Living With The End In View | Vesta Mangun | BOTT 2004

and would you receive one great lady my mother the bishop polite I want to tell you can't speak without a mic now I know you're a strong lady but you got it how would you like to have two bosses and both of them are authoritative and dynamic that's why I'm so quiet Andy Martin would you just wave your hand over there and your two guests andy harris well that's that's the man i thought call me last evening but they have down here Andy Martin somebody fouled up at the Pentecostals but brother Harris were delighted to have you and your two guest pastors in the same city with Jared Dean and I am delighted that you have chosen to come and be in my session today may God bless every one of you I beseech you to hear me I humbly beg you to hear me before you are seated raise your hands and praise the Lord and say god I'll be listening I'll be listening I'll be listening in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus give the Lord a good hand clap of praise and you may be sleeping you may be seated thank you the sailor boy is sent up the mast to perform a task if he looks upon the rolling deck or the furious waves his head swims he is dashed down and lost how shall we be safe the old sailor cries to him look aloft look aloft and if he can see but a star shining in the heavens he grows steady and performs his work as calmly as if he were standing on solid ground because it is a view of the distant that steady is against the world of the present because of the times 2004 my message will be simple yet profound it is your focus it is where you look it is what you see it is what you believe that steady is against the world of the present the beloved John said and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith it is seeing the invisible and believing the impossible that fixes our gaze and pursuing with passion that keeps us from being dashed down and lost in the power of fixing our gaze lies the most precious of all intellectual habits it draws the poison from every grief it takes the sting from every loss and quenches the fire of every pain it's a passion for purpose that studies you against the world of the present it's living with the end in view I'm climbing up a mountain I'm trying to reach the top I've going almost all the way and I just can't stop because at the end of this mountain there is faith and trust and I can see Jesus standing there to meet us and I thank God I thank God I've almost reached the top I'm going to a city there will be no more night I'm going to a city where Jesus is the light trumpets gonna sound I'll be caught away I'm going to a city someday the beautiful city of God without griefs or graves or sins or sorrows whose inhabitants no census has ever numbered it's a paradise restored where there will be more than Eden's beauty and Eden's peace and no serpent creeping in to steal away sweet happiness it's a country a better country that is a heavenly it's the meeting place of all those who have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb and who worship the Lamb for sinners slain with all the holy angels and God is not ashamed to be called their God it's an inheritance incorruptible undefiled and fadeth not away it is the father's house of many mansions filled with the redeemed of all ages it's on the top of Mount Zion and the earth with its glory death field I shall look on its beauty some sweet morning when I reach that city on a hill some day beyond the reach of Morlock in some day god only knows just where a wind the wheels of this mortal life is going to all stand still and I'm gonna go to dwell on Zions Hill it's the view of the distant it's the eternal that steadies you against the wall of the present it's giving your life this one little short love to what really matters that Standish you against the world of the present and I've almost reached the top and I just can't stop I just can't stop I hope you get the message it's simple but it's profound I just can't stop if I have to endure it out crawl it out dump it out whatever I have to do I just can't stop this is what the portico it is but a threshold a stairway a walkway to that great city the holy Jerusalem that lieth Foursquare with 12 foundations and in them the names of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb they get an apostolic City and Jesus is the light there are I have fixed my gaze I'm living with the end in view and I'm only two years shy of 80 it's simple yet profound I just can't stop I just can't stop too many miles behind me too many trials been through too many tears helped me to remember there's too much to gain to lose I can't stop I just can't stop I just can't stop I've almost reached the top I can't stop momentum started a long time ago and the father I go the faster my momentum I just can't stop have you got the message I just can't stop there's an end as well as a beginning and it's how you finished it camps rains may fall winds may blow storms may rise clouds may roll but I'll keep on going till I reach the other Shore the beautiful city of God I just can't stop I'll never never never never never turn back my days is fixed I'm living with the end in Hue it's a higher pursuit it's a passion to go where he wants me to go and to be what he wants me to be it is a forced it's fed it isn't legality it's love it isn't doing it because I ought to do it it's doing it because I want to do it it's a craving to pour myself out halleluyah halleluyah it's a craving it's a passion to pour myself out without any Prudential carefulness as to the punishment or reward it's out of an intense craving to do all it can for the object of its love paul nuytten said the love of christ constraineth me compels me that your spirit in ascendancy that's a higher pursuit this is what produces separation this is what we knew from this world system as nothing else can you see a song is not a song until you sing it and a sermon is not a sermon until you live it I just can't stop anybody can be a quitter but overcomers make angels look insignificant the road to championship isn't easy that's why I'm still farming sometime as much as 15 to 18 hours a day weary hard look at me but I'm not fading and I just can't stop I just can't stop I know what prayer can do prayer is God's sovereign and a universal remedy it is the root the source the fountain if my people which are called by my name will pray nothing is too hard no cause is hopeless no accumulation of difficulties no conditions are despairing there are no adverse are inexorably because he has committed his purpose his proposals his promises to prayer prayer is the only power in the universe to which our great God yields where is the most powerful holding force on planet Earth by prayer from any spot on planet earth I can pray and touch three worlds and the bees in those three worlds without leaving that spot there is no limit to what prayer can do that goes through stone walls path lock doors into the inner room and touches the heart of man there and changes his decisions bins or unbent his will to no other energy is the promise of God committed to as that of prayer upon Noah the force are the purposes of God so dependent as that of Prayer he who inhabits eternity and created all things stretched out the heavens spread forth the earth controls all things that sovereign Lord stands before his universe utterly unlimited and immutable and in an act we cannot fathom makes prayer identical in force and power with himself the world has yet to see the efficacy of praying in the spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayer requests it affects the destiny of Nations city's churches families people's I'll beseech you I beg you pray for your family for the nation's for the church to have a father like there is no tomorrow because the devil is working like there is no tomorrow and we have only a few tomorrow's left give yourself to something that is worthy of the highest degree of attachment surely nothing that is mortal is and this I know in the wreck of human lives something immortal still survives it matters little how good you can preach organize or administrate the natural man apart from God is doomed to failure and defeat your strength becomes innervated your mind is weakened your fancied powers are reduced and depleted even young men shall faint and the resilient youth shall become weary but those who know how to pray they will soar to Heights unknown they will invade the impossible they will explore God's boundlessness they will set new boundaries of possibility I just can't stop I don't have to stop I can have any spiritual blessing that any New Testament believer enjoys by prayer it is mine all that God has is at my disposal if I were playing does anybody here believe there does anybody here wanna practice there normally playing today will exempt us of the need to pray tomorrow and no intentions to pray tomorrow will meet our needs of today so set a time settle place and play every day my innumerable parents and their contemporaries a special breed of apostolic Jesus named pioneers with dogged perseverance whose faith and victory overcame the rolling dank and the furious waves hammered something into me of like precious faith they bequeath something to me that would make Bill Gates estate look like the Widow's mite I wouldn't trade what I have I wouldn't trade what I have never fades it never fluctuates however others say oh yeah oh they gave me a view of the distant the permanent the eternal something that would last they fixed my gaze its tended me against the world of the present the rolling deck and the furious waves they were men and women of apostolic passion with apostolic abandonment with apostolic vision and purpose therefore they had apostolic authority over diseases and devils I saw it I saw cancers fall from faces I saw blind eyes opening ears unstop I just can't stop I saw it I felt and I got it I'm not gonna lose it the daughters of sleeping ease is not going to steal it for me I just can't stop I've been set up the mast to perform some tasks if I look upon the rolling deck of the furious waves of confusion division and diversion my head begins to swim but then from somewhere I cannot tell I hear those old rugged outpost aaalac pioneers crying out look aloft look along look up your Redemption draweth know it paralyzes the spirit of controversy and compromise giving up or giving in it refix is my gaze and Steady's me once again against the world of the present our beloved brother James Lumpkin who plays now without ceasing in his little humble quarters wakes up playing falls asleep playing he's watching this no doubt by internet just a few days ago after Mickey had helped him into bed she lingered outside his bedroom door just to listen as he prayed this is what she heard Lord if it would be your good pleasure to heal me I could work for you and help to see your mission accomplished on this earth and then he fell asleep for the night because of the times 2004 the old sailor cries look aloft look along we know the divine continuum connected by continuing steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine and prayer to the Church of the book of Acts of the Apostles we are an integral part of what God is doing in our world today and I just can't stop I just can't stop the best is yet to come I just can't stop I just can't stop have you got the message I just can't throw up my hands and get out of the ministry I just crawe if I have to endure whatever I'll have to do I just can't stop I just can't stop Bonnie Marshall and annoyed at handmade him being used mightily of God asked me not long ago Vesta Mangan what's your secret immediately I answered Bonnie I've got a made-up mind my gaze is fixed I've stayed focused for these many years I've seen the invisible I've experienced the impossible I've seen the big picture it's passion for purpose it's living with the end in view my inner spirit is in continual frame of sweet craving for more of God more than seven decades ago I committed myself to Jesus Christ message and mission and just two years shy of 80 I just can't stop I just can't stop I wish somebody'd shout that at me I wish you'd have a made up man come on say it again when you have a passion for what you do you just can't stop you live on purpose you're enthusiastic and optimistic you don't look sad you look happy you're shaking hands with everybody I walked back after this man preaches like he did last night and people are all shaking and mood I walk back and say didn't you just love it one that good and then even after that he picks on me this is great folks I've never lost my love I can't wait to get to church I can't wait to get here I just can't stop I've got a passion I'm enthusiastic I'm happy I've got the joy of the Lord I've got the end and you see the immortal hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah say it Katy and stop this organization can't stop we're not going to stop more preachers gonna walk out of here and say I'm not preaching anymore no general superintendent's going to walk out of here and say I'm tired of this business no no no our bishops not going to walk out and say that either no he isn't pray for him you look at change in a positive way you deal with stuff that gets in the way of fulfilling the purpose you say no to normal and yes to extraordinary you won't to rather than have to you pay attention to the big picture you take 100% responsibility for results in life and you live with a seize the day attitude with a passion for purpose say every day say every day you remember those heavenly beings who have no other purpose for existing who were created to worship God and they cease not say day or night you're not gonna stop either apostolic see he who puts his hand to this plow and looks back he's not even worthy of where I've been talking about go ahead and clap your hands we'll all help them pray for you but I don't care if you've got to fall you got to get your mind made up I'm gonna make it I just can't stop that's the way I used to talk to him we'll pray for you go ahead and turn your summer songs I love it he's now going to the only thing I hope I got scared Sunday morning because this one anchored and he jumped on it but God just gave him a miracle and it stayed put it is said that Henry Clay crossing the summit's of the Allegheny Mountains once descended from the stage and stood with his cloak wrapped about him as if in the attitude of listening some friends asked him mr. clay for what are you listening he said I'm listening for the footsteps of the coming millions and I just can't stop this man that just preached before me said the biggest churches are not yet I just can't stop somebody said the last year Baba was gonna be the biggest I just can't stop somebody said that we were going to help more than we I just can't stop somebody said we're just coming in to our best days miracles and signs and I just can't stop I wish somebody just screamed that with me brother Maddox for the Maddox I wish you'd swing that is louder George Washington the first president of the United States saw the coming glory of a free nation it cost him much fasting all day one day and kneeling in the snow at Valley Forge but he said I just can't stop Napoleon who wanted to see his towering Thrones was charmed with the near of the present the passing he was dashed down and lost but Washington with the view of the distant the remote the permanent the big picture his name rises higher and brighter as the ages were away the man so often quoted as saying never give up suffered prolonged bouts with depression he was born to privilege in power he was born two months prematurely in a courtroom of a dance hall because his mother a 20 year old famous beauty and the daughter of a Wall Street millionaire would never miss a social dance his father was one of Britain's most famous families too busy to care much about his son and he could have access to his mother only by making appointments through her secretary and then for only a few minutes when he reached the age of 19 he was finally admitted to a military school after taking the entrance exam twice his father wrote him a scathing letter of criticism and died two years later of syphilis one of Britain's most famous families a family now in disgrace but the man who gave the graduation speech at Harrow school in 1941 that consisted of only three words never give up step to the podium repeated those three words three times turned and sat down and it's been referred to as the most powerful speech ever given never give up don't stop the ball in the towel don't quit don't stay on poo don't stop don't stop this man lived in a nation under terrible military attack that might have buckled under the constant Marya bombardment but this man rose from the ages and his countrymen finally recognized his genius and placed him at the head of their government you guessed it Winston Spencer Churchill leadership words motivation and daring bravery kept England alive during those horrible years of the early 1940s he led England to victory but in a scant two months get this preachers in a scant two months following VE Day Victory in Europe the English voted Churchill out of office but he just wouldn't stop writing some of the finest history ever penned by mortal man and giving the world the benefit of his artistic canvasses never give up died just after his 90th birthday and you're going to stop apostolic preacher I'm not very kind in my approach I can't help it I know what we went through here 54 years ago when thirty four or five voted on us I wanted to go to New York City and get on a subway and never looked back I nearly lost my health but I never gave up and you think I'm gonna stop today just almost 80 years old I'm not stopping I looked at a bunch in the altar one Sunday morning and I said God this is a motley crew I know there are souls and I love every one of them this is a motley crew is this all you've got for us in Alexandria he said I'll just see what you do with these and then I'll give you more how does that stop always somebody's screamed that for me I'm not very strong this morning Abraham Lincoln failed in business in 1831 he was defeated eight times running for political office finally in 1860 he ran for president got elected say it took him 28 years he just wouldn't give up that's why I ever have Lincoln statue is in Washington DC that's why nearly 80 white headed skinny Sweetman still up here begged him not to me can't stop me you don't push a cork on it pops up some places you just can't stop it nothing in the world nothing in the world can stop him he just wouldn't quit he was driven by a passion for purpose you can't you cannot describe persistence talent will not take the place of it genius will not take the place of it education alone will not take the place of it persistence determination dedication commitment the fixing of the gaze passion for purpose are omnipotent they won't work for anybody in this room if anybody believes that shout I can't give up if then through passion for purpose such excellence is given in every department of life how much more should it be for those of apostolic faith who have the endorsement of heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ unalterable irrevocable words I will never leave you I will never never never never never leave you I want to look at him today and say now I will never stop I will never stop shouting at me I will never stop no it isn't easy it's hard work it's hanging in there it's never giving up revival is hard work prayer and fasting a hard work winning souls is hard work keeping a church afloat is not easy sometimes it's like bailing water from a leaky boat the job is never finished and there are times the boat seems imminent of danger and of going under but if the crew fails the whole ship sinks and everybody goes under I didn't ask to be here I beg to be excused this is an assignment of men of God so please indulge me let me say it as kindly as I know how but let me say it many among us have lost their apostolic passion not their doctrine but their apostolic passion and abandonment as did the church at Ephesus or they've lost left the first love in things and in telemon's of the affairs of this world and other interests have crowded out love for Souls and a burning unquenchable passion for revival our churches are dying for want of revival suffocating in materialism stifled by indifference in deadness whatever the means Satan doesn't care as long as men and women of vision are prevented from leading God's people to the evangelistic and missionary triumphs easily within our reach for all the men of vision God is calling to do great exports for him in this generation people saved and unsaved dying for won't up Kollek playing apostolic preaching apostolic worship Apostolic witness apostolic services where people are delivered and divinely healed for miracles of salvation or ordinary or the extraordinary becomes the ordinary for altars are filled and people are being baptized in every service and the gifts of the Spirit are in operation we're going people are called to the ministry and involved in ministry where lives are forever change other interests have crowded out all of that and the supernatural no longer happens there they've left their first love in Ephesus for other interests now they have a Laodicean Church with Jesus outside knocking trying to get in staying to the Ephesus church you better repent or else and to lay out of seal open the door open the door open the door open the altars open the prayer rooms open the doors open the prayer rooms do you think the Lord's change his mind I don't think so Simon son of Jonas lovest thou me more than these and that's the bottom line that's where leadership is made or broken how all out are you have you got your mind made up to finish the letters to the seven churches were given to pastors not church boards or Saints if the crew fails the whole ship fails pastor you're responsible and I want to pause and give honor to an uncommon man who has lived among us who has seen the big picture and is lived with the end in view but first let me say loud and clear let me say loud and clear I just want to thank pastor Anthony and Mickey Mankin who left a big metropolitan city with a church in ascendancy growing by leaps and bounds came to this little city of less than 50,000 and for 23 years have poured the best years of their lives into this place but God has allowed them to Minister before presidents governor's senators congressmen judges and government leaders even this past Sunday with your city councilmen all here into driving from New Orleans president of the Chamber of Commerce sat here but God said it would make this a House of Prayer that he'd bring the nation's into it and he would cause the potentates and the kings and the rulers and he would cause the brightness of our rising up and doing something he would cause the light to shine upon them and the glory of the Lord would rise upon us and that he would make the crown of glory make us a crown of glory in his hand I want to thank them for that I want to thank them for carrying this church to a dimension after a dimension after a dimension I want to thank pastor Terry and Melanie shot for being visionaries for seeing the whole picture or loyally serving with their many talents not caring who gets the glory because they're living with the end in view knowing by the will of God that their future is secure likewise we say to pastor Tim and Kim Rutledge who are training youth and involving them in ministry but to you brother men and all mighty men of God who has lived with one eye on the judgment seat of Christ and the other on a lost world as he would say I see them every day falling into hail a bottomless pit and somebody's got to reach them today heaven applaud you and we celebrate you for digging deep and laying a firm unshakable apostolic foundation of unceasing apostolic prayer and fasting and apostolic preaching apostolic sacrificial missions giving and fervor for ship with perennial revival and reaching the loss confirmed with apostolic signs and wonders now you may be seated because I said all of that to let you hear what I'm about to say now we say thank you brother Mangan for releasing this great church into capable and loyal hands for remaining a loyal force without leadership interference saying to him whatsoever he saith unto you do it or there would not have been a the cause of the times they would not have been a messiah and a whole lot of other good stuff the church has a future beyond us I'm going to stand here for a while because that's where we are I'm going to stand here to your catch on somebody is seeing the distance somebody is seeing the whole picture somebody is releasing brother Mitchell somebody don't care who gets the glory somebody is not greedy and somebody is not stingy and somebody doesn't care who gets the glory I put in the name of Jesus Christ that all over our movement that somebody sees the whole picture that somebody makes plans for the future of this church and puts it into loyal capable hands I want everybody to give God a good hand clap a phrase that's why I said all of the other you may be seated witcher's leaders if you do not have a passion for purpose if you fail the whole ship fails if your first love is crowded out my other interest the whole church suffers do you think the Lord was having a bad day when he walked into the temple and saw all the merchandising going on in there and began kicking over tables and driving them out of the temple saying my house shall be called a house of prayer for the nations and you've made it a den of thieves you better look out brothers and sisters there may be a lot of turning over papers going on you better look out I'll say it again you better look out God has not changed his mind the field of passion for his purpose for his house his kingdom his church literally ate him up he had changed his mind about the revelation of who he is what his name is what his gospel is it matter it's a matter of salvation or damnation he and change his mind about upon this rock I will build my church don't become entangled in the affairs of this world and lose your love for revival and lost souls and apostolic identity the old sailor cries out say it with me look a lot look a lot Jude the Lord's half-brother says I exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints get a Bourdon grip don't be devoted for the angels of men then he says let me remind you what the Lord did to those that other interest got their eyes off the purpose and went the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward they became fallen stars and perished in the gainsaying of war for because of the times 2004 I'll scream it again if you could say it with me we picked your days go again and again and again until you see the cloud stretch yourself over that dead church until you have revival let the net down again until you need more Nance get apostolic prayer meetings going with fasting it may get worse before it gets better but just don't stop our work is never done until it comes and it's work well for hard work that's how the man at midnight not as much bread as he needed that's how that nagging nagging nagging winner got a binge of her adversary even after the judge initially ruled in favor of her adversary say she just wouldn't stop and say that's the whole point of the parable God will avenge his own elect which cry unto Him day and night don't quit hang in there every pastor of every great church mother Michell in America stayed he stayed he didn't leave he just kept on keeping on Calvin Coolidge said the slogan Wes owned has salt and always will solve the problems of the human race just press on just press on persevere push in force like Ellen arghhhh said you've got to help the home team like the great african-american preacher said it's Friday but Sundays are coming like somebody preaching on Paul's shipwreck in a crisis grab a prank like Lord garrison said I'm in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard like Martin Luther demands largely responsible for the beginning of the Reformation said I cannot and I will not retreat here I stand I can do no other may God help me I just can't stop feed me to the worms the wild animals throw me in the Potter ball all banished me to an are called Patmos crucify me upside down gave me a headless body burn me at the stake of what shouted I've got too much to gain to lose I just can't stop near mine don't get nervous with me Anthony I'm just about through with a passion to reveal the walls of Jerusalem told his enemies this is not your land you have no portion or right Norma Morial in Jerusalem should a man such as I with a passion for purposefully I'm not leaving that's why he built the walls in 52 days be like Jim Ryan who was the best mile runner the world had ever seen he finally got a chance to run the Olympics again but when he pulled ahead the heel of another runner caught his foot and Jim Ryan fell to the cinders and fell off the track and the other runner got up dusted himself off and went to the side and quit the race not Jim Ryan who was the best mile run of the world had ever seen he just couldn't stop he knew he could do no more than come in last he knew he couldn't be even next to last but say he finished say he didn't stop and to me he was better that daven if he had won a gold medal he was down but he got up he was stopped but he wouldn't quit he wouldn't quit he wouldn't quit he couldn't win and he could finish come on now fast Alex we may not be the biggest and the best but we can run the race and fight the fight and keep the faith and finished strong there the clown that fadeth not away come on shouted I just can't stop I'm closing you know what I'm going to take time to tell you this a teacher asked a student to sum up Socrates life in four lines and here's what he said Socrates live long ago he was very intelligent Socrates gave long speeches his friends poisoned him be kind to me Jacob running from Esau lay with his head on a stone for a pillow at the foot of a ladder set upon the earth and the top of it reached to heaven with the angels of God ascending and descending there he got the help to make the climb it was a view of the distant that stated him against the world of the present he never saw his mother again Laban deceived him he endured bankruptcy he ended his days living on charity are you hearing me but guess what after 20 years of running from Esau he turned around and said I'm tired of running I'm tired of packing my bags and just getting up and leaving I'm going to face him head-on I'm going back to that basic experience I'll go back and lay my head on that same stone I remember the Angels ascending and descending I'm gonna have a wrestling match with God I will not let him go I will not give up I won't supernatural help I'm gonna make the journey and that night he stood as a prince that night he stood as a prince say there was beaten out on the anvil of the trail of his mass misfortune the seed of a nation that has survived every attempt of Hell to erase it and even today there in the land of God's promise to them and everything that the devil has tried to do and their enemies that tried to do they have not erased Israel and today they're back in the land of promise that God made to Jacob six thousand years ago at the foot of that ladder in Genesis 28 13 through 15 and Paul said I'm not stopping tired weary hungry thirsty naked fasting playing always stoned and left for dead and his missionary friends gathered around him and prayed and he just got up and ran on I'll tell you what folks I am stopping I'm finishing this race and something right now has happened in this room and you're going to receive something if you will have it that began last night that brother tinny spoke to us with that prophetic utterance there's going to be an unprecedented move of God like we have never seen in this organization there's going to be a greater bonus come upon this movement that will be supernatural we're going to declare who we are in Jesus Christ God called God ordained God anointed and God appointed we're going to take authority that has been given us through the power of the name of Jesus if you're receiving this you can stand any time we're going to take that authority to call into existence those things which do not exist as though they did and authority to rule over the power of the darkness of our cities when we pray in the Holy Ghost in Jesus name there will be a passion awning with intensity that will break every yoke the glory of God is going to be unleashed hallelujah atmospheres situations and circumstances are going to be changed thank God or what's happening does anybody hear a warning does anybody here want to refit your games does anybody here want to reflect your games does anybody hear will not now historic authority hallelujah begin to cry out o Lord O Lord unruhe fixing my games I'm passionately pursuing the purpose I will have revival I will have revival or else hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I'm going to a city there'll be no more night sound Cheers Oh well that's Oh we Oh lead us Oh

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