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Hello, this is your host, glennKivett, and welcome to today's
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Well, hello everybody.
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Welcome to the Christian Cafe.
Glad you could join us, gladthat you're here, and I hope
that you're having a wonderfulday.
I've missed everybody.
I know it's been a while.
I trust that you had a greatholiday.
You had a very Merry Christmas.
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God was good to you.
You got time to spend with yourfamily and got to eat some good
food.
I know I did.
I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed that time.
I got to see some family Idon't get to see on a regular
basis.
I got to visit with my dad, mybrothers and my sisters, and
that's always good.
I wish we could see each othera lot more than what we do, but
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God knows and he understands,and we're just glad that we're
able to do it when we can.
We've come into a new year.
It is January 2025.
My, how time has flew.
I'll tell you what it's been.
A wonderful, wonderful life.
I turned 61 back in December.
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Man, I cannot believe it.
No, excuse me, I'm trying tomake myself older.
I turned 60 in December.
Man, I cannot believe it.
No, excuse me, I'm trying tomake myself older.
I turned 60 in December lastyear.
So God has blessed me and I'mjust thankful to be here sharing
God's Word with you.
Thank you for joining us today,thank you for taking time out
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of your day just to visit withus, and I know God will bless
you for it.
I hope something is said todaythat blesses you and you enjoy
the goodness of God.
I just want to be a blessing toeveryone that is out there
that's been listening.
I want to thank everyone thathas downloaded my podcast over
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the last couple of years andthank you for just spending that
time.
As I said in the beginning, ifyou have a prayer request or
there's anything you need, feelfree to contact us through our
email, drop us a line.
We'd love to hear from you.
I know it's good to hear frompeople that you don't get to see
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through the broadcast andthrough the podcast, but I'd
love to hear from my followersand from those that enjoying
what's going on.
I'd love to hear your ideas andyour thoughts about what we
might can improve on our podcast.
I just want it to be a goodquality.
I worked hard and I don't know Ihaven't kept up like I wanted
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to.
I think the last episode I putout was possibly in June, was
the last one I done.
There's a lot of things beengoing on, been real busy and
traveling, as the last podcastwas getting ready to go to
Belize and go out for that andwe had a great time in Belize.
It was a wonderful time, had amarvelous turnout with our new
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church that we're building overthere, my local church that I'm
a part of.
God has blessed the other.
We saw so many people, ouroutreach we had over that day.
I think there was over 300people that we fed and gave
clothing to and ministered to.
We saw a little boy healed froma car accident.
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Just wonderful things that Godis doing.
It just amazes me and I don'tknow why.
It amazes me because we knowGod is real, we know God can do
above and beyond anything we canask or think, and yet when
things do happen, we just say,wow, that's amazing.
It's like, you know, do we notexpect him to do it, and we're
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all guilty of that.
But no doubt God is good andGod will do exactly what his
word says he will do.
He's never forsaken me, he'snever failed me, and I don't
expect him to start now.
Just because we've come into anew year, it doesn't mean God's
plan for our lives has changed.
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Everything is the same as hepromised.
All we need to do is serve him,and that's what my desire is.
People talk about havingresolutions every year.
I don't make resolutions.
I quit doing that years agobecause I found out that, hey, I
don't always keep them up.
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I think they say that mostresolutions only last about two
or three weeks into the year.
So most all the resolutionsthat people started, they've
already given up on.
How about you?
So I don't make resolutions,but I do have a desire this year
.
I have a desire to be closer toGod.
I want to fulfill more of hisplan he has for my life.
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I want to be in his word more.
I want to study and know theword of God more than what I
know now.
It doesn't matter how longyou've been serving God.
We can always know more.
We can always do things to putourselves in positions to do
more.
But are we willing to?
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And first it starts with adesire.
If we desire to do these things, then we're going to put
priority on it, and today we'regoing to go back into our book
that we've been reading, the GodChasers.
And, as I said before, if youwant a copy of this book, just
send me an email.
Drop me an email and I'll beglad to send you a copy of this
free of charge, won't cost youanything.
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I just need your mailingaddress and I will take care of
that.
This is a great book.
I have read this twice.
This is my third time.
No, this is my fourth timethrough this book that I've read
, and each time there'ssomething different that I see
in this book, and it may havebeen written years ago, but what
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Pastor Tommy Tenney is sayingin his book applies to us today.
It can still have the seed backthen to be Harvardist today, if
we'll just take note of whathe's saying and we're going to
get on into chapter 7 today andwe're going to talk about.
He's done it before and he cando it again.
We want him to send the rain.
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Yes, send the rain, lord,because we need a move of God,
we need something in this worldto change what is going on.
The enemy has devoured, he'staken control of areas that he
has no authority over.
Why?
I think it's because us, as achild of God, we have refused to
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stand up for the word.
We've refused to stand up forwhat god wants us to, and we're
going to see where, when we dothat, god can do great and above
anything we can ask or think,as I said earlier, he can
perform miracles.
He's he's not stoppedperforming miracles.
I still believe in miracles.
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I've not seen any here lately.
I've been praying for a miracle.
Has it happened?
But does that mean it's notgoing to?
No, it does not.
It just means in God's time,when God sees fit to do it,
he'll do it.
So we're going to take us alittle break and we'll get back
to it and we'll start back inchapter seven.
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Be right back.
Sing it with me.
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Say, lord, you are good.
Say, lord, you are good andyour mercy endures forever.
Lord, you are good and yourmercy endures forever.
Say, lord, you are good.
Lord, you are good and yourmercy endures forever.
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Lord, you are good and yourmercy endures forever.
We are people, people fromevery nation, from generation to
generation.
We worship you, hallelujah,hallelujah.
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We worship you For who you are.
Yes, we do Jesus.
We worship you for who you are.
Yes, we do Jesus.
We worship you.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah.
We worship you for who you areand you are good.
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All right, welcome back.
Let's get started back.
God Chasers by Tommy Tenney, andwe're going to start with
chapter 7.
He's done it before and he cando it again.
Send the rain, Lord.
We want God to change the world, but he cannot change the world
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until he can change us world,but he cannot change the world
until he can change us.
In our present state we are inno position to affect anything.
But if we will submit to themaster potter, he will make us,
all of us into what he needs usto be.
He may remake the vessel of ourflesh many times, but if we
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will submit to the potter'stouch, he can turn us into
vessels of honor, power and life.
After all, wasn't he the onewho turned unlearned fishermen
into world changers and hatedtax collectors into fearless
revivalists?
If he did it once, he can do itagain.
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I want to break the standardwriting rules for Christian
books and ask you to pray aprayer with me right now as you
read the first page of thischapter.
Read the first page of thischapter.
This book was written to helpusher God's presence into your
life and church family.
It may sound silly, but I wantyou to put your hand on your
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heart and pray this prayer ofthe clay with me right now.
Father, we thank you for yourpresence, lord.
The air is just pregnant withpossibility and we sense your
nearness, but we must say thatyou are not near enough.
Come, holy Spirit.
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If not now, when?
If not us, who?
And if not here, where?
If not us, who?
And if not here, where?
Just tell us, lord, and we'llgo.
We will pursue your presencebecause we want you, lord.
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Something is happening in thebody of Christ.
More and more of us are willingto play the old religious games
.
Something like a warrior spiritis rising up within us, an urge
to conquer territory in thename of the Eternal One.
I know that in my life I'vereceived a mandate from the Lord
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to pour my life into key citieswhere I sense God intends to
pour out his spirit.
In the days ahead, I'm shoppingfor places where God is
breaking out.
I've already described how Godbroke out in the city of Houston
and I mention it simply becauseI was privileged to be present
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when God came on the scene.
I have felt led to participatein continual meetings before
than a year, for more than ayear in some places, and
incredible things are happening.
We still have a long way to go,but in each city we did
something that has deepspiritual significance for this
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move of God.
I want to see a contagiousoutbreak of God, like was seen
with Finney, edwards, robertsand company, where whole regions
are swept into the kingdom.
I am after cities, entirecities.
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I'm not interested in justpreaching in churches to
Christian people.
I'm after entire citiesoccupied by people who don't
know Jesus.
Once, while preaching at aconference with Frank DiMaggio
in Portland Oregon, I heard himmention something that instantly
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captured my attention.
He said that a number ofpastors in the Portland area had
united together to drive somestakes in the ground, at
strategic places around theperimeter of the region and the
city and at every majorintersection.
The process took them hoursbecause they also prayed over
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those stakes and as they werephysical physically, excuse me
as they were physical symbolsmarking a spiritual declaration
and demarcation line, I felt thestirring of the Holy Spirit.
So I said, frank, if you'llprovide the stakes, then I will
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go to cities I feel called toand help the pastor stake out
that territory for God.
Then I begin to ask God inprayer Lord, give me some
precedent so I can understandwhat you are doing here, then
I'll know why you have pressedthis into my heart.
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Ironically, this stirring ofthe Lord came upon me later in
California, and I was remindedthat California was a site of
the great gold rush.
Whenever would-be goldprospectors found a spot of
ground where they thought theremight be some gold, they would
stake a claim.
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Some plots of property are justmore valuable than others
because of what is in the ground.
If you wanted to claim a plotof ground in those days, then
you would stake it by driving astake into the earth.
That stake would bear your nameand a rough description of the
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area you were claiming.
Later the land would beformally surveyed, but until
then a claim stake was as goodas a land.
Deed in the court of law backin those days disputed your
claim.
You could go to that undisputedplot of ground and dig up your
stake, bearing your name and therough dimensions on the claim,
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and say see, I've claimed it.
According to law, I am in theprocess of possessing and
occupying, but this claim stakeis proof that the land is
already mine by law.
Pastors and congregations whohave put down roots in a city or
region have a legal right underGod to claim their cities for
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the king by staking out theterritory.
In the past, too many of ushave been content to keep our
faith contained within the fourwalls of our meeting halls and
church buildings.
Now God is calling us to extendour faith beyond the borders,
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beyond the boundaries of ourcities and nation.
In effect, we are literallyexpanding the walls of our
spiritual churches.
When we stake out our cities,it forces us to see ourselves as
the church in the city onepeople under God, comprised of
many congregations according tothe first century pattern of the
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city church.
We actually made wooden stakeswith four sides bearing the
words renewal, revival,reconciliation, along with
supporting scriptures.
A hole was drilled down themiddle of the stake and a rolled
up written proclamation wasinserted in it.
Altogether there are about 20Bible verses in the stakes and
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proclamation, but one of them isIsaiah 62, which says Behold,
the Lord hath proclaimed untothe end of the world Say ye to
the daughter of Zion.
Behold thou salvation cometh.
Behold, his word is with himand his work before him, and
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they shall call him.
Call them the holy people, theredeemed of the Lord, and thou
shalt be called.
Sought out a city not forsaken.
Oh man, that is powerful, thatis so powerful.
I just start, stop and thinkabout back in the day where he
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talked about, you know, the goldrush and how.
You know people come from allover the world, all over the
United States, and go toCalifornia to state their claim
on a land that thought was fullof gold If the body of Christ
would do as they did back thenstate their claim on their
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regions.
These pastors went out and theystate their claim in their
cities and their regions around,proclaiming that Jesus was Lord
and that the enemy was notgoing to have the people in
their cities and their regions.
They stake a claim, they prayedover them.
Imagine what we could see today, in 2025, if we was to do this,
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if we was to get on board andstart proclaiming our cities,
proclaiming our families, ourcommunities, start proclaiming
them for Jesus.
Oh my goodness, we could see arevival break out.
Let's take a short break andwe'll be right back.
Let's enjoy some more of ourpraise team from our church.
Let's sing Lord, you are Lord,you are good at your mercy,
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enduring forever.
Lord, you are good at you'remercy, endurance forever.
We are people, people fromevery nation and tongue.
We're from generation togeneration.
We worship you, hallelujah,hallelujah, hallelujah.
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We worship you, you for who youare, and we worship, we worship
you.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah.
We worship you for who you are,for you are, for you are God,
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yes, you are Jesus.
So good, so good.
Say yes, you are, yes, you are,yes, you are.
Wow.
Do you enjoy my praise team?
They do a wonderful job everySunday.
I love to hear them.
Let's get back to our book.
This is so good.
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The written proclamationcontained in every state driven
into the ground of these citiescontained the declaration made
by God's lawful representativesof that city.
On the basis of Scripture.
I stand for leaders of thiscity.
I stand as a representative forother city pastors who desire
to do three things repent,request and resist.
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We repent we ask the Lord toforgive us for the sins that
have taken place in this stateand this region, specifically
this city.
We ask for forgiveness of thesins of political corruption,
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racial prejudice, moralperversion, witchcraft, occult
and idolatry.
We pray the blood of Jesus tocleanse our hands from the
shedding of innocent blood.
We ask forgiveness for divisionsin the church, forgiveness for
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pride, forgiveness for the sinsof the tongue, anything that has
hurt the cause of Christ.
We repent and humble ourselvesto ask for mercy to be poured
out on our land, our communityand our churches.
We request, we ask for God'skingdom to come, and his will be
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done in the city.
Ask for God's kingdom to comeand his will be done in the city
.
We ask, in the name of Jesus,for an outpouring of grace and
mercy and fire, for truespiritual revival to come and
cover the community, causing aturning back to God, a cleansing
and a brokenness and a humility.
We ask for the destiny of thiscity not to be aborted.
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We ask that you visit this cityand our churches and our homes
Do not pass this city by.
We ask for a restoration of thefoundation of righteousness to
this city.
We also resist on the basis ofby submission to God, by faith,
I resist the devil and his works, all forces and all powers of
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evil that have taken hold of thecity.
We resist the spirit ofwickedness that established
strongholds in the city, thedark places, the hidden works of
darkness, the mystery placeswhere the enemy has set up
encampments.
We call on the name of the Lordto destroy all spiritual
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strongholds.
We proclaim this day that thiscity, especially this region, is
now under the power andownership of the Holy Spirit.
All other spirits are herebygiven notice and evicted from
this property by the power ofthe name of Jesus.
Today, we stand in the gap andbuild a hedge of protection
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around this city.
As I was reading this, I thought, man, how I could personalize
this for my family, how I couldpersonalize it for me.
I just love the words that hesays that we resist on the basis
of our submission to God.
In other words, we resistanything that the devil tries to
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throw at us because we aresubmitted to work for God.
We are submitted to do what hewants us to do and we're not
going to let the powers of eviltake hold of anything we try to
do.
We're going to resist it.
We're going to resist thestrongholds, we're going to
resist the dark places, thehidden works of darkness.
Oh, my goodness, guys, this ispowerful when we can take and
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just proclaim the word of Godfor our cities.
Take hold, drive that, stake inthe ground.
Say devil, you're not gettingthis city, you're not getting my
family, you're not getting mychurch.
You have no hold, you have nopower here, because we are on
the property under the power ofthe name of Jesus.
We are standing in the gap.
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We are building a hedge aroundour city.
We're building a hedge aroundour families, our communities,
our schools, our churches,wherever the enemy is trying to
attack.
That's where we need to stake aclaim.
We need to stake a claim.
This year, 2025, can be a yearof God, restoring the church,
restoring the blessings to hispeople, restoring those things
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that the enemy has taken from us.
2025 can be that way.
Amen, let's go on.
Before you ever purchaseproperty in the natural, you
need to have it surveyed orstaked and you need to determine
if you are willing to pay theprice to possess the land.
Let me say that again Beforeyou ever purchase property in
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the natural, you need to have itsurveyed or staked and you need
to determine if you're willingto pay the price to possess the
land.
I don't know if any of you haveever been a farmer, but I grew
up on a farm with my grandfatherand every morning we was up at
daybreak, we was working theland, we was doing everything we
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could.
We paid a price.
We got up, got up beforesunrise, on cold, cold mornings,
hot mornings, it didn't make nodifference.
We had chores we had to do toget the land ready.
If we wanted to eat during thewinter season, we had to plant.
If we wanted to have meat, wehad to slaughter the pigs, and
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we had to get up early to do it,and we had to do it in the cold
.
There's things you had to do.
Are we willing to pay the priceto possess what God has for us?
Do you remember the children ofIsrael how they wandered in the
wilderness for 40 years, whenit was just a three-day journey?
They wondered why?
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Because, maybe, because theyweren't willing to pay the price
.
They complained abouteverything.
They complained about beingbrought out of bondage, walking
all this way, going througheverything they went to, were
they willing to pay the price topossess the land that God had
given them?
Are you willing to pay theprice today?
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Are you willing to say, god,I'm going to do whatever I have
to do to stake my claim to makesure that my city, my family, my
community is one to Christ?
Are we willing?
Today, when we stake our citiesas God's people, we are in
effect declaring open war onSatan's kingdom.
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Our acts are bold, acts ofoutright aggression, without
apology or hesitation, ofoutright aggression, without
apology or hesitation.
We're telling the devil we havedeclared this before God and
now we are telling you we willtake the city.
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Can you just say that we havedeclared this before God and now
we are telling you, devil, wewill take our city.
Devil, we will take ourfamilies, we will take our
communities.
We declare war, we've declaredwar on you.
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No more, devil, no more.
We're going to do it withoutright aggression.
We're not going to apologizefor it and we're not going to be
hesitant.
We're going to do what Godcalled us to do, if he can take
fishermen and tax collectors andturn them into world-changing
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disciples that went out andchanged the world, that brought
the gospel to those that weresaved, baptized them and all
this stuff.
Then you and I, we can do thevery same thing.
We can do whatever they did,and greater, greater.
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The Bible says greater worksthan these that I do because I
go to my Father.
Oh, my goodness, I could preachright there, but we'll digress.
We'll go on in this book here,because if I don't be careful
I'll be here for another 30, 40minutes just on this part, right
here.
But we're going to go on.
A word of the Lord has come tome about old wells.
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That applies directly to citiesas well as to old mainline
denominations and churches.
God is going to re-dig or uncapthe old wells first, before the
newer, artesian wells breakopen.
Artesian wells break open.
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Genesis chapter 26 tells us thatIsaac and his men redigged the
wells that his father, abraham,had originally dug many years
before in the valley of Gerar.
Although his father's enemieshad filled in the wells after
Abraham's death, isaac stillcalled them by their original
names.
He found so much water therethat he constantly battled with
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the Philistines raiders andfinally moved to Beersheba, or
the well of the oath.
It was there, here, that Jacobencountered the living God and
discovered his true birthrightin God's plan.
In this day, god is uncappingsome of the ancient wells of
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revival.
There are places where hisglory is like a standing pool of
water.
People have to come to the wellto get satisfied, and that is
by God's design.
Before God brings forth the newwells, he will redig the old
wells.
In the year before I beganworking on this book, the Lord
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spoke to my spirit and said I amgoing to revisit the places of
historical revival to give mypeople another chance.
I will call them to dig out thedebris From the old wells so
that the starting of the newrevival Will be upon the
foundations Of the old revival.
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In simple terms, before thereal revival breaks out In the
malls, it will have to take haveto break out in our church
altars, then the back pews.
Then is when the glory of theLord can flow underneath the
threshold of the door and go outinto the streets, in
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fulfillment of the prophecy inEzekiel 47.
In fulfillment of the prophecyIn Ezekiel 47.
Afterward he brought me againUnto the door of the house and
behold, waters issued out fromunder the threshold of the house
Eastward, for the forefront ofthe house Stood toward the east
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and the waters came down Fromunder, from the right side of
the house, at the south side ofthe altar.
Then brought he let me go backhere, my eyes are not working
right Then brought he me out ofthe way of the gate northward
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and led me about the way withoutunto the utter gate, by the way
that looketh eastward andbehold, there ran out waters on
the right side.
And when the man that had theline in his hand went forth
eastward, he measured a thousandcubits and he brought me
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through the waters.
The waters were to the ankles,again he measured a thousand and
brought me through the waters.
The waters were to the knees.
Again he measured a thousandand brought me through.
The waters were to the loins.
Afterward he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I
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could not pass over, for thewaters were risen waters to swim
in a river that could not bepassed over.
And it shall come to pass thateverything that liveth, which
smootheth, whether so ever theriver shall come, shall live and
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there shall be a very greatmultitude of fish, because these
waters shall come thither, forthey shall be healed and
everything shall live, whetherthe river cometh.
And by the river, upon the bankthereof, on this side and on
that side, shall grow all treesfor beet, whose leaves shall not
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fade, neither shall the fruitthereof be consumed.
It shall bring forth new fruit,according to his months,
because their waters they issuedout of the sanctuary, and the
fruit thereof shall be for meatand the leaf thereof for
medicine.
Ezekiel 47, 1 through 5, 9 and12.
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Isn't it ironic that the riverof God's presence flowing from
his sanctuary actually grewdeeper the further the prophet
walked.
That is interesting.
Finally, ezekiel ended up inwater that was over his head and
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he couldn't touch bottom.
He was out of control.
I am after an out of controlrevival.
Its shallowest points should beat the church building.
My, my, my.
Are you ready?
Are you ready for the nextrevival?
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Are you ready for those waters?
Are you tired of just, you know, being in an ankle deep?
My dad preached a message inthis passage one time before
about where we're walking withGod.
Some of us, we're just satisfiedstanding on the bank, just
looking out at the ocean,looking out at what we see and
all the beauty, but we're notwanting to get in.
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We're not wanting to experiencewhat it's about.
I love the ocean.
I love going down there justsitting on the bank and just
listening to the waves at theshore.
But there are times that I wantto get into water and there's
times I'll just walk out therejust to get my feet wet and I'll
come back and then I'll go backout there and I'll take a
little chance and get a littledeeper.
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And I'll go back out there andI'll take a little chance and
get a little deeper and I'll getup to my waist, and then you
know my knees and to my waist.
And then all of a sudden I said, well, I'm this far, I might as
well jump in.
So many people were so satisfiedof just standing on the bank or
just ankle deep water.
We don't want to experienceanything else.
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And then we're sitting thereand we're asking for God to give
us more.
But God's not going to give usmore unless we're willing to go
for it.
Unless we're willing to dosomething to get there.
He's just not going to force iton us.
He wants to see us, wants to dosomething.
See, there's always somethingthat we've got to do before God
can do something.
Have you noticed that in thescriptures?
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You know he says first, you dothis.
If you seek me first, okay,there's always something that
we've got to do before God willhonor his promises.
You know, if we're justsatisfied with standing in
ankle-deep water, we'll neverget the full blessings of God.
We'll never experience theglory of God that we really need
until we launch out thedisciples Peter and John.
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They couldn't catch fish on thebank.
Jesus told them launch out inthe deep, and when they did that
, you know they had multitudesof fishes.
You know, if we would do thatin our spiritual life we don't
want to complicate this.
We're talking about ourspiritual thing, not our fleshly
, but spiritually if we'lllaunch out deeper into God's
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word, if we'll get more and moreinvolved in what God is doing
and what God wants to do for usoh, my goodness, think about the
outpouring that we see.
You know, as Tom Tenney says,the revival has to start with us
.
You know, start at the altar.
You know he talked about thechurch altar.
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Well, I want to say let's startat the altar for ourselves,
because before we can helpsomeone else, we've got to be
right.
There's things in our life thatwe're hiding from everyone else
, but we're not hiding it fromGod.
God knows what it is, god seesit, he knows all about it.
We think we're hiding it andthen we want more of God, but
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we're not willing to go on outthere.
You know this also can symbolizethe baptism.
Uh, being baptized, you knowyou're not fully cleansed unless
you go completely under.
Ankle deep does not get it done.
Ankle deep does not, uh,fulfill the commandment to be
baptized.
It doesn't work that way.
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We're either all in or not inat all.
Does that make sense?
I think so.
Guys, it's been a pleasuretoday.
I hope you've enjoyed the bookso far.
This chapter is a great book.
Our next episode we're going tostart talking about the next
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wave of glory, and that's whatI'm excited to get into, because
I'm wanting to see more Godthis year.
I want to see more miracles andmore things done in 2025 than
has been done in the past.
It can be done.
Thank you for tuning in.
Thank you for listening to theepisode of my podcast.
Share it with your family andfriends and remember, if you
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gmailcom.
Drop me a line and again, ifyou want a copy of this book,
let me know.
I'll be glad to send it to you.
Until God, until next time, mayGod shine upon you, bless you
and you have a wonderful day.
Join us next time right here onthe Christian Cafe and see what
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Well, hello everybody.
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Welcome to the Christian Cafe.
Glad you could join us, gladthat you're here, and I hope
that you're having a wonderfulday.
I've missed everybody.
I know it's been a while.
I trust that you had a greatholiday.
You had a very Merry Christmas.
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God was good to you.
You got time to spend with yourfamily and got to eat some good
food.
I know I did.
I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed that time.
I got to see some family Idon't get to see on a regular
basis.
I got to visit with my dad, mybrothers and my sisters, and
that's always good.
I wish we could see each othera lot more than what we do, but
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God knows and he understands,and we're just glad that we're
able to do it when we can.
We've come into a new year.
It is January 2025.
My, how time has flew.
I'll tell you what it's been.
A wonderful, wonderful life.
I turned 61 back in December.
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Man, I cannot believe it.
No, excuse me, I'm trying tomake myself older.
I turned 60 in December.
Man, I cannot believe it.
No, excuse me, I'm trying tomake myself older.
I turned 60 in December lastyear.
So God has blessed me and I'mjust thankful to be here sharing
God's Word with you.
Thank you for joining us today,thank you for taking time out
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of your day just to visit withus, and I know God will bless
you for it.
I hope something is said todaythat blesses you and you enjoy
the goodness of God.
I just want to be a blessing toeveryone that is out there
that's been listening.
I want to thank everyone thathas downloaded my podcast over
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the last couple of years andthank you for just spending that
time.
As I said in the beginning, ifyou have a prayer request or
there's anything you need, feelfree to contact us through our
email, drop us a line.
We'd love to hear from you.
I know it's good to hear frompeople that you don't get to see
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through the broadcast andthrough the podcast, but I'd
love to hear from my followersand from those that enjoying
what's going on.
I'd love to hear your ideas andyour thoughts about what we
might can improve on our podcast.
I just want it to be a goodquality.
I worked hard and I don't know Ihaven't kept up like I wanted
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to.
I think the last episode I putout was possibly in June, was
the last one I done.
There's a lot of things beengoing on, been real busy and
traveling, as the last podcastwas getting ready to go to
Belize and go out for that andwe had a great time in Belize.
It was a wonderful time, had amarvelous turnout with our new
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church that we're building overthere, my local church that I'm
a part of.
God has blessed the other.
We saw so many people, ouroutreach we had over that day.
I think there was over 300people that we fed and gave
clothing to and ministered to.
We saw a little boy healed froma car accident.
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Just wonderful things that Godis doing.
It just amazes me and I don'tknow why.
It amazes me because we knowGod is real, we know God can do
above and beyond anything we canask or think, and yet when
things do happen, we just say,wow, that's amazing.
It's like, you know, do we notexpect him to do it, and we're
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all guilty of that.
But no doubt God is good andGod will do exactly what his
word says he will do.
He's never forsaken me, he'snever failed me, and I don't
expect him to start now.
Just because we've come into anew year, it doesn't mean God's
plan for our lives has changed.
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Everything is the same as hepromised.
All we need to do is serve him,and that's what my desire is.
People talk about havingresolutions every year.
I don't make resolutions.
I quit doing that years agobecause I found out that, hey, I
don't always keep them up.
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I think they say that mostresolutions only last about two
or three weeks into the year.
So most all the resolutionsthat people started, they've
already given up on.
How about you?
So I don't make resolutions,but I do have a desire this year
.
I have a desire to be closer toGod.
I want to fulfill more of hisplan he has for my life.
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I want to be in his word more.
I want to study and know theword of God more than what I
know now.
It doesn't matter how longyou've been serving God.
We can always know more.
We can always do things to putourselves in positions to do
more.
But are we willing to?
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And first it starts with adesire.
If we desire to do these things, then we're going to put
priority on it, and today we'regoing to go back into our book
that we've been reading, the GodChasers.
And, as I said before, if youwant a copy of this book, just
send me an email.
Drop me an email and I'll beglad to send you a copy of this
free of charge, won't cost youanything.
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I just need your mailingaddress and I will take care of
that.
This is a great book.
I have read this twice.
This is my third time.
No, this is my fourth timethrough this book that I've read
, and each time there'ssomething different that I see
in this book, and it may havebeen written years ago, but what
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Pastor Tommy Tenney is sayingin his book applies to us today.
It can still have the seed backthen to be Harvardist today, if
we'll just take note of whathe's saying and we're going to
get on into chapter 7 today andwe're going to talk about.
He's done it before and he cando it again.
We want him to send the rain.
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Yes, send the rain, lord,because we need a move of God,
we need something in this worldto change what is going on.
The enemy has devoured, he'staken control of areas that he
has no authority over.
Why?
I think it's because us, as achild of God, we have refused to
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stand up for the word.
We've refused to stand up forwhat god wants us to, and we're
going to see where, when we dothat, god can do great and above
anything we can ask or think,as I said earlier, he can
perform miracles.
He's he's not stoppedperforming miracles.
I still believe in miracles.
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I've not seen any here lately.
I've been praying for a miracle.
Has it happened?
But does that mean it's notgoing to?
No, it does not.
It just means in God's time,when God sees fit to do it,
he'll do it.
So we're going to take us alittle break and we'll get back
to it and we'll start back inchapter seven.
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Be right back.
Sing it with me.
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Say, lord, you are good.
Say, lord, you are good andyour mercy endures forever.
Lord, you are good and yourmercy endures forever.
Say, lord, you are good.
Lord, you are good and yourmercy endures forever.
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Lord, you are good and yourmercy endures forever.
We are people, people fromevery nation, from generation to
generation.
We worship you, hallelujah,hallelujah.
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We worship you For who you are.
Yes, we do Jesus.
We worship you for who you are.
Yes, we do Jesus.
We worship you.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah.
We worship you for who you areand you are good.
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All right, welcome back.
Let's get started back.
God Chasers by Tommy Tenney, andwe're going to start with
chapter 7.
He's done it before and he cando it again.
Send the rain, Lord.
We want God to change the world, but he cannot change the world
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until he can change us world,but he cannot change the world
until he can change us.
In our present state we are inno position to affect anything.
But if we will submit to themaster potter, he will make us,
all of us into what he needs usto be.
He may remake the vessel of ourflesh many times, but if we
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will submit to the potter'stouch, he can turn us into
vessels of honor, power and life.
After all, wasn't he the onewho turned unlearned fishermen
into world changers and hatedtax collectors into fearless
revivalists?
If he did it once, he can do itagain.
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I want to break the standardwriting rules for Christian
books and ask you to pray aprayer with me right now as you
read the first page of thischapter.
Read the first page of thischapter.
This book was written to helpusher God's presence into your
life and church family.
It may sound silly, but I wantyou to put your hand on your
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heart and pray this prayer ofthe clay with me right now.
Father, we thank you for yourpresence, lord.
The air is just pregnant withpossibility and we sense your
nearness, but we must say thatyou are not near enough.
Come, holy Spirit.
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If not now, when?
If not us, who?
And if not here, where?
If not us, who?
And if not here, where?
Just tell us, lord, and we'llgo.
We will pursue your presencebecause we want you, lord.
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Something is happening in thebody of Christ.
More and more of us are willingto play the old religious games
.
Something like a warrior spiritis rising up within us, an urge
to conquer territory in thename of the Eternal One.
I know that in my life I'vereceived a mandate from the Lord
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to pour my life into key citieswhere I sense God intends to
pour out his spirit.
In the days ahead, I'm shoppingfor places where God is
breaking out.
I've already described how Godbroke out in the city of Houston
and I mention it simply becauseI was privileged to be present
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when God came on the scene.
I have felt led to participatein continual meetings before
than a year, for more than ayear in some places, and
incredible things are happening.
We still have a long way to go,but in each city we did
something that has deepspiritual significance for this
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move of God.
I want to see a contagiousoutbreak of God, like was seen
with Finney, edwards, robertsand company, where whole regions
are swept into the kingdom.
I am after cities, entirecities.
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I'm not interested in justpreaching in churches to
Christian people.
I'm after entire citiesoccupied by people who don't
know Jesus.
Once, while preaching at aconference with Frank DiMaggio
in Portland Oregon, I heard himmention something that instantly
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captured my attention.
He said that a number ofpastors in the Portland area had
united together to drive somestakes in the ground, at
strategic places around theperimeter of the region and the
city and at every majorintersection.
The process took them hoursbecause they also prayed over
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those stakes and as they werephysical physically, excuse me
as they were physical symbolsmarking a spiritual declaration
and demarcation line, I felt thestirring of the Holy Spirit.
So I said, frank, if you'llprovide the stakes, then I will
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go to cities I feel called toand help the pastor stake out
that territory for God.
Then I begin to ask God inprayer Lord, give me some
precedent so I can understandwhat you are doing here, then
I'll know why you have pressedthis into my heart.
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Ironically, this stirring ofthe Lord came upon me later in
California, and I was remindedthat California was a site of
the great gold rush.
Whenever would-be goldprospectors found a spot of
ground where they thought theremight be some gold, they would
stake a claim.
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Some plots of property are justmore valuable than others
because of what is in the ground.
If you wanted to claim a plotof ground in those days, then
you would stake it by driving astake into the earth.
That stake would bear your nameand a rough description of the
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area you were claiming.
Later the land would beformally surveyed, but until
then a claim stake was as goodas a land.
Deed in the court of law backin those days disputed your
claim.
You could go to that undisputedplot of ground and dig up your
stake, bearing your name and therough dimensions on the claim,
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and say see, I've claimed it.
According to law, I am in theprocess of possessing and
occupying, but this claim stakeis proof that the land is
already mine by law.
Pastors and congregations whohave put down roots in a city or
region have a legal right underGod to claim their cities for
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the king by staking out theterritory.
In the past, too many of ushave been content to keep our
faith contained within the fourwalls of our meeting halls and
church buildings.
Now God is calling us to extendour faith beyond the borders,
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beyond the boundaries of ourcities and nation.
In effect, we are literallyexpanding the walls of our
spiritual churches.
When we stake out our cities,it forces us to see ourselves as
the church in the city onepeople under God, comprised of
many congregations according tothe first century pattern of the
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city church.
We actually made wooden stakeswith four sides bearing the
words renewal, revival,reconciliation, along with
supporting scriptures.
A hole was drilled down themiddle of the stake and a rolled
up written proclamation wasinserted in it.
Altogether there are about 20Bible verses in the stakes and
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proclamation, but one of them isIsaiah 62, which says Behold,
the Lord hath proclaimed untothe end of the world Say ye to
the daughter of Zion.
Behold thou salvation cometh.
Behold, his word is with himand his work before him, and
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they shall call him.
Call them the holy people, theredeemed of the Lord, and thou
shalt be called.
Sought out a city not forsaken.
Oh man, that is powerful, thatis so powerful.
I just start, stop and thinkabout back in the day where he
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talked about, you know, the goldrush and how.
You know people come from allover the world, all over the
United States, and go toCalifornia to state their claim
on a land that thought was fullof gold If the body of Christ
would do as they did back thenstate their claim on their
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regions.
These pastors went out and theystate their claim in their
cities and their regions around,proclaiming that Jesus was Lord
and that the enemy was notgoing to have the people in
their cities and their regions.
They stake a claim, they prayedover them.
Imagine what we could see today, in 2025, if we was to do this,
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if we was to get on board andstart proclaiming our cities,
proclaiming our families, ourcommunities, start proclaiming
them for Jesus.
Oh my goodness, we could see arevival break out.
Let's take a short break andwe'll be right back.
Let's enjoy some more of ourpraise team from our church.
Let's sing Lord, you are Lord,you are good at your mercy,
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enduring forever.
Lord, you are good at you'remercy, endurance forever.
We are people, people fromevery nation and tongue.
We're from generation togeneration.
We worship you, hallelujah,hallelujah, hallelujah.
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We worship you, you for who youare, and we worship, we worship
you.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,hallelujah.
We worship you for who you are,for you are, for you are God,
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yes, you are Jesus.
So good, so good.
Say yes, you are, yes, you are,yes, you are.
Wow.
Do you enjoy my praise team?
They do a wonderful job everySunday.
I love to hear them.
Let's get back to our book.
This is so good.
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The written proclamationcontained in every state driven
into the ground of these citiescontained the declaration made
by God's lawful representativesof that city.
On the basis of Scripture.
I stand for leaders of thiscity.
I stand as a representative forother city pastors who desire
to do three things repent,request and resist.
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We repent we ask the Lord toforgive us for the sins that
have taken place in this stateand this region, specifically
this city.
We ask for forgiveness of thesins of political corruption,
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racial prejudice, moralperversion, witchcraft, occult
and idolatry.
We pray the blood of Jesus tocleanse our hands from the
shedding of innocent blood.
We ask forgiveness for divisionsin the church, forgiveness for
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pride, forgiveness for the sinsof the tongue, anything that has
hurt the cause of Christ.
We repent and humble ourselvesto ask for mercy to be poured
out on our land, our communityand our churches.
We request, we ask for God'skingdom to come, and his will be
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done in the city.
Ask for God's kingdom to comeand his will be done in the city
.
We ask, in the name of Jesus,for an outpouring of grace and
mercy and fire, for truespiritual revival to come and
cover the community, causing aturning back to God, a cleansing
and a brokenness and a humility.
We ask for the destiny of thiscity not to be aborted.
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We ask that you visit this cityand our churches and our homes
Do not pass this city by.
We ask for a restoration of thefoundation of righteousness to
this city.
We also resist on the basis ofby submission to God, by faith,
I resist the devil and his works, all forces and all powers of
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evil that have taken hold of thecity.
We resist the spirit ofwickedness that established
strongholds in the city, thedark places, the hidden works of
darkness, the mystery placeswhere the enemy has set up
encampments.
We call on the name of the Lordto destroy all spiritual
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strongholds.
We proclaim this day that thiscity, especially this region, is
now under the power andownership of the Holy Spirit.
All other spirits are herebygiven notice and evicted from
this property by the power ofthe name of Jesus.
Today, we stand in the gap andbuild a hedge of protection
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around this city.
As I was reading this, I thought, man, how I could personalize
this for my family, how I couldpersonalize it for me.
I just love the words that hesays that we resist on the basis
of our submission to God.
In other words, we resistanything that the devil tries to
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throw at us because we aresubmitted to work for God.
We are submitted to do what hewants us to do and we're not
going to let the powers of eviltake hold of anything we try to
do.
We're going to resist it.
We're going to resist thestrongholds, we're going to
resist the dark places, thehidden works of darkness.
Oh, my goodness, guys, this ispowerful when we can take and
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just proclaim the word of Godfor our cities.
Take hold, drive that, stake inthe ground.
Say devil, you're not gettingthis city, you're not getting my
family, you're not getting mychurch.
You have no hold, you have nopower here, because we are on
the property under the power ofthe name of Jesus.
We are standing in the gap.
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We are building a hedge aroundour city.
We're building a hedge aroundour families, our communities,
our schools, our churches,wherever the enemy is trying to
attack.
That's where we need to stake aclaim.
We need to stake a claim.
This year, 2025, can be a yearof God, restoring the church,
restoring the blessings to hispeople, restoring those things
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that the enemy has taken from us.
2025 can be that way.
Amen, let's go on.
Before you ever purchaseproperty in the natural, you
need to have it surveyed orstaked and you need to determine
if you are willing to pay theprice to possess the land.
Let me say that again Beforeyou ever purchase property in
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the natural, you need to have itsurveyed or staked and you need
to determine if you're willingto pay the price to possess the
land.
I don't know if any of you haveever been a farmer, but I grew
up on a farm with my grandfatherand every morning we was up at
daybreak, we was working theland, we was doing everything we
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could.
We paid a price.
We got up, got up beforesunrise, on cold, cold mornings,
hot mornings, it didn't make nodifference.
We had chores we had to do toget the land ready.
If we wanted to eat during thewinter season, we had to plant.
If we wanted to have meat, wehad to slaughter the pigs, and
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we had to get up early to do it,and we had to do it in the cold
.
There's things you had to do.
Are we willing to pay the priceto possess what God has for us?
Do you remember the children ofIsrael how they wandered in the
wilderness for 40 years, whenit was just a three-day journey?
They wondered why?
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Because, maybe, because theyweren't willing to pay the price
.
They complained abouteverything.
They complained about beingbrought out of bondage, walking
all this way, going througheverything they went to, were
they willing to pay the price topossess the land that God had
given them?
Are you willing to pay theprice today?
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Are you willing to say, god,I'm going to do whatever I have
to do to stake my claim to makesure that my city, my family, my
community is one to Christ?
Are we willing?
Today, when we stake our citiesas God's people, we are in
effect declaring open war onSatan's kingdom.
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Our acts are bold, acts ofoutright aggression, without
apology or hesitation, ofoutright aggression, without
apology or hesitation.
We're telling the devil we havedeclared this before God and
now we are telling you we willtake the city.
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Can you just say that we havedeclared this before God and now
we are telling you, devil, wewill take our city.
Devil, we will take ourfamilies, we will take our
communities.
We declare war, we've declaredwar on you.
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No more, devil, no more.
We're going to do it withoutright aggression.
We're not going to apologizefor it and we're not going to be
hesitant.
We're going to do what Godcalled us to do, if he can take
fishermen and tax collectors andturn them into world-changing
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disciples that went out andchanged the world, that brought
the gospel to those that weresaved, baptized them and all
this stuff.
Then you and I, we can do thevery same thing.
We can do whatever they did,and greater, greater.
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The Bible says greater worksthan these that I do because I
go to my Father.
Oh, my goodness, I could preachright there, but we'll digress.
We'll go on in this book here,because if I don't be careful
I'll be here for another 30, 40minutes just on this part, right
here.
But we're going to go on.
A word of the Lord has come tome about old wells.
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That applies directly to citiesas well as to old mainline
denominations and churches.
God is going to re-dig or uncapthe old wells first, before the
newer, artesian wells breakopen.
Artesian wells break open.
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Genesis chapter 26 tells us thatIsaac and his men redigged the
wells that his father, abraham,had originally dug many years
before in the valley of Gerar.
Although his father's enemieshad filled in the wells after
Abraham's death, isaac stillcalled them by their original
names.
He found so much water therethat he constantly battled with
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the Philistines raiders andfinally moved to Beersheba, or
the well of the oath.
It was there, here, that Jacobencountered the living God and
discovered his true birthrightin God's plan.
In this day, god is uncappingsome of the ancient wells of
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revival.
There are places where hisglory is like a standing pool of
water.
People have to come to the wellto get satisfied, and that is
by God's design.
Before God brings forth the newwells, he will redig the old
wells.
In the year before I beganworking on this book, the Lord
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spoke to my spirit and said I amgoing to revisit the places of
historical revival to give mypeople another chance.
I will call them to dig out thedebris From the old wells so
that the starting of the newrevival Will be upon the
foundations Of the old revival.
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In simple terms, before thereal revival breaks out In the
malls, it will have to take haveto break out in our church
altars, then the back pews.
Then is when the glory of theLord can flow underneath the
threshold of the door and go outinto the streets, in
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fulfillment of the prophecy inEzekiel 47.
In fulfillment of the prophecyIn Ezekiel 47.
Afterward he brought me againUnto the door of the house and
behold, waters issued out fromunder the threshold of the house
Eastward, for the forefront ofthe house Stood toward the east
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and the waters came down Fromunder, from the right side of
the house, at the south side ofthe altar.
Then brought he let me go backhere, my eyes are not working
right Then brought he me out ofthe way of the gate northward
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and led me about the way withoutunto the utter gate, by the way
that looketh eastward andbehold, there ran out waters on
the right side.
And when the man that had theline in his hand went forth
eastward, he measured a thousandcubits and he brought me
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through the waters.
The waters were to the ankles,again he measured a thousand and
brought me through the waters.
The waters were to the knees.
Again he measured a thousandand brought me through.
The waters were to the loins.
Afterward he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I
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could not pass over, for thewaters were risen waters to swim
in a river that could not bepassed over.
And it shall come to pass thateverything that liveth, which
smootheth, whether so ever theriver shall come, shall live and
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there shall be a very greatmultitude of fish, because these
waters shall come thither, forthey shall be healed and
everything shall live, whetherthe river cometh.
And by the river, upon the bankthereof, on this side and on
that side, shall grow all treesfor beet, whose leaves shall not
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fade, neither shall the fruitthereof be consumed.
It shall bring forth new fruit,according to his months,
because their waters they issuedout of the sanctuary, and the
fruit thereof shall be for meatand the leaf thereof for
medicine.
Ezekiel 47, 1 through 5, 9 and12.
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Isn't it ironic that the riverof God's presence flowing from
his sanctuary actually grewdeeper the further the prophet
walked.
That is interesting.
Finally, ezekiel ended up inwater that was over his head and
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he couldn't touch bottom.
He was out of control.
I am after an out of controlrevival.
Its shallowest points should beat the church building.
My, my, my.
Are you ready?
Are you ready for the nextrevival?
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Are you ready for those waters?
Are you tired of just, you know, being in an ankle deep?
My dad preached a message inthis passage one time before
about where we're walking withGod.
Some of us, we're just satisfiedstanding on the bank, just
looking out at the ocean,looking out at what we see and
all the beauty, but we're notwanting to get in.
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We're not wanting to experiencewhat it's about.
I love the ocean.
I love going down there justsitting on the bank and just
listening to the waves at theshore.
But there are times that I wantto get into water and there's
times I'll just walk out therejust to get my feet wet and I'll
come back and then I'll go backout there and I'll take a
little chance and get a littledeeper.
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And I'll go back out there andI'll take a little chance and
get a little deeper and I'll getup to my waist, and then you
know my knees and to my waist.
And then all of a sudden I said, well, I'm this far, I might as
well jump in.
So many people were so satisfiedof just standing on the bank or
just ankle deep water.
We don't want to experienceanything else.
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And then we're sitting thereand we're asking for God to give
us more.
But God's not going to give usmore unless we're willing to go
for it.
Unless we're willing to dosomething to get there.
He's just not going to force iton us.
He wants to see us, wants to dosomething.
See, there's always somethingthat we've got to do before God
can do something.
Have you noticed that in thescriptures?
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You know he says first, you dothis.
If you seek me first, okay,there's always something that
we've got to do before God willhonor his promises.
You know, if we're justsatisfied with standing in
ankle-deep water, we'll neverget the full blessings of God.
We'll never experience theglory of God that we really need
until we launch out thedisciples Peter and John.
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They couldn't catch fish on thebank.
Jesus told them launch out inthe deep, and when they did that
, you know they had multitudesof fishes.
You know, if we would do thatin our spiritual life we don't
want to complicate this.
We're talking about ourspiritual thing, not our fleshly
, but spiritually if we'lllaunch out deeper into God's
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word, if we'll get more and moreinvolved in what God is doing
and what God wants to do for usoh, my goodness, think about the
outpouring that we see.
You know, as Tom Tenney says,the revival has to start with us
.
You know, start at the altar.
You know he talked about thechurch altar.
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Well, I want to say let's startat the altar for ourselves,
because before we can helpsomeone else, we've got to be
right.
There's things in our life thatwe're hiding from everyone else
, but we're not hiding it fromGod.
God knows what it is, god seesit, he knows all about it.
We think we're hiding it andthen we want more of God, but
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we're not willing to go on outthere.
You know this also can symbolizethe baptism.
Uh, being baptized, you knowyou're not fully cleansed unless
you go completely under.
Ankle deep does not get it done.
Ankle deep does not, uh,fulfill the commandment to be
baptized.
It doesn't work that way.
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We're either all in or not inat all.
Does that make sense?
I think so.
Guys, it's been a pleasuretoday.
I hope you've enjoyed the bookso far.
This chapter is a great book.
Our next episode we're going tostart talking about the next
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wave of glory, and that's whatI'm excited to get into, because
I'm wanting to see more Godthis year.
I want to see more miracles andmore things done in 2025 than
has been done in the past.
It can be done.
Thank you for tuning in.
Thank you for listening to theepisode of my podcast.
Share it with your family andfriends and remember, if you
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would like to write us, my emailis thechristiancafe2022 at
gmailcom.
Drop me a line and again, ifyou want a copy of this book,
let me know.
I'll be glad to send it to you.
Until God, until next time, mayGod shine upon you, bless you
and you have a wonderful day.
Join us next time right here onthe Christian Cafe and see what
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God is serving up fresh for you.
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