Faith Revival with Rev. Scott Shelton

is she gonna give me a thumbs up when it's live praise the lord everyone let's stand this evening and let's get our minds in our hearts [Music] [Music] [Music] my [Music] let's go [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah hallelujah oh there's such an expectancy here tonight and what a wonderful feeling it is god is here to perform the miraculous amen if you have your device would you share this live stream quickly and let's get into the word of the lord we finished our 40 days yesterday the last day we were worshiping god for being the powerful word of god in second samuel chapter 22 verse 29 30 and 31 i want us to read this together this was some of our reading for yesterday of how powerful that the word is let's read this together for thou art my lamp o lord and the lord will lighten my darkness for by thee i have run through a troop by my god have i leaped over a wall as for god his way is perfect the word of the lord is tried he is a buckler to all them that trust in him when everything else in our life fails friendships bank accounts jobs whatever it is our god he never fails this word has been tried you can trust in the lord here tonight amen would you one more time lift up your voice in your hands and your hearts and let's shout unto god and worship the true and the living god hallelujah hallelujah we bless your name o god thank you jesus are you ready for revival come on [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] give me another piano [Music] to a higher is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] anybody [Music] [Music] i don't know where you are [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] be ready for revival [Music] can you feel it can you feel it can you feel can you feel it can you feel it can you feel the power do you want them [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] can you feel it can you feel them [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] get ready for revival [Music] get ready for revival [Music] yes oh yes i want it anybody been praying for something anybody been believing god for something i wonder if you just yell out yes i want [Music] oh yes i it it oh yes i want it [Applause] [Music] oh yes we've been in 40 days [Music] man people been consistently over the last 40 days some kind praying in some kind of fasting believing god for things and we have these services at the end of our 40 days just believing that god is going to send the answer that god is gonna perform it we've seen things in the middle of the 40 days but things that quite haven't got done i'm believing god that it's going to be answered in this week i believe that the angels of the lord are bringing an answer this very night hallelujah thank you lord sing the song with us [Music] now [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] hear what this spirit says to the church we want it now release your glory [Music] we want you we're patient [Music] for you we want you we're patient we are waiting for you we need you lord we will wait for you cause all we want is for the last 40 days lord we will wait for you [Music] all we want [Music] lord you cause all we want lord we will wait for you [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] win hallelujah [Music] and here it is [Applause] [Music] oh yes nobody's been praying we've [Music] i am [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] oh my family [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] sickness [Music] [Applause] is [Music] foreign [Music] for you we want you we want your lord [Music] me [Applause] [Music] wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on and cry out to him [Music] hallelujah [Music] praise the name of the lord praise the name of the lord [Music] hallelujah i feel the sweet presence of the lord here hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] praise the name of the lord we've had 40 days of prayer we've done our part now god is going to do his part we're going to see some great things these next three nights come on why don't you lift your voice one more time give god some praise with your voice i love you jesus come on say the highest praise hallelujah come on hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] praise the name of the lord god bless you for being in the house of lord on this saturday evening did you come expecting something from the lord tonight i did [Applause] [Music] and we thank everybody all of our guests that are here from other churches and and from the community thank you for being here if you're online with us this evening if you haven't shared this service yet go and share this service tonight and so let me give all of our guests a hand apostolic center thank you for being with us online and here in the sanctuary [Music] god bless you you may go back to your seats as the choir if they want to make their way now they can and this is our time of our tithe and offering and we thank you for your giving apostolic center and for this revival this weekend reminder uh there we won't have ushers if you are a guest here we don't uh pass the plate with all the code protocols but we do have a tithing offering boxes up here on the altar and then at every entrance when you come into the building you're welcome to pay your tithe that you're offering that way if you're online there should be multiple ways on the screen right now for you to be able to give call the text our apostolic center app and you can as as always you can call the church and we're glad to come by and pick that up for you some of our elderly have us do that so they don't need to get out and we're glad to do that god bless you thank you for being here we have service again tomorrow 9 45 and 5 p.m and brother uh shelton will be with us again and then on monday night everyone say six o'clock six o'clock is our typical prayer time and we're going to come together and uh pray and brother shelton will talk to us and lead us in prayer uh so that'll be at six o'clock on monday night so 9 45 tomorrow 5 pm tomorrow evening 6 o'clock on monday and that'll wrap up our faith revival so so be mindful that sunday morning just so you know we will be having mac live services um during our sunday morning service so the kids will be in their sunday school of the morning of sunday morning 9 45 so be mindful of that we'll just like we do typically we'll announce them and they will go out at a specific time so we want to make sure all the parents knew that god bless you let's give the matching youth choir hand amen [Music] praise the lord church hey man i i just feel like praising him tonight huh i see some smiling faces or out in the clock out in the crowd tonight but i'm wondering today if you would stand with me as the musicians begin to play and as our choir begins to sing i'm wondering maybe if you get a little dance in your step tonight maybe if you could get a wave in your hands tonight come on church we're expecting something big in this place and i'm expecting god to do the miracle and you are to praise the lord and never would you do that with us if the lord's never done anything for you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] open up your mouth give god [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for me [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] say [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah god you're worthy of all our praise oh jesus the bible says one thing have i desired of the lord that will i seek after that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the lord and to inquire in a symbol we've seen over these 40 days god has done miraculous mighty wonder working things but if he doesn't do a thing for me ever again he's worthy of anything that i can give [Music] him [Music] won't you take everything i don't want it i don't need it god take everything i don't want it i don't need it god i just want you sometimes it's just that simple i just want you [Music] we just want you we just want you we just want you wish [Music] see i don't want it i don't need it god i just want you it's real simple it's real simple i just want you i just want you i just want you [Music] i just want you i just want you to [Music] is [Music] [Music] i just want you i just [Music] if you want wanna just raise your hands in this place tonight [Music] i don't [Music] i just want you just when things [Music] [Music] i just want you to take me [Music] i just want to inspire you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] i don't want it i don't need it [Music] takes everything don't want it i don't need it i don't want it i don't need it i don't want it i don't need it i don't want it i don't need this 40 [Music] and days not [Music] take me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i just want you to take me [Music] come on we can do better than that i want you [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah 40 days i know maybe all haven't participated but those that have i felt god's hand in every service every prayer service god is wanting to do the miraculous in this service somebody's been praying for you somebody's been calling your name somebody's been crying out lord we just want you we just want you thank you thank you for your faithfulness to god's house on this saturday this first night of our faith revival i want to encourage everyone 9 45 in the morning again sunday 5 p.m we want you to be ready to come and worship and then monday monday will be a special time it's our normal prayer service is 6 p.m sheldon will be with us we'll talk a little bit pray a little bit talk a little bit pray a little bit [Music] we'll do all those things and uh so we're so thankful that the pr that the presence of the lord is with us this evening on this saturday night how many feel it how many feel the presence of the lord praise god come on do you feel it use your voice just a little bit hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah praise god well we're glad you're here thankful for the man of god and brother sheldon is uh he's no stranger to apostolic center and uh although he may be a stranger to the auditorium right now there goes brother austin he drove in from arkansas and ran into a little bit of a delay but we're thankful that he's here and i i want to say i appreciate the voice that he speaks into my life he's been coming here for several years and if you'll open up your heart and let the word of god do something in you i promise you i promise you this that the seed that is planted in your heart will begin to grow and begin to flourish if you'll just open up and let the man of god speak into our hearts i i don't know maybe maybe it's just coming through all we've come through in the last year i'm more hungry for the things of god [Music] at 54 than i would i can never remember i want god to talk to me i want god to speak into my life i'm so hungry for the things of god come on let's lift our hands come on invite invite invite the presence of the lord invited to open your heart and your mind hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on let's just wait for just a moment hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah blessed be the name of the lord praise god amen god bless you amen you'll be seated i think brother sheldon's here we're just going to we're just going to wait bible talks about waiting just waiting on the lord so amen i don't know about you but i'm proud of our kids and they did an amazing job [Applause] [Music] there's definitely a sweet sweet spirit to the lord it's in this place praise god hallelujah you're going to stare at me until brother shelton comes [Music] i don't know hallelujah praise god here he comes i'm glad you made it man of god i'm glad you're here come on up drove all the way from fort smith arkansas left his family to be with us let's give the let's give the lord a handclap as the man of god comes and preaches to us [Music] [Applause] why don't we just let the lord know one more time i know you've already been doing it but [Applause] let god know [Applause] [Music] how much he means to you what a privilege and honor it is to have not gotten a ticket today and made it to the house of god i appreciate brother dowdy's patience and indulgence and uh i have said on multiple occasions that the rapture is probably going to have to take place at least three times for those that are early those that are on time and then that bunch i'm running with tonight that i thank the lord for his keeping hand give honor to this great church thank the lord for you your perseverance as you pursue god and um want to read to you if i could from the book of isaiah i know where i'm going to start and that'll have to do i don't know where he's going to end up give honor to brother and sister dowdy thank the lord for them to bishop dowdy and to all of the staff thank the lord for all of you let's start with isaiah chapter number nine verse number one nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of zebulun in the land of naftali and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea beyond jordan in galilee of the nations the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined thou hast multiplied the nation and not increased the joy they joy before thee according to the joy and harvest and as men rejoice they divide the spoil for thou has broken the yoke of his burden the staff of his shoulder the rod of his oppressor as in the day of midian for every battle of the warrior is with confused noise and garments rolled in blood but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire for unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the government shall be everybody say shall be that's something you can't argue about it's it's a definitive statement the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of peace of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of david and upon his kingdom to order it to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever the zeal of the lord of hosts will perform this would you one more time give the lord one more round of applause before you seat yourself in jesus name you may seat yourself in jesus name give honor to my bishop this evening thank the lord for him i don't know how people brother daddy and i were talking today i don't know how people think to it they are able to survive and make it to heaven without a pastor in their life i i just i i would just be terrified in all sincerity if i had to consider the possibility of living my life for any length of time five minutes without a pastor and you can't call them your pastor if they can't tell you no and i i can't imagine not having that in my life as a safeguard for under us a child is born and under us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of peace of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end upon the of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end just because i like the sound of that i'm going to read it again of the increase everybody say increase of his government and peace there shall be no end just for my sake i want to read that just one more time just one more of the increase increase of his government and peace there shall be no end there's a couple of things in this passage of scripture i want to just get us to look at real quick and then we'll do something but two things jump out at me about all of that that i've read his name shall be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father prince of peace all of these are attributes of who he is who his name is what his name is what his name brings to the table but the thing about that verse of scripture or that portion of scripture that so grabs my attention is his name shall be called not he's going to be all of these things regardless if you want him to be wonderful you're going to have to call his name if you want him to be the mighty god you're going to have to call his name if you're going to need rapha the lord that healeth thee you're going to have to call his name there's no way to get what he is manifested in the earth realm without calling his name whatsoever you do in word of deed do it all in the name of jesus so that's the first thing about all of that that grabs my attention his name shall be called when i need him to be my counselor now that word counselor doesn't mean therapist it means in the original text defense attorney stop fighting your own battles and quit doing battle with things that belong to god let him be your defense attorney his name will be my defense i don't have to defend myself to you you don't have to defend yourself to me you don't have to present a viable argument to anybody when the enemy comes against you accusing you like he does the word says after all that he's an accuser of the brethren so when he starts that mess just put the name on him [Applause] there's nothing wrong with praying in the holy ghost and travail and interceding during spiritual warfare and we ought to but i'm going to tell you this much when you can't think of anything else to do and you can't think of anything else to say and you can't get your tongue to turn loose just yet if you can just get that name across your teeth you don't have to yell it you don't have to sing it you don't have to yodel it if you can just whisper that name even the book's head at the mention of his name the scripture talks about that we shouldn't take his name in vain that's not talking about cussing which just for the record let me say that you shouldn't do that either even when you want to can i get a witness taking his name in vain is when we say his name with no expectation of the miraculous responding to it don't pray for anybody in jesus name if you don't expect the healer to show up in that moment with that need when you say that name if you say that name jesus lord help us and you don't expect him to help you you've used his name in vain the writers of old scripture were so and those that translated it were so uh there was so much fear of god that when when they even wrote the word god they wouldn't put the o in it they'd just write g and put a space and an underline and then put d because they had such reverence for who he was and i think sometimes we we've gotten to the place that we utilize that name so easily and so often that we don't say it with the expectation that should be behind that name when we say it when when we call on that name and there's a demoniac standing in front of us we ought to believe that even if they don't want to be delivered that devil's going to have to shut up they may let it stay there but if you speak that name that devil's got to stop cutting up and acting up and being foolish when you say that name my wife can say my name and get my response like nobody else can get my response when they say my name because she knows our relationship is such that when she says scott i'm gonna i'm gonna stop what i'm doing and respond to her now i did find out just here the other day that my left ear both ears i've had a little hearing loss but my left ear is pretty exaggerated and it is in the exact range where her voice functions that's not good i don't you you can't even use a medical excuse for ignoring your wife that don't work you just cannot do it you better you better get your discernment working full speed and discern what she's saying if you can't hear it but when she says my name whatever it is i'm doing i'm going to stop it somebody else says my name i may not stop what i'm doing until i'm through with what it is i'm doing then i'll turn and see what it is they want but there's something about her tone her voice not not the demanding thing brother uh dowdy not a vicious thing not an aggressive tone just an expectant tone there's something in the voice of my wife that when she says my name she expects me to turn around and see what it is she wants and now that doesn't work the other way i found that out uh a little over a year ago about a year and a half i was cutting some carpet up in our living room getting ready to put vinyl flooring down or whatever and precious was painting the trim in the stairs and i had a chest pain hit me and i just i was kind of bent over cutting this carpet up it's 11 o'clock at night what else would you be doing at 11 p.m just let's cut carpet out and so i boy that hit me pretty heavy i thought oh this might be the big one i thought well i may be about to cross over so i just eased forward and was going to sit down and another one hit me and i called her i said jen well the cherubs were playing and i didn't want to alarm them and so i thought that that tone recognition worked both ways it don't and so i said with a sense of urgency gin nothing so i went on ahead and just laid right out on the floor for a second and i said because it hit me a third time i said gin the tone again was a little more urgent nothing so in a minute when precious got through dobbing paint on the trim she came around the corner from the foyer and she said what are you doing laid out in this floor that's well if you don't mind it's highly possible that i may be about to go across jordan here i've been having chest pains for like the last 10 minutes well why didn't you say something have you last week i was laid low in the bed of affliction sick as i could be and i thought the tone bishop would know and i had to go from tone to text satan knows our tone too he knows how much confidence we've got in the name by how we say it if you're saying it like a beggar that doesn't know you're his child satan knows that if you're saying it like a child of god that knows you're a child of god that knows you're of a royal priesthood that knows you've been washed by the blood of the lamb and you say that name he knows that too and we allow a lot of things to come into our life and stay or either come and go but do whatever they want to do while they're there because we don't really realize who we are but in that name he he began to reveal himself from the earliest moments of the old testament as they left out of egypt he was jehovah jireh the lord that sees and provides he became jehovah rapha the lord that healeth thee he became jehovah shalom the lord that gives peace uh jehovah nessie jehovah tiscanu jehovah elian and on and on and on and little by little by little he began to reveal himself to his people because he knew that we as humanity at that moment did not have the capacity to fully hold and understand and embrace and utilize everything that he wanted to reveal to us about who he was he knew it was going to have to be something that was done progressively so he allowed situations to come along that made room for him to reveal himself to his people could he have banished the serpent before it ever bit the first person absolutely he could have but he didn't do it why didn't he do it well there's a litany of possibilities but one of them i i personally choose to believe is that he left those serpents there and allowed the people to be bit so that he would have an opportunity to reveal yet another aspect of himself to his people because if there's no sickness and if there's no need to be healed then what good is a revelation without a need and so it's one thing to understand scripture it's another thing to see where it goes it's one thing to understand who he is it's another thing to see that revelation of who he is become a revelation of what he is and what he'll do but it's it's all about what need we've got in front of us a lot of times and what our situations are i know 2020 has been oh the great corona and now i do appreciate the mask been a great protection on airplanes for me you know where i'm going don't you what i'm gonna tell you is you put your little mask on put a limit in your mouth first put your mask on get on that plane and just before landing put another little mint in your mouth because somehow or another there are certain people that fly on airplanes that do not understand the control of body function and when you're landing it's just like everything breaks loose at one time and you're you're wondering where in the world are the manners at on this plane what has happened so the mask has it's come in handy to filter some of that out and with a mint going on you could make it 20 20 gave us terms that we can use with one another without being offensive anymore because it is globally recognized to social distance so now for those people that you don't like you can use the social distancing term to say i'm a little uncomfortable this close to you could you mind if we social distance so 2020 has been good to us and all of the mess it's done it has been good it's given us some tools that we didn't have prior to 2020. so i give thanks to god for all of the things that 2020 has done but 2020 has also to those of us that were watching 2020 took us places that we'd never been before 2020 showed us things about god we'd never seen before 2020 showed us that what paul said was really right where i'm weak he's strong i don't know i have not heard i'm not saying it's not so but i haven't heard one apostolic pastor say to me brother dowdy our finances have suffered every truly apostolic man of god and church that i've talked to has told me our finances have either at a minimum the worst story i've heard is they stayed the same everybody to almost a person has said our finances have increased our giving has gone up god has blessed our church and and not just yeah let's give him thanks for that you're the church bless god there's privileges to being part of the church we are the people of his name there are benefits to that and there are things that we've noticed i know nationally we've noticed that flu has been an exceptionally low uh issue this year not very many in fact in december a lady that we know there in fort smith that works she manages a a medical clinic she said they had only had two cases of the flu by the end of december and and just thank the lord for that i don't know and you know what 2020 has taught us some things my wife had a brilliant observation we checked into a hotel and they had that little sanitized sticker on the door and i said well look precious they've cleaned the room isn't this beautiful they've just sanitized the joint we don't even have to go in there and you don't have to get your little i saw wipes out this time she said yeah i do i'll be lost all in the room down and my wife she's one of these people she likes things to be clean so we go in the room and the children know not to touch anything until mama has sanitized thoroughly to her specifications that the room is clean but my wife said to me she said my question is what have they been doing up to now nobody put a sticker on any hotel room door talking about this room has been cleaned now we ain't heard nothing about it all we've heard about is they clean the glasses in the hotel room with the same rag they wipe the sink out with 2020 has been good to us there are things about it that i haven't liked i didn't like shutting down church i haven't really you know what i haven't liked the most though what i haven't liked the most is people of the name living in fear well brother shelter and well if you had it i've had the great corona i didn't like it none because i couldn't taste coffee or peanut butter for ten solid days i thank god for deliverance and i know people have passed from it but people have passed from cancer too and people have passed from diabetes too and people have passed from heart disease too and people have had strokes too and people have had all kind of other ailments and they've passed from that too and if you think about it what we've done in 2020 is we we kind of made kobe to god we bowed before it before we bowed before god well brother shelter not you who you got a death wish no but i'm not trying to figure out how to stay here one day longer than i'm supposed to i don't want to be here forever i want to go to heaven and if god's ready to take me it don't have to be corona it can be a car wreck so i'm not going to be afraid of it not gonna do it we still got a world to reach seven plus billion people are still going to hell and need the church and i've heard all kinds of stories you have too 2020 is the beginning of the end for the church the devil is a lie this is this 2020 was the year we've been waiting on and and for everybody that got jacked up over the election get over it everybody that rejoiced because trump got elected you ought to be rejoicing because biden got elected if you believe god put trump in the white house you've got to believe god put biden in the white house well i don't like him i don't either but i prayed for the will of god i believe the will of god was going to be done and if it takes somebody like that in the white house to get you and me doing what we're supposed to be doing let me go ahead and air all the laundry out get it over with right now i don't care what your political preference is that has never been god's will for our political preferences to be a part of who we are as the body of christ if there's no greek and no jew and no gentile and no greek and none of that other stuff going on then there's no democrats no independents no libertarians no part no republic hello when we come in here we're just part of the body of christ we're just the bride of christ we are the sons and the daughters of the most high god i'm gonna stay on it till somebody gets a little bit of a revelation and quits being mad about it i'm not going to tell you who i voted for you ought to be able to figure that out but the point is we're all supposedly trying to get to heaven but we live like we want to stay here forever this world we used to sing songs that conditioned us to go in the rapture this world is not my home i'm just a passing through but yet somebody came out wrote a book about your best life now that's a lie this ain't your best life this is your necessary life so that you're prepared for your life eternal with him this this life is preparation to learn how to live with him my ways are above your ways is what he said and he gives us an opportunity to learn of him search the scriptures he said i got a theory and it's just mine but i got a theory that probably some of us weren't searching scripture in 2019 i got a theory that some of us came to church out of habit in 2019. in my theory some of us worship god just because we've always been taught to worship god in my theory some of us talked in tongues occasionally but not daily and god knew for you to be ready for the end time which is on us i mean you can get mad about what's going on in the world if you want to i'm quite frankly i'm upset about a lot of stuff but if that's what the book said these days was going to come perilous times are going to come is what the book said is that in their bishop is that isn't that what's in that book perilous times are going to come well what do they look like do you think perilous and picnic are the same they're not and if you think it's bad now wait till it gets worse than this because it's coming you think your religious freedoms have been attacked up to this point you better hope that the senate don't pass that equality bill we're not living in kansas anymore this isn't mayberry this isn't some utopian dream we're living in a world that i never believed i'd see myself raising children in i never thought that i would see some of the stuff being appointed to the presidential cabinet that i'm seeing appointed to presidential cabinets right now i never dreamed that we'd be having conversations in church that we're having to have right now i never dreamed we'd have to talk about who are the first responders in the event that there's a shooter that comes in the building i never dreamed we'd have to have a plan for i never dreamed that we would find ourselves here but by the same token here we are and the one thing that hasn't changed is the power in the name the power in the word the power in the blood we're still apostolics i don't care how bad the world has gotten we are still the people of the word we are still the people of the blood we are still the people of the name that ain't going to change are you with me kovid was like a line in the sand at the alamo and throughout the history of humankind there have always been defining moments there have always been the fearful among us and then there's always been those seemingly natural born leaders one general in particular during the second world war says to those in the pacific theater of war i've got to leave but i'll be back hold on till i get back i'm coming back and some of them told their stories later and still tell it those that survived today that were there that were pows during that war the only way i was able to live was because patton said he was coming back they had such confidence in uh macarthur they had so much confidence in this general that they they they they held on they endured all kind of hardship they went through all kind of persecution because their general their leader said i'm coming back i'll be back hang on winston churchill and one of the greatest speeches given known to mankind some say said basically three sentences to the allied forces around the world as it was broadcast to him he said never give up he paused step back to the mic and said never never give up pause one more time and said again never never never give up even as small a statement as that was it sent a shock wave around the world to the allied troops and it said something to them that even though london was just being bombed to pieces and even though the pearl harbor situation and even though first one thing and another had taken place during that great war there was still something inside enough people that when they heard a rallying cry that said hey don't give up all is not lost we'll fight them in the air we'll fight them on the land we'll fight them by sea we'll fight them wherever we find them we will fight them somewhere along the way 2020 drew a line similar to that in the sand for the church much like travis drew at the alamo and all of you that want to stay you cross this line and those of you that want to leave you're welcome to leave without any kind of a grudge or any problem you we understand and as one man they all stepped across the line and even though they were defeated in that moment a victory a great battle a great victory was won even though that battle was lost it turned the tide in all of what was going on somewhere in the world there have got to be churches like this one that will step up to the plate and say you know what we'll do what we have to do if we have to shut down we'll shut down but we're not going to stop being the church and as soon as you open the doors we're going to come right back in here and we're not coming back like we left we're coming back stronger than we were when we left our circumstances in the life that we find ourselves in and everything going on around us cannot be allowed to dictate god to us it doesn't matter how horrible the world around us gets and to be quite honest with you the world isn't as bad as it has been in time past look historically at the grecian and the roman empires they were more vile than we are now and the church survived that they were more vicious then than the world is now and the church survived that they burned believers at the stake but the church survived that they drowned them by the droves and coliseums for sport but the church survived that they turned them out in those same coliseums with lions and they ripped their bodies to shred but the church survived that they crucified them upside down and the church survived that they boiled them in hot oil and the church survived that they went house to house looking for them to kill them and thrust the sword through them but the church survived that why because even then there was something in the name there's something in the blood there's something in the promises of god we're the church the enemy has done everything he can to get us to be awed by everything else i have a theory about that too the fear of god is when we stand in awe of god and the enemy has done everything he can to get us to stand in awe of something anything else more than we stand in awe of god where's the tenacity of job though he slayed me he griped and he murmured and he complained and he fussed at god that you even let me be born but when it was all said and done and i have fussed and i have griped and i have complained about covet i hate every bit of it i'm against all the restrictions i hate masks i hate every drop of it there's not one covert theme that i like i don't like any of it nevertheless at thy leading and at thy discretion whatever you decide is good for me help me to have the grace to embrace it and deal with it and get over it and move past it and continue to do the work of the kingdom i'm not going to stand in all of my challenges more than i'm in awe of god i won't stand in awe of heart disease more than i'm in awe of god i won't let diabetes all me more than god does i had a man call me this morning and he said my psa numbers are high it looks like my prostate's got problems they're thinking surgery they want me to go to see a urologist what do i do i said what report have you gotten from god i don't know what you mean i said go ask god what he says about your prostate and your psa numbers and whatever god says go with that well brother shelton you sound a little reckless you're not sounding very responsible what do you think faith is the reason most of us don't see a demonstration of faith is because you've decided it's better to live a responsible culturally acceptable lifestyle where in the wide world did the apostolic church ever come to the place that somebody tricked us into believing we're supposed to make everybody like us and everybody no everybody don't need to like you they need to feel the convicting power of the holy ghost our churches are getting to the place that we're more interested in making our guests comfortable than we are making god at home and no wonder he can't do signs and wonders in our midst because he's not the god we're in awe of and to all the guests that are here tonight god bless you we're glad you're here and we're glad you're here because you've got a chance to come in contact with god like you've never known him before god can fix all your problems god can put your marriage back together god can heal your body god can reach your children but i'm finding something out about us we preach about what we believe in people that never preach about god don't believe in god oh y'all do no you don't preach about him talk about him 24 hours a day i called my 82 year old mama today to check on her in her feeble condition you know what she wanted to talk about she indulged me for about 10 minutes but as soon as i got through going through my litany of questions mama how are you are you doing okay how you feeling i got that dermatologist appointment scheduled for you we're going to get that spot on your face check all this stuff i'm just trying to be this good compassionate son and when i took a breath sister daddy mama said son let me tell you what i saw in the word mama don't care nothing about that little spot that might be cancer on her face she don't care my sister and i are the ones that are concerned about that not mama mama's not concerned about her back getting worse and worse to the point she can't hardly walk mama's not worried about that because she read something in that book that she's gonna get a brand new body someday along the way and as soon as i can get out of this one i'm gonna get to get in another one mama's not interested in answering all of my pitiful questions about how do you feel mama really wants to talk about where she's going what she's looking for who she's put her trust in who she's put her faith in mama's not interested in this world but we are [Applause] we are enamored with this world we can't get enough of it how far can i go here i love our songs i love all this new stuff but is it possible that some of the new worship stuff we're trying to go get is more the enemy trying to send strange fire to our altars and i know i know what you're thinking but i realized that our old songs were new one day too so don't don't don't start all that with me and i didn't say i didn't like these new ones but i said you better be careful about what you're singing about and who you're singing it too because there's some songs now that are kind of cross-over songs and you can make them a christian song you can sing them in church but they really fit in in the club too if we want the supernatural manifestation of the presence of god in our churches we better make sure our churches are conditioned for that if you want the supernatural power of god in your personal life you better make sure your life is conditioned for that you can't see miracles and live in doubt you can't see miracles and have questions about the validity of god you can't be a person who sees the miraculous working through you in you on youtube you whatever and have some agnostic view of god there cannot be room in an apostolic to also be borderline agnostic you and i are going to have to figure it out once and for all do we really believe that he is the mighty god in christ do we really believe that he is from everlasting to everlasting do i really believe that he is the alpha and the omega do i really believe he's the author and the finisher of my faith do i really believe he's the lily of the valley do i really believe he's the rose of sheriff do i really believe he's the bright and shining star that we look to for our every moment's direction do i really believe that he's him john had a crisis of conscious too john he didn't know for sure so he sent some folks hey are you really him and we've had some people preach 2020 that we're asking that question is this really it is this really it god are you really that god are you really that powerful i had one say to me not long ago a preacher i walked to and was talking to him i said man i'm concerned about your soul he said yeah me too i said what's going on with you he said i'm not sure how i feel about god anymore what are you talking about he said i believe i believe in god but i'm not sure that he's all we've made him out to be well let me clear that up for us too we haven't made him out to be anything all we've done is repeated what he said about himself i am the i am i didn't come up with that god came up with that i haven't repeated i said one thing about who he is tonight that he didn't say about himself this isn't our revelation this isn't some new thing that you and i have reached out and got a hold of we're simply echoing what he said about himself in the scripture but this world we live in [Music] we've got to make some decisions what are we going to do because if they lift all the coveted restrictions in may i heard yesterday they may lift them all in may depending on vaccination levels i'm gonna tell y'all something i don't made a deal with the lord about that vaccine business oh you can sit down i mean i remember one time i was at the doctor getting a checkup i could have told them i was a fine specimen but they didn't ask and you know they give you like 782 pages of documentation that you got to go through and if you don't really need glasses you need glasses to even see them little boxes because they trick you they make them little boxes so little and then they put them so close together a brother don't know what he's checking off and what he's not you you may you may sign yourself up for surgery and don't even know it because the boxes are so small so what i did was i went in there and i said lord what i'm doing in here he said check no on all of it i said well should a brother read it first he said no brother should obey me check no on all of it roger that so i just went down through the check of no one i don't know what i said no to except everything the nurse comes in and she chided me a little bit she said mr shelton you finished your chart did you absolutely um you know this is serious here yes i know that mr shelton you put no on everything that's correct you you even put no on hereditary things things that run in families that's that's correct why did you do that mr shelton how are we supposed to accurately treat you and give you medic i said i'm not here for treatment i'm here for checkup and you can check me out and you'll verify that everything i check no to is correct i haven't got any of that junk yeah but what about in your family i said well i'm a leg up on you i was adopted so i don't know what the bunch i came from had i don't have to take ownership of none of it adoption has its privileges y'all didn't get it but right over your head you've been grafted in it has its privileges i don't care if your dad it was a raging alcoholic you don't have to be you've been adopted you've been grafted in and then she kept pressing the issue i'm starting to get a little offended about it and i don't have a lot of patience for that stuff anyway sitting up in there in some of the little paper dress it's ungodly y'all feel a witness to it don't you moving the crinkle crinkle and wrinkle wrinkle in your little paper gown and you hope to god it's tied up in the back she said well i just i don't understand i just i wish you would have taken this the doctor's going to be asking you some of these same questions because you really should have taken this more seriously i said okay you want me to give you the real serious reason i said no to all that she said yeah i really would i said because my father told me to who i said the lord jesus told me to i said i don't know what your position on baptism is but according to scripture the only way to be baptized is by immersion in his name and that water is symbolic of his blood his blood and i said would you tell me something does and at that moment we become a child of god that we're baptized and being filled with the holy ghost you become a child of god she said well i agree with that i said okay who who contributes the dna that produces the blood in the child she said the father bingo he's never had diabetes y'all just sit there and be sick if you want to he's never had diabetes he's never had heart trouble he's never had blood pressure problems he's never had any of that and i don't have to have it either i'm not going to claim it i'm not going to reach out take ownership of it and then the question comes down to so brother what about and i've had this ask me so many times what about the people that have died as a result of covet issues they kovit was only able to take them because their time had come if it hadn't been coveted it would have been something else when god gets done with you and your purpose in the earth is finished he will take you home to be with him and there is no downside to that for a child of god at all on any side of it there is no downside to that but if you and i are not careful we're going to let circumstances in the end time and if you think this has been the end time it is and it best has been a prelude to it jordan hadn't yet begun to swell but it's going to in fact it's starting to rain in some places if you think the church is not the target of the world right now you are naive and absolutely out of your mind they've got a target on this church they've got a target on that pastor they got a target on this pulpit and ultimately they've got a target on the word of god i'll go conspiracy theory with you for just a minute if you think this is just a recent development and plan it's not look at some of the new cool translations of the word of god and start looking at what verses have been left out just real silently done here silently done they've been leaving verse after verse after verse out and we have gotten accustomed to not reading the entire book we've got accustomed to things not being there and we've also gotten accustomed to the supernatural not being a part of our daily life we've gotten accustomed to divine miracles not being a part of our daily life it is not okay that it just happened here it's got to happen every day every step every moment every place every address every lunch appointment every dinner engagement every work office every school room because the day is coming the day is coming that the world as we've known it is going to change and it wouldn't matter who's in the white house when that day comes it won't matter i mean we we look at things and i i understand and i i've got my political preferences too but i probably ought to shut up who signed a bunch of peace agreements in the middle east who did it trump and where is one of the most hot spot izone places in the world for peace and safety to be cried about and from and far you think that it's just one party over the other that takes us closer to the end time both of them are being used to take us closer to the end time because when god gets ready to take us out of here there are some things that are non-negotiable they will have to have happened jesus had to be in bethlehem to be born mary had to be there for jesus to be born or the prophecy was no good he taxed an entire nation and forced an entire nation to be uprooted to get one little eight and a half month pregnant woman in the right place at the right time all god's been doing with 2020 and covet is trying to get one little pregnant church the bride of christ you you don't know you have no idea how pregnant you are with an apostolic move of god and an outpouring of the holy ghost you and i we do not really know just how close we are to giving birth to the greatest move of god the world has ever known why would god let this happen to get one pregnant body in the right place at the right time this hadn't been judgment on us it hadn't been god's wrath and anger on us it's been god looking at his timetable and realizing we were not quite where we needed to be and so he expedited some things and put us under pressure look at the church historically we've only always excelled when we were either prisoners are under pressure and he didn't need us prisoners so let us be put under pressure now i'm going to tell you something else you may not believe the social media forums that we have used to get the gospel out for the last year have also put a target on you big tech big tech big tech are you sick of hearing that two words put together big tech big tech but while we were thanking god and praising god i mean i'm on it every week gonna keep doing it because it's necessary for the moment we live in but it put people that nobody knew existed out in the open it put apostolic churches that the world knew nothing about and the enemy didn't know where you were it put you out in the open we didn't realize it but at the beginning of 2020 the wind began to blow through the murlberry bushes and churches that had been hidden and obscure for decades now were thrust out into the open battlefield but big tech knows who you are now big brother knows who you are and they know where you are and they know exactly what you do and don't believe i get text messages on my phone the other day from people in the government how they got my number i do not know and i read the text to my wife and it was a question deal about my personal business my my preference is my but it was from and it was and had her name attached i think i still got it on my phone had her name attached to it and i read this to my wife and she popped her head up she said read that again i did she said well you didn't think you were going to stay here forever did you i said what are you talking about she said scott have you not heard some of the things that god's required of you to say online publicly stands that god has forced you to take did you think they weren't watching i got three babies brother dowdy by the way my two little daughters said to tell you man of god one of them more dreamily than the other i love nixon she told her mama she wanted a full-size cutout poster deal of you to put in her room hallelujah she's 10. if you'll wait on her she'll be a good wife sometimes she she just oh that's a wonderful wonderful time and the little malachi just thinks you have hung the moon he said today where are you going i said i gotta go to illinois to nixon's house yes buddy and as he turned in such a sullen condition he said tell you hello i got three kids two ten-year-old daughters and a boy that's about to be four according to the doctor on wednesday malachi is on track to be six foot four thick he's gonna be a man but right now he's just my baby and i know that every time i open my mouth and it's public and there's a cell phone or there's a youtube channel or there's somebody's live stream and it's not just me it's ever preacher it's not just me that's getting out there and putting myself out front my family's possibly in jeopardy too and the day will come if you think that they're not coming after your free speech i don't care what they say about we believe in the freedom of speech no they don't it's not just that they want to get you to stop saying what you're saying they're going to try to make you say what they're saying and their ultimate goal is to get you to affirm and say you agree with their doctrines and their whatevers well i'm going to tell you right now chunky ain't going to do it i'm not doing it i'm trying to get to heaven and if i've got to be martyred for the gospel sake martyr me up right now bad boy's ready to go i'm not fixing to crave at this point i've been living for this moment brother dowdy i'm not backing off of one thing i'm not giving up one thing i'm not letting up on one thing i still believe god raises the dead i still believe god heals the sick i still believe the blind see the lame walk the death here and the dumb talk i still believe those that are demoniacs can be delivered i believe that everybody bound by anything can be set free and i still believe in the new birth and the mighty god in christ and i still believe that that name is the only name all of that is accessible by and i'm not changing none of that but then that last portion of this scripture we read tonight has got my attention and of his government and peace there shall be no end now for a long time i thought that meant until the rapture they'll never be able to put an end to the kingdom of god and that's true but it's more than that the enemy has tried for decades and has succeeded oftentimes to get us to the place that we're satisfied with where we are we've got enough we've done enough we've built enough we're big enough we have enough people we're doing enough in our community we're doing enough enough enough yet the scripture says that of his government and his peace there shall be no end nasa said not long ago a few years ago rather that the universe is still expanding over 186 billion light years per second in every single direction do you know why that is because in the beginning god said let there be and because he never changed his mind even the universe is still being created at the original word from god nothing about him has changed science has validated that his word by his word worlds were framed he spoke of things that were not as though they were i'm telling you that the enemy wants us to begin to talk about the end time and the church's role in the end time as it relates to the circumstances the world is in now but you can't speak about our future based on the world we live in and it's conditioned you've got to go back to the book and we've got to figure out what the scripture says that we're going to be in the last days you're going to be epistles known and read of all men he said that in these days the believers are going to lay hands on the sick and they shall recover that means that every believer in the kingdom is going to be powerfully used by god in supernatural ministry the gifts of the spirit are supposed to be prevalent in the end time fivefold ministries should be prevalent in the end time you are still powerful in the end time i don't care what else is going on in the world around you you are still as powerful as you've ever been the day may come that we have to preach and code day may come that we have to announce gatherings private small or large by code the dog is wagging his tail today at three o'clock you think they're not reading your text i know a man that had an app downloaded by a federal law enforcement agency while his phone was turned off it came on an app appeared on the screen and he happened to have his phone in his hand he screenshot it real quick and it said this app has been loaded downloaded to your phone remotely by this agency et cetera et cetera he jumped up and got in his truck and took it to a friend of his that owns a company their i.t business and he laid it on his desk and that guy looked at that and took a pencil and shoved it back across he said you get out of here with that it was eavesdropping eavesdropping software they thought he knew something he didn't know and because he wouldn't tell him what they wanted to know they just download software on his phone and listen to every conversation he had even when his phone was off well sheldon i don't i don't believe it i don't care if you believe it or not i'm kind of the guy and i saw it we are not living in mayberry the enemy is not playing games with us he's not up to just some mischievous deal he's trying to shut the church down he's doing everything he can to choke and strangle the church down to where you live in fear of what's out there rather than in awe of what's in here there's going to come a day you mark it down some of you are going to live to see it happen there's going to come a day that your shadow is going to have to be the method by which god works why do you think that's in scripture that we have an example that the shadow of the apostles fell on some and they were healed it wasn't there just to tell us what has been it was there to prepare us for what will be and what should have always been anyway the day's going to come which you and you and this church you apostolics are going to walk past people and they're going to get goosebumps in the middle of 100 degree summer and they're going to stop you and say what did i just feel what is that about you i see something move and in a moment of unexpected opportunity you're going to begin to tell somebody about the new birth experience and you're going to baptize them in the city swimming pool or in your backyard you're going to be used of god like you have never been used before [Applause] ever we will see our churches filled to capacity it's it's it's just you you will probably see this building and that gem filled to capacity with overflow and simulcasting going on over there do you hold on a minute do you really think that y'all just built that for basketball you'll be doing leadership training in one building and discipling new converts in the other you'll play ball over there but you're going to be doing kingdom work over there too you may have to buy up all this farmland around here and build parking garages on it to get everybody on this property at one time but it's not going to be a problem when that comes to an end and we've got to go to the house level to do it because 2020 taught us some stuff and i'm going to tell you what keeps coming to me bishop over and over and over the scripture says that if satan had have known he had left jesus alone but if that old boy had known what he was doing if he had known all of his persecutions on some of you for the last 20 years were simply god refining you and perfecting you and preparing you for this moment he'd have left you alone he wouldn't have attacked your body with sickness and you want me to tell you something there's been people that have been sick for decades that are going to be healed in the end time because that sickness was what's necessary to get them to a place where god needed them to be and got the vessel in the condition it needed to be in and broken enough and in these last days your body's going to be healed you're going to have strength you haven't had in 25 years and you're going to be used of god like you've never been used of god before god knows what he's doing he's had a plan since before the foundation of the earth god has not been caught off guard and if the devil had known he'd have left you alone i'll tell you what else if the devil had known he'd left some of your kids alone too yeah but brother shout my kids are in a mess no they're not they're in school they're in training no brother shelton they're living in sin no no no they're right where jesus wants them to be he'd been trying to tutor them and get their tutelage to a point where he could use them and he couldn't so finally what would you would you quit giving up on them they're they're not they're not where they are that boy is not where he's at because he chose to be there stop stop clapping a minute stop a minute your your son is not where he's at because he don't want to be here he could not be taught anymore in the classroom he was in and so jesus just like he told peter i'm going to turn you over to satan for a season why so that satan can help condition this vessel so i can finally teach you what less what's left to be taught and your soul can be so to the mom and the dad who have got a son or a daughter or a granddaughter that's not in the kingdom just trust them to god he put them where they're at somebody ought to shout as hard as you go right now just loud as you can get i'll tell ya don't you say it again my child's backslidden no they're not they're at christ's wilderness university they're getting an education about the world that they're going to lead other people out of i mean think about it peter peter one of his closest the one that ultimately led that upper room deal before he could leave that upper room deal satan that's what he called him jesus called little pete satan and then another time he said i'm going to turn you over to satan so your soul can be saved well what was that like brother that's like when i was in school we had detention hall you had to stay over after school i'm gonna send you to detention and you're gonna write lines and you're gonna i'm gonna this is gonna be your punishment not for his destruction but so he could be corrected and instructed there are apostles and prophets not in this building tonight and they may be living in sin in this very moment and it may seem easier to believe that they are lost to us forever and it may seem like when they walked out of your house for the last time they did it with such defiance that you have no hope they will ever come back but jesus said train up a child in the way he should go and when he's old he won't soon par if you you do your part where was risper when they took her boys where was rizzba scripture doesn't say where she was but it obviously she wasn't there because as much of a scene that she made when she got home had she been there it would have been recorded the mess she'd stirred up but wherever she was she wasn't there and she had nothing to say about them taking her boys and hanging them but when she found out rizpah made a decision this will not be their end they are of the lineage of a king and they will see the burial of a king given to them before this is over with and the bible says she stayed with it keeping her vigil over them until the king heard about it and when the king heard about it he did exactly what she said she prophesied do you hear me she didn't send a memo to david she stood right out there in the middle of the yard and began to prophesy to all of her neighbors who had seen her boys taken out and to everybody in the community think about it yeah but they're out here they're just all everybody in the town knows i you ought to thank god that everybody in mattoon knows what's going on with your child because everybody knew what happened with jesus everybody in the county knew he had been crucified everybody in the county knew he had been brutalized everybody in the county knew had been buried but they had also heard some prophetic stuff about him too and so everybody had their eye on what everybody thought was his end because deep down inside there was something in them that just would not sleep at night he said he was coming out of there he said he was coming out of there he said they didn't have the disciples couldn't just walk in the king's chambers anytime they wanted to but the word of what he had promised he would do had made its way to the king's throne and the king heard it and the king couldn't sleep and he couldn't get peace there are people in this city right now who can't get peace because they've heard of the promises of god and they know what god has said and there have been things you know what there were always i don't know where i'm on but there have there have always been and will always be but others when lazarus was raised from the dead there were some that were just absolutely revolutionized in that moment but the scripture says but others went away having seen the same thing and told what they had seen but they told it in a mocking way but they were spreading the story of the miraculous even from a negative position they were talking to people that jesus and his disciples would never know don't don't care that people might talk about you oh yeah that church over don't you worry about what they're saying jesus is your counselor he's your defender you don't worry about it you just keep believing in the name calling on the name standing in awe of the name and the power of the name because there's coming a day that this church will be filled up i'll tell you what i honestly believe brother daley i believe the day will come that you'll have to have multiple services a week that have nothing to do with covid it'll have to do with capacity you'll have people sitting pocket to pocket on every seat in this building and you'll have to have multiple services you'll have a b and c congregations and they may be subdivided and we've got people that are going to have to be involved in ministry and leadership and anybody oh and so that's the way it's going to be every building on this property is not just here for now it's here for what's to come you're going to train people you're going to disciple people you're going to see miracles done you'll be doing discipleship over here and having a healing crusade over there at the same time and there may be another building built across the street where you're praying people through teaching bible studies and baptizing them at the same time why because in the last days saith god i will pour out my spirit oh oh flesh in the last days saith god i will i will do it i will do it i will do it i will do i will do it i will work will you let me [Applause] i'll tell you a little boy i'm telling this take the time to blink baby this ain't the time to flinch this take the time to let up for shaking not the assembling of yourselves together as the custom of some is in the last days as you see the return of the son of man i'm butchering the verse in other words the closer you get to the coming of the lord don't back off dig in and go deeper dig in and pray harder dig in and give more of yourself to the kingdom believe like you've never believed before don't just and i'm going to tell you something i back on these don't just believe they're going to be saved prophesy over their ministries well shelton they've made a little mess around their life hust your mouth the miraculous has always lived in the mess because it's what needs it the most don't you pray one more time oh god save my child the devil is a lie lord thank you for saving my child and while i'm at it thank you for the ministry the apostolic anointing and ministry that you put on them when they were five years old thank you for that gift i don't care if they say they can't do anything in the kingdom they've it's too late it's too whatever i've made to no no no no no no no no the blood is the blood as the blood is the blood if it can wash you once it can wash you a hundred times oh yeah somebody pray in the holy ghost for a minute somebody ought to prophesy over your family right now [Applause] somebody ought to prophesy over your friend right now yeah come on faith faith faith with god all things are possible that's it come on let that anointing flow out of you they're gonna be saved they're going to be saved they're not just going to be saved but they're going to be used powerfully in the kingdom that ministry of an apostle is still on them that prophetic gift is still on them that ministry of the evangelist is still on them the gifts and the calling of god are without repentance god does not take it back oh yeah come on somebody [Applause] yeah come on you feel that faith beginning to be oh don't you come on come on prophesy over them yeah yeah [Applause] yes yes yeah come on break them loose send angels to go to them where they are right now [Applause] oh yeah yes yes that's it sister let it out yes yes of his government and peace there shall be no end which means the church will never see the day that we stop growing it is the will of god for the church to grow daily there will never be a day brother dowdy that we've done enough there'll never be a day when you've taken mattoon there'll be another town to take another county to take another city to take the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force that force is not physical force but spiritual it's time for us to take the kingdom mattoon is part of the kingdom it's not the city you live in it's not the city your church is in it's the city that exists only because the kingdom of god is in it the only reason this town can survive is because this church is here [Applause] no that's not arrogant i know there's other churches in this town i understand that but it's not arrogant it's the truth the bride of christ by the only way biblically possible to be the bride of christ water baptism in jesus name the infilling of the holy ghost evidenced by speaking in other tongues it is not negotiable and it's not something that you do just as a celebration of your walk with god you have no walk with god without either of those you know what in a minute i want you come get this mic start prophesying i don't care how far out it sounds in your head when it hits till you prophesied not lord if we're believing for this it will be so this will be this whatever you prophesy we're going to amend it and everybody in this room that you've got a need in your body you need to be healed you want to touch from god if you believe what this man's prophesied god will touch your body while he's prophesying i'm not laying hands on you not i made tomorrow i thought i was going to lay hands on every sick person in here tonight but the holy ghost just told me no if you believe that this man under his authority and submitted to the bishop and this man's leadership and authority in this church leading you forward if you believe he's got a word from god about where you're going as a church i'm going to tell you something for some of you for your family's sake you better believe it whatever this man prophesies you better start hoping and praying right now that he prophesies broad enough that it covers everybody you know and love and whatever the word is it comes out of his mouth in a minute if you'll buy into it the only other time i ever did this the lord said ask the bishop of that church had had a promise from god for a hundred million dollars and he said it that night during service and you could feel a few people kind of like what and when i the lord spoke to me he said everybody that'll believe that with him i'll heal their body it's the only time i've ever been told to do that before right now a man who had had seven major back surgeries was taking 3200 milligrams of methadone a day for pain it was the highest legal amount he could take couldn't hardly walk a hundred million dollars he believed for it he got up i saw him when he stood up i didn't know a story and he and you could tell he was hurting and he just started trying to jump a little bit and in a minute his feet started his heels were coming up in a couple of minutes he was leaping and in that moment god instantly healed that man's back there was no trace he had ever had back surgery at all but hold on now it gets better all he was doing he he said later he said i'm thankful for my healing but i was mostly i just wanted to be a part of what god's doing if god and and the deal was that hundred million dollars they already had a plan for where it was going to be used around the world for the gospel sake not for that preacher personally for that church to send ministries all over the world he said i'm too old to go but i'm believing for that money so god can send some of these others that are able and young enough to go and it's just going to be powerful he didn't know that his daughter's two daughters had entered him in some sweepstakes two weeks after that miracle he got a call he won 21 million dollars that's only two people in the joint that believes that the rest of y'all ain't going to get a dime or a doughnut a sweepstake 21 million dollars after he took a lump sum and he left with 14 million and then he got another letter in the mail a few days later from some joint over in london and his daughter had entered him into a european sweepstake seven million dollars all god said was i'll heal your body but his faith made him whole his physical situation had drained him financially he didn't have a dime he had nothing that same anointing i really feel it in here i feel like there's some people in this room brother doubted that in time past recent years have been through some things and it's depleted them emotionally mentally physically financially even spiritually and if they'll buy into the vision and by buying into it i'm talking about whether you feel like it or not if you'll make your way to the front when the man of god starts to prophesy over this city this county this region just start prophesying if you'll if you'll let your faith go and realize that of his government and his peace there shall be no end and make your mind up tonight i'm going to let his government and his kingdom cover me i'm going to let the increase of his kingdom come to my house i'm going to let the increase of his kingdom cover my body i'm going to let the increase of his kingdom heal my mind i'm going to let the increase of his kingdom go 13 states over and find my children tonight i'm going to let the increase of his kingdom go into the future and prepare the way ahead of my family i'm going to let his kingdom increase into my past and heal me of all the shame of my past we either believe him to be that god or we don't [Applause] these signs shall again it's a definitive statement follow them that believe i got one amen yes over here these signs shall follow them that believe [Applause] you know why the church is still here because on that ascension day he left us hope we're still faithful we're still hanging on we're still holding on we still won't let go let up or back off because jesus said i'm going to prepare a better place for you i'm going to prepare a place that you can come and be with me forever and through every storm and every attack and every assault and every trial the church has survived because deep down inside of us no we're not perfect no we haven't got it all figured out yes we're human yes we fail yes we have our problems but we also have a hope that's greater than our problems i've got a hope that's greater than my children's failure i've got a hope that's greater than my failure i've got a hope in him the lord will work the question is it has always been who's going to let him now i'm going to tell you i'm fixing to go to my seat somebody come play something melodious or fast-paced or whatever my god what a bearing place no musicians fire that b3 up my god oh whatever you can just get on good brother just fine looking specimen if you are willing to let god tonight he will that's all i can tell you 2020 was not the worst year you've ever had it was the best year you've ever had because if you're standing in this building you made it through and if you're not in this building and you've gone on to glory you've reached your reward it's been a good year and it's time we stop feeling sorry for ourselves and just get on with it it's been a good year god has been good to us every day and every minute and every hour of all this past 2020. and it just gets better from here and tomorrow is going to be better and the next day is going to be better and the next day because you are going to see the revealing of the power of god through you like you've never seen it before now the humanity is gathering they're ready to go they're waiting on a word brother daddy i'm not trying to put you on the spot 27 years you've had some things come in your mind 27 years you've seen some things 27 years and all the years before that that you were here there's promises that are lying on the shelf waiting for a time not because somebody didn't believe them but been waiting on the right time to manifest themselves and come to fruition every promise that god's ever made this church he is going to fulfill it before the end time i don't care if you speak three things it don't matter you don't have to have 30 things [Music] i don't care if it's one thing when you prophesied when you began to speak god is releasing divine supernatural power and anointing and the gifts of the spirit drug addicts are going to sober up and find their way into this building the alcoholic is going to come to that door drunk as they can be and when they open that outside door and step in god's going to sober them up people whose minds are torn all to pieces with problems when they get in the presence of god their minds are going to be clear and god's going to fill them with the baptism of the holy ghost because you haven't given up you haven't let up you have it backed off you stay true to the name brother dowdy come come speak a word whatever you play and keep doing it as your pastor begins to prophesy you begin to open your mouth you begin to open your spirit you begin to rejoice don't ask to be healed god's already told you he's going to do that but you begin to rejoice you begin to magnify god and worship over what god's about to do in this region [Music] hallelujah hallelujah i speak healing in this house i curse every minute of diabetes every bit of parkinson's every effect of coven in the name of jesus right now lord i ask you to raise up soul winners lord that would win a hundred souls lord i asked you right now lord to do it in this house every prodigal lord right now in the name of jesus lord we've been speaking this now for six months lord every particle lord send your angels out lord fill this house fill this house fill this house hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] hallelujah lord i prayed for financial blessing lord i ask for this to be paid off in a year lord we're asking you for big things lord hallelujah hallelujah lord i release the gifts of the spirit lord operate lord the gifts of healing and faith the gifted miracles lord i pray on every believer on the heart of every life learn in the name of jesus let us be that city that is set on a hill let us be the light o lord i pray god and every person that drives by every person that knows this city lord knows your name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah lord preachers and ministers learn to go out from this church lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah do it now do it now do it now do it now do it now hallelujah [Music] this land is not forsaken neither shall it be desolate oh there is a revival in this city god's people are going to be blessed like never before the devourer will be rebuked the plagues of these last days will not affect the people of god oh god is the source and he will pour out upon you blessing upon blessing oh in the name of jesus i prophesy that every bible study that's taught is on good ground it is received there is fruit in every bible study that is taught lost loved ones are saved they are going to be repentant every blinded eye spiritually is opening a spiritual awakening is coming in the middle of the night in the darkest hour lives are being changed lives are being transformed by the power of the holy ghost every unsubmitted spirit will be submitted every unteachable spirit will be taught [Music] god's people will be blessed by the millions hallelujah these buildings will be paid for oh there will be edifices there will be buildings that god is going to pay for to train people to mentor people to get the gospel out that the glorious gospel of the light is known not just cementing yoga humble they're coming there's coming a revival tuscola there's coming a revival [Music] the dead bones of this city are coming to life the dead bones of this city are coming to life all the surrounding cities it's coming to life ye are the light of the world a city set on a hill that cannot be in this city this church is a refuge for the laws they're going to come in there's going to be disciple making people that have never used their talents are going to be usable [Music] allah [Music] there's going to be an outpouring of the holy ghost people that you don't expect to be disciples of christ are going to be disciples those unsuspecting people oh they're gonna be talking they're gonna be baptized by immersion in the name of jesus [Music] the businesses of mattoon are gonna flourish there's gonna be entrepreneurs from this church all their businesses are gonna flourish oh in the name of jesus i prophesy that wombs are opening right now there's gonna be babies in this church this church is gonna grow physically and spiritually [Music] your dad's coming back in the name of jesus your mom's coming back in the name of jesus your sister in the name of jesus i prophesy they're making their way back home to the safety of the church [Music] [Applause] tumors are being removed their surgeries taking place in this altar not just tonight oh but there's going to be an overflow in the holy ghost healings miracles signs wonders all your families are going to receive the holy ghost prodigals are coming back and they're bringing their families god's positioning you he's putting you in places in the name of jesus that you're going to make a difference you're going to change the world the environment of your workplace the weak are being made foreign there's a generation rising up that's going to hold on to holiness and separation they're going to love it they're going to live it stronger than we've ever lived in before there's going to be a generation of worshipers that are rising up [Music] [Music] [Applause] to preachers are going to be restored to the ministry to the pulpit they're going to start preaching the gospel again all the memorial prayers of our mothers of our fathers that have gone on are being stirred right now oh there's a revival because of those memorial prayers there's healings there's salvation because of those memorial prayers there are young people there are children that are being trained in the word of god they're going to be able to defend the truth they're going to be able to speak it into somebody's life in their school in the corridors of the high school in the corridors of our elementary schools teachers are going to be converted because a child has told them about jesus they told him about the holy ghost and they need the holy ghost [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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