the Holy Ghost there and man, we
had at one point we had 2324 people at once that we were just
discipling and trying to plug inthe churches.
And obviously some of them, someof them fell off, some of them
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didn't stay. But you know, I, I hear a lot
of, you know, there's times thatpeople would will say negative
things, but I can't tell you howmany doors that I've knocked on
in cities and find out that findout that years ago they had got
the Holy Ghost and you know, there was some kind of
connection that they had with Pentecost.
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And here's a Pentecostal preacher knocking on their door.
You never know where you what you know, where they're at on
their journey, you know, towardsGod.
And if I can just connect with that person and and just get
them a little bit further, you know, obviously I want to teach
them truth. Obviously I want to lock in and
disciple. And if if that opportunity is
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there, I I will do it. But you know this despise not
the day of small things. You know, you never know what
God is using you to do to set something up for later in
somebody's life. Absolutely.
With the whole somebody plant, somebody waters.
God gives the encourage. Yeah, yeah.
And so that's that was another thing that I was going to ask
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you about is for me personally, I have never, I have never won
anybody to God that somebody else didn't have a part to play
in it. Every I've won a lot of people
to God through Bible studies andpersonal evangelism.
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And but every time somebody elsehad something else to do with it
and. You're saying years before?
Or, or even either years before,or somebody else brought them to
church and I taught them the Bible study, I discipled them,
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or I brought them to church and somebody else wound up making
the connection with them and discipling them or whatever.
But it was a group effort almost, I would say 99% of the
time. And I believe it's that that
principle of one plants another waters, but God gives the
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increase. It's it's so that nobody can get
the glory from that soul but God.
Do you have an experience similar to that or?
Man, you know, first of all, letme say, I mean, there's nothing
wrong that wrong with that. That's where we want to be
anyway, because the more connections that a soul has in a
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in a body, the more hooks you got in them, the more they're
going to stay, you know, but man, I, I'll say this, I've, I,
I just always try to do my best to be sensitive.
We, we really live a pretty on the go chaotic life.
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I mean, I've, I think I've been home six days this year and
that's not like a trophy of Oh God, I've been home 6.
No, that I mean, that's just theway I life and it's always go
pack up, go, pack up, go. But I mean, there are many times
that I've connected with someone, you know, in a in a
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convenience store. I've connected with people out
on St. evangelism or I've connected with people in prayer
booths or I've connected with people in the grocery store.
And something came of that more than just that one connection.
And it's because I pushed it that direction.
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You know, it, it would really blow our minds if we sit and
thought about it, like if we went a solid week and documented
every single outside conversation that we
accidentally had with somebody, it blow our minds the amount of
people that we actually talked to.
Do I bring up God and Holy Ghost?
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I mean, do I bring that up everytime?
Absolutely not. I've got to be sensitive to
those moments, you know, when God is when God is moving on
somebody or you know, my job is to find that hungry soul.
You know, so at at the end of the day, man, really that's
where we want to be to where as the people that I mean, if if I
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like had this one soul and you know what, that's so long way
and I'm just going to keep it right here.
What did I do? You know, I've got to I've got
to plug them into the body of Christ anyway.
So that's what it's about. But many times, many times I've
been out and about and made major connections.
They even prayed people to the Holy Ghost on, you know, on the
street and stuff. But it's at the end of the day,
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you want to connect them to the body anyway.
That's what it's all about, you know.
Yeah, So we, we talked a little bit earlier about, you know,
Spirit LED evangelism before, before we started recording.
I think this is a, a very, very important point.
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And you've already touched on ita little bit with your your,
what'd you call it, your Holy Ghost.
Holy Ghost Radar. Holy Ghost Radar, who's on your
radar? So, you know, I believe again,
like I said before, that if you will ask God for, for the
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ability to win somebody to God, that is a prayer.
He will answer. I have no doubt in my mind he
will answer that prayer. So, you know, it's a a prayer
that I began to pray as just a young man and when I began to
seek after God to be a soul winner, God begin to make these
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God connections where I didn't have to go looking for a Bible
study. Bible studies came to me and I
could I could tell a lot of stories about that.
But you know, it seems to me that that is possibly one of the
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greatest and most effective forms of evangelism that there
is just building a relationship with God and seeking God to be
fruitful in his Kingdom. It's it's, it's like a husband
and a wife. If they get intimate, there's
going to be babies. If you get intimate with God,
there's going to be souls born into the Kingdom of God.
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Can you talk about that? Yeah, well, here's the deal.
I, I want to say this, I'm a, I'm a lifestyle evangelist.
You know, I, I'm going to be looking for a soul anywhere I
go. And it's because I'm praying,
Lord, leave me to somebody, you know, leave me to somebody
praying for those opportunity, those opportunities.
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But I want to say also at the, at the same time, and I, I'm not
saying you said this, but I do, especially in the throes of a,
of a revival, I like to do consistent evangelism events.
And the reason that is, and whatI mean by evangelism events is
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we'll do a prayer booth, we'll go knock doors.
The way I like to do evangelism is to throw out the Nets.
Meaning I'm not going to just doone thing.
We're going to do many things. If, if we've got a, if we've got
100 people showing up to outreach, you know, the, the way
that I'd do it, I'd have, you know, 20 of them do one thing,
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20 of them do another thing, 20 another thing, 20 another thing,
20 another thing. I think I'm out of 20s by now
but. About 140 by.
Now, but but what I'm saying is is I don't.
I love it man. People tell me I hear it all the
time. Door knocking doesn't work
anymore. Not in this generation.
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Well, door knocking doesn't workbecause you don't work, right?
Door knocking don't work becauseyou don't door knock.
That's why it don't work. I've won many souls had several.
I can't I can't tell you how many Bible studies I've I've
received or I've I've gotten andtaught to a hungry soul that I
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knocked on the door and they said, man, I've just been
praying for somebody to come by,you know, but do I send the
whole church outdoor knock in? No, We'll do many, many things.
But a lot of times what I have learned is doing evangelism
events like that consistently and, and I know, I know people
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work jobs and I give, I give a lot of Saturdays to God
evangelism. Yesterday we went to this.
What was it? The World Equestrian Center.
It was unbelievable. If you if you ever see Taylor
fish on a horse, that'll probably be a miracle too.
But it was it was amazing. I, I didn't go soul winning as I
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give a lot of Saturdays to God going out trying to trying to
stir something up. But also I, I understand it's
the law of the harvest, You know, whatsoever, man.
So with that, shall we reap? And I always know when, when
there's a big outreach day on Saturday, it doesn't matter if
one of those people show up or not.
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That's going to be a full house full of visitors because, you
know, it's the law of the harvest.
God is going to, God's going to begin to bring in the hungry
people. Anyway.
I just learned that God works when I work, you know, and.
We, we do a lot of different evangelism, evangelism events,
as you know, prayer booths and door knocking and these
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different things. But I've learned that those will
stir up the normal God connections that happen during
the week. I mean, I've seen people say,
well, we just don't do anything.All all we do is lifestyle
evangelism. But there's not a lot of things
happening. You know, there's not a lot of
things happening as far as Biblestudies or I know all you guys,
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you teach Bible studies, but I'msaying I can't tell you how many
times I go to a place and they're like, we just don't do
evangelism events and they've got one Bible study teacher and
that's the pastor. That's not the will of God for
any place. So what do I do?
We get on the streets and we do surveys.
I've got a survey that I have. It's on my Instagram.
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You can download it for free andit's a resource that can be used
anywhere. It's been used in every metro,
any, every rule, every trailer park ever.
I mean, you name it, it's been, it's been used in that kind of,
it's been used in that kind of where.
Can they find that out? It's on my Instagram in my bio
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or I can share it with you guys and you guys can make it a link.
We can. Put that in the link below so
I'll just Scroll down and it'll be in the. 100% Well, what I've
learned is, is, you know, if thechurch will go to these, start
doing these evangel evangelism events, it'll stir something up.
And, and next thing you know, somebody comes to and you're
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like, I'm at this, I'm at this lady at the grocery store and
she's hungry and I got to pray with her.
Well, and that's because we started up at a prayer booth
somewhere, you know what I'm saying?
So. I feel like with the surveys,
the prayer booths, it gives people something to do.
I know when I was younger and wewould do like the neighborhood
outreach, I would always dread it because I didn't know what to
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say. And we would just go up to the
door and just say, hey, can we pray for you?
When they're like, who are you? But with the survey gives you
like something to do when you'rethere.
And people, we did it a lot in some place.
We'd give the survey and we got a lot of Bible studies out of it
within like 30 minutes. And so and some people wouldn't
follow up after the text comes through and all that kind of
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stuff. But we did have Bible studies.
Well, that's the nature, you know, that's the nature of
evangelism. You got busy people and I, I
mean, I've got, I don't know, 121 unanswered text message
right now. How many do y'all got?
OK, I don't even have my phone. It's because it's because of
these group texts people try to put you in, you know, But
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anyway, stuff on. Silent.
What I'm, what I'm saying is, isthat I mean, I'm busy.
Everybody's busy in the nature of soul winning is man, you got
to keep casting, you know, you got to keep casting.
We're fishing for souls here. And you know, some days, some
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days they're, they're so hungry and you're, they're weeping and
they're crying then. And you know, man, this is a
home run situation. God's going to do this and you
may not talk to him for three more months, you know, but
that's why when I, when I do, when I do outreach, I always
have a point person that will take these surveys and put them
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in some kind of excel or database and have the call team
call through those sheets. Because otherwise, if everybody
just keeps those surveys, I mean, they're going to throw
them on the dash, they're going to fall through the cracks, you
know, and man, I, I want to do my best to follow up on every,
every survey and everybody's like, what do you do for follow
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up? Well, I pick up the phone and I
call them. That's the best follow up that
you can do. Yeah, that's a novel idea.
Yeah, that's that's awesome. Well, we're going to we're going
to start bringing it to a close here.
But and I'm not going to do 3 Closings on the podcast.
That's just five more minutes. That's just that's just what I'm
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preaching. But I want you to talk about
this deal you do, called Blitz. Talk to our audience about what
Blitz is and the purpose of it and how you do it.
Yeah. So we just, we just did our
first blitz in Saint Augustine. Not far.
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How far is that from here? Yeah.
It's hour and a. Half it's not it's not very far,
but man, the Lord put put blitz in my spirit one night I was in,
I was in Zanesville, OH, we had just had 28 days of evangelism
in a row. We were on the streets and in
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Zanesville. I was preaching for Aaron
Bounds. Man, what a dynamic man that he
is. We were in, we're in prayer,
literally we had a an Angel walkinto our prayer meeting and man,
it was just so such a powerful moment.
And brother, brother Bounds said, man, the harvest Angel was
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just walked in. We begin to pray God just
bombing the place man at them 7:00 AM prayers there in
Zanesville. They happen every day.
It's just dynamic. But anyway, with the balance he
begin to prophecy. You know the Lord you know he's
sending this harvest Angel to gobefore us.
We kicked off outreach man we wepulled a guy off the side of the
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bridge man he's about to drive into the into the water.
He had he begin to say, man, I've wrecked my family, it's my
fault, I'm going to kill myself.We prayed with him.
We did a survey with him. We taught him Bible study.
We baptized him in Jesus name. He's filled with the Holy Ghost.
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I believe we baptized 49 people in 28 days.
It was just a dynamic time of outreach, door knocking, prayer
booth St. evangelism. Somebody says what street
evangelism. Well, it's when you got, you
know, your vibe on a survey and you know, you got to a few
scriptures, you know, to help you if, if somebody needs it for
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prayer and anybody you see on the street that you feel you
talk to them and you ask them, Hey, listen, I'm from Ocala
Church and I'm at we we've been praying that God will send us to
people that need us. We know everybody has a need.
Is there something we can pray for in your life?
And I can't tell you how many times we've done that different
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places and God connected, you know, made a connection.
But anyway, I remember I was we had extended one more week and
my son's school books had just came in down in Silsbee.
And my superwoman wife was goingto drive all the way down from
Zanesville to go to go get them books and start school with
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Ezra. And as I'm loading the van, I'm
telling you, the Holy Ghost hit me and the Lord begin to deal
with me. I mean, I'm having a straight up
Holy Ghost prayer meeting in themiddle of this apartment complex
where they got to stay and they had rented us an apartment type
situation that we were there. And where did I'm just weeping
and crying. And the Lord begins to deal with
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me about going and partnering with a church planner and
bringing a large army to that city.
And I didn't know where exactly at first with the Lord put my
spirit Saint Augustine and I, I called by the Joey Campatella
who was incredible prophet of God and I begin I called him on
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a Sunday morning. I begin to give him the vision
about how I wanted to bring an army to this new city and I knew
that they had wanted to plant there and I knew that they had
planned on planning a church there.
Holy Ghost begin to do with me about Saint Augustine.
I did not know it was the oldestestablished city in America.
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And man, I don't believe it's ironic.
I believe it was God appointed that it happened that way.
We brought 238 people from across the nation.
I believe it was somewhere around 30 different states that
people were represented, some ofthe greatest soul winners of
America and also some of the thenewest soul winners in America.
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People that never won a soul, people that never taught a Bible
study. And we did man.
We did 3 days of, we did 3 days of sessions and evangelism and
in three days time we knocked the entire city of Saint
Augustine and we we set up. So you knocked every door in
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Saint? Augustine every every door in
Saint Augustine and we split thesplit that team up.
There's so many reports of different things that happened.
By the end of that weekend, we had 49 people get the Holy
Ghost. We had a kind of a cool story
that I want to tell now that it's, it's as far as I know, it
hasn't been I haven't even had an opportunity to tell it.
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But we brother Dell, brother Devin Coleman from Potts Camp,
Mississippi, He was and he was there with us.
And man, there was one service Ilaid hands on and I begin to
pray for him. And he told me later that in
that moment God had given him a vision and he, God gave him a
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vision of a woman getting up outof a wheelchair.
And anyway, he was just, I don'tknow what it means.
We were out in Saint Augustine and he was he was kind of near
the square where we were going to be holding the services
outside. And I'm a firm believer in the
church getting outside. You know, a lot of the church
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knows how to operate inside the building, but not outside the
building. The majority of the miracles
that happen in the Bible happen outside the temple, outside the
building. And I believe that we, we have
to, we have to be a church that's willing to go beyond our
borders, you know, but saying that brother Coleman, he, he saw
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this, he saw the woman that he had seen in his vision in person
in Saint Augustine. And he was just kind of taken
back. And he's like, Oh my goodness.
And he went and he talks to his family.
He asked if he could pray with her.
And they, they pray together andhe, he invites them to the event
that we're having outdoors, which is not far from where he
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was. And she, she begin to say, you
know, I'm, I was actually, we just came here to eat, but we
were actually in Saint Augustineto we were actually here in
Saint Augustine to, to take cancer treatments.
She said I was taking cancer treatments.
She said, I've been dealing withthis for some time.
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He said, well, please come and to prayer at the square is what
we called it. And man, they, that family came
out and by the end of it, this woman receive the Holy Ghost.
She was baptized in Jesus name. There is a picture of her
standing up out of her wheelchair.
The only reason she was in that wheelchair is because she was
just so incredibly weak. But she's standing up with
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strength, hands lifted, God filling her, you know, God
filling her with the Holy Ghost.And we got the report, she is
100% cancer free. She went back to the doctor.
God healed her right there in that moment.
And just so many miracles. There was a man with a blind eye
that was open. So many great things that
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happened. But to answer your question,
what was blitz or what is blitz?Blitz is something that not only
are are we going to bring the cities to to partner with church
planners and bring an army that they could couldn't bring
themself, but also it's a training ground so that people
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can come to, you know, come to it and they can they can learn
and be be hands on. They can go out and ultimately
be connected with some of the greatest soul winners in
America. I can't tell you how many just
friendships and and connections that were made there.
People messed me all the time. I can't.
I'm so thankful that, you know, I got to come and I'm connected
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to so many radical people, you know, and they're from that.
There's been so many people that's done their own events at
home and ultimately that was thedeal.
This is, I mean, number one, it's the Jesus show, you know,
and I had one man call me and say, what are you going to do if
events start happening like thisall over the United States?
I said, well, I'm going to rejoice, you know, I'm going to
rejoice, I'm going to shout. I mean, it's, it's I, I did not
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coin this. I mean, this is that book of
Acts recipe, not the Taylor fishrecipe, but we, we, we've
already got plans of of 1 comingup possibly at the beginning of
next year, first quarter of the year.
And the city is, I can't say it yet, so.
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Stay tuned. So yeah, I mean, you know the
the saying is is you will becomeyour 5 closest friends 100%.
So if you want to be a soul winner, you need to surround
yourself with people that are soul winners.
I said the other day, all my allmy close friends are soul
winners. It's the truth and I understand
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I'm a little weird. I don't fit in everyone
everywhere, and I don't have to.And I'm OK with it and I'm going
to. I want to make a difference in
somebody. I want to find a soul.
Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for
listening to this podcast, watching this podcast, however
you're consuming the content. Thank you Brother Fish for
coming on. And man, you can be a soul
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winner. God wants you to be a soul
winner. It's the will of God that His
people reach the loss. If you have the Holy Ghost, you
can be an evangelist. If you never step behind the
pulpit, you can be an evangelist.
God gave us the Holy Ghost, and when He gave us the Holy Ghost,
He gave us the power to be witnesses. 100% God bless.
You and musicians come.
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