Hi. This is Dave Olson.
I'm the senior leader of Heartland church, located in
Ankeny Iowa. I hope the following message,
challenges and courage's and ultimately changes you.
Thanks for joining us. God has been good.
I you know what? I'm just going to I'm going to
take you down a little journey here, looking back at 20 years
Kathy and I have attended this church hard to believe for 27
years. Well yeah 27 years.
Will it be 27 years later this year?
I believe and almost half my life.
Well, it's almost half my life and I was going to say it's Out,
you know, two times or whatever. But anyway, I'm not good at
math. Half my life.
I can't believe it but we became the pastor's 20 years ago.
My predecessor some of you will remember.
Few of you will remember Pastor J Albert Calloway and he became
the pastor of this church. At the time, it was an Assembly
of God church and they were going to close it down.
It was known as a preacher kill and church, I from what I
understand. No, no pastor at ever left.
His own accord. It was either was either voted
out, or there was some, some controversy people had to be,
you know, a moral failures and stuff like that.
And so they were going to close it down.
And instead they called J, Albert Calloway and he took the
church now. Pastor Callaway was not a
Revival guy, okay? Because I tried he asked Kathy
and I to come back in 1995 we had just lost our son, a few you
about six to eight months earlier.
And so we were, we were in a situation where our hearts were
still broken. But right after we lost our son,
I heard about this move of God down in Florida, Pensacola
Florida. We called Brownsville and there
was not too far from our in-laws.
So Kathy and I loaded up, the babies went and saw her mom and
dad and then We snuck down to Brownsville and we got rocked
And I saw what my heart was longing for.
And so I was ruined forever. Now, some people experience
survival and they check it off their list and say been there,
done that, and then there's others like you and me.
So I could never go back. And so the pastor Callaway
wasn't sent here for that, he was sent here to clean up the
church, and he was a stubborn guy.
He had, he had rhino skin. I mean, he, he almost enjoyed
conflict. If you knew him, I'm serious.
He could tell someone off in the lobby and he'd say, I'm more
anointed when I get in the pulpit and he was just that way.
But what he gave us was a All in church and he was a colorful
fella. So in late December of that year
before we became the passage been 2001.
He got up and he said, this is how he announced his retirement.
You gotta know when to hold them.
You got to know when to fold them.
And as of such and such date, I'm no longer the pastor and he
came to me privately and he said, Dave, you're the one to
follow me now, Kathy and I had been 14 years at Teen Challenge
and I it was a huge step for us because we We loved our little
trailer home and I loved working for Teen Challenge.
Rodger McKim is a product of those times.
Rogers, one of the joys of my life to run with you.
So I committed to a three day fast.
I went to my mom and dad's and I said I'm going to fast for three
days. You get the mind of the Lord and
wouldn't, you know, after the first day I knew but I was still
committed for two more man. I was like bummed I should have
committed till I heard, you know.
But I knew I was supposed to throw my name in the Hat and I'm
Kathy and I'll never we've talked about it many times.
Those you are still here. Those who still around that
night we were in voted in our little church on the other side
of town and it was surreal and our lives changed.
What God's done, nobody can take credit for because, really, what
happened? We got pulled into a Vortex of
God to desire. God, longed to establish
something and this region. When Pastor Callaway was still
here, I was. He had asked us.
He said, Dave and Kathy, would you come and Lead prayer on
Sunday mornings and we said, sure.
So, we'd load up our babies. All our kids were tiny little
babies, and all five of them, and we drive over on Sunday
morning, we were meeting in the high school for a short amount
of time. And we would pray behind the
curtain at the high school and cry out to God for him to bless
the service. And again and again I would find
myself praying this, we'd be crying out.
It was my Ellen, K Marlowe. And a faithful intercessor in
this house. And he just say, there's,
there's a group of people that kept this place.
Open some really faithful people.
All those years Bill. Culver who's probably the oldest
member here? Billet Jerry and K and Marge.
Cox Jack has gone on to be with the Lord.
Many of them have gone on to be with the Lord, but they were
faithful and kept this place open.
And then, but we'd be praying behind that, curtain, and I
would find myself my heart. Kept getting pulled in this
direction. Is he God?
For example, Church in this region, send a man or woman that
will allow you to move. And then I catch myself and I
thought that could be kind of offensive to our pastor.
And again, that's not a criticism of him.
I believe he did. What he was called to do here.
But there was something in my heart and so when Pastor
Calloway said he's leaving, he came to me.
I felt like the Lord was challenging me.
Say, will you become that, man? And really we pull we stepped
into a Vortex of God's desire. God longed to establish
something here. Where people can come in and
experience God. And so, as soon as I got here,
we started praying. And then we started fasting, and
God just took over. It was, it was an amazing,
those, those of you that were here, sometimes I still Long to
go lay out that ratty carpet up in that little building.
Hopefully they've replaced it by now.
But man, God is Cho up in that building.
I'll never forget the night that that Glory Cloud came in on a
Saturday night and this church has never been the same
something happened. I remember John Lennox calling
me from his office here. He is at Principal Financial in
his suit and tie. He's under his desk weeping and
he's saying pastor, I don't what to do, he's just aching for he
was so gripped with intercession and just weeping under his desk.
It's hard to get away with that in Corporate America.
But there was this, this holy gripping, we caught the heart of
God and God began to move. A year after we became the
pastor God provided the money. We bought 22 Acres up here and
then built this building. And when we moved in and 2005,
It was it was like we hit this pocket of healing, it was
amazing, you know the first time we ever hit 400 and attendance
the very next week, we hit 500. It was insane and all the
systems broke, but it was sure fun.
And there were healings happening every service for
about 9 months, it was amazing. We've seen wave after wave of
God, come through here. We've seen battle after battle
but we've seen wave after wave. And God just coming and visiting
and I don't know where they got the picture of Renee.
Did you see that picture of her running around?
Oh, my goodness. Why don't you?
I want to, I want that. Amazing.
That crazy picture of me being carried around the sanctuary.
You want to talk about a wild service, that will clear out
anybody that has any reservations about the spirit
I'm telling you. When they finally let me down
and I'm just, I'm, I'm snot and bawling and up the aisle.
Came this young Baptist kid. This young Baptist.
I say kid, he was about 30 years old and I grabbed him.
And I said, are you okay? He said this is what we've
looked for our whole life. You know, it's interesting.
It's usually It's usually not those who have not experienced.
It's usually not the unbeliever who rejects the spirit of God.
It's those of us who have and then God shows up a new way.
And that's a cautionary word for the rest of us, man, we need to
be flexible. Say God.
Anyway, you want to show up, you are Lord and we're ready to go
with it. And so God visited it again.
And again and again, as I was thinking this week Look with me
at Genesis 28. Well let me let me just comment
on Genesis 28. Let's do that because we've got
some limited time here this morning.
Well, let's turn to it. When is that ever kept me from
it, right? Genesis 28.
Very early on the Lord dealt with me that he was looking to
establish a Genesis 28 Church. We won't get into all of it.
Let's look at verse 10 proceeding that Isaac tells
Jacob. Listen, you need to you need to
hit the road and get yourself a wife and I don't want you
marrying a Canaanite, girl, want you to go, get a bride from
among our family, your mother's family, and so he sends him.
And it's a good thing you did because Esau who was a skilled
Hunter was hunting for him and he was going to drop him like a
deer in the woods. He was very bitter with his
brother and so look at verse 10. Jacob left Beersheba and went
toward haran and he came to a certain place and stayed there
that night because the sun had set taking one of the stones of
that place, he put it under his head and laid down.
In that place to sleep and he dreamed and behold, there was a
ladder set upon the Earth and on the top of it reached into
heaven, what he was seeing is a place that was a connecting
place of Heaven and Earth. He found a place where Heaven
Was had an opening an access to Earth and that's what God looks
to establish in any region. He needs a place where there's
access. We know from the New Testament,
there are principalities and Power That reside in the
Heavenly Realms and they try to establish their presence and
disrupt God's purposes. And God doesn't just sovereignly
deal with them. He deals with them through his
church. He's given you and I have the
authority and it's through prayer.
And through worship that God clears the heavens.
I so appreciated, what Dean Briggs said, a couple of weeks
ago when he got up his first comments were on Psalm 149.
It's I love that. Passage, he talks about that
the, the children of God, he said, it's this is the glory of
all the saints and what he's referring to is the High.
Praise of God, being our mouth and a double-edged sword in our
hands. In other words, worship and the
word. And he said, they will bind the
Kings with Fetters. They will bind the rulers and
then, he says, to carry out the sentence written against them.
We do that with worship and the word And Dean was talking about
something he sensed in the air. And after the service, he told
me, he said, he said Pastor Dave, you need to understand.
There are things I talked about in this church.
I don't talk about and every church.
I don't feel like they're going to be received.
He said, but there's something about this church that can
receive those things. He was talking about.
High Praise being away that we we bind the enemy and we can
release declarations the word of the Lord in those moments and in
private he began to share some other things.
And I was I was really Amazed by how many prophetic words over
this house he began to touch upon So, I took him out to
Outback. Everybody say, amen, and took
him out to out back after service and we were sitting
there eating and I started to talk about.
I said, I need to share some things with you and I talked and
I'd stop because I thought I'm talking too much and he would
lean his head back and just close.
I say, keep talking this. So, ministers to me and I told
him the prophetic history of Heartland what God is
establishing here and what the Lord is looking to, establish is
a place of Open heaven. A place where there's Air
Supremacy in the enemy's been crippled.
He told me right after service, we are counting came down here
and he said, he said this church can receive resources for the
region that other churches can't touch.
Now let me safeguard that comment that is not an that's
not some arrogant. Statement, every church has its
purpose. We're all important, every
church but we're firm. Believers around here, not just
in individual callings, but in corporate callings not, every
church is created equal. That every church is is called
to the same things, but that is our role.
That's our special sauce Heartland Family.
Performed to Bethel that God can drop resources into a region.
And I told him about the prophetic word, probably to me,
the primary, probably the definitive prophetic word that
we've ever received as a church. Was from Bob Phillips.
The first time he came, he was still pastoring in Houston and
we were sitting at what was it? Another great restaurant was
going to say and you could say, Amen again.
But anyway, we were, we were sitting over a meal and I
started telling him what the Lord was speaking to me about.
And he said, Dave, he said stop. He said, I don't mean to be
rude, but he said, I don't, I can see where you're going, and
I don't want you to say any more until I share with you, what the
Lord has shown me about this church.
It's because I don't want you to think when I release it on
Sunday that I did. So because of what you told me
and he began to unpack some things about this church and
then that Saturday night, he released this word and what he
said, the Lord showed him very clearly is that Heartland is a
DZ, it's a military term for Drop Zone.
It's a place where Air Supremacy has been secured, where the the
land below it has been secured. There's been created a perimeter
so that what's dropped in in the form of resources and the, the
wounded that are flown out will always be protected.
And he said, this is a drop zone in the spirit and he said this,
he said, many of you have been through individual battles and
you've wondered, why am I going through this?
I don't understand the battle. I don't understand what's going
on. There was confusion, but you
held the line, you kept pressing into the Lord, you didn't blame
God for your circumstances, you kept your praise on.
He didn't say it that way, but he kept your praise on.
And he said, then as a church, he said, you've been through
many battles, there's been many skirmishes, he said, but you
need to realize your far beyond where you started.
There's been a lot of ground taken.
He said there's going to be more battles and I thought, oh no.
Who said there's going to be more?
He said, but you need to understand the church is far
beyond where it was. And God and His Grace has been
leading us on what we just did for 45 minutes and worship is
crucial. This is not just, we're not
priming the pump for the preaching of the word.
This is our calling, this is one of the primary things that were
called to Because in the midst of that, we can catch the word
of the lord and there becomes an opening.
And we can release the word of the Lord.
And we go from petition to Proclamation were legislating
from the throne, the word of the Lord, and we're shaping history
during worship. And so Dean was alluding to
these prophetic words. There's a number of things.
He was picking up on in the air that the Lord has spoken to us.
Now listen what it says here in Genesis 28 The middle of.
Well, let's, let's read verse 12 again and he dreamed and behold,
there was a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached
to heaven. And behold the angels of God
were ascending and descending upon it and behold the Lord
stood above it and said, I am the Lord, the god of Abraham,
your father, and the god of Isaac, the land on which you
lie, I will give to you and to your Offspring.
Your Offspring shall be like the dust of the earth and you shall
spread abroad to the west and to the east.
The North and to the South and in you and your Offspring shall
all the families of the earth. Be blessed.
I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and we'll bring
you back to this land for. I will not leave you until I
have done. What I promised you then Jacob
awoke from this his sleep and he said surely the Lord is in this
place that term is used for X this place.
And it means a very specific location of great significance.
It was the place assigned by God.
Jacob didn't know just like us. Jacob stepped into some onto
some ground that had already been sanctified.
You see Jacob and his journey of running from his brother and
carrying out his father's wishes stumbled onto a place and became
Weary at a point. In the journey, laid down put a
rock under his head and took a nap.
What he didn't realize his grandfather had come through
there and twice built altars to the Lord.
He stepped into an environment prepared by his forefathers.
It goes to what ho L was saying this morning.
We paved the way for the Next Generation.
We want to prepare something that they can stumble into I've
been overwhelmed lately in our morning prayer meetings and I'll
walk the aisles and I'm just so struck by all the gray heads
bowed over in prayer. I'm the gray head walking
around. But it's so blesses.
My heart that all these intercessors have stepped into
the Gap because it's up to us to pave the way for the others.
We're at a season of life, where often our schedule more affords
that But we also have perspective on life, the wisdom
of a life somewhat lived and we realize what really matters,
we're not in the business of raising little babies in heaven
and bite her ankles. You know where we were at that
time where we can give our self more to these things, and it's
incumbent upon us. And Jacob stumbled into an
environment that was prepared by his forefathers.
And he didn't even realize it until he had an encounter with
God. God stood at the top of that
ladder and begin to speak his destiny.
That is one of the primary purposes of this place.
If you look at our mission statement says we are a
multi-generational family pulling as many people as
possible into an encounter with God, that they can understand
who they are and be launched into his purposes.
You see Anna Bethel under an open Heaven.
People begin to understand who they are because God begins to
speak to them, either through the people that live there.
Through prophetic words, through the word, the word comes open.
In an open Heaven. People tell me all the time, how
easy it is to preach in this church and I know that I sound
better here. I've gone to some hard places.
I'd rather be here makes a preacher look good. because
you're pulling from an open Heaven, there's Revelation,
there's Angelic activities, the Angels, Ascend, and descend And
so Jacob awoke from his sleep and he said, surely the Lord is
in this place. I did not know it and he was
afraid and he said how awesome is this place a fifth time?
There is none of this is none other and I love how he frames
this. He gives it to titles one from
the perspective of Earth. And other from the perspective
of Heaven, this is none other than the house of God, and the
Gate of Heaven. It's the house of God.
It's a place where God can dwell unhindered.
Where God can reside in the Hunger of the people
entertained? The presence God will not remain
in a place where he is not the guest of honor.
He's to worthy. It would be a lack of Integrity
for God to remain, where he is not the Supreme guest.
He would be untrue to himself. If he was willing to take the
back seat and be left in the corner and still stay.
His glory is other than we can understand one of the meanings
of the word Holiness is not just that.
It's pure. It means that it's holy other.
It's so completely different than us.
We don't have a grid work to understand and the closer we get
to him. It strikes us again and again
how different he is. And so having been pulled into
that Vortex of God's desire and God imparting his hunger to us
and we release it back to him. Deep calls unto deep, the water
spouts begin to rise. I don't know if you've ever seen
waterspouts but there's like a cyclone or a tornado of water,
comes out of the water and then it comes out of the clouds and
it's like it's reaching up and it's reaching down its deep
calling unto deep. Crates that vortex.
God has graced us with Hunger for him and we can never take
credit for that, but it is our role.
No, make no mistakes about it. We do have a responsibility for
this nation and for this region. I want to read something.
The Lord spoke to me back in 2014.
Christopher and I my little bald-headed brother.
We used to come up on on Monday nights.
We both had the day off that day, and we'd come up and wait
on the Lord, and sometimes people would join us.
We'd be in Laura's office, and then sometimes, we make it in
here. Sometimes the glory would fall.
Sometimes Andre would come up, that was always fun.
And the, and other times it was just a boring prayer meeting,
but we would show up and just wait on the Lord.
And Bob hayslett had been here a few months earlier when
Christopher spoke something to me.
Bob was equipping people, you know, activating the prophetic
Bob's, a profit, and very strong equipping profit.
And so one of the exercises he did in one of the day sessions
was said, okay, he taught on the prophetic and he said, okay, now
we're going to activate it, I want you to ask the Lord who
some but you know, how does he see somebody in the room and
later on, you're going to share that with them.
So people did that was really neat and people were really
blessed Was until a few days later.
Christopher called me and he said, hey you know, when Bob
said that it's the eye and he said, I asked the Lord about
you. And he said, I want to share
with you what he said and when he told me, it broke me because
there were intimate, things about my heart between me and
the Lord that he had dressed, and the Lord highlighted him,
and it meant something to him. Then I was really stunned that
those little week Expressions, meant something to the Lord.
What take? I'm not unique.
That's true for all of us. But it's so ministered to my
heart and I still rehearse that what Christopher said, because
those things shape our identity and bring us into the pleasure
of God. It's not that God isn't pleased
as we need to get our head in the game so we can receive his
pleasure and that was a help for me to do so.
And so one night we were meeting in the back, how the office back
there. And we were just having a good
old time and we came out here. We thought let's go on the
sanctuary. So we're all praying for each
other and I believe Andre was here that night.
We just had a holy ghost time and Christopher late handsome.
He said, hey Remember how I told you what the Lord says said
about you. I said yeah.
He said the Lord just told me he's going to show you what he
looks how he sees Heartland and my heart left it awakened.
I thought yes, I want to see that and so I began to pray into
that for several weeks. Several weeks, several weeks, I
don't remember how long but want another night.
We're back in that office there on a Monday night and the spirit
of God fell and Andre was there that night.
I remember. And man, we just we had Church
and all of a sudden I went into this vision and I was
overwhelmed and I began to type at what the Lord was showing me
immediately and I want to read it to you.
It was on August 9th of 2014. This is what he told me.
There is a dome, a large, expansive opening over
Heartland. It is a clear place in the
spirit. The enemy is not able to operate
in that airspace like he usually is.
It is a no-fly zone, enforced by Heavens host.
But like Jacob at Bethel, this is a cautionary word.
But, like Jacob at Bethel. We are in danger of not being
aware of it. If we aren't aware, we will miss
the benefit failed to Leverage The Liberty to declare and Rule
with him. When we are aware, we act
differently, we confidently and boldly declare and demand call
and rebuke. When we perceive we cooperate
and it is on Earth through our response, like it is on Heaven
through his initiation And then he told me this, The Secret of
this house called Heartland has been the desperate hunger
resulting in extravagant worship and intense intercession in
fasting. It is our special sauce
breakthrough establishing bethel's, through hunger,
worship, intercession and fasting, and prophetic
intercessory worship. The resolve he placed within us
by grace. That hunger and commitment that
is willing to lose all reputation.
Land finance, let relationships is the key.
It is our special sauce. Our special Grace to export to
the nation's. This is breakthrough to the
nation's. There was more to it, but I'll
just stop there this morning. But we need to understand what
the Lord is establishing here. It just may be.
That God established this church 57 years ago because it was
stablished the year. I was born 56 years ago.
I'm still 56 for another month. It just may be that the Lord
established this church for this hour in human history.
All the rest is gravy all. The rest was just side benefits
and hors d'oeuvres, but I really believe the purpose of this
house were entering into it right now.
We are in an unprecedented hour. There's two books that have
rocked my life more than any other when it comes to buy a
biographies. One is the secrets of the
Argentine Revival, which hold the keys for National
breakthrough. The other is res Hall
intercessor, which holds the keys for international
breakthrough and Ruiz Howl in his prayer group, literally
shifted, the war effort of the Allied Forces.
There were seven times that actress either six or seven, a
tremendous travailing burden came over that group of people
and they would weep and cry and travail for hours and hours
sometimes days and suddenly it would lift.
And then over the next few days, it would find out that get word,
that some mysterious circumstances turned Hitler in
his forces back. More analysts, evaluated,
Hitler's strategy after the war. And they determined that he made
six key mistakes. And wouldn't, you know, it those
six key mistakes, coincided with those seasons of intercession.
The church really is called to rule the world through fasting
and prayer. We're called to write history in
advance through the prophetic and then enforce it through
prayer. And I believe that in the coming
days, God's going to release a greater anointing for prophetic
intercessory worship, where he's going to shape history through
what he does here. When Bob Phillips gave us that
word, I remember on a Sunday morning so it must have been
Sunday mornings. I remember afterwards, we were
standing right here talking and I remember feeling like I was
just in a tornado. Like, my hair is all messed up
my shirts, half ripped because of the activity in the room and
he said Dave he's to get ready. He said you're going to make
declarations out of this house. There's going to be declarations
during worship that you'll read about the Fulfillment of them.
And in the newspapers, Soon afterwards and then he told me
this, he said it's going to be too wild for some, it's going to
be too much for some people to endure.
God is looking to harvest a group of people who will stay
the course. And the fact is, that's why some
of you have gone through the things in secret battles and
struggles. That no one else knew about and
you were so puzzled. And you question, Lord, I'm
living for you. Why am I going through this?
But the Lord needed, somebody's somebody who had been tested and
tried and would stand their ground, because in the coming
days, what's coming to planet Earth, he has to have those
outposts Where people will stand and pray this thing through.
I don't know what the future holds but I do know this.
It's going to be the best of times, and it's going to be the
worst of times. At least for a season, I really
believe that now I know that's a bummer place to land.
I won't land there but God's given us Grace to press this
thing through. One other thing that there was a
number of things we go through in the Heartland culture class
different, the prophetic history of Heartland, the different
initiatives we've lost launched. Some may think we're imbalanced,
who knows? I just don't know how to pass
through without the prophetic. I don't want an Ishmael.
I only want to launch something. If God makes it abundantly,
clear. He's in it.
Amen. So that means we wait on the
word of the Lord. Well, we were still an assembly
affiliated with the Assemblies of God.
I had been oppressed bitter and I step down, I just didn't feel
like I was the best fit for that for the work.
We were in a middle of a building program and all that.
So I stepped down and Bob. Bob Hazel came not soon after
that or not. Yeah, not not long after that
and he was preaching. And you know how Bob does and it
just start prophesying and he walked he's preaching got down
on the floor and he looked at me he said, Dave, I see them
looking for a covering Said there's churches that are
looking for a covenant covering. He said I see Kansas City, I see
the Chicago area and he names some different places.
And those two are remember and he said, He said they're looking
for a covering. And as soon as he said it, I
went into a vision and I hit the floor, boom.
And when I was on the floor, I saw these letters suspended in
air. They were liquid gold, and they
were on fire and there were alive.
They were moving. And it said this, the Heartland
Alliance and I knew in my spirit, I knew immediately, it
was a play on words, it was an alliance of Ministries,
Heartland would start, But it was also an alliance for the
heartland of America. And we had heard from the Lord
about launching just a relational Network contending
for Revival. There was a lot of stories
around that I won't get into it, but when it all culminated in
the move of God and 08 I felt like okay it served its purpose.
I don't want to have an organization around longer than
it needs to be. So we just kind of shot in the
head and it died. It was we called it mern
Midwest. Revival Network we had some some
wonderful moves of God with that but we just put it to rest and
the Lord is very clear to me that we needed Resurrect that.
And so it's so. So when we withdrew our
affiliation from the assemblies, then we needed a credentialing
for your pastor. I don't want to Bootleg the
gospel, you know, I wanted to wanted to be legit.
And so, we were able to credential number of our
pastors. We've credentialed a number of
ministers around the minute that bound the region some in
Illinois and Kansas most in Iowa.
And there's Traveling Ministries, some Churches.
And so we have Regional Gatherings bringing and whenever
we bring in a speaker, we try to have a gathering so that these
churches, that maybe wouldn't have an ability to be availed
themselves to these Ministries, like, poly it out and lay
Petland and Bob hayslett. And you know, all the others, we
have these gatherings, and just let them get blasted by the
spirit of God and we have a good time and it's been a real
blessing, but we also are able to credential those who need a
credential and give them a covering.
And so this morning, we're going to be credentialing some people.
Laura, how many, how many credentialed ministers do we
have now? Do you have any idea ballpark?
30. Okay.
So I guess about 30 and so, the director of the Heartland
Alliance is John Lennox. So, I'm going to invite him to
come up this morning and I want to tell you something.
This church would not be where it is without this couple and
Yeah. That story of John Lennox
underneath his desk in a suit and tie is just one little
snapshot of the nature of this man.
I want on or someone else to Larry and Laura would you guys
stand up? Some of you don't know Larry and
Laura that is Drew and Gatti's mom and pop and his wonderful
sister Amy and her husband sitting next to him.
She they grew up in this Amy grew up learning Lord and grew
up here but Larry was on the board when I became the pastor,
he and Laura were key members of this church.
I will tell you, God, used Larry at some key junctures in this
church. You know, it's never, it's never
failed to amaze me Larry how at Key moments.
It's like you were a pivot. You are like a hinge for this
church and it's because of who you are, if you said it, people
would believe it because they know you weren't going to do
those things Loosely and I love you and I appreciate all you
guys did and let me brag on them.
One, one other thing. We would have never been able to
purchase this original, build this original Building without
Larry. Larry leveraged, his reputation
in business and kind of bent the arm of the bank and said, hey
you want to do business of our company which had well over a
hundred million dollars out with that bank.
He said we can find another bank, they said you know, it's
suddenly we feel led to work with your church and So
Hallelujah. So God bless you guys and
there's there's many others, I don't want to overlook anybody
but it's sweet. We have a very rare opportunity
to honor them. So we love you guys, all right.
We're going to, I'm going to go ahead and call up the credential
candidates and I'm going to invite their spouses if they're
not. Being credentialed with them to
come up with them and stand behind them and we want to pray
over them, you're going to join us.
Pastor Drew and gaudy. Is your wife serving upstairs?
Yeah, his wife's on duty, so that's it.
That's a good wife. Hallelujah, Mark and Melissa
doll. Hallelujah.
Amen. I love this couple.
Larry and Cheryl Schroeder. Then let me state that Mark and
Melissa have a traveling minister.
They there's a lot they do many of you know that but they run
honeybee Ministries and Larry and Cheryl do Pulpit fill-ins.
And they're also School teachers at a Christian school and just,
yeah, and I've made a big impact on a lot of people in this
congregation. Send a Scott.
Hallelujah. Marvin Cinda do Pulpit fill in,
as well as have a Ministry in nursing.
Homes Marvis, stepped in as an interim pastor Marv's already
credentialed with us so we're not going to give them another
piece of paper but he's going to stand with his wife as she
receives on this morning and isn't it wonderful to see more
fear? Yeah.
Could have been a different
story. DJ Steam.
Yeah, Hallelujah. DJ and Nicole.
Pastor a church. What what town are you in actly
it? I've been telling people about
you and I keep forgetting to town so actually and DJ and
Nicole. And I have a long history, many
of, you know, Derek Steen. This is his big brother so he
and I both can say our little bald-headed brother.
So, and they're a wonderful couple.
Yeah. And that awesome.
It, I hang that over him off. And so, I'm going to ask you to
stand Morning, what's that? Oh I'm sorry.
Jennifer, I'm somehow I ran right over you.
Thank God. Jennifer Jennifer Roush.
Hallelujah. You are supposed to be up here
long before this. I'm sorry.
Yeah, and Troy and Jennifer. We're a part of our church for
many years and of course Jennifer runs.
The help me out here. The name spare Evita, and it's a
very unique pro-life Ministry that it's not a life clinic, but
they equip clinics to up their effectiveness and its really
taken on, you know, just like why Fire.
And it's an amazing thing. So, and for many years, Jennifer
was our women's director twice for many, many years.
So, Hallelujah, one is. I want you to extend your right
hand right now. Father Lord, we thank you for
these couples Lord, these individuals.
Lord, we thank you. For calling them.
Scripture says, how can they believe less they hear and how
can they hear? Less?
Someone is sent. Lord, I Thank you for laying
your hand upon these. And Lord right now, we ask for
fresh impartation in Jesus name. Fresh impartation.
Lord, we ask God that everything we've broke into in this house.
Would come upon them. Lord.
Lord like Jacob. They could step into something.
Abraham opened up in Jesus name. I ask for wisdom and anointing
Lord. In Jesus name Lord I Thank you
for Drew Lord. Fresh oil.
Fresh oil, pressure oil, Drew. I just really feel like I saw
like a reservoir of oil and it's about it's like you're your wine
skin and I saw like a wineskin in your belly and the Lord is
going to increase your capacity to carry oil.
There's an increased coming and you're going to be able to carry
it. Well and and the Lord wants you
to know the faithfulness of your life has brought you to the
point where you've been faithful with little God's going to give
you more and so Lord, we thank you God for fresh anointing.
Freshening Lord, I ask for signs wonders and miracles.
Of course signs wonders and miracles Lord I Thank you for
opening his ears in Jesus name, quote show.
Oh thank you. Lord father, I thank you for
fresh oil. Fresh oil.
Lord, I Thank you for this. Holy Ghost, couple, Hallelujah.
I just as soon as I grabbed your hands, it's like You guys are a
perfect picture. That Jacob thing.
There's there's a Heritage Melissa.
I Met Your Mama this morning and I know a little bit about your
family and there's a Heritage that they created that you've
been able to step into and you've started it.
Well, you weren't content to just receive and sit you're
taking, you're going from glory to glory and you've passed that
on to your children. I love your kids.
So you guys have done so well. Lord, I thank you for that
inheritance. Now Lord, It's time for the
bread to come back on the waters more.
More Lord, more more Killian to the horse show, social claw co,
co co coco father, I thank you for Larry and Cheryl.
Lord, God for their faithfulness Lord, I Thank You for their
pastors heart there. A tentative their attentiveness
to others needs. Lord their care for others.
Lord. I Thank You for their surrender.
Hallelujah. And I just even as I grab your
hand, I could feel your heart cry.
There's been a cry in your heart to be used at a greater degree,
and there's like a hunger for the supernatural.
There's like this hunger. Roger, McKim, come up here.
There's a, there's a hunger for the Supernatural.
That's come and I'm telling you you keep pulling on Heaven
because it's just a matter of time.
It's not that the Lord has said, no, your hunger is creating an
ability to Steward what you belong.
Forget Behind These Guys. Roger, sure.
Oh so, oh shoot, thank you Lord. Thank you Kelly on the dabashi.
Soaked, Loco, Coco shoot more Lord, more more more, more more,
more, more, more, more, more, more more more, more more
receive. So thank you.
Lord. Father.
I thank you for Larry father. I thank you that for the
Pastoral anointing. Lord, I'm asking God feel like
the Lord wants to open the word to you, a fresh Lord.
I ask God that an increase in that teaching anointing Lord,
that that natural ability and that Supernatural ability of put
on him. Lord, it would increase in Jesus
name. Hallelujah, amen.
Hallelujah father. Thank you for sending.
I met Cinda and Marv back in 1988 and if you guys remember
that and a little Room down in Mitchellville.
Father, I thank you for this couple.
Yes, Lord, I Thank you for sending send.
I just felt like the Lord said, you're bigger than you, think
you are bigger than you think you're bigger on the outside,
then you were on the inside. Oh yeah, I saw you walking and
you left big Footprints deep impressions in the earth.
That's true of your history, but it's even more true of your
destiny. Lord.
I Thank you. Fresh, anointing, fresh
anointing more. Lord, more more, hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah, thank you.
Hallelujah. Father.
I thank you for Jennifer. Come over here, Roger.
Thank you. Lord.
Jennifer, I've often I've often described you to two people.
There's a there's a nobility and elegance about you and the
spirit, the way you carry yourself and it is assist Godly
anointing. It's like this ambassadorial
anointing that you can go into different places.
And represent him. Well, there's a Grace on your
life. Lord, I thank you for that.
I just saw the lord, it's like this big knife and he cut
something in front of you is cutting away for you.
It's like, there's been resistance that's going to give
way in this hour, more more more Lord.
I thank you, Father, we thank you for Troy Lord, from Marv,
Lord, fresh anointing, Lord. We thank you, God, we know that
these couples are That there. One there.
One, hallelujah. Oh God, hallelujah.
I want to pray for you once more.
The pump gets primed. Hallelujah.
Thank you Lord. Just just pray for these guys
right now. Father, I'm asking for great
wisdom, Lord, discernment, Lord of decisiveness Lord.
When I say that DJ it's not a decisiveness in the sense that
you've been in, Decisive and wavering.
I mean, there's a surety of the spirit that will come in that,
you know, that, you know, and Lord, I'm asking for a fresh
release of the prophetic Lord, I'm asking for relationship.
With prophetic people. Lord, that you would raise one
up within his own midst. Lord, a CO her cohort.
John Kilpatrick to said one time, he said, if you can find
just one to stand with you, It's a done deal.
It's a done deal. And so Lord, I'm asking Granite
to them. Lord in Jesus name.
Amen. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Put your hands up. Father, I thank you for this
people. Lord, we thank you for the house
called Heartland this open Heaven.
Just keep your eyes closed and keep your hands raised when a
share very quickly, when the Lord spoke, what I read to you.
What I saw was this huge cylindrical.
Cool carving that was bigger than our Sanctuary on which it
was like, we lived in a Granite Mountain embedded, but there had
been this huge cylindrical Chasm, this tunnel that went
straight up into heaven. As far as the eye, could see
something's been drilled and Heartland realize who you are
receive, who you are and use it the way God intended.
Realize have an awareness when you come in here.
Don't be like Jacob. Who said, this is the Gate of
Heaven. This is the house of God, but I
knew it not from this day forth, know it own it step in here and
leverage it. God's granted to us for his
purposes. It's for this hour that God has
established. What he's done in this church?
And so Lord, I kept seeing this picture of this morning and so
when Drew came up and said what he said, I just I was
overwhelmed once again. I kept feeling like okay Lord,
we can climb on the altar but it's insufficient are weak
little surrender. We can climb up on the Altar and
lay ourselves out but without your fire, it means nothing.
So, Lord were asking. Send your fire on the altar of
our sacrifice Lord, the blood of goats and Bulls tithes and
offerings. Other things are insufficient.
You aren't us? You want us Lord.
So Lord. I'm asking you give us Grace to
climb on the Altar and send your fire.
And Lord, we promise. We will Steward it.
According to your desire, this next move will be stewarded to
send them to the nation's in Jesus name.
Amen. Amen.
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