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Now enjoy this message. It is good to be home.
I kind of feel like I've been on a whirlwind.
It's been fun. I feel like I I know for sure.
It was convenient. In the last three weeks I have
slept less in my own bed then I have in the bed of a hotel in
Kissimmee and Tulsa and then in Nicaragua.
My wife informed me the hotel we stay at is no longer.
But we're going to have to upgrade.
So we will do just that. You know, it's important.
Hey, unless you're going to some country where that all you can
do is get what you can get. But you know, when you when
you're ministering as much as we were, you definitely want a good
night's sleep and not something poking in your back.
Amen. And so anyway, we had a great
time. I'm going to talk to you about
missions tonight, but I want to kind of get in the word and kind
of bring it in. All right.
So in March, Chapter 16, again, it was Pastor Marcia and I as we
were conversing. She said, you know, I really
think you need to do Wednesday night.
You know, she's been doing a series on the Holy Spirit and
she's been doing most of our Wednesday nights and will
continue to do so starting next week.
But obviously, you know, I know the church gets excited about
what we're doing because we love our vision.
The vision, God's given us to ignite the city, impact the
nation and influence the world. And you know, you don't want to
wait till Sunday to find out what happened.
Although we'll talk a little bit about it, probably have a video
by then and you know you'll be able to see it.
But we want to be able to minister along these lines
because ignite the city, impact the nation, influence world is
really important to us because that's what God gave us to do.
All right, So mark Chapter 16. Verse 15 and 18 I'm going to
read two passes of Scripture. Then I'm going to break them
down a little bit. But in Mark chapter 16, verse 15
and 18. And Jesus said to them, go into
all the world and priest the gospel of all creation, And he
who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved.
But he who has disbelief shall be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe in my name.
They will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues,
they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any daily poison,
it will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick
and they will. Recover.
Now go over to Matthew chapter 28, verses 18 and 20.
Matthew chapter 28, verses 18 and 20.
It says in Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying all
authority, how much authority, all authority has been given to
me in heaven and on earth. Go there for and make disciples
of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all
that I commanded you. And low I'm with you always.
Even to the end of the age. Amen.
So most of the time we call these the Great Commission, but
what we need to understand is these are two different areas to
go. They are not the same.
I want to go back over to Mark chapter 16.
If you put that back up most of the time we and we've learned
this at aggravate Church and I'm going to key in on it.
We understand that you have to go back to the Greek to
determine what are we talking about.
And you know, when you start getting into other nations,
language is really important and understanding what's going on
becomes pretty important. Because, you know, you could say
something and they could receive it differently and act on
something in a way that wasn't the intent.
Right now we have this problem in our own nation.
In fact, when we were in Poland, one of the minister says When we
all are in heaven, one day before the Lord, we know that
for all eternity the language will be the Polish language.
And I was like, why is that? He says.
Because it takes an eternity to learn Poland Polish language,
that even the Polish people can't speak our own language.
All right, so I I doubt that's true, but it does make for a
good joke. Amen.
But it says it's going to all the world.
This word world is the same word used in John 316.
And this word is not the planet. It's not Earth.
It is worldly order. In essence, it's sectors of
society. So the market count is telling
us as believers, we are to go in our realm of influence.
We are to go into the sectors of society, the world order, in
order to preach. There's a local application of
witnessing. And what's really awesome about
this particular one is that it tells you what you get to do at
work because it says going to all the world again.
This is the world's order. It's the system by which the
world function again. Remember, according to John 316,
for God so love the world, not the earth, but the world.
It's the way that the world function.
He loved. He loved the system he had.
That Adam lost, that he gave to the devil, that he wants to
recoup. That because Adam had the
ability to function in the earth under a system that would be
like God. That's why he said let us make
men in our image according to our likeness and let them have
what dominion. Now dominion is rulership, it's
function. It's how we rule within a realm.
Are you hearing me? So if you are a king with
dominion, then it's how you function in the realm that you
have authority. And so we as humans, God gave
man dominion over the earth. Not the planet as ownership, but
how we manage the Earth, how its systems would function.
Cause in heaven, there's a system that functions, and if
you break that system, well, you'll get kicked out, right?
Jesus said I saw Satan fall. Like what?
Lightning from heaven. You can get kicked out.
You do the wrong system. God never lost his.
System in the earth, in in heaven he has.
Heaven this is. But the system by which He
functions and governs that realm, He has never lost that.
So again, he said in Psalms 115 the highest heavens are the
Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of man, meaning the
way it is to function or operate.
If you go to the Luke's account of the temptation of Christ, the
devil took Jesus up to a high pinnacle or a high place, a
mountain, one translation says, and showed him all the kingdoms
or domains in a moment of time. He said, I'll give these to you
if you'll do one thing, bow down and worship me.
Notice he didn't say. I'll give you the earth.
He said, I'll give you how if things function in this planet,
you can have this authority, this rule, you can rule over
these, but let me be a ruler. And obviously the Lord said It
is written that we are only going to worship God and God
alone. And besides, I'm going to take
it back anyway. Amen.
The point is, is that here in Mark's Gospel.
He is saying that we are to go into the systems of the world
that the the devil is operating in and how he operates in them.
Again, in the Luke account of the temptation, he said.
I'll give you all this domain, for it has been handed over to
me and I can give it to whomever I want, so I administrate this
now. And his administration is
horrible. He comes only to kill, steal and
destroy. He only wants to destroy God's,
you know, way of doing things. He wants to be completely
different than God, although he can present himself like an
Angel of light or like it is godly, although it is not.
And so man's dominion that Adam had he he abdicated, he gave up
his rulership, gave it to the devil, and the devil became the
God of this. World.
He doesn't own planet earth, but he is the God of its systems.
Now again 2nd Corinthians 4 four.
Paul says he's the God of this world, but yet he also writes in
Colossians that Jesus has full principalities and powers and
has stripped the devil of his authority.
So how can he beat in the Colossian, the Corinthian
church, the God of this world, when Jesus has full
principalities and power and defeated the devil?
Well, because there is still a system functioning within the
planet that was never God's design.
And this is where God says I want you to go into all the
world, into those systems and preach.
I want you to be an example of a different system, a different
Kingdom. That's why Jesus said repent,
for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
There's a different way to function on planet earth.
We're not limited to do it this way.
This is why I caution you with secular teachings that are
devoid of the Holy Spirit, because this system under the
rule of the devil. Can cause you to prosper.
Jesus himself says what good is it a man if he gains the world
he it becomes all powerful in the world's systems before fits
his soul. Do you understand?
You can make money without God and say God's giving it to you
because you can do it the world's way and say God's
blessing you. Well, God's not giving you it
the world's way. He's not doing it.
You're not going to be a great leader through the world's way,
but yet there are ways to navigate in a world system that
is contrary to the Kingdom. In fact, the Kingdom is almost
completely opposite. Now when I say that the devil
has stolen some ways that the Kingdom functions, cause again
he was an anointed chair. He knows how the Kingdom works.
So he has stolen some ideas from him and does it his way.
But ultimately, in the end lies death.
So we always have to say, OK, how do I actually handle
finance? I'm going to step over a line
here and say this. Just because they're Christian
doesn't mean they're preaching Kingdom economics.
That mean it? In fact, one of the buzzwords in
Christianity is called stewardship.
But the secular world does stewardship.
In fact, Pastor Mark and I were having this conversation.
He says it's in the world. We are always trying to see how
much we can get out of a little bit.
I mean we always saving. We're always like, you know, I
want to hold on and give very little in order to get
something. But in the Kingdom, the
kingdom's like, look what I can do with nothing, look what I can
give away and get. It's a totally different system.
All right, Same thing in healthcare.
Healthcare has a different system in the Kingdom of God
compared to the world. Because the world system right
now is to diagnose you, give you a prescription and keep you.
In fact, Ernie was just telling me, is Ernie in here tonight?
Ernesto, Is he serving? He's in Miami still.
Ernesto grabbed this supplement. It's something with Rice.
What was that that he's taken that lowers cholesterol?
Red what? Red yeast rice.
OK, so he's taking this. Went to his doctor and his
doctor says. Your cholesterol is normal.
What are you taking? He said.
This is what I'm taking, he says.
Well, it's a good. Thing not too many people know.
About that or I'd go out of business.
Now that was the response. So you understand what the
doctor's not doing with his next patient.
You don't want to hear this. The doctor's not saying, I just
had a patient that has taken this and it has absolutely
lowered their cholesterol. You need to take this.
But they're not doing that because the world system is to
keep you a repeat customer. Because the reality is you are
money. Your money.
And if everybody's healed, but in God's Kingdom, he wants us
all healed. I mean, at my age, 53, most
people are already on two or three prescriptions at my age
and younger. So, you know, when we're talking
well, we're not on anything. They're like blown away.
How is that possible? Well, because I'm in a different
system. Amen.
But if you don't learn about that system, exercise that
system. But yet the Lord wants us to be
able to go into those systems and preach the gospel.
But notice what it says that we would do in that arena in the
world. OK, we're just talking.
You leave home and you get out of your house.
This is Ignite the City stuff. What are you going to do at
work? What are you going to do at
Target or Publix? What are you going to do?
You know, when you're at a movie theater, what are you going to
be able to do? Well, you'll be able to cast out
devils. You'll be able to speak with new
tongues. You'll be able to pick up
serpents. And if you drink any deadly
poison, you think that's for the nations?
That's home. This is stuff in the house.
Right. It won't harm you.
You'll lay hands on the sick and they'll recover.
In fact, God is telling us here on March 16th that these signs
are following the believer every day of your life.
These are your witnessing tools. Because according to Acts
chapter One, we have been we received the power of God so we
could be His witness. He said don't leave until you've
been in due with power on high to be my witnesses and the
witnessing that we are cuz we are baptized in the Spirit of
God. We have the Holy Ghost living in
us, but he's come upon us and given us power.
He's given us access to supernatural thing that is just
a part of our life. Anytime the Lord needs us to
move in that way, we can. You should expect that during
flu season you can lay hands on people and get people healed at
work. In fact you should be like, what
happened? Well, you know I'm feeling
symptoms going what can I pray for you right.
But what do we do. Well, you know to y'all should
take a shot. We we don't talk because we
don't think this is where we're to witness.
Yet the world this is exactly where we are supposed to be the
most active in our witnessing. And he's like here's the power
of stuff that you have day in and day out.
This is day in and day out stuff.
Then we jump over into Matthew, obviously 28 and he says going
he said I have all authority go there for and make the Sibels of
all nation. Now this word nation means
ethnic groups. So this is where you're going to
nations, all right. This is every tongue tribe,
these are ethnic groups, OK and that.
So it's very important for us to understand when it comes to
witnessing or or missions in general, there is a home
mission. As well as a national missions
as well as a international missions.
And all of them are important. We should not be more excited
about 1:00 than the other. We should be sensitive for them
all. We'll be the most active in our
local mission because this is where we live, this is where we
live and if we can reproduce. What he says we would do in
March 16, what would that do to our city?
Well, that would definitely ignite it.
No doubt about it. Well, you know anybody for Bank
of a church, If they lay hands on you, you'll get healed.
You'll get healed. Now, that doesn't mean they want
to walk in the light of all of it, but they can't deny the fact
that it is now. They could deny the.
Fact that it is. But we know that the Lord knows.
That they had it. Right, the way you walk, the way
you talk, the way you behave, but then the demonstrations you
get to do in igniting your own city and then obviously that
will filter over into our nation as a whole.
But then we get into international and we see that
this is a priority of God as well, he said, Look, it's not
just being local. We want you to get out and hit
the nations because there are comforts in some places that
aren't in others, Pastor Mark said.
I don't want to hear another word.
From my congregation about it being too loud when you get some
sound panels. In Managua, I mean, everything's
concrete and it's just like bouncing everywhere.
I mean, it's loud. It is loud, but not just that,
it is hot because our current church there does not have a C
in it and it had to be 115. Easy, easy.
They had back doors open. They had a side door open.
Then they had another side door that they eventually opened
upstairs. We went and they had like a
green room. It was awesome.
And they had three windows closed and they're sweating and
serving us with a smile. And we're thinking, why is the
windows not open, right? Because we come from an A/C
environment. We come from the A/C, the land
of the A C's. The land of the air condition,
right? I get it.
If you don't have it, that's one thing.
But if you do, you want it right?
And you're like, I'm gonna bless somebody.
Somebody's gonna get a blessing. So we rented a van from
Enterprise, but Pastor Roman could get me one cheaper.
We went with the cheaper van. Never gonna do that again.
Yeah. Forget about saving $200.
Now I was fine, I said. Up front in the air, condition
was cold. But those in the back, they were
hot there, didn't work back there.
They were opening the windows. Any air is good air when it's
hot. And there they were, Amen.
And we had three seats. There was me, Raphael and Pastor
Ramon. And the air was the air.
And my wife was like, quit hogging on the air.
Condition up there. Hallelujah.
Yeah. Our sweat was sweating.
That's not an exaggeration. I mean, I thought I was going to
have to rescue Eloise on multiple occasions, being seven
month pregnant. I'm like she looks like she took
a shower. Right cuz the further you were
in the building and on the platform cuz hot air what rises
so we're past the little tornado tornado fans that are in the
ceiling. Thank God for those tornado fans
though, but they were running and they would hit me every once
in a while. Boy, it was like the blessing of
God. That thing would hit you.
Now at the end of the day, I didn't complain.
We just preached and I was like, thank God I've been working out.
Thank God I'm in shape. Thank God I'm not passing out.
Thank God I've conditioned myself to be able to handle this
because when I preached, I preached 2 hour clips.
I preached twice on Sunday, they were two hours apiece.
They didn't get them leave. Didn't even go to the bathroom,
so does that mean air conditioned makes you need to go
to the bathroom? Because if that's the problem,
I'll turn these things off on Sunday if that's the problem.
If cold air is what caused the bladder to go, let's shut this
thing down so you don't have to leave.
These guys are in there for two hours before we gave him a
break. Hallelujah.
Now again, thank God that God has blessed us right in a nation
that has all kind of inventions and make things very
comfortable. But is the comfort, comfort
taken away from our hunger? Because you want to be hungry,
right? You want to be hungry?
And man, I have to applaud. I mean, they were all sweating,
all sweating, and yet hooked up, listening, taking notes, period.
Well, praise the Lord. Amen.
So we're to go into all the nations and notice here it says
baptizing them, the name of the Father, Son, The Holy Spirit
teaching them deserve all that I command you.
Now obviously the signs are going to follow even in the
nations, but I find it interesting that those are
actually in the world side more so than in the nation side.
Because the reality is, when you go to the nations, you don't
live there, so you're limited in what you can do anyway.
Now what? What do I mean by that?
I mean, sure, I can have a service and we can lay hands on
people. I mean, people got baptized in
the Holy Ghost and they spoke in new tongues while we were there.
That happened. OK.
Could we didn't have any healings that took place at that
particular juncture. Although we weren't led to lay
hands on people for healing and there was no obvious signs of
someone who was in need of healing.
So at the end of the day, that unction didn't come up and we
didn't go there. Didn't know nobody was there
that was demon possessed. So we didn't have to cast out
any devils. Had no issues with that.
There's available. But what we did do is we talked.
We taught the word Pastor Mark taught on authority.
Pastor Marcy ministered on prayer.
And then I ministered on Kingdom economics.
Talk to them about being a dominionaire.
And then I ministered a message. I've never ministered here
before. Yeah, it was awesome.
I wanted to do it tonight, but we'll do it later.
Amen. Well, you know, when you get
something new, you just want to share.
But with that being said, we did teaching.
And it ministers to people because ultimately we're
leaving. And you need to leave them with
the word. You need to leave them with
hunger for the Word and enough scripture that they can go and
study it out for themselves. Hallelujah.
Amen. So with that being said, I want
to give you 4 ways you can witness.
These are practical ways when it comes to ignite the city, impact
the nation and influence the world because we have some
phenomenal opportunities that are going to be able to that are
taking place right now. And with that being said, let me
pull that up. Thank you Lord.
He just reminded me of something and I'm going to pull this up.
A prophecy that was given to us back in 2008 actually was in
2008. And Kevin and Annie Durant had
come to our church and did a series of meetings.
And when they came and did these series of meetings, a particular
prophetic word came up. And so let me pull it up and see
where it's at. I got it saved.
Hallelujah, I'll have to find it.
But in that there were some things that were to come.
Are you hearing me? And as a result of that, I
believe that we are starting to step into those right now
because again true prophecies, here it is, True Prophecies, it
was on actually it was on our four year anniversary, yeah,
April 11th, 2008. It's actually before we started
ministering on the Kingdom like we do.
But it said this even as it's been said before.
You don't have 20 years to build, but it is going to come
quicker and quicker and quicker. My confession of faith say that
again. Yeah, next year is 20 years.
Did you hear what I said? Next year will be 20 years?
I mean, we were driving so hard, you know, and just so purposeful
in all aspects of the vision. Pastor Mars, like, what are
Y'all doing next year? I'm like, what do you mean?
What are we doing next year? Well, it'll be 20 years since
we've just started Anchor Bay Church.
I'm like, well, you're right. I guess it is.
We should probably do something, but back then it says that we
were going to do some things that we needed to get done prior
to 20 years. And man, look at man, what what
a milestone so far and we're not done yet.
So I'm just telling you there's some more that can happen here
between now and next April. That's pretty amazing.
Says even. So look what it says here.
Celebrating 5th year five year anniversary in four years is
pretty exciting. Now, when they said that
initially I was like what? But she was prophesied by the
Spirit. We were a year ahead in things
of the Spirit than the natural years of our planting.
Amen. And you understand you can if
there was a confession of faith I had picked up from a minister.
That he would confess what took other ministries years to, you
know, decades. We would do in a few short
years. Well, I'm like, well, praise
God, I want that. So that became a confession of
mine. What took other ministries
decades to do, we'll do in a few short years.
And then I jumped on the next one.
What took them years we'll do in a few short months.
Now, what I didn't realize is that in order for you to
accomplish that, you got to take the trials that come with that
cause. You don't accomplish anything
without the trial and tribulation that accompanies
before the victory. It comes before the victory.
But at the end of the day, that just kind of meant we had some
things, you know, that just seem like you get out of 1, you get
into another, another little opposition, something else.
But the good news is I had faith.
I knew faith. I can speak to mountains.
I got pretty proficient at mountain speaking.
And so we were able to just drive on, drive on, drive on.
I overcame emotions pretty quick.
That I would not allow the emotional trauma of situations
to overcome the purpose and vision.
And the sooner you learn that, the quicker you accelerate your
purpose. All right, but it says so get
ready. Get ready for exponential
growth, not only in numbers. So we knew numbers were going to
come exponentially, but also in manifestations of the Holy
Ghost. Hallelujah.
And then it went on to say, get ready for exponential growth and
power. Exponential growth and
utterance. Exponential growth and impact
and in manifestation of people responding to the move of the
Holy Ghost. Hallelujah.
So there's a small emphasis on numbers.
The majority of the emphasis was how much of an increase and
exponentially it would be in the things of the Spirit and the
moves of the spirit and the power of the spirit that would
take place. Says I'm doing a new work, says
the Lord. I'm doing a new thing, and you
shall see it spring forth. Hallelujah.
Not just here, not just here a little bit and there a little
bit. But you're going to see some
things begin to spring up. Spring up.
All of a sudden there it will be.
All of a sudden there's a blade. All of a sudden there's the ear.
All of a sudden you'll have the full manifestation of some fruit
that's been planted. Not because of what you did, not
because of what you did, but because seeds have been planted
in the earth. Hallelujah.
And we know according to God's parable concerning being a
fruitful servant, he gave 151211.
And again, if you listen to our service at camp meeting on
capacity, you know, I went further than we did in our own
service here this past April, where you have things written in
a book. And if you're not going to do
them, God has no problem, although it's not his will, but
he has no problem taking something that was assigned to
you and giving it to somebody who's going to do the work.
And we can have expanded editions of our life.
And so I realized that there's been a lot of seed planted in
the earth. Somebody's just got to come
along faithful enough to say I'll keep working because
there's many people who started stuff but aren't finishing.
But the Lord's going to finish what he started.
He'll just find somebody that'll go ahead and pick it up and run
with it. And it may not initially been
assigned to Anchor Faith Church, but Anchor Faith Church will
take it. So again, if you want an easy,
you know, self perceived easy without responsibility,
Christianity, that doesn't actually exist, there are plenty
of churches that accommodate that.
But if you want to do the purpose of God, you've you've
landed in the right place. You've landed in the right place
because we are going to be doers till the end.
We're going to be doers till the end.
We're going to finish what we started, he said.
In the reign of the Holy Ghost is falling on sea that you have
and you have positioned yourself as a body to be a part of that
rain. So get ready for it to spring up
in you. And she ended up saying that
spring up in me that we were to repeat it and said Hallelujah
and then end up making this statement double at the end.
Well, double, that's interesting because when I was at Global
Leadership Conference this year, Apostle Astrada pulled me up
after I ministered on capacity the first night that he's like
or in the afternoon and he's like, no, I guess it was that
night. Yeah, it was Thursday night, the
second time. Then he ended up having, he
said, I saw in the spirit you and you were split right down
the middle this way, he said. On one side you were fully
dressed in the arm of God. But the other side, angels were
bringing the rest of it, he said.
I saw in the spirit that you're halfway through your assignment
now if that's years, that gives me 106.
That's kind of cool. I don't believe it's years.
I think it's work, a labor of body of work to be done and I do
believe that you there is an acceleration towards the end.
Because all ministers that are purposeful about the will of God
accomplish more in their latter years than they do in their
former years. Brother Hagen himself did all
kinds of ministers, was a part of the healing revivals.
Then he got into the teaching. In fact, he was there trying to
help the guys in the healing revival transition into what the
spirit of God was doing at that point, which was trying to teach
people and they weren't transitioning to that.
And they said, look if you don't get all get with what God's
doing then and you keep functioning like you are, you're
gonna. To find your ministries gone and
they are gone. And he outlasted them all.
I said he outlasted them all. But he was 57.
That's four years for me that he went and had a camp meeting the
first time. The Lord said we're going to do
a particular camp meeting and he ended up have that 1st 1973 camp
meeting. And out of one of those meetings
he began to prophesy under the answer of the Lord.
This time next year, we're going to have a Bible school.
Now he was so under the anointing he didn't realize he
had said that, that his son said we're starting a Bible school
and he said, I don't know if we're starting a Bible school.
He said you said so he goes, I didn't say it.
He said yes you did. So they pulled the tape of the
service and he heard himself and he says, well, I guess we are.
Amen. And their thought was at the
beginning of this school that will celebrate its in in
February. It will be its first fifty year
reunion for the first graduates, he said.
If we could just graduate fifty, well, we got Raymond has over
118,000 graduates globally. Hallelujah.
This is amazing. So at 57, between 57 to 86, his
ministry grew exponentially exponentially in the latter 30
years of life. He did more in the last 30 years
of life than he ever did in the 1st 57.
Now Pastor Hagen is doing basically the same thing.
Because in 2000 when my wife and I graduated they were in the
worst of having their second Rayma Bible training college and
and I believe it was Gary Crow had went and was starting it in
Singapore. Well, now it's 2023 and we have
as far as a Rayma Bible Training college.
They are in 54 nations. There's 288 approved campuses
and I think they have about 260 functioning, of which one of
them will go online in January at Anchor Faith Church, Managua,
Hallelujah. So in the last 20, almost 25
years, Rama has done more globally than any other
organization on the planet then the planet.
No organization has grown grown at that capacity.
None. And yet the Lord had a word for
anchor, faith, church for this exponential.
Well, you understand exponential if you understand mathematics is
that you know you're going to kind of go along and it seems
like it's steady, and then when exponential kicks it goes like
this and it will seem like out of nowhere, but it's not out of
nowhere. It was planned.
It was perseverance. It was endurance.
It was overcoming. It was staying true to the
vision. It was pressing on.
It was never wavering. It was doing a mandate that we
were given to do our part in this thing, our partnership with
Rama, but then also what God's called us to do to priest the
gospel of the Kingdom. Hallelujah.
Are you hearing me? And so we are going to go into
all the world, every sector, society.
We know that we are doing that and we're we're passionate about
that. Just like W Augustine, the North
Florida Wildcats first home game is August 26th.
We need to be there, make this thing happen.
Are you hearing me? Now here's the thing.
I won't be there because I'm going to Alabama and preach at
another church that has requested me to come and
minister. Well, y'all should get more
excited than this. The reason you should get
excited is because, listen, God's not saying, well nothing
can happen in Saint Augustine. Let's Pastor Earl's there.
Come on, don't sell yourself short.
Know that God's called you to witness into a whole community
within our city and he's calling you out to go.
I said to go, to go. And you can go and help set us
sell tickets, you can be at the concessions, you can work, you
know, in the the sound press box, thank you press box.
You can work the the, the sideline.
But all the while you're conversing with people, you're
having conversation and the opportunity to pray can be
there. And the things I'm fixing a
highlight you can do in that community because it's part of
our outreach. Amen.
And that's not to mention all the things we're already doing.
We're dining with dignity the first Monday of every month and
then we just got the opportunity next weekend to go into Putnam
Correction Institute that we've been there for 15 years.
I think it is now 15 years that they are allowing us to come in.
No other organization that they've done this Friday.
We're going to go on Friday afternoon, We're going to go on
Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon.
We're talking like 4 hour blocks because they want us to come to
a Kingdom rise. Yeah.
Amen. Because what we're carrying, God
wants us to minister. So here's four things that you
can do four ways that you can witness.
The first one is pray and sin. Okay in Matthew Chapter 9, verse
37 to 38, it says it this way. Then he said to the disciples,
the harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are what?
Now listen, that doesn't give you an excuse not to witness.
Well, somebody else at ankravate church will do it.
I mean, did you not just pray over the schools?
Right? You prayed over the schools.
How important is that? It's extremely important.
We were at Osceola, we were at Gamble Rogers, we were at Pedro
and we were at Flagler. Amen.
Now, I don't know how many of you went, but the reality is if
all of you had gone, it would still be few compared to all the
churches that are in this community.
So you can say, well, somebody in aggravate churches going, you
need to say we all should go because in the context of
Christian churches in our community.
If all of us went, it would still be a fraction of real
believers, supposedly believers. Look, I'm not here to make
anyone feel bad, but I'll be honest with you, we should be
out in droves. Because if we're not out in
droves, we're really not discipled, and we're not really
passionate about witnessing. We should be out in droves and
other churches should be like. Wow, faith.
It's like the whole church shows up and it would inspire them to
be more hungry. I mean the.
But if we're casual, guess what? We're no different than they
are. But yet, I know we preach
different. Our preaching is to inspire us
as doers. We know that it seems as if God
can do nothing, Let someone pray.
You think the schools are going to stay protected just because
we're in the community? We're in covenant with God?
God overturned his own nation that he was in covenant with
because they weren't doing anything.
In fact, they were living like the world.
So we have to live different. We have to show up.
We have to be passionate. I understand there's other
things that are going on. I get it.
But at the end of the day, you should.
You need to. Hear us say don't come, we've
got enough. We should have that kind of
passion about this vision God's given us because, again, the
harvest truly is plentiful. But the laborers are what few,
he says. Therefore, pray, the Lord of the
harvest is send out laborers into his harvest to send out
laborers. If you do not get a laborer, the
harvest will not come in. They do not.
You do not get a harvest without a laborer, period.
We have Agricultural Society in our county.
And if you go out there where they're, you know, Hastings was
the potato capital of the world at one point.
If you went out there, those potatoes aren't coming in
without a laborer. I mean, I don't care that
there's a big field and wow, look at all the what?
You can't see them. They're, you know, obviously
buried. But the point is is that, you
know, wow, you pull up once and wow, all these potatoes last.
We got to get them out of the field.
If you don't, they'll rot even though they were ready to go.
And yet how many Christians in their witnessing we're not
staying connected in prayer. We're not really saying, OK,
when God tells me to go, I'm going again.
At the end of the day there there are few.
So guess what that means? If there are few laborers, guess
what that means. You going to get called on a
lot. But I consider that an honor.
I said I consider that an honor that Lord say you're up to bat.
Again, we'll praise God. Come on, let's go.
Right. I mean, I don't know why you're
riding the pond, but I'm ready to get in the game, you know.
And if everybody else you do it put me in coach.
I'm ready to play cause there's a whole world out there.
Amen. Second Thessalonian Chapter 3,
verse one says finally brother. And pray for us that the word of
the Lord will spread rapidly and be glorified just as it did.
Also with you. So again, how can we witness?
Well, prayer is the first thing every any listen, any great
revival first started in the church.
It does not start outside it. It always started in the church
where the church itself had a hunger and began to pray.
Lord, we need laborers. And send me then.
Lord, Lord, I pray that your word spreads rapidly, that it
makes an impact. To the hear that it draws them.
Amen again, Romans 1014 and 15 wants to say, How then will they
call on him and whom they have not believed?
And how will they believe in him whom they've not heard?
And how will they hear? Without a what, without a
preacher? How will they preach unless they
are sent? How will they preach unless they
are sit just as it is written, how beautiful are the feet of
those who bring good news of good things?
So we are to pray and we're also to sin in our prayer.
We're going to recognize there's going to be opportunities.
And then it's like, who are we sending?
I said who are we sending? Because sometimes sending
locally, it can be pretty easy for us to send, but then
internationally that's a little bit different.
And again, you get, you become a part of the process.
If you can't personally go to that distance to be able to be a
laborer, you can say, I know the work, I'm connected in prayer, I
know there's a harvest there and I can definitely financially
support getting those people to where they need to be.
And then you're a part of the harvest.
I said you're part of the harvest.
I mean, think about it. If a farmer only has his hands
to pick it up, but you say, you know what, I'm going to buy you
a tractor. The minute they use a tractor,
you're a part of that harvest because you gave them the
necessary equipment to be able to bring something in.
So every time we're like, hey, we're going to go on this trip,
hey, we're going to do this, hey, we're supporting this in
this particular country. Guess what you do?
You're sending our prayers. Then we put things to action
because at the end of the day, prayer without action is
religion and we are not a church that prays.
We are a church that has answered prayers because we pray
in line with the Lord. Amen.
So that's the 1st way that we witness is we pray and sin.
The second thing is this, We preach the gospel of the
Kingdom. That's what we do.
We don't just preach the gospel because people are making up
gospel. They're making their own good
news. We're preaching the gospel of
the Kingdom, Matthew 417 Jesus said.
From that time Jesus began to preach and say repent for the
Kingdom of. Heaven is at hand.
Hallelujah. In Matthew 2414.
Look what he says. This gospel, which gospel of the
Kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to
all the nations. Here we go again.
Where are we going to preach it in the whole world as a
testimony to all the nations. So we're going into our world
order, the systems of the world. That also has an effect within
nations. Both areas are we to preach the
gospel of the Kingdom And then the inn will come.
Paul rebuke hit one of his own church plants and says why are
you listening to a different gospel?
Which means they were listening to something that sounded like
good news, but it wasn't the good news he preached.
You know what sounds like good news?
Ask Jesus into your heart so that when you die, you go to
heaven and you're eternally secure and there's nothing you
have to do at all from that point on.
Sounds good, but that's not what Jesus preached.
Jesus didn't preach that gospel. Jesus did not preach that
gospel. Jesus did tell Nicodemus unless
a man's born again, he shall not see the Kingdom.
So born again is a part of a Kingdom gospel, but it's not the
only part. It's not the only good news.
Born again is not the only thing he talked about.
In fact, he never publicly preached that.
You cannot read the four gospels and see where Jesus publicly
preached. Be born again.
He didn't do it. Do you need to be born again?
Yes, because unless you're born again, you cannot see the
Kingdom nor enter the Kingdom. But the Kingdom is bigger than a
one time experience. The Kingdom is sonship, so there
are gospels that are being preached called destination
gospel. Where are you going to go when
you die? That's what all religion is
asking. The gospel Jesus preached was
destiny. Gospel.
And that is. I'm gonna get heaven into you
while you on the earth. I'm gonna make you like me while
you're on the earth. I'm gonna empower you with my
spirit. While you're on the earth.
I'm gonna turn you into a sun. Now I'm gonna give you authority
Now I'm gonna give you power. Now I'm gonna cause you to walk
in power. Now I'm gonna allow the Kingdom
to show up Now. You don't have to wait for his
existence. It's here in you, and that's a
different gospel. Because that brings
responsibility. Amen.
Praise the Lord. So this cost with the Kingdom.
That's what we preach here. Look at Acts.
Chapter 8 versus 4 and five says this.
Therefore those who have been scattered went about preaching
the word. Phillip went down to the city of
Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them.
That Christ is a title. It's not last name.
That's the Greek equivalent to the he Hebrew word Messiah, and
that's the anointed one in his anointing, which is always in
reference to the king. So basically it's Jesus the King
and it goes on verse 12. But when they believe Philip
preaching the good news about the what Kingdom of God and the
name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized men and women alike,
apparently somewhere around. At the end of World War 2.
The United States evangelicals got together and they had a made
a decision. What is the least way we can
present the easiest way to present the Bible?
And they pulled out a lot of elements just to get you down to
I'm a Sinner, I need salvation. Jesus was the answer.
Ask him to come into your heart. They decided we could tear this
down to where everyone can say that the problem was Jesus
didn't break it down like that. Now again, I'm not saying that's
not true. Are we sinners?
Yes. Did Jesus pay the price?
Absolutely. He's the only one who could.
Do we have to confess him as Lord?
Yes, it's not of any works lest any man should boast right.
It is by faith through it is through by grace through faith.
Grace don't even show up if faith's not there.
All right. But most people stop any
Ephesians to not instead of going to 10 because 10 gives you
the purpose of salvation and the purpose of salvation is for good
works that you are predestined that God had for you already.
In essence I got I made you a child of God so you can do
something as I speak to you and together we are Co laborers with
Christ. You can't have the gospel of
Jesus and do nothing. You can't do it, not the one
Jesus preached. Jesus's gospel of the Kingdom
was an action gospel, and it gave authority and authorization
from the King himself. Hallelujah, Acts chapter 20,
verse 25. Paul, who wrote over half of the
New Testament, what did he preach in order to establish all
of his churches? And now, behold, I know that all
that all of you among whom I went about preaching what the
Kingdom, will no longer see me see my face.
So again, Paul in his Gospels, although he don't directly
reference the Kingdom, in every one of them he is referencing
the culture. Of the Kingdom again, if I go to
New York, there's a place called Chinatown.
And why is it Chinatown? Because the culture there.
I mean the the, the, the, the advertisement on their store
windows, the conversations in the street, the food, the dress.
You think you're in China, but you're in the US, you're in New
York. They have another section called
Little Italy. It's where the Italians live.
And again, this the language, even though they're in the
United States. Well, you know what?
There's a behavior and culture called the Kingdom, Paul said.
You formerly used to live this way, but now you're in the
Kingdom. We live this way.
And that's what his letters to the churches were.
You're in a different Kingdom. It's a different culture.
We don't behave that way, don't act that way, don't respond that
way. Well, you understand, God
doesn't make you behave that way.
You have to willfully. Yield to the Spirit and let the
fruits of the Spirit come up. Hallelujah.
Are you hearing me? Amen.
So one way is that you're going to pray and sin.
The 2nd way is you're going to preach the gospel of the
Kingdom. Now, how many of you have spoken
to some coworkers or some other people locally?
I've never heard that. And when you started talking
about things you learn at the church, they're like, I've never
heard that before. Yeah, never heard it.
They're like I've never heard. I've never heard that.
Yet it's true. I remember I was at the AM E
Church, St. Paul AM E Church on Good Friday
and then I was preaching. They beat me up.
But I was preaching anyway. You only have 7 minutes.
It's the seven last sayings of Jesus and you get 7 minutes to
minister. And so I picked on one because
he went low. I said I'm going to take your
minutes anyway. But I was preaching well.
There was a particular minister there.
I won't say who. And and when I was there in the
backroom, that minister did not look at me, talk to me, make eye
contact with me. Nothing, nor acknowledge me.
That's fine because I know who I am anyway.
I don't. So anyway, they did their stuff
and I came to do mine. And after I was done and I
preached the Kingdom. Come on, who was there?
I got some witnesses. Yeah, I preached the Kingdom
when that the one who would not acknowledge me in the back came
up and said. I've never heard such a powerful
message before in my life. And they're a minister because
the Kingdom changes everything. I said the Kingdom changes
everything. The Kingdom changes everything.
If you're sitting here today as a first time guest or you've
only been here a few times and you're like, man, what's this
Kingdom? Well, the best way you can learn
it before we totally preach it is you go by my book at guest
relations called The Forest. Of which we took Spanish copies
to Nicaragua and I gave them to pastors while I was there.
That one pastor sent me a video I need someone to translate for
me and was like basically just saying pastor, I'm going to
minister entirely out of this book and teach our congregation
their dominion. Hallelujah.
I said Hallelujah. So we're touching nations with
the Kingdom of God. Amen.
Are you doing all right? Okay?
Before I get into the last two, I say this because that prophecy
said exponential and we'll be 20 years here.
Now, currently, to your knowledge, we have Anchor Fay
Church St. Augustine, Anchor Fay Church,
Valdosta. Anchor Fay Church Managua.
And you're aware that we're wanting to plant one in Lyon?
Correct. So Pastor Roman, Y'all put up
Pastor Ramon and his family, y'all know them.
They are over Anchor, Faith Church and Managua.
Amen. And he basically will be our
Bishop in the land. Okay.
He's our Bishop. He'll make, he'll oversee the
churches on my behalf because I'm the apostle and he'll
basically be the Bishop within the that area.
Now you're aware that we're going to plant Lyon and here is
Pastor Luis and his wife Yamalet.
They are, we went to Lyon, here they are here.
Pastor Luis is from Mexico originally.
He's he's from Mexico. His wife was actually born in
Lyon. And so they moved back.
Moved to, She moved back to Nicaragua, OK And they're going
to be planning a church in Lyon. We were looking at property.
So we flew in and we went, We need to go to Lyon because I
thought we were minister. Next day some plans change.
Anyway, Long story short, we it was 3:00 AM Wednesday, we're
leaving and we didn't go to bed till like 10:00 PM their time,
which was actually midnight our time.
But we went to Lyon. We need to go look at some
property we need to see, get an idea where we can plant this
church. I needed to be at a connect with
them. And so, you know, here within
between now and the 1st of this year, they're going to be
starting the campus. Amen, Hallelujah.
Now you know that Pastor Rick and his wife, Pastor Carla, they
graduated from Rayma and they actually were over in Rayma,
Mexico. There's Pastor Rick and his wife
Carla. And our goal is to start
sometime next year, although Pastor Rick is biting that the
bit. I mean, he's ready.
I'm like, man, you just you're married.
You're newlyweds. Still, it's OK, you know, But
anyway, they aren't going to be in the Dominican Republic in
Puerto Plata, OK, both of them will be attending Rayma this
fall because they're going to be doing the same training that
Pastor Roman did in Rayma. And they're going to get on the
leadership track so that in two years they will be able to have
a REM of Bible training College in that church as well.
Hallelujah. I mean, this is who would have
thought this? When we first started in 2004,
this was not our thinking. But here, within the last two
years, God is starting to exponentially give us influence
beyond just where we're at. Now in November, I don't have a
picture of them, but in November, we're going to India
and Pastor Jay and his wife that we're going to be moving their
church to be an Anchor Bay Church.
And so we've got some people that are doing construction
going to go. I'll get those tickets here in a
little bit and next thing you know, we're going to go paint,
flip that place, do a Kingdom Institute graduation, do a
Kingdom Rise conference as well, send the team home.
And then Pastor Marsh and I will go on to Albania because she was
invited to come to a women's conference.
And since we're already over there, we might as well swing
through that country on the way back, right?
OK, so they're doing the Dominican Republic.
Well, Pastor Ramon had some gentlemen prior to him becoming
an Anchor Faith Church that considered him their pastor.
There are denominational churches in Nicaragua, but there
are also independent churches and independent churches.
Then they kind of get hungry for fellowship and Pastor Ramon had
a who he is as a leader can attract.
Those. Independent pastors, and he had
a network with about seven of them.
Out of that, we were always talking because he had a desire
to plant churches. Obviously I didn't realize that
God was having us planting churches until we did Valdosta.
And now that we are, I could connect with him pretty easy.
And I said, now again, I'm not here to plant anchor faith
churches. I'm here to plant a culture.
They might can do a perceived church, call it church, all
right, but we're here to plant a very specific culture that is in
line with the Kingdom of God. And if you're going to be an
anchor Faith church, then no matter where you go on the
planet you feel like you walked into.
Heaven, are you hearing me? We want that kind of atmosphere.
Now, there's a lot of work to get that atmosphere because
we're having to deal with you on the earth.
Gotta deal with your flesh. It ain't gonna be no flesh in
heaven, you understand? So but we having to deal with
your flesh here. We're trying to get heaven to
ascend down and it's got to get your flesh out the way.
That's why we're not a flesh friendly church.
We crucify our flesh. We want to live by the Spirit
and that's work that requires all of us to come together to
have that kind of culture, that kind of atmosphere.
All right. And so I'm very adamant about
that. So I said you know these
individual, we got to know who. So he let me know out of the
seven, he said I got three, we got 3/3 that I think can be with
us. Well then once we got the Rama,
my plan at that point or my thinking is we will run them
through Rama. Let him do 2 years of Rama, get
the foundation of faith in them. According to the prophecy of
Brother Hagan, they will have understood faith.
Then they'll understand the Kingdom, because that's what we
preach and nothing will be withheld from those who do that.
And so then then you can watch these individuals, they finish
that course, man. We can turn them and recommend
them to be an Anchor Bay church. That's what you're doing.
And we can move now. He's had prior relationships.
And so when we're talking about this exciting opportunities and
things, he said, well, I got one pastor even passed for 10 years.
And you know, I said, well, again, if he wants to be an
anchor of a church, you got to ask him, is he willing to change
the name? So he asked, and he asked
another one who hadn't started a church, but, you know, since he
hadn't started, why have a different name You're going to
change in two years. So he's having a conversation.
Then we had one guy years ago that he was so excited about
what Pastor Ramon was doing, being with an aggravate church,
and he turned his church into that, that he automatically
changed his with a whole different logo.
And I showed up and I'm like, what is this?
This is not us, right? And so we had to kind of, you
know, redirect a little bit. Long story short, we have three
other churches now now today. So first I'm going to introduce
you to Pastor Marlin. He's been passing for 10 years.
Here's him and his wife and they have Anchor Faith Church in
Managua. Managua is 900.
Listen, how many people are in Managua?
Managua has 973,000 and 87 people.
To get a little bit further out there, over a million we could
plant. Multiple for faith churches in
Managua? No problem.
But he was so passionate about what we were doing and what
Pastor Ramon's doing. I got a video of his church with
our logo. His greeters already have our
patch on there. This.
Amen. Now, I laid it out at our
meeting. This is what it looks like to be
us. And Pastor Ramon's like you.
Let him know how it's going to be, because at the end of the
day, we're here to have culture, not just have another church.
But we have this church, then we have Pastor Narciso.
He's by himself. He's now he honestly, I think
he's 70 years old. Seriously, this guy right here
used to be a cowboy. This guy's super fit, man.
It's amazing. And so he has a church.
And every time Pastor Marsh and I come to the country, he gives
me gifts. He honors me with gifts.
Amazing guy. And so he's the one who sent me
a video about I'm going to preach out of this book.
I'm only going to teach, you know what we've learned in from
this book? Amen.
So he has an Anchor Bay Church now Pastor Alberto and his wife,
they've they are just starting a Home group.
But he has a 3D model of the church.
He wants to build 188 capacity with a balcony.
I'm like, you need to send me that.
He did. It's pretty awesome.
I'll show. It to you later, but they're
going to be planting a church ultimately.
They're starting with a small group right now.
All three. All, you know, all five of
those. Plus he has a son that's going
to attend Rayma. They'll all be attending Rayma
in January. Hallelujah.
So currently we have 4 Anchor Faith churches in Managua and
one's coming online in Lyon. Now, this is what we call
exponential. And I just want you to know
there's going to be plenty of opportunities because I remember
the Lord told me, he said your greatest influence in missions
will be the Caribbean. Any nation that touches a
Caribbean, and I know it's because of proximity, it's easy
to get there and get back, don't take a long time.
And you know what? We're going to be able to get
there. We're going to be able to paint,
we're going to help build, we're going to be able to do.
So it doesn't matter whether you preach or teach.
You can put your hand to something because we are
expanding. Hallelujah.
These are exciting times that we're in.
And the Lord said I didn't have 20 years to build something, so
we are building whatever that was.
That wasn't going to take 20 years, but then we going to keep
on going. Hallelujah.
So the next two ways that you can witness first one, prayer
and sin. Second one is you're going to
preach the gospel of the Kingdom.
The third one is you're going to encounter physical changes of
the lost when you're witnessing. There should become physical
changes of the Lost. Now what do I mean by that?
Look at Matthew chapter 4, verse 23 and 24.
Because remember, March 16 was that you were going to all the
world that's already that's your back door.
And you're going to be able to raise the dead, heal the sick,
cast out devils, the speak with Newtons, the power for those
things to happen, he says. This Jesus was going throughout
all Galilee, teaching in their synagogue and proclaiming what
the gospel of the Kingdom and healing every kind of disease
and every kind of sickness among the people.
The news about him spread throughout all Syria, and they
brought to him all who were ill, those.
Suffering from various diseases and pain, the Montiacs,
epileptics, paralytics. And He healed them.
What? And He healed them.
He healed them. He healed them.
So when we encounter the loss in our witnessing, we should see
physical changes happen with them.
Our witnessing should bring about physical changes in their
life. Look what it says in Matthew
10/1. And it says.
And when He called unto Him His 12 disciples, He gave them power
against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner
of sickness and all manner of disease.
Are you a disciple? I said, Are you a disciple?
Again? March 16, says those who believe
these signs will follow, So you're witnessing you.
It should be common that physical changes will take place
with those that are outside the Kingdom, because you can witness
to them. The people that Jesus was
healing did not get born again because they had not yet died.
He had not yet died and rose. So he's healing people who are
out of covenant. I mean, are, you know, not born
again, born of God. Now he healed some, quite a few
that were in covenant with God through the covenant with
really, Abraham, but they were under the law of Moses, right?
But he did not limit healing there for those who came after
it. The sire Phoenician woman, she
got it. There were others that were
outside the House of Israel that received healing because they
were persistent salt. The centurion was a Roman and
though he didn't get healed himself, he had the power to
believe God and God said concerning him.
I've not seen such great faith. No, not in all of Israel.
I got a heathen that has better faith in my own nation cause he
just believes me at it, at my word.
Wow, so physical changes should happen.
These are four ways that we witness.
We pray and sin. We priest the gospel of the
Kingdom, then we demonstrate that gospel because we can cast
out devils, we can lay hands on the sick.
I mean we can do things because of the power in us that comes
through us when we yield to God. I said when we yield to God,
Amen. I'm remember one time we were
over across from Publix right here.
That's on 3/12. You know where the Babcock is.
We were over in a storefront over there and we some guy come
in and. Preached and preached about
faith and healing, all this stuff.
We were actually outside because we're having some county issues.
And so he left with some people came that were followers of his
ministry. They weren't here.
They were not in our community. This lady has some challenges
with her children physically. And so with that being said, the
gifts of the spirit were not in operations to to do anything for
her family. But when she put her son in the
wheelchair in the van and went to put their, you know, infant
in, they quit breathing. And died in the vehicle.
And she got pretty hysterical, obviously, no movement, no
breath, no nothing, no pulse, nothing.
And so we have some people who are nurses, You know, they were
crying around the van. Obviously they called 911.
And so, you know, I'm like, Lord, I just had a minister here
talking about the power of God. We can't have this happen.
Cannot have an infant die, cannot do this.
The church is too young, too young.
Live. So I knew that God wanted to do
something. So I didn't even get.
I didn't move them out of the way.
I mean, I got up to the van. I mean, I was kind of pushing up
against this one particular nurse, you know, and I stuck my
hand in around the van. She knew I was there.
I touched the child. I said in Jesus.
Pull my hand back out. Don't.
I don't know what happened. Nothing.
I just. And then I went off and began to
pray in the Spirit. Because at the end of the day,
now I'm 11, started up, you can hear them coming around.
They happen to be across the street actually.
So they got there real quick, praise God, you know, But within
that time frame. And I'm praying.
Well, later on, afterwards, you know, the baby is alive, the
nurse told me when I laid hand. Now I didn't do it.
It's power of God, you know, so-called.
We can raise the dead only by the power of the Holy Ghost.
And I laid. So God began to witness to the
congregation this thing I've been preaching, he preached, and
it was in demonstration. And that child was raised up
that day. Hallelujah.
Amen. Because there can be.
Physical changes that occur when we are operating as witnesses.
The last one is this. Number four, we are to invade
their lives through their minds. Invade their lives through their
minds and this is directly the the gifts of the Spirit, not the
power gifts of faith healings and work in a miracle, but a
word of knowledge. I said a word of knowledge.
Look what it says in John chapter 4, verse 16 and 19.
Jesus said to her go call your husband and come here.
And the woman answered and said, I have no husband.
And he said to her, You have said, you have well said, I have
no husband. 4 You have had five husbands.
And the one whom you you now have is not your husband in that
you spoke truly, the woman said to him.
Sir, I perceive that you are prophet.
He invaded her mind. He was able to say things about
her that he could have not known because she didn't know him and
she knew he must be tapped to God.
Are you hearing me? And this is one of the most
untapped things that again, This is why we earnestly desire
spirit. It's not to bring attention to
you, it's to bring attention to the one that's outside the
Kingdom that God's aware of them.
Look what it says in John chapter one, verse 47 to 50.
Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him and said to him, Behold and
Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit, Nathaniel said to
him, How do you know me? Jesus answer said to him before
Philip called you. When you were under the fig tree
I saw you, Nathaniel answer said Rabbi, you are the son of God,
you are the king of Israel. Jesus answer said to him,
Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree.
Do you believe you will see greater things than these?
So he was able to identify with him, open him up, because he was
able to speak something that was either his present or his past,
that only God would know He had not ran into him, and it allowed
those individuals know that God was aware of them.
That is a witnessing tool. And let me say this if you're
not baptizing. The Holy Ghost, whatever is the
Speaking of tongues, you can't operate in that.
Through the baptism the Holy Spirit with evidence, speaking
in tongues, do the gifts of the Spirit get in operation, And
again? Jesus.
Never, ever wanted his covenant children to witness only from a
born again. Perspective, you say, pastor.
How can you say that? Read your Bible.
Jesus walks into the room, you understand?
Walks through the walls after his death bearing resurrection,
right Sees this disciple, John chapter 20.
And read it yourself. He sees this disciple and it
says he breathed on them to what receive the Holy Spirit.
He breathed on them so there is an inward feeling of the Holy
Spirit. Pastor Marcy ministered on this
on a Wednesday night. If you weren't here, go back on
our podcast. You ain't done that spirit with
that spirit. Oh.
I'm setting you up, girl. It's great you want to be here
next Wednesday, so there's the spirit within.
And then there's a spirit upon same Holy Spirit.
And it's not half and half, It's all within and then it all upon.
Are you hearing me OK? With that being said, he
breathed on them and anything Jesus did always happened.
So if he breathe on them to receive the Holy Spirit, they
receive the Holy Spirit, which means Jesus, all those disciples
be born again because you cannot put new wine in old wine skin.
So when? People say, well, the worst that
we do, greater than Jesus is we see people born again.
Jesus didn't. That's a lot.
Jesus all the new covenant come to pass.
What Jesus didn't witness when he was on the earth was they
indubit of power? Because he said now it's to your
advantage that I go that he may come because if I don't go he
can't come. Now here he is breathes on the
disciples. They received the Holy Spirit
and you know what he says to them?
Don't say anything. I don't want you talking on my
behalf. I know you just came alive and
all the guilt and shame is gone. You know, you're a new person
now. It's pretty amazing.
Isn't that pretty amazing? The Holy Spirit's living in.
You bearing witness with your spirit, your child to God is
amazing, he said. Don't talk about it, he said.
Don't say anything. Yet, he said.
But you. Wait until the promise comes,
until you are endued with power from on high.
So these group of people hold a private prayer meeting waiting.
For the power to come so. They can witness what they've.
And they're not even authorized to be a witness by the head of
the church. By the head of the church.
Until they're endured with power from.
On high and on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Ghost came
in like a mighty Russian wind, and they all began to speak in
other tones as he gave them others.
It were unknown tones, but they were also languages of other
nations as well, because again, if you've never studied certain
languages, God has no problem releasing it out of you so that
it can testify to them. So we had two different things
going unknown tongues and. Languages happening in the same
moment that it called the attention.
Of people and they thought they were drunk and he said they.
Are not drunk as you suppose. Sometimes we just need to
explain what's going on. What is going on in that church?
Well, that means explain it, because that's what happened in
the first one. Had to explain it.
But it was after that that they could be a witness, and it was
after that that the the gifts of the Spirit could start to flow.
And again, if anybody's got a problem with speaking in.
Other tongues. Then you got a problem with half
of the Bible because Paul wrote and he said I pray in tongues
more than you all. So why are you preaching out of
the text of a tongue talker? Doesn't make sense.
Does. It, I said.
It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense, he.
Said man. When I pray in an unknown
tongue, he called it unknown. Unknown tongue my spirit praise
my mind's unfruitful. Have no.
Idea what I'm saying, but it's the spirit praying through my
spirit. And he wrote over half of the
New Testament. A Pentecostal tongue talking,
devil casting out, raising the dead individual.
And why couldn't he? Why could he?
Cause he was baptizing the Spirit.
Praise the Lord so again. It opens up the word of.
Knowledge so that you can. Communicate things that are
going on in people's lives at work, all of this.
Is available to the one who would witness.
Not only do they need to operate locally, they need to operate
nationally. And then they can operate
internationally, but the ones that operate the most.
And This is why I love that God put it in March 16.
This way. He just wants you to know a lot
of power is going to be happening when you get out in
the sectors of. Society through you.
This isn't reserved for the nations because you know when
you go to. Some really.
Supernatural things happen. You know why?
It's called hunger. It's called hunger.
Now here's the thing. A word of knowledge is not
dependent on the hunger of the hearer.
It's dependent on the hunger. Of the one given the word,
laying hands on the sick. Isn't dependent.
On the hunger of the people you're working with, it's
dependent on the hunger of the one who can lay hands on the
sick. So if you stay hungry and full
of the power of God and the word of God and sensitive to a
spirit, he can say, hey, so and so at work today had this issue
last night. Would you take him to lunch once
you talk to them about it and let them know I got it taken
care of well? They're lost.
Lord, I know, I know that. But.
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