Ben Fitzgerald - Green Room: Episode 03

and I have some deer sticks in the refrigerator just live no so can we start again no no we're in it Ben Fitzgerald hello come on buddy welcome to the green room your green room how about mine it's irises it's irises Green was thriving I love it it's beautiful I saw you pour some water in there before yeah hopefully it'll live welcome in thanks thanks for coming it's a joy to be I really really really appreciate you coming in and I love what God is doing in your life I have been following you in your ministry from afar for years yeah curly out of a jealousy factor yeah because if you like going around the world and people be like hey how are you doing well I like I'm doing great they're like hey have you heard of this Ben Fitzgerald guy was like no no no I mean this is years this is ten years ago yeah everybody was talking about what God was doing and we had never met until recently yeah and as soon as I met you man I fell in love with your heart I fell in love with your passion thank you and you're the real deal man you too well I don't know about that yeah I do it's a joy when we met in Sydney I remember that happens was so powerful it was yeah it was God did so much man I I love watching Minister especially in deliverance yeah I found it so refreshing because I've had this with a few guys over the years that you hear about what God's doing and this person in that person you never meet and then you get to get around and really oh my god they're their passion they're passionate for the same things that I'm passionate for and it's like God's speaking the same things across the board but oh my god the favor that is on your life right now and the hand of the Lord yeah and I think and I think this this call that's on your life to really bring forgive me because I haven't thought this through so I'm making no but honestly like what you carry is I feel like what's on your life is is a is correcting a pendulum swing that I think the spirit-filled movement went so towards self self self you know get my gift my my this and you've actually brought it back to a Christ brought it back to amongst our movement of of souls yeah of miracles signs and wonders unto the washing by the and man and I love that on you man because because you could see as soon as as soon as you started shouting that from the rooftops yeah God should give I'll give you nations he's been really merciful to me for sure yeah yeah so so I know I'm just gonna assume that a lot of people know who you are I'm gonna assume that that they know you're from Australia yes praise God it's not from you know I on the first take I told him it's good to have a real New Zealand er yeah and I said I'll make that plan shrivel up and die abusive idiom I'm just yes so what's going on what's new we right now are really in a big season of vision and we're feeling that God wants to save more European people so you know what we do with awaken Europe we basically in the continent of Europe many friends of ours are there too and we're working together and we're really laying down our egos and logos just for the sake of the gospel saying like God how do we work together from people with all denominations all kinds of not walks of faith but the same faith but walks of the way they express it I guess yeah and we're saying Jesus would you help us come together to save millions of people in Europe so we're working right now for a big event called Awakening 2020 the callback where we're calling back all believers from around the world who have European heritage and whenever I travel and I find out like I did this at Bethel yesterday I said who here has a European heritage it was like 90% of the crowd you know and so maybe someone's great-grandma was the first Christian in the family but what we know about Europe right now is that that was the main mission sending field of the world for hundreds of year and now that place that sent so many people out you know even the crosses are that love flags they're you know people I say to people I go what's great about switz Switzerland I go I'm not sure but the cross is a big plus you know because it's a sorry the flag so the flag the flags a big plus because it is it's a cross you know in Norway Sweden Finland all these nations they they were founded on judeo-christian princess and now they're going far away from that so we're in a place where we need God to come into the continent of Europe like never before so we're calling back people from the world to come and preach the gospel there next year in 2020 and I really feel that the Lord's giving the body of Christ 2020 Eurovision you know coming like go to Europe go to your roots and go invade that territory where the gospel was sent from possitive are you talking like a missions called lay oh yeah yeah like a reverse missions called reverse missions yes the call back the call yeah yeah I finally get it yes yes so we're doing this thing yeah so we're doing that next year we do like an 8 day event where we do 20 cities at one time major cities you know like Paris and Berlin and and London in Ireland different places at one time so we ask you we say come back to the Netherlands first we start there you know that was one of the major places of sending shipping as well as missionaries and that kind of stuff and so we're saying come back to the Netherlands we do a big stadium event there we throw out the net we preach the gospel every night we show people how easy it is to live free of the fear man in Europe you don't have to fear people's opinion to help rise up the European church and then from there we say go back to your heritage nations yeah now that's extremely inspiring for people who are from countries where the biggest church like for example in Thessaloniki Greece where we read it every day Thessalonians you know the biggest Pentecostal church there is 350 people you know the biggest I mean the absolute biggest yeah that might be even stretching a little bit so when you have 350 people in one church and that's like a massive church in Thessaloniki Greece and then a couple of thousand people come or hundred people come who have Greek heritage and they say we're here to preach the gospel with you yeah we want to help you stir up your church's stir up your people save souls in Greece I think that's gonna have a tremendous effect by the hand of the Lord on people to really give back hope to European churches that Jesus wants their cities he wants their continent come on yes that's what I'm up to at the moment and the fruit I just hear that you guys are filling stadiums I mean I've seen pictures I've seen video clips but you guys are you guys are seen it this isn't like a pipe dream mm-hmm this isn't a something that you're hoping to see like this I mean you're seeing on a constant basis yeah we did a pre-registration already for next year and 104 nations registered like that within days my god so I was like serious I was like well this next year is gonna be a unique a week you know eight days that we think that we can probably reach about half a million people with the gospel yeah should be fun come on in Ben just so you guys know like is even as he was walking in here he was preaching to a dude out on the out on the sidewalk yeah everywhere I've been we you the little bit of time that we've gotten to spend you know outside of the church outside the pulpit yeah it's hard to go anywhere with you because you preach takes a little longer usually yeah I love it man I really love it it's so beautiful to see because you see a lot of people one way on the pulpit yeah and then outside you see him a completely different way yeah how did you move from because like so I you know I grew up in the itinerary we were similar same age I'm 37 I'm 37 perfect wait come on what what do you I do this thing I put a toe it's fries anyway 37 July okay so I'm March all right so you get older than me yeah yeah you're welcome yeah so how do you move from like getting touched in the in in revival well to packing out stadiums like what's that journey look like well I made a commitment to the Lord a covenant with God that I would actually preach the gospel every day and so when I made that commitment I just stuck to that commitment so my commitment was simple I said God I will just like it for the rest of my days help me to always tell people about Jesus every single day of my life and uh and and he's been gracious enough to help me keep that commitment I can't say that some boastful think is Paul said woe is me if I don't do it right right I made a commitment with God and I was like you better give me the grace to do this so I started just doing that faithfully for years and years and then the Lord one day transition that from one on one to two bigger amounts of people for me though a stadium isn't what I don't focus on that although when I walk in there sometimes I feel the gift of faith come on mean I love it I love being in football games that big stadiums and thinking God should be the one that we're magnifying here it should be with you know everyone's shouting in a little ball going across a field how much more to Jesus right you know so I feel raw faith in those places but for me a stadium just a shell you know then you go down smallish Church is another shell then you your bedroom you prec loss it's another shell it's just a piece of material that is a bigger place for us together for the sake of the Lord so and and I want to do that I want to see millions of people gather for the Lord's sake but most importantly that these people bring the unsaved that they have a call in their heart we're here to preach the gospel I don't just want to sing Kumbaya in a stadium you know where people to really come who don't know God so it transition that way for me of just being faithful I guess and then the Lord decided that you know okay he's been faithful in these little things and yeah I'll give him more so that was basically how I feel happen come on yeah so everybody like throughout the years my first trip to Europe as a minister was gosh I was in Manchester UK I'm going there right as I'm getting ready to go yeah everybody goes it's the hardest place most difficult and and I actually found the exact opposite this is my first trip there yeah I found it to be the one the most open still to this day yeah some of the greatest miracles and 15 years later I I just bumped into a guy rivers and robots if you ever heard of that they were worship team that's a cool name for a worship I know a robot soul I think he was at that meeting 15 years ago well I see the fruit right but most people they go Europe it's hard it's difficult like what has been your experience in Europe while I've been to the hottest city in the world 50 times you know everywhere every time I get a claim they're like did you know this is the hardest city in the world I'm like I knew it AFET eclis could discern it yeah you're gonna say which graph they'd like I are assembled here yeah yeah sure and you know the thing is there are more difficult places I can't disregard that comment entirely but what I do know you know because people have been there laboring in the field you know how it is we were like you're in a place where you're just pressing in and and you're not getting the breakthrough you maybe thought you would but I think that's why God sends us people from the outside sometimes because I don't see things the same way and I just encourage people I'm like when I go to places I'm like God wants to save people here he's the same as using Asia in Africa or America he's the same God and if he can you know like we've got a bit of a testimony now the last five years we can say look we packed a stadium 27,000 people showed up and that's unheard of there and so yeah and so and thousands were saved and so we have a bit of a history now where we can point to that but I tell people all the time I say is the voice you're listening to in your city is that the voice of the Lord are you coming under a cultural norm right because I find that culture is in some ways dictating the church way more than it should be yeah you know we should be way above that stuff above the Lyell of what Eric preached yesterday being like above the clouds above that and Candice mentioned it to being above the fact that there's storms on the earth there's cultural mindsets here that we should be thinking from heaven like what can God do and we know through history that all the times where Jesus showed up with major moves of God it was it was tumultuous yeah you know God put Jesus in the Roman occupied Empire and and and he and the same thing with a Welsh revival this is just a nation of I don't mean this politely but there were a lot of drunks they had like it was a nation of drunkards yeah there were there are hard laborers and they drank like fish and they had big issues man beating their wives and then God raised up heaven Roberts but he never you never seen his writings like oh this is gonna be so hard he never talks that way he just talks about can God do this surely God can hear us he talks in a way of faith and I think we need to do that and so for the European Church even for American Church or even maybe somewhere in Africa where you're like nothing's breaking open you've just got to understand like you we can't be determined by what people say is possible right or what people say has been here for 50 years right you've got to be determined by the history books of how God has done things right and you've got to follow that pattern and that's what I'm trying to do so so how like how do you actually you know wake up in the morning go okay we're gonna see stupid like it what's on my long there has to be a strategy right mmm and what do you guys what are you guys doing to implement a lot why but you like that yeah it's a evergreen well you're not sponsored but we love the greener and coffee evergreen so if you're watching yeah awesome this is that yeah this is one of those what do they call it eco-friendly a podcast idiot um how do I wake up into those things like what how does somebody go from ministry new church to to actually get packing same like what is the work that is involved in that for me I have visions so I have like visions in my spirit like a Michael mind's eye vision you know my mind sees things in and and I feel pulled towards certain places and it's really cool because I don't think without for me I lay all my life down will on one thing and I'm not really surrendered fully to Jesus yet I have a long way to go but I'll lay my life down on this one thing that he speaks to me and if he can if he keeps speaking to me and I keep listening I find that um that I'm okay you know he graciously puts me through the next phase and so I will go to a country and I'll just feel something I'll just I'll just sense something in my spirit like the country's desolate yeah you know they need Jesus wants to wake this nation up or I'll feel hopelessness over the people that's what I felt over Austria when we went to Austria and this last awakening we did it was like about 14 weeks ago it was our most successful we measure success not by how many numbers are in stadium yeah but by how many people were saved out of the numbers and the percentage of unsaved that come to the stadium that's how we measure it yeah and so we had the highest percentage of unbelievers in there come on and because of that we had the highest percentage of salvations we've ever had in an event and including that we had the the Chancellor of the nation there the president you know the nation on the stage with us praying for him and he just got reelected yesterday like we had nine days where we're on the front page of the news TV it was God was talked about all over the country but previous to that we'd been going there for over a year and and you could feel hopelessness everywhere and when I felt it I was like I felt this this finding me and I could feel the voice of the Lord you know you I want to rise these people up I want to help them believe again that people can be saved in the nation and many churches have seen one or two people a year coming to the Lord for 20 years yeah yeah you know it's crazy and that's not good no and it's not God's will and so I know that but they need to be reminded of that and so I follow the voice of the Lord and if I don't feel his voice is speaking and there's no significant you know word from the Lord I don't move really Wow and that's frustrating to a lot of the people that work with me sometimes because they're like we could just try this and I probably need to lean more on that side nowadays because you know just letting people just go for it but I'm very much a person did God say that right you know and so that's just how we've done things and I'm a little rookie in this so it's even feels weird to be interviewed on this like I've been doing it for five years so well all of us have been like Miller leave you don't say like anybody that's actually doing something yeah like honestly right now anybody in the world that's doing something yeah I shouldn't say most of the people uh-huh they're doing this for their first time like I'm friends with Dominic Russo you know Dom office sure right like watching his journey to One Nation one day yeah he's like I have no idea what I mean yeah sure when when he when he first did his first one nation one day I think was in Honduras really yeah they flew down they had 7,000 dollars in the bank you know well when they flew down yeah they needed 7 million like nobody knows what they're doing but that's what I love about it yeah and there's these I I mean I'm I'm not doing anything like that as for as far as stadiums go or gatherings but you see these ones that the hand of the Lord is on yourself being one of them and the favor and the vision and how he provides how he opens up doors it's amazing it's amazing just sit back and watch and hear the testimonies everywhere I go I was just in Tasmania yeah I did a like a week and a half and tests but some people probably know where that is that's Australia oh yeah honestly like it was so powerful yeah and everywhere I went yeah they were talking about awake in Australia like everywhere I went there said something was sparked in a wake in Australia and in even when I was in Tasmania it was though some of the largest gatherings Wow they've had in Tasmania for spirit like any sort of spirit filled anything Wow I think they I was told it was the largest it's a man but but it was the fruit it's all it's not amazing that it's the fruit from your ministry like it's the fruit from what you're doing in this hunger that that that's being released in the nations man and yeah I was with oh is it Kathryn Hren yeah really right now I love her yeah all she did was just go what's on Ben's life and I love watching I love watching amazing men of God just run after him with everything that they have and to hear the stories it's such a blessing like these are the stories we're gonna be telling our kids I i sat with our team Shaun's Shaun's off-camera and at our last mass yeah he's a good man yeah don't let it go to your head though Sean and he in and I said listen we're in the middle of it like we might not see it right now but the decisions that we're making now that outreach is you know we're about to open up in Brazil and they're like these decisions we're making now are gonna be told in by history you know like yeah we're gonna look back yeah I know God spoke to them and do this and this and you're just in the middle of that man that's and I love it like history will be written about your the faith that you're running with right now well that's amazing you said it because the Lord just told me the exact same thing on the plane like two days ago come on said the decisions you're making now are going to mark your future the your decades it's not just like this one choice is gonna mark you for a week he said the decisions you're making now Ben and it was actually kind of in a stone fathering way yeah it wasn't just saying it like as in make great decision you know right the history books he was sort of saying like hey you don't be wise I used to sit with Randy and I was fathered by Randy yes I know well you were up here in in rags to watch you guys come down and I was like man these guys are powerful by the way well he would never say this about himself but he's one of the most anointed men I know and and I love the meetings when he is a what you are a wild Holy Roller you're a Holy Ghost you're an old-school Pentecostal in there will ya you are full of God I remember that meeting in Australia it was mayhem in all the right ways you know I love I don't know which camera to look at but having all the right ways and he's an amazing man of God so thank you yeah but we used to sit there with Randy and he would tell us the stories of John Wimber and and I remember sitting there and heard the stories of Bill and yeah I remember sitting there and just going the like I wonder would have been like to be there and that's that the Lord spoke to me he said very similar what he said on the plane you it's just those people will tell the stories of the decisions that you're making yeah and in that there is a holy fear yeah right I don't want to mess this thing up not that we can but he uses donkeys right so yeah and he's using the decisions that we make so how do you how do you find growing in leadership here 37 I'm 37 I found that this season's been like the biggest leadership season and as you stepped into a major role of leadership how do you find how do you find that pressure no pressure like what well I used to people used to say to me they're like you know I want to be in the secret place I just want to be hidden in a hidden season you know so God can deal with things in me and now I tell people I'm like you have way more stuff come up in you the five minutes after you're favored by God and put it in a public place then you will yeah any hidden season like I feel like I've grown way more in the last five years in just God just brought stuff up I'm like that's pride there you know that's insecurity there yeah that's immaturity there and he's just pruned a lot off me in that way and and you know I think some people are trying to live like an insta famous kind of Christian life yeah and and I saw that in myself too at times I'm like I wanted to be recognized for something at first not I was really innocent in the vision and innocent in what God would say to me and then when attention came to it I saw this little bit of pride coming in like that's gross you know get that off me and and so it's a great journey of stepping into leadership and I think what God does in that is when he puts the light on you a little bit and puts favor on your knees hands with you you know it's actually to help other people that are going to go in a similar direction yeah to help them to see a leader who points people to Jesus and that's what I want to be I want to be someone who points people to the Lord not to myself and I don't mind if they say hey good job whatever I'm like yeah thanks but I know who the bouquets belong to yeah and I know where it all came from it's all grace and and so but yeah it's it's definitely been something where I've seen a lot of immature things that were buried inside the realm of I just have a secret life with God and just tell the one person on the street and you know there's ambition and stuff that comes up in us that's not wrong it's good to dreams fantastic to dream as long as it doesn't become about our dreams great becomes about why did God make me because for me will I got a second life yeah you know oh yeah that I I hold my life very lightly like I got a second shot my life was a sinful mess a wretch depraved mess people don't like that they like talking like oh we're all you know we're nice people and God saved us some like no I was I know who I was yeah you know as addicted to prostitutes I had a very bad life before there was really retro bait against God and so rebellious against people you know my parents and stuff like that and my dad's suicide and all that stuff and so Jesus took me out of that and gave me another shot so this for me when I'm growing in leadership I'm realizing okay this is another level of this shot this is I think Jesus looks at us as he grows us and and joyful because the the the branch is growing how he wandered - yeah but I also think he takes it so carefully like a master you know like a caretaker of a fine plant he just takes it carefully and prunes off things and because he wants it to have its full potential and that's what I feel God has done in me in the last few years in growing in leadership he's cutting away things that I think you're hindering my potential to really be full of Jesus and full of his faith yeah and I think that's what happened in I personally think in Evan Roberts in in one of my heroes which is um you know the Salvation Army William Booth yeah they're my heroes like if I could be like anyone you know I'd probably even wear those epaulets and all things that were like I just I love the way they they were they saw two hundred and forty five thousand people in Europe saved in three years Wow you know and that's like just ginormous yeah that's like nearly three times the size of ratings population so um I I want to be like them but you can see in their writings you can see in the that they were so in love with Jesus and it wasn't a harsh thing of God pruning them it was they were so in love with God that they wanted to mature into examples of God yeah and that's what I feel like God is doing in me he's making me more of an example and I've also found and people will know this if they watch this as they're growing your little decision your little comment your little thing I used to go to get away with a lot more yeah I used to do a lot of pranks on people I used to do baptisms at 3:00 a.m. in the morning regularly I do at least probably four or five a year on friends I'd go into their house get the key and baptize them in the middle and I said you know in the Father Son the Holy Spirit just joking being silly you know but now I do a little joke with someone and they're crying I'm like what happened to me God and he's like well you're growing and they take seriously what you say like they do what I talk about it for a little bit more that's you just there's one big Sidwell a little bit I'm just you know like I I you know what I mean there I know exactly what you mean I know exactly what we shut off the first 10 minutes of this yeah yeah and not that we were doing wrong or anything we're just goofing around yeah but there is there is something as you mature and as you grow in leadership where I find the exact same thing like now when I say I could say the exact same thing five years ago huh somebody now and they will take it a completely different yes because of where I'm at yeah where God God has me yet but I don't want to lose that I feel like part of our personality oh I joke all the time like I'll grab Todd White's dreadlock and eat it and yeah like picture me doing that like I think we should have that that that joyful boisterous fun with one another but what I think I used to do is I used to push that boundary a lot and I used to just say whatever I thought you know I just say what I think like people would do something and I go that's stupid or you know I'd go that's no you're wrong like they'd say I believe this means this in the Bible I'm like no you're wrong it doesn't mean that and now I'm like I'm like okay okay that's interesting I say I'll show you what I think it means just I feel more pastoring I feel more caring and I recognize that now too much who's given much is required so there's a weight on things that I could joke about before or I could just say straightforwardly now if I say it I might have someone in tears over that so I'm learning to take my own decisions and not losing again I don't want anyone watching this to think oh we should become rigid no way man we should have a blah yeah we should have so much joy and fun and I do and I love rolling with the with the boys and with the brothers and just mucking around and joking in the green room and all that stuff you know in worship putting my hand in people's face I do that here at Bethel I put my hand right in here Tom krandalls face oh yeah Eric's face messed with them you know but that's fun that's that's that's genuine honest fun but sometimes I'll say things now that I would have said five years ago yeah and it just hurts people and I'm like God I don't know what happened he's like why put more authority on you so now it goes in deeper why you guys say stuff like this sorry it's just the truth always really good yeah like honestly that's that's fantastic well it's something I'm learning through mistakes yeah yeah that's that's brilliant I really appreciate you sharing that man yeah one of the one of the things that I loved meetin about I'm just gonna okay I just want to make sure that we have enough time yeah one of the things I appreciate the most in Dave Wagner he's by the way David come on just do a little quick shot over there Corey Leah look at that man look at that big beautiful man over there that's my big brother I paid honestly that's gold I got well there's too much gold in this studio Dave Wagner said something on his podcast that uh you know he wants to if he lives ever puts everything on the open the enemy has nothing to get him for well how long the doors are closed and I found the same thing is very true about your life at least when I've heard you preach tonight I mean I've been with you in the back rooms you're you're more you're as equally gracious and full of love on the pulpit some grounds to no I mean just a little I mean I'm not sitting here trying to flatter you like I don't need ya but like you are you really are and and and when I saw you speak for the first time you shared you shared a message that had me cringing in because I'm like I would never say that but I but I totally yeah would identify with exactly what like I'm too immature not to be as bold and as an is forthcoming as you are what I said you were talking about fear of men and when you get in rooms and pulpits and you want to do something in one yeah and I you're sharing I was like yeah I know that I've had that I do still have those things and you shared it so beautifully and and there's something on it Dave said it during his I try to live my life that way I really do know but but there's this honesty and openness that I think parallels the favor of God on people's life that either they they are who they are they're open and they bring people along in this journey because everybody's dealing with the same stuff everybody's dealing with letting their mouth run yeah and going I'm hurting people on the way husbands with their wives show dads with their children you know like friends like everybody deals with this stuff and as we share our struggles it invites people in the generations prior yeah they they have tried to kind of hide their hide their their struggle they didn't speak about as much huh right I think so I don't know I know this I'm not trying to make some deep point here but I love that about your life and I love that about your message and it's something that I value in people that are running with the Lord right now and yeah yeah well I think I personally think that we shouldn't compete with each other we should we should compete against the enemy you know like we should fight the enemy we have enough battles to fight in the spiritual world and and for people to be saved then fighting each other now does that mean we don't be truthful we don't call out things we don't be honest about hey we see this major issue ya know I actually believe that that's also default that people go to of not confronting stuff totally you know because they want favor because I want to be I want to be loved so much that I won't talk truthfully right out an issue right so I don't believe in you know never bring stuff that can bring conflict in relationship but what I do I think is completely wrong is competing with your brethren yeah competing with your sisters in Christ your brothers in Christ they have the platform they post this thing I'm gonna post this thing I pray all that stuff that I think is nonsense and I saw some of it in me you know it wasn't major but I saw like glimpses of that fear of man yeah wanting people's approval and and thinking that way like my process of thought was if I do this this and this or if I preach this way if I think about this statement and if I do that I wasn't thinking I can feed God's sheep yeah I was thinking this will really am like I wasn't saying that my thoughts yeah but the underlying tone of it was this will be impressive and and I didn't I don't that Jesus cares so much about that when you look at the Ephesus church in Revelation yeah he's not really impressed with all their works he's like you left the first love thing you know you need to just go back to that you need to be so in love with me yeah and so in love with who I am and and that's what I want to be and I want to be genuine for Jesus not leather not fake so you know I love that I love that verse do not neglect your first name yeah I think it is I preach it everywhere I go yeah I think it's one of the powerful messages right and your first love is when you first fall in love with him at a moment of radical salvation yeah like I don't know about you but I got saved a lot of garbage totally yeah yeah and I know yeah I know you did as well but yeah when he touched me I was unstoppable yeah it's right on say what anyone thinks you know anybody thinks you don't care what anybody does yeah I don't care I don't care what it costs I don't care how far away it is uh-huh I would drive hours man yeah like hours and II joyfully - yeah - like meetings of 20 people yeah exactly and they were all weird I would never go to those meetings it now yeah but like so much joy so much love so much encounters yeah I loved him in listen I know you have a very limited out of time I want to do I'm good I got about 15 20 minutes okay well I'm gonna pack it okay so a couple things number one tell us what you're up to and the way that I know you feel you're but what's the way that people can get in touch with you how can they connect with you on what you're doing yeah just awakening Europe Instagram or Facebook or website awakening you're calm that is the best way to get in touch with us so shoot me a DM as they say in Instagram and I may reply if people people write to me a lot like can you pray for my sickness right I usually do stop and pray but I just can't reply to everybody yeah I get that yeah but I do reply sometimes when it's like hey we want to connect with you and stuff so yeah but awaken Europe my team replies and yeah you can get in touch with us watch what we're doing in Europe it's also in Australia yeah um there's also some plans for us to do an awaking in America on the way raining - yeah there's been some people who have reached out to us and um I you know we're just putting it before the Lord and see if that's his will and our music now it's starting to come up a bit and so we're doing it to it here actually the American issue with our band is this with Daniel hey Daniel yeah I didn't know I did well I put it out there and be like no not Daniel yeah yeah he's amazing he's phenomenal man he and he has better dreadlocks than other minister other men I'll just follow their dreads are both amazing there he's about six foot seven but he's just such a giant in the Lord you know and he's a wild worshiper and so in love with God and just in a phenomenal man so we're going on tour of the u.s. and we just want to help you know break that fear of man off people come on and so we're doing that for what does that look like cuz I've done a couple of worship tours around the u.s. we just our little crew what does that look like for you guys bad food little sleepy hmm a lot of coffee are you like driving yeah we're gonna we're gonna fly and drive we can get both so we're gonna go to Jesus culture and do a whole like night thing there for like three and a half four hours and then we do one here in Bethel and then we go to potentially down to South Southern California then we go to Texas and then we finish at Jesus image with our friends - awesome awesome so yeah we do like a seven-day tour dude my first tour my wife and I did in the states where we do like we did 59 meetings in 70 days across America non-stop that's a long non-stop and that does not surprise me will it was some of the best ministry of my life oh yeah there's something there's something that happens when you build yeah like one night are totally and you're on fire by the time that thing ends you're just burning oh dude the last the last I just tell you what the last cuz you're gonna see you're gonna see so many amazing things on this tour man but the last night we're in Texas no like Louisiana there's no way to Florida so we just like peppered all over East coast/west like we just went everywhere yeah we're coming back we're ending it in Orlando for voice the Apostles last night after 59 meetings I finished praying for everybody in the church and teeny little church and I get to the stage and there's this teeny little girl sitting there worshiping just weeping and just a little asian girl and her hair was over her face and I said come here sweetie I'm grabbing my Bible walk out of the church and and she comes up and and I pray for her and her mom as I'm getting ready paper runs up and goes pray for a head pray for her head I put my in our head I feel crack crack crack pop I like take my hand off like that and I go oh my god what just happened and her mom pulls her hair back she had a deformed head I could oh goodness she was adopted had a soft soft spot never closed you know like here on the side I read she wear a helmet wasn't on and the Lord just totally totally made her her skull solid it was the last night the last person I was playing praying for yeah and and I just loved all there's a culmination of faith and yeah as you go throughout the night certainly know you've seen it your events yeah momentum builds helps build the faith for sure I was with um Pablo boat re no Freight Hobbit re I don't know who that is Oh like Claudia phrasing the Argentine revival yes yeah he said he said night 16 to 18 he goes that's when the strongman falls over a city he goes people do meetings just for a couple of days uh-huh they do enough just to reach heaven he goes but I want the strongmen to fall over a city not sixteen days dude I was like those any they would just go every single night well stop and until it would fall yeah well there's something about that house hardly listen people watching might want to start doing some extended meetings now yeah let's go after my there's something on it the Argentine revival yeah like it they packed stadiums totally their deliverance tents five thousand people is just with a Claudia phrasing in Brazil somebody's telling me the stories of yeah just the deliverance tents like thousands set free crazy you know the deliverance teams of you know a thousand I love that I love deliverance so Pelton you you carry it man and I watched you a you people were dropping man stuff was leaving yeah it was amazing I have one doctrine of deliverance better out than in so if if they're in there but let's get him out you know awesome yeah listen last last thing yeah if there's anybody watching it doesn't know the Lord Keyes you talk to him right now absolutely is there a camera I should look at yeah okay yeah if you don't know Jesus um just think hard you well after watching this you're either thinking one or two things like these guys are fruitcakes or are you thinking maybe there's something inside this maybe there's a reason I'm watching this and that's really true if you're watching this you're on God's calendar and we don't have perfect stories we have stories of brokenness imperfection many sins many mistakes but you know we have this amazing story of who met us in that place and it was Jesus he met us with His grace and he came and died for your sin on the cross 2000 years ago God when he thought about your life that would be right now in this day and age as you're watching this video he thought about what he could do for you how he could save you didn't think about how he could condemn you and let you stay in the Messier and he thought about how he could get you out and that's the kind of God we know and he loves you he knows you and your life was made with a purpose I highly encourage you just to open your heart to Jesus not religion not something people say it should be this way or that way I'm not doing this across your forehead that's not what we're saying we're saying there is a person of God who runs the universe who knows it's so intricately that he made your life and he sees you and he cares about you enough to die for your sin on the cross 2000 years ago and so if you want a relationship with Jesus if you know my heart's missing peace my heart's missing freedom I run in circles in my life I have so much emptiness in there if you want that relationship with God he can remove your sin like he did for will and I he can make you completely free and totally hole right there today all it takes is this just like when someone knocks at your door you open it just open your heart to Jesus and invite him to come in ask him to forgive your sin tell him I'm sorry for the way that I've lived my life and what my life has ended up with I want a new life Jesus I invite you to come and live inside of me if you do that right now if you pray that right there where you are the Lord's faithful he'll come to every person that prays that no matter where they are anytime it's no magic in the words he just wants you to open your heart and pray from your heart and invite him in if you've done that today or you do that today you'll become a brand new creation like we are and you'll be joyful that fear that anxiety that pressure that depression will leave your life and Jesus will make you set free and we just encourage you get in contact with us after you've done that because we'd love to help you just to give you some more steps along the way that can help you grow in the Lord but you know the first thing I did will is I started reading a little Bible a Gideon's Bible and I read that thing ours now is a day and just reading the New Testament and it just changed my whole life so yeah I encourage you guys to do the same yeah come on I did the exact same thing give my life gotten the word yeah and got in a small community yep there was four of us we'd meet every Wednesday beautiful and just pray for each other so and I'm alive and I'm here because of that amen Ben yeah you're amazing buddy I love you so you like I just texted you last minute you didn't need to do this you got a million things to do yeah thank you so much for just pause it's a joy swinging down here the iris loves you man I know a lady if she was here she would just be okay we love you man you are I you are just an inspiration thanks for what God's doing thanks to just people that love them thank you for coming in man oh it's a joy yeah thank you for watching this i restrain room podcast i just want to encourage all of you guys if this blesses you don't hang on to it like if you like if you enjoy this send it to a friend send it to somebody like subscribe to all the internet web things ordinary people are supposed to shoot god is amazing he had iris he's so faithful in iris yes he really is but I meant that can I say that you should donate to iris because they give so much to the gospel I don't know which camera to look I think it's that one but they give so much to the Lord he would never say this but I'm saying it and our ministry we support iris because they give it to the harvest and I've been there we were there you're there all the time I was there with Sean I've seen the work man so guys clicks share subscribe but if you also have a spare five euro or five bucks or whatever and you feel like you know what I love what these guys to donate and give put your money where your heart is come on well we started this podcast just to bless people yeah and let people have some fun and come on just see something behind the scenes maybe yeah yeah and in this this has been spectacular Ben thank you so much I love you man bless you we'll see you guys on the next green room thank you sorry for 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