8-11-21 TAC Night 1 "A Letter From The Enemy" -Aaron Bounds

[Music] [Music] [Music] why don't we rise in anticipation of what jesus will do in this place tonight the bible instructs us to enter to his gates with thanksgiving in his courts with praise i think it would be fitting right now for every hand to be raised or clapping and every voice to be lifted up to give glory to the king of kings and the lord of lords in the name of jesus today lord we lift up your holy name you are mighty to do wonders in this place you are powerful to work miracles signs and wonders among us you give instruction tonight you give direction tonight you give impartation tonight we believe tonight revelation will come to hearts and minds we believe this night you will give understanding of things that are happening in our lives and around the world today we thank you today lord we thank you for your goodness we thank you for this gathering we thank you for this opportunity jesus we lift up holy hands jesus we bring clean hands and a pure heart before you tonight father in the name of jesus we ask that you but have your way that our will could be put to the side that your will could be happening in jesus name why don't you speak a word right now and prophesy into the earth of supernatural signs and miracles and wonders that you want to see in your city let it begin right here speak a word speak a thing say a thing so you can see a thing in the name of jesus we call upon that name that is above every name in the name of jesus we decree miracles and signs and wonders in this nation from the east coast to the west coast from the northern border to the southern border and above and beyond in the name of jesus we thank you today lord in jesus name you will speak tonight we will hear tonight we will respond tonight in jesus name we will obey we will decree things we will understand things we will receive things lord you're going to do mighty works you're going to do great things in our midst and we praise you for it and we take you forth in jesus name the bible says in acts chapter 4 verse 31 and when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the holy ghost and they spake the word of god with boldness i believe the word of god will be spoken with boldness but the number one thing to happen in the next 20 seconds is that we all are filled with the holy ghost would you stretch your hands towards heaven right now and in the name of jesus let that glorious spirit that god has given to every mankind to all of us that desire in the name of jesus right now we lift our hands and we lift our hearts receiving the holy ghost in the name of jesus in jesus name having to believe anything is possible when we call on the name of jesus in this house there ought to be a shatter praise in this place when we speak that name anything is possible mountains can move hallelujah y'all worship with us as we sing there is no shadow [Music] you've always been with us every battle you've already won you've already won [Music] there is no army with the power you've already won you've already won [Music] [Music] is possible show me one thing that's too hard show me is is is is [Applause] shake off despair as i sing out your name a victory dance i will dance out in faith i will crush disappointment and break every change shake off despair as i seek out your is show me anything is possible is tell me [Music] is is i know i know is is is is [Applause] i know miracles is is i said our god can do anything i'll release your faith in this house right now come on release your faith to see what god can do and will do i believe that god's gonna move mountains he's gonna move obstacles in opposition out of the way and do the very impossible in your city in your family in your faith and in your future in jesus name praise god praise god hallelujah does anybody feel faith in the house tonight i feel a faith in this house tonight we want to welcome all of you to this house amen i was sitting in the office the lord said open webster's dictionary i said what he's an old webster dictionary i opened it up and my eyes fell on worse and worse i said lord he said look in between them and in between worst and worst was worship and the lord said if we've gone through the worst but i'll tell you what to keep you from the worst if you're worshipped [Music] [Applause] go ahead look at it look at the dictionary it's there it's there between worse and worse is worship come on god hallelujah oh we've come to this house right now amen to lift him up and glorify his name and the man of god is going to come with the word a keynote word to all of us amen our son in whom i am well pleased hallelujah is coming to this pulpit tap your hand to give god praise right now hallelujah would you give god excellent praise for he is an excellent god praise him according to his excellent greatness praise him according to his mighty acts hallelujah to the lord would somebody shout to god with the voice of triumph hallelujah worship hallelujah you may be seated thank you for being at the apostolic conference 2021 i bless the precious people of god in the name of jesus and i honor each of you your dedication to god that has persevered through tough and turbulent times i believe that god has brought us to the kingdom for such a time as this and we are filled with confident belief that god who has begun a good work in us is able to accomplish it until the day of jesus christ i welcome each and every precious church planter and family to the apostolic conference may this week be for you a haven in the storm may this church become a sanctuary a reprieve from the contentious winds of human fickleness i believe god is going to revive and renew and restore each family that is here and god is going to do it because that's what our god does best god is passionate about his people he is passionate about humanity's deliverance god created people and he doesn't want them to go to hell he wants to deliver them so much so that he raised up a moses and tasked him with bringing his people out he contended with moses insecurities when he reminded moses who made the tongue it was moses who asked who am i and god reminded him certainly i will be with you and that's all you need to know god never answered moses according to his own ability god answered moses according to his ability and i want to tell precious people you have been matched with the hour not because you possess some kind of inherent strength but greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world you have been placed here now because of god's delight god determined that through declaration he would speak to the people about their deliverance and to the pharaoh he's god said to moses go preach to my people and go preach to the controlling spirit let my people go it wasn't just declaration but it was demonstration that god manifested to witness that it was really him that was orchestrating the deliverance what are we hearing we're hearing that when god gets ready to deliver there will be a preached word of god and there will be a demonstration of the holy ghost and that is the key to deliverance [Applause] amen i don't believe god has changed the same spirit to declare and demonstrate rest upon every man and woman of god here certainly god will be with you and that's all you really need to know you go and you preach you go and you witness you go and you declare and you believe that god has sent you he will show up and show out when god led them out of egypt he brought them to sinai and there god instructed he had instructions for moses concerning his tabernacle and this has been in my spirit for a long time he said about my tabernacle it will be a place of connection with man it will be a place of restoration and in exodus 25 40. it says seed to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain and that is resonated and reverberated in my spirit according to the pattern what is it that when what is it when we say all things apostolic we're saying according to the pattern that god showed us in the new testament that's who we want to be that's what we want to demonstrate according to god's pattern we must strive to build our churches according to god's holy word and i'm not going to iterate or reiterate to the point of being redundant we know what god's word says we know hero israel the lord our god is one lord we're going to declare that we know that it takes repentance and baptism in the name of jesus and the infilling of the holy ghost we're going to declare that if you've ever wondered about where we stand we stand on the pattern of god's word that's where our strength lies but here's what god's been dealing with me about while god tasked moses with building his tabernacle god kept to himself the privilege of building the man moses so god said moses you build my tabernacle but i will build you god is building in this conference his man and his woman he is building us according to his pattern he is shaping the way we think the way we act and the way we demonstrate why because it makes sense to god that if he's going to send us he's not sending us with our priests prefigured and preconstructed ideas he wants to make sure that we emulate what he wants us to emulate can somebody say man what i'm simply saying is that god has shaped my life through the voices of the men of god connected to this conference from its infancy apostolic men whose voice has given direction to hundreds of church planters men like david shatwell who taught me to always dig down jason don't dig upwards he said but condescend to men of lowest state he helped me to understand advancement in god's kingdom is not who you know above you it's who you help below you i said advancement in god's kingdom is not who you know above you it's who you help below you i want to help get somebody else into the kingdom of jesus christ i don't want to pull up on somebody's coattails i want to see god build people from lois state he preached messages like the tragedy of a wounded spirit and help men and women understand that you've got to forgive and you cannot minister effectively from a wounded spirit he taught me the difference between condemnation and conviction he told me to say i reject condemnation but i yield to conviction and i'm telling you it is powerful when the devil seeks to come in and and shut you down he'll condemn you hey man he'll try to get you to quit on the basis of you're not worthy enough amen if you'll just say that in your spirit or out loud actually i reject condemnation but i yield to conviction because god is going to help us i said god is going to build his man and his woman when you're around them you get the feeling they want you to make it more than they want to make it i want you to look at the video amen just for a second i want to see you do everything and be everything that god wants you to be i'm telling you i want it to happen as much for you as i want it to happen for me or more right i believe that i mean from the depth of my soul i want to see it happen right for you and you reach that city what you feel from them is that their desire for you to be successful is stronger what what is that it's it's the in it i want to i want to see you advance not my kingdom advance can i tell you that we are not of the egotistical proud arrogant people who compare ourselves among ourselves we are of those who prefer our brother we are of those who say i want you to make it i want you to be successful i want to see you build a church for jesus christ god is connected to this conference men and i give great respect like chester wright who gave through teaching a revelation amen of without me you can do nothing jesus said without me you can do no things so i started praying that i started earnestly praying god teach me what it means to literally be unable to function without your ability oh god teach me o god how to literally not be able to do anything except i call upon you first when you pray prayers like that get ready for god to remove your ability to be self-sufficient we must resist the desire to be self-sufficient and we must say god my sufficiency is in you alone my financial sufficiency is in christ alone amen my future is in christ alone he preached a message once clean wells in flowing water it birthed in me the understanding that god wanted me to flow and god wanted to flow through me rather than just to me amen the concept that i am a conduit not a container i don't want to be full of the holy ghost i want the holy ghost to flow through me i want it to be flowing through me constantly as a pipe connected to the eternal source who is god if that's your desire would you give god praise right now would you give god worship right now i bless the name of jesus who is king forever and i give you praise i don't contain god's presence i convey god's presence it flows through me pipes that carry water experience the moisture i know that's kind of self-explanatory but please hear what god's given to me as a revelation if you will convey the water of the spirit amen through you and you want a drop of water you want a hamburger you want something amen you want to buy something well you can go get it you can drink a drop but not every drop is for you to drink if everything that comes to you you think it's for you you're going to die experiencing the blessings of god and so when god brings a financial blessing into your life you say god is this for me or is it to flow through me to somebody else not every dollar that comes to you is for you i said not every dollar that comes to you is for you you cannot drink all the water that flows through you every dripping drop that comes to you is to flow through you so god has dealt with me that when god gives me some kind of financial any kind of financial blessing god said i didn't call you to make money i called you to make disciples i called you to make disciples you can't frustrate your purpose i called you to make disciples i'll take care of you come on somebody you cannot get caught up trying and frustrated trying to do something else [Applause] hallelujah men like brother mark morgan twinkle twinkle little star sailors that chart the course by the stars can you imagine their supreme frustration if stars move what was he saying in that message and i'm not meaning to recap i'm telling you messages that have literally been god tweaking and building me according to god's pattern i thought i wanted to be one way but god said no i don't want you that way i want you to be this way and i'm preaching to precious men right now that when you endeavor to do a work for god god will work on you to make you the man he wants you to be and sometimes he'll frustrate your anticipated efforts he will frustrate you why because he will contend with you and say i didn't call you to do that i called you to do this if you've never heard that message twinkle twinkle little star amen it's powerful i'm not going to tell you no more brother morgan you may want to preach it in jesus name the apostolic conference is literally a sharing of heartbeats for the king and his kingdom this is god's kingdom in fact the lord has instructed me that when i talk about this place i'm not to call it my church i'm to call it the kingdom of god in this location this is the kingdom of god in this location and god has other other locations and they are in your cities amen this is not my church as though i died to buy it it's god's church i gotta be careful how i classify what i'm doing [Applause] we cannot allow pride and human arrogance to try and thwart god's effort amen we're not here for our glory we're here for god's glory we're not here for our kingdom we're here for god's kingdom would you lift your hands to let the spirit of god seal that we're not here for our kingdom we're here for god's kingdom we're not here for our glory we're here for god's glory this is what we're here for is [Music] oh let your kingdom be built let your kingdom be established the holy ghost is settling that's it let it flow right now let the holy ghost flow right now by the authority of the word of god and the power of the name of jesus let the king of kings walk among us we submit to you god we submit to you god [Music] we submit to the king we submit to the will of god not our will not our will is sorrow kaye in the name of jesus in the name of jesus we submit to you god this conference [Applause] would you lift your voice would you lift your hands would you love jesus with everything inside of you i love you jesus my heart longs for you king you are my yeshua you are my god you are my savior you are the lover of my soul you are fairer than ten thousand to my soul you are beautiful god you are holy you are worthy you are great and greatly to be praised oh god there is no searching of your magnificence oh god there is no searching of your glory oh god you are infinitely beautiful and wonderful and i praise you hallelujah that's it church let's flow in the holy ghost for a little bit let's flow in the holy ghost this is what it is it's not about ego it's not about a show it's about jesus what does he want what does he desire what is his plan what he had told rick do it god according to your pattern according to your will according to your deep desire let us be moldable oh god shape us that's it church amen we're in the presence of jesus right now what more could we ask for what more could we seek for this is the goal of our gathering is to be in his house in his presence hallelujah i love you jesus i love you jesus this is the spirit of apostolic conference and i say that with great humility because there are many many many great conferences that god uses for his glory because it is his kingdom but i thank god that god allows us to gather together a man to weep with them that weep to rejoice with them that rejoice when i look at precious men and women who have committed themselves who have given themselves to go into a city and to pour out their heart their life who literally transformed their safety net into a casting net to reach the lost who say i may not have a retirement but if i can see the work of redemption done that's all that matters can i tell you that you matter to god and that you're very important to god's kingdom and i rebuke every lie of the devil of the devil who would tell you you're not important you are valuable to god and what you're doing matters and you don't need to stop you don't need to come down off the wall you're doing a good work this is the heartbeat that god has allowed to be communicated into my spirit and i thank god for this i want to close a man by literally letting you know that sometime back probably about eight years ago i absolutely became disillusioned with preaching and i know it may sound a little crazy amen but preaching to people from 25 feet away it became it did not excite me and i i needed something to excite me and and god literally i knew what it was it was teaching bible studies and god ignited in me a passion to teach bible studies because there is nothing like sitting across the table from somebody when their eyes get wide and they say i see it i see it in god's word there's nothing more beautiful than teaching a bible study oh god let us fall in love with teaching bible studies let me tell you and i'm closing just literally about two months ago a precious couple or a precious uh young couple in the church looking to get married said we need to do marriage counseling i said please y'all come on it may be about three months and they came in to be honest i was not prepared that day they walked in i said hey let's just talk get to know each other and as we sat down it began to come out i said have you ever been through a bible study the young man grew up in our church but it been lightly committed not as committed as he needed to be the girl he's dating had never been and so i said i've got a bible study i pulled out my exploring god's word i set it up i said in fact what do y'all got going the next little bit they said we're free pastor i said can i teach you the first lesson they said absolutely come to find out when we got done she had told him that day i hope we get to talk about god tonight and i hope he's got a visual aid i can look at i had my chart i told him a bible study and just recently we baptized her in jesus name and she got the holy ghost and they're coming faithfully and they're to get married there's nothing better than teaching bible studies it's remain standing it's all and how you see it you can look at our day and say it's a dark day or you can look at our day and say my god what an opportunity for the light what an opportunity for the light of jesus christ amen i'm telling you we are not here to focus on the negative we're here to pour faith into your spirit that god is still god and god has sent us to reach our city and god's going to use you and god's going to use you and god's going to use you every one of you if you're yield to the holy ghost how do you see it would you lift your hands and tell god i see faith i see my city i see harvest i see people being baptized in jesus name would you love god right now [Music] [Applause] [Music] my vision starts to change [Music] my city [Music] jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] oh i can [Music] filled with blessings is my [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] i speak in jesus name every distraction is [Music] jesus [Music] jesus is um [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] by resurrected power of jesus [Music] [Music] i see my family resurrected [Music] i've seen my family filled with blessings [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign resurrected [Music] i speak in jesus name [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you jesus for what we see tonight [Music] in second corinthians chapter 9 verse 6 this i say he which soweth sparingly [Music] shall reap also sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully seems very simple to me you want a great harvest so a lot of seed if you just want to get by sow a few seeds so when we sow sparingly or with great reservation we'll find ourselves reaping a little return however when we sow a bun bountifully or in abundance we reap in abundance in 2017 at the apostolic conference one of our north texas district missionaries brother and sister bradley berry they were here he told me today they had saved ten thousand dollars to invest in some land back home but in this meeting the lord spoke to them to give five thousand and if they would give five thousand that god would multiply it ten times so they obeyed two years later two years a man that they had been witnessing to for months sold his business and chose to pay his tithe to their church of fifty thousand dollars hold on they done in there they said well if he sold into this work why don't we teach a bible study they began to teach a bible study baptized he and his wife at their own swimming pool in jesus name and they are still a part of that church i'm telling you today that same prophetic voice is in this place tonight and if we'll listen to the voice of the lord will be testimonies just like this all across this room would you lift your hands towards heaven tonight and let's ask jesus to talk to us maybe we have intentions for some other money jesus we thank you tonight for your prophetic utterances and your word and we ask you tonight to speak to us you already know what we have need of you already know the needs of this meeting you already know the needs of every missionary you know the needs of every life and every soul and we ask you to speak to us tonight concerning this offering and we will obey [Music] everybody say in jesus name why don't we make a statement of decree in job 22 28 the bible says thou shalt also decree a thing and shall be established unto thee and the light shall shine upon thy ways upon the authority of your word i have given and it shall be given to me pressed down shaken together and running over i am a tither i bring my tithe today into your storehouse therefore the enemy is rebuked the curse is broken i live under an open heaven we pour out upon me such a blessing that there is not room enough to receive it we receive jobs and better jobs raises and bonuses sales and commissions benefits and settlements estates and inheritances interest and income rebates and returns checks in the mail gifts and surprises bills paid off debts demolished royalties received my whole family saved at walking with god perfect health and abundance to walk in divine favor and blessing i am blessed going in and i am blessed going out all that i do will prosper in jesus name amen if you'd like to give today through text to give you can text 732-56 and choose the apostolic conference front thank you for obeying the lord amen our way our ushers will serve you [Music] i have a short testimony that i want to give right quick before we sing this song and i hope i'm not out of place in doing this but it's been heavy on my heart on june 29th i was diagnosed with covid a week later i found myself in the er with shortness of breath being checked out a few minutes later the doctor came in and he said you are one sick little lady and i said no joke i was running 102.5 fever and it felt like i was trying to breathe through glue he you not only have pneumonia but you have double pneumonia and he said it's covering both of your lungs he said we're going to have to admit you i can't let you leave he said but we're going to treat you you're going to be fine so they rolled me back into the room and put me on oxygen started giving me breathing treatments and they looked at my husband and they said you have to leave you can't stay here and i said you mean he can't he can't stay with me no you can't have any visitors and you can't have any family with you they took my husband and they escorted him out and the door shut behind them and i was left in the pitch black darkness and i would love to tell you that i never once feared but i did i got a little nervous but i told god i said i know nothing happens that you do not allow job went through all he went through because god lifted the hedge but the devil couldn't touch him unless god lifted the hedge so i knew there was a purpose i did not have the strength nor the energy to sit up in that hospital bed and take authority and rebuke the spirit of fear and command sickness and infirmity to leave but this song i sang the sunday before i got covered the name of the song is i speak jesus i didn't have any strength to take authority but i would lay there trying to get my breath and i would go i speak jesus i speak jesus i speak jesus the next two days my x-ray got worse i'm here to tell you when you don't know what to do and you speak jesus into your situation sometimes it gets worse before it gets better but you continue to speak jesus it encompasses everything you don't have to take authority you don't have to call light down from heaven but the name of jesus there is all power in the name of jesus after two days of my x-ray getting worse the doctor came in there and he said i don't understand what's going on because i had refused to take the medication that they wanted to give me because i was not comfortable with what i had heard to happen to my friends that took it so i was dealing with vitamins and prayer and he told me he said you're crazy you're crazy i said i'm telling you god is going to heal me god is going to heal he came back he said your inflammatory markers continue to go down every day now i spent a week in the hospital but when i left there the doctor had no doubt god had touched me and every nurse and every nurse practitioner that i came in contact with has a church card and they know where i go to church when i left the hospital the doctor told me he said i want you to know your lungs the way they look now you're okay to leave but they dismiss me on oxygen granted it's been four weeks he told me he said you will not be able to walk and talk without shortness of breath for several months regular pneumonia is different than covered pneumonia you will not be able to do it just prepare yourself it's been one month god is touching my lungs i have sat here in the choir and i have sang and i have not gotten short of breath now my voice might not be a hundred percent but tonight i beg you don't hear my voice hear my spirit reach into you saying speak the name of jesus into your situation speak the name of jesus over your family speak the name of jesus over your health there is all power in the name of jesus [Music] i just wanna speak the name of [Music] peace jesus your presence i speak jesus [Music] i just wanna speak the name of jesus till every dark addiction starts to break [Music] your name is power your name is healing your break every stronghold shine through the shadows [Music] [Music] i just wanna speak the name of jesus jesus is [Music] [Applause] [Music] your your name is [Applause] [Music] jesus from the mountains [Music] jesus for my family i [Music] i speak the holy name shout jesus from the mountains jesus in the streets jesus [Applause] is break every stronghold shine through the shadows your name [Music] every is [Music] [Applause] jesus is is hello [Applause] me from is [Music] [Applause] oh let's give him praise hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah unto you jesus unto you jesus unto you jesus [Music] just a moment our speaker is going to be coming and announcing an up-and-coming service for this sunday our likely choice of verbiage would be come join us for outstanding worship and dynamic preaching and there will be a demonstration of the holy ghost but that's not what jesus did when he set forth at his ascension set forth the disciples to go terry instead he said go to the upper room in prayer terry the holy spirit will fall and then you will be witnesses it would be the equivalent of us saying come join us sunday morning for a time of prayer the spirit will fall and then we're going to go witness there's a difference between 500 showing up and 120. but the 120 that show up tremble to witness this is why when the holy spirit fell they poured out of the upper room it was their ambition it was who they were this conference is unique because you have sold all and purchased the field you stand here trembling to witness and to such an end it is the purpose of this conference to welcome a man to meet you at that demand pastor aaron and anthony bounds serve as senior pastor of the anchor church in zanesville ohio and they have since 2007 but the church not only thrives but under their leadership the anchor church has seven daughter campuses all seeking to be a witness it is for this moment that his passion meets your passion for the service of god that we might all be a witness let's give a warm welcome as he comes to preach the word for the vows [Applause] praise the lord everybody [Applause] that old song says sometimes the clouds hang low every now and then darkness comes around us i can't even see the road and i ask this question lord [Music] while so much pain [Music] oh but he knows what's best for me [Music] even when i cannot cannot see god has been good to me i won't complain for god's been good to me he's been so good to me how many can testify and say more than this a world could ever be always so good to me [Music] his spirit came to me and gave me victory [Music] god is so good to me i won't complain [Music] let's love him today hallelujah [Music] hallelujah come on let's praise him all over the building hallelujah thank you jesus thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord darkness has tried to come but darkness going to leave before this conference is over the sun is going to shine bright you're going to have clarity and direction victory and power fervor and strength i want you to look at your neighbor and say victory's coming to you in this meeting tonight somebody shout glory for victory is mine victory is mine oh victory today is mine for i told satan to give oh thank you jesus a victorious night oh victory is mine your victory today is my [Music] oh victory is my victory singing tonight oh victory today is mine for i told i wish somebody would do it right now victory is mine i'm having victory in [Applause] [Music] my victory is my [Music] there [Music] victory oh sister sister dylan many years ago you you walked up to me and two of my buddies at a youth convention we just loved you and and bishop dylan he'd come to west virginia and preach he would stand on top you remember that west virginia camp platform is the highest in upc history it's way up here he would climb up on the top of that i preached to all those young people he preached about the power of the blood you talk about killing the weeds and the craps of the sower i'm just a teenager we love your preaching i'm just going to tell you right now where i can you're my type of preacher i'm just going and sister dylan but she said to me she said you boys need to start praying for your wives right now got to keep them and protect them well i took you seriously next year i'll be married 20 years hey man [Applause] we got four children i have a daughter that graduated she but when she was about two and a half she was she was born with a little fire in her name's laken somebody take her toy she'll pour her own hair out i thought she needs a holy ghost can you say hey man i mean parents know what i'm talking about and i'll never forget one day i heard her scream from the bedroom sister dylan and it just happened to be that day that i heard about some kid that got eaten up by a dog and had 50 stitches and we were watching my sister-in-law's dogs that day and i thought oh my goodness the dog has attacked my kid you know what i was thinking dog home i ran into that room and when i got into that room surprising to me is that the dog had a hold of the head of her baby doll and she had a hold of the feet and they were playing tug of war and she started saying no chloe that's mine no chloe that's mine finally she won jerk that baby dog all two and a half years old of her screaming all the way a little girl can she jerked it out of that dog's mouth but she didn't just get back with the dog we're trying to take and she chased that dog through the house when the dog got in the corner she hit that dog right in the head you know what she was saying i'm not just gonna get back what you're trying to take from me i'm gonna make you wish you'd ever mess with [Music] now it's the first night of apostolic conference we are holy ghost field water baptized washing of blood we're not going to lose we are the victorious people i wish everybody for just a few moments would get out and sound a victory it doesn't matter how you feel god's going to make a way come on make a joke for lord inside [Music] come on everybody the building shout for a minute there's victory there's victory there's victory hallelujah chains are breaking mountains are being moved jesus come on i want everybody to shout jesus just as loud as you can look at your neighbor and say the devil's had a bad day [Music] we are the church [Music] i'm just going to take a few minutes and be myself here right now it's been through the flood my uncle used to sing back in the hills of west virginia he would sing has been through the flood but the flood couldn't drown it it's been through the fire but the fire couldn't burn it i'm talking about the church the book of revelation it's built on a rock it's a firm foundation it's been to the flood it's been to the power of one of these days it's going up somebody's shot is going up higher go climb your hands and praise him [Music] [Applause] [Music] ezra chapter four ezra chapter four i feel better so much better tell me about this come on since i laid my burdens down you're about to lay some sickness down you're about to lay some fear down you're about to lay some inside you're not going to leave this building the same way you came tonight something's gonna happen in this building [Applause] look at your neighbor and say i feel victory [Music] every hand lifted i open one hand lifted i open to the lord i want you to tell the lord i'm sorry for being negative [Music] you know i'm telling you the truth [Music] i'm sorry for believing facebook i don't mean for y'all to say it amen i just i'm just saying what you what you needed to say amen i'm sorry for believing in mainstream media [Music] there's one we got to repent of right now i'm sorry for believing the report of the devil whose report [Music] man i know i'm in the south somebody shout i will believe the report of the lord well that's what i'm going to preach tonight clap your hands and praise him as we get into the word [Music] ezra chapter 4 verse 23 i give honor to bishop dylan his family pastor dylan thank you for preaching i love this message you know when i committed my life at age 16 dedicated and sold out i just didn't want to go to hell but i never dreamt to be this good it's the best life amen to all of our elders i honor you here today our missionaries our global missionaries our north american missionaries you are my hero my dad and mom have given their life to church planting since 1990 they're planning their fourth work right now my dad is 66 and my mom's none of your business [Music] i love you there's nothing like the church of jesus christ [Music] amen to my friend of angela shane burns so glad you're here tonight thanks for being here with me ezra 4 23 now when the copy of king artaxerxes a letter was read before rehome and shim shayi the scribe and their companions they went up in haste to jerusalem unto the jews very happily went to the jews and made them cease by force and power to stop building the church the temple of god stop it's mandated by the government no more church building what it was then ceased the work then ceased the work of the house of god which is at jerusalem so it ceased into the second year of the reign of darius king of persian now you have to know that it's listing a time of the second year the king of the reign of darius for a reason it's it's time sensitive and i'd like to preach to you for just a moment is just a letter from the enemy everybody say a letter from from the enemy how many of you here have a letter from the enemy with you would you would you hold it up right here yeah we're going to tear that up before this is over i'm just going to tell you we're going to shred this piece of paper everybody say a letter from the enemy you may be seated a letter from the enemy i think to understand the narrative here tonight is why did the work of god cease i uh at the beginning of the year i sort of sort of toward the end of last year i took took a journey through the scripture uh studying prophets brother chatwell had talked to me about reading some of the book of the prophets and i saw a dove in it and i'm a slow reader and so i dragged my feet through the scripture amazing what happens is when you walk through slow through scripture and they sometimes would check off the box and we really don't know what we read even so much sometimes we go back the next night and read and it takes about six or seven verses do we realize we already read that the night before and there's a witness of the spirit amen and i i just read slowly through jeremiah and i read chronologically through the book of jeremiah and then ezekiel and daniel and i jumped from daniel and i went to ezra and ezra and the nehemiah even into esther and in the book of ezra i stopped and went to the book of haggai and zechariah chronologically in time of trying to learn what was going on and jeremiah prophesied he said better submit to nebuchadnezzar and go on to babylon and just you're going to go there if you don't he's going to come and get you and take you there destroy your houses everything will be ruined they didn't listen to him what happened is three invasions later you'll find that the children of israel have been taken by captivity into babylon or also what was known as persia esther records that there was 127 provinces really nations those provinces had kings and artaxerxes or cyrus or one of them whoever at the time would have been the king of kings of that entire land mass of what was mostly of the known world why were they scattered why did god send a prophet to say you're getting out of jerusalem the city where i put my name i'm going to tell you why because the city of jerusalem was no longer a place where the name of god was reverenced it had become a melting pot of world religion when you look in kings and you'll find that that solomon had built really probably one of the wonders of the world he and queen of sheba drove a thousand miles without a plane to train her automobile to get there and she said the half was not yet told me and it was beautiful but before it was over with he he he fell in love with outlandish women and and they say he was wise the bible says he's wise but he had 700 wives and 300 concubines and you wonder you want to say what are you thinking but the reality is is he's he's joining legions with other nations by marrying their their princesses and nations are gathering and instead of keeping it pure and true and what god wanted he started compromising his truth to be accepted it was it was now it was now a place where you could look over here and there's a there's a temple to escalan and to bell and world places and now there's not just the name of one god being worshiped it's a melting pot of all the idols of the world that are now represented there it's a melting pot of world religion and it made god sick for he said i am a jealous god somehow his favor went to his head and he started trying to please the people instead of keep true with god and in my prayer today i just feel just a moment at the beginning of this message to tell you that you have to be very careful how you label success i'm so glad that i'm in a building that's this nice and i i give honor to the leadership here i rejoice with you but if you missionaries aren't careful you will look at this building and look at your storefront and feel like if we're not careful that we will judge our success by how many people are in attendance and when our brother or somebody asks us we haven't seen since two years because covey and we walk up and they say how you doing oh i'm doing great how many of you running now don't ask a missionary that they're going to give you their easter attendance as every other pastor that has pastored for decades let's just be real here for a minute and we start comparing ourselves among ourselves on what a success and if we are not careful we will see people that have connections in their communities they're serving on all these boards they're accepted by the community i'm not against that but that's not what god has called us to do we're not here to build buildings we're here to see conversions you can have a crowd with no converts i'm just going to hit it and i'm going to get on but we cannot become people that just honor ourselves and how many people are in the i realize 120 on the day of pentecost i realized 3 000 right into the church i realized there's a book of numbers but you got to stop judging yourself according to what everybody else is doing god's caught us to preach the gospel and it's the gospel that makes converts we cannot change the message to keep up with somebody we we cannot change who we are just have some financial status of somebody else i come to preach you you hold on to the gospel you hold on to the apostolic message [Applause] somebody shout amen by the truth and sell it not can i just stop here and say that the gospel still works the power is in the seed and you will preach it with love you will see repentance hold on a minute i believe in people getting baptized and people getting the holy ghost but when's the last time you celebrated somebody repenting i rarely ever see a tweet or whatever about we had five to repent tonight but when you would always talk to my dad he would tell how many repented how many got baptized and how many got the holy ghost because the acts 2 38 message is repent and be baptized every one of you can i say here tonight repentance steal matters repentance is what brings conversion we've got to have we've got to have repentance bishop right i'll never forget the message he preached on the gift of repentance impacted my life and changed my life forever my dad's preaching for me tonight in zanesville i tuned in before church here tonight and he was preaching on stopping by the church on your way to hell that's frank bounds for you right there that place was roaring in there repentance matters and if we're not careful we'll become like solomon that we attain to a place of favor and then we lose what god has started and god said i can't stand it anymore and he hit them with nebuchadnezzar a heathen and it scattered them all over persia jeremiah told it what happened ezekiel was the prophet during it you see daniel talks about at the end of it and how we're going to get back to where it began i feel my witness here tonight ezra is the scribe the man of god that the lord called to lead the people back on the first uh the first going back to jerusalem everybody say get back to jerusalem ezra brings them back and we find the book of ezra that talks about going back to dua to build the house of god why because solomon's was destroyed and if there is going to be a gathering back to jerusalem it only sounds wise that the first thing that we do is build the house of god somebody shall build the house and they do they do and they have a carpenter he is a governor as well his name is aruba and he is building the house of god chapter three tells us that when they built the foundation of the house of god that you can discern the noise between the elders crying and the youth praising and shouting the young men shouting there was a noise that went out when they celebrated just the foundation was built the walls weren't up there is no rooms that's built it's just a foundation and somebody say they shouted when they shouted the noise spread something's going on in jerusalem it sounds like a revival when revival begin to be allowed in the city guess what happens the enemy shows up the enemy shows up and says we would like to come and help you build the house of god but zerubbabel discerned that they weren't there to help they were the only there to distract not everybody that comes to your church is gonna be a help listen to me not everybody that comes and has a little money in their pocket has no influence in the community is coming to help you build that work they might be coming there to stop you from doing what god has called you to do we just can't be numbers people and i'm not against numbers but we've got to get back to a place of discernment and realize is this of god or is this not of god i've had people to say they wanted to come and help me and they didn't do anything but drain me and when paul went to macedonia because he had a vision from a man that said come and help us and he gets there and he has a prayer meeting and lydia is converted guess who shows up a woman of divination and she says these are the men of god which bring us the truth she spoke with flattery but she had a bad spirit i want you to lift your hands in this room and i want you to ask god to give you a discretion everybody i want you to lift your hands and say god i'm asking you to give me discretion [Music] help me discern those that have come to help me from those that have come to hurt me somebody say amen now my voice is very weak tonight for some reason i don't want to be misinterpreted i'm not against celebrating people receiving the holy ghost but we've got to hold on to our apostolic truths and realize that if god called me to that city there is going to be a breakthrough and i don't have to compromise on one thing to see it happen not one thing come on you keep praying you keep fasting you keep preaching and you keep reaching and god's going to give you the breakthrough some of you are going to have some things to happen this week it's going to happen back home while you're here because the prophetic spirit is going to come over you and you're going to speak life where there's been death i'm telling you it's going to happen tonight [Applause] the foundation is built everybody shouted started and the foundation is laid he deserves that they're not of god that they're there to do nothing but distract when they do when he rejects them they write a letter in ezra 4 and 11. it's right here i want you to get your letter out tonight if you have it i roll it up so it'll look like a scroll are you with me and this is the letter thy servants the men on this side of the river and at such a time this is a letter to artaxerxes be it known to the king that the jews which came up from thee to us are coming to jerusalem everybody shout they're here building the rebellious and the bad city and have set up the walls thereof and join the foundations be it known now unto the king that if this city be builded and the walls set up again then will they not pay toll tribute and custom and so thou shalt in damage the revenue of the kings let me just work it this way if you let them build the church it's going to harm what's been going on almost sounds true because something does happen when you build the church he said now because we have maintenance from the king's palace and it was not meat for us to see the king's dishonor therefore have we sent and certified the king that search may be made in the book of the records of the father so shalt they'll find in the book of the records and know that this city is a rebellious city and hurtful unto the kings and provinces and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time for which cause was this city destroyed we certify the king that if this city be built again and the walls there have set up by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side of the river signed the enemy if you let it continue it's not going to be what you want search the record and you know what happens artaxerxes search the records and in the records what he finds is what they say it is almost an element of truth because they did rule the land when they were right with god they did have dominion and every city wanted to come and be like them it was a it was the kingdom of god upon the earth and our deserts he searched the records and it seemed to be similar what they were saying and he sent word back to them and he said tell them to stop building the house of god and they ran with haste to say to them stop stop what you're doing you can't have church you don't build this you got to stop what you're doing this is not going to go forward it's done has it been easy no i'm not comparing governments here but has it been easy to plant a church during kovid somebody told me corona men king i think corona means inconvenient uncertain are y'all with me but it seems like for a minute that church growth has stopped church services have stopped and the bible says and the work of god ceased that's how chapter 4 ends but it's not over because chapter 5 verse 1 says then the prophets haggai the prophet and zechariah the son of idol prophesied unto the jews that were in judah and jerusalem in the name of the god of israel even unto him when the letter was written the lie from hell and the work of god ceased it did something to the prophet the prophets came alive and the prophets started prophesying it's not over get up and go build that church get up and build that church it is gonna be finished don't you stop working don't you stop praying don't you stop it is somebody shout they started prophesying and you know what they prophesied and i feel like tonight that there's going to be some prophecy going on in this room because some of you feel like it was over i just come to tell you it was just a delay it's not over it was just delayed and it's only going to be delayed i want everybody to jump up on your feet and shout it's not over it's just delayed [Applause] look at your neighbor and say it's not over it's just delayed the vision will be filled the church will be finished the work of god will be established god's name will be in that city he called you the devil's doing everything he can to stop a bit he can't stop the church somebody shout it's not over it's just delayed clap your hands and praise him for a few seconds [Applause] how many why here are the prophets prophesied how many want to hear it when was it ceased in the second year of darius so haggai chapter 1 starts in the second year of darius the book of haggai and the book of zechariah were written when the letter was believed when the letter had an effect there's some lies going around but you got to make up in your mind you're not going to believe the report of the enemy there's people in your churches that have said things on facebook about your church and you step back and you started believing it there's some things that were said on social media there are some things that were said in your community but you can't believe what the enemy is trying to get you to believe you're going to finish it it will come to pass god's going to do what he said is going to do and he's going to finish the work that he began if you believe it i want you to shout hallelujah come on everybody jump your feet and take a minute and shout to the lord in the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] wednesdays might have been a little slow but god's going to bring miracles on your midweek bible studies i was teaching the other night and randomly started talking about miracles i'd seen withered hands healed a leg grow things that i would dreamt of it as a kid when missionaries were talking about blinded i was in the middle of a bible study just started talking about miracles all of a sudden on the front row this lady started moving a commotion they got excited started crying a first-time guest after church her sister came to me and said i have to tell you what happened when you were preaching i said what happened she said you know the lady that jumped off the bridge there and had tried to take her life in town i said yes i heard about that and she said well that's my sister she's here tonight she has one leg shorter than the other because of the that caused by that accident she said but when you said the name of jesus and started talking about the miracles that god was doing she said instantly her leg straightened out as the other because there's still power in the name of jesus i just like you can't wait on everybody that's staying home to get back to church to have a good sermon and to have a good service there's people coming that are hungry that want what you have brother huntley taught us he said if you wait to preach your greatest message on your biggest to your biggest crowd you'll never preach it it doesn't matter if there's two or three preach it believe it and you'll see it clap your hands and shout here today [Applause] haggai says something like this then came the word of the lord by haggai the prophet saying is it time for you oh you dwell in your sealed houses and this house lie waste he said the time has not come the time has not come the time that the lord's house should be built why are you saying those things so in chapter two he says something like this yet now be strong look at your neighbor and say be strong o zerubbabel be strong two years ago bishop i stood right here and preached the same service and i preached on despise not small beginnings and i talked about home missions growing up in a homeless church i talked about zerubbabel with the plumb line in his hand and always got the foundation and he's discouraged and he's trying to figure out what his next move is anybody ever been there come on one two can i get real come on i'll season churches that are seasoned i'm in a church next year will be 80 years i'm the third pastor in 80 years and there are some sundays what's my next move discouraged church builder and he's holding a plumb line in his hand a plummet scripture says zechariah 4 what am i going to do i can't build i didn't understand then what i have received now i have no one i'm going to preach in this service since january sister dillon since january i knew what i would preach tonight and i found out why it was discouraged because he's trying to build a church when the letter he received said he had to stop and he's wanting to build and he can't his hands are tied he's been told no it's not there you can't do it but when he was told no and he's discouraged somebody to the kingdom that can hear from god showed up come here brother watts he showed up and he looks at him and he tells him he said oh be strong old zerubbabel so i shall be strong he said he said for i am with you saith the lord two months of no church but i'm with you and it's not over come on kobe it is not going to hurt you there's going to be a propelling out of this meeting tonight it will happen he said be strong he goes on he said i'm going to shake the nations and the desire of all nations shall come i will fill this house with glory saith the lord of hosts the silver is mine and the gold i wish somebody would prophesy that right the silver is mine come on i wish some of you believe it jump up say the finances are on the way god's gonna make a way come on i said god's gonna make a way somebody shout the silver belongs to god the gold belongs to god he said it's gonna be yours if you'll believe it it's not going to be the way it used to be it's just the endtime church and going to be like it used to be that's not what the lord said he said the glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former saith the little host and in this place will i give peace said the lord of hosts i've come to preach you tonight it's going to be greater than even you could have imagined but you can't stop you got to keep working you got to keep building you've got to keep reaching come on clap your hands and shout amen i'm going to put it in short version he said and i'm going to run every heathen away from you everything that's been attacking you i'm going to run it away from you you will finish it you're going to finish the work if you believe it shout amen so when zechariah starts prophesying in the second year of darius he starts prophesying and zechariah when they stop the work of god zacharias starts seeing stuff [Music] and the thing that he saw for zerubbabel was he saw the seven-tier golden candlesticks in the new testament in revelation that's the churches of god and zuru zechariah sees the church and he sees olive trees golden pipes with oil flowing to it and he asked the prophet what do you see he said i don't understand and he just sort of words it this way notice thou not what these be i said no my lord then he answered are you all ready then he answered and speaking of me saying this is the word of the lord unzerubable saying not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the lord of hosts [Music] [Applause] who art thou o great mountain [Music] that thing that's standing between you and a breakthrough who do you think you are you're gonna be made a plane before this meeting is over it will [Applause] [Music] [Applause] somebody shout grace [Applause] then the hands of zubab have laid this foundation to this house listen to mr rubble as the prophet prophesied zechariah he said his hand shall also finish it and thou shalt know that the lord of hosts has sent me unto you for who hath despised the day of small things all i've got's a storefront oh i've got to bible study oh i've got some application filled out all i've got is a is a christmas crash grant all i've got could i tell you what god put in your spirit he's going to fulfill it is going to happen i've come to tell you it's not stopped it's just delayed it's not stuff and if you will receive it tonight you're going to feel a spirit of impartation come over your spirit god's going to put some fire i want you to lift your hands and say let me feel [Music] let me feel the prophecy of your scripture he [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] he had i'm not denying that you're not having tough times but in the midst of this three hebrew children that would not bow were thrown in a fiery furnace but under pressure they did not compromise they stood and god showed up and a decree was made by the king the god of the hebrew children is going to be the god of this nation come on daniel was putting a lion's den but the lions couldn't eat him come on is there anybody here that's had some struggles before you got to this meeting i come to tell you you are not going under you're about to resurrect an apostolic power [Applause] [Music] take your hand like this so it's getting ready turn around so you know what they did they started believing the prophecies they got up and started working as if there was no decree they just went back the elder of israel started building started having church started doing what they're supposed to do they did they started teaching bible studies thank you for teaching bible studies i teach a bible study to family every wednesday night at six o'clock before church i'll teach a bible study as long as i'm alive keep teaching bible studies you got to keep building you got to keep working just don't sit back and when they believed the prophecy and started working they get another letter a letter comes in the mail that opposes that one and said we went back and have checked the records and cyrus already made a law cyrus wasn't just a king he's the king of kings and he said this you leave those jewish people alone you let them have access here it is to all of the gold and all of the silver of the land that's what he said all the gold and all the silver of the land is going to belong to them he said i want you to help them don't you oppose them and if you oppose them we're going to take wood from your old house and we're going to hang you on i come to preach to you if you were just going forward motion there is going to come the blessing of the prophecies i just want to know has anybody in this room received a word from the lord over the work that you're doing raise your hand run up here if you've got a prophecy you've got a word over the word run up here [Music] you went because you had a word hasn't happened yet but there's a prophecy over here some of you that haven't got a word are getting ready to get the word in the next 10 minutes [Music] i come to tell you what the holy ghost has told me when they believed the prophecy [Music] i want you to look at your neighbors say you're not going to you're not going under this is going to be your best year yet i wish somebody turned around speaking the devil said one thing [Music] [Applause] it's going to be your best year come on i want you to turn around and prophesy to somebody it's going to be your [Music] come on press closer i want you to get closer [Music] come on all you missionaries right up here missionaries kids i've been praying for you today you believe the hand of god is on your life do you believe it lift your hands you believe the hand of god is on your life lift your hands and receive the lord every family go ahead and lift your hands and receive the lord [Music] economy [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] i want everybody in the room [Music] lift your hands to the lord and receive of his spirit right now [Music] so [Music] so [Music] tired [Music] i want you to speak it to me [Music] i want everybody to stop praying i want you to listen there's a few things in this room one of the things that we're dealing with right now one of the things is there's a spirit of infirmity dealt with sickness it got got your attention so much that it it brought a spirit of infirmity into your life listen i walked up to a young preacher please hear me walked up to a preacher in our church sick over and over and over again pray for him call him not a church powerful young man father the holy ghost spoke to me i walked up to him i said you have a spirit of infirmity you are not sick at all they will never diagnose you i said you have you're dealing with a spirit i said god's going to deliver if you believe what i'm telling you is true he was instantly delivered he thought he was going to die some of you are dealing with a spirit of fear somebody somewhere said something and you believed it and you have forgotten about the prophecies that brought you to where you are [Music] i want brother morgan to come i want him to tell you what is in his spirit but there is listen tonight's going to be the start of it but there's going to be a reminding of prophecies they're going to be a stirring of prophecies and faith is going to hit this building like it's never happened before come here bishop paul writes his first letter to timothy put in the house of the lord in order second letter he writes it's very apparent that timothy has given himself over to a spirit of fear ephesus everything that had gone on there he was intimidated by it and so this is finally what the apostle paul told him he said now concerning the prophecies that went before on thee i want you to remember them that thou by them midas war a good warfare the enemy is trying to strike fear in our hearts but we need to go to war for our prophecies you need to fight for your prophecy tonight you need to open your mouth right now and go to war against every spirit of fear affliction intimidation [Applause] every go to war go to war for it you're not taking my prophecy you're not taking my word [Applause] i go to war right now in the spirit god's not a man that he should lie [Music] [Applause] that's here go to war for it [Applause] get bold about it tonight go after it in the holy ghost right now that's it in the name of jesus start remembering the prophecies stir up the gift that's within you stir it up stir it up you stir it up stir up the gift [Applause] oh don't stop war for it war for it go to war for it i remember what god said i remember the tongues of interpretation i remember the word i got in prayer i remember the prophecies that came you're not going to take them from me i don't care what kind of letter you write i don't care what you say my god reigns here tonight the king that spoke it did not lie it's a royal decree jesus name i challenge you to join with as many as you can right now and pray in the holy ghost we're going to war for the word of the lord we're going to war for the prophecy [Applause] [Music] [Applause] help them stir it up [Applause] let that old prophecy that's almost become dormant let it be stirred up tonight i said let it be stirred get it back in your spirit get it back in your heart am i going to give up this prophecy [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] come on war for that prophecy right now everything in you with all your hearts with all your soul with all of your minds [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] so [Applause] [Music] i [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] my um [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] you

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