An Altar in my Life - Vesta Mangun

[Applause] thank you for having me you're taking my time and i won't get through and pastor won't ever let me get up here again if i don't get through but i've come to bring you a message and they're just going to get to sit in on it tonight is all about you you are the generation upon whom the ends of this world have come give me your undivided attention you are the rich beneficiaries of a book of acts church in message and in mission with great jesus name apostolic leadership our lead pastor and his wife mickey mangan who for 40 years have poured out their lives the best years of their lives by precept and practice they have exampled the apostolic truth with love compassion mercy restoration long suffering and kindness and this past sunday's father's day message with a personal transparency with just one of the many you should never forget and the god called anointed men sovereignly linked to your glorious future pastor gentry mangan pastor andrew cox pastor ryan franklin pastor gary maxwell all preachers all teachers all examples of the word of god and prayer full of the holy ghost and faith with a shepherd's heart who know the culture of this great local church for 70 years the psalmist said it best in psalm 78 and 6 that the generation to come even the children that should be born may arise and declare to their children these mighty works and the things of god and as for me my window of opportunity is very short my twilight days unfinished business will be given to you in part tonight so think twice before you ever leave this wonderful church and this umbrella of 50 years of 24 7 unceasing prayer and 20 years before three 20 years before that every three months a week of 24 7 prayer all in three hour prayer shifts people driving into this city have said miles out we felt the presence of god we felt chills go over our body one man watching a service online drove from north louisiana desiring the gift of the holy ghost heard us online drove onto these beautiful holy grounds saturated by 24 7 unceasing prayer he received the holy ghost in his car didn't even get out of his car just turned around and went back home talking in tongues [Applause] that's only a snapshot that's just an introduction to what we will talk about tonight 45 minutes or an hour so i but i've condensed everything i'm going to do the best i can i will give you at least an abbreviated part of something so big and the best is yet to come just as i said give me your undivided attention and stay with me 31 years ago standing by my father's hospital bed in our little guest house at 10 prospect this holy man of god this prophet of god a man of incessant fervent prayer many hours a day refused to go to bed every night even at 99 years of age until he had prayed in the holy ghost breaking forth speaking in other tongues bringing in and establishing seven churches in east texas praying in our groceries our house rent our car payment our maintenance bills in the days of depression if the cow got down and couldn't get up during depression days milk and cornbread was our life he gathered his children around him with mumsy our mother we prayed till that cow got up she got up and we had milk a man mightily used of god with miracle supernatural wonders even raising a few to life again walking miles to preach this gospel standing there beside his bed seeing what i saw rolling up out of his innermost being coming forth out of his mouth in a vapor and left out through the walls of that room it ascended i was changed death could not seize him until that got out of him then i saw death seize him that temple that had been a temple of the holy ghost and a house of prayer and after all was settled and we had mumsy comfortably resting in bed the couch where i had been sleeping that night as this caretaker nara my baby sister had had the night before i fell down by that couch and the words began to flow out of my soul there's going to be an altar in my life [Music] every day [Music] sacrifice [Music] i'll gain new strength [Music] safely i will reach the other [Music] there's side be an altar in my life [Music] every morning a living sacrifice there's gonna be an altar in my life [Music] when time for me shall cease to be and face to face i see the one who [Music] praise him eternally for all the ties [Music] every morning a living sacrifice a living sacrifice there's gonna be an altar [Music] cry out to the lord like you can lift your voice go ahead go ahead ha-ha don't stop you don't have to stop oh let it get a hold of you young people let it get a hold of you yes so beautiful so beautiful this god-breathed book the bible god's eternal word written by about 40 writers covering a period of 1600 years it is a book with one message progressive constructive cumulative complete and perfect unity with one master mind it liveth and abideth forever prayer and this word will take you through anything and everything the great men and women of this bible this great book abraham moses daniel samuel elijah david peter paul james john esther anna hannah to name only a few not only said it or sung it but exampled it and said there's gonna be an altar in my life the one who said watch therefore and pray always in the days of his flesh walked with men by day hear me winning them discipling them to himself talk to god by night had an altar in his life that scripture will tell you when he got through teaching them in the synagogue they went home he went to mount he went to the mountain and prayed all night they were there early the next morning to get what he had to say and to receive the miracles and the signs and the wonders and to listen to him again in the temple the one who is the visible image of the invisible god the one in whom all the fullness of the godhead dwells he has it all if there are any more they don't have any power the one who is the living residence of the almighty the incarnate eternal spirit the one in whom eternity lives breathes has its being the one who is before him the alpha the omega the beginning and the end the firstborn and the created one of the whole universe who rose from the dead never to die again are you listening he has the keys he declared it he swung him he let us know he had he's got the key to everything you want he's got the keys to death he's got the keys to this virus he's got the keys to death hell and the grave he's got the keys to anything you need do you need anything you'll find her that the alts are connecting with him the one who holds all creation together in himself the one who has the power of glory and might the head authority and source of the church yes i love the church be there every time the doors are opened and some great saints texted me today out of the town they can't be here tonight they're faithful churchgoers they love the church the one through whom and for whom all things were created the one in whom all things find their meaning in reality the one who reconciled all things in heaven and in earth unto himself and you can talk to him any hour of the day or night about anything and everything he is a counselor i challenge you to try it he'll settle the matter for you he's the one who nailed to the bloody cross your sins your faults your failures your down your down sittings and uprisings every law every rule every regulation that would condemn a living soul he nailed it to the cross for you and for me yes pastor gentry i'll tell you again if i had to get up early every morning to be here and get baptized i'd get baptized in the name of the one who is every bit of this [Applause] he's the supreme in every realm and holds the first place in all things the one who is unmatched in human history the one who holds the title deed to this universe the only one in heaven and in earth who was found worthy to open the seventh sealed book that opens the book of revelation this glorious limitless amazing incredible incomparable mighty matchless infinite triumphant victorious wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of peace magnificent lord jesus christ in him dwelleth all the fullness of the god head bodily and listen and the fullness of his fullness have all we received did you hear that of his fullness have are we received to you god willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of his mystery among the gentiles guess what it is which is christ in you that's the mystery among all the gentiles is that jesus christ is inside of you you don't need much of nothing else the hope of glory is on the inside of you the hope don't be afraid of death don't be scared to go to heaven just know you've obeyed the apostolic truth and the apostolic truth he said to those who ask him what is your truth he said ask them that hurt me you're hearing from the apostles what they heard from him and he said i'll pray for you if we obey what they say i'm on his prayer list to you christ in you the hope of glory who in the days of his flesh had an altar in his life if he's in your life he's a praying spirit he's a praying spirit and i call myself a christian and i don't have an altar and i don't pray when the praying spirit is on the inside of me think again there's going to be an altar in my life i may have to situate myself just a little bit in a minute i don't know i'm pretty fired up and you want to know why you you have got to take hold of this these senior citizens won't always be here there's a man sitting there 40 years praying there are women and men over there that have prayed for years and still pray some come off they've got but you've got to get a hold of this after paul that pharisee of pharisees listen met jesus on the road to damascus we all need a damascus road experience read acts chapter 9 for the entire story he told it and retold it he loved his experience he told it to governors and kings had them shaking and under conviction and if you'll read acts 9 17-18 you will find that he was filled with the holy ghost you said it doesn't say he talks in tongues there then read his book first corinthians the 14th chapter and the 18th verse where he says i thank my god i speak in tongues more than you all when do you think he started i should think when he was born again he was baptized in the name of the lord for confirmation read acts 19 1-6 that's the incredible captivating compelling experience that caused this former pharisee of pharisees who had it all he had fame privilege status intelligence with a razor sharp mind could be making millions in new york today if he were alive he had power he said i've got an unparalleled pedigree that nobody among me can match i'm a pharisee of pharisee listen to what he says in the book of philippians he's in jail written near the end of his latter life he leaves us these unbelievable words but what things were gained to me i had it all those things i counted lost for christ i considered them but dumb that's cal not refused i counted them as nothing i considered them as nothing when i found this and got a hold of this i got a hold of it and it got a hold of me what the world could offer me take it all because there's going to be an altar in my life and i can settle anything at the altar whatever goes wrong in this church if i could get enough praying with me that really prayed we'd pull down any stronghold that would try to stop anything oh yes we could oh yes everybody in here clap your hands i want to see if you've got some hands [Applause] he slipped for the race died with a few handed down clothes he declared in every letter he wrote to every church in the new testament including timothy and titus he called him sons in the gospel he told them there's got to be an altar in your life he told that to every church in so many words so i plead with you tonight i'm looking at you i beg you and all the others that's never done it take hold of this tonight and look up and tell god i'm taking hold of this i'm not letting go of it i'm gonna get such a hold on you you're gonna lead me you're going to direct my life you're going to give me what i ask for according to your will there's going to be an altar in my life i wish you'd screamed out at me loudly just get worked up because i'm going to use you later you might as well work your mouth open your mouth like you're screaming at a horse or a cow say there's going to be an altar in my life [Applause] in this destiny determining hour you can change some things if you would you could oh yeah with the unstoppable pandemic seemingly snatching the lives of millions nobody has the answer countless thousands marching in our streets protesting up for laws for this and laws for them they're not going to fix it senseless violence terrorism mounting financial crisis and panic the forces of evil satanic death devil-possessed unimaginable powers of hell have been released on your generation and you think i'm here for fun tonight i'm not we must be i must be an interceding fervent radical prayer warrior with intercession with fasting and thanksgiving this assault from hell is about to become so devastating and so terrifying that we're going to need supernatural say that with me super super i'm talking about the supernatural power of god they don't have anything equal to it on planet earth it's not under heaven you'll get it at an altar human will and intelligence will be no match for it the demonic manifestations we are facing that are quickly escalating every day i don't believe there's a christian alive who can remain steadfast and confident in the days ahead without a fresh outpouring of the holy ghost identificational repentance just say that with me identificational come on say that that's not hard to say identificational said out loud repentance yourself get real with you lay it all out there go to an altar and lay it all out there i'm looking at you you're no doubt going to be the leaders of the next great awakening there's a great spiritual awakening why don't you shout tonight i wanted to start with me i wish you would i wish it would stop with that group right there [Applause] the first great spiritual awakening i've got to i've got to move swiftly i know that but i'm not going to let you go till i get through with this i may never get to get up here again [Applause] it was a period in our history when in 1735 to 1745 10 years revival spread throughout the colonies and people were drawn to prayer and a great spiritual awakening you ought to get every one of those and read it it was a young man by the name of jonathan edwards this time who preached his famed sermon centers in the hands of an angry god this was not an uplifting sermon like we here today bless your little heart so sorry you're going through what you're going through and we're going to stay here and we're going to bless no this was sinners in the hands of an angry god and he dangled them over hell they grabbed onto posts and columns and held on proverbially like they were falling into hell prophetic utterances were heard oh and and on new year's eve 1739 john wesley and george whitefield and some of their friends had a prayer meeting which became a watch night of prayer to see the new urian at about three o'clock in the morning wesley wrote the power of god came so mightily upon us in so much that many cried for exceeding joy and many fell to the ground with an unusual experience of prophetic prophetic utterances flowing out of them this great awakening helped spread a revival a prayer revival that the united colonies at that time numerous preachers were called forth built altars and places of worship revival swept the colonies people became united in prayer declaring there's going to be an altar in my life in my home and in my place of worship the second great awakening don't miss any of this i asked pastor i started to bring him out here judy can tell you i asked him if i could use some of his notes in this second great spiritual awakening he had a stack this high now listen to me and in that stack i have picked out a few things because in that second great awakening it spread throughout this world i'm expecting this group and groups like you i'm expecting something to happen in the poa i'm expecting it to happen in this church i'm expecting something to happen i am brother cox you're as great as leaders we've ever had he's waiting for people like us he's waiting for every church in this district to have a prayer revival that will break out in a spiritual awakening come on folks and get with me [Applause] evan roberts another a 25 year old unknown welch coal miner pastor's notes became so spiritually hungry for god and revival for 13 years he prayed for the spirit of god to fall upon him don't get discouraged it don't happen the next day he was at church every time those doors were open he had a prayer closet he was in every day after that the spirit began to use this young man in intercessory prayer which helped to bring the great revival that shook all of wales and then went around the world although he was studying in school he spent from three to eight hours daily in prayer and let nothing interfere with that it started in wales but in wales but before it was finished it went around the world and finally hit a miracle a great awakening took place in this country drunkenness profanity nudity crime every kind of moral impurity until one was not safe to even walk the streets at night the church was largely ignored it wasn't important anymore the few believers who were there were distraught and discouraged in 1901 the people of wales heard and began to pray by 1902 there were 2 000 prayer groups in wales and it only had a population of one million five hundred thousand people now there was in that day many imminently qualified ministers who could have led that revival the famous g campbell morgan f b myers and the famous songwriter and preacher gypsy smith but god looked over them passed them by didn't choose any of them the holy ghost fell on a 25 year old named boy named evan roberts say one man just one of you just one of you you can choose who it's going to be or you remain as you are but you'll still need an altar in your life if you're not going to wake up and help us bring the greatest revival that we've ever had worked in a coal mine when he was age 12 and worked 12 hours a day there while evan's young peers would consume their breaks with swearing and smoking and drinking and cursing he would be studying his bible and praying and preached his first sermon in the basement of his church i won't go into that uh and and 12 12 people followed him there and all of them responded when he preached his four-point sermon within weeks every church building in wales was packed with standing room only with hundreds of people waiting to get in the nation was shaken electrified by the presence of god i'm talking about a spiritual move of god a spiritual awakening in one month there were 34 000 people that claimed to be born again the revival they said was like a cyclone listen to all of this this is not a believe it or not church history this is real church history the new york times said it emptied saloons it emptied dance halls it emptied theaters it filled the church night after night with praying multitudes the policemen were idle and most of them got saved and they formed policemen quartets and they went to the churches and provided the music oh my god wouldn't you love to see a revival like that in america there were no trials because the courtrooms even had to be shut down the character of the entire community the new york writer said was transformed in one day street ministry services let me read to you from the methodist recorder it called it a moral revolution the family altar was resurrected bible study became a passion they they they closed by saying this is the finger of god colleges closed down and they marched to the meetings singing songs of praise to god and people left their homes and followed them to church the revival not only held great appeal for the youth but children were so taken up with the things of god that like this virtual daily vacation bible school we're going to have and everybody ought to get their kids on that you ought to get them in everything you can because we're in a horrible day in america these children would hold meetings themselves in homes and in barnyards they would sing and preach and pray with great power their heroes were ministers their role models were preachers a men's prayer brigade was formed prayer work was fierce the working of prayer was passionate and mighty for example in one town the men formed what they called a get out of bed brigade get out of bed brigade prayer warriors they would pray until the middle of the night even until the early hours of the morning praying wake up sinners wake up sinners we're speaking to god and we're speaking into your mind wake up sinners sinners would wake up wondering what happened and get out and go to walking and walk right down to the church and get baptized and get born again [Applause] defendants were saved while they were in court this is awesome one account was a court proceeding which was interrupted by a loud shout of praise the guard rushed quickly to restore order in the court to find the defendant had been taken by his own convictions of wrongdoing others began to join him the two attorneys to pray with him to get saved the jury joined in the guard ran to the fi the guard ran to find them all on their knees repenting with this felon and the newspaper reported said concerning burlington iowa a typical city in the midwest that even every store factory and all closed and allowed their employees to attend the revival and the prayer meeting in denver colorado i'm rushing now in denver colorado the mayor declared a day of prayer by 10 am every church in denver was full by 10 30 a.m every store closed 12 000 attended the prayer meeting along downtown in theaters and in halls every school was closed the colorado legislature was closed the revival kept moving west until it got to portland oregon and 240 department stores signed an agreement to close every day from 11 a.m to 2 p.m to permit everybody to attend the prayer meeting the rich and the poor knelt side by side every color every race ever creed as the wheels of the commerce cease to turn mankind took care of heaven's bidding throngs began to walk in the street and march and celebrate the coming and the move of god as many as 200 000 would meet in open heart open-air services that'll work in los angeles right now that'll work in new york right now that'll work in washington d.c right now does anybody here want that to work in their life it'll work say that'll work [Applause] i don't even really know i know you wanted to hear but i don't even really know how you've sat there as still as you have when something has got to grip us like it's never gripped us i know we are praying i thank god like pastor says there's nothing but this group of young people right here you've got to get a hold of this that there's got to be an altar in your life and say this i want to be a part of that great spiritual awakening reese howell judy is ordering some more books they've been in the bookstore for years was a humble missionary who established the bible college of wales in 1924 some 20 years after evans roberts another wave during the years leading up to world war ii listen he led his students to pray for the defeat of dictators like adolf hitler and benito benito mussolini you know what happened to them they also prayed fervently for allied forces during the battle of britain and dunkirk and d-day before his death 1950 70 years ago when we came to alexandria he became a model of what prayer can accomplish like daniel ezekiel ezra and elijah he believed god could use one person's fervent faith-filled persistent prayer to change history and like the apostle paul he taught we must engage in intense travailing agonizing prayer in spiritual warfare against invisible demonic forces he taught that any person government or international situation that hindered the spread of the gospel or a mighty in gathering of souls in revival should be challenged and defeated through intercessory prayer he said we will not let dark spiritual powers conspire to stop the next great spiritual awakening look at me young people and those all over this house it's in your hands i don't know whether you've even heard with a desire or not but i pray one of you has because it's in your hands you can do with it what you want you can be ordinary you don't have to be a little coal miner pass over all the big shots the know-it-all the educated ones started this revival then reese howe picked up 20 years later somebody's going to pick this up somebody's going to pick this up god's gonna fall on somebody here tonight god's gonna fall on somebody here tonight if i were sitting out there you know what i'd be doing you know what i'd be saying i wanted to be me i wanted to be me why why i'd holler again i want it to be me if you don't want it to be me don't ask for it it'll come but if there's anybody here and i'm about to close it's only 802. i thought did i do good [Applause] i mean with time with time the next great spiritual awakening is in the hands of you say ask big don't ask little say expect big things ask for big things in your life he's not a little god he's a big god and he is insulted when you think that all he can do is heal a headache he can do anything combine fasting with prayer team up you young men do a night watch together team up and do a three-hour prayer shift girls together intercede with groanings unorderable unknown tongues to man and to devils some man was going to be smart and take what somebody was talking in tongues and take it to a lindquist i guess or somebody and find out if it were a language you can't find out something that's unknown to man there's an unknown tongue there's an utterance that's unspeakable that comes right out of god you won't ever find out you can't mess us up pastor you can't mess us up pastor jim no you can't mess us up [Applause] this is solid this is real this is heaven back heaven back intercede with warnings you've been matched keep standing you've been matched in this dreadful hour listen to what i'm closing with prophecy fulfilling times you're in it you're in a dispensational change did you hear me no you've got to hear me you're in a situation where to seize meat meat you're in troubled waters you can come out of it god matched you with this hour he'll match you with the power to match this hour if you few orders [Applause] your victory means victory for millions of people in the midst of dark crises in the valley of decision or millions pour out on us now right now a spirit of supplication if you have arms he loves to have them lifted to him he loves to hear coming out of you utterances of crying out he wants you to do that now he wants you to be a part of what he's about to do let the holy ghost begin to intercede through you with you for you for others with groanings too deep the next great move is yours let it start here tonight don't stop here for the next go ahead

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Published: Wed Jun 24 2020