EMIC is LIVE with Sunday Service! 5.16.21

[Music] [Music] good morning eagle mountain can we give god praise this morning and honor and glory and thanksgiving father we love you we thank you and we praise you for the gathering of the body of christ thank you lord for all that are here thank you for those that are watching us from the top of the world to the bottom all the way around the middle lord we come before you right now in the beginning of this week and we believe and we set forth the end from the beginning this will be the greatest week that we've ever experienced in our lives and lord we'll worship you today we'll magnify you we'll hear the word of god father i thank you that will worship you with our offerings and we receive the the presence of the holy spirit holy spirit you are welcome in this place and thank you for answers thank you for direction thank you lord that for everyone who is here and watching the holy spirit will minister to each one of us today and we will receive the direction and the answers that we're looking for father thank you for this time together and thank you for the love among us in jesus name and everyone said amen let's worship the lord together [Music] doors he parted the raging sea my god he holds the victory there's joy in this house come on there's joy in the house of the lord today [Music] is [Music] [Music] to the god who saves we sing to the god who always wakes away cause he hung upon that cross then he rose up from that grave my god [Music] today and we won't be quiet [Music] [Applause] [Music] we were the beggars and now we're royalty we were the prisoners and now we're running free we are forgiven accepted redeemed by his grace let the house of the lord sing praise come on sing it up [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's [Music] and we won't be quiet [Music] [Applause] [Music] our god is surely in this place we shall [Music] this morning [Music] is [Music] [Music] and it changes everything we sing with all we are when we claim your victory [Music] oh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] let it rise [Music] [Applause] [Music] is we praise you [Music] this is what living looks like what freedom feels like this is what heaven sounds like we praise you we praise you this is what living looks like this is what freedom feels like this is what heaven sounds like we praise you come on this [Music] praise is this is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] is praise you [Applause] i want to thank you all for coming into the house to the board this morning you all look very nice very pretty very beautiful but you know what jesus told the story in luke 15 of the prodigal son squandered his inheritance he came back to the father's house and guess what the father did for him he threw a huge party for him he celebrated this son that was dead and is alive again he celebrated his son that was lost and is found he was living in a pig pen now he's back in the father's house i've got news for you this morning you're in the father's house this morning you're back in the father's house this morning can anybody testify this morning that they used to be dead but they're alive in christ they used to be lost but now you're found you may have been in a pig pen yesterday but you are in the house of the father this morning and it is time to celebrate with somebody help me praise our father [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] we're gonna break [Music] [Applause] [Music] breakdown [Music] [Applause] [Music] forever [Music] we praise you [Music] thank you lord that we can praise you through everything in your house this morning you are the joy of our salvation you are the hope the lord is my light and salvation whom shall fear who shall be afraid the lord is my light in salvation whom shall i fear of whom we shall be afraid [Music] [Music] for you [Music] i'll wait for you [Music] the lord is my light in salvation who shall fear of whom shall be afraid the lord is [Music] i put [Music] how we'll remain confident i will see the goodness is [Music] [Music] shall [Music] [Music] yes [Music] is the goodness of the lord [Music] [Applause] is [Music] you know [Music] you are [Music] god [Music] oh who is [Music] who is the everlasting [Music] [Applause] me [Music] i will see the goodness of the lord [Music] [Music] god [Music] [Music] you're [Music] god [Music] [Music] too [Music] who is the everlasting [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are [Applause] just want to go just very simply to god you are so good we just start with that just just simply [Music] god [Music] i love him so love him oh the blood [Music] jesus [Music] oh father we thank you for your infinite goodness unlike human goodness that can come to an end your goodness is from everlasting to ever nest and your goodness extends to the heavens your goodness is so powerful that your kindness and your goodness will draw men out of the grip and bondage of hell and darkness your goodness draws men out of sin and despair your goodness draws and and woos the the darkest of hearts your goodness your goodness reaches to the sick the lowly the dying your goodness your goodness your goodness eliminates lack and struggle your goodness lives and lives and lists until we are seated with you high above your goodness is to each one and yet your goodness is to all your goodness is to each person and your goodness is to even the lowliest of creatures your goodness your goodness your goodness your goodness was manifest in the the life of jesus your goodness was manifest on a cross your goodness was manifest at the resurrection your goodness your goodness hallelujah hallelujah and we acknowledge and praise the wonders of your goodness towards us as a nation we thank you father that your goodness in your goodness you forgive in your goodness you cleanse in your goodness you help us as a nation your goodness lord is wooing this nation back to you your goodness is on the rise causing men's eyes to be open your goodness is is wooing people to the altar we thank you father we thank you for the outpouring of the holy spirit in this nation for the greatest awakening this world has ever seen your goodness we thank you lord for your goodness in this church we thank you that your goodness is on display your goodness in everything we do towards you your goodness to to heal your goodness to deliver your goodness to give us revelation of you your goodness to unify us your goodness to strengthen us your goodness that calls us your goodness that equips us as anointed ones hallelujah we thank you for it and we make way for your goodness in the name of jesus amen aren't you glad for his goodness hallelujah amen hallelujah thank the lord well you just look at somebody and say isn't he good you may be seated [Music] hallelujah thank you lord i'm so glad that you're here this morning how good it is to see you praise the lord how good it is how good it is well let me see the hand of those that it's your very first time on the mountain it's okay we all had a first time look right there oh we're so glad you look happy to be here you look just really happy to be here you are happy to be here where are you from florida well we're glad give her a hand so glad all the way from florida we have anybody else in the house that's from out of state today oh yeah where are you from washington state glory to god praise the lord where else where are you from new mexico glory to god yeah nebraska amen and where are you from colorado all right colorado okay i see a hand barely but so you have to shout really loud in the back illinois okay that's awesome who else okay [Applause] michigan michigan nearly a roll call of states here where else where else okay ohio glory to god somebody else over here another colorado praise god somebody i see a hand waving here yes where kentucky glory to god coming from kentucky anybody else that wants to yell their state out back in the back yeah next week we're all coming to your house okay where else i saw another hand i think back there no here do you know where you're from [Applause] where the navajo nation glory to god glory to god i love that i love that okay were there any more over here did i miss anyone that this reminds me of state night at oru praise the lord well we welcome all of you this morning we're so glad that you came it's wonderful to have you with us we invite you to fill out the card that's in the back of the seat in front of you the visitor's card now the first time you hear you're a visitor after that you're just family it's okay got that but if you'll fill that card out at the end of the service we have a reception for you and a gift waiting and it's in the fellowship room just to my right your left after service praise the lord we have something wonderful to give you and there'll be some staff there that just want to greet you and shake hands with you pray for you whatever you need boy we just love the opportunity to to bless you one more time before you leave we we like to do that i also want to recognize today those that help in our parking lot and all the greeters and the door greeters i want to say thank you what a wonderful i think it is we had a guest a friend of ours that came last week and it was his first time here during a church service and the first thing he said when he came to me he said my goodness he said i felt so loved he said they were waving at me when i came through the gate people stopped me to tell me they were glad i was here he said i don't know if i've ever been anywhere where everyone was so friendly and made me feel so welcome so good job everyone thank you for letting the love of god the anointing be on you as you greet people and give them the love of jesus now let's welcome everyone who's watching in every state of the union from the top of the world to the bottom and all the way around the middle would you welcome them please as we greet all of those watching victory outlets today praise god amen amen i wanted to give you a little update before we go any further we have a couple of updates today first one i just want to talk to you about our super kids junior super kids we talk about super kids we talk about 1440 and the bridge in our junior high 1440 middle school but praise the lord junior super kids are seeing such a wonderful move of god you can't start them too young you can't start them too young and so the other day one of the little girls fell i don't know if it was here before before she got to church but she had a double skinned knee oh man a double skinned knee so one of the one of them the little three-year-old said we should pray for her we should pray for her and i want you to see somebody snapped a picture of this send it to me and i want you to see this picture can we put it on the big screen can we it's hard to oh that's the close-up spencer i want to see the wide shot there we go all of them praying look at those knees can you see those knees look at that yup and look at this i love this guy that's given the camera the eye hair but look at them now you can do the close-up now you can do the close-up and i just that club i could see into the circle and i saw their hands pray and they were praying for him and praying for her to be healed and well but i saw such compassion and such love and that's what we like to see praise the lord so lord we thank you so much for your goodness from from our super babies to our super tots our junior super kids super kids and all the way up to and including you praise the lord praise the lord well i have an announcement about our re rre offering but i must save it till after our video announcements so please watch your screen at emic we believe it is important that we are continuously growing in our relationship with the lord as well as in relationships with one another our 10-week summer emic discipleship groups begin in two weeks after service stop in the lobby and find out more or go to emic.org groups [Music] experience kenneth copeland bible college beginning may 21st join us for our summer community education series special interest classes that are designed for you during these free one to two day seminars learn about a variety of unique topics taught by anointed teachers and instructors courses run may through august option for college credit is available for these special classes for more information and to register for free go to kcbiblecollege.org summer calling all men fishing day was rescheduled because of weather the new date for men's fishing day is saturday may 22nd on eagle mountain lake registration has been extended to may 17th so there's still time to register remember even if you're not a fisherman this will be a great time of fellowship with your brothers in christ visit emic.org to sign up by may 17th we'll see you on the lake you're invited to eagle mountain international church sunday june 6th at 10 a.m central as we welcome special guest milan le who do you believe and what do you believe because if you believe god he promised to supply all your needs according to this rich and glory by christ jesus come and learn how you can have a victorious life with covenant rights and privileges with mylan and christy lefevre sunday june 6 11 am 10 am central right here on the grounds of eagle mountain international church praise the lord do you all sense such a momentum that's happening these days so you know we received a special offering for our repair replace and expand as you know we had that horrible snowbit thing that came through and i told you that we were standing at the golden gate of opportunities what the lord spoke to us in the middle of all that the golden gate of opportunity and so we have had wonderful opportunities come up we had an opportunity to buy a third generator which really sets us up into the future for our power plant and so we seized the opportunity we have had uh all kinds of cubicle purchases and we needed to replace cubicles over it was probably around 300 350 cubicles or more across the campus maybe more along with the rebuilding reconstruction and redesign of some of our buildings that haven't been addressed in almost 40 years 35 years for some 40 for others and so we are moving forward with that the golden gate of opportunity and i want you to seize that same thing since the momentum that's coming so while we're not receiving a special offering today i wanted you to know where we are and i wanted to show it to you so let's show the graphic now this is where we started okay there we go and now that's where we were at 3.6 million and with the on our way to 6 million and then as of our last offering all right praise the lord show us how the new number is four and a half million dollars glory to god isn't that awesome you should get way more excited about that glory to god look what the lord has done through you look what the lord has done through you praise god this is your momentum this is momentum for you for you for you now i'm going to throw something out there i want you to be praying about how many if i ask you to pray you really will well some of you were honest and didn't raise your hand so i appreciate that at least but if i ask you to pray about something i want you to do this this morning i woke up with something very early early as i i was and honestly before i even was able to get out of bed and this thought came to me because of opportunities can you celebrate wildly at 6 million and press on to seven now i hear you shout and i hear you shout but i ask you to pray about it because we have to position ourselves in faith for that and not just we'd like to be at seven but liking to is not the same for believing that we will okay so i ask you to do that and you pray over that and the next time we come back with a special offering i wanna i wanna know and if you we have the confirmation of that the lord drops it in our heart then that'll be where we're headed but we will celebrate wildly no matter what at six amen amen all right offering well good morning it's offering time i am commander jennifer i'm the children's pastor here at eagle mountain international church and our kids are about to go to super kid academy camp in a couple of weeks come on parents and our theme is called extraordinary treasure and i want to implement that theme in today's offering message so as you can see i have a nice treasure chest up here and there's some common things that you think of of what is inside a treasure chest right things like can you guess gold right silver gold lots and lots of money another thing that you think of is joel's rubies diamonds right and the women said amen but jesus said something is more valuable and more precious connected to our treasure than gold and silver in jewels he tells us in matthew chapter 6 verse 21 for where your treasure is there your heart will be also the most valuable thing connected to any man's treasure is their heart in the heart it matters to god so much that he tells us in proverbs chapter 4 verse 23 to guard your heart above all else why for it determines the course of our life and everything that me and you say and do is a reflection of our heart and have you ever heard of that famous phrase home is where the heart is come on y'all it's a it's a good phrase it's a true phrase i have an awesome home here in fort worth that i enjoy going home to but i also have a second home you know what that is that's eagle mountain international church this is my house my heart is connected to this place and to this body and right now we are in the project called repair replace and what expand and the very first offering that my pastors took up me and my husband we got in it and we sowed into that offering a couple years ago they were building out kcbc and again we sewed me and my husband sewed a very large seed into that building over there why because our heart is in this place and i want to share my testimony with you this morning i've never done this publicly publicly and i want to do it today whenever me and my husband came in 2013 we came here and they were building out the student life center a place where kids would go where teenagers would go and whenever we heard about that project i believe back then it was called the joshua project and the spirit of god leaped on the inside of me and he said so into that building and we did but the testimony behind that seed is whenever me and my husband came to this church we were barren we are unable to have kids it took 12 long years say 12 years we were trying to have a baby and nothing was happening but within nine months say nine months nine months of coming to this house sowing seed into that building listening to the pastors my pastors their teaching listening about the blessing and the covenant rights from brother sister copeland within nine months i had a belly and i got pregnant and now i can stand up here today to testify to you that i have a six-year-old daughter walking through those hallways on a weekly basis hearing the word of god preached why church family because that's the power of a seed and whenever you put value on what god values when you put his kingdom first place god will see to it he is not a man that he should lie he will see to it that you will reap your greatest hearts desires ever and what was impossible with man will become possible with god hallelujah hallelujah so if you are ready to put your treasure into this house i want to give you an opportunity to do that this morning there's an envelope right in the pocket seat in front of you if you're sitting on the front row simply raise your hand and usher will come by and give you one you can make your checks payable to emic or if you're watching us online welcome you can go to emic.org give and we made it very simple you can also text to give you can text the number 3660 type in emic plus the dollar amount let's pray over this offering church god i just thank you first and foremost for putting us part of this body god of all the places in the world you set us at eagle mountain international church you set us at kenneth copeland ministries and we just give you glory for that sir and we take our treasure we take the things that we value and we put value on you this morning god and we thank you for see to so god we thank you for tithes to give god we thank you that you have been good just like pastor terry saying this morning you are good you are good you are good god and we thank you for your goodness overflowing to this congregation in jesus name amen amen ushers when you're ready please serve the people [Music] so [Music] you can't beat god given no matter how [Music] as you are the live [Music] he is he gives to you so keep on giving because it's really [Music] true [Music] god [Music] [Music] no matter how [Music] [Music] is the more he gives to you so keep on giving because it's really true [Music] no matter how you try you okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] as you are [Music] [Applause] [Music] because it's really true [Music] no matter how you try no matter how you try [Applause] no matter how you [Applause] hallelujah praise god come on give praise to the lord everybody [Music] let's declare our confession over our giving say this after me because we are tithers the windows of heaven are open the blessing is pouring out because we are sowers we are furnished in abundance for every good work [Applause] we receive our perfect assignments with raises and bonuses [Applause] contracts and benefits sales and commissions [Applause] we receive settlements estates inheritances interest and income rebates and returns checks in the mail supernatural wealth transfer scholarships tuitions paid in full bills paid off debts demolished royalties received and properties acquired we are getting our buildings our lands our houses our vehicles our equipment and our airplanes god is bringing into our hands see even some great big whopper chunks see we command our abundant harvest to come abundant harvest come to us now harvesting angels go get it bring it to us right now in jesus name now let's give god thanksgiving and praise for that hallelujah glory glory glory to the lord praise god well before you are seated we just celebrated armed forces day praise god give our military a great hand amen so grateful for them and we have somebody here in church with us today his parents have come to gone to this church for a long time and he grew up here a super kid and the super kid is now a lieutenant jeremy pierce lieutenant jeremy pierce would you please come up here give him a great hand everybody praise god jeremy just give them a little background of what you have just accomplished and what you've just done so i went to college at mississippi state university for four years hill state and so i just graduated last week and did a rotc program there for the four years and so for that four years it's pretty much just a huge interview and you go through something called basic training it's filled it's called field training but you go to maxwell air force base montgomery alabama and you spend a couple weeks there going through like a boot camp kind of phase and you come back and you get to teach the freshmen and sophomores what you've learned and so through that whole entire four-year process they kind of look at you and they kind of see if you are capable of being officer or not and so at that end of the four years of college you get a commission and so i just graduated a god commission congratulations congratulations praise god father we thank you for this man of god we thank you for his future and what you are going to be doing with them as a matter of fact tell them where you're going from from here oh i'll be going to pensacola florida it is the naval station there actually uh i have been selected to be a combat systems officer which is frankly simple i put it as the backseat driver of the airplane i'll be doing a lot of the navigation and communication between ground and air and so i'll be training there at the naval station praise god praise god so father we thank you for him and we thank you for his life dedicated to you and dedicated to this nation and the protection of this nation and we honor you for all of those in the armed forces and praise you today that they walk in a place of the anointing of god under your protection under your guidance and under your leadership lord we honor you for that in jesus name amen give lieutenant pierce a great hand again praise god praise god well go ahead and be seated this morning if you would it's good to see you it's good to be in church with you today and it's good to have all of you watching from around the world from the top to the bottom all the way around the middle and here we are coming to you from eagle mountain international church and it's good to be in church together it's really good to be in church together we were looking back at some pictures a few days ago of what it looked like a few months ago and there's a particular picture of brother copeland preaching in here one morning and the entire place was completely empty well then from here we moved on and we had our drive-in services anybody remember driving services then we came back in here and we social distance for a while and now excuse me and now we're back to our one service and the place is jam-packed full praise god praise god it is so good to be back in church again are you ready for the word of god all right let's pray father in jesus name i thank you for all that you're doing amongst us and all that you're doing in our nation and in the nations there's a great outpouring that's taking place and lord as we approach next sunday pentecost sunday we're just reminded of the spirit-filled life that we live the believer's advantage that you've given to us to be able to see into the spirit realm and experience you on earth in a way that is is is a place of just overcoming being blessed beyond measure and lord we press into this life we press into the goodness the word of god says be being filled with the spirit so today even as we are in this service the spirit of god upon us within us around us lord we praise you for the victory that we walk in and i thank you father for the anointing upon this message and that you're speaking to your people yes answers will come direction will come you're showing us your path for our lives in jesus name we pray everyone said amen open your bibles to the second chapter of acts the second chapter of acts i'm going to pick up on something that we were talking about last week the lord just led me to to just continue on in the stream that we were in last time but again we are approaching the day of pentecost and it says here in acts chapter 2 and verse 1 and when the day of pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place and suddenly say suddenly suddenly there was a sound from heaven of a rushing mighty wind the amplified bible says a violent tempest blast and it filled the house where they were sitting and there appeared under them cloven tongues like as a fire and it sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy ghost filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance how powerful a time that was and how powerful a time it is that we walk in that same place on the day of pentecost that they were all filled with the holy ghost and then they began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance i was talking to you last week and last week was mother's day and talking to you about a particular spiritual mother in my life and that was vanetta copeland vinnetta copeland and a.w copeland brother copeland's parents we called them nani and granddad and as i shared with you last week when pastor terry and i met and started dating at oru we were engaged by the end of the first year and then we went into the semester the the next semester at oru in 1976 and by that time brother copeland found out that i was a graphic designer and so he invited me to come to his ministry and start his in-house art department which was a thrill for me i always wanted to do something like that i was brought up in a graphic design home my father worked in new york during the 50s in the early 60s in graphic design and i wanted to do the exact same thing well to have the opportunity and especially to do that for a christian ministry that was a thrill so um when we got ready to leave oru drove down here and discovered that i was going to be living with kenneth's parents um for an extended period of time well at least at that time i knew for the summer because i was going back to school but as you know brother copeland came to me in the summer and said the ministry is beginning to grow we're going on radio i mean there are only 12 people on staff at the time and so terry went back to school to do what god called her to do and that was to spend another semester there learning about television because the lord told her to put her father on television and pastor terry turned out to be the first executive producer of the believer's voice of victory broadcast and head and director over all television give pastor terry a great hand and she did it she did it we were at oru to get together because we were dating and because i enjoyed television we we i was going to her classes and learning about television and we both worked on set on the oral roberts programs that he had it was an exciting time and the lord was downloading into her what she was going to bring to this ministry to get her dad on television so i had the privilege when i came down here to learn that i was going to be living with a.w and vinnetta copeland noni and grandad and i didn't realize though at the time i was going to be living with them for 15 months she ended up going to school i stayed and up to right up to the time right up to the day that we were married i lived with a.w invented vanetta copeland and so loved them enjoyed them served them drove them in some of the best cars the best cars that i'd ever driven in my entire life the last car i had when i was in massachusetts was a 1963 ford falcon station wagon that my grandfather sold me for one dollar and being on the east coast the gray color on the hood turned rust brown it was held together with baling wire and it got to a place where something was was draining the battery so at night i'd have to bring the battery inside during the winter time make sure we kept it warm and then take it back out and hook it back up and drive and then whenever i'd go somewhere i'd have to lift the hood and then unplug the the battery so that i'd have enough charge to get to my next place we finally got that worked out but that i went from that to a cadillac come on now come on a big big cadillac they had big cadillacs in 1976 they were they rode like boats they were gigantic and i had the privilege of driving a cadillac [Applause] oh man it was a lot of fun and so i just thoroughly enjoyed being with them they were a delight to live with i would help nani clean the house do the dishes and as i shared with you last week i was i weighed a lot less than i weighed right now but she knew because she when we when i first met her she rubbed my shoulders and she told pastor terry she said i can fatten him up he's got broad shoulders so the morning the first morning i woke up to go to work at kenneth copeland ministries day one at kenneth copeland ministries i walked into the kitchen and nani said i'm going to make you some breakfast and i said well nonnie i don't eat breakfast she said sit down so i she made me a big breakfast and then she made me a lunch with two sandwiches apple and cookies in it and i lived off of that for the next 15 months and so i did grow in stature and size i don't know if you guys ever the day before you got married you started doing sit-ups and push-ups to get back in shape but anyway it was it was so and then then i had the privilege and the opportunity to uh help non-minister at her bible class she had she used to have a bible class in her home had stopped that and then when i got there she started a bible class that we had downtown uh fort worth and i would every monday night would be the monday night bible class and i would help her assist her with that it was just it was just a wonderful time and i read something to you last week i want to read it again their daily lives consistently demonstrated god's love kindness and deep compassion the kitchen table was the site of many counseling sessions oh the times that we had around that kitchen table the the meals that we had and the conversations that we had and the things that went on it was just really something untold hours were spent with guests and friends who were in need of encouragement people always left naughty in granddad's house lifted up by the word and prayer granddad would laugh at the fact that nani rarely made it through a meal without someone from somewhere in the world calling to ask for prayer we'd gather around the table pray over the meal and the phone would ring and we'd say see you later nani and since the telephone was in the kitchen had the privilege of hearing her as she skillfully guided people through the word her bible was well worn from constant use one of the greatest words of wisdom she would offer especially in times of emergency or intense challenges was a particular phrase that i remember to this day she would shout into the phone [Applause] it was hid it in tongues honey hid it in tongues it was always in that phraseology so let's do it together hit it in tongues honey hit it in tongues and she would hit it in tongues some things would happen some things would go on and immediately immediately she'd go into praying in tongues and i could hear her in the wee hours of the morning when she was down in the basement office down there and she'd be praying in the spirit or she'd been walking up and down the hallway or she would be she'd been in her bedroom praying in the spirit and it really affected me to this day that phrase comes up in me when something happens hit it in tongues honey hit it in tongues i thought it was such an unusual statement and i laughed the first time i heard it but the more i heard her say it the more real it became i finally understood her reasoning she was stopping people from handling their situations in the realm of their senses she would jolt them out of the natural and get them over into the spirit as quickly as possible every time a problem would arise she would not give it a chance to gain foothold she taught us to do the same thing hit it in tongues honey hit it in tongues and so that lesson has been an important lesson to me through these years from the time even that i was filled with the spirit i was born again in 1972 it was during the jesus movement that was going from coast to coast going to school in boston art school and people were following us to art school every day witnessing to us and within six months of being at art school i was saved i had actually gone home for the weekend my parents had gone away and i was there at the house alone standing at the top of their stairs and i stood there and i thought to myself i thought all the people that were getting born again and i stood there and i said i told the lord i said i want to be saved i want to be born again and i was i mean i sensed literally a wind that blew through me and from that moment on my life has taken a different path my my life has taken a different direction and i got involved when i when i would come back from college i got involved involved in a church a baptist church and it was really an exciting time within within two years the pastor had me preaching in his pulpit before i went to oru and so my life was developing it was growing i was taking a new path before i went to oru i made sure that my mother and my father were saved i led them to the lord i led my father to the lord when we were having lunch one day this is right before oru and i led my mother to the lord it was the day she was giving me a haircut with that dull trim comb that i told you about and i led her to the lord and then but before i went to oru and after 1972 i didn't realize that there was a subsequent experience to the born-again experience and that experience was being filled with the holy spirit or what would be called the baptism with the holy spirit i didn't realize it was something that was available to me but i'd heard about it i'd heard people talk about it and i remember it was i was thinking about it today it was the fall of 1974 probably august it was still the end of summertime and a group of us from the church went to a youth retreat in ocean city new jersey we drove up to ocean city new jersey and it was services in a church a big church at night and i still have my notes from it the notes that i took i was just hungry for the lord i wanted whatever i could get from the word of god and so during the evening times we would have these services and the daytimes the youth could go we could go to the ocean we there's a big boardwalk there in ocean city it's like atlantic city huge boardwalk and you could go to the ocean go swimming or they had at this other small church they had these afternoon sessions you could go to hardly anybody went to the afternoon sessions but i heard about a session about about the holy spirit and tongues so i decided to go to that one and i went to that session sitting there listening and i walked out more confused than i went in i thought lord i gotta have some answers about this i don't understand this well by that time or a little bit after i started applying to oral robbers university the lord led me to go there because he said really i sensed that there was something there that i needed something there that i needed well a group of us of the young people i'm talking about young people there we're probably 19 20 21 years old after a sunday night we called praise and prayer service we were all sitting around the altar a group of us maybe 10 and we were all talking about me going to oru because i was getting ready to leave for oru the next week and as we were sitting around the altar talking about this they started telling me things that they had heard like we started talking about tongues the holy spirit and tongues other tongues and there was a man at the church an older man older gentleman probably older than i am or younger than i am now but anyway he looked old back then and i remember him because i remember one one of the first times i went to church there i went with a friend he finally got me to go to church i liked it then i started going to the church but i made a mistake i sat on this guy's pew do you ever have somebody in a church that you grew up in that had their own pew you couldn't sit with them he occupied an entire pew and i made the mistake of sitting with him and i was told later on that you don't do that i thought okay but it was interesting because i remember being in that service that sunday morning service and i could listen to him over there and it sounded like he was groaning i thought what is that what is that and so after that sometimes some of the youth sometimes we would position ourselves right behind him because we can hear this man we lean into it what's he doing and so as we were sitting around talking about this before i went to oru we were all talking about he was probably speaking in tongues was he was he not was he speaking in other tongues is that what that was and we were all like did you ever speak in tongues well i don't know i'm not sure if i have or not we're having this deep deep theological discussion about the baptism with the holy spirit in tongues not knowing what we're talking about and then they started telling me that they heard one particular individual said he had heard that when you go to oral roberts university and you're you're checking in during the the administering time that you stand in a long line and one of the things they make you do is pray in tongues i was petrified i was petrified i didn't know how to do that and so that gives you kind of an idea of where i was where the baptism of the holy spirit was concerned and i got to oru and settled in to my my dorm um i met terry we had connected with each other um and i've told you the story before about how i i basically struck out three times with her just doing my northeastern humor and just stuff that i did but i was thinking to myself because she she had invited her brother wing to come hear her father speak at a place called sheridan assembly in tulsa well there's so much to do at oru so many things going on and i was so involved going to this concert and this thing and that thing and i told the lord in my dorm i said i've really got to settle down and get to work and focus on my studies and i said to the lord i said this will be the last thing that i do i will go hear terry copeland's father speak at this church and then i'm going to settle down so they loaded us in a bus and they took us over to sheridan assembly in tulsa and it was packed jam packed i didn't know what i didn't know where i was i didn't know what it was i didn't know what was going on all i knew was terry copeland had invited us to go hear her dad speak and his name was kenneth kenneth copeland so the place was so packed that what they had to do was put all of us students that came in on that bus they had to put us in the choir loft right behind the pulpit show the picture of the choir loft please that is the choir loft of sheridan assembly in tulsa and i was sitting probably on the second row over here about five or six seats down terry copeland was sitting right there that's that's where i was and my view that that night was of the pulpit so show that picture show the picture of the the pope there's the po that was that was my view right there picture this place completely packed out people everywhere and that was my view and i've told you this before that that um they they began introducing various people to come up and to speak a little bit and and the first one they they introduced kenneth hagin jr and all i heard was kenneth so i thought i wonder if that's terry's dad well that wasn't his dad then they introduced kenneth hagin senior and i thought well maybe that's her dad but no that's not her dad that's a different last name i'm beginning to think you have to be named kenneth to be a preacher around here so finally finally they introduced brother copeland and so brother copeland steps up he begins to speak and they present him with a rhema class ring for 1976. and i remember him taking that ring he looked at it he turned around to terry in the choir loft he handed that to terry she looked at it handed it back to him i'm just watching all of this studying all of this and so he's getting ready to preach and i have my little notepad out which i was looking at yesterday kept that one i kept that one but he began to speak and the the thing that it began with because he was really that night he was addressing and i don't know what meeting that was terry it was a if it was a camp meeting of some kind but it was september the 18th 1975. it was a thursday night september 18th and i wouldn't i didn't realize it at that moment but my entire life changed on september the 18th 1975. brother copeland began to preach he talked about the three great honors of a man of god at the beginning because there were rhema students that were there and the first great honor of a man of god is to be called of god another great honor of a man of god is to speak before his peers and another honor of a man of god is to be loved and admired by a woman of god i like that i picked up on that i thought boy that would be that would be really good so he began to preach and he was preaching on the force of wisdom the force of wisdom but he made a statement that night that just lit a fire on the inside of me and that statement was one of the most important things that a man or woman of god can do in prayer is to pray in tongues to pray in tongues and at that moment i said that's what i want that's what i want now you've got to understand why this day was so special because i'm sitting there and the lord set this up it was a setup a total setup you know he does setups with you he'll set you up he will set you up for your future and i'm sitting there at sheridan assembly my future wife is sitting six seats down from me my future father-in-law who i will be working for for the rest of my life is down there preaching and that within a year within that year or within the next year i would be traveling with him on the road going everywhere he went one year one year from that time and my whole life was being set before me you know going to oru that was a setup too i thought i'd be there for four years and i was only there for one year came down here it was part of the plan of god but the lord set me in the premier television minister of the day who had a university who was still traveling and he showed me the end from the beginning he took me from that place and then brought me back to a ministry that had 12 people in it and said okay let's get going let's get started let's look into the future with this now i'm in a ministry that's the premier broadcaster of his day we have the kenneth copeland bible college we have a church here it's amazing the setup that the lord has in each and every one of our lives after that service that night we went out to the bus and i remember walking up to terry copeland and i told her i told her i said i want you to let your dad know that this has changed my life this has changed my life and when i think back on it she had kind of this look on her face like sort of like a you know okay thank you i'll tell him yeah sure but it was true it was true that it did change my life it altered my life because i went back to my dorm with my roommate and we took two chairs and as we set one here and then one here and we sat down and faced each other i looked at him and i said you go he looked at me and he said no you go i looked at him and said you go he said you go and i went i be i just i don't think i even prayed a prayer i just started praying in tongues is and from that night from that night on the lord has been leading guiding directing through this baptism with the holy spirit and i really hadn't just thought about it till now but the lord the lord was getting me ready to date terry copeland she didn't have to get me filled with the spirit it was already done the lord took care of that for you you would have been more than happy to do that but it already happened it already took place and so one of the things one of the things that i was reading in my notes that i took that night from brother copeland was this phrase he said learn to wait on a ministry in the prayer closet and pray in the spirit pray in the spirit so from that moment on i listened to messages about it i studied about it and even here recently the lord has stirred me back up you know you can you can kind of back off on praying in the spirit and the lord has just been been reminding me that with all of the things that we face and everything that's going on one of the greatest tools of a believer one of the greatest advantages that a believer has is to pray in the spirit and i've been practicing this very much lately i've been setting my phone praying in tongues an hour i prayed over an hour this morning in tongues in preparation for this service in preparation for whatever the lord wanted to say and whatever the lord wanted to do praying in the spirit over other things that would come to me other things that were happening other things that were taking place praying in the spirit edifying myself charging myself up like a battery this is an advantage people fight it they gripe about it they complain about it but it's something that i do in my prayer life a lot i do it i'm like the apostle paul i pray in tongues more than you all the amplified bible says he prays in tongues more than all of them put together so if the apostle paul said i pray in tongues more than you all then it must be important to pray in the spirit as brother hagin says he must have been praying in the spirit when he went to bed at night when he got up in the morning and all through the day he must have been praying in the holy spirit for him to tell that bunch the corinthians who are praying in tongues that i pray in tongues more than you all do and so i've stirred that back up on the inside and i'm seeing a difference i'm seeing a difference let me just read something to you read some of the reasons why we pray in the spirit and i highly encourage you if you're not doing that now on a regular basis you need to be doing it i was inspired many years ago by gloria copeland who made a commitment and a dedication this was back this is back in the 80s the mid 80s and the lord was beginning to deal with her about the holy spirit she was praying in tongues one hour a day teaching about it for the holy spirit helps our infirmities romans 8 tells us as we pray in the holy spirit and so for the things that we face and the things that are going on you can't handle that you can't thought about that you can't handle the truth no you can't handle that your your brain your mind doesn't have the capacity to handle the weight of the care and the challenges that we face but oh oh when we pray in the spirit our spirit prays and our mind is unfruitful i shut my mind down and i shut my mind up when i pray in the holy ghost and the reason i do it for an hour is because i make progress different levels take place as i'm doing that i can sense i can sense when i'm stepping on over into the spirit into that divine connection with the lord what the reasons for praying in tongues one of them it's the initial evidence of the infilling of the holy spirit it's the proof it's the sign of the holy spirit alive on the inside of us it's for spiritual edification edifying ourselves building ourselves up it's a divine communication with god contact with him i mean each each one of these has its own scriptures and we we're i'm going to just focus on one of them today direct contact with god it it reminds us of the indwelling presence of the spirit of god when you pray in the spirit it's a reminder the greater one is in me the greater one is in me i pray over our nation in the spirit don't get caught in a trap by all the stuff that you see their answers to it they're answers to all of that but you could get real frustrated real agitated real angry about what's going on in the nation right now but pray in tongues it'll help you stay in line with the spirit of god things are revealed when you pray in the spirit well you pray in line with god's perfect will that's another thing that takes place it stimulates faith we give thanks well when we pray in the spirit i remember when i was at oru it was actually before i was filled with a spirit i went to a church service because they required you to go to a church service every sunday so i would and i was thrilled to do it thrilled going to different churches and this one particular church that i went to it was a pretty good-sized church and i was sitting there and all of a sudden the congregation began to sing in the spirit now i wasn't filled with the spirit yet i wasn't praying in tongues but i'll tell you that was the most beautiful thing that i heard was the congregation singing in the spirit it wasn't something that i was afraid of intimidated by i was hungry don't underestimate the hunger that people have for the things of the spirit for the things that the gifts of the spirit and the moving of the spirit of god and the word of god don't underestimate people one of the things that we've tried to do with the church is to to get it to where it will be acceptable acceptable to people but people are hungry they're hungry for whatever they can get to make it through and being able to pray in tongues helps us get through helps us make it through it is a spiritual refreshing a spiritual refreshing and when you're praying in the spirit you are praying out and this is what we're going to talk about praying out mysteries you're praying out the unknown there are things that we don't know things that that are going on that we have no idea in our lives but being able to pray in the holy ghost we are able to pray over those things and deal with those things in the realm of the spirit and what takes place and one of the things that happens when you pray in the spirit is it tenderizes your heart it makes you more sensitive to the leadings of the holy spirit and makes you more sensitive to a place where you can really tap into and hear what needs to be heard turn to first corinthians chapter 14. first corinthians chapter 14. and there's so much in this chapter about the things that i'm talking about here but there's just one thing that i want to talk to you about and that is praying out those mysteries praying out the unknown what answers do you need what directions do you need to know how to handle a certain situation or issue that's taking place and what about the intercession that we enter into and this is one of the reasons i'm stirring myself up in the holy spirit because i want to be i want to be led by the spirit and i want to be at that place where if the lord wakes me up in the middle of the night about something i can go ahead and start praying in the spirit i may not know what it is i may not know what's going on but i know i know that he woke me up for some purpose and some reason and i'm supposed to get up and walk the floor and pray in tongues terry woke up this morning and she told me she woke up early she woke up at like four o'clock and she was laying there praying in the spirit and then began to interpret what you were praying was what the lord showed you that you told to them today about the seven million dollar figure i'm in so there there is a working with the holy spirit a cooperation with the holy spirit because he knows what's going on over here he knows what's going on over there he knows what's taking place over there and he will connect you with the things that you need to be connected with so that you can pray in the spirit and get the direction that you need or get the thing settled get it settled but it says in verse two first first corinthians 14 2. he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaks not to men but unto god now that's one of the things that takes place when you pray in the spirit when i'm praying in the spirit i'm talking to god i'm talking to him yes we can talk to him with our own language but when you're talking to god you're talking to him it's it's a higher level if you will you're talking directly to god for no man understands him how be it in the spirit he speaks mysteries mysteries one translation says divine secrets speaking out divine secrets god has secrets and if you can be trusted he'll entrust you with those secrets and if you pray in the spirit praying in the spirit praying in the spirit will help you make a decision really will what decision what decision do you have is there a decision that you have setting before you right now how about you every one of us have decisions every day is full of decisions but i want to be in a place where i can make the right decision and one of the major ways to do that is to pray it out in the spirit by praying in other tongues it says here that he speaks mysteries i did a study once on the that's that word mysteries and in the greek let me read this to you it denotes not the mysterious as with the english word but that which being outside the reign of honest range of unassisted natural apprehension can be made known only by divine revelation and is made known in a manner and at a time appointed by god and to those only who are illuminated by his spirit so these mysteries yes there are mysteries but mysteries can be revealed they can be uncovered as you pray in the spirit over those things those mysteries will come to light and it said that they'll be they'll be revealed at a time appointed by god and to those who are illuminated by his spirit how do you illuminate your spirit you illuminate your spirit by doing several things reading the word of god worshiping the lord and praying in the spirit that's how and listening listening to the word listening to god's word it's all illuminating or lighting that fire on the inside praying in tongues provides a way to pray for unknown situations things that need answers or direction or leadership from the spirit the holy spirit knows everything and he will help us pray through those things we don't know in the natural there are issues people face issues we all do we all do me included they're issues but you know there's a really great comfort on the inside knowing that even though there's an issue here or an issue there and things going on things happening here i can pray in the holy ghost i can get completely out of my mind and pray in the holy spirit and the lord will begin to show me and direct me and lead me and it says in first corinthians 14 it talks about interpreting that that you pray in the spirit to develop that part of you where you pray in the spirit and you begin to interpret that that's something that is practiced all of these things are practiced they have to be practiced in the same way that you might practice an instrument or practice in sports or something like that there are spiritual practices that have to take place that we develop ourselves and mature ourselves in these things but you can get to a place where you can pray in the holy spirit and then by faith you can receive the interpretation for that so the things that we face around here people have asked me before and pastor terry that a lot of people preface sometimes what they say to us by saying we know you're so busy we know you've got so much on your plate we know there's so much going on in your lives i'm like wait whoa whoa wait a minute wait a minute i'm so thankful for the help of the holy spirit because he helps me in my infirmities he helps me in my weaknesses he helps me in my times when i'm unable to produce things on my own and i know when to stop i know when to stop here recently i'll tell pastor terry i'm staying home today i'm not going in first of all i can tell i'm pushing it i'm pushing the envelope and when you push the envelope like that and you're you're trying to carry all those things yourself it's time for a timeout because you're you're really you're not as effective as you should be or you could be i did that last week i did it last wednesday and the the good thing to do is to identify it and you know you all understand this phrase hitting the wall hitting the wall i can tell i i've been able to tell by monitoring myself when i hit the welcome the well the wall because i get grouchy and i try i try to stop before i hit the wall to to be a blessing to my wife so that i'm not grouchy and i can just tell dr tony i can just tell when i'm i'm getting close oh i'm getting close to that edge i'm getting close you know we we went through a long week with graduation and then graduation day and then church and then it all starts to pile up and i start thinking to myself you know i've gone by that seven day sabbath thing i better do something about that you too you too high five yeah exactly so we have to we have to do that and what i did in staying home i spent a lot of time praying in the spirit and a lot of time in my bible what was i doing i was recharging i was recharging my battery because i knew i had the next day full day of meetings and then the next day we had other things that were going on so i just knew i had to pray in the holy ghost and one of the things you do is you edify yourself when you pray in the holy spirit you build yourself up and i knew also there are issues and things that we face in the ministry that i needed to stop and pray in the spirit to get the understanding of the father in it the amplified bible of verse 2 says for one who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men but to god for no one understands or catches his meaning because in the holy spirit he utters secret truths and hidden things not obvious to the understanding things that are not obvious to the natural thinking the natural mind things that he will reveal to you uncovered to you and then you can pray them through he utters secret truth say secret truths hidden things and these things they're not obvious they're not they're they're not easily readily seen because we've got a lot of noise going on around us there's a lot of noise that's taking place and what i had to do the other day was shut off the noise get quiet before the lord and pray in the holy ghost and as you develop a life like this you get to a place where you become more and more and more sensitive to the leadings of the holy spirit i want to be tender to the leadings of the holy spirit i want to be tender when he's saying to me you really should step aside right here and just pray just pray and to be to be so sensitive to him to be able to hear the voice of the lord on the inside and have that impression let me read something to you and there are so many illustrations of this but i'll give you one just one if you read the books that kenneth e hagin has written about this or listened to his messages he'll talk about story after story after story after story about instances where people will pray through the the unknown and get revealed to them what's going on and make make progress spiritually here's one of them a couple were missionaries in the years leading up to world war one he and his wife blanche traveled africa by boat they didn't have any means of instant communication like we have today you couldn't text it would as it said it would take a month for their parents in america to be able to receive a letter blanche's parents were retired dairy farmers who were old-time pentecostals even though they no longer operated the farm the father still kept three cows which he milked every day one morning blanche's father got up at dawn to milk the cows halfway between the house and the barn he was arrested in his spirit with a strong impression that something was wrong now follow that phrase he was arrested in his spirit between the house and the barn he stopped short he just stopped he was arrested he was stopped and he had a strong impression something's wrong something's wrong now he could have continued out and milked the cows and pushed that aside but he didn't he didn't and that's the kind of sensitivity i want to walk i want to walk in a greater place of that kind of sensitivity so he was arrested in a spirit strong impression something was wrong the father knew it was about his daughter he set down the milk pails and returned to the house he knew it he just knew this is about my daughter i need to stop right here and i need to pray he came back into the house the mother was shocked that he came back so soon she looked at her husband she said you look like you just saw a ghost what's the matter he said i don't know the father answered he said something's wrong something's wrong with blanche she's in trouble she's near death her physical life is in danger we have to pray we have to pray his wife said how do you know he said i can't tell you how i know i just know inside of me i just know inside of me don't we all hunger for that don't we all hunger for the knowing seeing and knowing having a greater sensitivity to the spirit of god so that was the spirit of god letting the farmer know something about the unknown the parents got down on their knees to pray the father said to the holy spirit i don't know what's wrong but something is wrong with blanche and we don't know what to pray for as we ought but you do holy spirit so please help us make intercession for our daughter they began to pray in tongues at 5 30 a.m they prayed through the morning brother hagin talks about this story the cows did not appreciate that at all they prayed through the morning into the afternoon they didn't let up we're living in a fast food society we want it now want to write this minute but there are times when things need to be prayed through the victory needs to be laid hold on there are things that we pray over each day from a place of faith and from a place of victory but we are in that place where we must be listening to the spirit of god and when he when he taps us on the shoulder and needs us to do something to pray through for someone then we need to be obedient to that so they began at 5 30 in the morning prayed on into the afternoon at two o'clock in the afternoon he looked up and he told his wife blanche he said he told his wife he said blanche is going to be all right blanche is going to be all right and then they begin to laugh and sing in tongues you know what that's called that is called the note of victory the note of victory brother hagin said this when you're praying this way you must always pray until you have that note of victory then you know that whatever is in you that you're praying about is settled and you have the answer you'll have the urge to laugh or to worship or to sing in tongues and you'll know that you've prayed that that the crisis has lifted and you have prayed through that situation so they prayed through and got the victory on it blanche blanche is going to be okay but how do you know how do you know well sometimes later the pl the parents discovered that at the exact time they were praying say the exact time the exact time they were praying blanche contracted a deadly fever and was told there is no cure she sunk to the edge of death and as far as blanche's husband could tell she died but then all of a sudden blanche rose up well the moment the moment that blanche's parents began to laugh was the very moment that she rose up stand up with me if you would please come on up pastor terry let's take a few moments here and let's pray in the spirit let's pray in the holy ghost praying in the spirit some people have complained before about us praying in the spirit as a whole well i don't understand what he's saying i don't understand what you're saying this is not necessarily the time for tongues and interpretation but what i'm doing is teaching and training this is a class this is a class and so we're going to go before the lord and just spend a few minutes here praying in the holy spirit everyone watching us out there pray in the holy spirit pray in the holy ghost and if you can't be filled with the holy ghost right now foreign foreign is pray in the holy spirit sing in the [Music] spirit [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] um [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] the power of speaking in other tongues doesn't lie in its ability to speak with other tongues or your ability the power of it lies in doing it the power of speaking in other tongues is as deep and as wide and as high as the spirit of god himself for it is by speaking in other tongues the which he equips you with his words his way and his dimension and knowledge working knowledge of language of the spirit the language of the spirit whereby you can speak to god where you can thank god where you can look inward and speak words that build you up and strengthen you and encourage you and cause your spirit to be more engaged in your awareness of him speaking in other tongues is the gateway by which he can first speak by your spirit and open up your known language so that words that you do know are sourced from a different place other than your mind to be able to draw on words words words words the very building block of all creation it was by words that the holy spirit moved and light was released from the inner innermost being of god himself and on that building block of the sound of words the building block of creation light was released it was through words that god released the very nature of creation it was through words that that all of the universes were established it was through divine words that man came into being and then the cycle was completed as then he once again breathed breath of the spirit into man for a place of divine communion divine communication divine knowing of language from god to his man but that divine place of communication was broken when sin entered in he was separated from that kingdom of the spirit moved out of the spirit realm where an angel with a flame of fire was set in place to prevent that sin should ever operate in the purity and the holiness of the kingdom of god but when jesus ascended on high and bid the father to send the holy spirit again the spirit moved upon the earth and he came not only as as the sound of the wind but he came in power and in the fire of god himself and rested upon men each and every one and ignited in them and that flame of fire that had prevented them from operating in the realm of god's spirit then rested upon them and they were no longer prevented they were no longer exiled they were no longer apart from that divine communion and that divine communication the divine utterances to god and divine utterances from god whereby revelation of god himself revelation of his kingdom revelation of his word revelation of his spirit revelation of fellowship revelation of his power and revelation of his will and his purpose and a revelation of knowing him in an ongoing development of the height and the depth and the width and the breath of god himself no longer estranged from from that kingdom but ignited by the flame of the holy spirit and they yielded themselves they yielded themselves to him and with words that came up from their innermost being they yielded their tongues they yielded them their thoughts they yielded their whole being and out of them flowed the many rivers of the holy spirit that jesus had spoke to them about and from those divine rivers of utterance from those divine rivers of communication from those divine rivers that flowed from their very bellies miracles road in those rivers wonders road in those rivers understanding road in those rivers power road in those rivers changing them changing them changing them from abandoned men and women hidden away into a force that moved out into the streets and changed the very complexion of the whole world and it has never ever ever ever been the same and the same power of the holy spirit the same utterances of the spirit the same door the supernatural is open to every believer it's open to every christian that you can step through that door and as you speak as you speak in the language of men the language of angels but by the divine utterances of the holy spirit revelation begins to flow and rivers begin to flow and that same working of the spirit that was recorded 2 000 years ago will continue to flow for on that on that river in that river by that river because of that river flowing from you the manifestations of the spirit begin to take place my church my church has heard the word believe the word but has been lacking in their exercise of the divine operations of the holy spirit so that by the spirit and because of the word together god himself is manifest shown in demonstration and your world will change your life will change your knowing of him will change and your knowing of the life of faith the life of strength the life of boldness the life of courage and above all the life of love for it is the love of god that is shed abroad in your heart by the holy ghost to pray in other tongues is to exercise the divine qualities of his character and to be strengthened in your inner man by god own spirit himself so if there's anyone in this room or anyone watching today and you have never yielded yourself to him in that way you must be born again for he will not pour out his spirit in an old white skin simply call on the name of jesus to be savior to be lord and the first work of the spirit will be to quicken you quicken your spirit in your inner man and make way that he may pour out his spirit in you so together we cry out the name of jesus jesus jesus jesus be savior be lord i give myself to you fill me now with the holy spirit holy spirit i give myself to you i yield myself to you to speak with other tongues because you give me the words i believe i received in jesus name if you you you want further you said but i don't understand i i rushed oh i feel stuck i feel stuck in some places in some places in the book of acts they laid hands on them to be filled with the spirit not all places but in some places they did come quickly and let someone lay hands on you and you will be filled with the holy spirit some of you since i know i'm filled with the spirit i sense him here i don't know how to yield to that i don't know what to do that come come come come come and let them pray for you if you're watching online call the number that's on your screen 877-281-6297 there are people waiting right now on the phone to pray with you to pray with you and to lead you into that blessed place that divine place of praying in other tongues the saints don't pray allah god three come come i know there are some in the room you struggled you've struggled you've struggled you struggled everybody everybody that's been filled with the spirit has found that place where they wondered and they thought i don't know i don't know for sure i want to know for sure if that's indeed the holy spirit giving me those words hallelujah they're coming here come come come come we have some open altar ministers open right here come come come hallelujah not gonna let that go come on don't walk away not feel being filled with the spirit speaking freely in other tongues you call call the prayer line those folks right there are waiting with their bibles open ready and waiting they know you've heard the word they know your faith is rising and they're ready to connect with you to pray in other tongues there are others there are others if you're struggling with anything else if you you're about if you have been struggling with depression depression and you want that off of you depression depression can put a hold on you while praying in other tongues will help you keep that depression off come and let someone pray for you get that depression off of you in the name of jesus and get you filled with the holy spirit speaking with other tongues so that you'll be edified and you can shake that depression off you've been struggling with depression come up here come up here this is a time right now for you to come and get free from that get free don't and who cares if somebody sees how many of you have ever walked an aisle or come to the altar for anything any anything look at the hands around you look at the hands not only that our lord jesus he walked the aisle to the cross he walked the aisle to supper he walked the aisle to death he paid the price not only so that you wouldn't go to hell but so that you could be born again so that you could be filled with the holy spirit you were born again for the purpose of being filled with the holy spirit to step out into the things of the spirit hallelujah i see more coming come right now come right on down thank you jesus come right on down hallelujah thank you lord come right on down come right on down thank you jesus any teenagers in the room young adults i'm telling you this world's going crazy the world will lie to you the word that you need to be filled with the spirit of truth the spirit of two praying in other tongues will strengthen you and your discernment of truth versus lies hallelujah hallelujah discernment discernment the discerning of spirits the holy spirit he started more more more of you he says lord thank you jesus thank you jesus my my precious my precious congregation this is a gateway to the supernatural not only in these services but it's a gateway to the supernatural in your life hallelujah in your life glory to god the supernatural do you understand some of you are lacking you're lacking understanding wisdom you're about to make major decisions major decisions praying in other tongues hallelujah there's that bucket brother copeland said that dips down into your spirit and draws out the wisdom the bible says that jesus christ is made to you wisdom but you've got to draw that wisdom out orenda one more time i'll make the call one more time and even after we end today you can come even time after we finish you can come up here they'll wait for you but right now right now is the mo i'm telling you come while the altar is hot come while the altar is hot if you need healing today come forward there's anointing that's at work here healing healing healing is in the altar today healing miracles signs wonders praying in the spirit do you all think we prayed in tongues for nothing do you know that like a day oh my gosh more there are more come now come now come down want to open here one two open there come on come on come on utterances you need to come down and let somebody pray in tongues with you and believe god for interpretation yes come right down there i saw god there's another one right yep right here it's a limb roll they're more coming more coming i see you coming come right on down they get be bold hallelujah if you want to pray in tongues bold then ask come boldly come boldly would you come boldly before him to receive you will boldly get hallelujah thank you lord thank you jesus hallelujah bless the lord bless the lord hallelujah amen thank you jesus i just had an unction for us right now and this is what comes out of praying in tongues to pray for rick and denise renner rick and denise renner let's pray in the spirit right now over there lord we lift up greater greater greater greater greater greater growth lord we pray we pray over every broadcaster on the victory channel every every programmer every program we pray over them satan take your hands off of their ministry of their family off of their life in the name of jesus in the name of jesus christ now we have one more thing we need to do before we go and that is pray over our new members oh so where would be a good place to do that we could do that up here um because down here is being taken right now this group right here there's room right here right right here everybody come and gather together those who graduated from the new members class come line up over here in the second and we will pray over you yes give them a great hand as they come hallelujah i'm gonna ask praise god would you guys on the front row would you guys on the front row just give a little bit of room maybe just kind of scoot down a little bit so that they can step right all the way up against the chairs hallelujah just gather in hallelujah thank you jesus praise the lord just bunch in just bunch in come this way all the way thank you thank you yep there you go hallelujah hallelujah thank you lord praise god we'll figure it out and then you can make a second row back this way second row yeah going around that way okay hallelujah all right now let's add our faith as pastor george you squeeze in there brother you can do it you can do it father in the name of jesus we thank you for the divine work of the holy spirit you said you place people in the body where it pleases you and lord it pleased you to place these in this body and if it pleased you then it pleases us we are pleased to receive them we are honored to receive them thank you we thank you father in the name of jesus for each and every one of them the gifts the callings the graces the impartations lord that are necessary for them to rise up and to be strong in you and what you have for them here what you have for them in this body thank you lord that they are we are being joined to this body and they will receive the life of this body the grace of this body the calling and the ishtaka the anointing of this body in jesus name we thank you lord that you empower them to bring others you empower them as missionaries of the gospel you empower them as teachers of the gospel you empower them lord hashtag key to go and to do likewise we thank you father that we receive from them what they bring to this body we thank you lord that among them our teachers among them our leaders among them are administrations and gifts among them hallelujah among them thank you jesus among them are operations of the holy spirit thank you jesus and that you increase them multiply them lord arrested and the grace that flows from jesus through brother and sister copeland through pastor george and i and through our ministry team that lord that grace rests upon them in jesus name to go and to do what you have called them to do hallelujah bless the lord now if you just so you can everybody else sit down for a minute just so you'll be able to see them all of you please turn around and face your family and let them welcome you into the church hallelujah thank you lord bless the lord we're so glad they're here oh we're glad they're here now as they return to their sikhs today shake their hands hug their necks bless them take them to the bookstore buy them something bomb dinner pay off their car pay off their house do be just be a big old blessing and show them what it's like to be a part of emic bless the lord but we welcome you this morning and you may return to your seat all right everybody stand up stand up praise god what a good day this has been what a good day this has been we're moving more and more out in the spirit with the holy ghost here and those of us those of you that are watching us so is there anything else we need to say before we go i just want to say that god loves you and we love you and jesus is lord god bless you you are dismissed everybody [Music] hey good good afternoon good morning wherever you're at in america thank you for being with us today greg stevens and my wife michelle so i'm glad that's your name we're so glad that that you are with us uh let me let's let's uh if you if you prayed that with pastor terry uh you want somebody to agree with you in prayer we have a phone number that they're putting on the screen right there 877-281-6297-877-281-6297 trained prayer minister waiting to talk to you right now they'll get information in your hands like he did it all for you and other things as well free too by the way praise god it's been a good day it's been a great day it's been a wonderful day and i trust that you've been blessed by it let me tell you about a couple of things that are coming up that you're going to want to know about miracles on the mountain always if you've never if you don't know what i'm talking about where have you been miracles on the mountain billy burke will be here that's june the 24th and the 25th i know it's a month out but i'm giving you opportunity if you can get here get here miracles on the mountain pastor george ontario will be speaking at it as well we want you to go emic.org miracles we want you to register so that we know that you're coming if you've never seen a miracle you will you will it's just it's the most amazing thing to watch it is it is a it is fun to participate to participate in it that's exactly right those are the right words um always good to be on there and watch we will be carrying it live as well on the victory channel you'll want to right but if you can get here we encourage you to get here and then don't forget brother copeland will be in detroit michigan may the 27th 28th and 29th for the word of faith international christian center south field michigan for the detroit victory campaign make sure you're part of that you don't want to miss any of that we just had something big happen around here didn't we really big what was the second graduation of kcbc matter of fact if you didn't get to see it let me just show you a little clip a recap of what happened watch this it feels like wow it's completed obviously the work is just now starting getting the gospel out there getting the word out there the preparation and the season that we went through and the sacrifices we made they're paying off and we get to start on this new journey for god as dean and chief academic officer i want to first of all congratulate you the class of 2021 for a job well done you are a seed that will go forth meeting the needs of the people your job is to preach the word lay down the blessing of the lord lay down the love of god lay down the goodness of god because you'll find in the bible that the preaching of the goodness of god will bring men and women to repentance i'm so thankful for this time we've had together at kcbc we all had reasons to throw in the towel but look here we are congratulations family now we get to take the next step into the father's plan for our lives you are an available voice you have what it takes to accomplish the plans that god has for you never ever ever ever forget who you are yes you are the righteousness of god in christ jesus saved and filled with the holy spirit but you are a kenneth copeland bible college graduate college [Applause] [Music] so much i've grown in so much i've walked in these past two years with community and with others around me and even in my own physical walk physically spiritually emotionally mentally there was so much newness coming into me especially when i walked across that stage and there's been such a huge change as of being a part of kcbc and that just happened it could happen to you in a couple of years you could be here and we encourage you to get the information uh kecbiblecolleges.org and see if this is where you're supposed to be it's an amazing thing to go through to walk through when god calls you to a place and taking those first steps of faith it is a powerful step toward your future to the things that god has well you heard pastor george talk about it this morning that one church service he went to set the course for his life the one step of picking up the phone or going to the computer and getting the information you never know what it'll do it doesn't hurt to get the information so i encourage you to do that kcbiblecollege.org get the info okay ready to go out we're ready to go all right father we bless our partners we thank you for them we call them healed and whole we call them from blessed coming and going to the top of their head the souls of their feet in jesus mighty name know this god loves you we love you and jesus is lord we'll see you next week [Music] [Music] this is pastors george and terry pearsons from eagle mountain international church and

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Published: Sun May 16 2021