John Kilpatrick’s testimony

in every generation there have been revivals massive moves of the Spirit that changed the course of history in every revival there were believers like you who chose to answer the call to become the one their generation discover your call to be the one generation we're about to take you face to face with history welcome to revival radio TV I'm your host Jean Bailey you know when we think of modern-day revivals one revival has to be included it started Father's Day 1995 of course I'm talking about Brownsville assembly in Pensacola Florida today you're going to hear from a man whose decision to be the one impacted millions of course I'm talking about Pastor John Kilpatrick who joined me right here in the studio you're gonna enjoy this because you're gonna hear an insider view and learn how the miracles of Brownsville started long before the revival ever happened so come along and listen to Pastor John Kilpatrick something deep inside of me was calling out to the deep of God and I said Lord there's gonna be more and I would come in here in this building and I would scare myself friend it was the stillness of that dark pre-dawn hours 4 o'clock in the morning 3 o'clock in the morning and I'd lay on that front row and I'd grab my belly and I would walk these floors and I would cry out loud I knew nobody was around and I knew nobody could hear and I lift my voice some time till I would be hoarse and I'd say I thank you Lord for the church I thank you for the building I thank you for my wife and children but Oh God I would say to God if come if you don't come in this place I can't take it Pastor John I am so excited you're here I've been waiting for you to get here well thank you yeah we I have so many things to talk to you about we may not let you go well that sounds good to me I'm here for the duration we want to talk about revival obviously in Pensacola and all that happened there but I want to start earlier than that and I want to know about you tell me some of your history and your earliest memories of revival and what that was like you mean when I was young yeah I had a pastor his son married my half-sister my oldest half-sister he was a powerful man of God he later became my mentor and my spiritual father but he he was a man that had a walk with God that I wish to this day that I had he was German Whetzel and he was humble extremely humble but he was brilliant he had a brilliant mind but he had a walk with God that he knew God that man knew God and because I was with him a lot he helped introduce me to a walk with God not just the Lord but a walk with God so that goes all the way back to the time I was 6 years old 5 years old right now you were telling me a story before we went on the air about when you were 12 years old tell us that story again well my father left us when I was 12 and they separated when I was 8 but they got back together so from 8 until 12 my life was really tumultuous my father was abusive to my mother because she got saved under my brother-in-law's tent revival and he didn't want a Christian wife he certainly didn't want to tongue talk in Christian well but my mother was real solid she was not a you know she was not a fanatical type person whatsoever excellent wife very pretty lady took very good care of him and so whenever she began taking me to church my father I think it was just Satan in him he just did not want her taking me to a Pentecostal church church in general but especially Pentecost so whenever he left I was 12 and my mother had a nervous breakdown and so whenever she had the nervous breakdown I was watching Oral Roberts one morning and whenever I was watching the program he said in the course of the program I'm gonna be coming to Columbus Georgia bringing my tent well my father even though he was like he was he still had an effect on me because he was my father and the things that he said about preachers these things he said about tongues speaking in tongues and Pentecostals it couldn't help but affect me because I heard it all the time right and he was my father well when when he made that statement the kids at school started really mocking him and saying that you know he was a fake he was a fraud he had something in his hand and when he touched people it zapped them you know Jesus Christ heal woman you have faith when you had a parent see you have hawlucha fleshes thank you Jesus thank you so I was really in consternation I didn't know what to believe I wanted to believe I love my mother I trusted my mother but my father's words had an impact on me I didn't know what to believe so I remember I went into her bedroom and I said mama I just heard old Robert say that he's coming to their account after the fairgrounds and she I said can I go oh no no no no I can't let my baby go no I went with 12 so finally I stayed with it and I finally prevailed and she agreed to let me go well I rode the city bus down to the fairgrounds had to get out and walk so I got there a little bit early you know I was looking for a good seat a good vantage point because I'd heard about all these healings I wanted to see I needed to see something I needed to see it and so he preached he had on a white suit he had on a bowtie like Colonel Sanders you know and he preached he was already handsome guy and in person he was more handsome than person who was on on-camera indian-looking God dark skin he preached and I didn't pay that much attention to determine are just 12 but no when it came time for him to pray for the sick he took his towel took his coat off rolled his sleeves up and he had these people parade up this ramp in front of him but when they started coming up that ramp I saw him pray for several people and nothing eventful nothing to the naked eye you know I was a little bit disappointed but then I saw him the shot as a black woman and she had a Gorder hanging off her neck about that long as hanging on top of her breast and she had veins and that Gorder as big as my finger Wow and when she walked it just wobbles like that so I said hmm so I got over at a good vantage point and when she came in front of him he said put his hands on his hips like this he said mama you believe God can heal you and she put her hands on her hips she said Oh Roberts do you really believe I'd be in this line if I didn't leave dogged healed me and he just that quick he didn't even lay hands on her he just popped her with two fingers and as soon as he popped her he took the microphone in his hand and stuck it right to her neck he knew what was going to happen and I'll tell you the honest truth is sounded like she was swallowing the milkshake he could hear her swallow just swallowing and swallowing and swallowing and I'd say I'm guessing three four minutes her net was as normal as mine I left that meeting right if that happened I didn't stay for the rest of it caught the city bus home never had another doubt about the reality of what I believes and what my mother raised me to believe never had another day one miracle changed your lying miracle change mama Wow mm-hmm so what happened in I mean you're 12 years old now now you've seen God really moved went to church for two years at my brother-in-law's dad's Church which later became as my mentor my spiritual father and I went there for two years I wanted the baptism of Holy Spirit couldn't receive it so I was sitting there in classroom and they were showing a film in biology on first and first period on dissection they were cutting something up on this great I just got it off my mind I started praying under my breath Lord I want the Holy Spirit so bad well I was praying the projector was seated alphabetically I was K you guys right in the middle of classroom on the end the projector was right by my head and while I was praying it was just like somebody took the knob like that and cut the volume down and when it did I jump and I don't know why jump but I jumped I felt like I was you know like what's going on here and then as soon as I calmed down I heard a tender voice in my left ear like a father sage on this day I have called you to preach my word and I'll be with you but you must keep yourself from the other young people in the neighborhood that will have a bad influence me because if you don't lose you and then the Lord called me to do five things in the ministry and as soon as he stated the fifth thing that he was calling me to do he said this day I'll confirm this call in your ear well as soon as the as soon as the voice stops speaking I heard the projector come right back up well I was dumbfounded because I'm 14 right right and the thing that so shocked me is I couldn't believe he knew where my school was you know I knew where my church was you know he found me a school he knew how to find you yeah and so I didn't feel any different until I got up to walk and when I stood up to walk I could not feel my legs at all I mean nothing okay it was like I had air he's like I was just moving like that I was going to my second period class it was math class and it was like I was floating up that incline to my math class well when I got to math class I sit there and my math teacher was out that day and they had a fill-in substitute teacher and he was a retired Baptist preacher his name was Richard Chaplin and before class started he looked at me back there in the back he looked over his classroom he has glasses down the under his nose and he's looking over the class and he looked at me and said come and said so he walked back there to where I was he said son what's going on with you men I said what do you mean he said well uh I see the glory of God all over you Wow I said really not started crying yeah and so I told him what happened last period and he started crying well I thought that was a confirmation so I went the rest of the day and about a third or fourth period I begin to get my feeling back at my legs so my mother had to work at a nursing home when my dad left so she had to be at work at 4:00 so bell rang at 3:25 so if I'd run home she'd have me a sandwich fixing some tea and she approved me for she went to work so I ran up the steps to the house and I pulled the screen door open I said mama come here and so she came out of the back of the house real slow and I said mama sitting on I got something to tell you she said no son said you sit down I got something to tell you I said mama this is important I can't waste time you've got to go to work she said just listen she said today a woman came by here selling doughnuts for the Church of God so I've never seen this woman in my life but my mother had me when she was 42 mm-hmm and so she said ask me for one to buy some donuts I went to the back of the house and got a dollar out of my purse paid her through the screen door and she said when I paid her she turned to walk off the front porch and wasn't she did she stop dead in her tracks and laid the donuts she had left under her arm on the banister raised her hands on our front porch didn't even know my mother Wow didn't even know my mother's Christian they didn't exchange pleasantries or anything and the interpreter she gave out a message in tongues and the interpretation said this day I've called your son to preach my word you must keep him from the other boys and girls in the neighborhood that'll keep have a bad influence so if you don't I'll lose him and then when she got through telling me that she's now what were you gonna tell me and so I never in my life have ever for one second doubted my call to the ministry now praise God what a story if I have any success gene I have to be honest with you and tell you probably has very little to do with me has everything to do with my mother bringing mama yes Wow okay so let's keep going um so that's it 14 count confirmed in one day you you've seen him you've seen him move at 12 never doubted it at 14 you're called in the ministry when it sounds like there was no doubt at that point either that's what you're gonna do what happened next well I received baptism the Holy Spirit when I received the baptism the Holy Spirit made a change in my life because now I wasn't just operating out of my soul which senses now you know I was beginning to learn how to walk in the spirit and I began to develop a relationship with the Lord but the pastor came to my mother and he said he remain and he said I know God's called your son to preach and he said would you let me take him since you're working at night and there's nobody else in the house would you let me take him and pray with and teach him how to pray and I'm standing there and I'm thinking to myself well you know I'm called to preach um I thought right you know what yeah but I didn't know what he knew and he knew that if I was ever going to be successful in ministry I had to learn to be first of all successful in prayer so he would start at 11:30 at night we always prayed with the lights out he had laying the floor put his hand under his head like this take his towel roll his sleeves up and laying the floor and tell preacher stories and when I sit there and lay on the floor beside him over there you know across from him and he'd tell them preach his stories my heart would flare up and burn and I mean just burn it's like God what is this and I heard him tell him I was with him for years I heard him tell story after story he repeated some of them through the years you tell about people getting saved in the brush arbors tell about people we'd have to get off the train tonight walk the trail road tracks you'd have to count the slats in the railroad tracks so many miles down the railroad tracks then he'd take a left he'd walk in the dark to a brush Harbor they had lanterns out there and that preached and people get saved and get to walk the railroad track back cat catch the train back in the st. Louis he'd tell all those kinds of stories you know my heart would just Bernie tell about people being healed great healings during the Depression era and things like that and and I used to lay there and think God you reckon I've never have any stories like this and see looking back on it now I didn't realize that then as a boy but what was going on in my life then was a precursor and a preview of what my life was going to be but I was here and my life being spelled out through his mouth right and I was under his mantle it's really important whose mantle you get under because what's on what's the on their mantle is gonna get on you I can promise you yeah well that's me that's that's so true so go back to the prayer if you had to you were you were saying how you were really not that interested when you started but you obviously thinks grew what was it you can say that you've learned from him during those times one of the things I learned was before we prayed always tell us not to doze not to sleep and I had to be at school the next morning at 7:30 so you know I wouldn't get home to like 132 o'clock in the morning I got used to no sleep real early in my life that he would teach us not to doze not to be chatting in the corners with other people on his time afraid get to down out of your mouth and he'd began to preach teach teach us on different kinds of Prayer intercessory prayer you know petition for all kinds of things like that and so whenever I began to pray he would tell us now don't pray to be heard you don't want to get in here and start walking around like you're preaching and try to impress everybody by how good you can pray don't do that you're praying to the Lord you're not praying that for us to hear you yeah and as we begin to pray every night like that I could feel my relationship with the Lord thickening and thickening no doubt about it and then I began to see answers to prayer some prayers were about three weeks out some answers to prayer were like several months out that can rain but that's some of the things that I noticed as we began to pray he would teach us to prevail and not give up you'd say the victory you've got to pray until you get the victory pray through in the Bible days when when war when they were V Wars Israel with fight wars the war would not be over until they went in and took the spoils Israel wouldn't could take this fall and the Lord said you're not through freightin until you take the spoils take it away from the devil that's good mmm seems to me I remember a story where you had a real visitation from heaven one night in that prayer time what was that well pastor who had revival break out of the church and it was an awesome revival I still remember the Evangelist name to this day he was handsome really handsome wasn't married but he came in and and the revival was really going full steam ahead you know just a lot of things happening but pastor was checked and he called him in one day and he told me system will shut down the revival because I know something's not right I can't put my finger on it but something's not right well anyway to make a long story short he ended the revival well that guy took a lot of the people with him from the church and split the church I saw revival up close and personal when I was young I saw the drawbacks of it I saw the fraud over I saw personality worship I saw it up front I saw it personal wanted no part of it but it didn't turn me off to revival so the church went down pastor got us together one Sunday night after church we went to a cafe and there was several of us you have boys there that always prayed with and he told us thing he was leaving he was moving to Winter Haven Florida he was taking a church down there but when he told us that you know he'd become my father yeah sure you know and he was leaving and how old were you about this time I was I was 15 okay 15 been praying with him about a year right so you know when he told us he was leaving and what conjured up all that stuff about my father Lee yeah you know now he's leaving and it just it stuck a knife deep yeah so I wanted to cry but I didn't want him to see me cry so we went back to the church after he told us that and we walked to the church lights out like we always did you know and I said I went out setting the audience I didn't come up laying the floor there where the rest of them was he tells stories I just sat in the audience and I was so in pain I just said man if I could just catch a city bus I'd go home and never come back so there was city buses that ran in our city but they never they didn't run on Sunday night so I was the only not student running this was on Sunday night so I felt trapped then I said well I'll walk home well it was too dangerous because it was during the time of the civil rights marches you know in certain origin there was looting and burning too dangerous I felt trapped yeah so they all started praying after awhile and I just sit there and I mean I was crying he couldn't save me I was crying and I was swearing to myself I'll never be back I'll never come back I'm not gonna go through this again so um a man they started pray and they didn't pray 10 or 15 minutes I got it one time and tried to pray and that atmosphere was so heavy in that church because of all the church had been through the atmosphere was you know loaded with all that conflict yeah well ice went back and flopped down in my seat you know and so finally I heard what God prayed with us all the time he said well boys I think I'm gonna put on my shoes and go to the house so he came back up and he sit on the altar in front of the church and he reached out to put his shoes nobody never put him on he just said Rob back up and then there was 17 of us in the meeting that night so then people begin to sort of come from all over the sanctuary and just sort of sit on them all term answers well then pastor came and he never got through praying that quick and he said on the altars well I'm sitting out there by myself and I feel a little bit strange so I got up and came and set by pastor on the altar while we were sitting there on that altar it was like just uh just like a holy hush came in that place and the doors in the back of the church went up like this there were two awful big ones big doors there were ten metal doors and they had they were locked through the pins in the jamb of the top pins in the gym at the bottom key beneath the doorknob a deadbolt and a latch there were a lot of five ways some kind of a force hit those doors they opened on their own accord never busted a lot never busted anything they just opened up on their own with just enough force that those metal doorknobs kept those plaster walls and in off the stage walked one angel and when he walked in he came in through the foyer there and he turned like a soldier he turned just like a soldier and he went stood for brother West always prayed he stood just like a soldiers like this right and behind him came another one and he turned and he stood over by the right-hand side of the building well I'm said they're done 15 years old now yeah and I've been praying for a year and pastor always told me he said son God's gonna reward you and you'll see the rewards of your prayers well when I saw those angels I really thought I was dreaming honestly I mean I was sitting there and I moved my hand up to my face and touched my face like that and I said I'm dreaming this is not real but when I touched my face that's or not this is real yeah and when I saw that angel over here and I saw that angel over there I just looked back and forth between both of them never seen anything that big in my life they filled it from the floor to the ceiling and after what seemed like a few minutes and it was much longer I know it had to be the one that came in first turned like a soldier walked to the center I'll turn the other one came came to center aisle they walked out left those doors over pastor said that the Lord spoke to him that night and he said Raymond I don't want you to leave this church I want you to stay here and I want you to pour into these boys he said because I'll use these boys to touch far more than you'll ever touch in your life so I want you to sacrifice them not government I want you to stay here important to these boys yeah so he stayed and I stayed with him I even dated my wife during that whole time and take her home from the date and come and be at the church by 11:30 at night and meet him and pray until 1:00 or 2:00 o'clock in the morning that's the way we dated yeah and that marks my life because to this day no matter what I'm going through no matter how bad things are I can still see those angels walk inside that church gym doors popping open just enough for them door knobs to tap those plaster walls I can still hear them doorknob to tap those walls like see those angels walk in and I can still see my eyes going back and forth from one to the other one and saying no I'm not dreaming this is real and then when they walked out that was the first time when we walked him that four year back to him we went down my first encounter with the power of God I mean went down and outers Wow and that was my first encounter so no matter how bad things get I can always remember those angels never said a word they had no wings they look like they had on warrior type clothes but no weapons never said a word and never lifted a finger but their presence broke the hell off that house yeah and immediately the following Wednesday night the church had filled up because the word got out about those angels and it filled up and I saw what when God intervenes and deals in a situation like that where the atmosphere is so contaminated and defiled with trouble right right they just broke it just like that Wow isn't it amazing how from Pastor John's troubled beginnings God carefully laid in layer after layer of faith discipline and mentoring did you notice how John was trained to be disciplined and how to pray and how he applied that again and eventually with the Brownsville revival this is God who again burst in a timeless plan we see it in revivals in history and of course in today listen Brownsville has not been studied enough and we're not done hearing what Pastor John Kilpatrick has to say about the Pensacola revival so keep watching but for now that's it thank you for taking the time to be with us today we'll see you next time right here when a revival radio TV

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Keywords: Gene Bailey, John Kilpatrick, Revival, Faith, Miracles, History, ohn Kilpatrick Ministries, Pensacola Outpouring, Brownsville Revival, Steve Hill

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 31 2019