"A Brand Or A Branch" Vesta Mangun BOTT 1987

it was more than 25 years ago when I was only a lad of elementary age in our small church on unpaid Street when our elderly pastor and now he was not going to teach his customary Bible study and instead he turned on a reel-to-reel tape and filled our auditorium with the fervent voice of as articulate a spokesman for truth as there ever was we set off struck as we listened and were humble at a powerful presentation on the imperative of evangelism we have often you and I and our hearts touched with the finger of God by the ministry of sister Vesta Mannion let's welcome to this pulpit the wife of the senior pastor of the Pentecostals of Alexandria sister Vesta fear not for God is with us fear not lose all of your inhibitions let doubt discouragement frustration wandering guessing let it go release it if this doesn't tell you something if God turns his back on this many one God Jesus name Holy Ghost I'm walking there is nothing to this pop hope cheer up the Lord is with us the Solidarity of the ages and the generations have met here it pains on us now I am startled enemies in a thousand of 1500 preachers and their wives are met in Alexandria Louisiana have no fear have no fear something is about to happen in this world move over everybody get out of the way devil we're coming everybody somebody in this lose your inhibitions don't look to nobody else look to God and say I'm going to become there are 365 fear knots in this book there's one for every day to the distinguished leaders of this great United Pentecostal church and to the honored guests and to hungry ministers and their wives and a whole bunch of dedicated saints of God and to the sponsors of this because of the times brother Mike Williams brother Anthony Mangan brother Kilgore and brother Johnson and to this great church and to these pastors with Shepherd hearts I do want to give honor and I want to thank you for this privilege but tremendous responsibility with a thousand of 1500 ministers meeting here this world will hear our voice and you forgive me if I seem too intense but please allow me we must ever in always be fueled by a consuming desire and passion for the purpose which if you attire yourself to you will arrive it must dominate every waking thought you must live it eat it sleep it you must dream it this is for real I've just reread the specs on this I've just reread the blueprint from the foundation of the world no wonder it was said of Jesus Christ the seal of his father's house had eaten him up the seal of almighty God's body was totally consumed about what we are meant here to discuss about his passion his fervor his white-hot zeal for all mankind was awesome to behold and he said if ye abide in me and my words abide in you you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you it was he who said I Who am Telling You that I am the Alpha and the Omega of the beginning on the ending I am he which is which was and which is to come the Almighty God I am he that liveth I was dead but behold behold I am alive forevermore I have the keys of hell I have the keys of death and to has many has received me to them will I give them power to become power to become power to become they come what all that I was all that I am all that I ever shall be that's my glorious promise to my church you can have power to become now when will we ever be convinced when will we ever believe this that we talked about while we so long responding to this fact there is nothing absolutely nothing he cannot do or accomplish even if he has to create it into me He is God and He is God Almighty and we are his counterpart or there's nothing to he said all things are yours now can you get it any better than that he said all things are yours he does not say that just once or twice but over and over and over again and time after time he promises now the responsibility is on every one of us that's where things today it's not on him he is Lord the scepter he's offered it to you now what is responsibility responsibility means my response to his ability I'm afraid you didn't hear that I'm afraid you didn't hear that then let me say it again your responsibility means your response to his ability and you don't get it my wishful thinking and making powerful statements and not backing them up with something Abraham responded and became the father of the Jewish nation Joseph responded he became prime minister of Egypt Moses who was our heir apparent for the Egyptian throne responded by rejecting the earthly throne and became the great lawgiver of God's people as well as their deliverer from bondage David responded he became no longer a sheep herder but Israel's King Paul responded and said I can do all things I can do all things I can do all things through Christ the source which must become your total source I can do all things if I get a hold of that total source that strengtheneth me and when he said it the devil's trembled he'll shook continents were shaken the roman empire crumbled when one man said i can do all things through christ now it's your turn and mine quit feeling sorry for yourself and cowering over in some corner somewhere sucking on your thumb you can have it if you want it don't pick on everybody else that won't sit in his gonna get it and gonna do something with him now get your mind made up in this meeting how I'm gonna respond to that Alpha Omega the beginning in the end the personality which is which was a which is to come the Almighty that said it's yours now Zachariah chapter three verse two talks about a brand plucked from the burning a brand is a piece of wood prepare to burn or is already burning a branch a branch I hold both in my hand every person in this room is this or this this branch was just plucked this morning would not have been plucked had it not been going to be had it not been that we were going to use it as an object lesson it receives light from the vine or the tree look how beautiful and I hold in my hand in this left hand what I'm going to call a brand because it it's good for nothing only to burn or disintegrate to nothingness this had been discarded I went behind the Family Life Center and plucked it from the garbage I said Linnell I want to you take it and save it for me it's headed for the dump but I've snatched it from the burning I know there's something missing because there's no life there's no spirit there's no stamp there's no resurrection there's no creative force there's no power there's no mystical energy operating in it anymore it's lost contact with a supernatural source that was feeding it it's not connected properly to its source of life divine or the tree if it were it would be fulfilling its purpose jesus said to his disciples and would-be disciples I am the vine ye are the branches and every branch in me that beareth NOT fruit I take away now that's settled that's settled you don't argue with it if you don't do it it's settled another branch that beareth fruit i purge it i purge it i purge it that it may bring forth fruit more fruit and much fruit the vine doesn't bring forth the fruit but the branches hint the barn is limited without the branches and the barn is ready but the branches are refusing the source and the branches cannot bear fruit of itself it's dependent upon the vine no more can we expect Oh how except we abide in him the total source neglects the vine and the fruit will fail neglect the source and you'll come to not neglect the source and you won't have anything for without me Jesus said ye can do say it again that's zero nothing you will do it with me or you won't do it at all that's where we are you'll do it with me or you won't do it all and I'm offering it to everybody now if you think you're gonna make it by yourself you might as well take your sign down and quit hollering or jumping about or claiming because the total source is available to everybody in this room he taketh it away and it becomes a brand now that's a tragedy that's a loss that's a waste and it was a possibility that was squandered when Jesus said behold I give you power power over all the power of the enemy power over all the power of the enemy now he says through John the whole world lies in the hands of Satan the whole world lies in the hands of evil one the whole world is in the hands of the devil but Adam was up against the Serpent's you're up against a dragon but if you will I will and without me you can't do it but with me everything else will come down I refuse to live a defeated life with that much offer I am NOT going to cower down and be shoved in a little corner of life when that much is offered to me you do what you will I'm not going to live my life like this old dead dry stick I'm not gonna live my life like this old air-dry stick no lie no spirit no perverts ain't no enthusiasm no fervency no passion no resurrection no force no vision no dreams no motivation no leaves no fruit no shade no love no healing no blessing no praise no worship no joy and no excitement no smiles no touch no growth numerically or spiritually just an old air dry stick nothing just a brand just an old stick no love no comfort no light no quarter no bread no cure no salvation no attraction no beauty no blessing no anointing no divine touch just a dead lifeless worthless friend I'm not gonna live my life like that and thank God I don't I don't I don't I don't have to I don't have to I don't have to I don't have to I'm not looking to nobody else for the source but him and I can get it I don't have to have nobody to lead me around I'm not blind I don't have to have nobody to show me the way he is the way I found the way I found the answer I have the cure I have the remedy I'll help the touch I held the message I know why I'm going I know the truth lose your timidity lose your little old cowering about and running here and there and say they got it and we don't they got it and we don't you're sick you're sick they don't have it and I don't have it you're wrong I'm gonna not let nobody get ahead of me with say I don't have to say I can have it I'm God's child I'm Paul by his name I've got the book I've got his promises 7,000 of them what more do I need let me tell you something that you're not taking advantage I'll say the veil has been rent don't preach it as a little sermon live it it's real the throne beckons me every day I can get to the throne that rules this world if that fails the son will refuse to shine in the moon won't come up anymore and the stars will fall from their orbit I have access I can help the total source I'm ashamed that I don't that's the only one to put it on me I'm ashamed that I don't produce no more than I do I've got one little short life my god I wish I could get so something whatever it is pull it off on me put it on me tell it to me squirming the eye hit me between the eyes but say my god lady there's a throne beckoning you you can have the total source you can have it say power to become job 14 seven and nine there's whole poetry if it be cut down that it will sprout again huh and a branch there all will not cease though the root there of wax old in the earth ha and the stuck there of dye in the ground yet through the scent of water it will burn and bring puff boughs like a plan hallelujah he's gonna become he's decided he can come along say if it be cut down say it if it'd be cut off through the scent of water it's flowing it's blowing deep and wide I came here to get a drink off I came here I came here to get a scent I came here to get a drink I came here to get some water and we'll but again don't lose heart don't give up get ass in a water and you can but again and bring forth say fruit even if it will be as water spilt upon the ground which cannot be gathered up again yet God devised this means that his vanished will be not expelled from him you don't have to be cut off there's water flowing here even if only seek yours boneyard and it's lifeless and the Bible said it's very very very very very dry say very dry that I came here very very very very very dry I came here dry I came here dead I came here lifeless but somebody preached somebody preached I got a set of water don't devise a plan and I heard the word and breath is entering into me now I feel like I'm coming alive I'm gonna bloom again I'm gonna smile again I'm gonna play again I'm gonna go get a soul again I've got power in this meeting to become and it does not yet appear what I will become say that it does not yet appear what I will become ain't no telling how wild I will get there just ain't no tellin us what all I will do I've got power to become all here's was and am to be all said I can do all things through Christ the source which strengtheneth me it's not by might nor by power but it's by his I need a cent of that I need a cent of that I need that touch now what would you be will you be that brand or will you be a branch that branch unless it does get a sense of water at this meeting and it's up to you unless you hear the word that word of God that will never pass away that a boy by the name of Roger sloughs a check hit our church had been to the Catholic Church downtown grabbed ahold of the pillars in there screamed as loud as he could and said God you is the book anywhere that will tell me who you are where you are and how I can find you if they can hear that word but if not there will never be a leaf on that there will never be any fruit will never feed the hungry will never clothe the naked will never visit those in prison will never bind up broken hearts will never preach the gospel to the poor but I'm not going to be a brand I'm not gonna be an old dead stick with no life-giving fruit no spirit no desire no vision no dreams no plans no action no consuming zeal or passion for souls no fervency no fiery anointing no burden no concern no love no care no compassion no future no vision no dreams no miracles when you can have power to become say I'm gonna be a branch say fruit say more fruit say much fruit that's the purpose of because of the times Bob we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ and there everyone may receive the things done in his body there will be a crowning day for a possible crowns you can receive the incorruptible crown of life crown of glory crown of righteousness crown of rejoicing and that's where he may look at you even then and safer I was hunger a hunger and you gave me meat I was thirsting you gave me drink I was a stranger and you took me in safe route I was naked and you clothed me say more fruit I was sick and you visited me I was in prison and you came unto me say much fruit then shall the righteous answer him and say Lord when saw we thee a hungered and fed thee or thirsty and gave thee drink when saw we thee a stranger and took thee in or naked and clothed thee or when saw we thee sick or in prison and came unto thee and the king of kings and the Lord of lords shall say barely barely I say unto you inasmuch as you've done it until one say one say one one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me I am disguised under every type of humanity that treads this earth black white red or yellow rich poor middle-class native immigrant refugee famous or infamous I am disguised and every one of them you'll ever meet and I will appear and I'd better remember why it came because he's not gonna let any one of us off of the hook nobody will escape it Christianity has never been nor will it ever be a spectator sport you are not called to sit in the grandstands you don't win this game in the grandstands this game is not over and the whistle hasn't been blown and you're not home yet and after this comes up after this comes up after this comes though well Donald II park or your brand or a branch which will you be I want to tell you if you don't know it we've been called to match an age that is the most solemn period in this world's history God thought enough of me and voted on me to be in this generation and I will not draw my coat about me and pass by on the other side cry little get excited a little give a little play a little reach a little and say may the Lord bless you go their way and go back to business as usual Wednesday night Sunday morning Sunday night no more no less that's enough for me Wednesday night Sunday morning Sunday night that's enough for me Wednesday morning Sunday morning Wednesday night Sunday morning Sunday night that's all I want of this that's enough and then you talk about perversion and you talk about sin and you talk about crime and you talk about age and you talk about pornography and you talk about sodomy on the increase and you talk about emotional illness and child abuse and uprisings and rebellion and violence and domestic unrest and unprovoked murder and many that we haven't reached are seeking the supernatural through the occult it's on the rise spiritism Black Sciences demon worship witches and across spirit rebellion on the increase the destiny of Earth's teeming millions is about to be decided our own well-being in our families and also the salvation of our cities and our churches and multitudes depend upon what we do at this meat don't put it on nobody else I would like to say it like this ladies and gentlemen what is your burning everyone here is a member in particular refused to be intimidated by anybody else the job doesn't belong on just the preachers it belongs on everybody everybody everybody former generations have looked forward to this time prophets longed to live in this our day angels desire to look into this Dara we fail when Lazarus is that our gate full of sores begging for crumbs nobody but dogs are licking his sores Dara we become a comfortable accepted bunch of Christians in our respectability without compassion while the world rushes headlong into hell complacent comfortable lukewarm indifferent lazy loveless Compassion's judgmental pharisaical Sunday morning Benchwarmers no burden no concern no love for souls no weeping no mourning no travailing no witnessing no power no motivation and looking at me out of the corner of your eyes no daily prayer schedule no Bible studies no teaching no reaching no saving no healing no training no long-suffering no patience give me Wednesday night just give me Sunday morning maybe or maybe Sunday night but daily say no they know I didn't hear enough of knows we might as well quit kidding ourselves we might as well look at the book of Acts again we're not a book of Acts Church living like I don't care how much you put on take off you're not a book of Acts Church if you don't have the supernatural and love for Souls I don't care that's not the New Testament new order Wednesday night Sunday morning and Sunday night Darlie consistently consistently consistently not tear these prayer rooms up here not say we're gonna lay all night so our rod will bud no and that's always but daily may become mundane but its daily in the temple and from house to house they want somebody ought to know said again then that means don't ever stop that means just do it every day like you did the day before that means do it tomorrow like you're doing it today that means don't get tired don't get weary don't give up don't throw in the towel daily daily daily this world needs a first century church in a 20th century world that's what we need this city right here needs a center of victory not a bunch of dead heads not a bunch of lifeless not a bunch of spineless not a bunch of back uppers not a bunch of rauner's not a bunch of soul it's so horrible to live this beauty of holiness it's so horrible to live this beauty of holiness this city needs a center of victory the alcoholic will be here tonight the dope addicts will be here tonight the dope addict will be here Sunday night the prostitute will be here Sunday night this is going to be a center of victory whatever we have to say Christianity was made for the road not the sanctuary Christianity was made for the highways and the byways and the hedges Christianity was made to run Christianity was made to go we might as well admit it we simply do not believe all men without Jesus Christ 9 go to hell we need to stop there and just hang it up there we don't believe it you say yes I do our actions say otherwise some have lost their cutting edge they've quit talking soul-winning they've quit preaching evangelistic sermons they've quit preaching the eschatological doctrines death hail and the judgement and the Hereafter they've lost their saltiness their penetration their identity their witness their power their anointing their vision their burden there are brands sitting among us just all fruitless lifeless dry dead-stick they've come here too and you can become you can become salted has lost its savor or Saveur but the church I'm talking about say the church that was in the mind of God before the foundation of the world the one that Jesus Christ called my church my church he said the gates of Hell cannot prevail against it Peter you got the keys to it Peter you got the keys to it we must be doing something right because it is built upon the foundation of the prophets and the apostles with Jesus Christ Himself being the chief Cornerstone I will build my church have no fear lose all doubts my church is predicated on victory nothing can stop my church my church is conducting an aggressive positive successful mission my church will never stop until a door is opened in my church is as terrible as an army with banners my church is as powerful as the Sun when it goes forth my church is sovereign went on the move armed with my mighty weapons now listen say the word say the word forever Oh Lord it's settled no deviations no omissions no substitutions it's more sure testimony than a boss from heaven this word this word Nancy Higgins a pilot's wife from out at the base looked at those teaching her a Bible study saw the revelation that was revealed through this word and screamed out they have lied to me they've cheated me I will accept I will not refuse truth that has been gift to me in that words I've got the word and wherever it's taught and preached it will not return wherever it's preached somebody will believe it wherever there's a human being in all to go wherever they hear somebody will react so we've got his name that name that's above every name without that name nobody can be saved without that name nobody can be saved it's the only name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saying say the blood one drop blots out anything anybody's ever done said thought or will ever do just one drop say the blood the Bloods in the name and the name is in the blood I'll plead the blood say the spirit power of an endless life you have with prayer and fasting and praise and worship and preaching and witnessing undergirding all of that what more do you need why are you talking about why where what whatever if you have everything I've named what more do you need that's the total source get it on the road get it on the road get it in the highways get it in the byways that's the total source it's amazing what Michelangelo did with only three basic colors it's amazing what Einstein did with only ten digits it's amazing what Beethoven did with just seven notes it remains to be seen what we could do and should accomplish with the word the name the blood the spirit undergirded launched by prayer fasting continual praise worship preaching witnessing teaching God is helpless without a man we have not utilized its fullest potential yet God used one man with a job on of a mule to slay a thousand for Liston's he used a stripling of a youth with a slingshot one stone and killed a giant he used a man with an ox goad and killed 600 for Liston's he used one angel and 185,000 went to sleep he used one angel and he's gonna bind up Satan and catch him into a bottomless pit what are you waiting for God needs a man God needs a man God needs a human being but if my people which are called by my name that's the King James Version the Hebrew version says if my people over whom my name has been called their doctrinally arrived my people that are doctorally right but they have lost their first love all for my name's sake they've labored and they have not fainted they have proclaimed my doctrine but they need to humble themselves now and pray not preach about it not talk about it not read about it not say we need to do it but if my people that over whom my name has been called will humble themselves and say it again and seek my face seek my will seek my purpose seek my cause every day every day every day and turn and turn from their wicked selfish jealous envious critical spirit judgemental attitudes broken relationships unforgiving spirit your dr. Lee right but you got to turn loose of all of that to be that you got to turn loose of all of that you gotta turn from being slothful and indifferent prayer listen tearless compassionless ways repent for leaving Christ unfed repent for leaving in my house repent without any healing he has no hope without you then he said I will hear from heaven I will heal I will restore and a day if you will do that in a day I can make up for a thousand years and a thousand years will be as a day when you really do that shall be as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day if my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and repent of all events I'll make it ever better if you will it still hangs on us it's up to us if you will but turn from your wicked saw full jealous envious critical judgmental unforgiving talking about backbiting criticizing destroying walking over to get where you going using people fairly Liscomb repaired when the church seeks god the result is revival when the church seeks men the result is evangelism we need both seeking God and seeking men that's our job here seeking God and seeking men there's nothing else there's nothing God and seeking men every day every day every day every waking thought it must dominate everything I do go say whatever I see seek God and then go seek me you may feel that you don't need to repent but Daniel against whom is no recorded sin humbled himself took upon himself all the sins of the people when he prayed to God we have sinned and we have committed iniquity and we have done wickedly and we have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts and from that judgment we need to play as did Moses God's lawgiver and leader of Israel to whom God offered a promotion and he turned it down and prayed this prayer yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin and if not blocked me I pray thee out of that book which thou has greater pray as did the Apostle Paul I could wish myself accursed if I could but save my people if we could take one look inside the gates of Hell we would pray we would weep as did Paul as did Moses as did Daniel as did Jesus weep over Jerusalem what we ought to have done still awaits to be done what we think of ourselves it's not one important thing to it we need to be thinking of others others others we serve our own needs before we give to others we keep for ourselves the gifts of His graciousness we make that gospel that he offered to everybody limited to our own selves I must repent I must repent of being ugly I must repent of being short-fused I must repent of my ugly terrible slothful in different ways I must repent of not loving this word and reading it every day and studying it daily I need a structured study I need to hear him say again if you'll abide in me and I'll abide in you you can ask what you will if my word abides in you I need a fresh anointing to preach it and to teach it I knew that I need a new revelation of the mighty God in Christ don't ever come off of that don't you ever you believe not that he is you'll die in your sins that's the foundation you making food with a lot of other things don't you fool with the mighty guarding Christ and what his name is his name is Jesus that's the only saving name I don't care who you are how well you can do it how polished how clever how charismatic charisma how impressionable you are we need a new revelation of the kingdom and the kingdom principles we need to understand afresh and anew the power of the blood happen we need a new conviction of sin eternal death hell the judgments all of the eschatological doctrines and we need to preach it we need to commit ourselves to soul-winning wherever we see a man or a woman as far as we can else they will die and spend eternity in hell we need to be involved in some way every one of us in the Great Commission everywhere anywhere wherever and praying and praying sayin praying until God's Spirit spreads this country irresistible drawing millions to himself and I believe it'll happen I believe it can happen and I believe it will happen I don't want anybody to tell me that God doesn't want growth say God wants growth I want to slow down so you'll hear this say God wants growth and I'm a branch and you can't have growth without me I'm not putting it on a mighty preacher I'm not putting it on somebody over yonder I'm putting it on myself that's me I don't care how good your preaching depending on me me for whoever has to him shall be more given and he shall have abundance let me say it again I know I won't get through well whoever has to him shall more be given and he shall have abundance but whoever does not have even what he has Shelby taken from him now much no much required that doesn't sound like you must hold your fort and don't move no place else God loves the little number God died for the whole world that's five billion that's a bunch of them ain't nothing little about that and anybody has they'll get more and those that know it's going to get taken away from you everybody in here will become a brand or a branch truth will never change some things are not negotiable never have been never will be that settled this apostolic message Pentecostal experience speaking with tongues mighty God in Christ Jesus name message is not negotiable truth remains the same truth will never change don't tamper with it the blueprint don't fool with it it's been laid out before the foundation of the world you'll get washed into the Pacific Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico the Apostle Paul said though we the Apostles aren't even an angel from heaven preach any other let him be accursed now that's settled that's not negotiable that's not negotiable and he repeated it he said somebody will get hurt and hurt bad they fool with that but many of our criticizing judgmental attitudes and broken relationships has got to change that's got to change it's got to change and we've got to start believing that all men without Jesus Christ go to hell I want to ask are there any sinners anymore are there any more sinners out there I guess everybody is going to go and Beast it's so simple no it's just not that simple there are some sinners in this world or some people to be saying the Beatitudes has got to become our attitudes humility of Spirit we've got to be blessed to bless others so that a revival will sweep our churches now are we going to come here and congratulate ourselves upon the wrong acts which we do not commit and forget the greatest concern of the matter which is the heart of God and that's keeping people out of hell no you know that we are accountable for our failure to accomplish all that we should have done and could have done and we have been ordered to do and we haven't done it see under Pilate washing his hands it was not for something he had done but it was for something he might have done but he didn't do it he had the chance he didn't hurt nobody he didn't hit a lick he didn't drive a nail he is not washing his hands because he did something bad he's washing his hands because he had a chance to do something good and he didn't do it God said when I sinned how many of you believe you see two or three and 18 and 19 s out-of-date God said if I send a message and you fail to give it their blood while I quiet your hey would you be like the Pharisees days were more important than healings institutions had priority over pain tradition was more important than life more important than I've never died in your mortal soul and this one inside of every human being you ever look at the man with the withered hand he's got to wait for 24 hours we can't touch him yet and their defense allowed no exceptions they became the jury to decide what was lawful and what was not lawful but if me and go to hell I don't care but if me and go to hell I don't care if the world rushes headlong into hell I don't care Jesus shows this Presidium what was wrong with the conclusion in three sentences what man shall be among you that shall have just one sheep and if that sheep fall into a pit on the Sabbath day will he not lay hold on it and lift it out even if it be on Sunday he said yes he will he said yes he will the Sheep is too valuable to be lost and he said I got a question for you is not a man worth more than a sheep what ought to be done in the interests of every human being that bears the image of Almighty God he'll live with the angels in heaven or the demons in Hell Matthew Mark Luke and John record Jesus saying for what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul what and what shall a man give in exchange for soul he said don't leave a one of them in the ditch don't pass the one off and buy don't judge them until you I've tried to save them don't kick them when they are down don't destroy them if by any means you can save them be careful said the mother that her little girl had fallen beneath a mound of fallen dirt and they grabbed their shovels and began to dig for he said be careful how you dig for I don't want you to get her head I don't want you to get her face I don't want you to cut her ears off Jesus made it plain how he feels about people he said people are too valuable to be lost people are too valuable I'm not willing that just one should perish the price I have prayed paid and will pay I will reach for every one of them I will throw up every roadblock I will keep any person I came out of hail everybody is too precious and too valuable to go to hell he taught it with simple stories like a searching woman searching for a lost point uncovering digging past the dust and the rubbish ignoring the tarnish because the coin must be found the image of the king is on that coin he said there was a seeking Shepherd going into the heels after just one the burdens on the shepherd sure they get dirty sure they get torn by brambles hunted the wolves but it is a sheep and not a goat much less a jackal the Shepherd's welfare is tied to the salvation of his obligation the Shepherd is nothing without the Sheep a father loses his son he said in its the giant heartbreak the boy is wrong yes he's reduced to swine and swindlers he is a protocol but he's not a pig he was created for better things and there's a road back home don't put up roadblocks to obstruct his turnaround the image of the creator's on that boy heaven and earth will go to bat for that boy go find him now nothing's more important to you than that nothing must ever take precedence over that you must be out here rescuing ever immortal soul you can from hell there's a soul inside of every human being they matter they matter more than the whole wide world they don't belong in Hell they belong in the fold men traveling spend much to see the seven wonders of the world you passed by the greatest wonder of them all every day another human being and let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus the Lord and let the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ rule and reign in your actions do I care like you cared must I care like that if I care about him will I care about what matters to him if I say I love God and love not he loves he has disguised at my door he is hungry he's sleepy he's tired he's oppressed he's lonely he's needed he's helpless he shut in he's imprisoned he's sick he's disgusted he's homesick but you don't know the way home and as much as you've done it under one of the least of these my brethren you've done it unto me when I see all of this and understand this why God was manifested in the flesh not just a doctrine there's a reason why there even was a Bethlehem Gethsemane Calvary it's more than for you to make a living preaching about the Apostles in the early church has got to happen to me I've got to feel hail I've got to feel separation and misery then I've got to go do something about it every day every day I know a man in this room 46 years ago set his course I've lived with him 44 years I've never seen him go to bed or get out of bed that he didn't kneel beside it I've never seen him get out of it that he didn't kneel at least one minute maybe two or three and I will hear these words order my steps today and let me find that one closest to eternity and let me turn somebody toward you today I never heard him come to this book it for 37 years and this church will testify to that we're gonna love soldier and we're gonna spend everything we got will do anything to reach another soul I've got to do something about it do people really go to hell what kind of a person am I to let people go to hell where the worm dies not in the fire is not quenched where the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever where they're begging for water where they will never get out if I had a cure for cancer but I keep it to myself when I let people die I had a cure for leukemia aids when I keep it to myself when I let people die that would be criminal several years ago back in Washington the plane took off didn't get very high went down into the hot Potomac River a bystander dove into those icy waters rescued three people went back for the fourth when he went under himself something's got to grip you man something's got to grip you woman I saw a doctor in Cabrini Hospital was racing to a woman that had exploded her brain they couldn't get the resuscitating machine there to her quick enough I saw that doctor put his mouth to her for all the amount and breathe for her to that resuscitating machine got there I know a mother here in Alexandria but the Mangan preached her little charred boy's body seven years old they had to pin cuff her love her shove her into the car and drive off with her her boy was burning in that house last week a seven-year-old boy fell into this value over here they didn't know very wise but God let the Sun Shine on that kid and a woman a bystander drove in there you know much about getting out but rescued that boy and nobody would come but she finally got to where her head was just above the water but a man came and she threw him and she I'm not talking about a little human body I'm talking about that never dying immortal soul I'm not talking about an electric chair the gas chamber another scaffold they're just only grim reminders you just take another look you know what revelation said the smoke of their torment will ascend up forever and ever and they will have no rest day nor night and we sit here like a bunch of proud comfortable Christians you're playing religion and we might as well admit it we don't love so like you must open your mouth and speak the word in faith believing you must go forth terrible as an army with banners weeping prevailing saying Oh God surely there's yet another sheep laying over the legs that I must bide morons will be responsible for his loves condition follow hard after me yay pursue me diligently saith the Lord and I will lead you in the path everlasting we must do what we can while we can where we can with all that we can it won't disappear just because I ignore it or refuse to preach it Jesus boss preached three times more about Hell than he ever did heaven there'll be no release where he's talking about there will be no mitigation for good behavior where he's talking about and still your church has no organized prayer system and still you have no organized perennial concerted effort of reaching the lost still you have no structured Bible teaching still you're not saturating your people in the word nor your city with no bird on tears agony travailing no impacting of your own area your own will your own desire is taking over what we need to do is steal waiting action Lazarus is still at our gate full of sores preachers preach to us Calvary at this meeting preachers I'll never love souls enough until you take me to Calvary breach ours until I see Calvary in your life I won't love Souls like I ought to when Jesus said I came to seek and save that which was lost and you've never won a soul and you call yourself a Christian and you don't win souls or love souls you call yourself a Christian and you don't pray every day unceasingly all the time leave it overnight consider Lee like a clock set that never quits tickin and in the morning Jesus rising a great while before day he went out and departed into a solitary place and there prayed there stands the commentary on the lifestyle of Jesus who is called the Christ and you call yourself a Christian and you don't play gypsy says Smith said what a humbug you are what a walking frogged you are what a hypocrite you are posing as a preacher and don't play and don't try to win souls it's built for the road when the one who identifies himself who identified himself as the Christ rose up a great while before every day in which somewhere and prayed to meet the demands of the people something's got to happen to us there's no need playing around here there's no need just getting up here preaching little sermons and there's no need to go tell it until you go to God there's no need to go try to win nobody and try to put on a big show until you get a hold of the source there's no need to go you ain't got no fruit to go with you've lost your bread you've lost your water you've lost your salt you've lost your lie you've lost it all you got to go to the source you got to get something fresh you're gonna get something that don't smell and stink and the swamp I wish somebody could tell you I wish somebody'd scream it I wish somebody'd shouting you're not gonna go nowhere until you pray you're just an old stick you're just an old brand you're just an old lifeless careless no no no no they prayed all night many nights we're not talking about pray and hide we're not talking about Feeny read all their books I'm not talking about Edwards and pacing and moody and Spurgeon who above all else excelled in prayer and made prayer the most serious work of their most productive years I'm tall I'm not talking about other world changers turned continents nation the cities upside down we're talking about somebody somebody he didn't it won the classic book of Reese Houser Hollis visit Ravenhill to brother ad oceans I'm talking about Jesus Christ God Almighty manifested in the flesh say it had priority say prayer and sold had priority over his social life physical rest appetite his joy his popularity his unpopularity he wouldn't make great decisions until he'd prayed all night and you came here weary and tired forgive me folks I'm just trying to jar you please forgive me I'm just trying to jar you you don't know where to get a chance that won't be a preacher come to this pulpit that will tell you no more than this you better go to God and get the total soil he refused to go forth to teach and preach until his spent nights and friend he prayed say Jesus prayed 15 mentions of his prayer in the four Gospels he that saith he abideth in him said the beloved John all to himself also so to walk even as Jesus walked Smith said you called yourself a Christian and you don't pray in love Souls what a humbug you are what a hypocrite wanna walk in fraud every Jesus name believer by prayer praise is to is called to enforce the victory of Calvary he triumphed over all hell and every devil and he gave that power to you the benefits purchased at Cal brick is accredited to by account and prayer is more than asking it's a multi-faceted weapon it is supplication it is intercession it is praise it is worship it is Thanksgiving it is travail it is petition it is praying in an unknown tongue and everybody here needs to pray in an unknown tongue and speak mysteries in the spirit speak mysteries in the spirit you need to sing in the spirit you need to build up your most holy faith faith praying with all prayer say praying with all kinds with all kinds of Prayer the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous availeth much accomplishes much in response to our prayers our prayers are nothing prayer can't do anything it's until it reaches God and the effectual fervent prayer availeth much it turns god's power on it it releases it toward the individual of the circumstance about which I'm praying prayer works you worked it hard and it'll be easy you work it easy and you're gonna have it hard no bastion will ever fall without a battle but no battle will ever be lost if you'll effectively fervently bring his strength his might his unsurprising greatness his dynamic stuff here's all monies is released some outage too to respond to whatever I'm asking for I can pray and I can fast and this kind comes not only but my friend fasting it can touch the highest heaven or shake the lowest hell prayer can change anything it can start a revival that the devil inhale can't stop they do it they do it some man ought to stand up and shout it loudly prayerline locks the unlimited power of God for air can do anything God can do and whereas God can do anything prayer is omnipotent nothing laws beyond the reach of prayer but that that lies beyond the reach of God shalt do it Tara gained if that Williams man this made a billion dollar selling insurance and that's all he tells him and with sometimes with ugly words like he talked to his ballplayers and all he said was do it do it do it do it do it do it don't give me no excuses don't do it don't give me no excuse I can't I won't nor do it do it do it do it do it somebody oughta jump up and say do it do it do it do it we gotta help laying churches and praying preachers and they're not gonna pray and see you scout around all day you're gonna lead the way from the pulpit to the Pew between the porch and the altar churches and preachers preachers and churches don't call on them to do it and then you not example it don't tell me to do something and then you don't do it since 1950 there's been a chain of prayer and fasting here every quarter back when we had just 35 people one week every quarter we had it sometimes brother Meng and I doubled up many ships but since 19 and 17 there's been that that's never gone out in these churches and one our prayer anywhere now has been going on because we gotta have praying because prayer is an act of violence prayer links heavens power supply to this helplessness this wouldn't be sitting here with nobody's personality our ability to preach there's got to be something get ahold of the total source and I believe that God can do anything I'll believe it till I die cut my head off and my feet will wiggle for a long long time saying it will it will they I can't become say I can do it I can do it fearing on get out of here down I'm not frustrated no more I've got direction I know how to get the total Perle releases divine energy prayers snatches souls from Satan's claws ever soul it belongs to God when Zion travailed soul to rescue don't tell me you can't do it when Zion travailed she can do it brains are plucked sin of waters got to happen they do it men may spurn your appeals and reject your message and oppose your arguments and despise your person but they're helpless against your prayers you don't book a praying man you don't buck a praying man you better shut your mouth you better shut your mouth you better shut your mouth tight John the beloved but we've been got the book opened Daniel by prayer and the night vision the Kings secret was revealed to him and if I'm going to be effective something's got to coerce through my blood with a rising will to do it stimulation the violent will take you before the woman with the issue of blood the blind Bartimaeus the roof came up elijah got a double portion you gotta want it like that that'll make the difference in how you live seven days a week thirty days a month 365 days a year knew it knew it the best things won't yield on a so-so basis our business as usual you got to pursue them gold has to be dug gems have to be mined souls have to be salt and save players have to be prayed these hours have to be lived out you got to lay hold on something and deem it necessary so much that you covet it coveted honestly it's got to become an inner rage it's got to be your total fulfillment covet earnestly the best gifts now you may feel that all's been done that was necessary to be done but you come to this meeting you're going to get something extra I gotta get an extra gear and I'm going to get it at this meeting you ain't seen nothing out of me yet my best 10 years of God lets me live it just before me I'm like that old boy playing the piano that I saw many years ago and they gave him a standing ovation and he got up looked at him and smiled and sat down and tore that thing up and said buddy you ain't seen nothing yet as I'm coveting earnestly Claude Hudson fell in that church over there two months ago and screamed out I wanted you said I could have it and this church is gonna get it Linda Smith prayed all last week three hours to six hours every day for that man right there and hid her face in a corner and I said you're gonna get something because Thetas tennis sisters living today because of Linda Smith's players and a bunch of others nothing comes by modest efforts champions hero do not arrive with a so-so attitude look at the professional athletes politicians scientists administrators and business entrepreneurs fueled by passion to win for money for power for notoriety for raw achievement you've got to make things happen we will never save our families churches community cities world from a burning hell with a so-so attitude with a wins day night Sunday morning and Sunday night Oh once in a while prayer meeting Wednesday night Sunday morning Sunday night do you not survive or maybe in a weekend revival the people who change things move people do great things for God are fueled by a passion for souls and a consuming desire to save them that won't stop till it gets that's my girl that's my baby that that lines got to hold on that's my sheep that's in the mouth of that lion if they ain't nothing but a leg left I'm gonna get the leg and give it a decent barrel I'm goin after I'm gonna get that extra gear right here I'm gonna get it and daily I'm gonna live it watch out Alexander cuz I'm coveting earnestly a revival like I've never seen I'm coveting earnestly my family I'm coveting earnestly over enviable for this church and for this world it churned inside of Jacob he wanted the best it didn't belong to him it cost him but they got it they do it say the source is unlimited the whale never runs dry the rivers of living water spring up in my soul there are rivers flowing out of my innermost being the throne rules and I have access I'll come behind in no gift I'll come behind none of them out there over yonder anywhere I won't come behind them in no gift not who I am but who he is not what I got but what he can give me I wish somebody stand up and act like they wanted it sit down just one more minute sit down just one more minute how bad do you want this Senta water water water flood myself her body gusset rivers of living water somebody here is feeling this somebody's gonna get what they came from say my family is gonna be saved what have I got to live for another trip to New York what have I got to live for another trip to the Bahamas what have I got to live for our guys all other go the way of all the earth I'm gonna make my life count for eternity in four souls so help me God so help me God so help me God and I've got a lot of changing to do but this old girls gonna be working on her attitude her spirit her ugliness her all this you see on the outside that ain't nothing God looks on the heart and I'm a Jew which is one inwardly your church to have revival somebody's got to do it souls will be saved say if miracles happen it'll be more than just us preaching and we've got to hear the word but somebody's got to start changing and changing quick and they then shall be as a thousand years and a thousand years yesterday when we do and in so long in coming the scent of water the cutoff range was better water spilt upon the ground impossible situation is going to change in this meeting you seek your own yards gonna live again because we're coveting earnestly or this meeting wouldn't be going on its gonna make more than conquerors that we're gonna be fruitful branches we're gonna be like Joseph our branch is gonna climb over the wall and feed a starving hungry lost world if I can't do nothing but pray I'll reach them just as sure as I'm standing here my generation is gonna be reached I don't care what you say I don't care how you down talking God can devise a plan by which is vanished can be wrong yes boneyard is gonna breathe again I know we have the truth now if I had the strength to swing it I would scream there who will declare his generation now who's gonna stand and turn the tide who's gonna stand in the gap after this meeting who's gonna rise a great while before everyday and pray who will play all night now who will walk in witnessed even as he walks who will go out of their way to reach a Samaritan who'll go find the Hispanics who'll go find the Indians who go find them on the East Coast who'll go find them who will hear the Hispanics the black the white the yellow the rain say I will say I will I covet it earnestly I'll turn the time I got a rising will to win I'll do it I'll do it I'll do it Becki Mangan Warren born with cerebral palsy Lear has lived in a wheelchair for 37 years her mother was forced to become the breadwinner Becky as a teenager was placed in a nursing home lying there praying to die with no hope no future just waiting just an old Brian just an old stick but had a praying grandmother had a praying uncle had a praying grandfather and God Beck you lying there something came over her she got a scent of water and with a rising will to win said I'm getting out of this place I'm gonna find me some funds and I'm going to college and I'm gonna make something out of myself and they may have to feed me but wherever and she went to Detroit Michigan and enrolled in Wayne State University 30,000 students 1976 Becky graduated magna Laura with 2000 medical doctors graduating with her and with 2000 receiving their doctorate in education with great effort Becky gave the keynote address to 15,000 in attendance when she got through they gave her a standing ovation ovation for nearly fifteen minutes people bowed and wept after which the president the college walked over to the stage and place to kiss on her Fareed she responded looking up in his face and said by God's help I did it if there's anybody here that's been strapped to a proverbial wheelchair you've been lying in a rest home in a care center paralyzed handicapped somebody hurts you somebody nearly destroyed feeling alone abandoned forsaken confused and helpless I prophesied to you today the scent of water even if you be water spilt upon the ground God's got a plan devised to bring you back to him in full force again even if your church is a boneyard Ezekiel's boneyard was dry and very dry but the preaching of this book the naked truth water scent of water the old brain I can become I will become I will go home I will organize I will I won't let this ever leave me we will have revival I will save my family I will reach the lost I will do something that I can when you're playing a vision when you're playing at a dream when you pray say I will when your grace that God give me a plan I'm coming to the total source I'm not going to give up on anybody but those penises of water never brain can become a branch grabbed it in

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Published: Sun Apr 12 2015