How to Find the Will of God // Perry Stone

I was going to buy a plane a small plane to fly and I met a man named Phil Driscoll who was a pilot and owned several planes I said do you know what type of pilot should I have and he said to me find one who has survived crashes and I thought he was joking he said no I'm not joking he said if you will find a man who has survived engine failure and crashes you will probably survive anything bad that happens because he's been through it then a little military thing here on following leaders Never follow leaders who do not have Battle Scars because the only teaching they can provide for you is from a book uh no I've been changing find people and miss Karen is one this man is one we have been we've been through battles together and come through and find the people the leaders who have been through the battles who have the scars to prove it and are still standing because what they can teach you is how to go through and still stand ing all five of you bless you for that amen and so you're in a house of a family and and people this ramp Ministry that has been through battles and we've been through every one of them with them and we have watched them stand and trust God and watch God come through and the one thing you don't want to mess with is somebody who's in God's perfect will because God will put on his boxing gloves I better shut up all right I was uh just the other day had a whole whole different message I was going to preach some of you wanted me to do that whole Jewish wedding thing and I I think miss Karen thought maybe I was going to do that tonight but I don't want to disappoint anyone but I feel like that I need to share with you what God has taught me in 46 years of ministry on how to find the will of God because there is so much misconception about this whole phrase the will of God and what it is ETC so Romans chapter 12 if you want to go on your phone just to say open your Bible Romans chapter 12 verses 1 through 2 and I I want to read this to you and then I'm going to give you a very important verse in a moment that is going to be applied from a different perspective than perhaps you've heard before and we're going to break this down Romans chapter 12 verses 1 through 2 I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a Living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service in other words what you do for him is connected to being pure in mind heart Body Spirit what you do for him is connected your success we would say I hate to use that word it's so secular and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove watch this now what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God we've read that we have read a over that and he reveals to you three levels or three positions of being in God's will everyone in this room wants to say I want the perfect will of God and I'm going to give you the Greek word in a moment to tell you that the word perfect is not what you're thinking it is that the word perfect may not be what you have perceived it to be the whole time you have been in ramp School of ministry five misconceptions however that I have learned in 40 almost 46 years of ministry concerning the will of God number one people believe that the will of God will be done no matter what you do in other words it's going to happen we're just going to go with the flow so who cares just live life to its fullest and whatever we'll be we'll be and we'll end up there eventually don't tell Jonah that because God sent him on a submarine ride and can I give you a nugget from Jonah oh here we go on the rabbit Trails Lord I'll be here all night long if you go to the Book of Jonah this is something you'll discover and I'll let you dig this out do a little bit of Hebrew word studies the reason Jesus compared his death and Resurrection to as a Jonah and the fish was you may not know this but Jonah actually drowned in the sea Jonah was not alive in that fish's belly for three days he drowned he tells you in the Book of John of the seaweeds were wrapped around his head he tells you in the Book of Jonah that his Spirit departed from his body he tells you in the Book of Jonah that he went down to the Gates of Hell Paradise in hell at one time were located under the Earth before the crucifixion of Jesus then he tells you that he prayed as he was fainting inside the fish the God sent the fish another in other words God sent the fish to swallow him watch to preserve his body from the Sharks and the other animals that would have eaten him alive so he was revived after three days he literally came back from the dead after three days now you know none of us are three days journey and he makes it in one day you would too if you've been to Hell and back I mean really if you'd been through what this man went through so to say see in other words he got to the place where God wanted him but because of his resistance he created a situation of hardship for himself that it was not necessary for him to go through is it can I ask a question has anybody ever wanted to know why Jonah did not want to go preach to those folks can I tell you the reason why the Assyrians were the trial were the were the were the the Assyrian nation was the nation that took the ten tribes of Israel captive he Nineveh was their Capital Jonah didn't want them folks to repent he wanted God to kill all of them all right and so he goes and says I've got to go over there and prophesy that God's going to destroy him so he's going with the intent thinking God's going to kill them all he didn't think they were going to repent watch this they repent and he gets mad do you know why he gets mad because the Jewish rabbis say that he now had his reputation on the line that he had said to the prophets I'm going here to tell them they're going to be destroyed now they're not going to be destroyed it's going to make me look like a false prophet and so he runs read in your Bible to the east the remember the gourd dries up and he goes Eastward and Jewish sources say he spent a few years in the East he wouldn't even go back to Israel because he thought they were going to say you you're a false prophet man you told us this and you told us that oh help me preach somebody how many Jonas are in the house tonight come on so my point is to say that no matter what we do we're going to end up in the will of God okay you pray you might you could maybe you will but you're going to make it harder on yourself if you don't seek God and pursue after it on a consistent basis number two that was too long let's see if we can get these do these quicker number two the will of God is a one-time arrival point in other words if I marry the right person and we go to the right place voila now we're in the will of God I want to tell you having been there that the will of God is never a one-time arrival point it is a rival points plural it is Progressive now many of you are asking God to open a door but you're wanting a big door to open rule number one of ministry God never opens a big door till you go through the little one first and the Reason God never opens the big door unless you go through the little one first is God wants to see if you can be faithful in another man's stuff if you can be faithful in the little things because remember what he said if you're faithful in the little things then what do I do I make you ruler over many things and even in The Parables he talks about if you can be faithful over somebody else's stuff then I can give you your own stuff to be faithful over so the will of God is not a if I get the right person meet the right people marry the right person live in the right place man this is going to be it I will be in the will of God yes but then there will be somewhere another assignment and then you will have to move to another part of the will of God then later on there's another level of that and you'll move to the next part and the third that's so it's a misconceptionist think it's just a one-time Point I've arrived number three the will of God is going to make things easier how many people have I heard say but if I'm just find the will of God all my troubles are going to be over I got news for you baby when you find the will of God hell's gonna break loose and I'm explaining to you why trouble Breaks Loose many times when you find the will of God because once you find the will of the father you have a threat assessment that the enemy has made that now you're about to do what you were created to do what you were born to do what God's purpose is and the enemy says oh my we got trouble in the camp now because they have now found the place with the right place the right people at the right time so let us create a situation in their life to try to pull them away cause them to become discouraged cause them to want to give up but I want to tell you the great thing about it is this even though that you find it and you have to get in the middle of the battle when you're there do you understand that you've got the favor of God with you and you can go anywhere with the favor of God and come out on top when it's all said and done you can go through the war and have the favor and win the war you can go through the battle with the favor and you can win the battle you can go through the sickness with the favor of God and come out of the hospital saying you couldn't kill me devil because you don't have have the keys of death in Hell anymore Jesus has raised me up off my deathbed to do something for him fourth thing you need to know is this the fourth misconception is if I'm in the will of God I will have less struggle well well don't tell Jesus that one for 40 days he's on a mountain being tempted by the devil who's questioning whether or not he's the son of God don't tell Jesus that when he's in the Garden of Gethsemane about to do the will of God and his sweat is becoming his great drops of blood he's questioning can he go through with this that God has already told him 12 Legions of Angel one Legion is six thousand twelve Legions of 72 000. one angel can kill 185 000 men that means 12 Legions of angels angels could kill 16 billion people and there's only been eight billion people living on the planet right now that means there's enough angels that are in heaven that could come right now the same Legions that Jesus had which was 72 000 that could Wipe Out the entire planet but I also have to do is sweep their wings across the globe and Jesus knew that he could do that he knew that all he had to do was call so my point is he is struggling to do what he came to do because as flesh knew the pain that was going to have to endure so is it true that you will have less struggle when you're in the will of God no you will continue to struggle I was thinking the other just a moment ago about something and I preached a message uh many years ago just called temptation just just the word temptation and I said I've got good news and bad news who wants the good news first okay this is where you participate who wants the good news first your temptation is going to end who wants the bad news now when you die so the good news is one day you won't have to put up with the devil anymore one day you won't have to be tempted anymore but the bad news is you got to get out of this body before you can do it okay now so I want to say this to you that number five is this I will have less attacks from Satan if I am in the will of God because I will have more favor with God now there is a level of the favor of the Lord that can prevent attacks or can pre reveal things before they come but there is also a Grace level Paul was given now look how many believe how many believe Paul was in the will of God would you raise your hand if you believe this is a guy that wrote for if we take Hebrews wrote 14 books of the New Testament uh this is a guy that got caught up in the third heaven this is this is this is a fellow that could just cast out devils in the middle of town I mean this guy's amazing this is one of the greatest men of God to ever walk in shoe leather and the Apostle Paul is given a thorn in the flesh Second Corinthians 12 a messenger of Satan that Greek word is Angel an angel of Satan to Buffet him you look up the word Buffett it's the same word where they slap Jesus on the cheek when they were spitting up on him and they pulled they plucked his you know plucked his hair and all that the prophecy says that and uh that's the same Greek word there calafico so it means to buff it what it means is to deal one blow up after the other it means to if you want to get to the original classical Greek if it's a boxing match in a ring with two opponents and one Clips a guy right on the side of the ear enough to hurt him a little bit knock him off balance when he gets back up no sooner does he get his balance bam he gets hit again no sinner doesn't get his balance bam he gets hit again that's the word Buffett in Greek that Paul said messenger of Satan Thorn In My Flesh to Buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure my point is simply this that the Apostle Paul made it clear that he had these attacks but let me tell you what he said he said I besought the Lord three times that this thing would depart from me three times but then God spoke to me and said my grace is sufficient for you my strength will be made perfect in weakness I just like to throw this out there at you if you'll go sometime to the book of Acts the very last chapter of the book of Acts is the only book of the New Testament that has no conclusion to it it does not end with peace peace Grace and peace you know Grace and peace is a peace is a Hebrew greeting Grace is a Greek greeting that's why Paul wrote Grace and peace when he wrote his letters but if you'll go back over there and get to looking at it it just ends with Paul in Rome it just stops I mean you go you go from Matthew Mark Luke that Luke picks up the book of Acts and continues to write from the end of his Gospel of Luke into the history of the of the early church but why doesn't it end it doesn't end and if you go to that because I used to say to the lord it's not fair here's Paul he goes through all these places 22 things second Corinthians 12 that he went through being in God's will beat up Shipwrecked uh night and day in the sea beaten with Rod stoned and left for dead in the book of Acts in the city of lystra how come you couldn't have given this guy give him a break and when you go to the book of Acts and you read I think it's maybe from the NIV it says that he went to Rome and was in his own hired house for two years no man hindering him oh that'll make somebody shout there so in other words he got to the point to the right place with the gentile people in Rome where he was the man and only when Nero tried to burn Rome down and blame it on Paul to trouble break out for Paul and that's when his life ended he had peace he was not hindered he welcomed all that came to him because he was a Roman citizen living in Rome and he had the freedom to do that so my point is even though he had a thorn most of his life God gave him relief so watch this be in God's will you will at times feel as though that you have just a thorn that just keeps attacking you but just like the Apostle Paul I want to share this with you is encouragement God will give you seasons of breakthrough in seasons of relief because even when Satan was tempting Jesus if you go to Luke's gospel it says that Satan left him for a season so in other words attacks are seasonal they come and they go if you can survive whatever you're dealing with and make it through the season you'll get relief I promise you that if you'll follow through and do the right thing all right everybody still here say I am still here all right let's go to this verse right here back to Romans chapter 12 1-2 now we're going to do the teaching be not conformed of this world but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what is that what is that good if I say good acceptable would you say acceptable and perfect will of God say perfect it's not a person in this room that's ever been connected to Ministry that does not say to himself I just want the perfect will of God how many of you have prayed you should be praying this but how many of you prayed I want God's perfect will in my life raise your hand and hold it hold it up real high if you've ever prayed that let me see hold it up here wave it this way okay that's about everyone here and that's absolutely good teaching you should be praying for that however let us take a look at three levels because not everything is necessarily the perfect will there are some things that are the acceptable will and there are some things that's the good will Goodwill that's a company isn't it so there's there are now notice notice in God in his will nothing's bad it's either good accept it and acceptable or perfect and actually this is really a process now let me let me just do a few word studies and sometimes I'll give you the word in a in a younger class that's not as significant to know the word and how to pronounce and all that but good in the Greek this particular word means something beneficial something with virtue something beneficial or something with virtue okay so the good will of God is something that is beneficial something that is a blessing something that has virtue it has good good good outcome to it all right the second level is the acceptable will of God and the acceptable is well pleasing or agreeable so God looks at it and says you know what I like that I like what you're doing I like that you're following me so he allows you now look we're going to get deep in a minute he allows you to do something that you want to do and says I'll accept that can I now we're going to tell some crazy stories so y'all just need to get ready for this tonight my wife and I went to University of Alabama football game roll tide for those of you that believe that and uh and it was with Georgia and we went to the Georgia Bookstore at the University of Georgia and there was a book I wish I'd if I'd have known I was going to tell this I'd have brought the book with me and it's called treasure and up in the corner it said if you can solve this puzzle there's a gold horse with a deposit box key in its belly buried in the continental United States and a place open to the public 24 hours a day and if you find it and turn it in and tell us how you solved the clues you'll get five hundred thousand dollars how many of you in 1986 would not have had five hundred thousand dollars that's twenty five thousand dollars a year for 20 years according to the book raise your hand if that would have been interesting to you okay well I'm a puzzle guy so I sat through the whole game and games going on and I and I and I broke the first part of the of the puzzle I'm seriously she'll tell you I literally broke and I told her by six in the morning set up all night I told her it's in the state of Oregon it's on Crater Lake State Park on a place called wizard Island but I've got to find where long story made short I worked on that puzzle and went to Crater Island uh I wasn't out of State Park in Oregon with Keith Dudley who was a friend of mine you might remember brother Keith he was a singer we go out there and I go take a boat I go out there and I start to see all the clues there's the lodge there's this there's Phantom ship it talks about the ghost boat there's the Phantom ship which is a rock formation actually and I get up and I go on the wrong side and I read the book the next day and it she's walking a path and it just says not right like like it's not right to do this but it meant don't go right I said I went right I'm not supposed to go right so I went down into this little extinct volcano that was not a volcano it was it was filled up and there was a rock with a date on it and when the sun hit at a certain time the rock pointed to where the horse was buried so I went to the other side and came into a path lost I'm making this real short this is the funnest story to tell if you can see the pictures and there is a tree shaped like a horseshoe I'm telling you it's as long it's like this like this this it's shaped like a horseshoe it's in the ground and the cover of the book is a carousel a girl in front of a Carousel and there is a root of that tree that looks like the horse's head on a carousel it looks just like a horse's head and it's I'm freaking out I said Keith there's the kid that's the carousel it's the real oh my God it's like a horseshoe and I looked and I removed these little red vines and there are three granite rocks that are not native to that area three of them and there are anyway I don't want to give all Clues away so I I'll take the granite rocks out and I know he says oh my God this is it so I start digging I had a trowel with me I had enough Faith to take a little trial with me to dig yes I felt I was going to find it okay battery is running low yeah we knew that was going to happen okay so long story made short I found the spot but I was a foot short of digging it up the story The in the book it had a rag doll with two black shoes that's two feet and I dug a foot and it was two feet deep all right I asked the Lord I said it's very obviously father that you could have helped me to find this and I want to know why you didn't help me find it he said because it's something you wanted to do and you wanted to have fun with so I allowed you to do it I accepted you in doing it to prove you could do it because you wanted to prove you could solve it I said it sure would have been fun to find the horse and he spoke to me through a song that was on the radio and he said the horse ain't your source I learned my lesson right there but my point is now was that the will of God that I find the horse obviously not or I would have I would have got it so I can't say it was but yet it was an acceptable thing and it was a lot of fun for me it took a lot of stress off of me Pam remembers it we had a we had a ball with that thing even though I didn't find it but then there's the perfect will of God what is the perfect will of God the word perfect in Greek means complete watch this complete it comes from a Greek root word teleos which means an endpoint or the point of completing something now this adds an entire different if I can use the word twist to what is the will of God what is it is the will of God where everything is perfection see we see perfect will of God as as we're happy uh everything is perfect everything is going great so I must be in the will of God we've got a misconception it actually means to complete that which he has told you to do it's just real simple we've complicated it we've heard everybody's story we read everybody's book I struggled and I finally found the perfect will of God though perfect will of God is when you are doing that that completes the thing that the Lord has put in your heart okay statement keep that thought so what is good in Luke chapter 4 and verse chapter 10 and verse 40. Mary and Martha are in a house together Mary is worshiping at the feet of Jesus Martha is cooking and she is upset because Mary is sitting at the feet of Jesus now can I tell you something somebody's got to cook the meal for these people folks we are we're as fascinating Marcus she should have been worshiping if she'd been worshiping they've been no dinner I mean there's a brother back here instead of being in church he's back there cooking tonight that's his ministry hello somebody just like the worship team he's got a ministry that's a Ministry to him ah yeah Lord but here's the point what is the good he this is what Jesus said Mary had chosen the good part in other words Martha we know you gotta cause he wasn't rebuking her for cooking look at it again he said you are cumbered with too many cares it's not your problem with cooking your problem is oh you're so stressed out with who's going to serve and how many we got met just cook and listen to me teach and have a good time quit getting so stinking stressed out oh that'll preach right there Lord Jesus so he rebuked her for being cumbered with cares let me talk about something good okay ready there are people that have a feeding Center to feed the poor and they do it on a consistent basis and that is their Ministry Ministry of feeding the poor Matthew 25 one of the gateways into the kingdom is taking care of the poor feeding them clothing them and taking care of prisoners and visiting them we know that from Matthew 25 we want to get to the kingdom those are the works that you're involved with that are good if I say Good Works the Bible talks about that they will see the good works of your father which is in heaven good works so in other words these are good things that we do so therefore you don't have to have or own a feeding Center to be in the will of God all you've got to do is occasionally feed the poor and help people when you can and you are in the good will of God because you were doing the good thing so in other words it's not like oh that's my assignment it might not be your assignment but we're told I send books free to prisoners all across the United States been doing it for years cost me tens of thousand dollars we pay for the postage we pay for the book and we send it in you know why because Jesus said visit him I can't visit all these prisons but my books can hello somebody so what am I doing I'm doing the good thing so there are things you do that it's not necessarily the completed will of God for my life but it's a good thing that God Honors that helps you to be a part of the kingdom of God let me let me give an example listen to this verse right here certain women which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities Mary called Magdalene and uh uh and I'm sorry and Mary Magdalene but whom he cast out Seven Devils Johanna the wife of who's a Herod Steward and Susanna and many others minister to Jesus of their substance Luke chapter 8 verses 2 through 3. herod's Stewart got 10 of every building program and Herod the Great was one of the greatest builders in the Roman Empire time Susanna the woman in this text is believed to be the wife of Joseph of armathea Joseph of armathea Who Let Jesus borrow his tomb Joseph who according to early church fathers was a tin Trader from Britain Britain a very great wealth and so these men were not in the Inner Circle of praying with people there when he multiplied the bread and fish what are they doing they are behind the scenes in the business part did you know Nicodemus owned the Garden of Gethsemane that's where he went when he met Jesus to pray the garden of Nicodemus According to some historians who owned the Garden of Gethsemane Joseph owned the tomb which was located somewhere in the garden they were Sanhedrin members they were two notable men to the wealthiest men in the city and they did not they were secret disciples but let me tell you something had it not been for no Nick at night Jesus would have had nowhere to pray had it not been had it not been for Joseph they would have taken the body off the cross wrapped it up and taken it down to gehenna where there was a fire it was the garbage dump and they'd have burnt the body of Jesus because of blasphemy and his body would have appeared there would have never been any evidence of the scars in his hands but because Joseph had a tomb in the middle of a garden somewhere near Nick at Knight's place can I tell you that they were responsible for making sure that that body was not destroyed God had to have some secret guys that nobody paid much attention to that were in the backside doing the good thing [Applause] what's the acceptable the acceptable is the permissible that means God will say to you okay I'll let you do that I'll let you do that and I can make it work can I give you one example this is a little bit maybe a fleshed example but there have been young girls that have gotten pregnant out of wedlock and they have chosen after talking to the young man to say let's make this work I feel like you love me you feel like you I love you we love each other let's make it work and there have been people that have absolutely made it work okay now was it the will of God for them to to have their relationship for her to get prayed probably not that timing of course because you should be married before you do that but can God take that and still use that dear God God can take anything that's that seems to be negative and make it work eventually and so there have been people that have been touched by God their families are touched these the kids are older now they've got grand babies coming and they made it work because God says well you know what if you feel if you will do this if you'll try to do the right thing if you'll try to do the good thing if you'll try to work this out based on what I have told you even though there was a mess up here I can Bless the Child someone said well prove that in the Bible I'm glad you told me when David got Bathsheba pregnant that baby died because that baby was under the Judgment of the Lord read your Bible but then Bathsheba she's in the Bible has a baby by the name of Solomon and the Bible says Solomon whom God loved and God made her baby bathsheba's baby several children later the king that took King David's place which goes to show you that the mercy and the grace of God does not work on the same level as men's so-called mercy and men's so-called Grace because God took us to God you think about what I'm saying God took the woman that had messed up the whole thing God took the man that had messed up the whole thing and yes he lost four sons and yes he experienced loss and yes he experienced judgment but in the end God took his son from the same woman and said that's the boy I'm going to raise up because I promised David that I would have a seed on his throne forever somebody ought to give God praise God says it's acceptable to me if you will follow me to do this it'll be the right thing now let me just talk to you here for a moment okay [Music] I'm gonna I'm gonna make a statement that is going to sound a little bit controversial and this will probably be the one thing because miss Karen was here she would look at me and just give me the eye have you know Miss Karen has the eye miss Karen has a fake smile when you're preaching she was I'm only teasing her she's like my sister I'm only teasing let me talk to you for a moment because this this may go out let me just look at my notes make sure I don't uh miss this okay uh I'm going to tell you something most preachers would never say to you as single kids young people not kids I've have the same kids I believe there are up to three people in the earth you could marry not three at one time I do believe that there are people that you could meet who are saved in Spirit-filled and God will say you know what they're a good person you fall in love with him you have feelings for them you feel like you can make it work and maybe they're not the best choice maybe God could say there is probably a better choice that will open up more doors or you will have more opportunities but you love each other I'll accept that and they're good and you can make it work now you will not do in your life what you thought you would but it doesn't mean that you'll have a miserable life either you can have kids work a job maybe work at the church so there are people and I will prove this to you in a minute then there are people that a person that you could marry and God says well I can accept this because you're believer see here's the Only Rule about marriage not do not marry an unbeliever and do not be yoked together with an unbeliever that's the rule of marriage God never tells you what they look like how tall they should be how old they should be what color hair they've got that's preference he allows you to have the preference God is not going to tell you to marry somebody here's what they're going to look like whether you like it or not because you got to wake up beside that person every morning and do it don't believe the dumb movies you see when they wake up and they're kissing all over each other you wake up in your mirror you got a nappy breath you got the worst breath in the world knock knock knock both of you out of bread go brush your teeth man before you kiss me oh you listening to somebody this these are things you'll learn when you get married but but let me go back to this and say this so God will accept that because they are a believer God will accept that because they love you God will accept that because of the law of procreation that you are to procreate the Earth and you're going to raise a Christian family God can accept that are you still here but then there is that person that if you don't get impatient what section am I preaching to now you don't get impatient you don't just go chasing guys listening spread this is an old school expression chasing every skirt that's out there everything has got two legs wearing a dress you know oh she's going oh she's cuter all right girl same way you know not chasing skirts but the guys I just now in the culture we're in today you got to correct yourself before you make certain statements you understand what I'm saying sorry somebody said I heard him say it and I'm going to give you I'm going to give you this illustration a moment then there there is the person that if you wait and you obey God and you keep praying I want the right person okay not the perfect person because if you find him you have ruined them that went over top of somebody said let me try this section if you're if you find the perfect person you have just ruined him when you marry him because you're not perfect and by the way they're not either you will find that out now the reason you want the right person is they will compliment you and help you complete remember the word perfect to complete the purposes of God that's why the right person is important because a person may love you may get along with you and you can make it but what when what what happens when you say I feel that I take a mission trip you ain't taking no mission trip I'm not letting you take a mission trip it's the wrong person who could stop you from doing something that would have been a good thing good thing and acceptable thing so God will accept that but then there's the perfect now when I was um a teenage minister I learned very quick in the state of Virginia I was traveling in Maryland Virginia West Virginia and later came to Alabama before I was married a couple years before I was married and I learned real quick back in the we call it the old school days and I'm not that old I know you think that with the hair but I'm not that old at actually I died at gray to make myself look more distinguished but anyway and you really don't believe that I hope I'm just kidding but in the old school days every Church of God Mama wanted their daughter to marry a preacher is anybody here with me because somebody help me preach live any old school folks in the house um every grandmother in a Pentecostal church and that was in the day when they wore the beehives and they pulled the hair back if a young evangelist who was single came to the church he was targeted every Grandma wanted to prophesy over him he called oh thank you oh son I see you with a young girl God's about to bring a young one oh oh yeah I think I can see what she looked like now you know my grandma gonna prophesy over you about her about her granddaughter and she's giving you how tall she is and color hair she eyes and next thing you know here comes a girl looks just like that Granny you ready smiling at you and then you got invited I did occasionally I got invited over to people's houses to eat and I always knew I Always Knew by the mother the way she acted that she had a daughter always and here she come to the dinner table and I ate and ran I pulled Joseph on him hurt my coat because when I looked at that girl I said ain't no way Jose and when she was born the doctor hit her mama in the face for having that baby girl laughs I'm just young I'm just telling you they probably said that about me too okay so they work both ways so anyway here's here's the point I'm going to make when I was 16 years of age now this does not even if my daughter pulled this on me I'd have a fit I have to tell you this I just I couldn't accept it I was 16. the girl was 14. played the piano saying really good girl by the way in the church and I started dating her mistake never date or you know I just don't think I don't think he got enough sense to date when you're that age no I'm serious you real I mean we I didn't have a youth pastor I had no youth pastor I had no youth leaders nobody instructed me this is this is how you did it back then you know and so I went and bought her a ring and thought I was going to marry her and the parents moved actually moved to another state and I think they moved to get away from me to be honest with you and uh never married that girl and it would have it would not have been the will of God now she's saved yes does she go to church yes does she play a piano yes she teaches people playing the piano done that most of her life was she a nice person yes but was it the will of God no let me tell you what I what I would have probably done end up pastoring a church somewhere in Virginia that's it never built VOE never had Warrior Fest never had manifest never would I have done something for God yes but what about all the things God had planned here's what would have happened he would have raised up someone else to do what I was doing this is what you have to understand if you don't do it and it was the plan of God for you to do it he's not going to just rebuke you he's going to say well you move on with your life do the best you can it's acceptable it's good but I will raise up someone else in your place it's like when Judas hung himself Judas messed it up they had to do what replace him with a new Apostle so there's Replacements that come that's why the Bible said let no man take your crown because you have assignments but if you let if you're supposed to teach children's church at the ramp and you refuse to do it guess who's going to get the reward not you the person that took your place that you that is doing now what you were assigned to do that's what that verse would allude to about no man take your crown so uh it was later I started preaching and I married I met a a pastor's daughter again played the piano because back in that day I mean everybody you know you you just knew if you were going to be a Pentecostal preacher you had to have a piano player am I right Mike and has this had to play and they had to say both I mean you know automatically you don't that way you don't have to hire somebody to do it you can say Ministry money praise God by marrying somebody that can do it and uh she's a school teacher she had a degree uh already by the time she was 22 years of age smart girl attractive girl very funny so we dated two years and I told people like an idiot God told me I was going to marry her God told me yeah this girl I'm going to marry came to Alabama to the Church of God said offices to pastor Joe Edwards and I said like an idiot I'm just saying you'll understand that statement in a moment that's Greek for something else that I'll give to you in a minute but um but I was I was telling people that and here's the reason I was telling them because I felt like that's what the Lord had told me I just felt like that was what the Lord told me see that's why you got to be careful saying God said just say in my gut I feel this or in my spirit I kind of feel this but leave God out of it unless you absolutely know wait till you're walking them down the aisle and say hey this is the one God told me I was going to marry right here that's then you're then you're safe because you know it's about to happen Okay so uh anyway um I I came to Northport Alabama and we were going to get married with this girl and I were gonna get married in June and uh Northport Alabama in a Revival that broke out and that Revival ended up going uh one a week and all of a sudden this girl got afraid that I was going to find a southern girl seriously so she and a friend drove down secretly to surprise me and so she could play PNC and I said it's good to have my fiance here and all the young people over there means this revival was breaking up there were 50 young people been saving for the Holy Ghost they looked at each other and said fiance they did they actually did they not do that fiance he never told us he had a fiance we go out to eat with Perry every night he never told us he wasn't getting married so she got him sang and played the piano and when she left the young the youth group of 50 young people said nope she ain't for you I said how do you all know we just know there's something weird about her she's just not for you well y'all don't know her yeah I'm just telling you so guess what happens we're at a Pizza Hut like what was it three days later two days later and I get a call off the Pizza Hut after church one night and got Perry Stone here yep got a call from where I don't know just somebody calling what she called the pastor to find out where I was the Pastor said the Pizza Hut she got the Pizza Hut number and she tells me on the phone I just don't know I just don't feel about good about us getting married we need to break up in the middle of this revival she's telling me to break up okay whatever go back to the seat hilarious well what happened that was the girl I was going to marry okay you can complete what happened she just broke up with me the whole table jumped oh yes oh yes oh yeah yes I mean I think there are people speaking in tongues running around Pizza Hut and I'm like I don't get it now let me track with me a minute now because I had that you can't date somebody two years break up that quick without feeling it unless you just don't like them and if you don't like him it's like yes yes but if you have had any emotional attachment feelings uh you've been close to them hanging out with them it is a horrible I'm just letting you know this horrible feeling it is a normal feeling to almost feel like a death has happened it's normal so don't freak out if it ever happens to you just say well Lord you must know what you're doing and I'm gonna have to flow with this and it will take you time to get over it but let me tell you how fast I got over it the Revival kept going I've told you this before I would tell you again so one week later third week of that Revival North Carolina was actually toward the end of the second week going to the third week uh you're sitting over here at the church I'm getting ready to preach the choir singing acquire singing and I'm distressed over this breakup you know of course and uh I look over and young people are getting with it and man that's great I'm getting excited because the young people have been touched so they uh they get ready to have prayer and so as they're praying I look and I see this girl and I've seen her in the Revival before and we actually had gone out to eat with the youth group and she she was always with him she's right on the end I can tell you exactly what she had on she had a skirt down to the knee oh Sanctified oh Hallelujah Church of my God Church of my God glory to God she had uh she had Ruffles a shirt with ruffles and a real high neck Ruffles I don't know what you call a blouse with ruffles and she had a jacket on a black jacket and uh her hair had hair back down to here in the back curled at the end brunette hair and I'm just going to be honest I'm gonna have to be carnally off forgive me she was fine I'm I'm I know I'm I'm in the Pulpit trying to keep my mind on God but I'm single I have a right to look Hallelujah that went right over y'all's head right there let me say it again I was single I had a right to look Hallelujah because if you're single you're going to look some of you been married so long you forgot what it was to look okay let's try that again and I'm thinking well that's wow what a beautiful and I hear the Lord I hear the Lord say that's the girl you're going to marry I heard it I knew his voice I've been praying all day I heard it and I'm thinking that's the devil trying to distract me from this church service so I start I start this I bind this in the name of Jesus I cast down this imagination in the name of I did I promise glory to God I become against this God I want my mind cleared I'm not going to have any distraction and so they get up and pray and I'm and I'm I'm kind of you know scanning just praying like this and I hear the Lord say that's the girl you were married and I'm telling you this happened to me when he said it the second time it went from my head to my gut you know what that feeling's like Rhema word quickened word and I said oh Lord so I did the right I did the Bible thing I closed one out and opened the other I watched and prayed while everybody's praying I'm praying and watching at the same time weird part weird part I mean the the you know the biggest thing you could do in my day was hold hands you understand what I'm saying you could hold hands under the table you could hold hands in the car and so I remember we would go out to eat and I would get there late because it's praying in the office and all the we're talking about 20 to 40 young people and they used to hate to see us coming at 10 o'clock at night in these restaurants and I remember that every time I went to get a seat either I got there and she arrived late and there was always an empty seat always beside me or she was there and there was an empty one wasn't that right did you plant it that way you all must have planned it that way I don't she just said no she just shook her head no can you believe that she sure had no but I always sat beside her so it you know I could tell there was something there I never said oh God told me man that's the worst way to scare somebody off is tell them God just to say you go don't over don't do it at the ramp use wisdom wait let months go by weeks go by get to know people do not go I was praying and all that God told me we gonna get married oh no Bubba go back home ain't getting married Bubba nope you ever ask yourself why am I attracted to Bozo you know I'm saying it's like why can't I get that so but I'm like I'm like then I realized we had dated what two called we didn't date we went on one day in two years one day in two years because I'm traveling all over the place I knew I knew as sure as the world I was going to marry her now let me ask explain this to you why God chose her I don't think I've said this much ever since we've been married oh Pam's eyes went watch this because this is really good for a lot of you here because we're talking about trying to find the mind of God trying to find what is his complete will this is why she was so complete for me number one she's from a divorced home you say what does that have to do with anything I was going to take her away from her family in Alabama she would be on the road with me in one point 16 Services 16 weeks every night preaching somewhere without a break because she was not tied to her mama she was not tied to her dad she loved her sisters she didn't have to go home and see Mama all the time I could take her on the road three months and she's happy with me because she doesn't have to go see Mama her mom and dad are divorced or you listening to me number two when I she went to get a job at the University of Alabama and they never called her back and the thing that she liked to do was bookkeeping guess who I needed guess what I needed in my Ministry a bookkeeper so she knew how to do all of that and I didn't realize that I needed a bookkeeper because my mama was my bookkeeper but when you're gonna get married mom ain't gonna beat you Bill bookkeeper no more because you're gonna move so she could do the books number three I had an Outreach Ministry of tapes she would run she literally would run the service tapes type up the labels in the back after I got to preaching that she'd get the master type up the labels make the cassette Masters and we would actually I would watch her by herself duplicate the tape sell the tapes type out the tapes and run the whole table sometimes with no help at all I took care of all that listen to what I'm going to tell you God knew I did not need another preacher to compete with the girl that I was going to marry before Pam said to me before you preach I will do two songs every night and I will do this because I have a Ministry and that's what started this whole journey of maybe this isn't right Pam had no expectations doesn't like getting up in front of people doesn't care about giving a word because she just receives the word and she'll tell you in private what God tells her and was exactly whoa exactly what I needed to complete what I needed in every aspect of my Ministry and we've been married 39 years to God be the glory right so watch this let's take that word perfect again just look at it one more time perfect will of God is the root teleon or teleos it depends on what form the verb it's used in but the root is to complete what is the good acceptable and complete fulfilled will of God your person I don't know why I'm on this this is where I guess we're supposed to go but the person that you are supposed to be with the rest of your life is called help me help me help me in Genesis are you ready for what that word means in Hebrew that word means an opposing opposite Pam went she left did you hear what I just said oh we get along so great we love the same things we like the same people we like like like like I cannot tell you that well I'm going to just say it outright Jensen and Cherise Franklin uh when we knew Randy Paula White Karen and Rick every couple we have ever known are opposite of each other Charisse will ride the roller coaster upside down Jensen don't want to get on it Cherie will tell you what she thinks and Jensen will say Charice come on calm down you're embarrassing me okay I'm the talker Pam's a listener me and Karen will go out to eat with Rick and you know I said payment I Karen and Rick will go out to eat all right this is a true story and they know what I'm about to say me and Karen preach to each other the entire time the entire time they don't get a word in Rick if I'm telling the truth raise your hand because they think I'm joking everybody whatever everybody knows it's true so I'm not giving a secret away and Rick and Pam hardly get a word in all right I'm the talker Pam is the listener Karen's the talker Rick's The Listener now watch this I am the preacher she's the business lady Karen is the minister Rick's the businessman it's called balance watch this though help meet Genesis for God made Adam a help meet who was Eve it is an opposing opposite it means that what they do is they where you are weak they are strong where you are strong they are weak and so when she needs something encouragement I can give her an encouragement but when I need it she can give that encouragement to me from another Direction The Good the acceptable and the perfect will of God now I'm going to say this to you Jesus said this statement and my by the way my computer died just like I said Murphy's Law okay I knew it was going to happen but Jesus makes this statement in the Lord's Prayer he says pray this prayer thy will be done on Earth as it is where have you have you ever thought about that verse what in heaven needs to be done that's God's will he's already made the New Jerusalem it already has streets of gold Paradise already exists the dead in Christ that have died in the Lord their soul and spirit is already there Jesus is at the right hand of the Father the Lamb's Book of Life Is there with our name in it how do you figure the will of God be done on Earth as it is in heaven is it like up in heaven they're saying wait a minute oh that's not the will of God change the color of that gate hold on hold on you put blue up blew up no no no this is the marriage supper we've got to do the will of God no the will of God has already been set and established in heaven and I can prove it to you by this verse that Jesus Christ the lamb slain from the foundation of the world before Abraham was I am God already had the will revealed in heaven thousands of years before the lamb Jesus ever came to the Earth but what had to happen was Jesus had to come and enact on Earth what God had already planned in heaven God knew the time would come that it might be hard for him to follow through with his own death so he said all right I I'll give you an option here's your option you went out of it I've got 12 Legions of angels I'll stop it and all you've got to do is open your mouth but Jesus stands before them and it says in Isaiah 53 like a lamb before the slaughter he opens not his mouth why do you think he did not open his mouth because he knew if he opened his mouth the wrong way at the wrong time he could release those angels the world would have been destroyed the Plan of Redemption would have been totally completely done away with so he had to pray God I know what your will is in heaven but help me to enact what the will of God is on the Earth every day of your life you should pray God whatever the plant my God I feel the Holy Ghost in This House whatever the plan of God is in the heavens whatever you've got settled in the heavens forever oh God Thy word is settled in heaven whatever it is then I want you to manifest it by Vision Revelation understanding or by my end inner Feeling by the peace that I someone said Perry how do you always know when you're in God's will I'm going to give you the ultimate word it's called peace you can have peace of God peace from God peace with God all three of those come through different methods conviction when you can you're convicted and you repent of your sin you get one level of that peace when you follow through with God's purpose you get another level of that peace and when you are struggling with the crisis in a situation in a storm and God gives you a peace that passes all understanding he'll give you another level of that peace there's three levels of peace that comes with God but this is how you know the will of God it doesn't matter it doesn't matter what the situation nor the circumstance looks like when you can lay back and hell's breaking loose and nothing is going good and you ain't got money to pay the bill and you don't even have money to stay at the ramp and you don't even know what in the world's going on but somewhere down on the inside of your innermost being I call it the god gut nerve the gut feeling you can lay back in your head on the pillow at night and you can say you know what God's got it all worked out God has got it all covered all I got to do is go with the flow and every day when I get up say Lord your will be done today and tomorrow God your will be done today and the next day God your will be done today the will of God is not let's like I said let's go out there 20 years in the future and see where we'll be can I tell you and no God is not going to tell you where you're going to be 20 years from now because here's the reason why you would try to shorten the 20 years and make it three if God showed you emissions in Africa and you're going to be over this great missions you know what you do you'll be on the internet missions and Africa missions in Africa and Nairobi Kenya and you'd be trying to put your resume in and you're not even ready I mean you got to go down there and eat monkey meat and lizard and you can't even eat a T-bone steak from a dead cow come on and many times can I say this to you can I tell you this about the will of God having been there many times you will have an advanced knowledge called the word of knowledge or Word of Wisdom that's going to come through the Lord to help you to see apart just a just a just a piece of the puzzle just enough to keep you believing just enough to hold you on just just enough he won't give you the whole thing but he'll give you enough to cause you to hold on and here's the reason he does it and I'm going to tell you something can I tell you this and it drives me crazy it really does the reason he does it is one verse you walk by faith and not by sight um okay let me show you something there's two ways I could go I want to make sure I go the right direction here will of God when I was 16 years of age I love first of all I love sports I really wanted to play sports more than anything else but that didn't work out in Pan Am so I took architecture drawing for four years in high school I already talked to my uncle in Ohio to he was a he built Bridges and built all kind of construction things about maybe coming up and mentoring under him and then going further into that so I was artsy I liked art I liked create I loved creativity and I decided one night I was listening to my dad can I tell the story I was listening to my dad tell stories of miracles in West Virginia that he saw as a boy as a young I say a boy a teenager I'm talking about incredible Miracles I looked at these men with me they were men one divorce two were still married and I said how come we don't have these Miracles what's the deal with us we didn't have a prayer meeting I said let's go pray went to the church next door to pray starting at 11 o'clock and left at 3 30 in the morning I mean we prayed I had never I had never prayed that long in my life but I got it's somewhere around two o'clock to 2 30. I got into a Zone I did not though exist my daddy told me if you will stay in prayer and if you can focus to get your mind clear after about an hour if you will not get up and you will stay in prayer and you will go from glory to glory you'll go up Jacob's Ladder you will go into a realm where you'll be in the presence of God and you'll go from the presence of God to a Divine Heavenly presence then you'll go into it like a third heaven I know these are terms you may not understand like a third heaven level to where you're actually in the throne room itself my daddy look I'm gonna tell you something I don't like to tell too often because people make fun of it but my dad was with a man in West Virginia I just visited that church in fact Jake and I that used to be here Jake and I went up to you you can ask Jake about it we visited the church where my dad had this happen and the benches are still in this old church the windows are knocked out and the bench man I thought the Holy Ghost when I stood there that bench where Dad was at and my dad said Jake's look at that floor right there we're looking in the window broken window see that floor that's where my daddy was and my dad started praying at seven o'clock that he wasn't praying loud to disturb but they're having church and he's laying on the floor praying eight o'clock he's praying nine o'clock church is over and he heard the pastor say someone stayed with brother Freddie please I don't want to disturb him he was really in the spirit right now and my dad's prayed till nine o'clock ten o'clock 11 o'clock and Al Collins told my dad told him about 11 30. you start singing in tongues what happened to you and Dad was when he come out of this he come out about midnight he said I saw the edge of the New Jerusalem he said he said I prayed and I'd go higher and higher and I broke into a veil a veil of the spirit and I saw the edge of the city he said I know you did he said cause your face started disappearing Fred and I it scared me and I ran over here and was in the corner just shaking and praying he said there was a glory that came on you he said you're you physically weren't disappearing now this man was a great man of God he later died he later died and when my dad got called to preach and I and again I hate to even tell this because people think it's weird but when my dad got called to preach he was about to go into the Korean world now we're talking about the will of God here right we're talking about praying so he was going to go into the Korean War and he already met with a draft board and said I will go in as a medic they said we're going to have to have training for that he said whatever I'll serve my country anyway but he said I'm a minister and and he said for me to go into a battle and to have to shoot someone I don't think I can do it but I will serve the country tell me what to do on the battlefield if I have to or drive trucks or anything so they met with my dad okay and they gave him a papers I still have that paper somewhere a little card that was 1A or something I don't remember how they did it back then but they had a card and they said you hold on to this because if we call you we'll need this card all right so now he's going up into a little cabin to pray and I'm telling you I can hardly tell this to this day and my dad couldn't tell her without crying it would take him 10 minutes to get through it if he was telling it right here he had a white came back chair and it was a cabin no bigger than this little room right here had a table chair a little Lantern in it and they had They Carried some canteens of water that had bottled water back then no no electronic devices were up there of course and they had their Bible and he was outside and he had that white came back chair leaned up against the uh the wall near the door and all of a sudden a hand came through the back of the inside of the house through the wall and grabbed him on the shoulder and when it did he collapsed with his head on his Bible and the chair shoved forward and he said oh my Lord I have died and then he described of coming out of his body like taking a glove and pulling it off the hand and he came out of the top of his head his spirit and soul came out of the top of his head and he looked back and saw his body and said well I've had a heart attack I've had a heart attack and then all of a sudden he felt a pressure come he said it wasn't painful but you could feel it and it was like a giant vacuum cleaner had come over him and it started sucking him up into the atmosphere he went through the top of trees and he said next thing I knew I am in a fetal position like this and I'm moving so fast that I can't even tell you how fast and I'm not even able to open my eyes and he said in a bit it stopped and I'm standing on nothing in a sapphire heaven it's the most beautiful Sapphire he said everything above you is sapphire around you with sapphire under your feet of sapphire he said it's like a a massive vacuum of nothing but sapphire color and if Dad didn't know this but the Bible says God sits on a sapphire throne read the book of Ezekiel sapphire blue beautiful blue and dad said he was struggling about what to do about this war thing and in the distance he saw a silver light coming now we're talking about the will of God here right we're talking about finding the will of God and it got as big as about a silver dollar and he held his hand out when he would do it that big and he said all of a sudden that light opened and my friend who saw me pray in that church who died of brain tumor cancer a few weeks later Al Collins steps out of that light and I I said I said Al Al it's Fred never answered him never responded to a thing dad said didn't talk to him he held his hand up out of that light Said Fred God says you're called to preach put his hand down Dad tried to communicate it's like Al didn't hear him Fred God sent me to tell you go back you have to preach and then I'll step back in that light and dad was trying to ow where are you where where am I at what Dad said I knew was Heaven somewhere and that light went back and when it went back and disappeared he started going into a vacuum below His Feet Again fetal position ended up coming through trees could see his spirit and so go through trees remember Jesus could go through doors don't think that's strange with the resurrected body he wouldn't have a resurrected body but it was his soul and spirit and he came back in his body and he said when I came back in my body it came in with a jerk I heard my heart just like like my heart like a fear almost like when you get an adrenal surge his heart jerked and he said all of a sudden every hair on my body was standing up every hair back of my neck my arms and I am shaking and the draft board never called him and when he finally went to see him I found this out from dad later he said I finally got so concerned I knew I was called to preach and I went back and told him he said gentlemen he said I'm called to the ministry but again if you need me he said preacher we should have contacted you because we have been in we have agreed now these were this is back when men prayed but we think there's so many young men going to war there's so many mamas in these mountains are losing their boys we need a young laughs we need a young man your age to pray for him and encourage him so we want you to stay and my Dad was supposed to go into the Korean War and the draft board told him not to go Bartley West Virginia now why why he's an old man and he's in his 70s he's gray-headed he's dying on me my dad I said Dad tell me about some things that you know God did in your life and why he did it and he talks about the draft board and he says if I'd have gone to war I'd have never met your mother I met her in a Revival if I'd have gone to war and Never Met Your Mother he would have never been born if you'd have never been born your children would have never been born if you'd never been born there's a couple million Souls that would have never been saved the second experience that he had when he was a young man was he was taken dad my dad actually went to heaven about three different times and it was all through prayer it was all through fasting and prayer that's how it happened and on this one occasion he was somewhere in the heavenlies and he said this was very strange because he says there was this beautiful library and he was able to go into this library and there was books he said Perry the books were so large they were like this wide they were like this tall it took two hands to handle them and he said I saw a book called The Prophecies of Jesus and he said when I saw the book The Prophecies of Jesus I went to take the one because I was intrigued by prophecy and God said that's not for you Stay With Me Now and he looked to the beside it and there's one called The Mighty acts and words of Jesus and he said I pulled that book out and when I opened it Perry he said it was like black most beautiful black and white pictures of every Miracle Jesus did even the ones that's not in the Bible when he went to bless the kids there were so many kids he touched his disciples hands and sent them out among the crowd so I saw the picture and it told me he said I could read it in my understanding it told me everything he was doing he said there are Miracles he did of Raising Dead kids and dead people that's not even and what does John say John said if if we'd put all the Miracles in even the world's books couldn't contain what he did and he says we're gonna You're Gonna Get To Heaven and you're going to actually get to go to a library so near death again he was he was a few months from dying I said dad tell me about the book again tell me about the book if you know our ministry you'll understand this and he said to me he said Son my Ministry was about miracles and it was it was the works of Jesus my dad all he preached was Jesus in the New Testament and he'd have Miracles he'd have 16 people healed to cancer but my Ministry turned into prophecy and he said to me I remember him crying and Micah he said that book in heaven that had the secrets in it was not for me he pointed at bony finger he said it was for you son because God's going to give you and has given you unlocking the things that nobody in our generation ever saw nobody growing up in my generation never saw the things you're preaching your own Granddad said to me how does Perry get this stuff it's in the book and why how did we miss it for 50 years foreign the will of God will never take you or the grace of God can't keep you and the will of God will never take you now let me give you this word this is this is I'm going to wrap this up I mean there's a hundred ways I could go but I got to wrap it up somewhere I got to put a caboose on it listen to me carefully there are many of you here who struggle of what you're going to do when you leave the ramp because you say I don't see a particular door opening how am I going to use what I have learned practically what does my future hold and I want you to remember this this word the Commandments of God are not Grievous it's in the book say it again the Commandments of God are not Grievous now he just reminded me thank you Lord this was in my notes I totally forgot about it thank you Lord have you ever read that verse in Psalms that says delight yourself in the Lord now stay with me on this one this this is the main thing I need to tell you delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you what the desires of your heart in the English language what does that say by the way we interpret it let's say it again delight yourself from the Lord he will give you the desires of your heart if I retranslate that to how most of us take it it goes like this if you love God with all your heart seeking first anything you want God's going to give it to you desires your heart now have you think that if you look at it that's what it say would you like for me to tell you what it's actually saying this is going to help this is going to help everybody in this place if you'll remember this girl comes up to me and I said she said I just don't know what God wants me to do I said what do you want to do I want to do what God wants me to she said I said no no that's not my question what do you want to do I want to be a missions nurse so bad that I dream about it I said that's what you're going to do she said but is it the will of God I said stop who do you think put that in your heart who put it there that verse is can actually be translated if you delight yourself in the Lord he will plant in you desires that he will help you fulfill you're tracking with me when I first preached I was not much of a Preacher I was horrible I couldn't pronounce most of the words in the Bible but I knew I was called to preach you couldn't talk me out of it nobody else could talk me out of it my dad was the pastor he tried to talk me out of it but I knew I was called to preach so when you know you call to preach guess what you gonna do you're going to preach I'll preach in the nursing home I preach on the street corner I'd preach and testify I get up and just good testify and quote a few scripture just so I can get up and say I preached but I'm going to tell you something who put it in my heart who put it in my heart to do a little magazine that was nothing but a flyer in a folder with misspelled words that now has become a 38-page full color magazine who put it in my heart who put it in my heart at age 18 to have a seven point Outreach plan when I didn't even have seven outreaches and I hadn't even preached in two states they used to say who does Perry Stone think he is Oral Roberts and one guy saw my Revival poster and said this is he of whom Billy Graham said who is this I got mocked I got rejected I got made fun of but let me tell you when you're on an assignment and you've had a prayer meeting with God and you know God spoke to your spirit that can't nobody talk you out of what God's told you to do I've got news for somebody they can't talk you out of it they can't talk you down I want to preach to I feel the Holy Ghost told me right now I want to preach it down in Baton Rouge Louisiana and the LSU students came out by two two to three hundred of them and they had a Ministry there but with brother Rusty domain and so they came to hear me preach there were two young men that were called that that I'm gonna I'm gonna give their names one was John's sibling one was a guy named Stovall they were students at LSU I'm telling you they were wildest bugs we'd get banners and run around that church we'd go lay hands on people people falling out rolling around speaking in tongues and I went to that church every year for four years straight one of them one of them their dad was a lawyer and when he said to his dad I'm called to preach his dad had a fit I mean his dad went crazy how can you preach what is in preaching you need to do something with your life another dad was a professor at LSU that actually had invented some things and was very famous he's saying to himself what are you doing I didn't see you to school to go be a preacher you see but those boys knew that they were called to preach they knew that God had a plan I bought Stovall his very first pulpit in Nashville Tennessee when he didn't have but a handful of people coming I'm talking you can count it on one hand Stovall now has not only one campus but campus is all lower the place and has one of the great Ministries over in the Memphis area I think it is I don't remember where it is now was it Memphis I said Nashville over in Memphis now let me tell you about the other one and that's John's siblings sibling has that one in Tennessee but let me tell you about Jacksonville Florida let me tell you about Stovall I remember when Christopher had me come in when he was running about 300 Stovall now has 15 000 to 20 000 members and that's one of the greatest churches on the east coast of the United States now I do think now their dads are rather proud of them that they went ahead and obeyed the Lord I'm trying to tell you something it's not easy to follow the will of God it is not easy to get on a plane and go through customs to go preach and have to get half sick when you're on the mission field it is not easy like I have done my entire life I've taken six or seven times a weekend and preaching and coming back and working on Monday through Friday it is not easy to Pastor people when they're fickle and they're with you one day and they leave you the next I've dealt with that as well but I'm going to tell you something there is a purpose of God there is a completed purpose there is something you don't have to know about it right now you don't have to have the details right now I got a money somebody help me praise the Lord in this house would you help me Praise Him in the house now I can pick up that little book I wish I brought one with me first book I ever printed called precious promises for believers I take a drum set like this drum set here and gave it to a printer so that I could print my first book because I didn't have enough money to even pay for a book sold that book for a dollar a copy found one the other day that I still have and I want to tell you printed 500 copies so those printed some more of those sold those went and wrote another book sold it for a dollar copy that started I have printed 80 written 80 books including several best sellers and several that have won awards and that's pretty good for a kid that flunked English and made D's and E's in English and I had to go to summer school and hated the English language and told my mama I'm not going to speak neither am I going to write I'm going to do something different so I don't need to learn grammar English or anything else but God has proofreaders but God has computers that can help you do it Hallelujah does anybody here what I'm talking about you're looking at somebody I feel the Lord in the house you're looking at somebody that a church you got preacher looked at me had my same last name wasn't related to me when I was 18 and said if you don't go to Lee College you're not going to make it and you're going to fall flat on your face guess what he said I was going to blow over I'd like to see him again if he's still living and tell him I blew over the entire world on television I have blown over 450 states of the United States I've blown over seven foreign Nations I've had millions of people saved and baptized in the Holy Ghost around the world now I didn't make it God made it I wouldn't hey I was just a vessel I was willing to say take me do something with me Hallelujah you better help me shout one time somebody better help me shout one time [Applause] so you're not ready when you think you are but get ready that's what you're here for you're here to prepare it is not God is Not how much time do I give me five minutes do I am I gone over Rick am I going too long yeah yeah wait Rick said way over I don't have a clock up here y'all made a mistake when I come not putting a clock up please because I have no I lose track of time but but but I wanna I wanna get this I got to just get this point to you I got to get this into your spirit so you'll remember it huh I was thinking one day when I went to high school I hated school I hated hated school hate it I I'm telling you seventh grade to 12th forget it my senior class is crying and they're they're they've thrown their caps in the air and I'm yes I'm out of here all right I just didn't like it I was persecuted the whole time I was in school because of being a Christian I got to thinking the other day Pam I've had I can name four friends that I had in Senior High School just for couldn't get a date from a girl first of all I wouldn't date most of them anyway because they weren't saved and the ones that were hit it you never know it but it's funny I was thinking the other day about I only had four friends but I could take my whole senior class and line them up in a room and guarantee you that Perry Stone to this day has more friends than all of them put together all because I did the will of God millions of people stand with us millions of people back us up millions of people watch our programs I'm not saying that boasting I'm just telling you that if you'd have told me at age 18 that that was going to happen I laughed and so would everybody else that knew me I can remember when making a car payment was hard I can remember not getting enough offering at a church to pay my fuel home I can remember giving the orphan back to the church because they were about to shut the doors down and didn't have enough money to pay their rent and I got nothing oh I tell you the stories you can see things like they are now but I can tell you the stories but now it's common to write a check out for 1.5 million dollars I couldn't even count to 1.5 million when I was 18. Rick's on my board Rick understands my budget's 14 15 million a year and here's the cool part we don't ask for people to send us money we don't send donor letters asking for money we don't beg people for help y'all aren't hearing me you know why because we did the will of God God gave me the name voice of evangelism I had it since I was 18 God gave the seven point average had it since I was 18. God built the Omega Center International God had a multi-millionaire pay for it I don't know if y'all understand this let me just say this to the ramp to the ramp that now has ramp Cleveland do you understand that if I would have built that building and went to the bank loan the bank payment would be sixty thousand dollars a month on that building Karen Wheaton could have never afforded to take that building over nobody could have afforded to take that building over and if I would have wanted to give it up for my health for any other reason what would we have done with it would have been sold to the city to a Convention Center God did not pay for that building to sell it to the city for a convention center and one lawyer in the city said I'll get rid of Perry Stone and see tooth that I'll own that building Over My Dead Body you'll own it you're not going to own it because God owns it you're not going to own it because God paid for it and you see God paid for that building knowing that there would be no pressure or no debt on the ramp trying to make a mortgage payment on it you all really need to shout a revelation to the heavens right now I'm saying God's got this thing God Almighty God's got this thing from beginning to end now who's praying for who's praying who's praying and I mean this sincere we all are but I'm telling there's some folks that's been praying very intently and I'm going to say it this way because it's coming by this word of knowledge you've been very concerned you're not one of those going to tell everybody and you know how you feel you know but you are very concerned about the will of the Lord you're very concerned that you don't want to miss it and you have absolutely no clue you see Visions you dream dreams you dream dreams of what you would like to do but you really have no clue what God has for you that's who I'm here for right now stand up stand up it's not you don't have to be embarrassed about this I've been there God gives you the desires of your heart okay stay standing let me talk let me just speak to you Spirit close your eyes let me speak to your spirit for a minute number one do not be confused with what you feel like you want to do and if you feel like God put it in your heart flow with it if you are confident that you know in your spirit where your gift is if you're confident that you know what is in your heart do you love poor people do you love hurting people do you love kids that are addicted you want to see them live what do you love music are you Arts what is it okay whatever is in there you have been pursuing God it's there because of him I want you to understand that point one so you don't have to go looking of am I going to miss it if I if I feel this and go am I gonna you're not going to miss it because God gives you the desire that's in your heart that's point one point two is what you have to pray is not God let your will be done because your his will would be to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things are added there is automatic flow that comes the footsteps of a good person are what ordered see the flow is going to automatically come don't you can't force it you can't make it you can't get the right connections you can't open the door God says I have the Key of David I open the door that no man can open and I'll shut the door so God controls the door so here's what you've got to pray and this is the word for you that's I've come I've came all the way here to Alabama to give you this because this is going to help somebody you've got to pray God this is what I feel I'm going to learn that's the third thing you got to learn everything you can about that subject if I'm going to preach prophecy I've got to learn everything there is about prophecy if I'm going to be a faith preacher I want to know the faith books I want to read the Smith Wigglesworth birth but if I want to know about the gifts of the Spirit I'm going to find these people that have operated in the gifts whatever it is not just the curriculum you're under right now but whatever it is that you need to pursue you need to learn everything from everybody that you know why you're here spend extra time instead of their testimony not that it's going to happen to you the same way it happened to them but it builds your faith and it keeps you focused on where you want to go Mars not the disappointments of your life and let not the disappointments of your heart Define you at this moment says the Lord when I formed you when I called you I took into consideration your weaknesses I took into consideration your failures I took into consideration your struggles I knew these things but I still called you uh I knew these things and I still loved you under these things and I still ordained you to do the work for me therefore do not look at the past for you can never move forward you could never move into the light when you stay in the dark you can never move forward by Looking Into the Dark of the past trust the Lord your God with all your heart don't lean to your own understanding quit reasoning quit trying to figure it out Trick quit trying to make it happen and allow him to do it his way and in his time for as it was said you think you're ready but there is more preparation for there are people around you there are people you have not yet met that you must connect with but I am preparing them they are not yet ready it's a time of preparation it's a time to spend in the presence of God it's a time to get intimate with him to learn how to hear his voice in the little things you will need this to know how to function and hear the still small voice of the Lord [Music] lift our hands together everybody let's lift our hands let's praise the Lord out loud would you praise him out loud everybody [Music] oh Spirit of the Living God today I want you to minister Lord to these precious ones that are here oh God you put this in their heart you put it inside in spirit what they feel it's coming from you lord it's not just them it's not just their own desire they've sought you and I just pray father for peace peace peace peace lift your hands and I want to pray peace over your father right now I'm asking you to send perfect peace they will know they will know the direction of the Lord they will know the mind of the Lord they will know what to do when the time comes because they will have peace I rebuke the spirit of confusion in the name of Jesus I rebuke the spirit of confusion in the name of Jesus I learn everything you can learn everything you can about whatever it is that's in your heart don't let the enemy steal the dream that you have that looks so large and so big that you don't know how it would ever happen every day say father God the doors that you would have opened open open them and father the doors that you would close have them close in the name of the Lord Jesus [Music] in the name of the Lord Jesus right now father by the power of the Holy Ghost by the anointing of God I pray let the spirit of God have his will let the anointing of God break the Yoke that would try to tie them down and hand under them from the peace I pray peace of God over you in Jesus name that your mind will be relieved now tonight you will sleep tonight you will rest tonight you will have peace From This Moment On In The Name of Jesus do you do you will not over rationalize you will not over reason rest in the Lord rest in the Lord the footsteps of a good person will be ordered of the Lord he knows the timing when he's ready for it when he's ready for it he knows you're ready for it it's going to happen now everybody's standing your feet and raise your hands begin to pray in the Holy Ghost together Micah come on everybody would you put your hands up and just pray in the spirit of God everybody let's pray you pray the will of God when you do that Mama foreign [Music] likewise the spirit himself helpeth our infirmities helpeth Greek means to take cold life together with you and him together not him outside of you not you outside of him together for we know not what we should pray for as we should but the spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered then he talks about who knows the mind of man save the spirit of man mind of the spirit of God save the spirit of God watch this verse for we know that all things work together for the gooder than the love God and call to court his purpose my entire life I've heard that quoted by itself you cannot quote that verse by itself without taking the two verses before it's context and I'm gonna give you the bottom line read Romans 8 when you get home like 26 27 28 and you'll see it it's really powerful if you pray in the spirit watch this this is the this is the context if you will pray in the spirit which is the prayer language or speaking in tongues if you will pray in the spirit within your heart to seek the will of God watch this now then all things will work together for good how many times have we just said folks don't worry about it all things are going to work together that's not what it says you've got to go back to what Paul's saying you pray in the spirit you pray the will of God when you pray in the spirit you pray the mind of God so if you pray in the spirit what happens then after you've prayed in the spirit right you know all things are going to work together so you're real key here and I practice this my whole life four to six years is to pray excessively in the Holy Spirit and then he will open up the the will of God for you it's going to happen Give the Lord Praise everybody amen [Music]

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