Bitten But Believing - Josh Carson

[Music] Acts chapter 28 that's where I'm turning your attention in a week we say sometimes we want to move of God and I understand and we do we want to move with God but really the move of God where we draw that from and the opening of Scripture in Genesis when the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters really what it was doing there was a move of God that was preparing and activating the creative principles of God to bring life when the Word of God came forth and when we get in an atmosphere like this where there is a what we would recognize or maybe call a move of God's Spirit but really it is doing is it is preparing the surface area for the creative principles of God to be released through his word when God says let there be light there will be lied and when God begins to separate light from dark and he begins to call ground together and then he begins to place seed into the ground that received yielding we need we need the Word of God to help us and encourage us and strengthen us verses three through five of the twenty eighth chapter I honored every one of you for being here tonight certainly honor this incredible staff pastor Harvey the will Monson incredible worship leading in all this team media everyone everyone thank you for your kindness to me beautiful hotel gift baskets Tim Tams are there God's favor yeah when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid him on the fire there came a Viper everybody say a Viper yeah uh-huh there came a Viper out of the heat and fastened on his hand oh when the Barbarian saw the venomous beast hang on his hand but it didn't just bite him it was hanging on his hand and latched on they said to themselves no doubt this man is a murderer whom though he hath escaped to see yet vengeance suffereth not to live but watch his reaction and I talked to some of the young adult leaders a little bit about reaction today watch Paul's reaction they just shook the Beast off into the fire and filmed no harm he shook the Beast off into the fire and felt no I would like to preach to you tonight I feel it's so strong that had I preached this here last night I'd probably print it again tonight Bittan but believing bitten but believing would you throw your hands towards heaven God honor this great people you've seen their response and worship I pray that you would help me to articulate with wisdom and clarity under the anointing and unction of the Holy Ghost what I have felt feel like it has echoed in my spirit all day long for this service tonight I pray that you would help me to preach under the anointing of the Holy Ghost your word cannot get any greater anointing but we desperately need your word and we need response to your word unshackle your people this night even emotionally that we might respond to you thank you for the great altar call last night but there are people with very specific needs here tonight whose response has the ability to dictate and determine their destiny I pray that you would help us in the mighty name of Jesus Christ that name which is above every other name it's the name by which we're saved it's the name we love it's the name we're baptized in it's the name that gives a strength we ask it in the mighty and the powerful and the magnificent in the Holy in the uncompelled name of Jesus Christ and let everybody say Amen praise God turn to your neighbor and smile so big they see every tooth you only gali and tell him I guess he's preaching about snake bites no I didn't tell you be seated but a lot of people sat down so you may be seated hey that's normal culture eyes so I'm gonna tell you and I understand that I'm in one of the deadliest places in the world for spiders and snakes and I'm going to let you in on a little secret right here and I'm not afraid to let you know in fact I feel secure enough in my manhood to let you know I hate snakes can I get a witness in the house anybody else hates snakes yeah it's not it's not that I don't like them it's not that I don't want to be around them I think the only good snake mm I feel the witness in the house yeah it's snake is a dead snake and for those of you that are animal rights activists put your rights onto something else whether they're poisonous or not I don't care if they're short or long I don't care if they're skinny or they're fat I don't care if they're black or brown I don't care if they're yellow polka dot or anything in between I eat snakes praise God if you hate snakes somebody shout amen hmm I knew there's a good good witness in here tonight I hate them you got to understand that one of my I have two extremely memorable circumstances that deal with snakes in my 36 years and probably the most grave brother Greg and I were talking about here today happened here in Australia because the first one was not with a very poisonous snake it was in my hometown of Illinois when I was just a lad if you please and and so it wasn't a big deal while it was terrifying to me at the time it was not a poisonous snake however the last time I was here four or five years ago I was here preaching the National camp and I had went for several days and not seeing what I thought would be abundant here in Australia and that is a wild kangaroo you might not know this but every person that comes from America wants to see a kangaroo and we have the silly notion that they just bounce around over here all over the place and and so I came expecting my kids were excited that I was going to see a kangaroo I desperately wanted to see a kangaroo and I had went all week without seeing a kangaroo in fact where the Downs had told me I bet at the National camp you're gonna see a kangaroo and so I I told him most of the way through that camp we had been several days through that camp and I told him you know the only thing I wish I had seen was it kangaroo and so Jono told me he said hey he said I think we can see kangaroos if we go out back at the camp and mine I was ready I said let's go it was time off we had an afternoon kind of break and we took off and we went down and now where we were at they're in the on the campground the the the grass is cut nice and short not even maybe an inch it's just really just beautiful manicured where we were and we came back to this old rusty gate and brother downs opened up that gate and when he opened the gate the grass was about this tall mm-hmm some of you thinking already don't do it so I did what any strong masculine man would do I let him go first yes I did and then I told you last night about the spider dance you know what the snake walk is right the snake walk is where you put your feet where their feet were because he already stepped there and he didn't get bit and so I did this right here I was walking I'd watch his foot come up and then I would step my foot where his was and the grass was up to about here and I I was do you know I was thinking snakes and spiders and lions and tigers and bears oh my and I was I was stepping where he was and so much in fact that I ran right into the back of him enesta he had stopped in his tracks and and he went like this like a guide and he kind of looked back over and Here I am like a little kid over his shoulder and stretched up across about ten feet up was this huge snake and so what did I do to which I did this I don't need to see a kangaroo that's the exact I turned her around right there right back out to the top they took me down to the market and I bought a kangaroo pelt from the market it's true story it's in my house right now I didn't see a kangaroo but I got a kangaroo skin you know why I hate snakes Hado don't want to be around them but the Downs told me on that trip he said oh if you get bit by a black snake I won't even try to get you to the hospital he said to me so what are you talking about he said I just FaceTime your wife so you can say goodbye I said put me on a plane and send me home he said and that's when I kind of got after him I said you do whatever it takes I said number one pray number two get me to a hospital do whatever you can do that MacGyver thing and cut on it and suck the stuff you know he's not the best looking guy but I even say giving him out the mouth if you have to but get help keep me keep me going I don't want to be around the snake poisonous snake non poisonous I don't want to be around a snake the events of Acts 28 go down in infamy because of a snake Bible says it was a Viper now there is an incredible rich amount of text that runs through these couple of chapters in acts when we're looking at the life of Paul but it goes down and infamy because of a viper Paul's life is so incredibly intriguing to me young people while we often talk about his beatings and his shipwrecks sometimes if we're not careful we forget the emotional abuse we forget the isolation that he endured for his decision to follow Jesus Christ some of you here tonight are isolated by family and friends because of your decision to follow Jesus Christ you're in good company with Paul there seems to be no more powerful catalyst for Paul to become a preacher himself than the fact that upon his own audible revelation from Jesus Christ the Lord does not allow the complete work to take place in his life but rather he leads Paul blinded to a preacher and it was there in his interaction with a preacher that the scales would fall from his eyes after he had been blinded on that road to Damascus Paul was arrested in Jerusalem he was sought for trial in Rome before Caesar and if you would read back a chapter in chapter 27 Paul had prophesied and he had spoken advance saying the voyage is going to be dangerous he he tried to reason with the Centurion but God taught me something years ago during a trial in my life when a certain situation had had taken place and I remember going to God in prayer and I asked them to him this question how is it that you could allow such carnal people to have a voice in this decision and God thundered that to me and said do you really think I cannot use carnal people to get my will accomplished there is no person there is no loud to call in your life that cannot work on your behalf if God is in it because there is situation after situation represented across this room tonight that could testify that what the devil meant for evil God has worked out for the good in chapter 27 verse 14 the great storm is called the URI Clyde on which we maybe would refer to as the nor'easter something out in the sea a great storm the storm was so bad that they let the sails down and they they just allowed the wind to blow the boat around and it would swell with great height and it would drop 30 and 40 feet at a time as the storm was moving the waves blown around in the Adriatic Sea for nearly two weeks without being able to see the Sun or the moon because of the driving rain and the pounding waves in verse 21 Paul does what any good preacher in this moment would do he says I told you so that's what he does not really in that same kind of English but he looked at them and said I told you this would happen isn't it amazing that sometimes as young people we have to come back and remember the words of leaders in our lives that spoke and it was a prophetic unction if you do this this will be the result and there is a subtle lie of the enemy that would tell us that we must experience it for ourselves but rather I would speak to you and tell you that when it comes to the scars you will have to wear if you are not careful because your desire to experience it for yourself you will end up having scars you never had but in PO's situation it was all a part of a God mission he said I told you that this was going to happen and then he says some of the greatest words in chapter 27 when he says but hearken unto me and listen be of good cheer because this night an angel of God stood by me and the angel in the middle of this storm in the middle of this driving rain in the middle of this overwhelming ocean an angel of the Lord stood by me and spoke to me and said no one is going to die but everyone is going to live oh I would tell you that the angel of the Lord knows exactly where you are regardless of how stormy the Seas of your life might feel at the current time God is not intimidated by the storms of your life but rather he is still be peace speaker and he is still the one that moves into any situation and brings comfort where there seems to be no comfort and peace that passes understanding the angel of the Lord had stood next to Paul and Paul said everyone everybody shout that everyone everyone is going to live verses 27 through 31 give the account of the midnight situation the Bible says that the men drew near to land a fathom being six feet they were twenty fathoms a hundred and twenty feet and fifteen fathoms ninety feet and they hit the panic mode and they start to let the lifeboats town and Paul said no it's gonna drag us down you got to cut the ropes and and so they cut the ropes on the lifeboat and and and Paul I just understand something all right here Paul had already been in a midnight situation not long before one of the most famous portions of Scripture in the Pentecost church is when Paul and Silas set in a jail cell in the midnight hour and they begin to sing praises unto God I want to ask this question has anybody here ever made it through a mid night before has anybody in this room ever experienced a midnight situation if you have but you're still in the church you ought to square your shoulders and stand up on your feet and remind the devil I'm still here even though I dealt with the prison I've dealt with the shackles of my mind I've dealt with the struggles of my family I dealt with the isolation of the ideologies that I had self-imposed Here I am I'm in the house of God on a Saturday night come on if the devil would have had his way you'd be a drunk on a barstool tonight you'd be a drug addict in a back alley tonight but here you are at the Pentecostals of Sydney remembering that I've been through a midnight before and I'm still [Applause] feel a little power in that right there I'm still here I wish some of you lift up your boy a B on a character for some of you but some of you would have an absolute breakthrough if you'd put your hair if you'd put your foot on the devil's head and simply say it out loud I'm still he come on the divorce would have destroyed you the loss of a loved one would have completed you [Applause] come on you've been through that midnight but here you are I would remind you it doesn't even have to be dark outside to be your midnight because some of you continue to fight depression in the middle of a sunny day but all you got to lose it's learn how to trust the word of God he said don't worry I got that word from the Lord Julius he would not allow the soldiers to kill the prisoners and so he comes up with a plan if you can swim how many heads do you think looked at Julius when he said how many can swim that's your plan but all the guys that could swim probably felt a little better than the guys who couldn't how many can swim what's our option he said if you swim I want you to jump out and start swimming toward the shore he said but if you can't I want you to grab a hold of a piece of wreckage from the ship the front of the ship had drug drug in and it had it had Dovie into the sand into the rock that was deep underground and they were still some fathoms from the shore they could see it in the distance but they were not there they were on their way to their destination but they had not yet reached it and Julia said even if you have to grab a hold of the piece of the wreckage you ought to grab a hold of it and kick your legs and head towards Shore [Applause] nobody cares how silly they look when desperation hits nobody cares about being judged because mama never took him down to the river and taught them how to swim in a desperate situation and I come with a word from God tonight that some of you are in a devastating situation and you need to grab a hold of the wreckage that is surrounding your life and called the devil the liar that he is and begin to kick your leg come on Paul the storm didn't kill you the beatings didn't kill you the abuse didn't kill you there's no way I'm gonna die right here with the shore in sight there's no way I'm gonna die right here this close to where I was come on I'm preaching to somebody right now you're closer to heaven than you've ever been you're closer to the promise of God and you've ever been before I know the marriage didn't work out the way you wanted it to young person and it wasn't your fault but you gotta grab ahold of some wreckage and just kick your feet and say I'm gonna make it let me tell you what nobody was concerned about in that moment nobody was concerned about the goods nobody was concerned about the silver nobody was concerned there's not one person that said I've got to jump over into the water so let me take this treasure chest when you have to jump out of the boat in a devastating situation some of us have to make a very clear decision right now are you holding on to stuff that's keeping you up or holding on to stuff that's taking you down I'm gonna say that again and preach to our young people right now it does matter what kind of movies you watch it does matter what kind of music you listen to i'ma preach to the parents - it does matter how we live and how we talk and how we act it's either dragging you down or keeping you up here's what I know keeps me up when I think about the goodness of the Lord and all that he's done the most valuable piece of wood that could ever keep you afloat is if you'd get a hold of the cross and let that old rugged cross keep you up out of this come on somebody in this room right now I refuse to die here I refuse to lose my ministry now I refuse to lose my hope talk about me if you want to I'm getting to the shore make fun of me if you want to but I'm gonna see I'm gonna make it you don't know how to swim I don't know how to swim but I know how to kick mouth [Applause] he should be seen and somehow they all make like a bunch of wet rocks pulling up onto the shore come drag it up onto the shore and the Bible says that Paul gathers a bundle of sticks to start a fire well he he actually the Bible says that the barbarians helped him they land here the island of Malta the people even the writing of Acts it's humorous it refers to them as barbarians the reason they're called barbarians is because they didn't look like them and they didn't speak their language but it's amazing to me that the barbarians were probably kinder to them than if the barbarians had washed up on their shore it should never be said about us that people in the world are more kind than we it should never be said about us that they're more willing to give than we are it should never be said about it we shouldn't be too quick to people barbarians when really all they are is waiting on a revelation and here they come the barbarians help and Paulo says that he's he's bringing they're starting a fire and Paul gathers up a bundle of sticks everybody said a bundle yeah he he he gathers he gathers up a bundle of sticks now I grew up cut plenty of wood spent a lot of time outdoors and so I know what it means to cut down wood and I also know what it means to carry lumber versus what it means to gather a bundle of sticks whenever we carry long pieces of wood two by fours two by sixes things like that you'll often carry them up under your arm like this or with your hand or but when you gather a bundle of sticks beside a campfire it's pretty much universal you go and just start gathering and bundling up and a lot of times you'll find a a bundle of sticks piled there to get and you just kind of scoop them up and you hold them like this here just carrying a bundle allow it to be painted on the canvas of your mind let your creativity just go a little wild young person and see here as Paul is carrying this bundle of sticks you know the part that disgusts me about this it's that when he laid them on the fire the Viper comes out the part that that just bothers me mentally about this is it means most likely he carried wood with the Viper coiled up in it his dark couldn't see let let's pause right here and let me ask you why do you think they started a fire what did we just say what happened to him they were what they were wet and cold so why'd they start a fire to get warm that's not spiritual it's practical it's what we talked about today now Paul could have went over there Paul is a pretty powerful guy he could have stood over there and said go let's fire fern from every and we'd all been like wow that's powerful but Paul had enough common sense to say hey I know how to start a fire some of us spend a lot of time praying for God to send an answer and God keeps looking back and said I already sent you you just won't do anything and so what does the imagine this with me he's carrying the sticks with the Viper coiled up inside well it would give me a reason to stop and tell you you better be very careful what you carry close to your heart isn't it amazing that when he drops the sticks on the fire here he comes come on brother Wiki Wikipedia help me out with this one why does the Viper come out of there because he feels the he feels the far I hear all the time people said say send the Holy Ghost and fire I would tell you the truth we don't really want the fire the fire is all about purging and purify when the Holy Ghost comes with fire stuff will be revealed I'm convinced it's the reason that some people don't ever want to have powerful church because when you have powerful red-hot church there will be ugly Vipers that reveal themselves it's a reason some might not want to clap right now but I'm telling you I want the kind of church that is so red-hot that the devil cannot feel comfortable in our services that the enemy of our soul does not feel like he can conveniently and subtly slither up and coil up into us it bothers me that Jesus stepped out and barely put his sandal foot onto the sandy sea source of the gadarenes and a lunatic bound with the Legion of demons comes running down and those before him and yet we can have services where the Holy Ghost is in the operation and there is obvious gifts of the Spirit but people can set by unaffected can I tell you this most of the time the devil is not even the problem most of the time we just need to gather up a little bit of wood and walk over walk over to the fire and say God if you're looking for somewhere to start a red-hot revival let it start with me let it start with my worship let it start with my praise let it let me have something that is able to be consumed come on some of y'all to get your dance back you ought to get your leap back you want to get your clap back and your shot you ought to put it on the fire when you put it on the fire it will reveal what's what wants to destroy you and so he puts it on the fire now the brother Karsan he put it on the fire and the Viper latched on to here's an I want to have you ever have really good church and then you think oh but I don't want the consequences of accepting oh I want the blessings just not the fight I want the crown just not the cross VIPRE latches onto his head everybody just kind of put your hand down oh this is gross but imagine a snake latch down latch down on your head that ain't he some of y'all had bad drinks latched on and just holding on I don't know how long it was but it was long enough for those people to sit back and look at each other man he he's escaped to see notice that that's what they said he didn't even die in the scene that God's gonna make sure he dies now he must be a murderer he's gonna die but Paul's response some of you would change your whole life if you just shake it off of you some of us would change our entire attitude if we would take what's been biting and attacking us and shake it off in the fire a little bit well brother person I'm not I'm not really emotional and I know what you're going after you want our emotions I want to tell you this right now yeah it's just cuz you're a deep thinker doesn't give anybody a license to be a shallow worshipper and if you really are under attack you're willing to do whatever it takes to get freedom I said you're willing to do whatever it takes I'd like to serve hell notice in the Pentecostals of Sydney on a Saturday night I know you've tried to latch on to you but we're shaking you off tonight because I might have been bitten I'm a believer from the top of my head to the soles of my feet and I believe that greater is He that's in me then he that's in the world come on I'm calling for somebody right now to shake it off in the fire there's enough Holy Ghost fire in this place to take care of whatever you're dealing with aah [Applause] why don't you clap your hands and give God the praise right now [Applause] [Music] mata revealed to us tonight the purpose of the Viper was only to expose God's favor upon Paul those guys wouldn't have known how bad to the bone Paul was without that Viper am I going through this trial so that your co-workers can get the Holy Ghost because they see the way everybody else reacts to this kind of problem they see the way everybody else reacts to this but you've reacted differently you still walk in with a smile you still look nice and you're putting together and when everybody else would be cursing and talking about going for a happy hour you're saying great is the Lord and greatly to be praised blessed be the name of the Lord and while everybody else has a roar you've got a holy roar coming out of you it's called shaking it off and young people I would tell you the devil knows your greatest place of strength Paul would be the one who would write the majority of the New Testament do you really think it's coincidence that when the enemy tried to destroy him that the Viper latched on to his hand it's not by any accident he would have loved to have shut the riding ministry of Paul down if he can he'll shut your ministry down but I Got News for you you determined that I said you determined that mother in this house I know I'm preaching to young people but mom you better hear me because I got such a strong draw towards this over and over mom you have the ability to decide whether the devil destroys your family or whether you shake that off in we need a good old-fashioned pleading the blood of Jesus Christ and shaking every demonic force off of our family and out of our lives and off of our young people come on young man come on young lady but come on mom and come on dad come on momma's of the church and men of God come on get your hand out there and shake it off your hand shake it off of your heart take it off of your mind get the Viper out of your eye and as soon as he shook it off into the fire and felt no harm the Bible says all of a sudden the Barbarian said maybe he's a gun because I told the young leaders today what'd I tell you now people are less concerned with what happens to you than they are concerned on how you react to what happens to you they are concerned about your reaction you've been through beatings you've been through shipwrecks you've been you have been abused you have been isolated you have been neglected you have survived another shipwreck you've come up onto the seashore with and like a drowned rat and now a viper you ever get it this ain't fair God feeling enough right but Paul would have never chose to go before Caesar and Paul would have never chose that boat and Paul would have never chose that shipwreck and Paul would have never chose that viper but if every one of those instances had not happened he could not have been divinely directed to an island where they desperately needed to know about the power of Jesus Christ here's what you can know about Paul Paul was full of the Holy Ghost he said I speak with tongues more than you all and I love Jesus I think some of those disciples took him for granted but I longed to be like Jesus I long to be close to him and Jesus spoke the very words that he that believeth shall be saved and he that believeth not shall be damned and there's going to be signs that follow them in my name they will cast out devils and they will speak with new tongues they will take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them watch this they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover once Paul stays instantaneously and miraculously strengthened all of a sudden they start bringing sick folks to him hey hey hey what is it about you well they said about you and they start bringing one after another people are getting healed and delivered and strengthened and the island is having a revival all because one man got snake bitten everybody in this room has been bitten I've never been bit by snake yes you have that old subtle serpent has slithered up next to you and he's put his fangs into you I don't know how he did it maybe it was a marriage gone wrong maybe it was a friend that talked about you maybe it was an abuse that you never or maybe it was some horrific thing in your past and you don't want anybody to know but if they could see and you could pull your spiritual sleeve up just a little bit they'd see those old marks in your arm where once upon a time the enemy latched on to you the whole purpose for Paul ever landing shipwrecked onto this island he's not made manifest until we find that there is upon the island a man by the name of Publius Publius was the it literally means the man of the public he was the leader of the island he was the great man of influence and when they heard about the miracles taking place at the hands of Paul they called for Paul and he walks into this palace of Publius it's here where public his father is laying sick nigh unto death and they told Publius there is a man there is a man who was bit by a Viper it was like a brown snake he should have been dead immediately he should have felt the effects of it but he shook it off into the fire and felt no harm and they've been bringing people to heal the one after another and diseases have been dried up and and sicknesses have gone away and you remember sister sue you remember her how she was on her deathbed I watched her playing with her children in the park today and and you remember Tim you remember how he was supposed to be gone I saw him out today running it's amazing Publius what's happening and they call for Paul and Paul walks into the house of the most influential man on the island and as he walks in Publius stands there because when you're in a devastating situation there's no room for ego left and here is Publius it didn't matter how much money he had it didn't matter how much influence he had he didn't need money he needed a miracle he didn't need prestige he needed power he didn't need something that he could provide he needed supernatural demonstration and as Paul walks into the house of Publius there lies his father dying on a bed and if you can now allow it to be played across the screen of your mind you've got a picture in the flickering candle light that's trying to warm and lighten that room as Paul stretches his hands forth over the hair over the head of Publius over the body of that dying man there they are glimmering in the candle light those fresh bite marks in his hands he shouldn't be here he should have been dead by now but after he lays those after he lays those freshly scarred hands across the body of Publius the Bible says that life comes back into that man and restores him back to his health was Paul bidden absolutely he was bidden have you been bitten absolutely I've been bitten absolutely five months ago the devil tried to destroy my life with a sickness he tried to put me into the hospital and take my life I might have been bitten but I am I don't care how bad your situation is if you're a believer I said if you're a believer I said if you're a believer I don't say it till you get it if you're a believer there's victory for you in this house you don't have to be a theology major you don't have to know every part of scripture all you gotta believe is God is able to do exceeding abundantly above what I could ask or even think I've been bitten but I'm a believer somebody ought to tie a knot in the devil's tail right now you ought to square your shoulder I wish some of you men would act as strong as you look right now and you just square your shoulders and you just tail stand up and stomp on hell a little bit and say I know you might bruise my heel but I'm a crush you are let's do something right now I'm not messing with culture but I want the men to stand stand men how many of you men like to play sports anything athletic or competitive out there I'd like to play it with any of you any of you that think you're bad to the bone I'd like to play with you I'd enjoy it we'd get out there and we get physical anybody here like to play footie yeah yeah anybody like to play basketball I play footie with you if you play basketball with me and we're gonna play something till I win we need righteous men in this hour when it comes to worship you should not always be the ladies leading the way we need godly righteous Apostolic men that say I am a believer in the power and the demonstration come on I'm calling some men to apostolic response right now when there is apostolic response there will be demonstration there's not a man in this room tonight that if somebody walked into your house and tried to get to your wife or tried to get to your kids or tried to get to your family there ain't a guy in here worth his own belt buckle that would sit there and say oh they're in the room I don't want to be interrupted and a guy in this room standing right now I don't care if you've never been in a fight in your life you'd be one of those guys that close your eyes and frozer and a guy in this room so why would we ever casually sit by when we are in the presence of them Almighty God and I'm not talking about physical lives at stake I'm talking about eternity on the line I'm talking about the difference between our kids going to heaven and our kids going to hell yes sir I am I'm serving notice on you you want to get some Holy Ghost boldness about you come on you ought to get a little how's the Apostolic anointing on you that says I'm gonna do as for me in my house as for me in my house we might have been bit Nomad I lost my job I might have went through it too I wish you would run and I wish somebody join you I wish you'd get your dance back I wish you'd get your apostolic Authority back we should be the man of God that you've been cold stay standing everybody else John I might have been bitten but I'm a bolita we sing a little song sometimes over in the States I don't know if you sing it here one of my friends makes fun of me because I really like it says you should have been there when I pray through church was all felt the Holy Ghost from the top of my head to the soul enough every now and then we got to remember how we felt when a film [Applause] everybody in this room needs a good old fresh baptism of the Holy Ghost where you're ready to fight hell with a water pistol where you're ready to take on the devil you're not getting my family you're not getting my home you're not getting my ministry yeah you bit me but I'm still here yeah you afflicted me but I'm still here yeah you tried to destroy me and I might have been bitten but I'm a believer if you're a believer I want you to throw your hands towards heaven I'm done anymore yeah Hannibal coast [Music] ah whoo come on you feel an unction to step out of your Pew I wish some of you got bit in the leg you just gonna have to drag it with you I'm still here I'm still in the race I'm still in the race I'm still in the race I'm not stopping he didn't kill me with the fall he didn't destroy me when the family broke up he didn't destroy me when I lost the job he didn't destroy me when we got into the fight he didn't destroy me with my father died he didn't destroy me when we lost the church he didn't destroy me he tried to destroy my mind but I'm still in my right mind come on we need a Holy Ghost Thunder in this room [Music] if you're here and you can identify that your family has suffered a bite your family has suffered a bite there's what I used to do real quick throw your hands towards heaven and I want everybody to repeat after me dear God search my heart if there be any pride if there being the ego take it from me now I need to respond to the preached Word of God [Music] if your hands God you know the call I'm about to make [Music] in just a moment your transparency might make the difference for your eternity if you know that your family here me now if you know that your family has suffered a bite you know the attack you know what you've dealt with you're still here but you feel the effects of it I want you to come as quickly as you can to this holter as quickly as you can stretch all the way across in front of the baptismal there's supposed to be a mass of people come right there press all the way into the front [Music] when you walk to the front of this building [Music] [Music] haha [Music] the spiritual restoration that God is trying to do in this moment is magnificent [Music] for some of you he is trying to convince you that the poison got in but it did it you felt cast down but you are not destroyed you feel persecuted but you are not offended come on would you pour out your heart before the Lord and would you allow the restoring power of the Holy Ghost [Music]

Channel: POSydney

Views: 2,960

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: faith, youth, trial, Paul, UPCI, Youth President, Pentecostal, Church, Conference, Jesus, Preaching

Id: kpjp3Bhyd3o

Length: 54min 44sec (3284 seconds)

Published: Sun May 06 2018