The Commander: Brownsville Revival- Steve Hill. 7-5-1997.

I was watching a Fox television about 20-minute program on this Revival's excellent program and uh just awesome they were in here filming us and it was just it was a great program that they did and Fox Network has really treated the revival right and and they were interviewing they interviewed a theological president of a theological school and and he said well I don't really believe that all that you know and he started talking about emotion and you just felt the dryness and I love everybody for EM but you felt the dryness and then right after that they interviewed a gang member [Applause] and he said he stood on that and this went out all over the country man he goes he goes I was stealing I was stealing your car man I was robbing people I was shooting drugs but I came to Brownsville and Jesus set me free hold [Applause] good [Music] [Applause] it's girl right this is Methodist for those of you then this girl can out-jump any Pentecostal in this room I I promise you can you do that for me can you do a flip in the air can we like to see her out jump you go I'll do that right here yeah well [Applause] I promise we'll call him down in just a minute but I was I was watching I was looking around and I saw a 2001 who was bound for 27 years in alcoholism going crazy here tonight just it's been sent free for six months Teresa I look over here how long has it been now Teresa 2 years God set her free from drugs yeah dick you said you can you jump backwards like that you know break [Applause] you get out of here how about you sister what's God delivered you from yeah she was in gangs for four years drugs alcoholism friend what do you think just one more time when I think what would you rather have what would you rather have these folks out there stealing you know if you can't get excited that's okay but let everybody else get excited well one more time when I think of his goodness and what he's done for me [Music] [Music] I want to shout [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] I'm dry here thirsty [Music] Senor see your Lord I need your touch see the rain [Music] learn - robot Oh [Music] laughter small [Music] - a thirst no more cheese [Music] Lord I need so you let this be your prayer right here please forgive my [Music] with her snowball [Music] hungry after you lord you want everything you have with Jesus through this dried weird [Music] see you lor we need to touch not really [Music] let it rain let it go from heaven let it ride to revive a soul we need your you're [Music] let it rain [Music] to this dry [Music] Lord we need your touch [Music] CUA let it right all car sensation all across this nation [Music] we need you [Music] [Applause] [Music] with her [Music] we thirst no more long see revival to our schools Lord Jesus set the holy sexuals pretty long keep your hand [Music] you can to us a man very nature God here's for our iniquities as you hung upon the cross but God exalted you to the highest place and gave to you the right to bear the name above all names [Music] name of Jesus we shall pass [Music] every time that you are when you call me [Music] and [Music] [Applause] [Music] we girlie wait the coming of the day glory of the risen King will shine upon the the rival Thrones were far [Music] supreme forty [Music] [Music] you [Music] all his splendor and majesty [Music] Kinki not ah [Music] No [Music] whoa [Music] whoo - boys - the [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] holy No [Music] gee [Music] to sing the name of Jesus [Music] risen and exalted one [Music] it's all [Music] she I love [Music] I love the name of Jean no other name but Jesus to me paulien Anointed One [Music] [Applause] [Music] CGT gee [Music] little noisy warning No gee [Music] your hands for 30 seconds and tell him you love him on Saturday night open your mouth from your belly what you praise [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah that's it one man with one voice Jesus we love you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah fifteen more seconds which appraised in Jesus we love you we worship you [Music] hallelujah whoa [Music] hallelujah Booya hallelujah now one more time would you give him a resounding round of applause clap your hands olya people shouting to God with a voice of triumph Jesus we worship your Saturday we worship you we worship you we worship you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah hallelujah [Applause] hallelujah Lauren hallelujah [Applause] please God god bless you tonight you may be seated samadhi anointing in this place we're so glad you're here tonight how many is here for the very first time tonight let me see your hand amen we welcome you give them a hand of appreciation and welcome I'm across the nation and around the world for over two years now people have been coming here and the reason they've been coming is because of the presence of God that's in this place the glory of the Lord is still the greatest drawing card there is jesus said if you lift me up he said I will draw all men and to me evangelists the pastor the team over two years of guarded this revival it's not about personality denomination finances it's about something greater it's about the Lord Jesus Christ and ladies and gentlemen my heroes have never been magic J or Michael J or oj or dr. J but I love the mighty J how many loves Jesus amen hallelujah and so we're here to exalt him and worship Him and as we move into the service and I don't want you to open your heart and obey God as we receive the offering and the needs are great but God knows the needs I'm going to ask you to participate and simply obey the Lord obedience is better than anything in this world obedience is better sacrifice the Bible says I wrote a poem some years ago that goes something like this blessed for the best or curse for the worst the choice is yours today the difference is whether you put God first he blesses those who obey daniel obeyed to the king's dismay and sought the god of his love he was invited to be on the menu one day at the local Lions Club so into the den a big hungry lions poor prey and Daniel was thrown but those roaring beast couldn't eat this tough man cause Daniel was all backbone you'll burn the fire the king did say but the three holy Hebrews obeyed God anyway the furnace was heated hotter the fire it did churn but the three Hebrew boys would not Bend bowerbird so the moral of the poem to the young and the old don't ask God questions do what you're told when God says go east don't head for the West are you like Jonah we'll get in a whale of a mess and they do go ahead I'll wait it went to print and this is heavy and one of it one of the problems people have with Mike people try to stay away from him because he's right and that's why when he has debates with rabbis and he went he wins and so people aren't calling up to have debates people run and a lot of the folks that criticize revival will not will not sit down one-on-one with Mike because they know especially in front with a microphone and a crowd they just won't do it because they know it's too powerful it's too strong scripturally he's too strong and so on I just want you to let you know what's behind in these between these covers it's something that's gonna shake a lot of folks that call themselves theologians they call themselves revivalists they they call themselves protectors of God's church they're gonna be shocked when they read this and a lot of them are gonna be scared to death and I this this book right here needs to be on it needs to be out there I wish this was that out back when Charles Finney was preaching I wish this was out back in John Wesley and George Whitfield were preaching because they're going through the same thing every one of us are that we're revivals going on and revival is spread and period I mean just nothing is gonna stop a move of God but it's wonderful to have a scholarly work a scholarly work is one it's one thing to have opinions everybody's got opinions it's another thing to have a scholarly work that says hey here it is in the word here it is in church history here it is these are the facts these are the change lives this is what's happening I'm so thankful this thing is out glory I want to just share something that we pull off the internet today chaplain Robertson pull this off we don't really know where it's from is of course from the internet and it says I've been dealing your sermons from your site there Brownsville Assembly I started because I had heard you were cult and I wanted to prove it to myself and I ask your forgiveness for the things I've said about your church without any knowledge your sermons tell it all if other churches preach the word like you do there it would be revival all over the world and the Lord would come back and it said the Lord would come back for his church but pleaded please add more sermons to the list for those of us that are unable to attend a true Church god bless and he gives his name you know I've often said this friend if I'm gonna err I'd rather err on the side of the Holy Spirit than against the Holy Spirit and you know every night whenever people come in here to this revival like tonight there's very few of our brownsville people how many of you here tonight from brownsville Semele couldn't hold your hand see there's there's probably about 5% that are here tonight from brownsville not tomorrow Browns will be here in mass but any night that you that you just take a service Wednesday through Saturday you're not seeing brownsville assembly here you're seeing people from all over the world come and they're coming to this revival and it's impossible to police everything that happens with people coming like this from all over the world you can't control every little situation and we're not going to try to control every situation but we are providing a forum here for God to do what he wants to do and for God to say what he wants to say and we're letting God touch who he wants to touch and I'll tell you when somebody's demon-possessed and they're bound by all kind of addictions and bound ball kind of Darkness when God touches them there's gonna be a reaction and if religious people looks in and sees that they want to criticize as I say that's fine I don't mind that at all because wherever Jesus went he did the same thing and they even said he had a devil so we're used to it by now friends and we're just going to go on and push on let the dogs bark the caravan moves on we're going to we're going to dedicate this book and bless it I want you to extend your right hand this way now father we believe that you have called Mike Brown and helped set him in the body and in the kingdom for such a time as this Lord you have given him the intellect that he has but you've also blessed him with a tender spirit that he has the Lord we thank you for defenders of the faith down through the years and in these years we are not without a defender of the faith and father we find that here in this revival in Mike Brown so Lord we bless him and we know that this book is going to draw to mend aspire is going to draw a lot of fiery darts from the deepest pits of hell is going to ral the Pharisees and they were the very ones that killed you Jesus but I pray for Mike I pray that the Spirit of the holy God will galvanize him and protect him and Lord cover him in the blood of Christ make him impervious to all the fiery darts of the devil and father I pray that this book that you have inspired and you have anointed for this hour and this time and this revival that Lord people that would pick it up that maybe had serious questions or even thought that what was going on in these days is cultish that there would be such an anointing on this book that it would turn many from cynicism and criticism and pessimism and turn him to the most holy faith of the Living God and father I also pray that this blessed be that this book be blessed and that it be catapulted to the highest ranks in the Christian bookstores and Lord even some bookstores that are only carrying books that fight revival let this book gain such favor and such credibility that you will raise it up and put it on the head shelf and in the windows of those bookstores and let even them have a turn in a change of heart and Lord don't let the pessimist and the Pharisees turn America against revival but oh God let revival break down over this wrong father bless this book Lord we speak that in the markets of the world that this book would sail and dope and do great and that it held the favour of the nation's father let it be a best-seller not only in Christian markets but also in secular the Lord when people's read this book let their heart begin to burn to know more about a Living God in these days in Jesus name father bless for the Mikes ministry bless this book to bring into his ministry coffers much-needed funds to help him do a work around the world you see his heart for India you see his heart for other third-world countries Jesus you've raised him up and let this book be one of those catalysts that you use to bring in much-needed funds to help him reach this world in Jesus name Amen amen [Applause] we go everybody stand please how y'all doing tonight how's everybody in the chapel it's great to see you tonight we love you I tell you every night when we walk out here on the stage and we see the people out there that had been standing in line and you've come and you've been in the church now for about an hour and you're there's great interest as a patient you don't know how it ignites our heart to walk in here night after night many times we're so tired we can't already put one foot in front of the other one but when we walk out here and see you and see your hunger and your desire for God it just ignites us night after night and I just wanted to tell you tonight how much we all love you in this church we pray for you and every night as we come and we see your faces you show up maybe two three nights in a row we get used to seeing you there and next week when we come back on Wednesday night there'll be another crowd here they'll be here for three or four or five nights but we get used to seeing you and there's a fixation in our minds of your faces and down through the years of this revival there's fixations that I have in my mind the people as they have been going after God and hungry after God I've never seen such a generation so hungry after God as this generation is and I just wanted to tell you that your hunger so blesses and touches our hearts we love you and may God bless you if it was possible I'd go around a night and kiss everyone I have you on the forehead now what we want to do is we want to take about four or five quick testimonies but before we do that I want to just go ahead and tell you that so if you hear and you have a powerful testimony where God has touched your life in this revival maybe this is the third or fourth time you're back and maybe the first time you came you were mildly touched or maybe you hear you're a pastor and your church has been mightily ignited because of the revival we'll all the testimonies revival related I'm going to choose about five but there'll be a lot of hands go up but I'm just going to choose about five people at random that will call up here to give a testimony we're gonna do that just a moment but first I want to ask you how many of you here tonight for the very first time let me see your hands very first time all right how many of you this was your first week at revival could your hand first week at revival let me ask you this how many of you are from the south how many of you from the north the East the West how many I drew from outside the United States how many of you are non Pentecostal non Pentecostal wow that's wonderful how many of you are Pentecostal or charismatic let me see your hands god bless you how many of you let me just ask this question how many of you got saved this week or you were in backslidden condition you've just come back to God let me see your hands you just come back to God this week god bless you Alleluia now what I want everybody to do while you're thinking about your testimony I want to take about two or three minutes nobody leaves the building because we're going to move going quickly but the Steve is going to come in just a minute and preach we're gonna try to go through here as quickly as we can and everybody needs to be out tonight by 10:30 because we have to have the custodians come in at 10:30 and they'll be cleaning all night getting the church ready for church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock so that's why on Saturday nights we start at 6 o'clock and we try to be out by 10:00 by 10:30 and at the latest 11:00 so that's why on Saturday nights we try to you know go as briefly as we possibly can but we want to hear five powerful testimonies if your testimony is powerful and relevant and up-to-date in regard to this revival will ask you for in just a moment but first we want everybody to turn around and degree four or five six seven people near you introduce yourself and welcome them to revival yes sir back there on the the Pew sitting down come on up here so you want testify which one yeah come on all right that's it well son I got to hear this everybody was pointing at you up there thank you to come up here and give you testimony where you from man Mobile member Oh bill Alabama watch testimony well I love God I don't I mean I've been wanting to come up here and tell my testimony for a long time but I couldn't because I didn't know why but I know now because I didn't give myself a hundred percent to God until last Saturday night if this revival and I mean that's why I couldn't but he delivered me from drugs gangs from just trying to fit in with everyone else and no hey he said he said the Lord delivered him from fitting in with everybody else God did a good job I did a good job I mean I kept going back and going back away from God and he kept blessing me and I kept accepting it and turning around and kicking him in the face and I just want to tell all of you I mean no one's perfect everyone as a sinner and everyone every night that comes here should be up here at this altar if not for yourself you should be praying up here for someone else that you know or people that you don't even know to come to the Lord they need it and they're not gonna get it unless we pray when did you get saved I got saved about goodness thought now I'm on so yeah I didn't start living it until about four months there so in other words nine months ago you made you made a decision you made a decision for the Lord but it took a while for you to really kick in where you going to sell out and serve it and so you were in gangs you were in drugs alcohol all that well so let me tell you something you know people may look up here and they may think I don't know but you know what let me tell you something let me tell you something to come from drugs and alcohol and gangs you come a long way baby we're proud of you man I like the suit I like the suit shoes have got to go into sunglasses I got to go but I like to suit I like in their career I done what's your name Tasha Tasha and how old are you I'm 15 15 and where do you live here let's go okay what's your testimony um I was in a gang for a long time and I was being disobedient to my mother and I was I was fighting everybody and was just I was doing drugs and everything and just it was just making my life miserable and then I've just came here with my friends and then at first I was just thinking that I'm not gonna be I ain't gonna be a Christian and then I would I was just being what do you think Christians were what did you think Christianity was I just didn't want to be good and I didn't I was like I don't want to hang out with them they're they're not good and I was just being bad and I wasn't realizing with what I was doing and so then I came down to the altar and then I just finally gave my heart to God and then I asked him to forgive me and and then I just what happened to the gangs um I dropped it all and I'm not hanging out with them no more and and what does your folks think about you dropping all that and coming to church now well my mom's a Baptist and she don't really like this church but she's great that she she's just she's just great that I'm not I used to hit on my mom and everything but she's just great bout hit on her no more than that I just quit everything god bless you baby we're glad you're here let me tell you something if the devil makes a move on you to try to pull you back and to get you out of church whatever he tries to do to you he's vicious you fight against him and you stay in church that's your life line that's your life line and the devil knows if he can get you back out there in the world and just be worse and worse and worse so whatever you do sweetheart you stay with God and stay in church okay we love you hi are you doing good what's your name bill drug bill drawn yes sir are you from North Carolina well I'm an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and we evangelize for two years and then we pioneered a church for five and we just resigned and during that those seven years of ministry we've traveled throughout the United States my wife and I and grown really discouraged what you're discouraged about what was it discouraged about because the heart was revival and what was you seeing in churches either the pastor won a revival and the people didn't or either the people did and the pastor didn't and many times we were never invited back sometimes we didn't even receive our offering that was taken up and we were so if you preached holiness and preached revival they wouldn't pay you no sir no sir left for the fellowship it was incredible Bronco hard and what was you preaching some of us I mean identical I'm turning my wife all during the wink I said you know I said that you know out here in the Avengers field I said people clap and get excited and whenever I would preach something like it they you know make up but you know what the difference is though the preacher here wants revival and the people wants revival that's the difference you see if the preacher if the preacher the people can ever get together revival breakout and I feel sorry for preachers at once revival and the people don't and I feel sorry for the people that wants revival and preacher dollars but if they can ever get together Lord how mercy yes sir yes sir that's so true and and you were compelled I know by the Lord to pray for my wife and I because we were so discouraged and so beaten down and the Lord just really encouraged this opportunity to be the youth director for the North Carolina district next month and we hunger for the young people to experience revive we've done national youth camps all across America we've seen young people just as you have here and the people you know this great auditory and we see the hundred young people and the Lord confirmed in our hearts when you prayed for us we were the power God had as God reaffirmed in our heart that who is coming just keep on keeping on hey man you know what father I pray for this evangelist and his wife that every dollar and every offering that's been withheld from them for doing right and preaching holiness that Lord you would triple it back to him through unexpected sources let him not have a lack that father was such a hunger today in the land and with him having a passion for revival send him where he needs to be sent and let it be a divine kiss of your glory and your power in Jesus name how much I love you and appreciate you Steve I love you appreciate you dr. Brown I love you books I've just about every one of them and my favorite one is the charismatic church slaying the spirit or down for the count and I just wanted to express my appreciation as a minister keep preaching the gospel we love you hi what's your name my name is Lynette Harville and what's your testimony well from I'm from Lake Jackson Texas that's below Houston on the coast and a year ago Father's Day weekend I came here before then a few weeks before that my pastor came and his wife and that came back and they were so changed then I just knew my girlfriend and I knew we had to come I had grown up in the church all my life and I worked in it I married the youth director and I was the Childers director and he left me for a younger woman and I have two children and I got mad at God I was so mad yet the whole time I knew God was holding me I felt like a little rebellious two-year-old man cuz I couldn't go run out in the streets and he was holding me and he wasn't mad at me but I was so mad at him because he I understood religion and I and I thought I had played the game right and done all the rules right and and I felt like he had let down on his into the bargain and I was so hurt so very hurt and I gave up the children's ministry and we were just really starting to go out and evangelize and do Crusades and so forth and it gave up that and and so I just knew I had a high define my answer my healing and so I came and we could walk to you in the door and it was it was we were like because we didn't know you had to stand on line and we were sitting in the back and I think somebody tell me it was the first night y'all decided to open up the chairs here and y'all opened up three rows and they think you can go sit in the front well I was too scared to sit in the front row so I sat in this the third one in and I noticed the hall the teenagers just worshiping God and praising God before the service and that blessed my heart and I was kind of looking around and these two young men came to that next mean they were shaking and I was like going what is going on here I was simply a god but you know I hadn't seen that and so then so then they had hold hands and pray in this hand thing that was going like this with his boy over here and then the praise and worship Lindell began and and well he sang a couple of songs and then he grabbed the microphone which I didn't know any of you guys he grabbed the microphone and he went over here to the youth and he goes started shot he was standing right over there in front of that monitor he goes now now and when they did they went just like dominos and and he was standing there and all of a sudden he started shaking like he was convulsing and I'm a nurse and so I was playing nurse and [Applause] so I was like a god is that yours you have an I can epileptic convulsions oh I need to play nurse here that is that is all I remember except one other thing I remember feeling a gust of wind and my I remember thinking my feet are leaving the ground honey I got so close to almost a rapture I mean I mean it would that's the next thing I remember is my feet are leaving the ground and then I woke up I was over here I flew when I came around y'all we're back to singing and everything and I came around and I thought I have driven all the way from Houston I got off work and six o'clock on Friday we drove straight through I slept a few hours and came and got it came in here and I said you know I've been I'm driven too far to miss the service god I want to get up and he wouldn't let me get up you know and so after a while I did get up and enjoying the rest of service but what happened you know he puts us down there I think so because we don't stay down long enough on her own so he kind of he needs to complete his work so he puts us down there so if you can't get up don't worry about it let him take care of it anyway when I came up it was all gone the master surgeon he healed no scars left Oh God Oh God all the way home my girlfriend and I it's not like just maybe two hours we talked we talked we tweet you know and she got touched too and we talked to me listen to the music and then we bought the CDs and stuff and and and the Lord told me and I started hearing the Lord the Lord told me that he's got to make me an intercessor and I didn't you know my grandmother was an intercessor my aunt was an intercessor but I didn't really even I didn't want to be one Hey and any Thomas why because they pray and they cry they do all those things my grandmother doing that [Applause] mother had 14 children and she lived in New York City and she'd open up those windows in the whole neighborhood here to pay for every grandma every child and every grandchild every one of them every day and she's got a lot of Ministers out of that if you had 14 kids you'd have to be an intercessor but anyway the Lord told me that and he has he has placing that on me where I just love to pray now I love it I've got an hour commute back and forth to work every day and I have time with God every day and I just love it I love to pray what would you say to a critic a revival what would you say to them don't knock it until you tried it so you're telling me that before you came here he was in the ministry and you were similes of God but you never saw any of the things that's attributed really the Pentecost you never saw any of that and so now that it started happening and and then there's wind guys through there and you were on the floor and God touched you that's the normal Christian life isn't oh yeah now I know and the Lord has just opened up the door that now the children that I was a children's Minister to know I'm the youth director - yes they just opened up that door and I just I feel like that's such a unique blessing because it's the thief that I so now I get to we oh I've got a five and Mexico now on a mission trip I just had seven come back from intensive month training and warriors when we're going to go to Montrose which is a city in in Houston and we're going to yeah and the riot center there we're gonna we're gonna work together and we're gonna go out and we're going to we're going to change Houston area what's your name my name is Monica Evy I'm from Omaha Nebraska Trinity Church and who is your pastor our senior pastor is pastor let's beat him and he was here in February and y'all prayed for him and revivals coming to Omaha to press it is it's coming what's your testimony what happened well how it happened was that when they came God laid on my senior pastor's heart that he was to come to the revival and so he gathered a couple of other pastors and a couple of elders and they came down and before they came down in the intercessory parent prayer meeting there was a prophesy over Omaha and a vision that was seen that was an eagle's claw gripping the middle of the nation it was very extensive so I won't go into it but that happened before what they got here when they got here they got into the intercessory prayer meeting and the heavens just broke loose and there was celebration and dancing and my past my pastor came that changed absolutely changed so he came back and brought back all the pastors and all the elders and their lives all here and they've all come back changed and it has just been amazing so my as we've seen my my senior pastor came back and he was so under the conviction of the Holy Spirit of the sin in his life when he was here he was undone and when he got back here sorry oh when he got back when he came back home he laid out his life to the congregation and we have a big church and it's hard to do that to be vulnerable what'd he do he just confessed I don't know maybe twenty-one sins before the whole congregation and wet and wet and wet and it just was amazing and things were started the church ticket some of them are very scared but I think I mean how they take him repenting of his songs there was wailing a conviction was come coming it was just all over that people were wailing and they welcomed him of course because we love him and he loves us and we know that but what exactly what he was fearful of what was not happening he was fearful that they would reject him but we had not because he's a changed man and his preaching is different he was anointed before but he is way anointed now I mean way oh he's amazing anyway my testimony is that I wanted to come so bad my husband and I wanted to come but we have a little girl that had surgery and we have a lot of medical bills and so we didn't have the money to come and we prayed and we prayed and we fasted and by the way I churches like fasting and and has prayer meetings now that lots of people come to and powerful things are happening but revival is gonna come anyway I was praying for the for the money and the Lord just said give it up just give it up and I said Lord okay then you meet me here in Omaha or you find a way for us to to go and we'll go and when I was at Ground Zero with it I got a call from my music pastor and be it's her since my husband and I say come here with we're not pastors on we're not on staff we're just laypeople but he's the Lord found a way for us to come and I tell you since I've been here the power this has never happened to me before like this how how long have you been here since Tuesday we went to the worship conference oh my lord there was power [Applause] say you've never done this before no no worship now what do you what is this the glory of the Lord oh Jesus does that hurt it is feel good no what would something like that happens to you there it is it o is what does it feel good what is it it's the release it's just it just comes over me and when I shout it just has to it's like it told somebody today it's like a tea kettle when the part when the heats there you got a release I tell you the truth I cannot iose not me it's Jesus and I don't you know what I can't control it but you know what I don't want to because I just want more Jeep Jesus I just want more of Jesus when people that hadn't been touched like that would see you doing that they'd think oh my I don't want anything like that what would you say to them I didn't either [Laughter] what about now oh I wouldn't I wouldn't change I just want more and if I'm on the ground the whole time then I'm on the ground I just want Jesus praise God that's wonderful god bless you that's good hi what's your name my name is Tabitha Castile and I'm from Brighton Colorado Colorado well what is your testimony I'm a preacher's kid and my husband is also Deacon of the church and i arose was a deacon yeah yeah and I came to Brownsville what church are you is it a family I came to Brownsville last November with my husband and I came and I said God I've got to have something from you because I can't go back like I am I was depressed I was on medication I had God delivered me from sexual addiction and I hated with a passion my pastor's wife and he set me free I would stand in line that's I tell people I have to have something from God I have to have an answer I can't go back like I am because I'll kill myself and he's faith he is so faithful he sent me so free how long goes that that's November this is July so you've been free for [Music] what about the heaviness in the darkness no pressure it's gone I don't need medication no more he's filled me of everything I'm set free of all the problems and the Lord has a way of working out it happened when you came how did it happen well I was standing down here and you came up and prayed for me and he said the ugly thing that comes up out of the water and torments you I drowned you in the name of Jesus I knew I was free I knew I was free because the I just knew it you're free I'm free and you look free I'm free face your face is bright there's no darkness on you I am free and let me tell you about my pastor's wife [Music] she had cancer and that she had battled cancer for two years and I thought you know this is God's judgement on her because she is so mean it I had a really bad attitude towards her really bad and I we came here because we we had to have an answer from God whether or not we were gonna stay at the church you know I had a battled with it and I battled with it and I thought what I can't take anymore I gotta go but I'm gonna go to Brownsville and get an answer from you he didn't gave me the answer he did Father filtered I was there that Sunday and-and-and the Lord worked it out that I was in charge of the meals delivered to the pastor and his wife the last six months of her life that she passed away in me and the Lord gave me such a love for her I could not do enough to make up for what I had done I could not do enough if you have a problem with your pastor or your pastor so if you get on your face before God they're God's people don't you dare touch him don't you dare lay a hand on suppose suppose somebody here and on the campus in one of our buildings is having a real problem with their pastor there in rebate against the Church of the pastor's wife what would you say to him repent no matter what repent God put them in charge over you there's no it didn't happen by chance God put you in that church God taught me submission he taught me how to humble myself before my pastor's wife and I needed to learn that because I was too proud and if you have a problem with your pastor's wife or your pastor you need to repent because God put them there it doesn't matter if they were wrong or right God puts you there under them and you need to repent if you have a problem with them or you leave so the last six months when you went and served dinner to your pastor's wife you had a chance to love own or make everything right I thank God every day for that opportunity they put you in charge of serving the meal yep I got to have a sense of humor I know man what's your name Kevin Strickland Kevin Strickler where you from stop where's Georgia is just below Atlanta what's your testimony well from time I was about six years old I was born and raised Pentecostal and at the age of around 1012 around 10 and 12 years old I got the rebellious spirit in me that if I didn't want to go to church I didn't have to go to church I didn't understand that it was the feeding for me and I rebelled against my parents and things like that about seven birthday just 17 I joined the gang and I started dealing drugs and doing drugs and started drinking and I was an alcoholic before I was 21 November 19th of 1994 I rededicated my life to Christ and he started dealing with me so at the age of 19 I got a gang or I got beat up to get out of the gang what'd they do to you well to get in and to get out I had to take being beat by who was supposedly gonna be my friends and my family we beat you to get in and to get how was it bad yeah it hurt pretty bad but even after I rededicated my life I back slid again and I didn't join up with a gang or anything like that but I did start dealing drugs and things again I was addicted to the money more than the drugs and I moved out of my house and moved in with my girlfriend to rebelled against my parents I got three earrings and two body piercings because I knew that they wouldn't want it and they do that's not what they thought was your parents are Christians yes sir they they mamas prayed for me from the day I was yes sir oh yeah mama stand up bless you well seven months ago guy started dealing with me it's remained asleep and I got on my face before him and in my home church and make Diamond Georgia and I cried out to him and I said lord please anything you want to do with my life just do it and he took me out of drugs and took me from drinking I was trying to keep my story straight before I fall down [Applause] when Philip here's huh you tremendous anointing of God ever since I was six years old I've been singing in church God gifted me with a voice and seven months ago I've realized that he wanted me to use my voice for his ministry and not my own well I moved back in with my parents about seven months ago I started going back to church and I felt that the hardest thing for me to give up was alcohol alcohol and cursing I had a filthy mouth well I was delivered from but still being a baby Tristan my friends were a big influence on me so about a month ago I ended up drinking again and I fell under such conviction that I couldn't hardly get up I didn't feel like doing anything but just praying and asking for forgiveness well he's laid me straight now and how all this ties into the revival as I've been here two or three times and coming here God proved to me and showed me they don't matter what you're in it don't matter how far under you feel like you are he can bring you up to a level that surpassed anything you could ever feel about seven months ago seven months ago when he started dealing with me was the first time I ever received the Holy Spirit by being slaying the spirit and it felt like a jackhammer hitting me in the head but I will claim today I died it was the greatest and best feeling I've ever felt in my entire life it be any drug any alcoholic hot anything I've ever had [Applause] I was I even though I was used to standing up in front of people and singing I wasn't I didn't feel that being in front of people and letting God work through me was a big positive in my life but coming down here to this revival God told me I can hear him now here he spoke to me and he told me that I've been called to ministry I am I'm to be a minister of song and it was because I was willing to open myself up here and release and totally let go I don't care what people think anymore I don't care if he look at me anymore I'm gonna praise him because he gave me a body and a voice to praise him as long as I live listen but what's one of your favorite songs my favorite song is my my testimony is by Bob Carlisle living waters sing a little bit of it I can't no I remember some of it yeah you'll do good I can tell you got a good voice where you talk so come Davy flow through me like my husband thirsty song love my soul and poor you're my steez come live you mothers feel me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he has fire you know [Music] war [Music] or wallop to you and me [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] will [Music] he has a crown on his head [Music] he's needed the army to you and me with [Music] law [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] boy yes Lord [Music] now that fire is this is my forest and he's long and that cheating with him [Music] that is proudly [Music] he's calling out to us right now you [Music] yeah [Music] well thank you lord thank you lord everyone in the chapel if you would please stand everyone in the main auditorium oh those of you at home I want you to get out of your lazy boy Bubba stand up we're going to all pray the prayer that we've been trained since Father's Day in 1995 this is we're in the middle of our third summer in revival people have asked us how long this is going to go on we don't know we don't care I came for three hours really folks are asking at the New York Times they said you know how long is this gonna go on and you know they just they want to keep covering the revival and and those of you that for me the New York Times put it in the front cover the front the front page of the New York Times and they just they were just inundated with phone calls from around the world people trying to get here trying to get to the revival after reading almost a full page on the revival and that's one of the things I asked I said how long is this going to go on friend if you'll study church history there were seasons where God came down into lasted a few weeks other times it lasted a few days sometimes it lasted a few years but I'm not caught up on how it when it began or when it's gonna end I'm caught up right in it and I I don't want to miss a thing so it makes no difference Jesus if it goes on for ten years three more years two years I just want to be here just in the middle of what you're doing Jesus hallelujah glory I want everyone I want everyone to pray the same prayer we've been praying since Father's Day I want you to pray it out loud this is for every God hater and every God lover here I know there are some people here you don't want to be here you hate me you hate this church the lights are too bright you just you know like nothing about it you don't want to be here you think all those testimonies are fake you just people come all the time like that just people come to mock they come to make fun there was a man that was sent right back in that section came one night to watch his former homosexual lover get baptized he was so mad angry that his lover had gotten saved at the Brownsville revival and he came out of anger to watch his former lover get baptized and he sat back there seething in bitterness and anger because his former lover left him quit homosexuality and was going on with God and so people come to these services for all kinds of reasons but something happens here and that man was sitting there and I call it the conviction of the Holy Ghost you can call it the heebie-jeebies you can call it feeling weird you can say honey I feel funny you can call it anything you want fraid it's the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost that night got ahold of that man as he watched his former lover get baptized he stayed for the rest of the song service stayed through the preaching and that's all he could handle friend he came running to the altar gave his life to Jesus had two weeks later two weeks later two weeks later he was in the baptismal pool getting bad blurring so people come here for all different reasons I want to welcome everyone and I want everyone to pray this prayer right now out loud if you're a scholar I want you to pray it if you don't even know where Genesis is I want you to pray it everyone out loud dear Jesus speak to my heart change my life in your precious name amen you may be seated now I perceive in my spirit that um there are some people here that I have a hard time with stuff like that I just perceived that in my spirit that most most folks here going hey yeah I can handle and that's cool you know whatever as long as it's on her and not on me but let me tell you about manifestations friends manifestations can come and go like the wind it doesn't matter if you fall forward fall backward fall on your face it doesn't matter if you cry all night long it doesn't matter if you feel the power of God or you don't feel the power of God the bottom line is is your life changed that's what's going on so don't get hung up we don't get hung up on manifestations this little booklet right here when when God first started moving mightily before I came to Brownsville and when I came to Brownsville I just kept compiling I've got an extensive library Mike Brown has got an extensive library pastor's got a great library and I started going through my library I've got thousands of books and and and many of them probably half of them are either a hundred or two hundred some of them are 300 years old and so I can't move them around they're very brittle they're old leather books but a lot of them are on revival and I would read the old Methodist revival books from the 1790s in the eighteen 1801 and I've got old an old old Methodist magazines from the turn of the 1800s and you open it up and you read stuff like this the power came down people were thrown to the ground people were shaking violently and I thought well that's cool that's neat because they saw that too and and this is not to me reading this whole stuff does not say well then it's God because it happened back then no it was just interesting to see that history is repeating itself I love this saying Jesus I believe John Wesley was a man of God I don't know about you I believe he had something going he turned England around there's a book out called England before and after Wesley is there a book out America before and after you there is one about Wesley so he had something going for him he did something right somewhere and he saw the power come down people fell and and so I started compiling and this this is just a little booklet it's it's got a lot of old pictures of these guys and how saintly they look back then with their cloaks and in collars and their their wigs and Charles Finney I remember turning in one of his little memoirs and and he talked about waves and waves of liquid love shooting through his body he said it was like electricity zapping him soon just shooting through his body it was so important to Charles Finney that he wrote about it in his journal an in detail of how these waves of liquid what love just shot through his body now Charles Finney is not known for the ministry of liquid love waves he has not known for there's the man that the waves of electricity shot through him but let me tell you something part of that was the making of a man of God God took him and shot him through with his power and from that came one of the greatest evangelist that ever graced America I said that to say this friend go after personal experiences with God go after it God I want you to touch me I want you to touch me and Lord it doesn't have to be like you touched him or her I want you to touch me I want to experience I don't want to hear about it my little children are growing up in a revival I'm glad that they don't have to hear about Azusa I'm glad they don't have to hear about the Great Awakenings they can live in one they can experience it man that felt good to say that but go after God and I'm not talking about emotional experience I'm talking about go after God let him touch you and if he chooses to move through you in a way that you might have seen tonight it's wonderful but if you stand there and you don't feel a thing that's wonderful - because you're open you're saying Jesus all the stops are out um letting you do whatever you want to me Jesus and if you don't feel his presence and for those of you that there's some critics tonight when the young man stood here and and he said it was the greatest feeling and he said when the Holy Spirit moved on me like that and I fell to the ground and some of you Pentecostals were sitting here going he didn't even speak in tongues we tell you something friend if you walked around with me in this place people get filled with the Holy Ghost by surprise all the time all the time one lady called the church a Baptist ladies a teacher in a large Baptist Church here got so filled with the Holy Ghost so filled she called the church and asked the church what was this coming out of her mouth but I want to tell you I believe in the initial evidence I believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost and I believe in tongues but we have placed such an emphasis on that little it's almost a theatrical thing you know he's got it he's finally prayed through is he I've lived for 22 years as a Christian and I that's not a long time it's long enough to see a lot of those folks that get it not change no change but they they they got it Fred I've had it with religion I've had it with religion I believe I believe in the fullness of the Spirit but I'm saying Jesus however you want to move in these last days fill them with your Holy Ghost slam slap them silly whatever you want to do Jesus it's a-okay with us just change our lives get a hold of us change us turn us around turn us around Lauren turn with me to Psalm 32 this is entitled matter-of-fact just leave a space note-taker for the title because I'm not going to tell you the title yet but I do have a title sometimes I don't have titles because it's God's grace that I get a message much less a title see I came to this revival with five sermons that's traveling evangelist we have five good sermons and that's it the revival goes longer than five sermons you're in trouble so we have to get up every morning the Lord puts a message on my heart and I get up I don't know what you do but I get up around 6:00 a.m. after if we get about 4 hours sleep I'll get up in the morning and I know in a few hours I'll be standing in front of thousands of people again with another message and I'm saying Jesus here's the way it is Lord I don't care if I don't have a title I'll call it Saturday night's message give me anything Jesus any word just a thought whatever you want to say Jesus psalm 32 but we're fortunate tonight we will have a title psalm 32 then we're gonna read this Psalm it's short and sweet how blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered how blessed it is a man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit when I kept silent about my sin my body wasted away through my groaning all day long those of you in this room that are just add up with sin David had been their sin will kill you it'll destroy you it'll keep you from sleeping at night it'll wake you up in the middle of the night trembling sweating why guilt paranoia it's called sin for day and night verse 4 thy hand was heavy upon me my vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer I acknowledge my sin to thee and my iniquity I did not hide I said I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin verse 6 therefore let everyone who is godly pray to thee in a time when thou may us be found surely in a flood of Great Waters they shall not reach him thou art my hiding place that does preserve me from trouble that'ss around me with songs of deliverance I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go I will quell see you with my eye upon you verse 9 do not be as a horse or as a mule which have no understanding whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check otherwise they will not come near to you many are the interesting strains that right just right in the middle of this Psalm first 10 many are the sorrows of the wicked but he trust in the Lord loving-kindness shall surround him be glad in the Lord verse 11 and rejoice she righteous ones and shout for joy it's in there and shout for joy for all you who are upright in heart verse 9 do not be as a horse or as a mule which have no understanding whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check now turn with me to proverbs 26 just a couple of scriptures here proverbs 26 that's the next set of books in the Bible there friend just a few more pages to your right proverbs 26 verse 3 a whip is for the horse a bridle for the donkey and a rod for the back of fools this is Bible now turn with me to one more set of scriptures and we could go to a bunch of them but this is probably my favorite portion in the Bible concerning a powerful powerful testimony and I refer to it a lot Acts chapter 9 we're going somewhere friends and it's not going to take us long to get there remember be not as a horse of the mule Acts chapter 9 1 through 10 and saw still breathing threats and nut murder against the disciples of the Lord went to the high priest and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus so that if he found any belonging to the way both men and women he might bring them bound to Jerusalem and it came about that as he journeyed he was approaching Damascus and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him that's strange and he fell to the ground that's strange too he bit the dust and heard a voice saying to him Saul Saul why are you persecuting me and he said who are you lord and he said I am Jesus whom you are persecuting but rise and enter the city and it shall be told you what you must do and the men who travelled with him stood speechless hearing the voice but seeing no one and Saul got up from the ground and though his eyes were open he could see nothing and leading him by the hand they brought him into Damascus and he was three days without sight and neither ate nor drank now this story goes on and I'm not going to read the rest of it but many of you know that Saul was prayed for and something like scales fell from his eyes those of you that have a hard time with manifestations would have a serious hard time with solid horse tarsus because this guy everything we've seen in this revival although we have seen some phenomenal stuff this story Dwarfs everything we've seen a bright light at noonday brighter than the Sun a voice coming out of the heavens it's talking to that voice from the dirt lying in the dirt then being blinded for three days and on the third day something like scales falling from your eyes that's heavy maybe just maybe if you make it to heaven with your critical manifestation hang-up maybe God will put you at the marriage supper of the Lamb right across from Saul who became Paul of Tarsus and he'll say how you doing and you go I'm fine and you'll say I perceive in my spirit that something's troubling you and you'll say I just thank God it's over it's good to be at the marriage supper I just want to tell you I don't know who you are but I just want to tell you I was so sick of that revival in America I was so sick of all that shakin and all those people falling everywhere I was so sick of people falling to the ground think about that you're talking to Paul okay and he goes are you talking about the Brownsville revival we know all about that we watched it from a large screen up here and Paul's gonna turn to you and go did you have a problem with that he's gonna go lady let me tell you a story would to God that it was just my hand that shook but no it wasn't my hand my whole body went down I bit the dust I ate dirt woman midday and that was bad that was embarrassing because I was a leader and I was in the dust but not only that a voice shone out from the heavens through this bright light and spoke directly to me and I answered that voice back and then everything grew dark and I was blinded and here I was a man of means a man well respected a man with a mission being led around blinded for three days lady I was blinded and then a man prayed for me I had already felt my eyes and something crusty had formed over the top of them it was weird because I've known fishermen and it felt like fish scales but I rubbed them and it wouldn't go away then somebody prayed for me and those crusty scales fell for my eyes rolled off my chest and fell on the floor and you got a problem with this lady well maybe you'll sit across from Phillip who is translated and you'll say feelable look at you say hey what's your name Bob a lot of Bob's come to this revival Bob you don't look too happy well I'm just glad I finally made it up here I was so sick and tired of all that stuff what are you talking about Bob well you know everybody laying hands on everybody and folks fly-in through the air I want to tell you something Philip I saw a man in Pensacola he flew through the air three feet three feet through the air and hit the wall fell down to the ground and repented and flew through the air three feet and Phillips going three feet whoa that's cool three feet boy you really saw something he'll say let me tell you something bubble when I finished my missionary task with the Ethiopian eunuch I had to be somewhere quickly so the Lord I flew 25 miles just like that [Applause] hmm I don't know what its gonna be like on that day but I got a feeling God's gonna sort of mix us all up like that you know William Seymore the great one-eyed black man that led the Azusa Street revival powerful men of God and G Campbell Morgan the man who came against him and said it was the last vomit of Satan G Campbell Morgan is a wonderful scholar I love his books but he missed God you can be smart Bubba and Miss God you can miss God G Campbell Morgan came publicly against Azusa Street and said it's the last vomit of Satan I got a feeling at the marriage supper William Seymour will be sitting across from G Campbell Morgan just to chat and everything will be made known then by the way G Campbell Morgan will look at William seamer and Gor he'll go man what a fool I was what a fool I was that revival that broke out in that Shack by the year 2000 there were 800 million Pentecostals by the way that's about the figure from 700 to 800 million Pentecostals in the world and most of them can trace their heritage back to old Willie Seymour and his little milk crate pulpit in California hmm watch what you say Fred well some of you in this room are stubborn I just heard a lady say they're talking about you honey there's women in this room going thank you Jesus Jesus thank you Jesus but you know what's funny your husband's doing the same thing he's gonna thank you lord you're stubborn that means you're obstinate your unyielding you're bullheaded you're cantankerous you're hard-headed headstrong does this fit anybody in this room have you ever been absolutely positively without a shadow of a doubt sure that you are right and you were dead wrong you don't believe you've been like that friend you need to go in your closet look some of them clothes you bought remember that [Applause] you're still making payments on that dress and you wore that thing one time and will never wear it again but boy you're absolutely positively sure that that was the gown that was the dress we can be stubborn we can be pigheaded rebellious self-willed set in our own ways stiff necked I heard a preacher one time preach on stiff neck people but he couldn't get that out he kept calling them stiff naked people he said they're just a bunch of stiff naked people it's stiff necks stiff necked unbending that means friend you are stiff necked you're one way in one way only you are so stubborn you won't turn and give anybody the time of day you are set in your own ways stay with me friend this is Bible those of you listening from the internet welcome unbending people listen to these messages all around the world friend it's amazing I love the technology today that little note that you read that pastor read a few minutes ago people are listening to tonight's service they will listen in a couple days in New Zealand they'll listen to it in Zimbabwe somebody out in a hut in the middle of nowhere will be listening to the Brownsville revival friend it's awesome the world we live in I love the technology today but you're unmanageable Hut person [Applause] you're unreasonable you're a bummer to live with some of you the holy ghost has been trying to work on you get a message through that skull of yours change your life but you are so hard to get through to these altar calls amaze me we'll give an altar call and hundreds will flood the altar and then for twenty minutes people trickle sometimes 50 trickle and then 20 more trickle we've had we've had three and four hundred trickle there's been a times where this was full down here and I wanted to just stop the altar call the Lord said no there's a lot of stubborn people out there steep so I'll say charities sing it again or Lindo sing and we'll give the altar call again keep calling the people and they'll start flooding from all over and then they'll fill the aisles spread out through the sides it's incredible friends how stubborn some of us in this room can be he's been trying to get your attention through all kinds of things everyone listen do not be as a horse or the mule that has to be beaten into shape or whipped into shape or put a bridle in a bit in their mouth why just to get them to do the right thing friend the Lord's warning you right now he's trying to get your attention through preachers or pastors or lay leaders maybe he's trying to get your attention through trials and tribulations quit cursing everything bad that comes your way a difficult day could be one of the best things you ever had come to you it wakes you up friend I remember when my wife and I were engaged we were so in love we were infatuated with one another and we're at Dave Wilkerson school in Texas and Gwen Wilkerson who used to cut our hair at the school Dave's wife she went up to me one day and she said Steve look at me she said I know you're in love with Jerry but you may be missing God she may not be the girl for you and coming from when Wilkinson it could have come from anybody but Gwen because she was like a prophetess to me and it just it caused me to reevaluate everything get my feet on the ground and really test it to see if it was God because I was fixing to marry a girl that I'll be with for the rest of my life think about it friend before you tie that knot it ain't for six weeks it's for the rest of your life and turns out it was God and we've been married for 18 years we're in love with each other have a wonderful family but someone else might have taken that that a critical word from Gwen Wilkerson like that or a hard word and it Just's they blow up in her face who do you think you are saying something like that to me I'm in the law a lot of times you're in lust don't be stubborn maybe God's been trying to get to you from some something from some council or maybe some trials and tribulations maybe he's been trying to to get a hold of you and soften your heart but instead of softening your heart it's become even harder well a few points tonight that I'm sure the Lord's gonna try to get across number one is this Jesus wants to talk to you look at me everybody Jesus wants to talk to you how many would agree with me he wanted to talk to Saul of Tarsus I believe he did but seesaw was not the kind of guy you'd give a trap to you know you couldn't ride up to the side of his mule friend and and say hey listen here's a newest chick track this was your life you know he wasn't about to receive it he'd say off with your head boy Jesus wants to talk to you this much I can ascertain from the story of Saul he wants to talk to you for years as a drug addict Jesus was trying to talk to me he was trying to get my attention listen up everybody God has been trying to get your attention through preaching some of you go home and you turn the television on and there's John Hagee screaming at you he's trying saying he's saying give him praise and blow rang and you hear that and you're oh my god man and you flip on CNN or something maybe God wants to talk to you he's been trying to get your attention maybe he go into the men's room at work and somebody's put a gospel tract right there and you can't stand those religious zealots that put tracks all over the place why don't you read it friend maybe God's trying to talk to you maybe God's trying to lead you to a close relationship with him Jesus wants to talk to everyone here every one of you in the chapel Jesus wants to talk to you those of you that are at home some of you are stubborn as mules God wants to talk to you he wants to speak into your life but some of us are so hard so hard sometimes he'll speak to us through our wives I believe that's Carey Robertson's story is that correct did not your wife was her was her relationship with the Lord what caused you to come to Jesus a relationship with Jesus his wife was so godly that it drew him to the side of Christ isn't that awesome God maybe heaven maybe there maybe a friend that next to you we have kids that are here tonight that are that have been that have come off of drugs they're on fire for God and how did it happen they met somebody who got saved at the revival and they saw their face and were so jealous of the change in their lives they started talking to him and found out that it was Christ in them that had transformed their life God wants to talk to you you with me then let's get into the meat of it in order for God to speak to you he's first got to get your attention he's got to get your attention and here's the most difficult part friend getting your attention some of you are the pits - top - why you're on the moon you're in la-la land friend try to talk to you you won't look at us in the eyes you won't pay attention you heard this testimony tonight of this little girl who slaps her mother around who slapped her mother around could you imagine what it was like living in her house your daughter comes home 14 year old know-it-all you know your 14 year old daughter should come home and do the dishes she should come home and help clean the house wash your own clothes ironed her own clothes but she comes home and she's just a little wish she slaps you around and you cook a meal and you don't like the food she doesn't like the food so she cusses you out that you didn't cook mama many of you mamas have gone through that your kids don't appreciate you young people I want every teenager to listen to me that woman called your mama you may not remember this but there was a time where when you cried at two o'clock in the morning and she was exhausted she got up from her bed went in there your room got you out of that crib undid her pajamas and put you up to her breast and gave you milk for an hour and patted you on the back to make sure you burped because she wanted to make sure you didn't choke on that milk and you burped and you spit up a little bit of it and she wiped that up and then you started crying again you wanted a little bit more mama was tired she's only had two hours sleep in three days why cause of you you but you know what she did she just stayed in there fed you a little bit more burped again threw up some more then what you do you filled your britches [Applause] she's not only tired now it stinks in the room now she's got to change him so she changes your britches you don't remember this do you you don't remember thing I'm telling you it happened she fixes you all up lays you back down an hour later I've been their friend I've heard that what is it now something dumb something stupid you're sleeping with your elbow in your eye and you ain't got enough sense to get your elbow out of your eyes so here she comes again she just got in a 15-minute catnap now she's got two hours and 15 minutes in three days of sleep she goes in there gets your elbow out of ya now you can't sleep now you can't sleep the boy she went through all of that Fred nursed you took care of you now you're 13 now you're somebody you're a know-it-all friend young person back off boy back off love your father and your mother respect your father and your mother take care of your father in your mother that's not in my notes but that was timely for somebody in this room in order for God to speak to you he must first get your attention now some of us in this room don't need much coaxing when it comes to the voice of the Lord and obedience tonight many of you are going to come forward and you're going to get your heart right with God because you have sin in your life you're backslidden and the Lord's going to speak to your heart and he's going to do like this when I mentioned things like pornography you can sit and watch a movie and watch a woman take her blouse off in that movie sir and it doesn't grieve you you're backslidden friend period you're in sin sin is anything Jesus wouldn't do and he sure wouldn't do that ma'am you want you read a fantasy novel and you read about someone else's love affair in there you become one of those characters but you're a good godly Christian you go to church on Sunday morning sing in the choir friend you're in sin Jesus would never be reading that trash sir you come home from work and you might be an alright person at work but will you come home you're a bear to live with you come in and scream at the kids you scream at your wife you say where's my food this is cold I want to tell you something friend Jesus would never do that you're in sin that is not the fruit of the Spirit you're a bear to live with and some of you as I'm saying this I can see your heads many of your heads already dropped when you're looking at me and gods already convicted you and in a few minutes you're gonna come down here and God's gonna deal with your heart but others in this room are more difficult to deal with you're like Saul of Tarsus God's got to hit ahold of you in another way maybe it's a car accident I won't preach a funeral by the way unless I can give altar calls because funerals people come to it that need to hear the gospel and oftentimes a car accident is how God gets ahold of everybody there's a corpse that was walking and talking three days ago everybody saw her everybody loved her she was just leaving the prom and was hit by a drunk driver and maybe that's the very thing right there that's gonna get a whole some of the family they're gonna wake up and teenagers friends are gonna look at that girl in that casket and go 18 years old and she's gone and then the preacher stands up and speaks about eternity what are you doing with your life where are you going with your life that is that is a that is an extreme measure of God and he uses those things all the time some of you are like that friend I'm telling you tonight the Lord wants to speak to you but he's first has to get your attention how many know what I'm talking about some of you might have a mild confrontation like Lydia in the Bible you can read there later in Acts chapter 16 where Lydia was just listening to the preaching of Paul and she became a believer people are like that in this revival all the time they just listen they go WOW one girl got saved was sitting in the back she testified the baptismal pool that she just came and she said I was a good person I mean when the preacher was preaching against sin I just didn't have anything in my life I was a good person but as I listened to the message I realized I didn't know him I didn't know Jesus that was like Lydia she just believed she was a seller of purple cloth and she just believed no dramatic conversion no nothing she just became a believer read it for yourself in the book of Acts chapter 16 other people come to God to curiosity like Nicodemus remember his story in John chapter 3 curiosity got him he had to come to Jesus that way but others of you in this place God's got to get a hold of you in a different way I want you to bring me that that bit that bridle just a bit this is a Saturday night illustration this right here friend those of you that ride horses we have a couple horses and I will never use anything like this on my quarter horses I've got two wonderful quarter horses you can call them in the morning I can wake up and go they can be across the field they just come walking over there wonderful wonderful horses but this right here is for the don wonderful horses this is for some of you that you don't come when God says no you're stubborn you're a mule you want to fulfill Scripture this right here is called the Lin Mackenzie gag and hack bit Lin Mackenzie is a world renowned barrel racer and that's quarter horses it's spinning around those barrels a lot of work my younger sister was a rodeo queen of Alabama she's fabulous rider she was a barrel racer and and uh she would talk to me about some of the harder bits for more the stubborn animals she hated to use hard bits but Lin Mackenzie came up with a bit that some of y'all gods had to use on you puts a chain puts his metal thing in your mouth right here this over the top of your nose and this chain underneath your job once this thing is on the horse he's dead meat you pull this thing back the first thing that happens is it cuts off his oxygen supply he can't breathe pull him back a little bit more it breaks the cartilage in his nose I was talking to a trainer today he said I would never he said I can't believe they allowed that bit but it's a real bit the Lin Mackenzie gag and hack bit and some of you are in this room this is what the Lord is that fly from last night put this bit on that fly fly I'm gonna tell your brother I told him last night there's thousands of people here take your pick get off the preacher but some of you this is what God has got to do he's got to pull into he's got to reach into his tackle box and find something his tack room and find something that'll work on you this is pitiful friend this is pitiful he deals with you about sin he wants to talk to you and he's got to pull this thing out why because you're so stubborn you wait to the end of the altar call to come forward God speaks you about pornography and you keep wavering with it he speaks to you about lust and you keep wavering with it some of you you'll come to an altar call you'll repent of lust and pornography then you'll go to Walmart and you'll sit there and stare at the Cosmopolitan magazine cover or you'll come to a church service and girls will be dancing around and you'll be looking at the women dancing up and down lusting over them dear God Fred what has the Lord got to do to get your attention gouge your eyes out what's he got to do to stop you some of you were shocked that I said that I want to tell you something friend I've been here for 22 years that's not a long time but I've seen some stuff I've seen some stuff see God's concerned about your spirit man jesus said if your hand to fade you cut it off if your eye offends you pluck it out some of you are so stubborn God wants your attention and he'll go to extreme measures to get a hold of you now I got a feeling friend I know what he used on Saul of Tarsus and I'm gonna pull this out because some of you need this you'll never forget it as long as you live I was in an antique shop the other day and I saw this in that antique shop and I was shocked I'd never seen anything so massive and I asked the man I said what is that he said that is called the commander Charlie I want you to bring this to me [Applause] and I said to him I said that is the biggest hammer I've ever seen in my born days he said pick it up buddy and I picked it up I said that is heavy and I said it's called the commander I said what's it called the commander for he said whatever it hits goes in and he said that that hammer is from the Barnum & Bailey Circus they used that to drive the stakes in for the tents he said friend when that thing hit the peg the stake went all the way in then and he didn't go all the way in they hit it again for long the commander got the job done I hope someone in this place is beginning to understand what I'm talking about because if you don't but some of us in this room see Paul who was Saul of Tarsus wasn't going to accept just a little track he wasn't going to accept somebody walking up to him and talking to him about Jesus what he needed was something upside the head I don't know how you translate this thing friend but in the word there's some times where God gets our attention and he gets it good you remember the the jailor Paul and Silas remember that story God looked down to that jail he said I think an earthquake will do I'll just shake him silly God looked over his resources went through his warehouse and he said I think I'll just pull the earthquake lever and shake that jailer silly I think I'll just get him safe quit war get him saved quick no questions just what must I do to be saved type of thing you know that's what this is and I want to tell you in these last days God's pulling this thing out friend he's pulling it out he pulled it out on Saul of Tarsus he said Boy Oh Danny win what do you want me to do oh my head some of you know exactly what I'm talking about man the title is called the commander tonight don't be like a horse or the mule don't be like the fool that has to have those stripes across his back don't be like someone that God has got to go to extreme measures to get your attention when on earth friend are you gonna be pliable and sensitive to the Holy Spirit do you have to be like Balaam and have a donkey talk in English to you but before you'll finally get the message Jesus loves you has a plan for your life won't you come God's been dealing with some of you about the ministry I want you in my ministry I want you in my ministry I will Lord next year I will you've been next year in the Lord for 15 years when I have a little money when I have it when you have a little money you spend a little money have you noticed that have you noticed that I'm gonna say this this is gonna irritate somebody out there but this is what the devil does and you call it God the devil will come up to you and bless you here's how you'll do it you'll buy a car you'll fix it up and you'll put it out on your front yard you've got a call to the ministry you've got a call to the ministry you're going to Bible School in just a few months you buy this car and you're gonna use the money to pay for your Bible school and you sell it and lord have mercy you make eight hundred and fifty dollars profit will you take the money down you go to the Alabama auction and you buy another car you put it out front and with a little mechanical work and you're polish that thing up till it's brand new shiny you make $3,000 on that thing and in two weeks you've made three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars profit you go up to the auction you buy two cars you fix them bulk up you polish them you fine-tune the engine you take them down for a twelve dollar oil change you put a few new hubcaps on them you put them out in your front yard before you know it you've made eight thousand dollars profit you're supposed to be in Bible School in three weeks but things have changed this is awesome so you go do it again and again and again now you got the whole corner lot why cuz you got the money you bought it you bought the whole corner lot one of the finest intersections in town you got a call to the ministry but but now you're making money and all this time you know who you gave the credit to Jesus Jesus is blessing me Jesus is blessing me Fred I don't think so I would be careful to give Jesus all the credit for that maybe the devil's pushing them automobiles in front of you saying come on come on come on I'll give you everything I promised it to Jesus and he turned me down but I'm gonna give it to you you can have it all Bible school next year well this year well when this year rolls around next year rolls around you've got a car lot and you're thinking about opening them one up in the neighborhood two in a neighboring town now you're in the real estate fixing up houses before you know it you have a half a million dollars equity in the bank bible school doesn't look like it did before why live in poverty when you live in a four hundred thousand dollar home a nice couple new cars this is silly I'll just serve God by giving I'll just give but you know something else you never seem to do that either you never seem to give either you give yeah you you give $200 at a missions offer to something like that but that's what the poor man across the aisle from you gave you gave 200 bucks what's happened friend you've lost God in your life but listen one day something happens the government comes down on you you haven't been paying the taxes you've blown it financially and now your whole world is crashing down on you they're gonna take every one of your cars away from you they're gonna liquidate everything you have to file for bankruptcy I call it the commander you call it the devil you come to church and say pastor pray for me the devil's destroyed everything I've gotten the Lord's going pastor don't pray for him this is an answer to years of somebody else's prayers you're bankrupt it's all over you're squalling in bowling at the altar then this still small voice comes back into your spirit and says the Spirit of the Lord is upon you for I have anointed you to preach the gospel how many know what I'm talking about it happens every day all over the world once the Lord has your attention and I'm gonna close in just a minute he is certain of what he wants to say to you his message is clear tonight the Lord knows exactly where you're heading if you're in sin tonight he knows where your head and bringing out that halter and I want to close with this illustration for those of you that know nothing about horses this is a halter and I know very little but I know enough to ride them and I know enough not to stand behind them and poke them and say good little horsey good little horsey but this is a halter my favorite kind of horses are horses that you can slip one of these things on just slip it over their head hop on the back up and bareback and just neck rein them neck reining is you just tap them on the right they go left tap them on the left they go right just neck raining those are the kind of horses we have wonderful horses they come this is kind of Christian you're supposed to be this is the kind of person you're supposed to be you need to be a trigger remember Roy Rogers trigger just call him and he comes you need to be Lassie what a dog yes what is it Lassie really how long ago which way what a show I promise you now there's people that have bought this tape they've already bought the tape this is what they were waiting for they're sitting here tonight they're sitting here tonight and they're just waiting the sermon was fine you know they don't manners this was solid they hate that when it's solid you know it's good this is biblical a lot of Scripture it's solid and then they're waiting for something and just sin yeah they bought that when that girl flipped over on the platform up that's good gymnastics yeah the boy the icing on the cake was just saying when the evangelists win oh yeah I knew it I knew it they're barking like dogs at Brownsville [Applause] trust me trust me friend I mean trust me it will be played all over America just that one little segment that's all they'll play I had a pastor call me one day said Steve do you have any idea what is going on in my city what they're doing with the Brownsville revival I said yes I said it's hilarious is it because Jesus Christ knows the truth and I said something else I told the pastor people out there aren't stupid they aren't stupid they know that nothing's going to go on this long that's why the media keeps pouring through here they know people are going to come all over the world so they know when a little segment is played on a radio program a little out of context statement people are getting smarter and smarter and it's making the people on the radio programs look dumber and dumber and people are going now wait a minute and then you wonder what they can do they can turn it up they can get this whole message and watch it on internet and they'll watch it on the World Wide Web and then they'll call that radio program and go wait a minute would you like someone to do that to you take a conversation you had out of context my mind vengeance is mine saith the Lord well everyone stand everyone stand those of you with chairs moving to the left and the right as quietly as you can if just thinking about slipping out and going to the bathroom we have speakers in the bathroom sir the commander wants to get a hold of you tonight he is the commander he is over everything he's trying to get your attention for those of you that don't know him he's a Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world he is the one two thousand years ago I want everyone to listen who was beaten who was stripped spat upon cursed ridiculed bloodied a plow was raped across his back his flesh was split open guts muscle veins were ripped out of his body they crammed a crown on his forehead blood dripped down his face some of you prick your finger on a thorn and you can't believe the pain have you ever noticed that just one little prick the pain that that authority can cause could you imagine the crown pressed on your forehead piercing through the skin up to the skull and scraping the bone of the skull that crown pressed on the forehead then who slapped you Jesus ridiculing him he knew who slapped him he knew everything then they place a beam on his back drive him up Calvary's Road lay him on a cross slam nails through his hand through his feet strip his garments off the Bible says he had garments scholars will tell you most scholars agree that he was totally naked when they finally put him on the tree that means totally naked humiliated so he covered that for you friend humiliation if you've ever been humiliated how about hanging on a cross naked in front of all your followers in front of all the women who worshipped you now you're hanging up there naked he covered every pain you could ever go through every pain every suffering you could ever go through he covered it and there he was bleeding wounded dying suffering for you I'm telling you Jesus wants to talk to you tonight and he looked out from there and he saw July 5th 1997 and he says Father forgive them they know not what they do did you notice this little girl's story tonight she you hear what she said she said I didn't know what I was doing she was fulfilling Scripture when she said that that was a diss ditto that we're out there in sin she had no idea how how she was driving the nails deeper in the Lord's hands she had no idea how she was hurting her mother she had no idea how bad how many times she had violated Holy Scripture and as a result of finding out about it she repents and starts living for God that should be the result of finding out about where you're at with God friend tonight for those of you that have never known the Lord I'm telling you he's here to come into your life to make you brand new to forgive you to cleanse you he's here you don't have to understand everything about Jesus and dear God everyone listen please don't be one of those that has to find him in the emergency room I'm tired of those calls it's funny on the deathbed no one wants to talk about finances nobody wants to talk about Wall Street nobody wants to talk about the social class they want to talk about God that's why they called the preacher it's amazing friend what it takes for some of us for God to get our attention that's so sad you should be one friend tonight where the Lord can just speak to you and you come running he speaks to you he wants to talk to you sinner he wants to forgive you he is the friend of sinners don't ever forget that he loves you friend he died for you Buddha didn't die for you the psychics are not dying for you they're dying for your money but they're not dying for you Jesus died for you it's time you do something for him I'm gonna give this altar call in just a minute everyone in this room that's backslidden if there's ever a time that you need to get right with God friend it's after this message don't be like a mule does God have to cram a gag and hack bit in your face and I'm half convinced God's fed up with that anyhow tired of it obstinate stubborn people I just keep falling back into sin falling back into sin Paul what are these days you're gonna fall back into sin friend and he ain't gonna be there the Bible says his spirit will not always contend with men I promise you there's claw marks on the side of the Ark were people that would expect we're expecting God to give them one more chance scrape their fingernails off trying to get into the ark if they could stand here before you tonight they would say the scripture that's in the word the Spirit of the Lord will not always contend with you he will not always wrestle with you don't expect him to always be there every time you have a little problem he expects you friend to live for him sinners every time they go to a fix jailhouse salvation help me Jesus get me out of this fix and I'll serve you they get out and blow it again friend it's time to stop that nonsense those of you that are backslidden you're watching pornography you're doing things Jesus would never do you're gonna come quickly at this altar call and those of you that are religious charities gonna sing run to the mercy seat religious person mercy is undeserved forgiveness religion is hanging around the cross Christianity is getting on the cross religion is singing in the choir religion and I believe in singing in the choir religion is taking communion but I want to tell you you can go to hell with a communion cup in your hand and a wafer in your mouth you can go to hell with baptismal waters all over your face you can go to hell and be the head deacon at Brownsville Assembly of God if you don't know Jesus don't be a religious person America is damned by religion tomorrow morning all over America will rise go to church and give God an hour and half the people that do that will go home before the Sun sets will be involved in some major sin whether it be drinking adultery pornography but they already gave a little time to God their little quick fix that's religion friend it'll damn your soul so tonight I want to ask you this do you know him do you wake up in the morning with Jesus on your heart do you go to sleep at night with Jesus on your heart do you eat drink and breathe Jesus is he everything to you friend if you're not consumed with the Lord I question your salvation see there's a dividing line coming in the world right now friend and I predict by the year 2000 when someone says the name Christian you will know exactly what that means there will be a set apart group of people they'll be holy righteous God lovers sin haters when someone says I'm a Christian you will smell it they'll be holy but right now everybody calls themselves Christians no friend either change your name or live up to it so those of you that are religious in this place but you don't know Jesus I'm gonna give you this altar call you're gonna come down here and meet him your membership card at the Methodist Church won't save you your Baptist membership your Assembly God membership won't save you you can go to hell with a certificate of ordination from the Assemblies of God hanging behind your desk none of that will save you and you know it the superintendent of the Assemblies of God Thomas Trask was just here last week he loves this revival we have a group of men that are were held accountable too and he would stand here tonight he'll tell you as a superintendent of the Assemblies of God as the head man over this huge fellowship I could go to hell it doesn't matter what's hanging behind my desk I could go to hell if my relationship with Jesus wasn't intact so right now friend when this altar call is given if there's sin in your life if there's something between you and Jesus if you've never known the Lord you're gonna come quickly if there's ever a night for you to come quickly it's tonight don't anyone come until charity begins to sing if there's ever a night to come quickly friend it's right now it's gonna be tonight let the Lord just put that little halter on you and bring you down from that balcony bring you down from the chapel cause you in your seat at home to get up and come down and get right with God and for those of you that aren't going to do it and you know there's sin in your life that's called pride friend that's called pride one of our workers come stand with this dear woman that's called pride hurry please that's called pride and pride friend is what cast Lucifer down look at me everyone don't be distracted pride says I wonder what my wife will think I wonder what my husband will think I wonder what my girlfriend will think I wonder what my friends will think you came into this world alone friend you're gonna leave alone what does it matter what your friend thinks I don't every time the Lord convicts me of something I don't run to my wife Jerry to see if it's okay with her it's up to me to deal with God if God's dealing with you you come do not hesitate right now everyone is away from God everyone who has sin in their life everyone who needs Jesus to forgive them if you've never known him I want you to come if your back slid I want you to come right now hurry hurry hurry do not hesitate do not wait come on come on hurry hurry hurry in the dark let's go [Music] Oh [Music] hello hurry in the chapel come on in the chapel [Music] I'll run an hour to [Music] hey what are you waiting on come on put on the hall [Music] let's go don't be stubborn like a come on god bless you god bless you come on [Music] close [Music] god bless you yes you [Music] come on come on come on Couric [Music] but I know where there's a place of mercy for [Music] after the holidays [Music] come around come around [Music] come on [Music] yes [Music] don't help [Music] god bless you [Music] [Music] well Jesus [Music] Oh [Music] come on come on down in the chapel let's go come on come on come on keep crying out to God here at this altar God's hearing you sir the Lord told me to come and talk to you I don't believe in two years of revival I've spoken specifically like this to one person but God has watched you you have become so stubborn so stiff necked so hard to deal with but you want to know something that you feel you feel nothing right now you don't feel God why the Bible says his spirit will no longer contend with man there was a time where his spirit will leave I believe someone has given you this tape or you're watching this broadcast because the Lord has given you one more chance sir I'm telling you right now you know the gospel these people are crying for you these people are weeping for you these people are dying for you they're moaning and groaning for your salvation get off of your chair get on your knees and say Jesus restore unto me the joy of my salvation take this hard heart and make it a heart of flesh Jesus forgive me Jesus make me new come on friend come on come on that's it that's right come on come on god bless you no one at this altar move everyone stay where you're at we're gonna give you 30 more seconds and I'm going to close it just play soften thirty seconds 23 20 17 god bless you sir [Music] 14 ten-nine god bless you seven if you're coming you better come now six [Music] in the chapel let's go three to sing this one time through singing out loud heard Hey [Music] all right [Music] No [Music] see [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I want you to bow your heads everyone at the altar in the chapel those of you at home I want you to bow your heads those of you listening on the Internet I want you to bow your heads right there bow your heads you've fallen under conviction watching this you've fallen under conviction listening to it now bow your head follow through follow through with the conviction conviction is there to change you everyone in this altar everyone who is under conviction right now pray with me dear Jesus no friend I'm talking praying open your mouth dear Jesus thank you for speaking to me thank you Jesus for speaking to my heart I ask you tonight to forgive me I have sinned I have hurt you I've heard others and I've hurt myself I ask you Jesus right now to wash me cleanse me I repent of my sins wash my sins away make me new tonight Jesus be my Savior my lord and my very best friend from this moment on I am yours and you are mine I give myself 100% to you in Jesus name in Jesus name Amen glory everyone at this altar everyone at this altar I want you to stand just stand and face this way do not go back to your seats everyone in the chapel those of you at home I want you to listen for those of you that are visiting for the first time and you may be wondering what's going on we have never counted the numbers of people that came to the altar if we did it would be over 300 thousand people that have come to these altars the numbers you

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