Presence Night - Randy Clarke, Re-Stream (2 October 2020)

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i don't know about you but i came to celebrate his and his goodness tonight you and me come on let's celebrate him tonight [Music] we celebrated [Music] did you hear the oceans roar when the people jesus christ [Music] jesus christ [Music] the let us [Music] [Music] the time of jubilee is [Music] lord [Music] is [Music] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Music] the way [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is i'm gonna celebrate you i'm gonna celebrate your goodness whether you've had a good 2018 or a bad translation let's just begin to celebrate him let's set everything else aside all of our worries all of our cares and let's just fix our eyes on him jesus the savior the author the perfecter the finisher of our faith he's worthy of our worship and he's worthy of our celebration are you with me [Music] we're gonna yeah [Music] [Music] come on everybody [Music] we're gonna dance [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] just fix your eyes on him tonight he's so faithful he's so faithful you're so faithful god you guys sound like you're ready to wish [Music] you brought me out of darkness you have filled me with peace help but sing let's see you sing it out [Music] tonight [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] you have brought me is [Music] facebook [Music] foreign is foreign [Applause] [Music] every situation [Music] just begin to rest in his face [Music] is my confidence [Music] [Music] is you are forever is [Music] [Applause] [Music] for your promises [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] my confidence [Music] is [Music] one more time in your promises [Music] your faithfulness in your faithfulness you always do what you say you're gonna do [Music] i will find my rest i will find my restaurant [Music] i will find my rest in here [Music] you [Music] oh i will find my rest in here [Music] come on let's lift our voices to him tonight [Music] with our hearts with our spirits tonight you are so faithful and true [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Applause] your foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] so worthy [Music] so worthy of our praise [Music] so [Music] up from the ashes your love has brought us out of the darkness and into the light lifting up sorrows [Music] singing hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] singing hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah [Applause] once more [Music] hallelujah [Music] oh [Music] yes [Music] the name is jesus the name of jesus we make you glorious jesus jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] free this is the name of jesus [Music] jesus oh jesus jesus none but jesus there's so much jesus no other names who's worthy of our praise demons flee the captives are set free do you know the power [Music] we're here tonight [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] some of you here tonight are believing for a miracle you're believing for that new thing just lift up his name [Music] because of the name of jesus [Music] jesus [Music] jesus [Music] is oh only one for me it's only by hand that we're and you're free things new today you're making all things new today [Music] jesus jesus [Music] holy jesus is our hearts cry tonight we just want jesus we just want jesus this is why we're here this is why we're here isn't this why we're here tonight [Music] thank you jesus [Music] [Music] in the crushing [Music] in the soil [Music] until [Music] when i trust you i don't need to [Music] understand [Music] i came here with nothing but all you've given me in the crushing in the pressing you will make [Music] now surrender you were breaking new ground [Music] when i trust you i don't need [Music] [Music] to be i came here with nothing but all you have given me [Music] make me [Music] [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] freedom [Music] [Applause] me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is i laid down [Music] make me [Music] me [Music] make me i came here [Music] jesus christ [Music] jesus [Music] hey [Music] [Music] hey [Music] oh [Music] heart of oh life jesus jesus there is no freedom [Music] [Applause] today [Music] freedom [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] starts here [Music] [Music] there is no freedom and the kingdom is here [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's our joy to surrender our joy to surrender [Music] unafraid [Music] don't be afraid there's beauty and the surrender there's joy in the surrender [Music] there's power in the surrender [Music] lay it all out tonight every plan every agenda [Music] your ways are higher than our ways so we surrender we surrender [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] release [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] surrender [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] we're gonna have you we're gonna have you guys we've gotta have you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] well release and release [Music] [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] wow jesus just turn and tell somebody it feels really good to be together again like this it's really good to be together again come on thank you ben worship team wow off to an amazing start i tell you what i'm sure there are those of you who have been who are here rather for the very first time if that's you never been here before but you're here tonight give me a massive wave all the way back all over the place welcome welcome welcome oh my goodness oh my gosh well this is incredible baby all i can say is where have you guys been yeah but i'm glad to be here now the adventure of a lifetime for the last 25 years we have and it's been nothing sort of glorious nothing short of glorious and amazing wow well you know what if you can make your way back to your seats that that will be helpful and uh we'll just kind of take a moment find out where for everyone is from and who's come the farthest i know it's amazing we just want to welcome you especially all you newcomers i would like to take a couple of testimonies at some point so emmy if you're here from from london we spoke this morning over at breakfast the hotel can you make your way up to the front here i'd love you to just share a little bit about what god's been doing over the last 25 years with you and baldur from iceland i saw you at the back boulder why don't you come on up and i'll get you to say hi well we we get rearranged but i'm wondering carol has everyone got a a seat now for you to for you to sit on tonight i really hope you're not sort of still wandering around looking for a place to sit down but this is amazing i i would like you to just turn to the person next to you and say something like the fire of the holy spirit comes on you right now the holy spirit comes on you right now [Applause] may the fire of the holy spirit just come on you right now [Music] hi oh my gosh hello hello before we meet her um have we got groups of people like i know there's a group here from russia and and ukraine if you don't mind me putting you together you all speak english russian together but where is where are you people russia and ukraine stand up give us a big way all right lava bogo to you guys and uh i'm not sure the brazilians are here yet yes they are look at them all some of them are here from brazil um where is the farthest away is there anyone here from new zealand [Music] oh look at them all come on you guys you're you're about as far away from toronto as you can get yeah here you are the ends of the earth and how many canadians are here uh it's always you know does my heart good to see a bunch of canadians no it's wonderful because listen we need revival about as bad as anybody else yeah so come on guys i'm glad you're here catch the fire and take it everywhere won't you how many from the usa how about from the uk united kingdom what about from france oh look at them all from france from oh cool germany anybody germans back there iggy by dick any other countries in europe norway sweden spain italy all you guys give us a wave that's great how about latin america we're we're excited to be going to mexico in about two weeks i think it is and uh we're just gonna have a great time in puebla and in mexico city so yeah it's going to be a raging fire of the holy spirit i am absolutely sure well welcome everyone and uh if we didn't call your country please don't feel left out there's a there's about 200 other countries we could have called but we're really thrilled that you're here and you know what our prayer is that you not only come and and worship and meet people and meet friends internationally and all of that but i want you to be deeply touched and moved by the power of the holy spirit yes lord and the reason we call this place catch the fire is because this fire of the holy spirit is so transferable and we want you to get immersed in it yes and then get a contagious load to take back home and then just begin to spread it everywhere that's the idea and before we get started i just want to welcome the holy spirit holy spirit we just thank you thank you thank you ah for 25 years of incredible faithfulness lord not only here but other places around the world and lord you are welcome wow here tonight we welcome you to do what's all in your heart to do lord not our agenda but your agenda oh holy spirit just come and take over we welcome you in jesus mighty name well yeah just had to do that babe okay a big welcome to everyone who's watching online feel free to call your friends and say hey join us it's going to be amazing randy clark will be speaking here yay yeah half an hour or so and so um it's going to be really great but a big welcome to you guys and everyone that's watching at home or wherever you are so emma thank you for coming up emmy and um you were telling me this morning when uh i was having breakfast with david campbell and some others about how life-changing all of this has been for you so can you just tell us your story what happened to you back then well back in 1994 ellie mumford came to toronto and came back to london and uh prayed for a number of our clergy and i heard that there was a move of god here through my friends the ud's you're here tonight philly yudi's been with you catch the class team and so nikki gumbel came back to our church he was late for our meeting and i said nikki before you go please pray for us and he stood at the door and just said holy spirit thank you that you're moving powerfully all around the world please bless this team in jesus name our men turned on his heels to walk out and the spirit of god fell on his pa and on me and i'm quite a normal person but i was tired that day i was weary and i had said as i walked across to the meeting lord i don't think i've got much left to give and basically the spirit fell on me and i i just fell in love with jesus in a completely new way and i had this roar that came from my belly that went whoa jesus is like whoa and it just happened over and over again and i remember thinking who's that you know because i don't do that but this went on and on and on and then that sunday ellie came to our church and she um she basically ministered and she preached and then someone came up to me and said god's told me you should go to toronto and i said i don't need to go to toronto i've been blessed here and they said no god's told me you should go so three days later i was on an airplane and i came to your little church and i remember you were praying on the first day for a group of nuns i had such a heart for god to move through every different denomination so you asked us to to just you know just special hands out which i was doing and then the spirit came on me and i started doing my whoa jesuses and i remember you saying who's that over there and someone said oh it's emmy from london so you said bring her up here so i came up and then i got onto the stage and i was like a canadian cowboy with my last year and i was going whoa i just wanted to lasso everybody with a spirit and then and then you say can you pray so i said yes so i was on the floor for about an hour and a half and then david pitches was prayed for and he was then beside me and he used to roar like a lion and i used to do my woe jesuses and we were there for an hour and a half this basically this this outpouring basically um life of course into our prisons in the uk um come on amy who would have thought right because i was so in love with jesus i had no fear of these naughty boys in prison and and then i've been doing that now around the world and in 2011 a ugandan bishop picked me out and said i would like to ordain you which they can do and he said i'm not ordaining you into a parish either in london or in uganda i'm going to ordain you as chaplain to the worldwide prisons so that's what i do i travel the world and i take god's love and god's good news into our prisons all around the world wow i told you there was something on your feet go and go whoa go go go go girl go fire on it the second installment [Applause] come on stretch your hands toward her here send the fire off worldwide prisons do they need a move of god or what [Applause] fire on you emmy in jesus mighty name lord let those prisons have the greatest move of the holy spirit that she has ever dreamt of because you've only just begun in the name of jesus let the fire fall in the prisons emmy impartation impartation whoa wow yes yes wow come on give it to her come on [Applause] oh we bless you in this wonderful calling thank god for it it's so amazing thank you holy spirit for us a changed british life amen yeah you've gone from normal british to normal heavenly amen yeah thank you give her a big hand yeah baldor come on this this young man is one of our pastors and our partners at harvest network can catch the fire network and iceland he's got an amazing testimony have we got any icelandic people here besides you yeah we got four guys over there come on guys make some noise back there [Applause] that doesn't sound very viking to me but anyway you can do come on make some noise back over there [Applause] anyway can you give us like a five-minute version of what god's got ahold of you i mean we we've known you now for what 15 years maybe 12 almost 12. okay come on tell us yeah man i've been in love with jesus since he started to love me like 12 years ago my life is a story of pain suffering and i've been going through my like childhood because i'm writing my story now and and seeing all the files from the child protective services and seeing all the rejections seeing everything that i went through as a kid it really makes me wonder why we as as people i'm not talking about like us as church but we as people judge guys like me because people pointed the finger at me and they said that's the bad guy but my story and where i'm coming from and the pain that i needed to go through i mean i i totally understand why i became what i became with the fear and the hatred and everything when everybody had given up on me yeah but god god came into my life after i like after i finished my sentence of uh six years in prison i was accused of six brutal assaults one leading to a death of a young man and and they put me in prison a year after i came out god found i did not thank god god found me so we turned the brothel into a halfway house and a church we started to take people from off the streets because it's really like jesus got birth on the inside of us and we just started seeing people in need we just took them in and out there was a guy sleeping in my bag for eight months because there was no room in the house i mean god led us to go into the psych ward outside the sidewalk i met this guy god told me to come and meet him like just i was soaking at home i learned to soak her in toronto yeah january 2008 yeah so was soaking on the floor at the old brothel that was now a halfway house in a church and god told me to go go to the psych ward and i went there and i and i saw and i and when i was standing there outside i'm like god what am i going to do here and then this guy comes out and god say talk to him talk to him and and and i went to talk to him and so this was his uh last chance he already made the rope in his hotel room and he was going to kill himself that day so i i asked him to join me in my car and we drove to my place and he lived in my place for like eight months in the brothel we preached from the bar we were smoking in the meetings and you could see the christians because they were all coughing so so we moved to smoke breaks and and finally we stopped smoking as well but we've been seeing transformation happening last year the president came to one of our meetings and the president of iceland was there and and and so aft after i gave my sermon in the end it was about like why all the young kids are dying in iceland from drugs and and after that he's been preaching that sermon in the congress and and and in the tv [Applause] and there's something about when you just start trusting god because we got a big god and and and and jesus lives on the inside of us and when we talk to people jesus talks to people [Applause] so i mean some of the churches they don't like when we start talking to the politicians but when we if we can influence them it's like we in we invited all the congress no one came but god had a way the president came and he opened the congress three days later and he told the speech there so so there's unity now around ending this thing that is killing our young kids with all the political parties so i don't i just feel jesus is coming i just feel like that he's going to immerse our hearts with new longings and like new brokenness for other people because we can't look the other way anymore because the bridegroom is in our hearts and when the wedding is coming we're gonna we're gonna be immersed with his longings and his lung is to end the poverty and the pain for people and we're going to see that happen come on come on and strategically god is raising up his church in a new way today and i'm so excited i'm so excited science wonders and miracles but people being restored people like me people like me the bad guys i mean we're just good earth whatever you sow will be like there's there's a harvest coming there's a harvest coming and i can feel the hunger for jesus in my heart like never before like we were like last friday last service we had i couldn't even pray for people because i just broke down weeping for my jesus because jesus is coming back and i i i'm gonna tell you a little story is that okay just a short one okay so this guy really hurt me uh he was supposed to be my father and he really hurt me and i was really offended and i got really angry at him and i called him and i and i told him off and he hung up on me and i called him again and i told him off and he hung up on me and i called him again and i told him off again so three months later i'm um i'm worshiping and and the holy spirit asked me like tells me his name and he says what about that guy and i say yeah what about that guy he really hurt me and he really broke my heart and i'm so offended so all of a sudden i'm standing in front of jesus and he's sitting on the throne and i'm just standing there and he's just looking through me and he's just saying he's saying to me bob's like what about that guy and i say yeah he hurt me really much and jesus said yeah i really understand now now bring your pain and your fence to the scale so i went to my pocket and i and i got the i don't know how this stuff works but i just went to the pocket and i just looked at the offense and the pain and the suffering that it cost me because me i i i have trust issues after all my past so i really let that guy in so jesus said put on the scale and put on the scale and remember the scale was just lifting up and then jesus looked me in the eyes he didn't judge me he didn't say like there was so much love when he said these words to me and he said baldwin bring all your offenses to the other end of the scale [Music] and i just went straight and called that guy met him and asked him to forgive me come on and and i wish that he would done the same and we would restore the relationship but it wasn't like that but i just we cannot allow ourselves to live on that justice place come on come on we will miss out on what god is going to do in our lives we are going to sit in the justice seat because there is mercy for those who show mercy yes yeah come on come on come on this is going to be great you know there's there's a story um in his life that i think i'd just like to try and tell real quick but he mentioned that he was in prison because of getting in a fight and one of the guys actually died and then he was charged with manslaughter and sent to prison over that well the upside was that he came to jesus in the prison i think after the prison but that doesn't bring the boy back well he came out long story short became a pastor in the city of reykjavik and everybody's amazed by that but the mother of the boy who died had a dream that she was to go and forgive baldur so she walked into the meeting one day and everybody's like oh no but she's like no i'm i'm here because i i came to forgive baldur the lord told me he's not the same one that killed my son he's completely changed by the power of god jesus a big hand right here oh yeah kill him fill him up fill him up oh fill him up oh my goodness you know friends there's there's just so many prophetic signs just buzzing around the whole world right now there's earthquake after earthquake and and and volcanoes and all that kind of stuff and just sunday many of you know it was like a whole blood moon which super blood moon was a a sign of you know the presence of god and it was it was the final one i think the tenth in a in a whole very sort of complex in interesting figure that god had done and we're just hearing of these things in the in the moonbow today as carol's looking out the window we're up in our room in the school reading the bible together and she's like what is that on the roof of the church and so i looked over and i said it's it looks like an eagle or uh yeah or a large bird it was really big and and so i zoomed in with my iphone you know took a picture of it i called andrew and he came running over and got a picture of him here right on the top of our church for like 15 or 20 minutes 20 minutes yeah gigantic eagle yeah and and it stayed there for that length of time and we've never even seen one around here let alone one just lighting on the top of our shirts amazing and sitting there right on the highest point of the roof on that section back there which is higher and i don't know if we if we got that picture together andrew or not did we there it is yeah there he is what kind of a bird is that duncan steve said it looked like a penguin no that's that's a hawk or an eagle of some kind and you know i was hoping to get some feedback from all you prophetic people here that just said that that's a sign but you know eagles and scripture are are a sign of the of the wisdom and the prophetic of god that's uh activating and just moving all over the earth and so come on we bless that outpouring yes prophetic anointing lord an anointing for wisdom and anointing for vision and anointing for revelation all over the place we absolutely want to see that don't we where's all the russian-speaking people wave at me guys stand up i would like all of you to just run to the front and don't come if you don't speak russian okay just put you put your toes on this green line here and we want to send you back to russia with the fire of god like never before so i need uh seven or eight catchers here but can we all stand and just stretch our hands toward these guys they really need a revival there but you know what it's really really happening and uh and the pastor um i talked to on sunday and there he is and uh are you from moscow you're from moscow and you're from siberia somewhere and they're saying john if you would please come to russia we can gather many many pastors and do a conference and just let the fire of the holy spirit spread all over and so stretch your hands out toward them everybody and uh let's say dan how do i say uh come over here come holy spirit are you ready say that everybody [Music] come holy spirit come and fill these guys with your fiery love and presence in jesus name let it come fire on him here yes yes yes oh more on her lord more on her lord fill him up jesus oh yeah let it come let it come let it come fill him up my father fill her up father fire on this brother yo more than they can possibly manage holy spirit we love what you do let it come nonstop upon them in the name of jesus in the name of jesus lord let it come double it double it double it double it ministry team come along behind us and just give them a really good soak in the holy spirit oh fire on him here yes lord god fire on you in the name of jesus and again in the name of jesus and again jesus and again in the name of jesus lord let your glory fall in this room in the mighty name of the son of god fill him fire on him fire on him again yes yes yes yes yes holy spirit [Music] fill him up fire on you is it good had a show duh why don't you lean over to your friend and say may the fire of god burn on you right now as well we want this all over the world fire on those feet fire on those feet fire on these feet in jesus name more and more more increase it increase it increase it increase it may i have to stand [Applause] fill them up oh my goodness don't forget to lean over to your friend and say fire on you in jesus name [Applause] fire on you and uh if you're wondering why do people fall down randy had the best answer to that years ago he said well it's because they can't stand up [Applause] and that's what happens when the holy spirit comes on you there's this this wonderful transition where he begins to take over and uh there's something debilitating about his presence jesus we worship you we worship you we worship you we worship you we worship you we worship pray for the person on the other side of you as well let the holy spirit come mightily upon you may you be revolutionized by the glory of god thank you lord thank you jesus thank you jesus we worship you lord god we worship you lord god i'm going to ask randy to get ready to come on up and we'll turn this over to him but some of you know the story that after a time of seeking the lord both for carol and i and for randy quite independently neither of us really were in touch with with that part but uh the final carol carol and i got wonderfully touched in uh benny hinn meeting and subsequently went to argentina and were prayed for by claudio friesen randy clark had a similar journey where he went to tulsa and then florida where rodney howard brown prayed for him and there was a powerful impartation and when we came back from argentina i knew something was on us and something was up and so friends 1993 felt very much like it feels right now that the air is electric and something is up with the presence of the holy spirit he's about to do amazing things [Applause] so when i heard about what happened to randy i called him and i knew him slightly we were in the same denomination and in the same region and i said randy i want you to come to toronto and he said well john i've never been out of the country before and i said well that's all right but i heard god had come upon you and god was using you and you said well it only happened once and i said oh well that's all right too i mean just everything's pretty fresh come on and he said well the soonest i could come would be in maybe two months on the 20th of january was the date and he came tentatively we were both a little tender but i'm like hey come on we'll have some fun anyway do you remember randy you were saying yeah come on up while we while we talk uh he said i only have two sermons may i bring my youth pastor and uh so he preached that night a thursday night with about 130 of us maybe in a room at our other church our little church where we were beginning over ontario dixie road and when he came time for the altar call he said something like if you would like prayer for importation and you want some of what i have received i'd be happy to pray for you and right at that moment it was like the holy spirit exploded across the room and the room erupted into people falling shaking laughing crying screaming and they're just all over the floor and i'd never seen piles of people quite like that ever in my life and the difference was these were these were our people for the most part we kind of knew them and we just never seen them all over the floor like that before and so right away the holy spirit began impacting lives doing miracles and healing marriages and restoring sick bodies it was it was the fruit of it was so amazing friends that's why we fell in love with this it wasn't the manifestations per se uh what they told us was there were merely an indicator of the kind of power that was going into people but it was the transformation that happened in the heart and carol and i had randy pray for us because he stayed on and then stayed on again and after a week he was going home after really a complete week and we're like god what's going to happen randy's going home are you going with him or what's going to happen but we said well all right but we want your back randy as soon as you can but we'll we'll try to hold the fort until that but you know what the holy spirit has kept coming and coming and coming and coming in this place so randy thank you so much for coming thank you way back then and for coming back and back again and to deanne for saying yes he can stay another two days okay you can stay another two days and all that kind of thing so it was amazing and all that god has done over 25 years i mean we had no idea at all god bless you let's give him a great welcome back thank you john thank you i also want to say that it had not had it not been for john's perception and realization of what was happening i would have gone home but it was his wisdom to recognize the uniqueness of what god was doing and i remember he said randy you and i have prayed for this and looked for this and desired this our whole lives and now it's here you can't go home so i figured if he can talk my wife into letting me say it i have to be god i remember after i was here about 42 of the first 60 days i remember the prophetic word is given to me the night before i came here was test me now test me now test me now do not be afraid i will back you up i want your eyes to be open to see my resources for you in the heavenlies even as elijah prayed gehazi's eyes would be open and don't become anxious because if you become anxious you can't hear me i saw god be so faithful here and i remember the very first meeting we did outside of toronto i actually went back to the town that i had been a baptist pastor in and i remember praying lord that word was it only for toronto or is it or is it going to be forever i go and i didn't know what would happen and then when we got to that place the spirit of god fell there in southern illinois even as it had here in toronto and i found out that it was a word that wasn't relegated or limited to a geographical location that it was a word for his church and all over the world we've seen god come yes this is the first time i ever left the united states when i came to canada my first trip but i've been to 54 nations now and 105 times to brazil and i thank god for what he's doing and there's some new places coming up and i'm glad it didn't end right now one of the things i'm so excited about is is what he's doing in traditional denominations we've got to go and be used in a reformed denomination in the netherlands and the leaders of the movements that we want to move from cessationism to believing that gifts are still for today and we were just in the last four years of the greatest re outpourings of power i've seen in brazil has been amongst the traditional like our southern baptists in the united states the traditional baptist denomination in brazil they have a charismatic baptism association or denomination and they traditional and it's it's been amongst the traditional that god has been moving and you know it only took the pastor of the largest baptist traditional baptist church in brazil for revival to hit his church to cause many of the other largest to say we want what god just did in your church last december i was with the baptist guy when we went there the first time and i met him right here actually over there in that area and uh it's 12 it's been 12 years since i'd been there when we were there like three or four years in a row power god would come we'd stack all the chairs move them out because the place would only seat like three or four hundred people it's a small as a central as a very important baptist church but it wasn't very big and it just had lots of crisis and he was very discouraged power god came and he told me since i hadn't been there in 12 years he said what god did in those three visits so touched us and strengthened us that we were able to grow from 300 to i don't know if it's 13 15 18 000 something like that half of it was his church i think it's 15 000 because the there was another fifteen thousand in daughter churches that started in belo zonchi and then i was he told me he said but we also have given away what god has given us we have three thousand sell in brazil cells in brazil that's related to people we have influenced and then those three thousand cells are three million believers and so on i came well so what do you want this time he said we're exhausted revival is exhausting and we're exhausted and we need to be refilled and we need to be refreshed and he said and besides i have another whole generation that has arisen in this church that don't remember those meetings and they need their time and i just tell you it was an amazing meeting the grace of god was there i'm excited about what god is doing in his church and those of you know me i i love the whole church and i love what he's doing in the pentecostals and the charismatics and the evangelicals i even have a friend who is a very liberal old testament professor theologically who's a part of a denomination it's a peace denominator he's a pacifist and i he came to my house because he's been speaking at messiah college as one of the three best highest-rated christian colleges united states about five minutes from my house and he said i gotta tell you my story he was working with the poorest of the poor in nicaragua he was working with prisoners in the worst of the prisons around the world he go in and minister to prisons he's a very passionate but theologically liberal professor and he said but i burned out i believed the same thing but my passion was gone i burned out i believed the same but i didn't feel the same and i needed to be refreshed and somebody had been to toronto and came to where i was at and prayed for me and i hit the floor and i laughed and i laughed and i laughed and i got drunk now he still is a liberal old testament theologian who still has a wonderful ministry but he's now been able for another decade to keep on keeping on because of the renewing of the holy spirit you see the holy spirit really doesn't care if you're an armenian or a calvinist he doesn't care if you're an evangelical or liberal he doesn't care if you're orthodox a roman catholic what he cares about is how much you love him in your heart and how much you love his son how much you love his presence [Applause] so he's renewing the church the revival he wants to bring is so big it's going to take more than the just the pentecostals and charismatics to hold the harvest it's going to take i believe every building every church in every city to hold the harvest that's coming now i want to i want to do something i get to do anything i want i said because i get to speak one time and so here we go i want to introduce my assistant attendant intern today i talked to about 15 or 20 people who i've personally interned i've interned 40 13 women and 27 men who have taken with me and poured into them and it's really a blessing to me one was in china one was in south africa one worked with for heidi uh for a long time for they're getting ready to come back to the united states after he's been there i think 12 years one of them was going into indonesia living in germany but going in a woman going into indonesia preaching to indigenous people in indonesia and i'm listening to their stories and i was so blessed the rest of my life i want to spend pouring into the next generation training them educating them praying for them seeing god empower them and that's i think huge on god's heart and that's one of the things we're going to go for tonight is not just for leaders but also this next younger generation that you're not old enough to remember when the power of god first fell here and and then there's people and i wanted to ask about this i'm just curious then there's people who you didn't discover what god was doing until recently and so even though this is like 25 years for us it's like one year or six months or two years for you or are you just this is the first time you've ever been here and maybe you this is new to you i'm not going to ask you stan but i would like for you to wave your hand and say hey i'm kind of new to this and uh just wave at me yeah so i i really want to believe god that even though this is new to you your hunger and your faith that brought you here is going to bring a blessing to you and some of the things that you hear and see you may not understand them but i'm so glad god doesn't wait till we understand what he's doing before he does it if that was the case some of the things he's done to me i would never have received and still wouldn't be receiving because i still don't understand i just thank god for it i want to introduce marcus dygert and reason why i want to introduce him is i'm not going to go for healing tonight i'm going to go for impartation but i though i'm not gonna go for healing we begin to see uh not at least 20 25 of the people uh 20 25 healings to the number of people in a meeting for about six months now and um in the united states in north america i'm not talking about brazil or argentina or somewhere in africa i'm talking about in the united states we've also begun to see and it wasn't when i ministered hi mark i just recognized you uh mark's one of our adjunct professors at our seminary and he is one of the most favored teachers too so and i met him here and he's i don't know how many times i've seen you at these meetings but he's an amazing man so i want to introduce marcus because the creative miracles happen when he prayed not me i'm not talking about healings i am talking about creating miracles bill's here too the holy spirit can really come now because bill's here so i've asked marcus if god gives him things which he does to just minister briefly on healing and for creative miracles now sometimes the creative miracles we don't hear about it for two or three years i mean two three days after the after the prayer time because some of the things that need us to be created you you can't tell if it's created instantly or not and we were in tulsa oklahoma there's this mennonite woman she said that she didn't know who we were but she had gone uh heard me somewhere on television and she looked it up and saw that i was going to be in tulsa and she was i think lincoln nebraska several hundred mile drive so she and her husband drove down she told me that on friday night marcus goes for creative miracles on friday night on sunday morning we have to fly out pretty early and we got a short period of time and so we just briefly pray for healing and i said i want somebody that has had a significant healing and you can prove it and you know you've been healed and it's a big thing i'd like for at least one of you only have time for one because we have to fly out to come forward and this big guy on the back seat of the church stood up and he's really really excited and and he starts to come forward and he is excited now i i you don't don't use your imagination but i'm going to clean up his testimony and make it pg because it was somewhere between an r and an x so he's coming forward and he's so excited and somebody gave him a mic and my one of my rules was never give up the mic and somebody gave him mike and he he said uh i said what did what was healed he's and he he didn't use this language he said my behind was healed and my face is just because this is being live streamed he said no am i i'm just an old country boy my behind was healed he said more specifically my rectum was healed and again i'm going to clean this up but he said you know when they take your rectum out you can't have a normal bowel movement there's things you can't make anymore all you have is diarrhea and i'll go through three or four rolls of toilet paper a day it's totally devastating and if you don't have a rectum you there's certain things you can't do anymore and it's embarrassing and i'm thinking oh my god he's not had time to go to the bathroom how does he know if he's been healed how can how are we going to verify this it's you know i'm actually embarrassed i'm thinking this is getting bad and it's going from bad to worse and how do we even prove it and and then he said i was at your meeting friday night and marcus prayed for creative miracles and since friday night i've been able to make something i couldn't make before and i've been able to have normal bowel movements nobody's going to get up and tell this story to fake it so humiliating but he said it's i've got my life back because ever since that prayer i've been made whole so i'm going to ask marcus's minister just a little and then i'm going to have one testimony um not so much of the healing i'm going to ask somebody to give a testimony of impartation thank you randy and thank you to catch the fire and john carroll y'all been wonderful just i feel like family already it's been great and just praise jesus how about that right praise jesus is already here he's about to do some more things tonight right that's what it's all about it's all about jesus and i love what john said a while ago i heard god saying it that we're here to catch the fire but we're going to go out and spread the fire right and that's the reason i give the testimonies is about what jesus does because he's going to do it again and he's going to do it again now that you've been told you need to spread the fire so as you embark on this journey this week what you catch you need to go out and spread take it out to the ends of the earth right to every tribe every nation and spread the fire right and i tell this um because of what god's done and as we give the testimony it's not just of what i'm gonna talk about that happened in 2010 but like randy was saying we get testimonies all the time of the the rectum that was healed um kidneys that are healed new gallbladders new livers um god is moving and god is creating and healing the bodies in miraculous ways that the doctors are pro i'm just completely dumbfounded that's why i love to pray right and so i want to tell you about what happened as my life was completely changed in 2010 it was actually bill johnson was in austin texas i am from texas um and um yeah praise jesus right oh i do want to say this i want to i felt like god said this for ministers because um this is where i was at and i feel like it's something tonight god wants to release ministers we feel like sometimes we've seen healing we've experienced some healings but then we have some physical conditions and we live with it but god wants to release you from your pain and your suffering that you do it in secret and in hiding places right god wants to release that tonight i was a minister i spent 14 years in ministry i was burned out took a sabbatical about the time that um bill was in austin and i was literally physically in horrible condition i had two back surgeries 14 screws two metal rods and a metal plate put in my spine my whole lumbar area was 360 fusions i had a kid genetic kidney disease i was born with born with three kidneys right you get a bonus no but when i was five one of the kidneys stopped functioning like that kidneys started failing that kidney got infected infected the other kidney next to it so they had to take out two kidneys when i was five from the time i was five until 32 i had kidney stones every couple of months severe kidney stones chronic kidney stones all the time a doctor told me when i was 17 he told me that your other kidney's starting to fail you're starting to lose function that kidney is gonna fail and we can't give you a kidney transplant because you have genetic kidney disease it'll be a waste is that good news and so but i lived i lived on faith with god i seen healings i experienced healings before but at this time i was i was burned out i was i was just wanting more but i was suffering my blood was tainted i couldn't take antibiotics anymore i was really in bad shape so the first night the meeting bill just says hey you know we're starting to see metal being released in bodies and my my wife my daughter and family were family of faith so they're like pushing me up you got all this metal in your back you can't bend you can't do anything right and bill just had the people around you just pray i felt nothing and he said try it out i was like okay i'll try it out you know i'm gonna look like a fool because all i could do is go like this i had to have help putting on my shoes socks i couldn't do anything i was really actually the one the worst testimonies you probably had of someone coming up metal i was really frustrated that night i kind of cut my own toenails and that's what i talked about when i when bill called up but um and when i went to bend i moved and bent like i couldn't been before i couldn't do anything i'm talking about full release people jesus completely released the met on my back a hundred percent i go on roller coasters play basketball i do whatever i want like i never had surgery before isn't that great isn't god good come on the next night had a word of knowledge come from one of the students that bill had with him of kidney stones hello mr kidney stone here of course my wife and daughter like get some more you know and so i stood up for kidney stones people around prayed i felt a burning pain starting my back right here it burned so bad it hurt i mean i was in pain from the burn it lasted for two hours after that it moved to the other side lasted for another two hours i didn't have a kidney stone since not one period kidney zone since right so good a year later um bill comes back to austin and i went out i wanted to follow up give the testimony do that follow up with the people they'd love to hear it and i went and told bill about it bill said your lightning rod for healing give it away and so i started pressing it in and just giving it away glorifying god praising him going for healing seeing cancer heal seeing all these things healed and years went by four years went by just praising god and glorifying him and giving it away and seeing god do amazing things and god just moving right and then i was at work i was um just a bible vocational at the time i was just at work and i moved the box heavy case and i got a hernia simple hernia so i went in it was painful it was irritating i went into the doctors when you have back surgeries and i have a lot more surgeries than that anybody ever feel like you've been through a wringer yeah i have a lot of surgeries but um i went to the doctor they checked my back out they're doing all the mris cat scans and the doctor comes back in after hours and hours of tests and my wife and i are sitting there and they come in and he said yo your back looks great that's good it's not your appendix that's a good thing your kidneys look great but whoa what what'd you say she looks at the paper says i'll be back and she leaves my wife and i like what what's going on and then she's gone for like an hour and a half and she comes back in and she goes i thought the radiologist read it wrong i had to look at the films myself you have two fully functioning kidneys praise jesus right come on he created a kidney in me yeah and he's do it again i want to encourage you tonight if you have an issue he'll do it again he'll do it again but i also want to encourage i feel really strong about the courage that when you've been healed before and you're dealing with another physical issue that doesn't mean god's not god's just done with you that you had your one healing house for everybody else because i had the hernia to deal with so i went in for surgery had one of the best surgeons in the nation do the hernia surgery he severed the femoral nerve yeah a great thing so i went through all kinds of another surgery and all kinds of testing the neurologist came back and he said that your your nerve is 90 severe you have no function going through it whatsoever this is this is bad news i mean this is real bad news i keep this report on my desk just to remind me of what god did and so he he said this is what's going to happen your leg will stop being you stop being able to use it your quadriceps are going to ball up your neck your knees going to buckle up now i'm doing a ministry at the time training a nazarene church and healing and i'm just um you know getting to the point where i'm walking on the cane i get to the point where i can't i can't even stand putting pressure on my leg but i'm seeing cancer he'll see god just do all these amazing things and i'm not getting my healing i get to the point where i'm completely bedridden i'm in so much pain i'm on a max doses of lyrica fentanyl hydrocodone hydromorphine i was on the max doses of all these medications they even tried to put a device in my back to stop the back from singing sending signals they did all kinds of things to try to stop this i was in a lot of pain anybody been in chronic pain where you just had enough you just had enough and the nerve pain when i broke my back when i felt those 14 feet that was hard that hurt that nerve pain was so tremendous and then to see your family suffering my wife my daughter my kids suffering it hurts i i was one day i was laying in bed my family was outside and i prayed to god this i said god either you heal me or you kill me because i can't take it anymore now serious right then that's when the door opened up to my room and the room filled with light just this bright light it's unbelievable and this figure came out of the light and he came up and he literally comes to the bed and he kneels next to the bed and i knew this this peace came upon me and i knew it's jesus he's kneeling next to the bed praying when he gets up he sits on the bed and i feel the bed move the bed can press down and he tells me i'm interceding for you i know your pain i want to encourage you tonight that god knows where you're at jesus knows your pain the holy spirit and jesus intercede for you he intercedes for you and he knows where you at and i tell you look at me right now i'm not supposed to be able to walk i'm not supposed to be able to do anything but i am here and i am fully fully moving because of jesus because of jesus so if you have i want you to stand for some things if you have one if you have any kidney stones chronic kidney issues any of that stand up right now you need a creative miracle you need a body part whether it's a gallbladder a kidney a heart liver i've seen and heard testimonies what god has been doing i've even lost count of the numbers of kidneys god's replaced i mean get get stand up right now grab a hold of this if you have a prognosis or a diagnosis like they told me there's just no chance no hope and you can never do anything again stand up if you have metal in your bodies if you have a foreign object stand up because we're going to release this i also heard um tonight during worship um psoriatic arthritis and um and grandi has seen that's 13 out of 14 women completely healed a hundred percent of psoriatic arthritis in the last 12 months god is healing the body stand up if you have a right knee issue is getting a lot of right knee issues right below kneecap stand up and so put your hand well let's do this right now you know what just try it out if you're in pain for moving or something try to do something you couldn't do because god doesn't need a prayer the testimony is power enough to release the healing try to do something you couldn't do and if you're healed 80 or better give god the glory by putting two hands over your head and crossing them back and forth try it out right now and then give god glory we already have people being healed in the back i see one two three four five six seven there's a bunch of people being healed right now that's just trying it out just trying it out all right now take your hand if it's appropriate put it on where you need the healing right put it on where you need the healing i'm gonna pray over you father god right now just release your healing power on your people heal the issues of the chronic pain and the nerve conditions father god heal the knees and the backs right now in the name of jesus release the metal and backs and metal in the bodies metal and the knees enjoy to be there new kidneys new gall bladders new hearts new livers right now grow them right now in the name of jesus restore your people because we are on the other side of the cross and the restoration power of jesus christ i proclaim that on the body tonight in jesus name pain you have no right you're illegal here no more pain in the name of jesus i rebuke it out in jesus name jesus name now try it out again try it again try to do something you cannot do try to move around if you had metal in some area move it around i wasn't healed until i moved i didn't feel the release of the metal until i moved now in texas when it got cold i would feel the metal now i'm up here i don't feel nothing right so try it out and if you got healed of pain or any condition 80 or more do both hands over the head like this and get god the glory don't take away from the glory just look around the room god is moving and healing the bodies around the room right now in the name of jesus in the name of jesus i want to see also if you're being touched right now but you can't say i'm 80 or better put one hand up if you are being touched and you say you know what i am being healed something's happened there is healing there is heat there is electricity something is happening in my body put one hand up i want to pray for you again but i want the people around you to pray for them just if there's someone with a hand up put your hand on them if you're around the appropriate way and pray for them for 30 seconds just pray for god to release the healing release healing in this room in jesus name let your angels release healing release the pain in jesus name no more no more pain in the name of jesus in the name of jesus glory to god thank you god we every good work you start father you complete heal your people tonight in jesus name let a outpouring a healing come on this place in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name hallelujah hallelujah glory jesus praise himself more lord more lord more lord more lord now try it out again and if you're if you are 80 or better and you couldn't say it a while ago give god the glory right now just show over the hands and wave your hands over your head look around you they're around the room they're going healings over here praise jesus praise jesus all across the room praise you jesus glory to the lamb of god i want to ask a question real quick like randy said sometimes we need some time before we know we're healed if you had a crit you need to create a miracle you need some time or a test right and we want to give god glory what he's doing for people that don't have an evidence right now but they felt something if you felt the power of god move through your body and you needed to create a miracle or something that you need to test to prove just give god glory by waving a hand in the air you felt the power of god moving through your body look at that all around the room all around the room look at that god is touching his people i encourage you please as you get tests that you get tests done or you get evidence of your healing please email us we'd love to get the testimony it's really simple marcus global awakening dot com that's real easy remember right marcus at globalawakening.com but i just want to do one more thing to give god glory everybody that was healed tonight of something just stand up do really big for about 30 seconds both hands over here just everybody that was healed tonight just stand up and put both look around this is what god is embodies right here in jesus name thank you lord thank you jesus thank you lord thank you lord i don't remember how many years ago it was but it wasn't that many years ago we were doing a conference in orlando florida and this young man who's a professor at a seminary in detroit michigan i don't know where he's at now but i saw him earlier during worship if you're still in here so i can know where you're at weigh that me where there you are okay so his name is father matthias phelan and he had a friend with him i think your friend's here tonight patrick a good protestant name teasing you patrick the two of them came to me and father thalen said would you pray for a catholic and i said well of course and i asked him that we just stepped into a a private place because it was kind of out in the hallway or somewhere and there was and i want to emphasize something don't put your faith in your manifestations if you have enough power going through that it causes you to manifest thank god for it but it doesn't mean you're not touched if you don't manifest it doesn't mean god didn't use you anoint you if you don't have any manifestations so they got on their knees patrick and father thalen held their hands up like this and i just prayed for him i didn't see anything happen i didn't see any manifestation of any kind but then i heard about the fruit so father that would you and patrick just come real quick and kind of tell us what you guys have been doing and and i need a my thank you i i had him speak at our conference in in october so you know i i i can say it and one thing this guy's gone he's on fire so thank you again god bless you tell us just a little bit you guys what you're seeing what god's doing and what he's doing in the seminary and go ahead take off get up close though get in the light come out of the darkness into the light so long long story short i was asking one of my friends who's a professor at the seminary who do you know that can teach about healing because i was getting into the healing ministry and she recommended a guy named randy clark she says his theology is really good he's really anointed and so i brought my friend patrick to one of his conferences it was voice of the apostles i believe it was 2015. and we went to that conference and we had read the book there is more are you familiar with that book anybody that book changed my life and so we started asking for more and i was at a conference before that i just received this outpouring of power and love in a way that i had never experienced before and we knew that there was more after that so we came praying or actually asking for randy to pray for us and we had a couple opportunities to be prayed with by you one was in that private meeting the other was when you were doing impartation over the entire crowd and i remember you were praying and there's about seven thousand people there and you were coming out and praying for people in the front and we were along the back and also we're praying and i started manifesting just a little bit and just the power of god was coming and out of nowhere comes will heart out of nowhere he sees me 20 feet away and just does this and i go flying onto the ground i hadn't experienced manifestations like that in my entire life and it was so powerful and i remember being very touched and moved by your humility and by your love for christian unity because we really believe that the spirit of god unites us it is by the spirit of god that we live and it's by the spirit of god that we go forth in power to witness to the risen jesus so we were really really moved and so we actually ended up starting this ministry called encounter ministries to actually further this and our own church pastor tell us tell us a little bit more about that so we started encounter ministries in early 2016 and everything we did god just started breaking out in power and one of the first things that i did i led randy led loved dayton it was a crusade in dayton ohio and i was in columbus at the time only about an hour away and so i contacted the bishop over the region and i asked for permission to lead a catholic ministry team to work with randy so that salvation healing and miracles could flow through the city so we got permission the bishop gave us permission to do that and i was part of the catholic team that went door to door on part of this mission and um before we were sent out randy had another impartation flow forth and i'm pretty sure randy didn't know who i was at the time and we're going he's going and praying for everybody isn't it amazing that he'll just stay and just pray and pour himself out like that and so i remember being there and he comes over me and just stops and i remember he just said wow there is such a fire on you and he just says there is such a fire you're like you're like a a modern-day saint francis and the lord says renew my church and he blew on me and i flew back and i got filled with so much joy i went to franciscan university and reform is in my blood my name is patrick he st patrick converted entire nation and i felt this weight of prophetic significance from the the depths of the old the treasures of the old and new were coming together like a waterfall and so i was laughing for an hour just being filled with the power of joy we go out the next day everyone we pray for door to door gets healed it was absolutely incredible i called up my friend ryan maylie who was a um he's a he was a theology teacher at the local catholic high school and i'm telling him all these stories that patrick you got to come in and share with my students so i said all right i got permission from the leader to go out to the high school and i had 15 minutes to share i told stories about what god was doing and as i started telling stories about what was god was doing just like marcus was getting words of knowledge it started calling out conditions and left and right these students in a very a culture of doubt and unbelief they wore uniforms and that was about as catholic as they got they started getting healed like left and right and it set the seeds for revival fast forward two years we got no openings to go into catholic high schools and we were doing healing meetings in catholic high schools and salvation healing miracles are flowing and it's all because of an opportunity right here and to make it even bigger uh god has used us to start the first catholic school supernatural ministry in brighton michigan and not only that but we have an annual conference and we filled the entire toledo convention center and they were just outpourings we're going after healing impartations the prophetic it's just shaking the catholic church god is doing something amazing and we're so excited and just to say that the the outpouring of the holy spirit is impacting more than just some people who are used to it it's happening all over we simply get into a meeting we just say come holy spirit and he comes i remember one guy actually came to a conference and he was so utterly rocked he said father he was actually another priest he says there is not a single part of my life that has not been radically changed i guess i'm one of you now right so so what's happening is that the seminarians are getting touched there are people who have been closed off to this in our church who are being touched and saying this is god and once we start training other people on how to pray for healing how to deliver prophetic words we're beginning to see that actually go across the country and people are experiencing healing all over so because of the ministry and because of the power of the holy spirit that started here and through you randy it's actually touching our church in a new way it came before but it's coming again and this is really really exciting so thank you very much fateman is a professor of theology he's a professor of theology at a seminary in detroit michigan and he takes the students who are going to be future priests right is that right he takes them out on the street to do power evangelism laying on our hands and seeing people healed on the streets of detroit thank you guys i get excited i want to emphasize is that god risk looks for hunger i preached this message i want to preach tonight i think i preached it one other time and um if i preach it enough it it it'll get better but i'm not there yet so this is the second time it's simple i don't have a lot of illustrations it's just uh but i think god's going to touch people and i want to ask you to open your bibles to first kings chapter 19. and we're going to talk about elijah and we're going to talk about elisha later and we're going to talk about a man whose name isn't written a man who for all reason to me was next in line to be the successor to elijah we don't know his name he didn't get to be the successor i want to talk about the difference between him and elisha and i want to draw some just insights from the word of god so elijah has had one of the greatest victories of his life he's had this amazing victories and he's had praying that the the three-year drought would break and he sent us the servant to go check and see if he can see in the distance if there's a cloud because he's praying for rain and there's not been rain in three years and he's told the king that rain was coming and the the servant the unnamed servant he obeys but it seems like there's something lacking and for seven times elijah said to him go back and see if you see anything and in verse the latter part of verse 43 of chapter 18 the servant comes back and it says he said this there's nothing there that's really simple there's nothing there because there was nothing there but what if he had said there's nothing there yet see there's nothing there yet is acknowledging that well it's not happening but i believe it's going to because you're praying and i'm going to come into agreement with you i'm adding my faith to your faith because i believe if you're praying that it's going to rain it's going to rain but it's nothing there yet but there's no yet it's just there's nothing there and after this victory jezebel threatens and gives him as sure as sure as i live before this day is over you're going to be like those prophets those the the priest that you killed i'm going to take your life and in verse 3 of chapter 19 it says elijah was afraid and ran for his life and i believe that many times it's right after our greatest victories that we have some of our biggest battles that some of the times we're most vulnerable right after a huge victory and i believe that the fact that he ran he's his own worst judge now and he's going into depression because he feels like a failure and he's moved from the height of victory and god answering prayer and a three-year drought being broken and being able to give us energy to outrun a horse and you know he's just and then he runs to save his life and it says when he came to beersheba this is in verse three when he came to beersheba in judah he left his servant there i just want to focus on what it says and doesn't say we don't know why he left him did he leave him because he realized i needed a man i needed an attendant to say there's nothing there yet and he didn't i don't know did he leave him there because he's he wanted to stay did he leave him there because he didn't want to go on we don't know why he left him there but the servant was left in beersheba and elijah is going into spiraling into this depression and verse 4 says while he himself went today's journey into the desert i'd like to point out that when you disappoint yourself be careful because if you don't know how to deal with that self-disappointment and self-condemnation and self-judgment you will find yourself going into a spiritual desert other people can say all types of things about you and it won't have as much impact as your self-talk about yourself it's what you're saying to yourself that'll have even more impact on you than what others are saying about you and he came to a broom tree and he sat down under it and prayed that he might die we have serious depression going on here we have serious disillusionment going on when i went to see rodney in 1993 a few months before i came here i was in the desert and i was disillusioned i was depressed on the verge of a nervous breakdown my self-talk wasn't very good but god rescued me and he gets all the glory but i know what it's like i think if we live long enough i mean even famous people that i've read about who are very famous like spurgeon had serious bouts of depression it's not uncommon for people who are powerfully used of god to have deep and big spiritual battles if you don't know other people have struggled you can feel really bad about yourself and it says that he wanted to die and he says i've had enough lord take my life he's not having a good day anybody ever felt like that i've resigned from the ministry and in my head a lot revival is tiring in 1906 a pastor of a first baptist church of paducah kentucky in 1905 had prayed god give me revival or i or i'll die god gave him revival in one year he baptized a thousand new believers in his church and he did die of exhaustion he was an older man revival is tiring and when we get tired if we don't take care of ourselves if we push ourselves too hard we become vulnerable and this is also a warning to watch out for that and watch yourself talk and if you are tonight in that place of the desert that there's good news here because god is the rescuer he's the one who can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves sometimes we think we will behave one way and then when we faced with the trial we may not have passed it doesn't flunk anybody he gives us remedial work until we pass so he says take my life i'm no better than my ancestors then he lay down under the tree and fell asleep do you know one of the signs of depression is there's you want to sleep a lot it says all at once an angel touched him and said get up and eat and he looked around and there by his head was a cake of bread baked over hot coals and a jar of water i mean we got delivery service from heaven i mean he's in the middle of the desert this is a supernatural meal oh wow i hadn't thought of that you know the lord jesus has provided for us a supernatural meal that brings grace and strength to us he ate and drank and then he laid down again the angel of the lord came back a second time and touched him and said get up and eat for the journey is too much for you see god knows when the journey you're facing the challenge you have the call you're going to go on the prophecy that's been spoken to you is too big for you and so he will anoint you as he did heidi when she's burned out when she came saying i can't go on i don't know how i can continue this god unless if you don't touch me at this meeting i don't know how i can continue doing what she was doing with the orphans there in mozambique and john arnold had told me that he and told me her name was heidi i never met her never talked to her but when she came up that morning or that day whatever it was night uh whenever it was that and she's weeping and i see her and i know her first name's heidi don't know her last name the lord did something for her she can't go on he knows she needs to be refreshed my faith is not in your ability to have enough faith he to be healed but my faith is not so much focused on you or me but my faith is focused on the faithfulness of god that he can do things in our lives to create the faith we need to create the hope we need to create the strength we need and what he does in elijah's life he sends an angel well i see heidi and i said heidi god wants to know do you want the nation of mozambique and she's christ yes and i said god's going to give you the nation muslim be see the blind see the death here the lane won't dead be raised now i'm so glad i never heard her testimony in the next 18 months because if i'd heard your testimony during the next 18 months i probably would have quit praying for people for impartation because she prayed for every blind person every deaf person every lame person that she saw or lots of them and what happens the next 18 months and by the way when i said that to her god instantly power came on her she told me later she felt like she's stuck in an oven profusely sweating from the heat supernatural heat the power so strong she thought she would die it's kind of like moody and finney i perceive that this electricity and waves of love would have continued overflowing on me wave after wave i would have died stay your hand unless you slay me i can't stand anymore she got one of those then she has problems i don't tell too much she has problems they lose a lot million dollars promised to him gone because they wouldn't quit talking about toronto and what god did to him here building's confiscated by the government nobody's getting healed instead of them getting healed heidi gets ms daughter gets malaria three times in 18 months rollins in the hospital of cerebral malaria it doesn't here's my point does it look like the word that was spoken is coming to pass see if the story it ended there none of you would want me to pray for you so i i meet heidi and hear the rest of this the story for the first time really at bill's church and he's scheduled honey and i'd be to that again which usually doesn't do that and when heidi starts telling her story all they went through and the opposition the difficulty and when the doctor says if you go back to mozambique you'll die she says i will not die because i have a prophetic word from god and he's going to give me the nation of moses and be the blind's going to see the death's going to hear the lame's going to walk and the dead is going to be raised [Applause] i went to heidi excuse me and i need some water and i asked her heidi i have one question for you do you think you do you believe you could have sustained your faith in the words that i had given you if god hadn't backed it up by his power and she said right no she could not have continued to believe that was really god but for the power that was so strong that she could not doubt because of what god had done to her that was the strength and the source of her faith in the word the rhema i believe that sometimes there's a degree of anointing related to the degree of difficulty of the call and if god knows that what you're going to go up against is like hell with a pistol of water water pistol he will give you an experience to give you the courage to do that billy graham said you don't need power to evangelize if you don't evangelize you don't need grace for dying when you're not dying he talks about this things you need that god knows what you need and he gives it to you and that's what i see here god it's not about elijah it's about his god it's god's got more for him to do his god is not condemning him as god is not blaming him his god is not harsh on him but is encouraging him and so he's fallen asleep and the angel gives him this stuffed teeth because the journey is going to be too much for you and in verse 8 so he got up and ate and drank and strengthened by that food he traveled 40 days and 40 nights until he reached horeb the mountain of god one thing about the desert and one thing about the valley my friend graham cook talks about learning how to celebrate the valley and the desert because he often speaks to us in those places of brokenness and dryness when we become desperate when he so much in his wisdom turns off all the water so to speak so that we become so desperate for his presence that it takes us into the setup for the next mountaintop experience so he goes from the desert to the mountain of horub the mountain of god because god had a rendezvous set up for him and it says there he went into a cave and spent the night it's a place of safety the cave is it's also it was a place of shelter and so he's gone there to spend the night and then it says and the word of the lord came to him what are you doing here elijah when god asks us a question he doesn't need information god's not confused about elijah god knows why he's there god knows everything about him the comforting thing for me is that god knows you and he knows me better than we know ourselves when i was here in those first 42 days preaching at night and all heaven was coming during the daytime carol and a guy named i believe steve was this person if i remember right was taking me through inner healing for the brokenness in my life and i was weeping realizing all these places of brokenness and places of weakness and and things that i needed to to get past for god to do all that he wanted in my life and it was amazing it amazed me one of the things that really helped me was that i was really self-critical and very hard on myself and judgmental of myself and my self-talk wasn't all that good and there was a lot of things i'd done as a young man growing up and things i was ashamed of and things i did that was just weird you know not really horrible bad sins or even sins just indications of brokenness that i didn't understand and i thought that a lot of the mistakes i'd made and since i'd made in my life was just my weakness and poor uh a weak will and especially my teenage years and and i realized as carol and steve was taking me through inner healing that a lot of my decisions that i thought was due to my free will making bad choices was not that it was really i was not near as free as what i thought that there were huge psychological issues and needs in my life that predisposed me to be vulnerable to certain types of temptation and then predisposed me to make it it was like some places i wasn't near as free as what i thought and i began to realize that david really knew what he was saying and ascended my mother conceived me and then i realized that there was this iniquity this brokenness and then all of a sudden i got a revelation of grace here's what i got when i came to understand that it wasn't just bad decisions but it was the power of sin in others or in my parents in others lives that had affected me that i didn't start out with a clean slate that there were huge subterranean faults and trembles tremors and in my life and i realized yeah i i fell i made mistakes i sinned and i've always blamed myself i've been very critical of myself and i didn't but i realized now man i didn't get a fair start this makes sense and if and in that revelation i realize wow now that i know all that's really going on i'm i i'm not so judgmental i'm more merciful to myself and then the revelation came that's why god is so full of grace and abounding in mercy because he understands our brokenness he understands our fears he understands the problems we had he understands the effects of other people's sin on us he understands all that and because he understands it so gracious so this message i said it's about elijah it's about elijah it's about the unnamed servant but you know the hero of this story is god a rescuing god what are you doing here elijah he replied well i i've been very zealous for the lord god almighty the israelites have rejected your covenant broken down your altars and put your prophets to death with the sword and i'm the only one left and now they're trying to kill me too that's why i'm here verse 11 the lord said go out and stand on the mountain i really think there's something about those two put together we want to have a mountaintop experience often they're connected to that two words go out go out oh but god i'm not worthy to go out i failed you go out get out of the desert get out of that cave go out and go to the mountain that's where i want you that place of presence that place of experience the mountain of god because i've seen your weakness i've seen your fear i see your depression but that's not how i see you you need to see yourself the way i see it i'm saying to you go out [Applause] in spite of all that you may feel go out stand on the mountain in the presence of the lord for the lord is about to pass by moses had an experience like that in the cleft of the mountain where the lord passed by and he saw the glory of the lord in the midst of your darkness of your feeling like i fell lord if you're feeling like i i i'm not measuring up i didn't pass the test whatever it may be you need to understand the devil is the called the condemner god convicts us of our sins but god condemns us i mean the enemy condemns us god convicts us the enemy condemns us he is the satan means the accuser of the brethren don't line up your self-talk with his condemnation line up your self-talk with the cross line up your self-talk with the gracious savior see yourself as he sees you then a great and powerful wind toward the mountains apart that's like an earth and it shattered the rocks before the lord but the lord was not in the wind and after when there was an earthquake but the lord was not in the earthquake and after the earthquake came of fire but the lord was not in the fire and after the fire came a gentle whisper and when elijah heard it he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave so while this is going on he's in the cave but when he hears the whisper and realizes that scotty goes out of the cave mouth of that mountain to get a better perspective you know one we have a place in southern illinois called caven rock it's a big huge cave one thing about caves are dark some of us need to walk out of the darkness because we're hearing the whispers of god some of us like oh we want this huge experience and there's nothing wrong with i love huge experiences i love the crazy manifestations and i love all of that but i know and i've heard bill say this one time and i know he's had the huge experience i'm not going to tell what that was i love that story i hope you'll hopefully you'll tell it sometime here but one of the things that changed his life was just an impression from god a word that he took i had one of those yes there was one time i got my prayer answered god come with so much power you scare me and i think you're going to kill me in 1989 he answered that prayer after i started praying in 1970 so it was 19 years later and i thank god for it it's part of my history five years earlier he had touched me and the electricity went through my body and to the point my joints all ate that was awesome it was like walking into an electric fence i mean if you've ever done that i'm a country boy i'm a farm boy i know what those things are and uh they actually do cause your joints the ache sometimes all day they'll ache from that electricity went through and i had that experience from the holy spirit but when rodney prayed for me it was peace but one of the most important moments of my life that was life transformative didn't come in the earthquake the fire or the wind came in a whisper i was 18 years old my first day at a baptist college i'm no longer going to a secular school no longer pursuing the career i thought i was going to i'm now going to be in the ministry it's my first day i'm in the libra of the bookstore here's the whisper the issue of your life is going to be the holy spirit and if every time i could take a course in college or seminary that i could focus on the holy spirit or the gifts of the spirit or even twist it to get there you know get special permission to write a term paper on that subject i did because i believe the lord had said the issue of your life now that's a strange word to get with your baptist guy i mean you know if i'd been a pentecostal that made sense or a charismatic that made sense that's baptism but i believed it you know what you know what the issue of my life has been now holy spirit so don't be little for whispers and sometimes he may knock you down and shake you rattle and roll you so he can whisper to you while you're there he just needed to get your attention then the voice said to him what are you doing here elijah he said it again he complains again gives him the same whole thing and then god gives him a commission he's going to anoint two kings and his successor and god tells him he doesn't get to choose he just gets to obey who god says i don't get to choose who gets what here tonight i don't have any power in myself to give you anything impartation is not that impartation is teaching what you believe god's going to do and then god the sovereign lord does it and if you see what he's doing you bless and come in agreement with what he's doing that's what impartation it's a it's not a man thing it's not a woman thing it's not a protestant or catholic thing orthodox or pentecostal it's a god thing it won't do you any good to tell me what you want or what gifts you want because it's like coming to the mail person and saying checks only no bills the person who delivers your mail they don't determine what you get they just deliver the mail which means if god really does touch you don't confuse the male person for the person who gave you the gift keep the focus on the one who is the source [Applause] besides i like being the donkey and i love it when i'm in a meeting that he showed up and we were able to carry his presence and i know it's not us human beings that you're drawn to any of us any of these it's his presence that we have sometimes the great privilege of caring so i got to get off the story time okay then in verse 19 says so elijah went from there because he's been told who was supposed to what he's supposed to do and he's he's looking he's going out going his re replacement and he found elisha son of shaphat he was plowing with 12 yoke of ox and i i i've tried to picture that in my mind and then it says and he himself was driving the 12th pair was he pretty wealthy and were there 12 other people each with two oxen each and he was driving the 12th pair or did he have them lined up like wells fargo and he's got him 12 in a row i've never it's hard for me to picture how you could keep 12 ox in a row i did anyway that's that's a farm thing with me it's neither here nor there uh and and it says elijah elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him that's benny hen's biblical basis for throwing his coat it's in the bible it's right there even when it's in the bible people sometimes still get upset show me that in the bible right there there was some symbolism in it but they i believe he did it because god told him to and elijah then left his oxen and ran after elijah let me kiss my father and mother goodbye he said and then i will come with you go back elijah said and then it says this what have i done to you i love that because he realizes that what god has just commissioned him to do is going to radically change elijah's life and if he was a prosperous farmer with 12 oxen and other people working for him i mean just one ox was a sign of prosperity but this guy's got 12 of them we need to understand this is not some farmer that's poor and doesn't have anything this is a very successful man and he says elijah said what have i done to you because he knows what just happened in god is going to radically change your life i remember when i was first uh got involved with vineyard uh some of the guys i was hanging around while i was a baptist that they'd say we knew you were doomed we knew you you wouldn't be able to stay we told you to stay as long as you could but we know you were going to get kicked out we knew you were in trouble and when we'd see when they'd say and i've seen it these guys get and men and women who get powerfully touched it's almost like you want to say what did i just do knowing god did it but still uh uh that person is not going to be the same one of the things that my friend tom jones is vice president of my ministry did was doing a study of people who were powerfully touched by the holy spirit and and and rating different things that changed their life one of the things that changed was a very uncommonly high change of address shortly after the impartation sometimes you were fired and sometimes you were promoted sometimes it got you in trouble but that same blessing also brought you a promotion it's like the guy in brazil we prayed for and god knocked him down he's weeping he's a pres he's over a prison and he had so many two hundred and something people got healed the next year after that he'd never had a heal in his life prior to that and he raised one person from the dead and then he said in man's kingdom i got busted down from being the warden of the prison to just a correctional officer because i witnessed too much but in god's kingdom i got promoted and he made me a pastor so there can be a demotion and the natural and a promotion in the spirit it's worth it verse 21 so elijah left him and went back he took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them he burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people and they ate then he set out to follow elijah and became his attendant he's moving from a place of great blessing and prosperity to be an attendant to a prophet most prophets didn't make much profit he's following elijah as an attendant the point i want to make is sometimes god's looking to see if we will burn the bridge to go back some of you have had to make a choice that was going to be very costly to you for one of my friends he was making like 300 and some thousand dollars a year and then three million dollars in a ge stock option if he had just stayed till he retired it in his 50s but in his late 30s he resigned and went from 300 and some thousand dollars a year to i think it's 40 000 a year to become an assistant pastor of a church there's people i know i look at you and i know your story and i know you walked away from pension and mance walked away from a lot of good things just to follow god that really touches god's heart the point i want to make this servant elijah he burnt the bridge he burnt the equipment i'm not going to go back to farming i'm going to follow that man sometimes we don't become all we can be because we won't risk that radical surrender and commitment that that place of consecration that god is asking of us have you burned your plow no one having put his hand to the plow and looking back he's fit for the kingdom it's using it in a different way it's like being consistent and committed so we're going to leave this story at this point especially we've got one servant who stayed he left his servant there and the guy just stayed and elijah we want to turn over to chapter 2 kings chapter 2 and elijah is destined for a promotion to heaven and when elijah was about to take eli uh when the lord was about to take elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind elijah and elijah were on their way from gilgal and elijah said to elijah stay here the lord has sent me to bethel now the other sermon we don't know why he stayed but this guy elisha elijah his boss says you stay here the lord's taken me to bethel but elijah said as surely as the lord lives and you live i will not leave you so they went down to bethel the company the prophet said bethel came out to elijah and asked do you know that the lord is going to take your master from you today yes i know he said i'm not going to miss it god's going to show up he's going to take elijah i'm going to be there for it i'm not going to miss it all right i added that to it that's i said jesus reading the text something it's not there but he said yes i know but do not speak of it then elijah said to him verse 4 second time stay here elisha the lord has sent me to jericho and he replied as surely as the lord lives and as you live i will not leave you so they went down to jericho unless twice he's been told to stay back he won't do it it's a different spirit than the first servant the company the prophet said jericho went up to elijah and asked him do you know that the lord is going to take your master from you today i mean the lord's been telling everybody that the prophet doesn't do anything without speaking to the prophets yes i know he replied but do not speak of it then elijah said to him stay here three times elijah tells him to stay but he will not be like that other prophet that other attendant who was left behind who stayed behind then elijah said to him stay here the lord has sent me to jordan and he replied as surely as the lord lives and as you live i will not leave you so the two of them walked on fifty men of the company the prophets went and stood at a distance facing the place where elijah and elisha had stopped at jordan elijah took his cloak rolled it up and struck the water with it the water divided to the right and to the left and the two crossed over on dry ground we got a huge miracle here verse 9 when they had crossed elijah said to elijah tell me what can i do for you before i'm taken from you what if he had stayed when elijah said stay here but he didn't i believed he knew that there was the possibility of receiving a great blessing the possibility of becoming a successor the possibility of the anointing on elijah come in on elijah the lord had been speaking to them and he knew what elijah knew he knew it the prophets knew it the company the prophets knew it so when he asked him what can i do for you when i'm taken up he says let me inherit a double portion of your spirit and elijah in verse 10 said you have asked a difficult thing yet if you see me when i am taken from you it will be yours otherwise not as they were walking along and talking together suddenly a chariot of fire and the horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them and elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind i believe that's an angelic escort he makes his angels wins his servants flames of fire and hebrews one elijah saw this and cried out my father my father the chariots and the horsemen of israel elijah saw him no more then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them apart was a sign of grief a jewish way of showing grief to rip your clothes sign of great creed and then he said in verse 13. he picked up the cloak that had fallen the the mantle that had fallen from elijah and went back and stood at the bank of the jordan then he took the cloak that had fallen from him and struck the water with it where now is the lord god of elijah and when he struck the water it divided the water to the right and the left and he crossed over in verse 15 the company the prophets from jericho who were watching said the spirit of elijah is resting on elijah and they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him and they thought they needed to find elijah now he knew they weren't going to find him but they went looking anyway and they didn't find him what can i do for you i want a double portion of the spirit that's on you study the life of elijah and elisha elijah had double the miracles elijah had i believe we live in a day in which god is looking for the servants who burn their plows who go all the way in he's looking for the servants that are going to follow after god not only will they not let the enemy stop them they'll not even let the man of god stop them sometimes we intend well and ask somebody to do something and but the lord's told him to do something else god is looking for people who as much as they respect their spiritual fathers they're going to go after what god has shown them is theirs and god wants to increase he wants to take us from glory to glory from faith to faith as bill says our ceiling their floor but you want to be in that burn your plow and obey god and do what he says even when sometimes very spiritual people give you advice sometimes it's god and sometimes it's not because you know he's told you something sometimes people want to protect you from something god's wanting to stretch you and they intend well it's important to know the difference it's important not to stay back when god wants you to go on it's important to know the timing to leave and the timing to stay the timing that the anointing has transferred and it's time for you to begin what he's put you on i one of my spiritual fathers jack taylor told me he said randy sometimes god takes you beyond the people who are spiritual fathers in your own life don't hold back say yes to god i believe god wants to do some things tonight and i i want us to have a time of impartation and we're there steve is going to come up later and tell us what all's going who's going to go where and and uh but i i want i felt like we were to do two things uh and and i don't want you to come forward on this first one because there's one there's no room for the numbers of people i'm talking about and two uh i don't want you to look to any person myself included i want us to believe that he wants to do something so big that the catcher becomes your chair and when the power comes you're not looking to having to be up here because you could be on the back row and god says i've got somebody on that back row i want to touch there's no way they could ever get up there and i want them to know that i can touch them and i believe that there's a generation of people who have not had their own experience of the power of god touching them with love to the point that they're just weeping with the love of god or the power they actually feel god's power in their hands or on their head or in their body or the glory to the point they feel heavy uh or the joy to the point that they're just overcoming laughter or the drunkenness of god and you've never had an experience with god like that you and you might say i've kind of been on the backside of the desert but i've come with an expectation and a hunger and i'm willing to burn the plow and i'm willing to go on when everybody else is saying stay i'm willing to look a fool for christ but i'm hungry and i want to know him and what i heard that god did 25 years ago i want to believing do it again tonight we don't serve the i was we serve the i am so first thing we're going to do is i want everybody to stand we're going to invite the power of god to come do not want you to come to the front seriously don't leave your seats i want you to hold your hands out like this i'm going to ask actually i'm going to ask ushers don't let anybody come up here so i really felt like seriously god said don't have them come up front now later we're going to do something different but this is this first invitation i want you to believe in touch of where you're at i want you to believe in he can send his angel to you your spirit can fall on you you don't have to come up here i'm trying to obey what i think he told me the whisper but if you really want to be renewed refreshed touched filled the spirit for the first time or the tenth time and you want to say yes to everything god has in your life and in your future then i want to give you 30 seconds to tell god what you want him to do to you and also to tell him it's not so much of asking him to give giving more of you as much as your willingness to give him more give him more of you so the ushers are going to keep everybody back nobody comes forward don't let anybody come forward not yet hold your hands out like this god we recognize that you're a great big god we recognize for 25 years you've been coming and touching people of all generations but lord there's people here there's a lot of hands this is all new to them i believe they're here because they're hungry thirsty i also believe there's some people here that they're kind of down and depressed or they're discouraged or their self-talk is they feel like i failed god in some way and and some judgment against themselves and i pray for you to come and so touch them with your love that you break their judgment against themselves and they're able to receive your refreshing love and your grace keep your heads up but your eyes closed your hands out take this is your time to pray tell god what you want him to do to you tell him what you'd like to do for him i remember before i went to see rodney i prayed this prayer god i'll go anywhere and do anything if you'll just touch me i prayed another prayer god make me a coin in your pocket and spin me any way you want just don't have to pray loud just underneath your breath that with your lips form the words you want to say with your lips you don't have to make a lot of noise or anything but tell him what you want him to do to you okay there's time to ask there's time to receive pay attention to your emotions and pay attention to your body we don't want any courtesy drops that's not god but neither do we want any resistance don't try to fall don't try to stand put yourself in neutral god i'll not do anything to resist you i'll not try to control my emotions i'll not try to stand up i feel the glory coming on me i'm just going to be totally yielded father in the name of jesus i bless the people there's standing here i bless them in the name of jesus and the authority of this name i call upon the holy spirit to come the great god the i am come and what you did 25 years ago you're still doing it come refresh the church release gifts god you said the first prophets i ever had on my life that you were going to use me to pray for people to see gifts activated in them and to be filled the spirit so it's god that whisper that prophetic word i believe it and so i call for people to be activated in gifts of the spirit especially the the ones that you put on their heart that they want i pray god for a fresh fire i pray for the anointing of your spirit i pray for the whispers of god i pray for the power of god i pray for the heat of god i pray for the electricity of god i pray for baptisms of love and baptisms of joy come holy spirit do again do again tonight do it again in jesus name release your power touch them touch them multiply your power in the name of jesus in the name of jesus multiply your power release your gifts in the name of jesus holy spirit more more more i feel like the lord just told me some of you you're the here's what you're sensing uh a team a trembling in your legs just like your legs are starting to shake now it's not everybody but some of you are feeling that now some of you i can actually see your whole body's starting to tremble but some of you are sensing a trembling in your legs and i just want to let you know hey that's the lord don't worry about it don't try and figure it out i know when he first touched me one time my thumb started jerking and i said i think i could stop that but i don't want to god just do whatever you want give him permission don't resist anything don't resist as he touches you some i feel he's going to break off shame guilt sense of failure depression others he's going to activate gifts in in the name of jesus i pray for your hands some of you are going to receive an anointing for healing and you maybe have never seen anybody healed before in your life but you're going to start and this is going to be the sign that he's giving you that you'll know that he's touched you and he's going to use you and anoint you and give you a healing anointing and gifts of healing is he's going to put fire power electricity energy gold oil on your hands it's going to be something in your hands and for others it's literally going to be a a weeping baptism of love because he's going to give you his heart for people is sickness and disease now every one of you that's feeling that love or that power in your hands in your legs lift up both hands toward heaven just lift them up if that's you if that's happening if that's not happening just keep them down like this god in jesus name i bless your presence i bless your presence god i pray in jesus name for there to be a glory come to your name because of what they do in your name and the power of your name activate and release a fresh new anointing and gifts in the name of jesus father thank you thank you i pray especially for anybody 40 and younger i pray a special grace to come upon that generation in the name of jesus those who may not have been here are old enough to remember and they have never had an experience but they've heard mom and dad or grandpa and grandma talk about it i pray god touch them and give them their experience in the name of jesus to reach their generation in the name of jesus more god more lord more lord more lord in the name of jesus in the name of jesus the name of jesus thank you god thank you lord listen closely steve you want to give some instructions to where everybody's going to go and then i and when they start to do that then i would like to pray for the senior pastors uh down here but after you've given instructions so everybody can be prayed for okay friends this is going to be fun we have uh 250 pastors and staff from the various catch the fire churches from around the world also over here wave your hands catch the fire people they come from almost every continent we have 60 prayer ministry team from this church at the back wave your hands per team some of these people have been praying for 25 years amen there's a gal named vivian that's in her 90s been on the team for 25 years wow that's who's going to minister to you tonight would that be okay and so all of our american friends that are here they're going to be praying in the room back here so those of you especially in this section over here we're going to encourage you that's the closest for you to go back into that room you'll find green lines on the floor and murray and ash you probably need to get the back there quick uh so that's where you'll go and the american folks are going to pray for you we have all of our brits our europeans because the brits are about to go out of europe uh and austria not not austria australia new zealand our church is there those folks are going to be praying inside the ark underneath the elephant and up on the upper level and so i my suggestion would be all of you that are in that area over there that's the closest place for you to be prayed for in those rooms and upstairs and the north american team uh sorry the canadian team and the south american churches we're gonna pray for you at the back and so can i ask all of you on a folding chair in the back can you pick up your chair fold it and then behind you you will see some orange markers on the wall that says put the chairs here and so it's real easy friends don't lean your chair put it flat on the ground you can do that right now just pick it up go to the back and we can go about 50 high make sure that the chairs are all facing the same direction that the seats up or down whatever it is that you start but if you folks can begin to do that and then a whole bunch of people are going to be able to go to the back there's also going to be one row and i'm going to suggest that those of you in the back three or four rows of the main section they're going to be one road that's going to go from a green line that's right near the post by the stairs uh to the post over here friends you need to it's in that area you need to be on a green line don't don't extend the line in patuity and think well if it was further on i'd be no have to be in that section just because of people movement you need to be on a green line and a whole bunch of you are not going to need to go anywhere because when randy's praying it's going to be right here you're just going to be staying in your seats and so those are going to be the three areas for prayer sort of four years from prayer back to the auditorium upstairs arc and our what we call our burning room or chapel room uh behind here so your choice and don't go yet don't go yet because randy's not done it yet and here's what we also need we need about 250 people to be catchers so a whole bunch of you folks here when you go back if you don't mind volunteering you'll see the prayer team all have a staff badge it's a blue badge or there'll be a prime minister team badge if a whole bunch of you can say i'll prefer others for a couple minutes help them if they're on getting to the floor same thing at the back our prayer team are going to be putting their hands up that means they're going to need a catcher they're not allowed to pray for you until they have a catch yourself some of you can give us 15 20 minutes and assist and here's here's what we've learned over 25 years those folks usually get far more because they're around it they're hearing every prayer and they're receiving all the stuff and so they just seem to get a lot so we're going to be having uh our prayer team when randy dismisses they're going to put their hand up find one of those people and again those of you going into the ark those of you going upstairs our prayer team are going to put their hand up and that means they need someone to help and you will be prayed for you won't miss are we good on that perfect so those of you sorry back in that area over there with those plastic chairs thank you for stacking them they can go against the ark or right by the green worm wall that would be great as well randy you're on there's no way i could have figured that out i don't have the gift of administration or organization we've done this for 25 years you guys are good i do want to say this to encourage you all the world i've gone and i've had people come up to me pastors of large churches like joseph garlington and many others they said i stood on a line and it wasn't anybody that had a name it wasn't you it wasn't bill it wasn't john it wasn't heidi it was just just little woman little gray-headed woman on the ministry team or this older guy just lay people or people and they gave them words they didn't know what it was they had prophecy for me there was such power god is committed in this move to honor that we all get to pray and so i want your faith to be in god not the age or the sex or whether they're full-time or ministry or not of the person that stands in front of you but in the god that they're praying in his name all right if you are a full-time senior pastor of a church i want to pray for you and everybody else can begin to go if you're not a full-time senior pastor you can go get start getting on a good green line somewhere but if you're a senior pastor i want you to stay in here and we're going to pray for you you still are seeing that's right you told me that that's right let's come on up to all the way up if you have a business card that says you're in ministry that's who we're talking about here not you're hoping to start a church someday and again those of you that would like um to help as catchers the prayer team are putting their hands up back here the prayer team will be doing that over there and then the room's behind and so find one of those rooms where you'd like to be prayed for and prayer team as soon as you have your catcher you can begin to do that okay hold your hands out and close your eyes father we're praying for the multiplication we're praying for multiplication we're praying for the pastors to receive fresh anointing to be able to carry this back to their church and to their pastoral friends in the name of jesus increase your anointing increase your anointing increase your anointing in the name of jesus more lord we bless them in the name of jesus more more god more lord more we bless him god bless terry in the name of jesus god refresh him afraid in the name of jesus more god more lord we bless them in the name of jesus we need a few more catchers that are going to be helping right up here if you can just come on up and help randy and marcus so just be ready those of you in the prayer ministry team as soon as you have someone who is there to help you we call him a catcher that's the person who stands behind and as soon as you have that person you're praying and importation friends tonight that's prayer team you're that's what you're ministering to you're just saying more holy spirit give them something to go home with give them something to change their community with change their church change their country with so holy spirit we welcome you to come right now welcome you to come those of you in the front i want you just to be pushing in for the holy spirit welcome his presence welcome his presence one of the most powerful encounters i had with randy was doing this kind of stuff i was in a in a different room watching on tv and just got it and so holy spirit we welcome you here all over this room holy spirit we welcome you we welcome you we welcome you holy spirit come holy spirit come holy spirit come fill us fill us fill us fill us come holy spirit come holy spirit come holy spirit calm holy spirit come holy spirits come holy spirit and again friends if you're haven't found a line i know that there's uh at the beginning there may be some of you just need to wait in the back to find a spot uh i'm not sure if there's still some space upstairs so maybe someone who's upstairs can just let me know if there's more room up there there's space over by the ark i believe for people to stand in lines by the ark and inside looks like there's a cue to get into the room behind spirit of god come holy spirit come spirit come welcome you here friends i know it's easy to sort of take a little sneak and see where randy is i don't know if you heard randy say it he's not the one giving away the impartation it's the holy spirit holy spirit come holy spirit come come holy spirit calm holy spirit okay is there more we're needing some more people to be acting as catchers in the upper room area the mezzanine level and so if you're up in that area and you can help the prayer team just for a few minutes and just uh prayer team put your hand up if you're upstairs put your hand up if you don't have a catcher or what i do stare someone down just look at someone and say can you come and help me and uh so those of you that are upstairs or if you're downstairs and you thought okay you know what i'm waiting here anyways i can help for a few minutes if that's you just go on upstairs find somebody's got got their hand in the air and prayer team if you're in the back area and you don't have someone to help you again put your hand up and can i just encourage those of you if you're standing and no one is praying for you and you're really feeling the holy spirit on you our encouragement is to just sit down is if you're feeling the holy spirit because if there's no one behind you there's no one behind you and we just want to make this a safe place so if you're feeling the holy spirit powerfully on you and no one's ministering to you just have a seat kneel down the prayer team when they come they'll lay hands on you you won't miss out spirit of god come holy spirit come holy spirit come on [Music] wow keep coming holy spirit keep coming holy spirit keep coming holy spirit for those of you that are waiting [Music] i want to encourage you to to wait i want to encourage you just as randy said to don't be striving don't be thinking well how long is this going to take holy spirit where are you did you pass me by don't think like that just position yourself to begin to receive welcome the holy spirit welcome his presence ask him to come and do something even if your your head doesn't understand it your body doesn't feel something to receive to receive to receive our founding pastor john arnott rarely ever feels the holy spirit on him and yet he's full of the holy spirit one of our pastors uh probably went 20 years before he felt anything in his physical body and yet when randy prayed for him in the very first meeting received an incredible release of the holy spirit to be able to give it away so holy spirit come he's here friends he's with us he's with us come holy spirit come holy spirit come holy spirit come holy spirit i absolutely appreciated randy's talk tonight my wife and i were that first servant that he talked about or we were about to be that first servant we were the opposite and we were about to leave the meeting that randy was at because it didn't make sense we were at the first extra holdover meeting with randy clark on a monday night day five and we're sitting in the back row and we're sort of the opposite of the story instead of staying like the first servant did didn't follow we were ready to bail out and we're putting our coats on because it was january 25 1994 and randy saw us putting our coats on and he skipped people at the front john arnott had said those people over there they're baptists and because of randy's background or whatever but randy ran down the aisles we're getting ready to bail out on the meeting and randy asked if he could pray for us and so that touch that sandra and i received that night was the very same as randy talked about his first experience it was a it was a touch of peace we'd gone through two church splits my wife was uh recovering from a nervous breakdown and god's presence came with us as we were about to run and we stayed so it's the opposite of the story the story that the guy stayed where he should have gone and we almost ran when we should have stayed and randy prayed for us they were so grateful and what we didn't think was a big deal was a big deal and the holy spirit same holy spirit friends he's here tonight the testimony of randy of just saying prayers like come holy spirit without him physically touching most people is that literally friends thousands and thousands of people are in the ministry today or have been propelled further into the ministry who already were in some sort of itinerary or pastoring kind of leadership role and most of the miranda never prayed for never touched he just welcomed the holy spirit randy carries something unusual in the body of christ that people can receive easily so holy spirit would you come again friends just be the best suggestion that i have is just to close your eyes and just to wait ask him to come don't be striving in it but be asking him to come ask him for more ask him for more i love the teaching of jesus in the new testament where he says that our father is not like earthly fathers and how much more of the holy spirit does he want to give away to those who ask it's simple friends if this is your first meeting and you're a little cautious and just wondering what's going to happen the teaching of jesus is that if you ask for bread you'll not be given a stone if you ask for the holy spirit this is the teaching of jesus if you friends get this if you ask god for the holy spirit you're not going to get anything other than the holy spirit you're not going to pick up a demon you're not going to be deceived jesus said my father is better than earthly fathers if you ask for bread you're going to get bread ask for fish you're going to get fish and then he said how much more does the father want to give away the holy spirit that's what jesus was saying in that passage do you want the holy spirit you get it you get it it's the father's good pleasure to give the holy spirit so wherever you are friends standing sitting lying down up at the front at the back at the sides come holy spirit come holy spirit just feel his presence friends feel his presence feel his presence fearless presence [Music] calmly he's here he's here he's here he's here randy didn't preach this part but i don't know if you noticed that when elijah first saw elisha and put his coat his mantle on him i don't know if you read it recognize it but when randy read that second passage a few years later guess who has the mantle back elijah's wearing it again and i find that fascinating that it would appear that elijah sort of gave away at the beginning an opportunity and then took the coat back and he's wearing it when he's off to heaven and it falls out of the sky and it would be like elisha knew even without the full impartation because he didn't get it that day he got a hope that day and that was enough for him to pursue and serve the prophet elisha did not get his anointing until the day that elijah died and so he was pursuing for years months whatever it was to get that mantle and perhaps he had a touch for the day the hour that elijah's coat was on him that that was enough to stir him to say i want more and he served elijah until the day he died and perhaps it was out of frustration of when am i going to get that coat when am i going to get that full impartation when am i going to get the fullness of that promise that i had maybe he was angry with elijah but he says you know for all that i've been through waiting i need double and so friends i think that's a good prayer and if you're feeling that you haven't had what's been promised just call out and say father i need it i have to have it some of you have been especially those at the front you've been faithful in ministry without the real release of the anointing of the holy spirit on your life you've been serving the lord out of obedience you've been preaching out of obedience you've been praying for the sick but really haven't seen the sick being healed friends i'd say you're like elisha waiting for that mantle to drop from heaven and holy spirit would you come holy spirit would you come drop that drop that anointing from heaven right here right now drop it may our friends be able to pick up more may they have double may there be a great release of anointing in this whole room everywhere in this room and those that are leaders and christian ministries at the front we bless all the prophetic words i don't know how it works but prophets seem to know who's in the ministry and so usually people functioning in the fight five-fold in a ministry sense usually get more prophetic words and i believe that that's because hope disappears very quick the hardness of ministry the the difficulty of serving people and loving people the challenges of being in the ministry require people in the ministry to have hope stirred up and stirred up and stirred up over and over and over and i want to remind you friends that hope is an appetizer for faith bible says in hebrews chapter 11 that faith begins with hope faith begins with a word a thought an impression god speaks a promise to you you read a scripture passage it jumps out and you just know that's for me you get a prophet that reads your mail sometimes and they prophesy that is to stir up hope but friends hope doesn't do miracles hope doesn't raise the dead hope doesn't heal the sick faith does that and faith is acting on a revelation that's what hebrews chapter 11 says all the way through you can you can discard the word faith in hebrews chapter 11 and substitute the word acting on a revelation and you'll just see every single story in hebrews chapter 11. someone had a word had a thought saw something and they acted on it they took their hope to another level they they began to say i don't feel that i have a healing anointing but i've been prophesied that and if you wait for the feeling to kick in you may be waiting a long time that the people that function in faith begin to pray for the sick when they don't feel it and they begin to do it and so daddy were asking that hope would be stirred up again hope would be renewed again hope would would come all over you tonight that the word of the lord would just come into your spirit you would know that you know he's with me the father's with me the father loves me his spirit is in my is in inside me holy spirit we welcome you come come come come come come come come come come

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Published: Fri Oct 02 2020