29th Church Anniversary Service | Pastor Anthony Ballestero - To Us And To Our Children

lord mighty in battle lift up your hands oh you yates even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the king the king the king the king of glory shall come in who is the king of glory the lord of hosts he is the king of glory is anybody excited that the king is here oh god we'll worship you for you are worthy but you are worthy to be praised you are the king and we bow before the king oh god forgive us if our dispensation is not as we should ever as if our pastor is not as it should god but we bow before the king we bow before the king before the music even plays oh god we lift up our voice for your worthy god oh god you simon said i will bless the lord at all times is anybody here to bless the name of jesus oh god we're grateful we're lifting up our voice 29 years you are the king of glory you are the king of every battle god will thank you lord god for the battles that we've won not by our own power not by our own might but by your spirit sayeth the lord thank you lord god for leadership oh god that continues to fight god lord god i pray god for the man of god bishop david and the vision that you have given him god i pray for mother davey god i pray for pastor collins god i pray for mother college god i pray for all the daughter works and the pastors and their families oh god oh god for you are the king of glory god lord god i believe that somebody came in weak today but you are the king of glory you are the king of every battle you are god oh god hallelujah your word says have you never heard have you never understood the lord is the everlasting god the creator of all the earth he never grows weak or weary no one can measure the depths of his understanding he gives power to the weak god i'm praying for strength right now for somebody somebody came in weak but i pray that you restore them on this evening i pray that you restore that joy somebody came with their head hang down but god i pray your word says he gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless even youth will become weak and tired and young men will fall in exhaustion but those who trust in the lord but those who trust in the lord but those who trust in the lord will find new strength they will soar high on wings like eagles they will run and not be weary they shall walk and not thank god we thank you for your power we thank you for your strength we thank you lord for the anointing that you have given leadership lord god that even lord god when they've been tired you renew their strength and give them a greater vision even when battles come god you renew their strength and allow them to preach the word of god god i pray for this service on tonight god i pray for the speaker god i pray o god that before the preacher even gets up that souls be convicted that souls go down in the name of jesus that is still the plan that is still the mission god i pray lord god that before the preacher even gets up god lord i know that you're able to fill souls with the gift of the holy ghost does anybody still believe does anybody still believe god i still believe that you're in the saving business hallelujah come on everybody let's stand on our feet in this place let's have expectations of what god is going to do in this place come on get your hands together open up your mouth let's lift up our hands to the king of kings and to the lord of lords come on somebody come on if god has done something for you you ain't got to look around to look at no one else you begin to give him glory and you begin to give him praise you begin to thank him for what he's done come on shout out hallelujah come on we're going to start this night on a high praise on a thanksgiving come on cause god has been too good god has been too great god is mighty god is great and greatly to be praised clap your hands everybody open up your mouth right now and shout out hallelujah come on hallelujah come on hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on let's make a joy for those [Music] hallelujah [Music] thank you lord the devil is under our feet we thank you jesus [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] thank you [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] to the enemies [Music] i'm living [Music] is [Music] you have powered me [Music] to the enemies [Music] to change [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] hello [Music] foreign thank you jesus that the enemy is under our feet we are victorious [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] he's not here [Music] tonight [Music] like [Music] we are going to declare the victory tonight glory to god we lift you high lord jesus glory to you [Music] the weapon may be formed but it won't prosper when the darkness falls it won't breathe cause the god i serve knows only how to triumph my god will never fail [Music] oh my god we'll never fail come on [Music] foreign [Music] belongs to you lord [Music] there's power in the mighty name of jesus every war i'm not backing down [Music] [Music] [Music] victory in my life [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] i'm gonna see it right now below [Music] give god praise give god praise tonight hallelujah [Music] thank you jesus you take what the enemy meant for evil and you turned it for good you turned it for good come on if this your testimony sing tonight you take what the enemy [Music] and he [Music] oh [Music] [Music] victory [Music] victory victory [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] the lord will fight for you you only need to be still the bible said let us know that victory and rest with the lord victory rest with the lord whatever you are fighting stand still stand still victory is here and rest with your god so keep god praise tonight open your mouth lift up your head give him praise let him know that you are confident in him hallelujah [Music] lord we praise you lord we trust you [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] we're gonna is [Music] [Music] and see the deliverance the lord will bring today hallelujah jesus i'm gonna see a victory i'm gonna see a come on family for the battle for the [Music] victory [Music] come on your victory is here the victor is here he belongs to our great great god you're gonna see it right now you're gonna see your victory [Music] say [Music] it's gonna be a testimony [Music] can you say that one more time i'm gonna see come on how many know that god has been fighting your battles come on how many know who sold the pain and you are the changed child i want somebody instead of looking around let's lift up our heads to the kingdom how are we about to go into prayer and this is how we fight we're going to prepare we believe the lord to fight all of our battles because victory belongs to him can you clap your hands up to him can you shout out with a try voice of triumph and tell him you love him tell him he's great and greatly to me praise him come on right now if you can go with me in prayer we're going to stir up the atmosphere and we're going to speak these things in the atmosphere we're going to ask god to do it and we're going to expect our father's going to do it if you got the holy ghost in here i need you to raise up your faith and i need you to believe the prayer that we're about to pray right now come on somebody somebody stand out of your owl and begin to take victory right now in the name of jesus father in the name of the lord jesus we come to you tonight oh god and we lift up your name o god you are great and greatly to be praised for there is no one like you jesus there is no god beside you you stand alone oh god and you know all things oh god we thank you lord god for saving us god for allowing us to reach 29 years lord god many have fallen god but we're still here because you have a purpose god you got a purpose on this church and the body of christ god we love you and we thank you so god we come before you humbly right now and we just say thank you forgive us for everything that we have done forgive us for the things that are unclean forgive us god for our hearts that are not right forgive us for the thoughts oh god we don't want anything to stop you god from lord god doing what you want to do tonight so god we repent plan out our transgressions hide our iniquities oh god forgive us for what we've done to our brothers and our sisters oh god in the name of jesus apply the blood tonight god in the name of the lord jesus and we surrender god to whatever you want to do and we surrender god to your word oh god feed us tonight god help us tonight god build us up god tonight trouble the waters of baptism if there's someone soul that is here tonight god that has never gone down in the name of jesus lord touch their heart tonight that they'll go down tonight god calling on the name jesus lord i pray god fill somebody with the holy ghost let the lord god the anointing flow stir up the gift saints of god that's what's inside of you we believe our god we thank our god we bless our god come on lift up the name of jesus come on clap your hands unto him and just tell him thank you somebody say thank you jesus thank you jesus we thank you lord we love you god we praise you right now for you are worthy of all priests glory and not can you look at your neighbor and say god is good come on look at your name and say god is good come on can you lift up your hands and say god is good hallelujah hallelujah you may be seated god bless you god bless you we're so grateful that you're here tonight here at new life tabernacle for the 29th anniversary are you excited new life to be here for 29 years we thank god and we may not all know what all went in to be able to get us here but we thank god for leadership thank god for those that god has put in our lives to lead a wonderful church and i just want to thank god can we thank god one more time amen to that amen amen just got to make sure i'm in an apostolic church i'm just seeing little hand claps but i'm not seeing enough praise do you hear what i'm saying come on somebody if you still know how to praise god i i've been gone that long come on somebody can you praise somebody praise him in this place hallelujah we welcome you here tonight we know that you're going to be blessed tonight and i have expectations anybody got expectation that god can do anything tonight whatever you need tonight in jesus name we pray for the man of god as he comes with the word and we want god to do what he's going to do so we welcome all of you you that are watching live god bless you we wish that you were here and we pray that you will visit here in tampa at new life tabernacle if you in the surrounding areas and so we just want to welcome all of you and all of our guests god bless you as we say i say and sometimes i say people say uh the third or the second or the third time i say your family when you walk through that door because you're an answer to our prayers amen we've been praying for you to get here so we thank god for you being here tonight just a couple of announcements for you for your hearing uh uh the anniversary key chain anniversary keepsake keychains are here uh if you pre-ordered a key chain you can pick one up in the rear of the sanctuary a small quantity is still available to purchase for five dollars so please pick that up and you can get that in the rear also family feud join us for our anniversary family feud tomorrow in the sanctuary at 1pm somebody say one o'clock one o'clock p.m amen if you're here at 1am no one is here amen it's a friendly game of church against church where a trophy is at stake come ready to laugh and have a good time and a mission admission is free tell your neighbor it's free tell them you ain't gonna pay nothing it's free how many like free things come on let's shame the devil i know you do come on come on buy here pay here you like all that bogo you like all that it's free amen amen amen so we thank god again for you being here now we have a special presentation let us listen in jesus name [Applause] [Music] pastor dion rose carr understood that a life of service was something that should be treasured as a result her impact was not limited to the local church but to the world she touched the hearts of everyone she encountered with her life of servant ministry dion served as a youth ministry leader singles ministry leader praise team member choir member own bible study director and teacher christian education department head dean of students for the tampa apostolic bible institute children's church teacher outreach member minister pastor mentor and so much more for nearly two decades dion was the epitome of a servant even opening her home to many who were in need tonight we honor her life and legacy along with others who have left their imprint on the new life tabernacle church family [Music] come on put your hands together one more time as we celebrate life and legacy tonight amen hallelujah i see somebody else standing that's all right that's all right hallelujah pastor carr truly was a servant after god's own heart and she exhibited the love of christ to everyone she encountered amen like pastor carr mother virginia locke was an example when it came to her faithfulness to the work of god motherlock was a warm yet no-nonsense woman and she was committed to holiness and the apostolic doctrine amen mother eddie may gooden hallelujah jesus come on now y'all put your holy ghost hand together was a wrong real last day come she had a special way of reaching people at their core she was a woman of prayer that inspired people from all walks of life amen and mother grace and richardson counseled and served those around her with the intention that everyone would see how their uniqueness added value to the church she also had tremendous intellectual ability and used her education to help the kingdom of god we invite now the family representative for these incredible women to come forward as pastor collins presents them with a plaque and floral arrangement in honor of their life and legacy pastor dion rose carr mother virginia locke mother eddie mae gooding and mother grace and richardson amen come on family let's celebrate these outstanding women of god who labored in their field hallelujah jesus we thank god that god sends us leaders that come during their time and give us a legacy to follow we want to invite all of you the entire church to visit our education wing immediately following this evening service to view an official life and legacy wall hallelujah new life come on let's give them one more round of applause and celebrate them hallelujah yes lord let me the [Music] amen amen let's clap our hands one more time in jesus name [Music] but now it is offering time are we still chill forgivers here at new life tabernacle let's stand on our feet and let's get ready to offer up a sacrifice unto god god has blessed us god is blessing even tampa why you may think i'm crazy but tampa is blessed because new life is here how many believe that in jesus name driving through here i'm seeing houses going up that wasn't on williams road i'm saying when did this get here and when did this happen and i'm saying wow and so i know sometimes people say well y'all too own yourselves but i'm telling you when the church comes here god's church then everything that that is god will be here as well god's economy is here in tampa in jesus name do you hear what i'm saying i i think you're looking at me like i'm crazy but if you got an offering in your hand just just raise it up unto god because you want to give god a good offering tonight come on somebody anybody want to give god a good offering because he's been that good [Music] and i'm not always looking for money back i know that we get into that i want god to bless me with some money but but how many know by when you're given that some of us are still living right now uh that god has opened up a door regarding your job or your business when others are shutting down but but you still got yours is there anybody that can testify to that come on you you just bought a house in in in this time right here anybody just got a house anybody god bless them with a car anybody god just still make another way did he did he curse him that did he get some debt out of your way so i think we need to give god what we know to give him so the work can still go forward and so if you're here tonight i want you to have your offering in your hand as we prepare for the offering please note that an usher will be coming around to collect your offering please ensure your offering envelope is completed prior to the usher approaching your role the giving stations are on the north and the south side of the sanctuary and they're also available for your convenience and i say to you you can also give online to your nlt.com give or you can text to give at 888 let's pray over this offering that god will bless it and that god will use it for the firing of his kingdom in the name of jesus let's pray father we love you and we thank you jesus for you are great and god without you we are nothing oh god we are not a people until you have made us a people and we thank you for the blessings i thank you god for what you've done what you're doing what you're going to do and even the things i don't know that you've done you're just a mighty good god and god tonight i'm asking you god that everyone that is giving tonight that you will bless this offering oh god father there's things that need to be done oh god before you come and god you have chosen this church the man of god the woman of god the leaders in this church to go forward that it will be done father we're not fearful and god we're not going to stand back but we're going to go forward and we ask that you bless those that want to give give them an opportunity to be able to give to remember god money answers all things it is not for our pleasure but it's for the kingdom of god so we give you glory honor and praise and we're going to magnify your name as true forgivers as we give to this offer tonight in the mighty name of jesus everybody say amen amen amen you under the hands of the ushers god bless you i wonder if anybody came to praise tonight [Music] 29 years of apostolic authority 29 years of pushing back the enemy now i need somebody to raise their hands right now and start to give god some praise in this place hallelujah jesus come on and put your hands together [Music] say we [Music] he's done [Music] come on let's do that one more time [Music] magnify the lord with me and let us exalt tonight [Music] hallelujah [Music] is [Music] come on susan help me see this point right here [Music] [Music] come on [Music] yes [Music] let's do this before we go out here [Music] i'm on the winning side let's give them praise [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] yes oh [Music] [Music] open your mouth and say yes [Music] i [Music] oh [Music] [Music] yes [Music] the spirit of the lord [Music] but in the scripture it says that praise steals the avenger okay so when layman's turn when you praise god that steals the enemy that shuts the enemy's mouth that's what the bible says so when you stand like this you're letting the enemy run them up but the more you open your mouth the more you declare the word of god oh [Music] [Music] i'll give it to you guys yes the better i feel the more i praise him the better i feel the more i praise him the better i feel praise him keep saying [Music] that's what happens when he prays now shackles start to fall off of you things happen bothering you all day all weaker start to trickle off with you because they start to see that as you start to lift up god in your hour of despair they can't do nothing with you that's why before israel went into war the lord said make sure you put the levi's in trust because when they start to praise her and when they start to worship things happen before you can even lift up a figure so we're going to do this one last time [Music] hey open your mouth and say yeah [Music] me hey [Music] and green and [Music] hey how many know you got favor how many know that you got favor how many know that only god can do that yeah how many know that only god can do that yes sir bishop i've learned only god can do it yes sir i've learned only god can do it i can do it i've learned only god can do it yes sir do you believe only god can do it only god can do it yeah only god can do it only god can do it only god can do it [Music] all right [Music] [Music] [Music] do it in my church [Music] shout out hallelujah somebody shout out thank you jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah as you're going back to your seat look at your neighbor and say only god can do it come on in the name of jesus hallelujah we can praise all night hallelujah some of us need to just go ahead and just have an all-night praise have a whole night when you just praise god through the whole night i know it sounds crazy but when you wake up in the morning you're gonna know you in a different place hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah we thank god we thank god you may be seated we thank god we're here i get the honor and the privilege to introduce a wonderful man of god wonderful man of god many called bishop and many called dad i've been around enough to be able to call him dad and i'm so grateful for bishop davey mother davey how many are thankful for great leadership in jesus name i thank god for my pastor pastor colin sister collins god bless them that he will keep his hand upon them in jesus name but i thank god i thank god some of you may knows not may not know but i came in at 109th and i was invited by a wonderful man of god that i call a man of god he is to me and i thank god for him but he invited me to come here and i came at 109th and we were talking and he said well just come on by i don't remember who the usher was but they set me on the second row and so bishop is preaching and as he's preaching i'm i'm looking around like did anybody tell him i was here because he he got all my business in front of everybody so bill glade don't don't feel bad that's what used to happen to me in jesus name but he began to preach the word of god and i remember mother stephen sitting next to me and mother stephen start kind of doing her her jerk and i said stop it stop would you stop this you about to have me crying stop but she kept saying glory hallelujah before the serve was over i was already in tears already crying and i said to myself i said wow because i was looking for a church looking for a home and i said that's going to be my pastor that's going to be my pastor and i thank god for all of the wonderful people of god and invited me and loved me as your own and many of you that are here that maybe i don't know to this day but you are part of a wonderful family come on saints of god we are part of a wonderful family and god has always used a man a man of god to lead his people and i thank god for bishop davey mother david for leading this wonderful family can we stand up on our feet right now and let's thank god for the man of god bishop daniel david [Applause] be seated president god bless you thank you for that wonderful introduction and pastor otis from belle glade doing us a wonderful work there and we know god is going to continue to bless them they're in the middle of doing some renovation and some restructuring there so that it might be able to seat about 500 people which would be excellent amen saints they are doing a great job and you continue to do that i want to welcome all of you here tonight and i trust that the good lord will continue to bless you and to make you a blessing amen we feel the presence of the good lord that is here he's been kind to us and he's been often right when we need him sometimes we get to a place and we really need the lord and i know that god has helped me over the years i remember he delivered me from car accidents i don't know how it happened but he just brought me out he delivered me from a water tank tank filled with water so god just has been good to me and the life that i'm living is simply as a result of his loving kindness and his tender mercy we love him because he first loved us and we want to thank you all that you're here tonight amen we have still room for a lot of people but we're thankful that you're here and we trust that the good lord will bless you it's been 29 years since we started on the university of south florida that campus and god has blessed us over the years thousands of people have been saved and so far we've licensed over 80 ministers we've planted some 20 churches there is still much work to be done much work to be done the church i believe will have a period of two thousand years started at pentecost roughly about 80 31 or so so i believe that we have about 10 years before the rapture based on the the dimension of the old testament temple and so forth and so we don't have a long time 10 years time is winding down we have plans to put in another 60 churches or so and i feel that we've done some things but beloved i'm going to be honest with you i don't feel very important because i think that we we needed to have done much more than we have accomplished but i'm hoping that god will help us to do some more i want to hear well done now good and faithful servant and so we need to continue to put our shoulders to the wheel and the great god of abraham isaac and jacob is going to help us he's going to help us because at the end of the day we simply want people to be safe i'm not looking for a new car a new house nothing here but i am looking for people to get saved i am looking for people to receive the baptism of the holy ghost and beloved we have much work to do much work and i'm just asking god to help us and to give us the strength that we need we want to be able to encourage people and to let people know that god loves them i'm kind of concerned about our current church churches apostolic churches because with this pandemic there's a tendency for people to become reluctant to come to the house of god they can go to publix they go to walmart they shop all over the place but they're reticent to come to the house of god and i'm thinking that there is going to be people that are going to fall away from the house of god but the revival that god is going to give us which is emblematic of all the rain that we have received during this year this this probably about a month or so that is the natural rain that god is going to turn into spiritual blessing so tens of thousands are going to be saved but i don't want to see the people that are safe now to drift away i've talked with pastors and beloved that is happening people that are saved now are drifting away i want to know that beloved you look at god and you you're enthused with god you are excited about god i've been saved now for over 56 years and i'm more excited today than i was when i got saved 56 years ago i love god more today than i did every time before and time is winding down time is winding down time is winding down so i want you to be faithful i want you to make it up in your mind that nothing is going to separate you from the love of god and keep on keeping on keep on holding on get a song and talk about the goodness of god mention his love and kindness and talk about all that he has done and let him know you're going to keep holding on to the unchanging hand of god beloved is worth it all and i'm excited because god has been kind to me and i'm thankful for this anniversary service but i want to tell you i want people to be safe i mean if we could get some time where we're baptizing a few hundred people i'd be excited we're looking about renting that stadium fill it up with maybe about 70 000 people if we could baptize 10 000 people this boy will be excited we're thankful for our preacher tonight brother pastor ballisteria i mean you know he's been just a a wonderful man of god he's been here for years and we have been close and you know i'm excited for what he does and i thank god for him and i want to introduce him tonight he's going to preach to us and we want you to pay attention and we want you to in to ingest all of that take all of that down he's doing a great job i mean i want you to stand now when i want you to receive him and pass the ballistaera just put before us what is on your mind and when we leave this place we can say god was in this place god bless you thank you bishop can we give that hand to the lord jesus christ come on lift your hands up and raise your voice hallelujah great is the lord and greatly to be praised for there is no one like you god we honor you we adore you we magnify you you are great and greatly to be praised it is a distinct honor tonight to stand in this pulpit on the first night of your 29th church anniversary celebration i don't take it lightly and i've prayed and sought god over this moment before i share what i feel like god has laid on my heart i want to give honor where honor is due first of all to bishop and sister davey and their family we honor you and esteem you and we thank god for your ministry and leadership and then pastor collins and sister collins and the collins family a dear friend and from myself and from kim and our congregation in clearwater we just celebrate with you at 29 years of god doing amazing things in this city bishop i'm going to talk about some things tonight that i probably i don't know that i've ever shared with you but you've been instrumental in affecting me and pastor collins as well and i just felt like the holy ghost quickened me to share some of these things not so the attention would be on me but so that you would grab it because i believe that god wants to unlock some things in some ministries and some businesses and some lives that are here and who can tell what god may do before this night is over to all of the ministers the saints the friends of new life tabernacle all of the pastors my friends god bless you we celebrate you and we thank god for you your bishop is an amazing man i went to clearwater at the age of 29 years old with more faith than brains or experience i just felt very specifically that god was directing me to that city not the city to the north the left the east the west the south it had to be in clear water it was more expensive but still i couldn't get it out of my spirit that that's what i was supposed to do it was not too many years in that as i was praying my wife and i felt directed to come to bishop and ask him to be an elder in our life and i don't know if you remember because you've mentored so many young men but for so many months i would come over once a month and you would give an hour of your time and you would teach me in one of those classrooms i was the only pupil but you would have the board out and you would show me and you would ask me questions about my ministry in life and you would say no this is why that won't work now in this season but it set the course in my life for leadership and i distinctly remember going to preach somewhere and getting down on my knees and asking you to lay your hands on my head and pray over me because i just needed apostolic authority and covering in my life and tonight bishop i honor you and i thank god for you and you don't know this about your pastor pastor collins but the night that i received the news from my wife that she had cancer was a friday night some years ago when i called pastor collins he was not yet he was pastoring at victory tabernacle i think he had an afternoon service i did not have health insurance i didn't know it felt it was catastrophic and i called him and he said do you need me to be there and you came that morning and you just preached until the world looked level we were pushing up against spirits and all kinds of things and you have been a dear friend and a comrade in ministry and i just speak a blessing over your life and bishop's life and this congregation and i feel very specific about what i'm supposed to do tonight i'm going to preach but when i'm done i'm going to call for the children and when i say children i don't just mean those that are under 18. every person that has a child in this building i don't care if you're 80 years old and you have a 50 year old child i want you to go get your child and you're going to bring them down here because i believe that god is just going to strengthen and help our children there's an attack on our kids and we have fought for several years it just seemed like everything connected with children children's ministry preschool academy everything they're a battle we gotta fight for our kids because we are raising up a generation of apostolic kids that are gonna take this torch and the way we teach our kids is you're gonna you're gonna be arrows shout beyond us you're gonna do more we want it to be that way we're not holding you back we've taught that to our children and i know you have as well would you grab your bibles and turn with me to the book of deuteronomy the 29th chapter and the 29th verse on this 29th anniversary celebration i feel very specifically to take you to deuteronomy 29 29 and i'm going to begin here the word of the lord declares the secret things belong to the lord our god but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever that we may do all the words of this law bishop would you just pray for us and just pray over the remaining [Music] our heads beloved dear lord we're thankful for your loving kindness and your tender mercy we love you because you first loved us and we thank you that you laid your nail scar to end up on our lives and you brought us out of darkness into marvelous light we love you lord we appreciate all of your loving kindness and we thank you for this service tonight and pass baluster we present him before you we ask you to touch him and anoint him oh lord give him the word that is necessary for this church tonight lord we want to do you will we want to see lord jesus at the place that you can come by and minister to us and therefore lord i pray that you may touch us tonight anoint our eyes anoint our ears so that we may be able to hear and see and then digest the word of god so that will be changed hear o god from heaven and do i pray and we'll be careful to praise you and to honor you in the name of jesus christ we pray and all the people said amen amen god bless you and you may be seated in his presence the secret things belong to the lord our god but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever that we may do all the words of this law the jews considered this one verse this verse in particular of highest importance because this verse directed the reader to a truth that the jews never wanted their children to forget in fact they would mark it in such a way that they would focus on the portion which says unto us and to our children forever and tonight i want to preach to you on that theme because i believe that god on this first night of this 29th anniversary that what he is doing in this assembly is astounding bishop is one that has stretched our vision beyond what many would call small thinking and a limited capacity to have revival there are two men in my life that have stretched me beyond the limitation of small thinking and the belief that an apostolic church had to be small one is bishop tommy kraft from jackson mississippi getting ready to celebrate his 90th birthday and he is an incredible man of god who pastored more than a thousand people and i served on his ministerial staff and he taught me and told me very specifically anthony an apostolic church doesn't have to be small and he taught me and instructed me that anything that you build that's not built on jesus christ will come down if you build your ministry on political agenda and you build your ministry on just being against things but you never establish the foundation of jesus christ him crucified the fact that he is the only way if you don't build your ministry on that you may flourish for a while but like a flower that fades it will wither and the ministry will crumble because anything that is not built on jesus will come down when i came to tampa bay specifically to the other side of the pond the other side of the bay when i came here i was from indiana and i was kind of centrally located between detroit chicago and indianapolis it was just in my mindset that there were apostolic churches in these cities and there were sizable thriving apostolic churches with men that were notable men of different apostolic organizations so when i came to florida i was actually a little taken back at the lack of churches and the lack of churches of any size and i'm not throwing stones there were some large churches but in this tampa bay in particular i was just amazed i back in that day i don't know do we listen to the radio now but i would turn the radio on trying to find the gospel station and i couldn't even find a good gospel station i don't think i could still hardly find a good gospel station on the radio maybe it's there and you can give it to me but i i sat in the mall in clear water and i felt overwhelmed because i sensed the lack of just the spiritual uh vibrancy that comes with a praying apostolic church is in the city it was in those days as i came that new life was about four years old and i believe it was nebraska the warehouse i can still see me coming into that warehouse and driving around the mud puddles that were there and the potholes i'm sure you remember those bishop and then when i got there there was a handful of people that night that i was there and i still remember the organ it was it was pressed up against the wall i don't think it was a ham and organ ham and organs are expensive and but i don't remember in particular had a lot of buttons on it and somebody played that and i remembered before i preached that night that you you said you had been praying that god would send a man to the other side of the pond now whether i'm that man or not all i know is that by the grace of god he has helped us and i have chosen to stay partnered with apostolic ministry in this tampa bay because in your bishop i recognize a man that god was using and a man that god was blessing and i felt that i needed as a young man of 29 years old as a young man i needed that apostolic covering in my life i'm still a young man i'll be 55 here in september but time is clicking on quickly and 25 years have passed and still today i look at what new life is doing and the work that they are doing and it is more than just what the eye can see because what has happened in the realm of the spirit the prayers that have gone up there was a major there was a major trinitarian uh group that was in this bay area and they were considered the largest pentecostal group in this city if you ask anybody where's a pentecostal church people would say such and such church they own millions of dollars of property and many major ministries came to minister there but i remember you telling us that you or sister davey telling us that that organization was going to have to come down because you all were here when an apostolic church steps into a region it's more than just a collection of people there's a lot of ecclesiastes that come together people that come together for different reasons but an apostolic church is different it's a praying church it's it's a praising church and if you didn't get what happened just a few moments ago there were things happening in the realm of the spirit when this praise team when this praise team was singing and praising god you almost made me run around this pentecostal church but i looked at how big this sanctuary was and i said i don't know if i'm actually in good enough condition to do that without having a heart attack so i'll just dance in place for now and maybe the next time i come to visit i'll be well it'll be sunday night so i don't think i'll have enough time but i know that what happened in the realm of the spirit is something that goes outside of this wall these walls and it affects neighborhoods and it is impacting a city and so when i began to read our text i was directed to this specifically and i want to poll for you the fact that moses who wrote this book of deuteronomy most would say he wrote it and it was written at the end of his life 120 years old and this book encapsulizes about two months worth of history there and so that that history for us is encapsulized and it talks about god and his covenant with israel and if you read by the time you get to the 28th verse you see that there is a blessing for obedience and there is a curse for disobedience this moses who is now an older man 120 years old my father told me a few months ago he said longevity comes in our family and he told me about one of my uh relatives i don't know one of my ancestors several grandfathers ago i don't know if it was jesus ballistero or something in that realm but he told me he lived to be something like 121 years old and so who knows how much time we have in this earth but this moses who spent the first 40 years of his life he spent it and he was under tutors and he was there being instructed and he was being trained but then god took him out of pharaoh's house and he put him in a different kind of training he took him and he gave him shepherd's training on the backside of the desert and there for another 40 years by the time he was 80 years old god again was getting ready to shift him to send him back for his assignment i want to stop there for a moment and just say that there may be some or there may be many in this congregation that you are approaching that 80-year-old number and maybe you just think that your days of ministry are behind you but i say to you elder and i say to you mother we need you more than ever before we need your prayers and your ministry and your service and your example and it may be that and this is how god works that he accomplishes more in the later years of your life than he accomplished in the first 80 years of your life i just felt prompted of the holy ghost to say that i don't know who it may apply to but it's not time for you to put up your sword and for you to check out and coast until it's over but we need for you to embrace and engage because there's still souls to win there's still people to reach and there's still things that we you and i have to do in the kingdom and we must be about our father's business he led the children out of egypt and he led them out of captivity through the wilderness to the edge of the promised land and then it is at this point where we are reading our text that there's a refresh a reminder of the covenant and i as i read it over yesterday and today and began to meditate on it it just became clear to me he is reminding them of what god has already promised them lest when he is gone and when he is no longer with them they forget about the covenant relationship that they have with god and they do not fulfill their commitment to him more than 30 times he exhorts them to possess the land years ago i would go away every fall and i would pray for a day or two and just take a legal pad and write whatever the holy ghost would put on my mind and and i remember one fall he as i was writing he led me to deuteronomy and he led me to that passage that spoke of possessing the land i wrote the scripture down and then i went and had a banner made and i put it on the back wall of that little building that little building there in downtown in the north greenwood community little building that we bought when we bought it we lost members because some people were afraid to go to that community but we gained many more who were in the community who needed jesus god always knows what he's doing but i put it on the back wall not knowing that that spring god would open another door for us to buy a larger building a building that had been locked up for four years and empty what was it god just gave me a word that fall i didn't have the clarity of it but he told me that we were to possess the land i just in faith presented it to the people and then god began to do it i think somewhere in march of 2003 we went in and bought what would been at that time a million dollar building it may not look like you to you that it's a million dollar building now it's not it's worth more than a million now and i say that to the glory of god and it's not our final resting place because with god's help if he allows us we've we've got a bishop and you've challenged me we've we've we've got more souls to win in clear water and more territory to expand to and and the building that god has put us in not just us but you all is not big enough to hold what god is doing and i just promised god i said if you if you will bless me and help me that i i will never put a limit on how large this church grows and i won't take the glory for it either when you do it i'll give you the praise for it but i'm not gonna box it in and say this is all i can handle for where god blesses and leads he provides and helps somebody say possess the land and so this message of deuteronomy was so powerful that more than 80 times in the new testament the scriptures refer to it in fact it issues a very challenging and decisive situation for every person that would hear the words of it and then we would read things like deuteronomy the 30th chapter which says i have set before you life in death blessing and cursing therefore choose life that you and your descendants may live that that when it comes to the kingdom of god it's not a gray zone it's not something that that you have to kind of uh try to figure out an either or it's either it's either blessing or cursing it's life or death i had a man sit in my office this thursday he he came he was an atheist and he wanted to speak to me because his family comes to church and just kind of stared me down you know in the meeting a little bit and and and does it really take a person being born again i mean would god really cause a person to go to hell if if they were not born again of water and spirit and i knew that in the fear of god i could not let that man go out of my office without telling him that it absolutely takes i told him except you believe that i am he you will die in your sins now that's not politically correct but it's biblically correct and we need to understand that there's coming a moment in a day that where churches will be able to you'll be able to distinguish we already have the day whether the true from the fake and and that which is real and apostolic from that which is just pentecostal but does not embrace the name of jesus and the oneness of god and the separation from the world and because of what god is doing in us it's a covenant relationship we cannot go back on that we cannot be swayed by members even even leaders that we are so-called leaders that come up among us that somehow decide to go a different way if we have to go with him and we have to go alone but we must go because jesus is the way the truth and the life nobody comes to the father but by him moses was the first to prophesy of this coming messiah the 18th chapter in the 15th verse he said there's a prophet there's one coming like me in fact moses was the only one whom jesus ever compared to himself john 5 46 and 47 and when jesus was asked to name the most important commandment he responded with deuteronomy 6 and 5. you know the shema and he took we under know the fourth verse he wrote israel the lord our god the lord is one and then he said thou shall love the lord thy god with all thy heart with all thy soul and with all thy might it was this moses the moses that i speak about who from his mouth this text was written it was this moses that he himself had an encounter with god i was taken to exodus the third chapter and god has just been taking me back there because it was in the third chapter of the book of exodus that god revealed himself to moses his verse here said he said secret things belong to the lord but those things which are revealed they belong to us and god in just a moment's time he revealed himself to moses exodus the third chapter and the second verse and he the bible said that the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a flame out of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed and moses said i will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burnt and i love this and when the lord saw that he turned aside to see god called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said moses moses and he said here am i and he said draw not nigh thither put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place where thou standest is holy ground moreover he said i am the law the god of thy father the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob and moses hid his face and he was afraid to look upon god and the lord said i have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in egypt and heard their cry by reason of their task masters for i know their sorrows and i am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the egyptians and i will bring them up out of that land with a good on to a good land and a large in a land flowing with milk and honey the 10th verse and he says and i will send you to pharaoh that you may bring my people out of egypt immediately all of the inadequacies that were in moses this young man who was actually 80 years old but this man who was getting a call that was beyond him he said but who am i i'm unqualified to do what you're asking me to do and then the 13th verse he flips it around and says really who are you because if if i have to go back and talk to the people who should i say sent me in other words he didn't really know who he was and he didn't really know who his god was and god said this to him you tell them that i am who i am that's what you shall say to the children of israel you tell them i am has sent me to you and then the 19th verse and i want to just kind of ease into this because i feel like the holy ghost wants to kind of stretch us in a few areas personally me and you but this 19th verse he says and i am sure that the king of egypt will not let you go no not by a mighty hand it doesn't matter what your strength or your ability is moses it doesn't matter what you are able to do i know i am confident that the king will not release you to take my people out and so god said in verse 20 and i will stretch out my hand and smite egypt with all my wonders which i will do in the midst thereof and after that he will let you go when god stretches out his hand you don't want to be at the end of that when god decides that i'm done with your foolishness and stretches his hand out then there's nothing else any of us could do except to fall at his mercy and this moses who didn't really understand who he was and didn't really fully understand who god was received a promise from god that i'm i'm gonna send you to do something that you don't feel qualified to do but then i'm gonna give you something that you cannot do yourself i'm gonna give you supernatural ability i'm gonna add to what you can do my supernatural strength and ability so that if you will obey me i will confirm and do what i've called you to do notice what he said in verse 21 and i will give this people favor in the sight of egypt and they shall it shall come to pass that when you go out you shall not go out empty we're not coming out empty the apostolic church doesn't have to be poor we don't have to be backwards we don't have to feel like it's us for and no more i can't hang around those people i don't hang around those people i got to be around some people that sharpen me some people of faith you know it's the atmosphere that is in this room right now it's the atmosphere for faith and miracles and the supernatural you got to get around some folks that will stretch you stretch you beyond the limitation of small thinking like bishop craft stretched me like bishop stretched me here as a young man that when you get around that environment you begin to understand and bishop you say it over and over we've got a big job to do but the lord will help us and every time you say that it encourages me because i need god's help i cannot do this on my own i need the supernatural help of god to accomplish the purpose of god in my life if you need that would you throw your hands up and you just tell god i need your supernatural help hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah covey did a number on my health this past year and what i mean by that is we should but we don't do a lot of cooking in the balestero house unfortunately our life is so busy many times we're picking things up and taking it home and i wish that i had picked up that good art of uh being able to make things up i can make a few things but it's nothing that i enjoy doing on a consistent basis and unfortunately about every day i would go through chick-fil-a and have a little something for breakfast or a little something for lunch and i started noticing that my clothes didn't fit like they used to fit and and uh i'm not gonna get into all of that because we've all had our own personal trials during this season and and so when the new year rolled around i was talking to our chiropractor and i i just said you know kim and i we got to get on an exercise routine some kind of program we got to get you know we got to get with it because time's ticking away and and we just got to get rid of some of this stress and start feeling better i need more energy and he said something to me that kind of uh set me back a little bit and i'm still kind of meditating on it he said anthony he's known our family a long time he said at your age i'm like whoa whoa hold on at your age the best thing you can do for your health is to stretch and so i kind of i'm not going to join a yoga class you know so my options may be limited but i just began to think about that and of course we we've got to stretch physically because if we don't then we just kind of uh get at a place where our muscles start to draw up and things get tighter we can get injured if we we do crossword puzzles and things to keep our mind your reading active you want to keep and then but but but god just kept taking me over to this third dimension was which is that at our age we've got to stretch spiritually now i know that i'm stepping into an environment where you you hear faith and miracles and you're being stretched all the time but but if you're that one person here that somehow said well i've heard it over and over again that just hear this as a confirming voice from another pastor another minister that that we in this season have got to not sit and just rest on what we have done in yesteryear and look at all of our trophies in yesteryear i'm talking about myself and anyone else but we have got to stretch forward we've got to reach into what god has for us that the best thing that i can do at my age is to learn to stretch to stretch means to extend beyond the limits of one's ability i have a son who is double jointed he can take his hands like this and he can literally with his hands clasped can go around his back and then under his legs and over again if i did that i would end up in the hospital i don't know how to do that but i just have a son it doesn't feel normal to me but there may be somebody here that can do it it it's it's beyond the limits of one's ability and so i began to look at what scripture said concerning this word stretch 50 times in the bible the word stretch is used 45 times in the old testament and then five times in the new testament the first time we see this word stretch is in exodus 3 and 20 which he said moses the king pharaoh is not going to listen to you no matter how you approach him but but you go and i will stretch forth my hand to him and then we see that god is just giving him that promise i began to notice this pattern the seventh chapter the bible said that the that he again said the egyptians shall know that i am the lord when i jehovah when i stretch my hand upon egypt and bring out the children of israel from among them and so in my mind as i'm reading through this i'm thinking god why don't you just do it why don't you just squash them let's just get it over with because you know you're going to take them out anyway and god has said several times i'm going to stretch my hand over them and forth upon egypt but notice the 19th verse of exodus 7 that the lord spake unto moses and told him say unto aaron aaron your older brother you know the levite say to him take thy rod and stretch out thy hand upon the waters and upon the streams and upon the rivers and their ponds in the pools of water that they may become blood and that there may be blood throughout all the land both in vessels of wood and vessels of stone but god you said you were going to stretch forth your hand and now you are telling me to say to aaron aaron stretch forth your hand the eighth chapter and the fifth verse on the lord again spake to moses and he said say to aaron stretch forth thine hand and thy rod over the streams and the rivers and the ponds and cause frogs to come upon the land of egypt and so he does that in the 16th verse the lord said unto moses say unto aaron three times he said you say to aaron you stretch forth your hand you stretch forth your rod but god you said that you were going to do it but now you're telling me to tell aaron to do it so i just kept reading by the time i got to the 10th chapter that the lord said to moses stretch out thine hand over the land for the locusts that they may come upon the land of egypt and every herb of the land and even all the that the hell happened the 21st verse of the lord said to moses stretch out thy hand towards heaven that there may be darkness upon the land or the land of egypt even the darkness which may be felt and i realize that that that god promised to do this for moses but moses didn't believe in himself and he really didn't know god so god had to work through someone else from moses to see that god was working through him and then he gets him to this point where he now has trained him up and he said now you stretch forth your hand and when you do you remember he gave him the miracles in chapter four all the way back he just told him about the miracle of the serpent and the staff and the hand and the leprosy and the blood and the water because he was just trying to teach him but but it occurred to me that many times we believe that god can do it we have observed god to do it from a distance we know that if god uses bishop or pastor we know that it'll happen and and we know god can do it through the mothers of the church and the elders and the ministers that we respect but the thing we have a hard time with is we have a hard time believing that god can do it through us and i've just come tonight i believe under the unction of the holy ghost to just stretch somebody out in this transitional season this moment in which we are celebrating 29 wonderful years and we are celebrating all that god has done and he has in many ways exceeded our expectations but i've just come to push on it a little bit and just to tell you that there is more that god is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think according to the power that works in you not just the power that works in the person next to you or the person that works down the pew from you but god is wanting to work through the person on the back roll and the person to my left and to my right and it is time and it is the season for you not to put off to tomorrow what god has been talking to you about for years why let another anniversary go by without making a covenant with god without making a commitment to god to go all the way you got a bishop that's not looking for a new house or a new car he just wants souls what would happen if a thousand people got that in their spirit that that's what they prayed about and that's what they believed for that's what they gave for i'll tell you what happened this building would not long be able to hold what god is doing and what he's going to do and i just choose to come in and tell you it's time it's the right season we've got to get going we can't wait till tomorrow we can't wait till we got everything perfect we have got to step out in faith i am nothing when i first started preaching people had to tell me look people in the eyes because i had a hard time looking people in the eye what was it was my own insecurities i remember a little mother in the church i went to preach for my uncle in albany in michigan and this dear mother was just trying to bless me she was she after i got done and preaching that sunday night she came down she said well you probably won't have a preaching ministry but you'll you'll probably have a teaching ministry god bless you son and you know that didn't encourage me no way because you know sometimes we judge a thing too soon there's some people sitting in here and in your mind you cannot you could never see them leading a ministry you could never see them winning souls and and and starting a church but see god sees something in them and he has them in a season like he had moses in he has them observing and they might have to say say to aaron lift up your rod but there will come a day and i believe that today is the day where god is going to speak to you and said my brother and my sister it's time for you to lift up your hand and it's time for you and when you do it when you stretch yourself beyond your own ability god is going to come in and he's going to help you it's going to be supernatural you know what supernatural is it's when god puts some super on your natural and all of us need a little bit of super on our natural it's not a time for dead dry church and religion we we can't there are churches that have millions of dollars and light show and sound i told the clearwater church we're fighting devils and scientology and all this job we can't come in here and have tired church you might think we're too loud or too rowdy i've had people tell me i can't it's too loud here i can't help it i said we got to come in and we got to sing we got to sing not just for those who are sitting there but we got to affect the atmosphere of this city because every city needs a jesus name apostolic church that's not a shame to preach the gospel and sing the gospel and declare the gospel of jesus we believe god can do it we believe our leaders can do it we just have a hard time believing we can do it but i've come today to tell you that once it clicks in your mind that i can do all things through christ that strengthens me that's what pastor trammell told me he gave me a bible and he wrote in it i can do all things that christ can strengthen me and he put it in a young man's hand a little teenager and he said son read it and believe it god can strengthen you and god can help you and i want to pass it on i want to pass it on before i pass on to say it's time for you to get faith it's time for you to believe for great things and stretch come on stretch your hand out come on you're doing symbolically what god is getting ready to do in you literally i feel the holy ghost by the time we get to the 14th chapter moses had to stand and look at the enemies behind him and but he did it and god said why are you crying to me speak to the people and tell them to go forward but lift up thy rod verse 16 and stretch it out over the land he had the confidence because he saw god do it he saw him do it through aaron he saw him do it and through him and now he did it and god caused them to walk through on dry ground i'm going to be a few more minutes but i just want to tell you moses if you'll do what god called you to do and you will attempt to do things that are beyond your ability not for your glory not to make a name for yourself he said i'll bless your stretch and i'll do what only i could do five times in the new testament and time does not permit me to touch on it but matthew mark and luke talk about jesus addressing a man's condition his withered hand the muscle obviously no longer receive nourishment and in the synagogue jesus he speaks to the man's condition and the man is healed he stretched he said forth your hand peter spoke about it in a different way in the 21st chapter in fact jesus said peter when you're old you're stretched forth your hands and another will gird you you're going to stretch forth your hands one way or another old or young and then lastly paul begins to say something that i'm still meditating on in second corinthians 10 he said we didn't overstep the limits of our providence and stretch beyond our ability to reach as though we had reached not or had no legitimate mission to you for we were the very first to come even as far as the good news of the gospel of christ he said he said we're not extending or stretching past we came to you first so if we ask you for something we're not overstepping our bounds and reaching beyond and i felt like god just spoke to me and said it's not a stretch until it's something that you cannot do without his help it's not a stretch some of you are incredibly smart smart i i would dare say that there are those with master's degrees and doctorate degrees that are sitting here throughout scattered all through this building those that are credentialed and certified and you're professional in every walk of life and i i would i i i would just say this we need you we need you full of the holy ghost and anointed committing every step of what god has blessed you with to his kingdom and god is going to ask things of you in this next season and the reason he's going to ask it of you is because you have connections and abilities and things that you will be able to do that i couldn't or others because because you stand at the door of contacts and people and situations and god is going to begin to order your life in such a way and i just i just felt this that he's going to order it in such a way that he's going to cause things to come in your life i think i heard the praise team was it the word increase the word increase it was just a confirmation because i was praying all the way past through the bay you know what i was praying about pastor i felt this since yesterday i believe that that that god wants to raise up dozens of millionaires now if you don't honor god i i pray that god purposely keeps you under but if you stand like the man that did work for us recently i don't even know him and he said pastor i'll treat you right he said because god owns my business and then he knocked 2500 off when he billed us so i that just made me feel good all the way around but when you have that kind of relationship and i just prayed now it may just start with a handful but but i also believe there were dozens of people you've been toying with an idea about starting something and you don't know if it's just your flesh or if it's just i'm just telling you the kingdom i've been on phone calls in the past few days and been in meetings with people they don't know what they're going to do about their job when certain mandates start dropping and when certain things start happening you know what we need and we've talked about this we need people in the kingdom that can employ people and people that can finance kingdom so that we don't have to go to banks and borrow money you think god the scripture's clear he said i'm going to cause you to be the one who lends god can flip this script in this last 10 years where other people come to us and we're the bank for other people we got to do what we got to do and we do it but i'm telling you i believe that when we stretch into a new arena it's going to be not just because one or two you can look at and say they can do it but there are some dear saints of god that said you know i may not know everything about it but god here am i use me you can use me for your glory and i believe that it'd be the will of god to bless you abundantly in such a way that there would be no lack no lack in your life and no lack in your family and no lack in the community and when bishop says we need every time i drive up on this property there's just another building like a fellowship hall and a gymnasium but you know what it's the same spirit that bishop craft had he taught me years ago i'm that's why bishop when you came over every time i i was planting a new tree or something there because i'm always working because he said every time the saints go up here anthony he said i want them to see i was a youth pastor he said i want him to see that we're investing in the kingdom and we're putting you know where things are growing and every time i pull up i'm like oh good night god it's just beautiful what is it because the money that god is bringing in is is it's growing and multiplied and expanding and churches are being built and and i don't even know how many churches have been started 20 churches were started in 29 years do you understand the math on that that's almost a church a year that's been started out of the mother church some churches have spent their whole existence and never start a church or a ministry they're just content to be there but that is not the vision of the stretch the stretch is we're going to take what comes in and we're invested in the kingdom like fishes and lows gotta multiply it and that's exactly what's happened god is calling someone to step past their timidity and their insecurity and say i'm gonna come into a supernatural partnership with god i'm gonna submit to him in my education and with my business and with ministry and i'm gonna let god make it up and do what only he can do i hesitated to say this because i but i'm so glad that you mentioned 109th because i couldn't remember the street that the building was on but i i still see that octagon and and our building has a little octagon so it's like a little miniature of the octagons on 109th you didn't know this bishop but it was at your anniversary service on 109th i came over on a friday night and i was just a young pastor i i believe we had less than a thousand dollars in our bank account and and i felt like the holy ghost told me to write a check for 750 dollars and give it to um new life now i hesitate to say that because i i don't enough years have gone by how many years have you been in this building so 2010 10 years so this is this is more than 10 years ago and i took that little check i think i got to the service late i put in the envelope and i gave that check it unlocked something and and i call it the principle of 750. this is just me i didn't get this out of a book this is just how god works with me that when i did that we were in a storefront we're a little storefront church and no no we were i think we were in the north greenwood community and we were we were wanting no we were in the storefront and i gave that 750 and within two or three months i believe it was we bought a building downtown clearwater for 75 thousand dollars now listen you can't even get a house back then it was hard to get a good house for that amount and and i'll i'll admit the church was run that it was pretty bad some of my friends uh kenneth's brother kenneth stewart said he was he felt afraid for me he said when i was it had old paneling walls i i was so cheap i was just gonna paint the paneling and but when i got i got to the work day just a few minutes late and the men were already carrying the paneling out so we had to fix the walls the floor we put a level on at the floor bowed they were dead rats underneath um lights were burned out around the church the mayor talked to me he said most of the drug activity happens right here around the church i was convinced that that was the best place for us to have revival so hey the poor heard him gladly so so so we bought that little building just a couple months after we gave that 750 750 bought a 75 000 building three years from there we owner finance sold our building to another church group 298 500 took the equity on that building put it on the building that we're in now and financed 750 000 now i believe that god just kind of dealt with me that when you made that small step in the storefront and you just at 750 it unlocked the math on that now god didn't give me the million dollar building at the beginning because the land would have been too great for me i did i would i wasn't ready for that just yet but he just kind of eased me into it and eased me into it and i felt impressed and i i don't know but maybe by sunday night i i would pray that there would be dozens of business owners and pastors and people who would pray and it's not about the amount because i don't know what god would say for you but that would just bring an offering on sunday night and and nobody needs to know about it at all but you prove god with that and see see you can't talk to me because i already been through it i already lived through it i i know it i know it i know what i know i can tell you story after story of things that have happened like that to me i got so discouraged one time that that being from the north i was driving up the highway after having a service with a small group of people my little baby in the back in a car seat and i just prayed out loud and it was a simple prayer it was i just said god would you just make me more comfortable in this city and give me a steak and shake and a don pablo's now i know that just sounds kind of try it now because because they didn't have any steak and shakes in this area then and and at least not on that side of the pond and and there were no don pablo's because i enjoyed mexican food and and before god as the year closed out a red a building went up and a steak n shake came in almost the exact same place where i was on the highway right there i'd come back from east bay coming up and right there a few months pass it's right in front of a trailer park a few months pass and the structure for another building goes up and i didn't want to prophely to the congregation but when i was teaching i said i think that that i think that they're building a don pablo's there and thank god i wasn't a false prophet because it was a don pablo now i want you i want you to hear this now if the steak and shake had happened five miles away and the don pablos had happened on the other side of the pond i might have said it was a coincidence but it's like these two chairs here and this being the road the steak and shake the don pablos and every time i would come from that little service on sunday afternoon if i felt low i could still hear calex saying daddy did you testimony what was it god wasn't really as concerned about me eating a hamburger or some mexican food but he just wanted to prove himself to me that you went to where i called you i can make you comfortable in the little things and i can help you in the big things i don't know who i'm talking to but you got to shake yourself and just know that sometimes you just got to ask god for whatever you will when you begin to ask him and you begin to rejoice i still celebrate what god did do you know i couldn't eat enough mexican food to keep don pablo's open it's closed today but the testimony remains the same that steak and shake they finally built a bridge but i feel pretty good that god loved me enough to answer this young man's prayer just to say anthony i'll make you more comfortable and do that now you give up your excuses and go do what i've called you to do i wish i had asked for a multi-million dollar building instead of a steak and shake but i'm asking now and i know that the time will come it wouldn't be anything for god to give us a seven 7.5 million dollar building or a 75 million dollar building god's not broke god's not lacking the people of god are blessed and i want to tell you that if you'll learn how to stretch if you'll make yourself available god will help you get up on your feet hallelujah god's going to bless people in this church he's going to raise up ministries in this church he's going to raise up business owners in this church you may not start a church but you're going to fund a church he's going to raise up people that's going to send missionaries and going to help fulfill kingdom things and you're going to feel more fulfilled in your life than you've ever been because you stretch the secret things belong to the lord our god but the things that are revealed they belong to us to us everybody say to us ah god revealed himself to this young man moses 80 years old and the revelation of who he was and then he passed it on joshua got it and everywhere you place the soul of your feet i'm gonna give you the land and he got it my father received the revelation of the name of jesus but it was handed down to him from his father who was a catholic boy but god just wouldn't let him go he ended up in san quentin prison because he got the holy ghost in los angeles and when he got the holy ghost he felt so convicted that he ran in those spanish gangs he felt so convicted that he thought the right thing to do would go to the police station and confess that he was the one that was breaking in all the homes and he did and he went away to prison san quentin prison and he was there for several years but he said it was while he was in prison that he was in prison with an assembly of god man whose wife sent him a track about the name of jesus and he said the man looked at the track his cell mate and he just threw the track he said i don't want this carl you want it he said i began to read that track about the name of jesus and i began to pray he said in that san quentin prison there was all kinds of guys that i had grown up in gangs with and we had been in juvenile detention centers he said but i had received the holy ghost and i purpose to have nothing to do with those guys he he was not yet baptized in jesus name but he said i went down into the courtyard and started preaching he didn't remember reading it but he said he opened his mouth and he said the words though thy sins be a scarlet they shall be white as snow for two years he went across oregon and that that west coast looking for a church and he found a little church pastored by andrew baker and his niece was a gleason and he found that he was a little my grandfather was a soldier boy and he went and i stood in that church a couple of months ago this summer where my grandfather was baptized in jesus name he got the message so strong that as he was a preacher he was offered the pastorate of churches of other denominations and one particular denomination offered the pastor because older people would tell me that he was a preacher's preacher and they just that he was just eloquent and he read though he only had an eighth grade education this this man said that when he was offered the pastorate of some of these he would actually go to the prayer room and pray that god if there's something in me that's causing these churches that don't have truth to offer me their pastor he had preached for them but he wasn't heading off the doctrine i made a covenant with my father and the covenant was this that i'll always preach this acts 2 38 message and and if i choose to do anything other than that that i'll get out of the ministry totally i'm not going to treat it as a career or something that uh but that and it's a covenant that i made what is it because the secret things belong to god but those things that are revealed belong to us and so this revelation of jesus name it's it's it's not something tried it's just not a feeling it's a life or death thing and and i'm going to be preaching jesus until i die if god will give me the strength and the help i'm not looking to go out soon i'm just saying i want to keep preaching the name of jesus and we need some kingdom partners that will just stretch and say you know what i may not be called to stand in a pulpit but i know i'm called i understand business and i understand how to organize and i understand how to reach and i understand how to advertise because in this body is everything this church ever needs do you know when this body is even the ability for this whole campus to be debt-free within a year it's it's right here it's here if it's not here it's on the way but somebody's just got to make themselves available we don't have to wait another season or another day or another i'm just telling you what i feel in the holy ghost that these things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever that we may follow all the words of this law i felt that i was to pray for our children especially those that are our students our children but anyone here if you have a child i i'm a grandfather now and i have three children 26 22 and 20. those are still my babies they're still my kids but if you have one here and you feel comfortable i want you to bring them down here i want you to bring them down front florida has the daytona 500 it's 200 laps at two and a half mile miles each lap the final lap is known as the final stretch and i think the church is in the final stretch bishop we're in the final stretch it's not it's not time for us to park the car and just say we'll just wait but it's it's time for us to lean into you say well i don't have the ability i i i moses i made your mouth i don't have the health well god lives inside of you he knows your health better than anyone else you're listening to news and media about health but you're not consulting god he already lives inside of you by the holy ghost he knows you better than any doctor or any other person and i believe today that god just wants to impart something very fresh in our families and our children as i was studying 29-29 i was quickened to the same phrase in acts 2 38 and 239 then peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you hey there's not another way there's every one of you in the name of jesus for the remission of sins you know when he talks about and who sins you remit a reference to the fact that they would be baptizing people remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost for the promises unto you and to your children [Music] that's connected to deuteronomy 29 29 and to all that are far off even as many as the lord our god shall call and i close with this brother and i count not myself to have apprehended but this one thing i do for getting those things which are behind reaching forth to the things that are before would you just kind of stretch into it a little bit i press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling in christ jesus lift up your other hand all over this building and i want you to open your mouth i want to pray for you i want the holy ghost to descend upon you and your families some of you are going to pray for your children if your children don't have the holy ghost if there's a young person maybe some students been affected by the world god just wants to bring them in over this weekend your kids are going to be saved and they're going to serve jesus and they're going to do things for god greater than you've ever imagined or thought by the power and authority of the name of jesus i speak the word of faith over this congregation lord i just pray the riches of blessings upon every family and upon every parent upon every single mother upon every single father upon every couple that's raising children upon every child that comes without the help of a guardian or a parent i pray over our students our youth ministry and our children's ministry and our academy and god we just pray that you would put a hedge over them the enemy tried to take moses out when he was but a child but god you had some things to reveal to him and satan you are a liar you're not getting our children because you have things that you have revealed to us and they belong to us and to our children and to our children's children now i want you just to pray begin to pray if you're here right now and you need the baptism of the holy ghost you can receive it in just a moment's time all over this building [Music] come on let's do it again to the lord lift your hands and say i will be [Applause] [Music] come on say lord i agree [Music] is [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] you jesus that's what i'll be [Music] i will be what you [Music] yes [Music] is [Music] yes [Music] somebody agree with jesus that your family is going to be saved agree with jesus and blessing is about to be released agree with jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you jesus i agree tonight thank you jesus [Music] thank you lord somebody clap your hands for the word that we've heard from this man of god tonight [Music] pastor raymond just this week pastor ballister i'm just telling you how in the holy ghost you are pastor raymond challenged the preachers in their giving this week when i saw him challenge the preacher in their giving i got worried for some of the preachers i called him i said man of god why don't you call me first before you challenge these people because i'm stressing out for others but here it is you came and challenged us tonight to stretch man of god you were trying to get folks to stretch somebody needs to stretch tonight in the name of jesus when he said 750 turn into 75 000. 75 000 turned into 750 000 and he said why not a 7.5 million dollar building and then he stretched a little bit more he said why not a 75 million dollar building and some folks shake their head like it couldn't happen but i need some crazy folks to lift your hands and say why not somebody lift your hand and say why not why not then he said then he said why not why not believe that our property could be debt-free in one year somebody in here has the business know-how and the technical know-how and you probably know how to do it turn your neighbor and say you need to help us just tell your neighbor real quick you need to help us whatever you got stop sitting on your blessing stop sitting on your gift stop sitting on your abilities and let's put it all in the work of god how many want to be the people that employ other people well i wish i had some how many want to be the entrepreneur that builds the business that employs other people we got doctors in here that are opening their own clinics open their own clinics well why not we can get some more clinics opened up in the place open our own apostolic hospital we already have our own apostolic school well i wish i had somebody to believe that stretch your hand out say i'm stretching jesus whatever you want to do in me do it in me tonight in the mighty name of the lord jesus there's still people seeking the holy ghost if you want to be baptized in jesus name you're in the building you need to come and be baptized in water in jesus name tonight on this first night of the anniversary amen those of you that are from other churches remember on sunday night we will have our superintendent here from florida amen bishop boyd he will be with us he will be preaching the sunday night service amen we want you to greet somebody tomorrow they're having that special family get together uh brother lorenzo is that one o'clock at one o'clock right here at the church doors open but before the one o'clock at six o'clock tomorrow morning there is prayer amen we have six o'clock prayer here tomorrow morning saints of god be in prayer god bless you greet somebody in the name of jesus bring somebody to the house of god preachers we have a special reception for all the pastors pastors and ministers room 207 208 in the education wing amen and tomorrow there's special outreach at 10 o'clock 10 o'clock the outreach team says 10 o'clock tomorrow we're going on outreach for back to church sunday amen god bless you greet somebody in jesus name [Music]

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