Final Night | Wednesday PM | Prayer Con 21

hallelujah glory to god you know it's in looking at this week um we've had a wonderful week god just keeps coming and you know we could look at it and go well you know i mean you know i see people saying well they really got something and you know maybe you'd say well you know i can't really say i really got something or maybe you didn't got something but maybe you did something maybe you made a real difference you know prayer prayer works on that kind of that basis a lot of times you pray and get an instant result but probably 99.999 percent of the time you pray and it shows up later that's why you pray and don't go by for well i don't know if i felt like i got anything we probably didn't feel like you got anything feeling's got nothing to do with it but when you pray believe you receive you shall have and all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer believing you shall receive prayer is what you do today for what you begin to see a harvest for tomorrow we've covered a lot of stuff in the last three and a half days we've covered a lot of things uh just following the leading of the holy ghost we've covered a lot of different things concerning our nation i've never seen a more unusual time never seen a more important never seen a more critical time uh than what we what we're living in this week i mean think about that just think what last week was just last week we had the the georgia runoffs we had the electoral college you know counting we in a week we had some really major things take place and then we had riots in the capital and we had buildings stormed and in one week's time there's been a lot of stuff going on you know if you haven't got anything to pray about just follow there's plenty to pray about and what god's need well why doesn't why didn't god fix it he'd love to if he'd just get somebody to ask him to god's limited by our prayer life it seems he can do nothing for humanity unless somebody asks him to he's just up there waiting if we don't ask he can't do something oh i don't know if i believe that or not well i do because the bible tells us i mean think about it think about it if if if you got a car here and supposing you made the mistake of giving somebody the key to your car okay give them the key to your car somebody could come to you and say well you know your car isn't parked in the bad spot would you go move it so i can't move it why can't you move it cause i gave somebody else the key you want to get it moved you're going to have to go to them i don't have the key i gave the key to them why doesn't god do something can't why can't he he gave the key to us we got the key to the thing if we don't open it we don't unlock it god's limit god's limited himself because he took the keys of the kingdom and he handed them to us matthew 28 18 all power is given unto me jesus said this all powers give this is after the resurrection all power is given unto me both in heaven and in earth go ye therefore he delegated that to us he said over there in ephesians the fourth chapter he said over in james the fourth chapter he said in first peter the fifth chapter you know resist the devil he'll flee from who please go flee from jesus right and i'll say that flee from you you resist he flees from you neither give place to the devil who's going to give him place if somebody does it's got to be you well i just think god let him do it god didn't let him do it god had done everything i think god allowed the devil to come and do this to me god didn't allow anything you'd like you allowed it why you got the keys you either lock the door or unlock the door see if we understand prayers on a it's this legal transaction with god where god's going i need some things done but i gave the keys to all you down there and for me to move down there and do what i want to do down there i need somebody down there to ask me to do it so please just just ask me just ask me we've spent three and a half days asking all kinds of stuff all i know is whether we see whether we got goose bumps or no bumps no matter all i know is in three and a half days we have all brought a supply in we've brought our supply and what we've brought in and planted in here god almighty god oh there's we haven't got time for that we'll do that in another prayer seminar but um you know you go back through there in the revelation fifth chapter i believe it is it says over there talked about over in heaven there there there's there's golden vials we say vases filled with the prayers of the saints golden vases in heaven marie woodworth etter talked about a man she knew that got caught up in a vision got cut up caught up over into heaven an angel has given him a tour up there many many years ago now and this came to this giant wall covered with all these beautiful vases and this fella said to the angel what what's that the angel said said oh those are the golden vials that's talked about in revelation filled with the prayers of the saints and they're filled up said there was just a week of prayer on earth last week we have more vials filled in heaven than we've ever had before well it's not god's trophy case what's he doing he's getting vials filled with requests and that gives him a legal right to grab those requests and come back down here i mean you stop thinking about it think of a nation that you might think would be very dark and closed well the devil's had rule and reign there yeah been doing a good job of it yeah but what if some wild crazy believer says i think i'm going to ask god to move in that country i'm going to take a nation they say you can't you can't work and you can't get anything done in but i think i'm going to ask god to move in there then every time you pray those prayers go up like incense and they go start filling these golden vases and they get them more and more filled more and more filled all of a sudden god's got a bunch of those and god takes those vases and he goes down to that dark nation and he walks in with all these invitations and the devil says you can't have this place i've had this for six thousand years you can't have it now and god says you had it for six thousand read it and weep because i got invitations from people who live down here just back up get out of my way because we're gonna storm this place with the invitations of the saints oh man when we start understanding what prayer is all about this is not a giving give me give me oh god you know just oh god i'm gonna try to twist your arm a little bit see if i get you to just you know give me a few crumbs of bread off the master stuff oh come on man we're doing business with god if we can just give him some some golden some golden vessels filled with prayers of the saints that's what we've been doing we've been filling vases this week well i haven't seen a lot happen i was going to say hide and watch no pray and watch and you're going to see some things i predict you're going to see some things in the days maybe months to come you're going to see some things happen in the world system out there and you're going to have a flashback you're going to go man i think we prayed about that back there at the prayer conference well oh you think this little group right here could make all that difference 120 changed the world in the upper room you think you can make a difference absolutely absolutely praise god hallelujah glory to god well let's open our bibles let's just cover a few things then this is this is uh the final night of this conference we're going to pray how about that let's look over at james chapter 5 james chapter 5. you know you get on the subject of prayer you just never run out the bible is a book about communion with god jesus the main major part of his ministry was prayer the apostle paul major part of his ministry was prayer he says i cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers and so on you look all the way through i mean you go back and uh you know you go back through so many different individuals i mean go back through we won't take time to go into it but if you go back over in first kings 17th chapter verse 1 you see there's a man named elijah prophet came out of nowhere he didn't have a lineage behind him it wasn't this one the son of this one that was the son of it wasn't a dynasty deal this this crazy prophet came out of nowhere you know and elijah said elijah the tishbite who is of the inhabitants of gilead that's all we know he where'd he come from gilead who's in gilead i don't know inhabitants i guess [Laughter] and a lie was he he's a tishbite what's a tishbite i don't know but he was one elijah the tishbite who was of the inhabitants of gilead he came and he stood before ahab think about that think about that they'd be like going and getting an appointment to stand before before adolf hitler and say i want to i want to rebuke you or mussolini or or one of these crazy people in the past what does he do he goes ahab he had a reputation the 16th chapter of of the book of first kings he had he had a reputation to be the most evil king in history and did more to aggravate god than any king had ever done how'd you like that reputation well what are you famous for aggravating god i had some days like that probably but but think about that and so that's what ahab is like and if you think he was evil you should meet his wife jezebel that's one bad woman i mean bad woman and and if if you know if ahab if he got all upset she'd find out who was upsetting him and she'd go kill him i mean this was she's a wicked woman okay and so you know you look at this and all of a sudden here comes this elijah the tishbite who is of the inhabitants of gilead think about that and he stands before the king and he said what's he say how did he how did he get before king i haven't the foggiest idea well i'm not looking for ways to do that myself but how did he do that it said and he stood before the king most wicked king in history stood before him and said i love this how'd he got that how he got there i don't know but he said as the lord god liveth which he liveth as the lord god liveth now notice what he said before anybody know what he said before whom i stand you can't walk like that if you don't stand like that you won't stand before kings if you don't stand before god as the lord god liveth before whom i stand there shall be neither doing or rain these years but according to my word how's he bold enough to say that to this wicked king he says as the lord god lives before whom i stand there'll be neither do nor rain neither do nor rain there will be no do there will be no rain but according to my word you know in other words what he's saying is listen listen jack beth whoever you are you've aggravated god and you're kind of not on my good side today and i want you to know i've stood before god and i've prayed and there's not going to be to do there's not going to be any rain if you ever want to shower again and probably could use one now if you could if you if you ever want if you ever want a good drink of cold water again i'm telling you right now you better not send your henchman out to try to kill me because if you kill me before i say something you're never going to have rain again the rest of your life i love this guy i just love it i love his attitude and that's an attitude stick with me here as the lord god liveth before whom i stand there shall be neither do nor rain these years but according to my word he just turned walked out and then you see the whole ministry but if you follow the ministry of elijah you see that what happened was he'd pray it out and walk it out he'd pray it out and walk it out he didn't just walk around just working miracles he prayed it out and walked it out he prayed it out he was a man before he was a man of this before he was a prophet he was a prayer some people want to be prayers you won't be praying excuse me some folks want to be a prophet or something else i'll tell you what no he's trying to be one of those really even if you're called to it no he's trying to be that if you're not a person a prayer to begin with that's just that's just the way it works okay it takes spiritual growth and development you can operate in all the gifts you want but they'll they're just hollow and sinking and powerless and all that if you're not praying and walking in love so anyway anyway now notice what's i'm in the wrong chapter wait a minute here i'm still back in ecclesiastes 11. uh what did i say james 5. james 5 let's go to verse 7. james says here we'll go a few minutes here well i'm just going to throw out some direction then we're going to pray i know i've been saying that for three days but anyway we see back here in james now notice it says in james chapter 5 verse 7 he says be patient don't you just love it when god says be patient like somebody said i used to pray for patience until i read the bible said tribulation worketh patience i quit praying got enough tribulation i don't want that more of that now he says be patient therefore brethren he's writing to the church this is not writing to the world telling the world you'll be patient don't be patient therefore brethren unto what the coming of the lord well which coming is that probably not the first one if he's writing to brethren he's already got people saved so it can't be the first coming he's got to be in this text talking about the return of jesus okay well now is this the return of jesus's the rapture of the church well i'm not going to split hairs over that but my guess is he's talking about coming back and the catching away of the church what we call the rapture of the church we're not going to argue about that tonight faust but anyway it looks to me like that's what he's talking about be patient therefore brethren under the coming of the lord behold the husbandman the landman the farmer what's any farmer wait for harvest behold the husband waits for the precious fruit of the earth not just fruit but precious fruit not precious not just precious fruit of of of india precious fruit of africa precious fruit of asia no precious fruit of america no precious fruit of the earth if it's not earth it's not god god doesn't think nation only god thinks world only and then he reduces it down by call for nations but now be patient therefore brethren under the coming of the lord behold the husband man the land man the farmer wait what does the farmer wait for the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth what's any farmer wait for waits for a crop i don't know much about farming my dad had a small farm oh up until i was about six years old and we moved into town he went to work in the insurance business moved into town but up until that point my grandparents had a farm my uncle had a farm my dad had small farms up there in southern michigan so i was around farming enough to know what a farm looks like and i do know just enough to know that a farmer's not gonna make it very long if he doesn't get a harvest if he doesn't get a crop it's pretty easy all right now behold the husbandman you want to know but you want to know about the return of jesus i want to go somewhere with this you want to know about the return of jesus he said the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth and he has long patience for it until he receives the early and the latter reign be on verse 8 be also patience establish your hearts for the coming of the lord draweth nigh now you take those two verses and put them together what's god talking about here what i want us to all right i i think it's time for us to refocus we need tonight to refocus we need to get off of uh we need to get off the inauguration and a week from today inauguration i understand that uh we need to get uh uh oh my goodness look what happened today you know we are our president he was you know he was convicted so far of you know these these so far uh crimes and all and and you know we've got another impeachment so let's take all this we could talk about it we could be concerned about it we could worry about it and all this let's take the impeachment and the inauguration let's take both of these and put them over here to the side and let's focus on something different let's just readjust our focus let's let's let's let's let's focus like christians how about that okay now notice in here god through james doesn't talk about the local government system he doesn't talk about the political issues he doesn't talk about wars and rumors of wars he doesn't doesn't talk about riots and doesn't talk about no okay now i'm not i'm i don't mean to belittle those things i'm saying sometimes we have to back up and focus the year i went to drama um 1974 where we met doesn't even exist anymore it's probably because that's where we met i know we had a crazy group 58 of us but anyway we were in this little chapel uh beside of sheridan road assembly up on sheridan up by 244 and uh and and i remember uh at one particular point they were taping videotaping every every one of our classes i'm sure they're still in the archives somewhere but they're videotaping all this and and uh a lot of things changed the economy went a little crazy everything changed back at brother hagin's main office up on north utica and so some of the guys that were running these cameras had to go back and work in the the main office of course back there so they one day they asked if they could there were a couple guys that could come and volunteer to run tv cameras well i i you know i i've always had this i don't know if it's an ability i don't know if it's good bad ugly now i've always had this ability to just read a book read stuff and memorize it long enough to take the test and then just delete it all that's how i got through college [Laughter] i did i did couldn't remember it the next week but i'd get through the tag i had good grades in college but anyway somehow but so but but so i thought i don't i don't need to take notes i can listen and i can i can absorb all that so i thought that's what i'm gonna do so i volunteered to run the tv cameras and that's what got me the job working for brother hagin which was the beginning of a 30-year relationship with my my father in the face just by learning to run those cameras but i can remember they took us back a couple of us back there and i can remember they put us on those cameras they had they'd be antiques by now we they put us on those cameras and i still remember dale up in the sound booth up there and he'd he'd tell us he said now we got to get you focused what you need to do is he says i'll have you i'll have you zoom in to something and then change the focus and then zoom back out but if you if you'll zoom in on what i want you to see when you zoom back out the most important thing will be focused you can see everything but the most important part will be focused okay now if you never run a camera then that doesn't relate a whole lot to you but at the same time i believe that's where we're at right now i believe god's going there's really important things everything out here is important but there's some things we need to focus we've got to get our focus on so what i'm going to do is i believe he wants to he wants us to zoom in on these things adjust the focus so that that thing right there whatever it is we get so focused on that when we zoom back out you can see everything but that is in a perfect focus i believe god's wanting us right now to zoom in and go okay we've been we got a lot of things going but let's get a focus on this thing all right so what are we going to focus on i don't know about you i want to focus on what he's talking to me about what's he saying what is the focus here here's something what what is the focus today what's the most what's the most important thing today whoa oh it's elections no uh it's it's uh nations no uh it's masks no it's virus no what's the most important thing today the return of jesus everything everything everything we do ought to be with the back of our mind something back here focusing on jesus is coming back that's it that's just it if we've lost focus on that we're going to just bounce around out here on all kinds of things we're going to get hoodwinked we're going to get lied to we're going to get messed up but if we keep our focus on the focus all right what's he say he said what he starts out here he says be patient therefore brethren writing to the church be patient therefore brother and unto what the coming of the lord okay zoom in focus zoom back out everything everything around here is good but my man the the most clear the clearest thing in my mind is the fact jesus coming back pastor janice told me you know growing up in a in a pentecostal church ah she's basically said if i get it right i don't think they ever had a service where her dad didn't finish up as the pastor saying jesus is coming back soon would that be pretty much correct yeah you guys grew up with that mark same thing you remember that every week you know now a lot of folks scared the thunder out of him he'd come back to this he could come this weekend i'm probably not ready to go but but that was the message and here we are a couple years later the focus hasn't changed but if we if we don't watch it we get so earthly minded we don't tap into heavenly truths be patient therefore brother and unto the coming of the lord where are we going with this i'll tell you in a minute be patient therefore brethren under the coming of the lord that's the focus well back up a little bit what's the next layer behold the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth what's the next layer we want jesus to come back but he's not coming back till he gets harvest until god gets the harvest off his seed jesus called himself in the john's gospel i think the 12th chapter called himself a seed seed of corn that fell to the earth and and and brought forth much fruit so the the focus is the the return of jesus the catching away of the church the rapture of the church and then you back up well we got to keep looking as there's other stuff out here back up just a notch what do you get what's going to lead to that harvest the husband waits for the precious fruit of the earth what's gonna what's gonna bring jesus back oh you know he's coming back he's coming back when israel comes down and and the nations attack israel and no no no no i get all that some i get some i don't get but see if we don't watch it we would go oh everything's around everything's around ezekiel 38 and 39 where everything no no no that's good that's in there that's important but what's the focus the focus is he's coming back for the church the most important thing is he's coming back what's he coming back for he's coming back for the precious fruit of the earth he's coming back for the harvest off his seed whoa back up a little oh refocus again back up one more step what's going to bring that harvest oh god we need of ours oh god we need oh god no the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth and he has long patience for that until he receives the early and the latter rain i mean god's made this so easy all you got to do is have the sense of a farmer you want to harvest you want your money you got to have a harvest you have a harvest you have to have rain that's what he's talking about so we gotta have rain what's rain oh that's what i want to land on for a few minutes tonight we're going we are going to take time to pray for the rain that's where we're headed we're going to pray for the rain this is this is this is all about jesus coming back you know i mean yeah i i'm looking forward to what we're going to see in the next few years but even so first load i'm out of here he's coming back and i'm checking out with him i'll fly away oh glory okay yeah there's things i want to see a lot of things i want to do but are you kidding me yeah now he's waiting for the precious fruit of the earth and he has long patience for until he receives the early and the latter rain rain brings in the harvest harvest brings back jesus if you want jesus to come back get involved in the rain how do you get involved in the rain look a little further in that chapter elijah here we are with him again elijah was a man subject to like passion and he prayed he was a man subject to like passion as we are he's just as human as us one man prayed and the heavens stopped rain elijah was a man subject to like passion as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by a space of three years and six months james 5. one man one normal guy not even saved prayed and stopped the rain but then it says but he prayed again and the heaven gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit god's trying to get something across to us is you want jesus coming back he's coming back for harvest harvest comes in because you get rain rain comes in because you pray i can't bring in i can't make it rain i can't bring in the harvest i can't make jesus come back but i can pray i can pray what am i going to pray for rain rain oh we get on the subject we stay a lot rain well what's rain in fact a little better zechariah 10 1 says ask now this is so important he said ask give the lord rain in the time of the latter rain well i've been praying for the rain 40 for you know 45 years no you're early you got to pray for the rain in the time of harvest that's when you want the latter rain to come you don't want it to come in the middle of that season before it's just wasted rain wait until the rain has something to fall on so you can get a harvest of all that so zechariah 10 1 ask you the lord rain ask give the lord rain is it interesting he said to ask whoa god if you want it to rain just rain rain no i got to wait for you to ask why because you got the keys you got the keys the vehicle's sitting there but you got the keys to it nobody else can make this thing run if you'll ask for rain i can make it rain but i got to do it by invitation god's holy but he's also just he doesn't move out of line he's not devil's never going to be able to go this is my earth and you messed it up adam gave it to me and you came and stole stuff out of it never going to happen god's going to be able to hold out those golden vials and go listen and weep i did everything by invitation so let's find a place to close down on this rain what is rain well uh let me get hosea chapter six verse six verse two it says back there after after two days he'll revive us and the third day see with god a day is a thousand years so you could say after two thousand years he's gonna revive us it's been just about two thousand years since jesus was here the first time okay after two years two days maybe two days or two thousand years after two thousand years god's gonna revive us and somewhere in that third day he's gonna raise us up somewhere about the end of two thousand years over into the beginning of the third thousand years there's gonna be he said after two days he'll revive us there's gonna be a great revival oh there's dark clouds been praying about that oh there's going to be pop maybe wars and rumors yeah we've been praying about that all this stuff going on we've been praying about that but take all that set that aside focus on what there is a rain coming why because we've been praying about it after two days after two days he'll revive us the third day he'll raise us up will live in his sight now verse three if we now stick with me here if we follow on then to know the lord we'll know his goings forth shall be prepared for us just as sure as the morning and he god this is the part we're looking for he god shall come to us human earth as the rain the former and the latter rain to the earth what's rain it's god coming oh yes i've had people go yes brother i know but you have to understand god came on the day of pentecost and so we've already got you think we've got all god there is you don't think there's some of god left in heaven think about that my goodness we get our little pee brains working we get everything all figured out you know and no no no no if we follow on then to know the lord we'll know as going forth shall be prepared for us just assure us in the morning and he god shall come to us he's already come yeah but this part says he'll come to us as the rain rain you ever get an oklahoma gully washer everything gets flooded every crack every crevice every i mean it just it just flood you how about was it a year year and a half ago when when when they thought we were going to have another katrina here in oklahoma because they thought the dam was going to break and all this rain and all this think about that and then multiply it by a million and watch god come with that kind of power watch god come to us as the rain as surely as i live all the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the lord as the waters cover the sea wait until god just pours out his reign there's not a dry spot on earth there's not a dry place there's not an unwatered crop there's not anywhere any place it's not going to get just flooded inundated with the presence and power and glory of almighty god okay now just as an example um going back to 1980 let's see 1987 probably 1986 to 1987. i remember brother hagin was doing when he was in town he was doing weekly wednesday night weekly prayer meetings and pastor janet and i you know every time we were in town we'd try to go we'd go to these prayer meetings and he's teaching on prayer and then he's praying he'd teach on prayer and then he'd pray teach on prayer and then he'd pray we got to the end of those prayer meetings we get to the end and i mean all of it got to where all of a sudden he'd say um hey listen he had to be about 87. you get to end into that and he'd get ready to close and go wait wait wait wait wait wait he said no he says the holy ghost arrested me we can't stop we got to pray we've already prayed he said no we got to pray we got to pray for the rain in fact we got to pray for the rain on europe got to pray for the rain i mean he got specific we need to pray for the rain but we're going to pray for the rain on europe i mean week after week we'd pray for the rain oh god send the rain on your god send the rain god send the rain we're thrilled because god had just called us to work in europe and it was a it was ezekiel's dry bones god had called us to work in the continent of europe and it was some hard plowing and and all sudden brother hagin's pla he's got everybody praying for the rain to fall in europe now western europe was was one thing eastern europe was still under that old communist devil communism is the devil in case you ever wondered it's not it's not a it's not a political platform it's a it's a spirit communism is a demon okay now now if you don't think so talk to somebody that's lived over there now so so we're doing all this praying and we prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed i had to be 87 to get over into 88 you know and and all of a sudden november 9th 1989. i remember some of you may remember when president reagan stood up said mr gorbachev take down that wall love that man i'm telling you what president reagan i love that man when he stood up there and he said mr gorbachev take down that wall we'd seen that wall we'd been under it we came up under the bad side of it we'd come up under the communist side they got 12 year old kids with ak 47 standing there acting like they think they're god trying to intimidate you and you know give you a one day pass or just a horrible fear-driven system but we'd been in there a number of times and and uh but all of a sudden november 9 1989 we'd been there about two weeks before come back home we're watching the news and all of a sudden we're watching chunks of the berlin wall we'd already knocked some chunks off ourselves didn't know if we were supposed to or not guards didn't either so they didn't shoot us but all of a sudden we look and we see huge sections of the berlin wall coming down you could have stood there and prophesied the system will come down as quickly as the wall does and i'll put it this way when that wall came down and communism began to fall east germany romania bulgaria czechoslovakia through all these eastern european communist bloc countries when all of a sudden everything opened up when all that started to open up the rain started to fall i don't know how to describe it other than it was like going from hell into heaven it was like going from darkness into light all of a sudden when the rains i'm telling you this because this is what we're yeah that's what we're praying about and we're going to pray about this tonight we're going to pray about this for our nation we've been talking about dark clouds we've been talking about all this other craziness going on we're going to finish this thing up we're going we're going to finish it up praying for rain we're going to pray for rain we've been praying about the problem let's start praying a little more about the answer oh my goodness i'm telling you we we we'd go over there and when everything opened up uh somebody sent us a check for five thousand dollars and told us it's designated it for language study we went to a brilliant school in in dallas went there we each got our own individual um teacher for for a week yeah you're going to learn a language in a week it is funny isn't it it's like yeah sure yeah i go speak german in a week absolutely we could ask for directions didn't really know what they were saying when they gave them to us we could order food and restaurants and we could we could read maps and get different places we went back over there we flew into berlin rented a car and we took off all over east germany we ended up driving through czechoslovakia we i mean we drove it we drove a lot of places over there the mercy of god's an amazing thing but i'll tell you we started going places and this this place that had been so dead and dry and demonic and these poor people living under that for 50 years a godless government and all of a sudden the rain started to fall when the rain started to fall everything changed everything changed when the rain started to fall everything changed we we went into um sofia bulgaria got invited in there don't know how that happened we got invited in and here's a city where the you know people have been locked up and and put into prison just for just because they spoke english so they must be a spy horrible system but all of a sudden all sudden it started raining we went and did a meeting in a church there i don't know where the church was i can close my eyes and see it it was like being in i don't wasn't in a basement but it was so dark and dingy it felt like a basement probably i don't know two three four hundred people in there power god fell in there people were getting healed and running to the front people are out there getting the heel in their bodies i can still remember two little old ladies i thought i was seeing double they looked exactly like find out later their twins these little old ladies these long coats and they're running up to the front both of them got healed in the back ran to the front people getting healed of all kinds of things people getting saved people being filled with the holy ghost right over there in in sofia bulgaria we knew people knew of people put it that way that went in other cities in bulgaria and had what we call evangelistic crusades i've heard about people said they'd go into small towns and the whole town would get saved they'd go into these places and saw the greatest miracles they'd ever seen in their lives they said people that had broken their arms and their arms were all twisted around backward power god would come on him and their the wrist would come back around and right in front of everybody's eyes the arm would straighten out heard about one fellow was preaching and he's praying for the sick and a lady came up there she'd lost all four fingers on one hand and he she came up there this guy's ready to pray for anything that's raining it's raining when it's raining anything will grow even if it's fingers prayed for that lady word we weren't there but i believe it by the next night she came back they said they had her come up on the platform because everybody had seen her the previous night she came back on the platform and she stood up there and she raised both hands and overnight she'd grown two brand new fingers on that hand and they said word i got was before he could give an invitation sixteen thousand people rushed to the front to receive jesus it was raining it was raining it was raining pastor janet and i we went to a little place in liberates czechoslovakia got invited to do a meeting we thought we were going to go preach in a church find out we were going to do an evangelistic crusade i thought dear lord jesus i'm anything but an evangelist but paul told timothy do the work of one i figured if he could i could we went to an uh open amphitheater cold it was so cold we saw snow snowflakes coming it was cold that night went in there we were there was it two nights or three i think it was three nights went in there i don't know six seven hundred people eight hundred i have no no clue no idea preached a simple really simple gospel my interpreter didn't know english so it makes it a little difficult i said just follow me and i looked at this bible that had never been opened before i thought boy we're in trouble preach like a 10-minute message on jesus the double care he'll save you from your sins and he'll heal your broken body preach that maybe in 10 minutes time and i said no it's cold i'm gonna pray a mass prayer and the leader of the thing says oh no we've got posters up all over town we've advertised uh individual ministry to the sick i said you want us to stay out here and pray for all these people it was hours before i could feel my toes again it's cold out there but i'm telling you what we started laying hands on people and the power of god was hit folks oh my word there were people and there's something you get in a spot like that and you get bigger than yourself there are people that come up you know with a cane and you'd ask through one interpreter there's one here to tell you what's wrong another one here to tell you what happened and and you said what's wrong so well you know i can't move my leg my leg's paralyzed and you get ready to pray and all of a sudden you hear yourself grab the cane grab it and say move it and they'd look at you go move it and they man oh it's amazing watch people that you take their cane and they'd take that leg and they'd they'd start kicking it about the third kick all of a sudden it'd work and they'd turn walk away i mean paralyzed limbs being healed and blind eyes open and deaf ears opening and and this went on for three nights in there and i thought i'm not an evangelist but we're in the rain we're in the rain when you're in the rain everything grows that was in that was in czechoslovakia that was in romania we we we had meetings in uh east germany people getting healed of all kinds of things most amazing thing but i said all that to say when it started raining everything changed and all god said was ask give the lord rain in the time of the latter rain he didn't care what country it is we spent a long time praying for rain in in particular in eastern europe and when it came in it exploded whole towns are getting saved because did i see larry back there weren't you guys was it borges vorgas were you weren't you there right after the wall came down was it good it was they lived there vargas borges bulgaria yeah you're over there when all this was exploding was it as good as everybody said better living proof right there hallelujah it's been a long wait and through a long dry season but now it's time for the rain and if the church will rise up and lift their voice and begin to cry out for the rain it'll rain and it'll rain and it'll rain and it'll rain and what took place over there will take place here and the miracles that happen there will happen here and there will be signs and there'll be wonders and mighty deeds shall be done and the church shall rise up in the midst of all hell breaking loose the church will rise up and we'll take off and run yeah whoa just bear with me [Music] it's real i'm telling you it's real it's real it's you took out something by the holy ghost tongue interpretation just ask it do you hallelujah glory to god [Laughter] go ahead lift your hands at this atmosphere lift your hands in this atmosphere because there's something falling and i'm going to shoot you in the direction that i've called you i'm going to send you forth in the direction that i have for you and some of you are going to say no no no it couldn't be me i just work at my job and i just do this it's just a small little thing that i do no no when the rain falls when the rain falls when the rain falls i'm sending you i'm sending you [Music] this isn't a time to back up and say no no this isn't me i can't do this no no this isn't me i can't do this but repent says the lord and turn around because i'm turning you into a new place i'm changing your heart and i'm sending you into the dry and the dead places and i'm putting fire in your hands and i'm sending you now in this place so lift your hands in this atmosphere and receive from heaven and it's in this atmosphere where you become more aware of where you're seated you're seated in me you're seated in me at the right hand of the father so there's things that i'm speaking to your heart right now there's things i'm imparting into your spirit right now it's in this atmosphere it's in this atmosphere of faith for the rain it's in this atmosphere of pulling on my spirit of pulling on my manifest presence where you become more aware of where you are seated [Music] laced lace in my spirit is breathing in something in you something fresh right now imparting something into you something fresh right now to walk into this new season of rain [Music] receive receive and receive by faith receive by faith because this new and fresh anointing is not just coming by the laying on of hands but it's coming by my presence falling on you in this in this atmosphere [Music] so now is your time who now is your time now is the time for the church now is the time for the body now is the time for you who now is the time now is the time those things that you have been crying for in the former are going to multiply in this season the things you have been crying out for that you saw years and years and years ago the former oh but the latter but the latter so lift your hands and say yes because now is your time in this place hallelujah glory to god yes yeah [Music] [Music] [Music] oh yeah [Music] um let's all stand to our feet and lift keep our hands lifted up [Music] receptive to receptive ah thank you thank you my my yes yes yes yes yes lord we say yes yes yes yes yes yes we're in agreement with your spirit hallelujah oh my and now lord out of our beings there's a depth of a cry for rain lord reign on our nation reign on our nation my god reign on our nation reign on our nation lord you did it you did it on eastern europe you did it done east germany you did it on romania you did it on bulgaria you did it on poland you did it on czechoslovakia you did it on albania you did it on the ukraine you did it on on lithuania latvia you did it on estonia you rained all over you've not run out of rain you're just looking for the place we pray this will be the place now is the time and we're the people rain rain rain rain oh lord just like we prayed back in 87 even into 88 we prayed we prayed we prayed we prayed and we prayed and the land just kept looking dry and dry and dry and dry and dry but suddenly suddenly there was a natural event called the wall then there was a spiritual event called the rain and you rained on that and you rained on that continent you rained you rained on eastern europe you rained and then suddenly churches were birthed not even in the hundreds but in the thousands even into the tens of thousands oh yeah cities were changed masses were born again miracles were wrought unusual demonstrations of the holy ghost but it all started it started with somebody praying it started with the praying it started with praying praying for the rain yeah so we pray again reign on our nation reign on our nation oh we're but lord we're back on our focus we've got our focus we've got our focus it's about the return of jesus it's about the return of jesus it's about the harvest of souls it's about the rain falling it's about us praying for rain oh my my this is the place this is the place my it's in your presence that's where fullness of joy is it's in it's in this it's in this uh it's in this atmosphere oh charged charged atmosphere charged atmosphere [Music] yes [Music] lord i've heard there's never been any such thing as rain without electrical discharge i'm not a scientist so i don't know but i've heard there's never any been any such thing as rain without electrical discharge rain on us and the lightnings of god as john lake said the lightnings of god will flow through the hands of men my my my bodies will be healed minds made right yes the lame will walk the death will hear and the blind will receive their sight the dead will be raised and mighty deed shall be done the church will quit crawling will rise up and run oh my my we were born to live in such an hour we were born to run in your demonstration of your power ha hallelujah rain on us rain on us oh no no no we don't want to misinterpret misunderstand or mis-speak that when we say your lord reign on us what we're saying is reign on our nation now we don't want to be selfish about it but it just seems that that's what this meeting is about yes oh we long for china we long for france we long for uh we long for the south american nations we lord we long for for turkey we oh yeah oh no doubt about that but there's something right now lord there's a cry of the spirit all hell has tried to stop this nation all hell has tried to sidestep this nation all hell has tried to divide this nation but the answer is rain the answer so rain rain rain so we corporately we lift our voice and we say lord rain rain on us rain on us rain on us rain on our land rain on our land rain on our land north south east west on every hand rain on our land rain on our land rain in the heartland rain in the eastern seaboard rain on the western seaboard rain on the southern coast rain on the northern border rain on our land rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain [Applause] yes rain rain rain rain my mind yes and in the rain oh my my power gifts power gifts whoa power gifts oh my my mighty demonstrations mighty mighty mighty mighty oh no no not the things that have heard before but the things that have never yet been told oh when the rain starts falling your children get bold ah my my your men and women will rise up step into their race even the children will step into their place oh miracles in children's church and miracles in the youth miracles in the adults miracles in the prime timers miracles miracles miracles unusual demonstrations oh yeah yes yes and almost what we'd call a deluge a deluge of special faith oh my there will be men and women that will rise up oh yeah almost kind of quiet individuals but everywhere they go special faith will come into manifestation special faith special faith special faith and then and then those those people those those those those other individuals oh some will be apostles some prophets but a lot of evangelists they'll be walking in what we call working in miracles working in miracles and they'll not just have miracles happen in their meetings they'll stand and work miracles they'll stand and work miracles stand and work miracles yes and somebody with a stub of an arm left they'll grab that stub and yank on it and the whole arm will grow out in front of everybody's eyes [Music] miracles shall be worked worked oh no it doesn't just happen not just gifts of healings but working oh yeah oh yeah special faith will come in like a deluge working in miracles will come like an explosion [Music] working in miracles will be as prominent across the nation and even on nationwide television working in miracles will be as prominent as word of knowledge was in the days gone by ah but the church is gonna rise up yeah we're gonna mount up with wings as eagles we're going to fly my oh my oh my oh my this is not the time to be afraid or to be weak or to be scared this is time to rise up and say oh no i was born for this time i was born for this day i was born for this hour i was born to move in this way and the things i've seen in my spirit from days of old the things that i've even heard somebody came and to me they told oh and i've waited year after year and year after year finally gave up thought it'll never happen here but oh i'll step on it up and i'll step out in because soon these things are going to begin yeah the dark clouds will roll oh my my and there's some bad things that are coming our way but the church will rise up and operate in a whole new way yeah oh my afraid of nothing not an ounce of fear yeah because we know the angels of god are right here and near my mind undeniable undisputable unarguable miracles oh yeah even the hardest even the hardest in what we call the media will fall on their face and say oh god forgive me i've been so wrong [Music] oh yes and you'll remember that these things were spoken preached and prophesied in this meeting and in this time you'll remember these things were spoken by his power and you knew it because the presence was divine and you get down the road and you look back and say i remember when that was said i'm bold as a lion i don't have anything to dread when the forces of darkness try to come my way [Music] oh my my my shh all i know is they got to do what i say oh yeah and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony i'll have what i say in the days to come and when i say it and declare it the devils will run yeah ah i'm a child of almighty god i'm related to the king of kings [Music] and into my future angels are bringing some very unusual things creative miracles creative miracles copiously creative miracles oh monumental things creative miracles before our very eyes it's all going to be done we're not even going to have to try we just lean back and move with the flow into his presence we just continue to go swi oh my my yeah hallelujah no oh many would say oh could that be up could that be me could that be me could that be me no it's up to you yeah it's your choice if you want to be free to move over in the things of the spirit and go with the supernatural flow all it takes is to take time to pray and the holy one take time to get to know separate yourself from the things that would pull you away and make a decision everything changes today all i wants is power and i just want it in this hour i'm not ready to wait 20 more years i wanted to start working even today [Music] so this is time not to wonder in doubt this is time [Laughter] to rejoice and shout [Music] [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah glory glory glory glory glory glory glory glory glory glory you got anything baby anything no you clear you know friend of mine said one time he said you know you're getting a place in the service sometimes to say more or to be to say less sometimes god's pretty much got everything said he wants to said now it's like what are we gonna do with it it's kind of like god's saying tag you're it what you gonna do what you gonna do what you gonna do what you gonna do what you're going to do what you're going to do god i'm going to obey you i don't care what it costs me i don't care about the price all i care about is the race and i'm making my choice oh my my my my hoof [Music] let it drain let it rain it rain let it rain hope in the gates of heaven let it rain let it rain hope in the floodgates of heaven [Music] let it rain let it rain open the floodgates of heaven let it rain let it rain let it rain let it rain let it rain oh [Music] let it rain let it rain let it rain on every state across america let it read on every church across america little business [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] hallelujah we thank you for the rain we ask you and we will continue to ask you for the rain for it is time for the reign of your spirit [Music] it is time the time is now never before has there been such an hour ah but now now is the time it's time for your rain it's time for your rain it's time for your rain this is the time this is the hour and the time is now hallelujah hallelujah oh we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you rain we thank you for the rain we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you [Music] [Applause] we [Music] is [Applause] [Music] is thank you [Applause] is [Music] the blood because of the blood hallelujah for the rain let it rain let it rain let it rain in the east let it rain in the south may it rain in the north and then the west and all across the midwest we thank you for the rain only you consider rain but we know that that's what you want to do is [Music] to go [Music] do [Music] so this morning actually i know so watching georgia she tagged me in a post it was a quote from billy graham what a wise man what a hero of the faith i believe he's cheering us on from the other side she tagged me in a post and it was a quote from billy graham this is the quote no matter how foreboding the future the christian knows the end of the story and it is glorious don't lose heart the best to come [Music] [Applause] [Music] remember the words billy graham no matter how foreboding the future the christian knows the end of the story and it is glorious ominous will be swallowed up in glorious ominous will be swallowed up in glorious ominous will be swallowed up in glorious in the rain [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] let it rain let it rain let it rise it rain let it rain let it rain [Music] dr billy graham says best is yet to come in my words we ain't seen nothing yet we didn't see nothing yet pardon my grammar we ain't seen nothing yet you ain't seen nothing yet you ain't seen nothing yet you haven't seen anything yet [Music] you haven't seen anything yet can you play it shall reign [Music] china china china china it's gonna rain it's gonna rain in china [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh let it rain let it rain [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] it's gonna rain and it's gonna rain in new york it's gonna rain in new york it's gonna rain in philly it's gonna rain in philadelphia it's gonna rain it's gonna rain it's gonna rain it's gonna rain it's gonna rain it's gonna rain it's gonna rain it's gonna rain wherever you're from it's gonna rain it's gonna rain in colorado [Music] of all places it's gonna rain [Music] yes [Music] spirit the reign of your power you've reserved your reserves for this [Music] oh we thank you we thank you we thank you for the rain we thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh thank you thank you for the rain you know before the rain comes sometimes it gets really dark you ever notice that clouds start moving in the sky gets dark but then the rain starts falling and the darkness is swallowed up by the rain there's nothing better than the smell of the rain after the rain the air there's just a there's a freshness about it [Music] it's about to rain it's about to rain it's about to rain [Music] well one more time let's lift our hands and thank god thank god [Music] it's like she said there's nothing like the smell of rain you know you can smell it before it shows up you smell it you can hear it elijah said there's a sound there's a sound there's a sound of abundance of rain there's a sound [Music] hallelujah glory to god glory glory glory glory glory praise god hallelujah well i'm glad i came to church tonight i'm glad i came this week only eternity will show us what god's done to having a bunch of voices a bunch of people that say god what do you need what do you need my voice for today hallelujah glory to god how are we going to close this out we got any way to close it we got anything we need to do yeah yeah that's good good [Music] we're gonna just sing this prayer it's a song you all know [Music] you can just join in with us come on help us sing it the lord bless the lord and be gracious to you the lord turned his face toward you and give you peace make his grace shine upon you and be gracious don't say amen [Music] [Music] i [Music] come on save the lord bless you the lord you make his place shine upon you and be gracious to you the lord you and give [Music] everybody [Applause] [Music] everybody [Applause] oh generations and your family and your children and their children and their children may his favor be upon you and a thousand generations and your family and your children and their children and their children may its favor be upon you and a thousand generations [Music] generations and your family and your children and your children and their children these presents go before you and behind you and beside he's [Music] everybody [Music] [Music] man [Music] that is our prayer for you yeah for your family yeah for your children for your grandchildren your great-grandchildren [Music] is with you he is in you he's all around you may the words of that song ring in your ears over and over and over and over and over and over [Music] hallelujah glory remember when mark the 11th chapter when jesus went by the unproductive fig tree and he just said no man he fruited thee after forever bible said he answered it i'm so glad we got answers people say there's an impeachment yeah but there's rain well there's a there's a there's uh there's masks yeah but there's rain there's quarantines yeah but there's rain there's an inauguration yeah but there's rain i'll tell you what no matter what happens around us we got an answer we got rain we got rain rain rain rain rain the presence of god isn't that what he said of my people called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face his presence that's what rain is go after the rain and you'll always have a harvest and that's our focus and that is our focus well i just want to want to thank our music team oh my word [Applause] [Music] it's amazing amazing amazing how they just tap into the vein and bring it every service just amazing and and then all of the team i mean it takes a whole army of people to put this meeting on brandy thank you hallelujah if you've got children in the children's department yeah pick up your children tonight please think think the teachers back there they're not just entertaining your kids they are ministering them to your children yeah be sure and tell them thank you all people in the sound booth back there i don't know where they're at up there somewhere in the tv room and on the cameras and everything just so we can come in and enjoy this uh we just our our staff our team our our core group everybody involved in this big thanks big thanks big thanks big thanks [Applause]

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Published: Wed Jan 13 2021