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Now enjoy this message. Hallelujah.
Now listen, we've got a big video for Sunday, so it's just
another little teaser. I know that y'all have seen it
through a social media, but just want to remind you, so good to
be home first and foremost, You know, you know you're on
assignment because even though there's things you experience,
nothing's like home. And so we knew we were on
assignment. It was an extended trip
obviously, but you know, it was profitables.
And again on Sunday we're going to have a bigger video.
You know, we were on 16 flights. I did.
I personally did 37 hours of teaching in that three-week
period and so and then all kind of other testimonies.
So tonight, you know, we wanted to give a oral report of some
things that happened 'cause obviously people are serving,
you know, so we just start the process obviously and want to be
able to let everybody in on, you know what you what you were
participated with us to do. And then I'm going to minister a
little bit later tonight as well.
Amen. All right, Pastor Marcy's going
to kick it off. Hello.
I love you all very much. So good to see all your faces.
We've missed you so much and have determined 21 days will not
be in it for me any longer. So but we are just so thankful
to be back here and we're so thankful for the opportunity and
the honor actually to go and do what God has LED us to do in all
of these different areas. And you know, I just believe
that the seed that was planted is the seed of the Kingdom and
when it gets into the yeast, Amen, it will just continue to
expand and grow everywhere we planted those seeds.
It was very interesting because there were places that we
obviously went that were set up from Volley, who is from Greece
and Albania, and had connections with groups of people.
But you know, one of the things that I know that just, you know,
really stood out to me was that we here have it good.
We have it good. We have the rich word of God and
we have places like this, houses of worship like this one.
We're not the only one, but like this one that are just, you
know, all over the place, all over this nation.
And what we have is something amazing.
And when you go into these other countries like Italy, for
instance, in Austie and Italy, you see this, the need so much
of A church that's spirit filled and life giving and has the full
counsel of the word because it's still up underneath such a
religious stronghold. And they don't have churches
like these. They don't, you know.
And so just to still believe and see that this is still happening
around the world where you know our nation is so blessed with so
many good churches and and you go to these places and they're
not. They don't have them.
And if they do, they're, you know, 50 people in in the midst
of millions and they need solid, good word, spirit filled
churches still, especially, you know, for this generation, for
this generation and the foundation that we have as
believers, they don't have those foundations within their lives.
They don't. And it just, it overwhelms me
still to think that in the year that we're living, they don't
have what we have and it's So what was it, you know, the
Sally's when they came from France and shared the percentage
of. 2% In France it's only 3% that are Christians, in Italy,
3% of the whole population. So 97% or not?
And it was very real. Very real.
And so you sending us, I just know that the seed that was sown
for those that are hungry, that it can continue to grow within
them and God can use, we know that God can use that seed.
Amen. If people are hungry and will
cultivate the seed. And so that's what we're
believing, that they'll cultivate the seed that was sown
so that God can do a work because it is so needed.
But God is faithful to perform His word.
You know, when we went to Italy and began to minister to the
group of people there, the Lord had us lay hands.
And you could see in that video that guy, his knee, he had
broken his knee and he couldn't, he could walk on it, but he
couldn't, you know, extend it and open it.
And the minute I laid hands on his knee, I heard a pop.
And then you saw in that video we just said, now move your
knee, you know, he said the pain was gone.
And I said, well, then move your knee.
And so that's when you saw him kicking his knee.
So God did some amazing things with those types of things as we
began to minister to people. We had a young girl filled with
the Holy Ghost. But just, you know, I think what
was really important was the fact that when he went to teach
in the Bible schools and we got to miss visit with the pastors
there, just strengthening the pastors is another major thing
that we were able to do while we were there.
And then, you know, them receiving just that fellowship
that we were able to have with them was so needed and they were
so thankful for it as well. But there's many other things
I'm going to let other people share.
OK. We're still, there's a little
flip. You know, we didn't get in till
what we had a 22 hour flight yesterday and so it's starting
to kick back in right now. We'll let you be seated then,
yeah. I mean, I want you to fall
asleep on the stage. So if my wife falls asleep
during my preaching tonight, you know it's not 'cause I'm boring.
Yeah, we were on. We started our day yesterday and
we were 22 hours in by the time we our head hit the pillow.
But our flight was only 11 hours.
And then we had another three one.
So the flights themselves weren't long.
It's just when you get up to get to the airport, all that stuff,
right? OK, Clyde, I'm going to let you
go next. That way Trevor can clean up
anything that we don't say. I don't know how Pastor gets up
here every week because it's so nerve wrecking standing in front
of everybody, but it truly was an honor to be there.
Like Pastor Marcy said, these people are people that have
never heard about Jesus and the Word and they have no guidance.
So for that reason for me it was overwhelming.
I I felt like we were going to one spot and you feel like you
overcome and then you go to another spot and the
overwhelming feeling comes back on again.
But it we really are impacting the world.
I mean influencing the world. If we count all the airports,
how many? How many countries did we go to?
Probably 5 countries. But but yeah, they they these
people need us. They absolutely need us.
And I'm I'm so grateful that I got to be a part of it.
In Austi, I felt LED and I told Pastor Earl that felt led to
share my testimony. For some of you that don't know,
I'm from Albania and I grew up Muslim.
So in a lot of these people don't have that relationship
with God. They have religion.
And so when I growing up in a Muslim home, that's all that it
was. It was just a tradition and not
really a relationship with God. And so I felt the need to kind
of give that testimony to them and I pray that it did impact
them. And then again in Albania,
Pastor Marcy did a women's conference.
And last minute, and my aunt, actually, I had coffee with her
and I said, hey, are you working tomorrow?
And she said, I'm not. And I said, well, we're going to
women's conference, do you want to come?
And she said yeah. And so she ended up coming with
us and got saved. I mean, and not not only did she
get saved, but God confirmed to her who he really was.
He had a she had a word from another person in the in the
service. And she had never been to this
church before, like didn't even know any of these people.
And this lady comes up to me and I think her name was Martha.
You said she come up to me and she said, hey, I don't know your
aunt, but I just feel like God really wants me to share this
with her and I'm like please do like, you know, go share with
her. And Long story short, my aunt or
as Brandon says, long story long or she.
She said my aunt had gotten in the car accident.
A van literally ran over her and not one injury.
And the lady went up to her. Yeah, about four years ago.
And the lady went up to her and said, hey, I just wanted to tell
you that I had this vision of you getting ran over or having
this accident. And God wanted me to tell you
that the same God that protected you is the same one you received
today. I mean, I told Trevor, if that
is all that we invested for that reason, if that is the only
reason why we invested in this trip, to me that is 100% worth
it. So bring it on.
When is the next one? All right, Trevor, That's great.
Yes. As Clyde said, it's very
difficult to be up here. So I'll bring the mic closer.
So one of the things that I do want to brag on is our pastors.
I mean glory be to God right. However the amount of hours and
time that that our pastors spoke.
Pastor Earl, I mean he he towed the the lion there but and he
taught the same subject many times.
But I I kept telling him, Pastor you I I'm trying to follow but
you keep going to different directions.
He never spoke the same message about the same subject one time.
It's amazing and and one of the reasons it's so easy for him to
do it besides the anointing, is because the word is so sound.
He's speaking the word that's very sound.
And the the scripture that came up to me, it was in Matthew.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but it talks about taste and see,
the Lord is good. Pastor Mike, what's that?
OK, whatever. Anyway, yeah, I missed.
It we were in Matthew a lot though, well.
There's one. There's 1:00 somewhere in there
that that says taste and see. And so it it reminded me when I
was a kid of going up to into my grandmother's house and being
hungry and you smelt the goodness of the food that was on
the table and you got hungry. Even if you weren't hungry, you
would get hungry just from smelling it.
And we experienced that all through our travels this last
three weeks. But they got, yeah, we have to
suck in, but you know we were at Cypress and we and I don't want
to get into too much detail on what you want to.
Share on today, You can tell. But pastor started speaking.
We had 41 people on the first night and it was like you got a
taste of it. You started smelling the
goodness of the salt and and just a sound word that he was
preaching and the next night it jumped up to 66 people and then
the next night up to 78 people and you felt that revival wants
to get started in a place like this.
It it was pretty. It was, it was, it was a
tangible feeling of things that were taking place in that
region. How it just like God is really
wanting to to move in that place.
You know, that's been had so much oppression throughout the
years and so much, you know, demonic activity holding, you
know, bringing its own oppression over the people and
God just wants to set people free And and the word that we
hear every Sunday and Wednesday here is so free to us and so
common to some level, which you know is is great in one sense as
long as we don't count it as common.
But the people there were seeing and tasting something that that
got them so hungry and so stirred that they just wanted to
keep coming. And we we had you know, signs
and wonders, you know, miracles happening with the guy with the
knee. There was lots of people that
got their hand, that got hands laid on them.
They raised their hand, said they were healed.
But it was it was an amazing trip and you know, it was just
an honor that we could be there and participate and.
Share about Kaidah's uncle you went and prayed for.
Was it the uncle the Yeah, yeah, yeah, it.
Was so I get a phone call on the way to Albania and it was
actually my dad, he said. Hey, I'm, I'm giving you this.
I gave somebody your number and they're going to call you.
And so I was like, OK, so this Albanian guy that lives in
Jacksonville calls me and he said, hey, my, my dad is
neighbors with your aunt in Albania, where my dad lives.
Yes, everybody knows everybody. And if you don't know everybody,
somebody, somebody knows somebody.
So he said, you know, he has pancreatic cancer.
And because Trevor works in that field, they wanted us to
medically go look at his blood work and his records and just
kind of see what Trevor thought his outcome would be.
But we have a better doctor. So we didn't tell him what we
were doing. But we, you know, Trevor and I
agreed that when we were going to go over there, we were going
to, you know, pray for for him. And so anyway, we go, we go
there. And honestly, Albania, I feel
like it happened so quickly, so I don't even know that we were
going to have time to meet with him.
But praise God, it worked out perfectly.
So we did. We went to his house.
And I always get nervous when I talk to Albanians about Jesus
because it's such a foreign concept to them.
But I'm thankful I had Trevor there with me.
He helped a lot with that. But anyway, so he's like, all
right, I'm, you're going to translate, and I'm just going to
tell you what to say. And so we did.
We asked them if they wanted to be saved, and he did.
So we let him, you know? And then.
And then we oh, yeah. And then his wife was on the
other couch feeling very, very uncomfortable.
She's like, I don't know what's happening.
She's like, hey, you're supposed to come here to look at his
blood work. And you're here, like, talking
about Jesus, what is happening? So, so they both, we all four of
us, held hands and they both believed and got saved.
And then we prayed for him. And I, you know, I believe that
not only God saved him, but I told Trevor this.
I want the whole neighbourhood to know that God was there.
So I'm like, Lord, give him a vision, show him that that was
you. And it's not just us going there
to pray for him. So that's what I'm believing and
I hope that you guys can get in faith.
That's what's going to happen. So, Amen.
Joe, hand me my phone right there, if you would.
Yeah, if I wasn't going to Albania after Cyprus, I would
have stayed. It's probably the only meeting,
literally, and I preach here, it is the only meeting that I've
been to that I sensed A tangible revival, that instead of it
decreasing each night, it increased.
And the only negative of our timing to Cyprus was that
because we were doing the school on the weekend, I could not do a
weekend meeting. So in Austie we did a weekend
meeting. We did Friday night, Saturday
night and a Sunday morning and it was a challenge in and of
itself because not only was someone interpreting in Albania,
but then someone's also interpreting in Italian.
So there's this double delay happening, English, Albania.
Then you have to wait for those that are here in the Albania to
translate the Italian. Long story short, we go back
there, we'll have to change that system.
But, you know, I mean, things happen, don't get me wrong, but
it was a little different environment.
And before we left, a guy said, I have one question.
He says, what are we going to, what are you going to do now?
Are you never going to come back now that we've heard this?
I said, well starts with the book.
I left him a whole bunch of the forests.
I said, y'all need to come together and meet and read this
book and study it. I said then, you know, we'll
talk about maybe I can come in, do some zoom meetings with you
guys initially, but I'm not called the pastor there, so
that's not going to happen, you know?
But there's some other things that Raima's doing in the region
that I can probably reach out and see if somebody's feeling
led to go there. I mean they could literally have
a church that would start with 40 or 50 people right now.
But in Cyprus, because of the Albania thing we did Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and and so it was pretty amazing that it
could grow during the week. When I say grow, you got to
understand that people were coming as far as an hour and a
half away to come to these meetings and then they drove
home an hour and a half and I didn't go short.
At all that our interpreter was in a box and they had, you know,
little the ones that needed it, most of them understand English.
So it made it really easy for us to just preach.
But at the end of the day, it was growing.
And I knew, man, if we were here Friday, we'd get over 100.
If we did Saturday, we'd be we'd pack this place out, you know,
and you're having to ask a question, you know, if God was
going to do a revival and use you, would you want to be a part
of that? Right.
But we had the other assignment and I felt led to continue to do
that. But I'm going to give you some
testimonies. Olga who helped organize that,
who's a friend of Bali. She sent me these this morning
that some of the things that were said concerning the
conference we did in Cyprus. 1 believer who came said the
presence of God was so powerful at this conference once that my
son who was 28 years old Christian but for years didn't
read his Bible. After the event he started
reading his Bible with such hunger and boosted spiritually
so much. One person said it was a
spiritual reset for them and many others.
A person who wasn't even a a believer said I was crying
during worship. I don't even know why I just
couldn't stop, another one said. The message was so amazing.
I've never heard something like this before in my life.
Another believer was invited after being out of church for so
many years. I came on the second day, was so
touched by the presence of God. They need to come again, they
said. This is what I needed for a long
time. Another one, she said.
Sent came all three days. And when, when you have such a
powerful presence of God, you do whatever is possible to come no
matter what. And this person lived two hours
away. Many called her personally and
told her they were healed. And they didn't have it on text
because I was going to say text me.
You know what? Their testimony.
And she said, well, they're calling me and just telling me
I'm healed. And we pray.
For probably 25 or more. You got some?
Come on, I remember. A couple of things that the one
of the things about in Cyprus where he's talking about is
there were several pastors. But what's so neat about being
in Cyprus was that there were so many other nationalities there.
That I mean, and especially with, you know, Clyda,
everywhere she went, she met Albanians everywhere and
country, every country we went. Are you an Albanian?
So we'd go. Into a coffee shop and she'd
say, I think they're Albanian, go up to them and start speaking
Albania. And then sure enough they were
Albania and so, but anyway in Cyprus, just so amazing that
there were so many different nations there.
And then during the time of ministry we got to minister to,
there was a couple pastors there, three of them.
And what was the one pastor from Nigeria him and his wife were?
Originally from Nigeria and had a church there in Cyprus.
So what I was going? To say about the nationalities,
they literally have a church that's just all Nigerian they
started two years ago from and most of the churches.
There are around their nationality, so if they're
Albanian, they have Albanians. If they are, you know,
Nigerians, they're typically from that area.
There was a Filipino lady who had a church next door to the
theater. She came over and brought and
then brought her congregation the third.
Night they. Were all Filipino.
So it's really interesting, so dynamic look.
For their nation. But the conference 'cause we
preached, the Kingdom brought all nationalities, 'cause that's
together. Yeah.
In three days. In three.
Days and the. Miracle that they we rented the
theater and somebody ended up paying for the whole, you know,
the whole conference was covered, yeah.
I mean. Bali was believing that people
would, you know, from the those avenues, you know, would take
care of it since you know, we we all participated in sending us.
And so they didn't want that, but we were willing to invest.
I mean, I would actually talk to Pastor Mike because some places
don't take American Express over there.
And so I'm like, man, I'm not going to be able to take care of
this theater with American Express.
We're going to put some money on a different card.
He's like, OK, how much? And so I told him and he said,
OK and move money and next thing you know I'm sitting already.
And then she didn't talk to me anymore.
And I'm like, I guess we got to settle up tonight.
And then they're like, Oh no, it's taken care of.
Somebody from? Greece because they were in the
ream of school and heard me minister on Kingdom Economics,
even though they technically weren't a student.
Their husband. Interpreted for me.
And next thing you know, they're paying for the theater.
So you know, it was showing God's provision.
Hallelujah. I said Hallelujah and that
amazing, she says Some of the here's some just some
testimonies of people you know saying afterwards finally
something starting to move in our land.
One of the persons said thank you so much for doing this.
To her this was such a spiritual refresh in the desert.
Another person said the presence of God was more powerful than
ever. So the the one pastor from now
him and his wife was from Nigeria.
He came up to me and said, do you mentor pastors?
You know, so then you hear you feel that responsibility.
So you're asking a question. And so, you know, I'm like,
well, I can do these things. And but you're asking, you know,
what do you do? There's such a need out there.
Again, you know, we cannot understate or overstate really
the blessing that God has given us as a church, the move of the
Spirit, the revelation of the word.
So there's a responsibility we have with it.
And you know, when you go to other lands and you begin to
share things that they've never heard, I mean that pastor,
literally, he said. I've never heard it this way
ever. This is.
Powerful. In fact, he texts me because I
gave him a text, he said. Here's another mind blowing
message. And I'm like, which one are you
talking about? I thought he listened to it
already, but he hadn't, and he showed me from our YouTube the
wealth of a king, he said. I've got to listen to this one.
So you know the. Lord's moving.
He's doing things, and you're a part of that.
Because the reality is we are as strong as we are because of all
of us. Period.
If I wasn't called to do what I'm doing, then the gift that I
am would never come out. And if you weren't?
Here then, it wouldn't be pulled.
I mean, Trevor and I were just talking about other stuff that
he end up have making some statement that all of a sudden
had me, you know, by revelation dismantle a whole thought
process. And I'm like, man, I'm glad you
asked that question. But we've people been saying
this for years and you know, really when you think about it,
that's just technically not correct how they're saying that.
But it it pulls on the gift, it pulls things out, and you learn
and grow and then you know you're rightly divine, the word
of truth. So tonight I want to.
Minister to you, Can I do that for a few moments?
I probably won't go as long as I normally do because we've had
testimonies, but I do want to leave something in you.
Based upon what we've seen today and today, I would call my
message, go and do. Because we're.
All called to go. Now let's look at this in John
chapter 15, verse 16. Again, I want to thank all of
you. You know, I could go through,
you know, just very specific, my staff, the church, all that.
But the reality is, everybody thank you for parting.
With Anchorage Church. For seeing yourself in the
vision and being a part of it, it's really important that we
continue to do these things. And I want us to get in revival
ourselves. But an indicator of revival is
that more people show up, not that we drop off.
Revival. Is 'cause people get hungry and
again if people. Would travel for an hour and a
half one way and then they got to go back and do it again that
night. They're not going to get home
till 1:00 and they're going to turn around and go to work all
day and then show up and come to service during the week and.
Do it again three nights in a row and just and invite people.
And we have this. All the time, right?
So there shouldn't be a Sunday we take off, a Wednesday we take
off, and we should be like, wow, this is amazing.
But look what it says here. In John 1516 it says you did not
choose me. But I chose.
You and appointed you that you would go, say, go, and bear
fruit, and that your fruit would remain so that whatever you ask
of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
So. All of us are called to go, but
when you go, you got to do. Going without doing doesn't
work. 'Cause going.
Without doing is called vacation and Jesus has not called us to
vacation. Jesus has called us to go do
Amen. So no matter where we're at, we
need to go and do. Because again, we didn't choose
Him, man. He chose us.
And then he. Appointed us that we would go
and walk bear fruit. The cool thing about bearing
fruit is you can bear fruit anywhere.
You don't just bear. Fruit in other nations you get
to bear. Fruit.
Everywhere. So you got to see yourself as a
person who goes and bears fruit everywhere, because again, we
know that God, and we're going to see here in a minute, he said
Go therefore in all the world. And we know the word world is
not planet Earth, it is the systems of the world.
And so you can do. That locally you can do it
nationally and you can do it internationally.
And so we have to do that. But when you go, you got to do
and you know what God has calls on people to go, which is all of
us. So I'm going to.
You know, pull up a couple people as examples so that we
can see that when God says go, he expects action.
So with. Abraham in Genesis chapter 12
verses one through three. It says this.
Now, the Lord said to Abram Go. Forth from.
Your own from your country and from your relatives, and from
your father's house to a land I will show you and.
Then he says, I'll make. You a great nation.
And I'll bless you, and I'll make your name great, and you
shall be a blessing. And I'll bless those who blessed
you. And I'll curse.
And the ones who curse you, I'll curse and in you.
All. The families of the earth is
blessed now again. It says go, but you understand
he didn't go and not do because he was the father of faith, the
father of us all. Abraham is the doer of the word.
He believed God at his word. So when it's going he was doing,
he was believing God at his word and doing whatever God told him
to do. So again, we all have these same
calls to go and bear fruit that we are all in a position.
That we have to. Recognize our movement has
significant consequence. Look what it says in.
Exodus chapter three. Another leader here.
Now Abraham's the type of God that you know, get up and go to
a place, I'll show you. And that's all he needs is
direction. In essence, he is this the lamp
unto his feet, right. And he don't even know where
he's going. He just knows he's taking him
somewhere and the word go, so he's gone.
So you understand when his wife said where we're going, he's
like, I have no idea, but God does.
That would have been his. Response.
Where are we? Going I don't know, but not
here. OK.
So the following follow to follow Abraham could have been
problematic if you need a plan. Because Abraham.
Doesn't have a plan except for the I'm acting on the word I've
heard and he don't need a whole lot.
Because he'll just. Move Moses, on the other hand,
he was a planned guy. He needs, he wants to hear the
plan. But look what the Lord says to
him in Exodus 3, starting in verse 7.
The Lord said I will surely. I've surely seen the affliction
of my people who are in Egypt and have given heed to their cry
because of their taskmaster, for I'm aware of their sufferings.
So I've come. Down to deliver them from the
power of the Egyptian, and bring them up from the land to a good
and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
To the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the
Perizzites. The havites and the Jesu bites.
OK, so. He said.
Now behold, the Son, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to
me. Furthermore, I've seen the
oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.
And here this is really like most believers today.
They believe God sees the world like God saw his own nation in
Egypt. They're oppressed.
They need to be delivered. You know well the world's lost.
They're under the oppression of the devil.
And God sees their cry. He wants to deliver them.
We say that, but you understand. God said all these things.
Then we get to the very next verse.
Therefore, come now, I will send you.
So just. Because God is concerned about
the lost doesn't mean he's gonna save them without you.
So we. Can't be praying the 1st 2
verses and and asking the Lord to do something without at least
hearing and saying. Here I am, Lord, send me because
again, you may not go to another country, but you're gonna go to
your workplace, you're gonna go shopping at some juncture,
you're gonna go out and about and get gas for your vehicle.
So you gotta recognize when you go, always be in a position to
do 'cause you never know one of these encounters.
What could? Take place.
What could take? Place.
Obviously we're coming back and testifying of some things that
have taken place because again, you sent us, we were all
partnered together in that and we went.
Someone said would you come And we said we'll go and when we
went we did. All right.
He said, Therefore come now, I'll send you to Pharaoh, so
that you may bring my people, the sons of Israel, out of
Egypt. But Moses said to him, Who am I?
Right. That I should go to Pharaoh,
that I should bring the sons of Israel.
And he says, certainly I'll be with you and this.
Shall be. The sign to you that it is I who
have sent you when you have brought the people out of Egypt,
you shall worship God at this mountain.
So here's the thing, God, when he tells us to go, he expects us
to do. But you're going to have to go
and trust that he'll be there in the doing.
At the end of the. Day.
I don't know all that got to do. But if I.
Go with expectation, then he will do something, I said.
He will do something. And.
We have to be in the expectation that we're when we're going,
there's something we're going to do that's going to give God the
ability to do what he does. But if we just.
Go and and spectate. Then we leave.
Nothing. And this is anywhere we go, I
said. Anywhere we go.
Because we have a mission to take the Kingdom everywhere, and
it starts right where we're at. I'm going to tell you personal
experience, it is not more exciting to be there.
Some. Food is more exciting.
That's true. But not.
It's not more exciting. Is it exciting to see places?
Yes. But it's not more exciting than
where you're assigned where you're at.
Period the, the. Real excitement comes in.
What did I leave when I went? When did I leave?
What part of my mission? Did I leave?
Something that God could do something with because I went on
his behalf and. This.
Can be anywhere. Again, this can be a Publix
tomorrow, wherever you're at. This can be now.
We as a church are are great in our in the way we do outreaches.
We don't do them like other churches.
And honestly, I wish we were a little more evangelistic.
And we're just not. Super strong in that suit.
We do better on personal evangelism.
I believe that and then just getting involved with people and
and you know, like we do in our sports and stuff like that.
But but we're not though like there's some churches that just
go out and start talking to people about Jesus.
We probably need to cultivate that better.
To where you're being. More intentional in your every
day-to-day life to be able to say something.
Because there's. Power in doing when you go.
Not just. Go to the store, but go
intentional when you go 'cause you're having to go anyway.
So you might as well say, well, is there something that I could
have an encounter that would do something?
Now you may. Not.
See the fruit of it. But you know you went with the
capacity to do not just go. You know what it says in Mark
chapter 16, starting in 15, he says then, then said to them,
this is Jesus. Then he said to them, go into
all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
Now we know what the gospel is. The gospel is the Kingdom, and
not everybody's hearing that gospel.
But we are to. Go.
And if you're going, then there's a doing.
Because when God says go, he expects doing.
We see here in verse 16 he who believes and has been baptized
shall be saved, but he who disbelieves shall be condemned.
Now you can't save them anyway. Your responsibility is to
communicate. And.
If you happen to communicate and somebody's like I want to like
when Trevor and Kleida went over to that couple's house that he
was dealing with pancreatic cancer and he's talking to him
about Jesus and basically saying that, listen, Jesus will heal
you, He will do that. But at the end of the day, you
know if something doesn't change, you're in the grave and
and he's the only one who saves. He's the only one who.
Has life and shared enough that he says, do you want to make
Jesus your Lord? And then look to the wife and
says do you want to be saved as well?
And they both did. Now there was another lady in
the room. They were telling me that was,
you know? Muslim.
And they were struggling. Jeff was like, she was breathing
hard, like heavy, like real loud.
And he was, he said, are you OK? And she's like, I'm really
uncomfortable. You know, I, I, I I think I'm
going to go to another room and he's like, good, go to another
room. Because again, if.
You're not going to jump in to the true Lord then go to the
other room because these here are coming into the Kingdom.
And. Again, I understand that the
whole grand scheme of things, it's better to be have eternal
life than nothing. But.
And we understand that God can heal even if you don't come into
the Kingdom. But how much more did they
position themselves as the child of God and the the?
The bread is for God's children. Amen.
So. It's easy for us to expect.
Now are you hearing me? Because it'd be very difficult
for this person not to testify that Jesus Christ Hillbill, when
they're technically on their deathbed.
I mean who they going to give credit to?
It's not going to be the Super. White guy that came from
America. Hallelujah.
Praise the Lord. Everybody knows.
Trevor's not from Albania. Everybody knows Hallelujah, but
what's to say in verse? 17 These signs will accompany
those. Who have believed in my name?
They'll cast out demons, they'll speak with new tongues, they
will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it
will not harm harm them. They will lay hands on the sick
and they will recover. That's.
What happens when you go? Here's the thing.
A lot of times people are wanting God to do something but
don't want to go nowhere. Power.
Follows the going. He said.
Go in all the world, then guess what to take place?
Power. Power can take place.
But now if you go and you spectate, then guess what?
Power's not there because you're hindering it.
Because you're really not expecting it.
But when you're being led by the spirit of God and you're going,
then you're doing exactly what God wants you to do.
And you know, in some cases you're planting some places,
you're watering some places because God calls the increase.
You get to see the harvest of things at the.
End of the. Day.
But in you're going, you're doing something with
expectation. Now the.
Thing is, we can't determine what we want to expect.
We just have to stay open to anything within the Bible.
And Pastor Marcy mentioned this to some pastors.
We were ministering to that. Pastor.
Lynette Hagan gave her some advice one time.
That was phenomenal advice, and you need to take the advice, she
says. I never can't go to a service
expecting exactly how God's going to move, because the
minute you do that and it doesn't happen how you prely
conceived his move. Number one, you're.
Disappointed #2, You think he didn't.
And third, you miss how he wants to move because you're not tuned
in. And there's plenty of people
that get into the realm of the Spirit because they've read and
they want spiritual things to happen.
Then all of a sudden they perceive that only God's moving
when certain things happen. Like.
You gotta run. You gotta.
Dance. You gotta shout.
We had a Holy Ghost service. That doesn't mean you had a Holy
Ghost service. It can mean you had a Holy Ghost
service, but it doesn't mean you had a Holy Ghost service.
So at the end of the day, you know, if you come in with
certain expectations. And then you won't.
Look at what other things are happening.
You'll be discouraged when God's like you're looking for
something I'm not doing. Now we are to earnestly desire
spiritual gifts, but that doesn't mean we only want the
power gifts. 'Cause there are.
Six other gifts. Are you hearing me?
So we. Earnestly desire, but we don't
know which one's going to happen when it happens.
But we also desire that the Holy Spirit do does what Jesus
literally said he would do when he first announced him, And that
is he would cause things to come to your remembrance.
He would teach you all things, He would guide you into all
truth, and he would disclose things to come.
And he's always wanting to work that praise God, because the
Word that you know right now. If I set.
You in oste Italy right now and let you just start talking about
what you know they. 'D be blown.
Away. This is why you.
Can't take it for granted, and I know you don't take it for
granted when you go and do with what you have, but if you sit on
what you're hearing. Then the.
Then you start to decrease the value in your hearing 'cause
you're not experiencing what you're hearing.
Say Amen. Anyway, Matthew.
Chapter 10 verse seven and eight says this and as you go and as
you go. And as you.
Go. Preach.
Saying the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
This is what Jesus said. So this is the gospel.
Then he goes verse 8, heal the sick.
What? Else raise the dead.
A Dead. Person that you encounter is not
beyond your capacity to hear God and speak the name of Jesus over
him. You roll up on a scene of an
accident and someone could be laid out dead and God may sent
you to go and raise them, but you got to be bold enough to
call it in the name of Jesus in the midst of everybody.
Amen. Man, I saw an.
Accident today. I'm always.
Asking when I see one. What are we?
What's to do at this point? Now again.
It could be just pray and you don't stop, 'cause you can't
stop and God's not leading you to stop.
But your prayer may do something that you'll find out later, and
I'll get to that point here in a minute.
But notice. Heal the sick, raise the dead,
cleanse the lepers, cast out demons freely, you receive
freely. Why is it?
That we love to freely receive. That even comes with money.
Comes with. Revelation of the Word comes
with people laying hands on you and you falling out in the
Spirit comes with all kinds of stuff we want to freely receive
man, the presence of God. Today you've received that, but
then what are you giving? God's not.
Giving you something so that you get to sit on it.
And I'm gonna tell you, the more I I've traveled to other
countries, the more I realize, man, American Christianity is
getting really sloppy, really commercialized, really self
seeking. I'm holding all these.
Conferences for each other. Now don't get me.
Wrong. I'm gonna.
I have conferences myself, but they're intentional for purpose.
But I begin to. You know, look at some of them,
like what countries are they going to?
Where are they getting? This out?
Are they just building here within our own nation now?
Don't think? Don't get me wrong, our nation
needs ministry and missions. I understand that.
But you also. Know that there's a lot of
freely receiving. Where?
Christians run from one conference to another conference
to another conference to another conference to another concert,
to another concert, to another concert, to another concert.
The worship experience. And what are they?
Doing. They're freely.
Receiving, but not freely, not freely.
Giving, we need to give. Matthew 2819 says, go therefore
and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit.
Again, these words go always are followed up with a do.
All of them. All of them.
So we were at a dinner in Albania and my wife asked Pastor
Fatmir and his wife Silva to do their testimonies.
How they were born again. Because they.
Came out of a nation that was in communism.
And the. Communism that they were in was
their leader said that China was weak.
In Albania. Their leader at the time when
they were under communism said that that China's communism was
weak communism. Their whole.
Nation was shut off. They tell us that they saw they.
Their news told them that all Americans were starving to
death. That's what they.
Taught them that was their propaganda, that everything
going on when he took power in the 50s.
You know, and this. Is like some of the most
prosperous years of the United States.
But they're hearing that the United States, they're starving
to death. Their people are hurting.
Basically. You know, to have that kind of
government, it leaves you poor, broke and desperate and.
That's what they sold them. Very.
Locked down. No TV's.
The only TV was state TV. And if you had other channels
and they caught you because there was an Italian channel
coming in, that's why some of them learned Italian language.
But if they caught you, you'd go to jail.
And if you go to. Jail.
Then your whole family goes to jail and your extended family
and they mark your whole family. If you go to Albania.
With us, we can take you into their underground.
Bunkers where they talk to you about.
All the torture they used to do, extremely rough, really
oppressive. And then that leader.
Died. That's the only reason why
communism broke, because he died and then the next person who
came could not hold it together. And then I started.
Opening up a little bit and the reason why Kaleide can spot
Albanians in every place in Europe, because they opened the
embassies and the people ran to the embassies and meant they got
across the gate, They basically what is it called?
Asylum or something. They asked for that and they
were able to receive those people and start distributing
them all through Europe and even into the United States.
Then they closed them. Down again and the next thing
you know, you know, eventually, you know the nation opened up,
but then people. Started going over.
And again, much to my surprise, the first time I went over to
Albania is that, you know, I went over to Pastor Fotmire's
church and my wife was actually asked to do a women's thing.
And we walked into the church. And I'm looking in the one
that's basically torn down now because of the earthquake.
But I walked into their little foyer that's, you know, about
the size of from this pole to here, This was it.
This is the foyer walked into it and it had on the table books
from the pastor that I used to be hired with, David Emai.
And I'm like. Where'd you get these from?
They come to find. Out.
This is the church he was going to.
I'm like. What a small.
World. But he's now gone on to be with
the Lord, so I. Realize I'm taking his talent.
Because he can't. Finish it.
So I'm going to. Support that, which is why we
do. But talking about a.
Small world getting smaller when Silva's given her testimony.
At one year. Old She was diagnosed with an
incurable disease. They said she would die by the
time she was 20. Wouldn't lift beyond.
That she was in excruciating pain because of what that
disease did to her joints. Sickle.
Cell. Anemia, I think, is what it was,
because major. Pain in her joints, she would.
Cry. As a child, her parents would
cry because there's nothing they could do, she said.
She cried all the time. She was in constant,
excruciating pain. She has a high pain tolerance
in. Fact when she gave birth to her
first child that she never should have given birth to ever.
When she gave birth to her child, you know they were
wanting to know why wasn't she screaming when they said push
and she was like I, you know, it doesn't hurt that bad because
apparently. The disease and the way the pain
is in the joints is worse than giving birth, and it proved out
to her because it really wasn't that bad.
Now all the moms are like, wow, that's some serious pain.
And you're saying that after an epidural.
I get it. But.
Anyway, because again, they didn't have that kind of stuff
over there in Albania, but she was 8 years old.
Because the. Communism had broken.
She got a backpack, and then that backpack was a track.
Because a man by the. Name of Terry Law, who used to
go to Pastor David E Mai's church every year.
Sent. Backpacks to the school because
the Lord told him to go to that country.
And he took a. Backpack with school supplies,
but in it was a track about Jesus.
The. Story of Jesus.
And that story of Jesus. She was born again.
I'm like listening to this and I'm thinking.
What we. Would sometimes consider
insignificant moment. I'm talking.
To a lady who her and her husband.
Are. Currently and will be more
influential in the nation of Albania for the sake of the
King. And it came because somebody
went to do. And they're doing.
Was a track. 'Cause where?
Places are oppressed. It's amazing what God will do,
'cause I'm telling you when the scripture says we are without
excuse. We are without.
Excuse. Even in.
Countries where it's difficult to preach.
Because of the. Testimonies that people say of
the links that God is doing in these oppressive nations to
identify himself. And his.
Message. That when?
There's not a flood of churches on every corner like in the
United States. And the.
Accessibility to teaching. That God.
Is still navigating through very.
What would seem insignificant things are major moments.
Major. Moments.
And she got born. Again at 8.
By the time she's 16, she gets complete well.
She was 20, supposed to die. And then she heard about the
authority of the believer and her and her husband, 'cause I
think they were married at the time they came together and was
completely healed. Completely.
Healed Hallelujah. But it started because somebody
went to a nation that just opened.
To drop off. Backpacks to kids.
With a message you know a lot of times.
When we do missions we want. Just the.
Supernatural. I mean, we had a girl come up to
my wife and in Cyprus and and said I want to be filled with
the Holy Ghost came to her again, this guy healing.
Then there's just a. Spiritual awakening happening in
others. And then there's healings that
are taking place and we're not knowing exactly what they all
are. But they're.
Happening. Hallelujah, 'cause you expect
things through your doing, but there's other stuff you're
doing, like leaving books. There's no telling where, the
books you help us print, where they'll go, who'll grab a cop.
We actually were in France, 'cause we didn't minister in
France. We were close enough.
We just took a day because you know when our schedule we by the
time I finished the weekend, I was there Friday from a Friday
night to a Tuesday when we got on a plane.
I had already done 22 hours of ministry and.
Then we had three days before the next one hit, and so we're
close. Enough to France.
We popped down there and so we were what?
No, it wasn't. It was actually in Milan.
We flew into Milan and then we had to.
Drive over, but we were in Milan.
We grabbed something to eat and it was a cafe but it had books
and I told Josh I'm like, we should leave the forest here.
Just put it on. A shelf I.
Mean. There's so many.
Books. I doubt they go through and say
where did this come from, but even if they did, so he ran
back. To the hotel, grabbed it and.
Put it on a shelf. Hallelujah.
Because. Now I'm like, thank God I left
it on the shelf. Because if a backpack with a
track can save one of the most influential women in Albania
today for the gospel of the Kingdom.
We. Just didn't go to the coffee
shop to have another cup of coffee.
Oh, the coffee I drank. It was amazing.
The gallons Coffee. In search of the.
Greatest Americano? It's here in America anyway.
But who knows, 'cause you're like.
Let's do this. Let's leave.
This resource. Because in every.
Book that we write in the very back a person can read and be
born. Again.
And then we let them know. If you contact us, we'll help
you find a church. Wow.
It's amazing. So we left.
Fifty books there. In Italy, we left.
I gave the books away, the English books In Cyprus, not one
book left. Completely gone.
Could have gave more, so they're.
Circulating. We got to pray over these 'cause
it's the word of God, 'cause, you know, if you read any of our
books, we put the Scripture in there, we don't reference it.
We type it out, 'cause we think people are lazy and they won't
actually open their Bible and see where that's at.
Hallelujah. Look what it says in.
John, 1315 to 17 for I have given you this.
As an. Example.
That you? Should do in your.
Turn what I have done to you. It's Jesus talking, I assure you
most solemnly. I'm reading out the amplified
classic. I tell you, a servant is not
greater than his master, and no one who is sent is superior to
the one who is sent. Did you just hear what I.
Said no one. Who is sent is superior to the
one who sent. Him We equally shared in this
trip, even though you didn't go and everything that becomes
fruitful. That we may not.
Know this side of the Kingdom of the manifestation of Jesus in
the air. And us going towards the great
reward of all that took. Place but you went.
You were a part in your prayers, in your giving, and you're
connecting. You were there, but there's an
expectation. We're not greater than our
master, but we can function like our Master, Jesus Christ.
As he went, we can do because Jesus was sent by His Father to
do something we've been sent by our Father to do.
Something And whether we're. Doing it here locally, whether
we're doing it nationally or whether we're doing it
internationally, we're doing, we have no idea.
The impact is gonna be on all the orphans.
The ones we are. Financially supporting in India
and in the Moldovia and Ukraine. We have no.
IDEA All that will take place because we are financially
supporting those locations. It's because.
We are are set to go and do and we're financially doing things
with missionaries. But then we get to participate
in our going and there's an expectation of harvest, an
expectation of harvest. I'm telling you, you should have
a passport. If you don't, you need to get
one. Because.
God wants every one of us to go. Now, if you've already been and
you believe that, you know you're just going to be sending
people. I understand that.
No problem. Whatever.
But everybody. Should have an expectation to
go. Our youth.
Went great testimonies on Sunday, right?
I mean, I talked to one out in the mall today and they were
talking about, you know, the things they were doing and how
much they enjoyed it. They These are life changing
moments. These.
Are memorials and markers in their lives.
Cause again, when we sent them, we didn't send them to go
experience and watch Nicaragua. We sent them to do something and
one of the doing was painting. In fact, it was.
Testified of somebody that attends our church.
That used to come. All the time because they had
children in the preschool. But one.
Reason why they joined the church.
Was not because. I prophesied was not because you
know the the big presence of God.
It's because they saw me and my wife painting the church.
That was the. Supernatural doing because they
related. I've been to churches and I've
never seen the pastor do. That, but there's nothing we.
Won't. Do 'cause you have no.
Idea. The impact.
Of what you? Do when you.
Go, no matter what it is. For somebody in Nicaragua
saying, wow, look at all these teenagers from America.
They're They're painting our church.
Wow, they would come over. Here and take their spring break
to serve us. That could be one of the.
Most supernatural, impactful moves of God for someone in
Nicaragua. You just don't know.
Because here's the thing. No matter what you do for the
Lord, it's not. In vain It's not in vain.
Come on, it's not in. Vain.
It's not in vain. It's not in vain.
And here's the thing.
There's a lot to do, Jesus said himself.
Look up for the fields are white with harvest.
They're ripe for harvest. Right.
He said but pray to the Lord of harvest that he send forth
laborers. Cause the laborers are.
That means there's few people that are working or doing.
Lot of people are spectating. But God didn't tell us to go and
spectate. Go and vacation, go and enjoy
yourself, he said. Go and do.
Go. And do 37 hours of teaching
myself personally. It's fine, no.
Problem. Because when you go and do, then
you get up under the anointing. You get on the power of God.
And here we are. It's Wednesday night.
We're preaching. Right.
We're preaching. What are you saying?
Joshua. Clay, yes.
OK. Pastor Marsh is.
Calling on you, Joshua. Now listen, I had a auction.
That on. Sunday morning, when I was going
to be preaching at Pastor fought Meer's other church, I'm like, I
really believe Chase should be preaching.
So I asked. Pastor fought Meer, I said.
Would you mind if Chase ministered at your other campus?
He said. No, not at all.
Not at all. So chase ministers on the
Kingdom about reigning. But he ministered it from a
perspective. That.
He grew up in church and that he had to find his own faith.
Ultimately later. That afternoon the next day, No.
Was that afternoon, 'cause you had the women's thing that
afternoon when they came to pick us back up.
So you go do the women's thing, they.
Didn't get. To rest cause one of their boys,
they have twin boys. One of them was like talking
about what he wanted to do with his life and it was really not
technically following God. Some.
Talents and he was able to. Say you know what?
I want you to. Listen to this message that was
in our church this morning, 'cause they didn't attend with
us that morning. This will answer all your
questions 'cause he's like what your son did this morning was
directly. For my children.
Amen. Hallelujah, Joshua Well.
A couple of things that stood out to me specifically from this
trip. Obviously I've travelled with
Pastor old many times, but the thankfulness I have to be part
of Anchor Faith Church. I I know that we sit here in St.
Augustine, FL and sometimes we see that, you know, we ignite
the city, impact the nation, influence the world.
But when you get to actually go and see the effect, we're
spoiled here. We've got such great teaching,
we've got such great leadership. We've got such a such a great
message that comes out that when we go into a place like Osti you
realize these people are starving for the word, not for
pasta. They have plenty of that, trust
me. We we partook of it but for the
word. Whenever pastor began to open up
the Kingdom, it just put me back.
When I remember hearing it for the first time myself.
And you can't help but just be stirred on the inside and think,
gosh, these people's lives can't ever be the same from this
moment. They'll leave tonight and they
can never go back. They can never go back without
really pushing past, go into some old tradition that they
would, I mean, you know, from going from Osti, then going into
Cyprus and just seeing the hunger there as well, that
they're just craving, not just religion.
All these places have religion. They all know about Jesus.
They've heard about Jesus. There's crucifix, you know,
things everywhere from the Catholic Church, from the Greek
Orthodox Church. Chase and I have the opportunity
to go up. We wanted to get some cool
photos of this monastery and we get up there only to see these
signs after we drove for an hour that say no cameras, no drones,
no cell phones, no women. Well, we're OK on that.
But when we went inside, we realized it's still a
functioning religious monastery in Cyprus.
So we're watching these full grown men come in weeping, going
up to these paintings of Mary and Jesus and five other Saints
kissing the pictures. And then walking back.
And doing their little, you know, ceremony and leaving that
place thinking they've touched God somehow.
And and it was. Really.
It kind of turned our stomachs. We're thinking this is idol
worship. You know, this is but the whole
Nate, these nations that we're visiting, it's not like they're
majority Christians and that, you know, like St.
Augustine, FL, there's a church on every corner.
Well, in their cities there's religion on every corner and
religions choking them to death. Yet we were able to come in as
anchor faith church with your help with you financially sowing
to what we were doing. It was more than us just going
and eating pasta. It's just going in and being
able to actually bring this revelation of the Kingdom that
we all have every week that they've never heard before.
So going going. From there to obviously whenever
we got into another major bullet point for me, I guess on the
trip is, is the lunch he was talking about that we had with
Pastor Fotmere and and Pastor Silva.
Phenomenal. I mean, what what we're not
saying is that you know me, Pastor Earl, Pastor Marci Clyde,
we're all like sobbing through the whole lunch.
You know, Chase is just shaking his head at me.
But I'm sitting there, you know, trying to eat my food because
you're just realizing that. I mean, it's what it did in my
heart and showing me my Jesus and who he is in other places.
I can't. It's going to be really
difficult for me to articulate and I'll try here in the next
few minutes because you know, I know how to talk.
But what it did in my heart and showing he's not just the king
and he's not just savior. He's the hero king.
The. Way that he presented himself to
me, but then the way that he presented himself to Pastor
fought me when he was 16. Because I remember when I made
Jesus Lord of my life at 18. Now I remember what was going on
in my life and the decisions I was making to just inner turmoil
happening. But then I'm seeing that this
same Jesus that I encountered is meeting with this other person
in a nation that just got broke free of their governmental
oversight. And this guy's happened to make
a decision because, you know, you briefly hit on it.
But I'm going to say pastor Fotmire as he was telling his
story said I had a friend. We were all Muslim.
He's like, I wasn't a good Muslim, but we were all Muslim
and that's who we were. Then my friend goes out and
comes back to school the next day and says I went to a church
service, I've heard about Jesus and starts telling all of his
friends about Jesus and he's like, what's wrong with you?
That's not what we do. Like what it what is this?
So he said he ended up going with his friend to a a a service
and they had a lot of revivals in that time because people went
and did. People heard this place has
opened up for the gospel and just went a lot of people from
specifically Oklahoma apparently because there was a lot of
ministries coming out of Tulsa and and Broken Arrow areas that
were showing up that I grew up knowing.
So there was one from Victory Bible.
You know school. Billy Joe Dougherty's church
went in there and started a small Bible school at the time.
So his friends were hearing this, but he said he went home
and and had this encounter with God where God spoke to him on
the inside and he said he knew it.
He didn't know about being led by the Spirit like we do, but
something touched him and he knew he heard the voice of God.
So then he went. Out and battled.
And he said it took him several days because he had to count the
cost. And I found, you know, not to
bag on Americans, you know, but do do we really understand what
it is to be devoted or to really make a commitment and give our
allegiance to the Kingdom? Not just say I'm with Kingdom
people, but to say in my heart my allegiance is only to the
king. Yeah.
Because his family obviously was Muslim.
And he said as he counted the cost, he realized what it would
cost him with his parents, what it would cost him with his
extended family, his relatives. And they he said whenever he
announced to his family, I have believed in Jesus and I will
follow Jesus. He said he was not only verbally
abused but physically abused by his family that daily they came
in and they would either beat him or lock him in his room or
deprive him of food and say renounce Christ or you won't,
you know we won't feed you. Renounce Christ or you'll be
beaten. Renounce Christ, or you'll have
to leave our house till it came to a point where his father
kicked him out of his home. That's was it. 16 years old?
Yep. And said.
You'll have nothing to do with our family.
You leave. And he said he had the most
peace, 'cause he said. He said Jesus is alive and real
and he'll take care of me since I've chosen him.
So he left his home and didn't really know.
He said he just had this leading inside that just prompted him to
go to this place that ended up having Christian people his age
that were from Victory Bible Institute.
They brought him in, they let him stay in the dorms, they gave
him food. And then his father came back
and was looking for him. After a few days thinking, did
he die? Where did he go, 'cause in that
time it's not like there was you could make it on your own.
He saw the change that had happened in him and saw that he
was taken care of and said what happened.
So he was able to speak out his calling for the first time as a
teenager and said these people have brought me in.
I've believed in Jesus and I'm there's people dying and going
to hell and I will preach the gospel and I'll tell them about
Jesus. That's what I'll do with my
life. And how old is he now?
404142 years old and he's been doing it since that day.
But that's how real the call was to them.
That's how real Jesus was a lot of times as teenagers in youth
groups here it it's not that hard for us to say, oh, I choose
whatever I choose, but in there that he come on.
It's all going to come. Down to a question of our
allegiance. Have you chosen?
Christ to the point, Have you chosen the Kingdom of God and
and sided with the King to the point you say I don't care what
comes against me. I don't care what it cost me
financially. I don't care what it cost me in
my relationships. I choose this and it was just a
big that was a big take away from me.
I mean, you can't help but just be moved, thinking how could I
go back and not me just as much, if not even more devoted than I
have been. You know you count the.
Cost just to follow Christ, but we got people sometimes that
count the cost to just click yes on Planning Center.
Yeah, and. We're saving that for.
Sunday but. But really, I mean.
Think about it. I mean, put yourself in the
personal position that I was in where it was.
This guy wasn't just talking. My God was talking to my heart
while he was speaking. I mean each place.
That we went. It's just powerful to see the
work. Anchor Faith Church is doing
that. I know people, let's say the
statement all the time, you know you, you don't know you're
making history while you're making it.
But I actually think at Anchor Faith Church we're a little
privileged. I think we actually know that
we're making history. I think that while it's
happening, we know what we're doing, 'cause we know what the
Lord's called us to do. We're doing it here at home.
And this is what's this is what is the 1st and most important,
then the 2nd and also most important is US doing it in the
nation. And then the third, also most
important because they're all just equally important.
Doing the whole vision is going into the world.
If we don't have home right, we're not going to have world
right. But I'm thankful we have home
right? We love each other.
We get, We walk in love with each other, we serve with one
another. Then we're able to go out and
show this culture to people who don't have the Kingdom.
Amen. Yeah, so.
Good. It is a culture and we have it.
It's the Kingdom. It's the Kingdom, you know so.
Again, every part we play is very significant.
You know, again, we'll have a big video on Sunday so you can
see it more and more. You know, we want to keep
everyone included because we understand that even though
you're not physically with us, you are there in spirit and we
do not, you know, take that for granted and the and anytime we
have an opportunity to go anywhere, we realize how
valuable this place is, what we have.
And you know, that's why we love taking people.
Because you know, the unfortunate thing is that you
expect me to say something like this or your pastor.
Sure you would say that. I just wish you were inside me.
I wish you really understood how much I value this place and this
ministry and you as people and to serve our king together.
It's amazing and I do not want to take our luxury because it's
luxury. I don't want.
To take. Our luxury for granted.
I want us to be intentional. I.
Want us to be? Intentional.
You know. I guess I would like it at this
in closing. You know you can get strong and
good in anything, but it will have a limitation until you
start dealing with very specific details.
And so the. The programs that are what we
call elite programs, if you go into their facilities, they have
it down to the to a science, OK. You're talking the.
Food, the workouts, the relationships, the study, the
whole culture. They'll talk about it.
The schools that don't have that, although they are doing
some of the same things, they're not elite.
And it's the. It's the places that recognize
we've been given the phenomenal practice field.
We've had. The ability to have the
investment so that we can have the best stuff.
So let's. Produce the best disciples.
Because the day's. Coming quickly and we'll talk
about April 7th at our twenty year anniversary service of the
work and there's no way I can go alone.
I mean, I can't even go to all the places I can't even go.
I have to. Send others, but they're
Timothy's. They're like minded.
They are the culture of the Kingdom that's here.
They're not seeking. Their own.
They are an. Extension.
And we'll be able to do. More because you have more.
People to send different groups, different things.
It's amazing. It's just amazing.
I wouldn't trade. What?
We have for nothing. And I sure wouldn't want to have
to start over again. I would.
But if I don't have to, and I just keep sending the group with
us and let us just keep multiplying, then let's just
take over the world we're doing. It.
Anyway, let's do our part while we live.
Amen. Thank you so much.
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