Mario Murillo

Mario is really one of the premier voices in America right now and architecture for for for shaping the hearts of this young generation we need fathers and mothers in the Lord to help us grow in Christ and and get established in who we are and God has put his spirit inside of him to be a prophetic voice for this generation to be established in Christ in your identity and get the direction of where you're supposed to go in in your in your life here today and so let's stand up right now and just give Mario one big shout honor him as he comes come on and now an even louder shout for the King of Kings and the Lord of lords yep come on keep going now you may be seated thank you so much hallelujah with all of my heart and everything that is in me I'm going to say this right now you listen with both ears these are amazing moments in your life you will always look back on this as an unbelievable moment savor it enjoy it I saw the devil outside he's not doing well he was complaining to me about you and he told me that he wasn't fair and so I said in my best English you ain't seen nothing yet I want to take a moment and talk to those of you that are here today who want to do something amazing with your life for Jesus Christ so I want to see your hand right now say I want to do something amazing with my life for Jesus Christ leave your hand up say this with me I believe that God brought me to this encounter to be radically changed to become armed and dangerous and to hear the voice of God this is my future to be used of Jesus to change the world amen clap like you believe what you just said you believe it back in the 1900s I went to college in Redding California in every night on TV I was watching the riots in Berkeley you know this Occupy movement how maybe heard of the Occupy movement it really is nothing compared to the student revolution of the 1970s it's nothing to drop in the bucket when the riots broke out in Berkeley there were 40,000 protesters in the last occupy riot in Oakland there were 400 protesters 40,000 of them were changing the world actually ended the Vietnam War they brought a president down by the name of Richard Nixon they were an amazing group all of this stuff that we have to deal with today came very much from that student revolution everything from long hair to natural food their influence stretched so far and so wide that nothing would be the same not music not our culture not anything and watching as I was from a little TV set black and white here in reading I heard the Lord say I want you to go to Berkeley and preach to those protestors and get them saved and being highly committed and on fire for God I said no because and I opened the Bible and I said it says right here you're a God of love and a God of love would never send anyone to Berkeley not now I fought God and even though my grades were way high for me it was a miracle I went out of high school with a point one point nine grade point average got into college by a mirror goal and in the first quarter went from a one point nine to three point eight five yeah all of it because I laid hands on my brain I'm if you've ever needed to lay hands on your brain and I would say God has not given me a spirit of fear but of love power and a disciplined mind and that's how I did it so for God to call me out of college first quarter at the end of it I couldn't believe God wanted me to go to Berkeley first of all I didn't know anyone in Berkeley second of all I had no money proof that I was a college student and one night I began to develop a strange physical malady in my lower spine my stomach I got violent headaches my stomach was always turning in my back hurt terrible and the money stopped and the grades began to fall and I couldn't figure out what was going on except that God had told me to go to Berkeley and I kept saying no one day about an hour from here there was a move of God that began at the Chico State University campus yeah a man and I went over there to a Bible study in a house and when I arrived the place was packed in this little living room and I sat in the back and I was late drove over from reading the Chico and I sat there and listened to a Presbyterian minister who was filled with the Holy Spirit by the name of Dick Williams and dick Williams was preaching and then he stopped and he said there's a young man in this room right now and I have a word for him from God and so I said in myself not me but any other young man in this room he said he knows who he is and I said inside no I don't he went on to say last quarter his grades were high they've dropped off this quarter I go so what then he said you have a problem in your spine and your stomach and in your head and God is calling you out of college into the ministry so I put my hand on up in the air and I said you know there are some remarkable similarities to which he then said son come up here he laid his hand on me at least that's what they told me because I don't remember I was on the floor I mean I don't think that a pickup truck doing 50 would have slammed me to the turf the way the power of God hit my body I I'm on my back and whatever was left of me was pretty well finished off by the end of that session and then when I stood up he looked at me and I'm terrified because of what God has done for me and he looks at me and he says son where is God calling you man I can't believe I had to say this out loud so I took a deep breath close by as I said Berkeley and then I opened my eyes and he was terrified he looked at me and he said I am the director of evangelism for Chi Alpha at the University of California at Berkeley you know I went and got my stuff here in Redding and I ended up in Berkeley that night I didn't get there till 3 o'clock in the morning I followed him he moved me into a tool shed and I began to minister on the streets of Berkeley and I'm going to tell you why I began praying for sick people to be healed there are many many many people that believe in healing it's not new it's been with us since Jesus and before well let me tell you something all I have ever wanted to do in my life is win souls I want to win souls I love deep teaching but I want to win souls I love the gifts of the Spirit but I want to win souls and when I began to read the owner's manual I saw where people got saved after jesus healed the sick so I began to ask God would you heal the sick in my meetings please and such was the beginning of the word of knowledge when I would walk on the streets and I would walk up to someone and tell him Jesus loved them and they would throw something at me and I would tell another Jesus loved you and they would yell at me and again and again and again and again I was rejected till finally one day I said God I'm not going to get through to people until you explain to me the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit and he did so one day I'm walking down the street and I walked to a young man and I didn't tell him Jesus loved him I told him about his life now I began to speak to him this what's going on your life this where you been this where your parents are this is what's going on here I didn't know what it was coming out I was listening to myself and we're bodies funny watching two people with both terrified looks on their face one because he knows it's true and the other because I can't believe I'm saying this and where is it coming from and should I stop instead I kept going and he gets saved on the spot somebody give God the glory come on give God the glory born again so then we began what was called the night of miracles on the Berkeley campus and it was quite a bold name and we began with 12 people big name with a small crowd and the Lord began to move in our meetings the Lord had me to stay on the Berkeley campus for the next 10 years from 1970 to 1980 we watched literally thousands of young people born again we saw things that were undeniable in our forth healing rally I made the mistake of telling a bunch of young converts this is why you all are so dangerous by the way look at me this is why you're all so dangerous because you'll do what you're told if you read it in the Bible you'll just do it and religious folks are not that way well I'm going to tell you very quickly what happened one on the fourth night of miracles I made an announcement I said bring the worst the lowest the meanest the most diseased people you can I'm just trying to fill the place I didn't realize the problem with new converts and so the night came for the healing service right and I'm peeking through a curtain in a little side office to our meeting hall and I can't believe who's out there one after another a young carver walking I can't believe he came that guy that killed those three people he's out there in the meeting tonight and I'd say well why Denis in jail why is he in my meeting and not in jail we got the head witch of Berkeley she's out there we had folks with shaved heads and saffron robes on Buddhist monks were in our meeting people had beamed down from other planets to be in our meeting and I'm sitting there going why did you guys bring these people and to make matters worse ladies and gentlemen a couple of zealous young converts had carried a young man who was unconscious to our beady folks you got to have some patience with me there was no Bethel sciences school of signs and wonders miracles no there wasn't it was just me and I'm looking around demise er I I look in the back I did not cause I promise you I didn't cause but I was silent for a moment and I'm watching this kid laying on the couch and another convert comes up to me new convert he goes praise God we got a guy in a coma in the back I'm thinking this is an achievement I want to explain to you we did not have a worship band I had a moody young girl on a piano I maybe are feeling for the man of God right here I'm standing there I'm looking around and I start to preach feeling like the second Darren on bewitched you're not supposed to be able to get that one you're too young so just as some older person who just laughed and they'll explain to you why that really is one of the funniest things that's ever been said in the history of the world oh god help me God this look I wasn't being spiritual I was being literal God help me help me so I looked at my moody piano player and I said Kiwis could we sing this certain songs she looked at me you know Here I am I'm watching the Jesus Culture Band back here and I'm thinking to myself boy what a difference huh they y'all got a nuclear bomb and I had a Bic lighter I had to be careful how I asked her to so she began to Punk out this song that nobody knew nobody knew and you wondered more Morrow did you say sing it again no because they hadn't sung it the first time nobody knew the words I'm standing up there explaining healing to people who had not sung a single song didn't know anything and I stopped and I I asked God a question what did i do what did I do to be put in this situation and I cried out cried out to God how maybe you'd like to know what happened the next time I met this encounter I want to tell you the end of that story because time is getting away from us and see okay oh whoa all of a sudden I feel like I'm back in Berkeley then something happened and I'm telling you folks there are no words this young man on the back couch had injected a mixture of heroin and LSD in the back of his knee and that's what put him out the Berkeley free clinic couldn't help him so they brought him and laid him on the back couch I have lost all pride all sense of identity and I'm crying out to God when all of a sudden I hear some yelling and at this point I'm relieved you know if you're a heckler thank you take over the meeting put this event out of its misery do something I couldn't have been more wrong because it was that young man who supernaturally woke up come on whoo I'm having trouble he not only woke up ladies and gentlemen he ran down to the front sobbing he fell on his knees in front and had the most and I was to learn from this experience what it was like to have these kind of people born again he knew God had healed him he knew God had saved his life and he's crying out telling me and he's cussing once again there was nothing in the Bible school curriculum about this part he's standing there look look at he's on his knees and he looks at me and he says why would God do this for me what the blankety-blank blank is going on in this room somehow he didn't bother God at all I'm sitting there I'm not believing that you could be healed in cus a blue streak in the same moment he is so violently saved he is so remarkably born-again that he became one of our chief workers everybody give God the glory give God the glory I have one more short story to tell you and then I'm going to make a point and I hope you'll bear with me how many of you hate it when you go to a restaurant and they give you a tiny portion how many wouldn't mind eating a steak today right now right here amen all right you fasten your seatbelt I'm gonna move as fast as I can I had been on the streets for a couple years and our group had grown to about a hundred and fifty people especially after this Ealing and one night Jane Fonda came to Berkeley and she was in the poly ballroom the Student Union Building at the Berkeley campus where the movement of free speech in the anti-war movement was born in that building sat about a thousand people it was full and she was leading them in several swear words speaking on this theme of cuss words today she began to ask the students to chant obscenities and curse God and curse America and curse Jesus and these students were chanting this and I had my Bible and I'm sitting out in a light rain the Pauli Ballroom is an upstairs beating hall and I point my Bible up at that room and I make a confession in the name of Jesus one day I will stand in that building and preach to a bigger crowd then Jane Fonda's preaching to now and they're going to shout the praises of God and bless america louder that these students are cursing today come on give God the glory come on give down the glory well the next morning I was at the Associated Students at university California office to ask for a pamphlet and a in a form to rent the hall and I read three things that were shocking to me first it said you cannot teach any religious teaching in this building you can curse God but you can't bless him second you will not lead any public prayer in this building and third you will not convert anyone so what I did is I took my confession that I lost out to facts sometimes facts are your enemy and I went to bed that night and I let my dream die and there are leaders sitting in front of me with dead dreams that's why you need to hear this I laid down and as I told you last night what is up with God in 3 o'clock in the morning I sat up straight up 3 a.m. the Lord said rent Pauly ballroom I said I can't it's illegal It was as if I expected God to say you know I should have checked that out before I woke you up I'm he ever felt stupid the Lord in his mercy gave me a vision I'm not going to tell you was an open vision but I'm telling you I don't even know if I was awake or asleep but all of a sudden I'm standing in this phenomenally large library and there are rows and rows of books on one side several rows of books on this side they're thousands and thousands of volumes in these shelves and on the floor is a Bible and the Lord said look to your left what do you see these were all the books on mysticism everything from supernatural myths parapsychology metaphysics the Mystics of all kinds and the world religions everything over here had to do with mysticism from Bigfoot to astrology to everything else and over here were all the books on science the provable facts whether it was a where you might see astrology here astronomy was over here and here was history medicine science fact and essentially fiction and the Lord said pick up the Bible and put it in the half of this library where it belongs this is a very important moment for all of you you need to listen very carefully suddenly I took the Bible and walked to this side and put it right alongside of world history and the Lord said Christianity is not a religion rent Paulie ballroom now look at me right now I told you I saw the devil outside before this event and he wasn't looking good and he's complaining bitterly about you but there's one last lie he's counting on there's one thing he does not want the Jesus Culture encounter to create the fact that you rightfully belong in the center of American culture you are not a bad thing you are a good thing now I'm going to finish my story in a moment but like all true men that tend to preach the way I do and I'm going to be very careful watch my time I want to examine the moment that Peter and John were arrested because they had helped a paralyzed man be healed and more people were saved in that healing than were saved on the day of Pentecost one miracle now they arrested him and they said by what authority have you done this and what they were arrested for here's what happened when you're arrested you've committed a crime so here's the deal the forces of the world say you two have committed a crime the two that are standing there don't believe they've committed a crime so they say why have you done this their answer was if we are being called into account for the good deed they called it a crime Peter called it a good deed now there are people out in America right now that hate Jesus and hate Christianity and they would love to think that we are a worse problem than Islamic terrorists they would love to believe that Jesus culture is a problem and a threat that is greater than drugs or gangs or anything else America's facing but you are not a bad thing for America you are not a bad thing for your community you are not a bad thing for your high school and I want to tell all of America because many are peeking in through the internet right now and I want our president to know this I want our Congress to know this the best friend that America ever had is a spirit-filled young person I need some help right now come on now I say to President Obama you don't need to stop Christian young people from praying or getting on campus I say to Governor Jerry Brown your efforts are misguided if you're going to give more authority to a gay agenda than to a spirit-filled one because the power of a Christian youth is so much greater it's so much greater Peter is standing there saying here was a man who couldn't walk and now he's going to walk this is a good deed when the church moves into your neighborhood and there's a crack house there you don't want a crack house you want a house of God filled with fire in that neighborhood brother when we who are tongue talking Holy Ghost filled lovers of God come to your house we're a good thing not a bad thing because we come on wherever we go divorce goes away wherever we go drug addiction goes away crime goes away suicide goes away it's a good it's a good thing that first night 700 students showed up to the Pauli Ballroom I'm pacing in the back how do I not preach the gospel by preaching the gospel how do I pray without praying how do I have an altar call without evident altar call and the lady who ran the Paulie Ballroom had an office much like you see those windows up there her office overlooked the hall while I was preaching so I began to tell him how religion killed Christ I began to tell him how religion did to Jesus and how he was killed because of his viewpoint on religion I went on and on and I said you better be careful as an atheist because you may be so anti religion that you will back up into the arms of God somebody help me right now well so I went on and poured out my heart and then stopped and I broke the rule I said let's pray now everybody's eyes are closed I said the word prayer once I stopped I said God I really don't know what I'm doing right here but that's nothing new there's been my whole job since I've come to Berkeley so these words came out of my mouth I cannot convert you it says so in the rules that govern this whole but it's also the same thing in the Bible it says no one can be converted jesus said except the father convert them so I can't convert you but God can convert you and the next thing I said is there's nothing in this manual in the Associated Students that says God cannot convert someone in this hall so with your eyes closed if God is converting you right now would you raise your hand and let me know and to my absolute stunning shock 70 students had their hands in the air give God the glory well we wept them all through to a mighty experience with Christ our group groove from about 70 people to 160 within a week now I'm about ready to leave the hall when I look up and there she is staring at me and she went like this I hadn't seen that since eighth grade I went up and she wouldn't talk to me she sat at her desk staring at her desk she won't look at me her first remark was I am NOT stupid I know exactly what you did then she wouldn't talk anymore and I saw a tear drop fall on her desk she pulls back the curtain she said do you know what my job is like you know what I live with she pulled back the curtain said look at the floor of the Polly Polly ballroom there's not a needle a syringe there's no blood broken glass there's no pills no drugs I didn't call an ambulance tonight I didn't call any parents to tell him their child was dead every Saturday night I go through this hell of cleaning this place up said look that floor it's totally clean said because of what you preach tonight there's no not a scrap of paper on the floor and she looked at me said your punishment for trying to fool me is too you are absolutely required to use this hall every Saturday night from now on come on give God the glory give God the glory so it was on May the 7th in 1976 that we had a meeting in the Pauli Ballroom and not everyone could get in the students parred into the hall stood along the side this is visible in photographs at our website Mario Merola org for our history there they were standing around the building and I said one night I heard Jane Fonda and students chanting curse words today we're going to Bless America and I'm telling you those student I don't know if you can shout like they did but I'm gonna give you a chance in a minute you just hold your thunder just keep your powder dry but they stood up and we open the windows so the whole campus could hear it and we began to bless the name of the Lord and it was so loud that I was fearful that the lighting fixtures were going to break and the walls begin to shake and they began to roar the praises of God over in waves and waves and waves and wave somebody give God a shout like that right now you win well but Wow odhh step oh my god my god we praise your own hallelujah well hallelujah okay blood all right I have no doubt okay I have no doubt to God be the glory in an atmosphere that is this holy and this deeply anointed of God you have to watch what you say you know you really do you are here today and you have a right to speak up on your campus you do you have a right to feel that you belong in the center of the American conversation it's insanity it's not it's not just wrong look at me it's insanity to prosecute house imprison and rehabilitate one addicted gang member in LA costs the state nearly a million dollars I wonder if the mayor of LA is listening to me right now or the governor of California a million dollars to arrest tracked down prosecute imprison and rehabilitate one drug addict that's why the state is bankrupt it's you know you can talk all you want about illegal immigration but what's wrong with California is crime we are a wicked criminal petri dish and I'm telling you every time a Christian young person witnesses and delivers one drug addict they've saved the state 1 million dollars every time I got I got to finish how dare you suppose for one moment that we ought not to be allowed to prey on campus how dare you take the one ingredient that will fix the family out of the equation I live in the most liberal part of America these people are left of Che Guevara and I'm going to tell you every time a church is planted every time a pastor gets on fire the devil gets a lethal dose and lives that it would never be touched any other way how do you compare the baptism of the Holy Spirit to a methadone program why are we handing out condoms and needles to our children and then refuse to let someone from their own age group explain to them how being born again makes you respect your body and make positive choices when I realized and I picked up that Bible and put it in here along side of history and science I stood and I preached on the Berkeley campus a different man I said we belong here we belong in the conversation we belong in the dialogue we belong in any panel discussion on human suffering if you want to talk about racism you can't leave Jesus out if you want to talk about the family you can't leave Jesus out right now you have happened for a reason you Jesus culture have happened for a reason and I'm here to tell you for you that are Americans and specifically Californians before this state is bankrupt before this nation is bankrupt before the forces of evil finally wrap their scaly talons around the throat of this nation God has sent you God has sent you and God has sent you how many want to be Satan's worst nightmare raise your hand right now bow your heads father in the name of Jesus we go back to our homes and to our houses to our churches into our youth groups filled with a sense that we belong that we should speak up that as Peter said if it be right in the sight of God for us to remain silent you judge but we cannot help but speak of the things which we've both seen and heard here's what we've seen we've seen drug addicts delivered in one step instead of twelve here's what we've seen a teenager and didn't want to live filled with God can't wait for the next day here's what we've seen we've seen lives turned around in so many ways that we cannot describe them all and here's what we've heard go into all the world and preach the gospel and these signs will follow them that believe in my name they will cast out devils my name they will take up serpents my name they if they drink anything poisonous it will not harm them in my name they will speak with new tongues and they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover it is my measured prayer on this stage of the reading Civic Auditorium that you unleash on America an army of healing and an army that will be irresistible in both its words in its power and dear God I have lived to see the day when the mightiest youth revival in the history of our nation has been started in Jesus name Amen a man halleluyah halleluyah I heard a rumor that some of you have not yet availed yourself of this impossibly amazing deal of two books and a DVD I couldn't believe it until I walked by a pile of books and I said to myself what do I have to do so I would love to have you get this material I believe it'll change your life our workers will be glad to serve you how many of you will pray for me will you we are launching a new ministry called living proof Crusades and we're going to get a tent and we're going to go across the United States and what we're going to do is we're going to go after I've asked God to give me 1 million American young people born again and filled with the Holy Spirit you know and the only problem I have with it is that I believe that number is way too small so so would you as our brother comes back to the microphone I don't know if I should let you ruin your voice but you better do something because isn't God good

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Published: Fri Dec 04 2015