JDM Hurricane Ida Update: Thank You For Your Prayers!

hello ladies and gentlemen i'm jesse duplantis and i'm kathy duplanti and we are still here devil praise god let me just give you a little update about oh hurricane irish she was mad as a hornet but you know what she tried to take us out but she couldn't yes we have some damage and i mean it's it's really rough and if you hear all the social the media in the world they think we're just all dying and it's not easy let me just say this it's not easy to flush toilets with pool water or swimming or some people fill their bathtub with water and yeah that's what they're using but you know we got water now bless god and i was ahead of time we believe in god to get full power uh for all our houses and all the different things in the mission we all own generated power right now a generation for healing that's the generator doing that but we'll give you an update of what's been happening so you'll know what's going on people say first thing i want to say why you seem so happy the joy of the lord is our strength now if i just thought and went look around at all the damage and all the people are coming to me you'd sit there and just cry it would overwhelm you it's really hard to watch the news all the time and see what's going on of course you want to be informed your heart goes out to them but we have to be uh schedule our time so we're not just doing that but what we're doing is is reaching people changing lives one soul at a time me and kathy did not evacuate i'm the first person to put my foot on the ground i'll be the last person to leave this place i believe me and you are like that so we just made up our mind that people needed us and my god that the day i mean the day after after uh ida i had to minister to the people they were crying i mean you know that's why we stayed and the god was so good and gracious and he protected us and but we told most people to get out a lot of our employees had well one of them charlie had two trees in his house pulling all that kind of stuff up anyway we are helping people literally all over everywhere the problem is when you come and look at our ministry you can't see any of that because we had oak trees down break breaking this and we had to get all that stuff out thank god for people that came and helped us do all those things but we're so excited about what god is doing what satan meant for bad god's turning around for good so think about this ladies and gentlemen you're going to hear all kinds of rumors that we're not doing this we're not doing that that that's all a bunch of malarkey i could use another word but you understand what i'm talking about you see what i'm saying but and i made up my mind that we are going to be a blessing in our blessing like you said we've already given away a hundred thousand dollars worth of generation which are already generate hundred thousand not a hundred hundred thousand dollars worth of that so god has been so good not trying to brag about that god's been gracious but we want to do more and we are going to do more and i mean i never seen so many trees kathy i'm in mine i got 168 mile an hour gus at my house 140 mile mile sustained wind and we still got a house now we got some shingles knocked off but we getting that all fixed and all that kind of stuff and uh oh here at the ministry give you a little update you saw some uh on that last update we did but we're getting we got some of the best people helping us and when i'm talking about contractors oh like a lot of this stuff that you thought was bad that's already been fixed i mean they work in 16 hours a day i mean it's just amazing because we were able to have church on sunday because i felt like it was so important to do that tell them the statement you said you got it well well i thought you know well when dixie's open that's a little grocery store around here they're giving out physical food we need about spiritual food and be here for those who are here and also be able to broadcast and give a a ministry time to be like i said you know and when i told people i wanted to have church they looked at me like i was crazy but the building was secure and it was safe so i said you know what we got to take a step before we can walk amen and it's that way no matter what you go through in life you know the devil threw his best shot but we're getting up and we're moving forward not just us but our neighbors and our family our our staff their families lots of people have been affected by this awful tragedy but we're never people that we're never going to give up we're always going to stand up and trust god to empower us with supernatural strength and wisdom to get through this thing and come out better than before the devil is going to be sorry he tried to touch it belongs to us not only we're giving out spiritual food but we're not physical food all those kind of things but you know people don't want to hear that because you got to touch the heart of an individual i know they get excited only the sinners and people that talk about a bunch of stuff that is lie and do all that kind of stuff and we're not even concerned about that because the people we're helping are crying i had them bust out crime we called this morning five or six fam bus our crying on the phone we finally got some phone service and different things of that nature but i mean we just we're rolling up and down the road we're just about to file this business partners thank you for sending in donations and all the different things and supplies and all kinds of stuff and 100 of it is going to hurricane relief and thank you for sending your comments words of encouragement that you're praying for us and that you're sharing your needs we're praying for you as we get those and we're we're standing united together in this you know the bible tells us where two or more agree is touching anything it'll be done and we can agree for recovery we can agree for restoration we can agree for hope to come alive again we are recovering as far as the storm but we've been recovered by the lord jesus christ you understand what i'm saying so i want to thank each and every one of you now you're going to hear rumors you know how that junk is you and that's all all people that know me and kathy know this ministry we don't do half the things people say in terms of i guess they don't have nothing to do you know what i'm saying uh but i tell you what if it was drowning and my only hand was there i bet you they'd grab it for sure you know what i'm saying well i'd rather focus on all the wonderful people that are spent sending words of encouragement to us and we want to encourage you today with this update to let you know that we're we're going forward with jesus we have some restoration to happen and there's just we just need uh your prayers to stand with us in this but i think but i'm gonna tell you there's some really bright moments in this terrible terrible disaster kathy's cooked five times it's been a miracle and listen the day after ida hit it was my birthday and i made my own i made my own cake and i shared it with you yeah it's called chocolate gooey cake and i mean and she made a little it's so funny she made her own little video to herself tell me what you said everybody was around so i said you know i'm gonna memorize memorialize this day so i did a little selfie and i said happy birthday to me nobody was around to do that for me my family was isolated everybody was in a different place but it was still a great day and the reason it was such my family said oh and people were telling me oh cathy was your birthday i said you know what it's the best birthday ever because all of my family was safe amen and you haven't got your gift from me yet but as soon as the store's open i'll get you on them that's okay i know where you live you know it's just you actually have to buy my own gift listen well you know how a woman is you buy something like that that's right that is true but anyway thank you for praying and believing with us we we're not just putting on this joy we have the joy of the lord we have the mind of christ and we have the peace of god that's three very powerful things in the middle of the disaster like i said last sunday when i was preaching at the church look for the opportunity in the crisis look and put good see what i do when that class tries to overwhelm me i put good pictures in my mind of how we were blessing when katrina was 16 years ago the different things so that's what it's all about so i want to thank each and every one for praying for believing for giving hallelujah and i'm going to tell you something i'm have people giving money 100 of it like we did we didn't keep one dime at that whatsoever at all uh doing hurricane katrina in fact can i tell you you think i should tell them what we gave it do it you've mentioned you mentioned it publicly in the past yeah i could say let me just tell you when hurricane katrina hit 16 years ago on the exact same day august the 29th we went to work people said donations and everything i heard several ministers said if you wanted to get the to the right people you send it to justin plans ladies and gentlemen we gave now this is just money this is not counting a food stuff three oh a little over three million dollars yes and what we did with people's houses with three million three million you got it and what we did we rented apartments that we could get them right now we're trying to rent apartments so people could go there we paid rent for six months but it's hard to find that we did that and we so why because you sent me we don't keep it we do what god says now when you say that you get a lot of people trying to come at you say give me this give me that we don't know who you are that's not the issue but we're not going to let somebody take advantage of your donation see what i'm saying and we don't take any of it ourselves god's been good and gracious also during that time we had covenant compassions here and when there's time and when we're all set up and ready we may launch some of that in the future but we're going to take it a step at a time and trust god to lead and guide us during that time we gave out a lot but we learned that to differentiate between the greedy and the needy right because there were some genuine needs out there so we're doing more doing as much as we can as fast as we can i thank god for the staff that was able to make it back because you got to have people to help you do that just doing this i got people behind the cameras doing this kind of stuff right now they're in the dark i can't see a word but i know they're thinking about telling me listen i see nothing because of these dark dark lights but look if you look back here this is all safe no leaks no nothing we prayed we believe god because many of you have come here and god's been so good and gracious so i mean i wish we could talk to you a lot longer but we got to get back on the road helping people reaching people and i hadn't stopped preaching thank god i haven't stopped preaching i'm going to be going to chicago i'm going to be going to fort worth and then back and because we never get away from this one you know already i've had you'll see it coming up in the post coming up i've had to reschedule glorious our conference that was scheduled for october 1st and 2nd here right here at the headquarters because and we've rescheduled for march i believe the dates is march the 25th and the 26th and 2022 and it's already been uh you know that you're going to get our october magazine which was already printed you'll see that it's here but please spread the word that it's moved it's postponed we're still going to have it it's not cancelled it's not canceled it's postponed and moved but the point is that we want to be able to put our efforts toward the recovery right here in this area let me tell you why we we're postponing it because right now all the relief people that are coming in they need hotel rooms you know all these uh people the electrical engineers i mean you just can't hardly get anything so be praying in believing for favor for us that we can get some apartments put some of my staff in but whatever housing is a big deal we want you to pray with us about power restoration in the area is a great important thing for you to pray with us about and we feel your prayers and we appreciate it every everything you think of that sustains life we've lost but we get it all back the same thing katrina but this was a lot worse ida was madder than katrina i didn't think anybody could do that but things being restored faster than they were during katrina technology after katrina we came back we were had evacuated because it was mandatory we didn't know our home at that time wasn't strong enough we weren't sure what to expect but anyway we came back eight days after there still wasn't electricity there anywhere yeah but we're right now so we were on like we said we were on the edge of disaster then but now we're in the middle of it and we're working with the recovery and we don't talk a lot about that stuff because we're not going to give no place to the devil right see what i'm saying but i want to let you know god is showing up and showing out and you are showing up and showing out so thank you for giving yes thank you for standing with us let me say it again if you send a donation of 100 that 100 goes to people that are hurting everywhere we're doing that we have spent quite a bit of money all right because we're not broke and i don't mean that pridefully and my god we just immediately begin to do what we do so i want to thank each and every one of you pray for the number one that all this power would be restored quickly give those men and women on them pose some strength yes you know and everything and number two like that the stores will start opening number three the schools we can get those things electric get it up so kids can go back to school because this has been a tough thing on the kids you see very important three those three things right there hallelujah there's some places they don't even have operating hospitals so we've got to get that up and running and all of that everybody's got to be believing god with us so i want to thank each and every one of you for helping us believe the unbelievable receive the impossible because it's doable but we will be giving you updates during the time the faith the facts that i preach you'll be able to see that uh when it comes out there'll be a brand new one also our boardroom chats you're gonna be able to see that to be brand new we could rerun not wrong with that but we want to try to stay as current because i think you want to know uh some of the things that are happening so we're about the father's business so until next time pray for jesse and kathy hallelujah whole team you know one thing they're families i gotta just say that i have never felt my age i'm 72 years old i know but the other day i had run so hard sweat all day i mean i had white salt rings on my jeans and on my clothes everywhere i said to myself you i got to sit this 72 year old boy's butt down i gotta rest i see young people sitting down because oh yeah intense heat and humidity yeah that's the going we didn't have time we didn't we didn't do that am i bragging about it we just didn't do it so until next time thank you for helping us thank you for praying for us thank you for thinking of us and all you that tried to defend me when you hear some of that jump on the social media you know that's not true i'm not even worried about what they say i'm very concerned about what god says you know what he's saying for us it may sound arrogant he's saying well done thou good and faithful servants that's what he said why because we will not back down on nothing fight you want satan fight you're going to get and he tried his best but he couldn't win because we're still here hallelujah so until next time jesse and cathy said we love you we'll see you soon be thanking others to be praying because we are praying and thinking of you bye-bye bye

Channel: Jesse Duplantis Ministries

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Length: 13min 35sec (815 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 07 2021