The POWER of a Woman's Uncut Hair: Lee Stoneking

[Music] and he has a word of God for us tonight and he doesn't even really need an introduction brother stone King if you came and you never even said a word just your presence would change the atmosphere we love you so much thank you sister Haney I think I'd like some more light in here so I could actually look at you as I'm speaking to you I don't want to take advantage of you but I would like for you to all stand again for a moment there is a magnificent touch of God in this house just a magnificent touch of gum in an atmosphere like this anything can happen anything is possible in the presence of the Lord I have a very dear friend from the Midwest his name is Steve he's a great soul winner is a pastor got a Bible School he's baptized many many prisoners in the local prison in Jesus name but he is they don't know what's wrong they think he may have a nervous breakdown I got word from his son last night and I just called him before he came to this service they're in the hospital they think it may be a nervous breakdown I talked to his wife and also to him it's the first name is Steve because there is such power in this place I feel like if you ladies will pray for him God will send an angel and touch him and he'll be all right would you just lift your hands got those exactly where is whoís let your voice out and just pray for my friend Steve in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ god I pray for the angel of the Lord right now to go into his presence of God heal him emotionally mentally physically spiritually Oh God take away this attack I ask in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ pay the authority of the word of God by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus rested be the name of the Lord forever in Jesus name how many of you feel like the Lord has touched him can you feel that it's all clap our hands for just a moment and worship the Lord [Applause] thank you so much for your prayers I want to draw your attention to the book of proverbs chapter 23 here is a verse that I have pondered a great deal in my own walk with God here in proverbs 23 and verse 23 the admonition the instruction is by the truth and sell it not also wisdom and instruction and understanding by the truth and don't ever sell it don't ever let go of it but with truth also by wisdom and instruction and understanding if you look in the Gospel of John chapter 8 and verse 32 Jesus made a very interesting statement we misquote this a lot but he said and he shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free we quote it as set you free it doesn't say that it says and it will make you free in other words the truth when it comes to you will make you free whether you want it or not it's up to you to embrace it and to live it I simply want to entitle this the great convictions of truth would you lift your hands and your voices once again and would you pray with me before you are seated Lord Jesus I pray now for the spirit of revelation and understanding to come upon this marvelous congregation powerfully in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that you will anoint us both to hear and to speak we will not fail to give you praise glory and honor tonight our minds to hear to harken our hearts to open why to embrace the truth help us to love your truth in so doing we are loving you I'm asking that you will denied these lips of clay and cause me to speak as an Oracle of the Lord we will not fail to give you praise glory and honor we ask these things in the matchless or powerful name of the Lord Jesus Christ and everyone said amen thank you for standing so long you may be seated I don't know how long you have been worshiping like this but I know it takes a great deal of energy if you have energy left and a voice left would you clap uproariously for a moment to the Lord and would you just shout to him with a voice of victory because there is victory in this place and there is triumph in this place today there was a lawsuit in the state of Ohio back in about 1976 or 1977 and this lawsuit had to do with to know whether a pastor had a conviction or was it just a preference and it went to court to the Supreme Court of the United States and dr. David Gibbs with the Christian Law Association represented this particular case the Supreme Court ruled at that time on what a conviction was number one that you would be willing to die for your conviction if you are not willing to die for it it was not a conviction it was just a preference number two that no amount of family pressure would cause you to change it if it could be changed then it really was not a conviction it was just a preference number three that no amount of peer pressure would cause you to change if they could change you it really was not a personal conviction it was just a preference number five that you would be willing to go to jail for it if you were unwilling to go to jail for your quote/unquote conviction then it was not really a conviction it was just a preference these five things are what the Supreme Court of the United States of America said that a true conviction is and was because only convictions are covered by the First Amendment truth will always be attacked you do not have to defend truth just speak it it will defend itself full identity identity with truth will cause you to become prosperous because you'll never give God the more you give to him it will come back to you press down heaped up and running over you will never see anyone stand at the white judgment at the end of the age and hear anyone say but Jesus I gave more than you gave it'll never happen it will just never ever happen you will never out give God in the days of Hezekiah Isaiah the prophet Syrian King sent two letters to Hezekiah Hezekiah feared the threats of the Syrian King and he melted down the silver and the gold he had put in the temple and sent it to the king of Assyria to buy him off instead of trusting God Hezekiah is son Manasseh became king when he was only twelve years old Manasseh saw his father waver Manasseh had Isaiah the prophet executed if your children do not see it in you they will kill the men of God in the end result they will destroy the truth we're living in a fearful fearful hour unlike anything I have seen in the 44 years I have been in this truth is passed from generation to generation each generation needs to see it from the past generation else it will be lost if our young people our children do not see it in us they will not see it J Edgar Hoover said if you want to change the world change one generation it only takes one generation to lose the truth it doesn't take two or three generations to lose the truth and what is not preached is forgotten and we're living at an hour when the devil seemingly wants us to forget everything that we have held so precious and so dear lift your and just rebuke that spirit in the name of Jesus for a moment because there is power in your prayer here let your voice out don't worry about the person next to you and what they may think or hear Hotel atomically shotta we rebuke the spirit Oh God the deceiving spirits that have come to steal and to destroy the great truth that has been given to us as an apostolic people to lockup aracataca the truth demands investigation but a lie does not want close scrutiny all you have to do is present it God will prove it but this world says prove it now believe it God says believe it now prove it it's a whole different concept amazing how God works and how in the end result he will have the last laugh both Isaiah not Isaiah but both Abraham and Sarah laughed at the promises of God but Isaac was born and the reason they named that boy Isaac it's pronounced Asaka in Hebrew is because it's up means laughter God will always get the last laugh his word is sure what he has promised will come to pass and I'm talking to ladies here who have had visions and promises from God but the devil has tried to steal that say but I have it say I haven't say I haven't say it will come to pass [Applause] in Jesus name in Jesus name in first Corinthians chapter 11 verses 10 through 16 Paul wrote to the church at Corinth and he wrote these words he said for this cause of the woman to have power on her head because of the angels but if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a covering but if any man seem to be contentious we have no such custom near the Churches of God first Timothy 2:5 through 10 says for there is one God and one mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time wherein to I am an ordained preacher and an apostle I speak the truth in Christ and lie not a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and Verity isn't this I will therefore that men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting in like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety not with broided hair or gold or pearls or costly array but which becometh women professing godliness with good works in other words if men have something they are to do in obedience to the laws and the revelation of the in sight of God but women have something to do in the same perspective and my position is here today if men would do what they're supposed to do and women would do what they're supposed to do we could take our cities because there is nothing so powerful as simple obedience to the Word of God and the laws of God and I've noticed let's be honest I'll be very transparent I've been in this 44 years for the most part in all of my travels in this country through the years and pastoring etc women have really carried the ball most of the time there they're the worshipers they they do the dancing they give the tongues and interpretation they prophesy they cry they shake in they tremble and the husband stands back holding the child or no child but just stands back but something has happened in the last couple of years men are becoming aggressive toward God I mean men are beginning to come out of their corner and they're dancing they're leading victory marches and they're lifting up holy hands and God is beginning to move listen people revival is not coming revival is here we're in the middle of the greatest move of God this world has ever seen and nothing is going to be able to stop it with every great move of God if you study through history and I have whether it was in Wales England America whether it was Finney Moody Wesley or whoever there was always a great revival of holiness or separation from the world in that day that accompanied that move of God if you're going to be a Muslim you're gonna have to read the Quran memorize it and apply that philosophy to everyday life if you're going to be a Buddhist you're gonna have to read the writings of Buddha and apply that philosophy to everyday life and live it but if you're going to be a Christian you're gonna have to read this book and do what's in this book otherwise you do not really qualify as a Bible believing Christian so now let's get into it when I when I was a child I've always liked to draw and I had a cousin who was an artist and he inspired me and I've always been drawn to that type of thing so I always wanted to be a commercial artist when I got out of high school and that's what I was doing when you people found me and diverted me or detoured me from my path in life and so now here I am but in high school I used to keep my homework done in the study halls I would always have a pad and pencil I'd sit there and I would sketch portraits profiles of students around me and then give it to them as a gift at the end of the study hall and I was just involved in a lot of things like that in fact when I was in high school I belong to the National thespian society and I was head makeup artist for the whole high school theatrical productions and all of the dramas well if you understand that then you'll understand some of the things I'm going to say I did a term paper on makeup in fact they dug it out not too long ago I can't believe that I knew all those things way back there but I did and I had my own makeup kit and if I had it here today I could take any one of you and with the base paint and all the things I know how to do I would I would make you into someone that no one to recognize unless they heard your voice in fact the students in the high school their parents when they came to the dramas and the theatrical productions didn't know who their child was until they heard the child's voice you know in the acting and throughout the course of the drama I once talked my mother into letting me do it to her and I turned her into a Chinese woman she looked in the mirror and she just gasped she didn't realize that this much could be done was something called makeup when I was in high school Max Factor that came out of would California was one of the great makeup industries and names at that material particular period of time but let me just get right into it when a woman puts on makeup she is putting on a mask I've known women that I have pastored when I won them to God they would not go out in the backyard to empty the garbage without putting makeup on for fear and neighbor would be looking at a window seeing them without makeup now let me ask a question who's in bondage here that's what I want to know in other words makeup is a mask and a woman who uses lots of makeup basically she doesn't think God made her good enough she's got open resentment many of them do and rebellion against God in essence she's saying I'm gonna fix it and some of them can't fix it at all it's free I've watched women from among us when they quote-unquote backslide they put seven times more on than what they need it's atrocious actually because most women don't really know how to put it on and I can spot it because I know exactly what to look for I don't say anything but I see a lot of things that people don't know I see I've noticed for example older women I've seen some of them that they look ghastly and here's why because as you get older the skin begins to pale and the pigment begins to become lighter so what did they do they put on dark black eyeliner and mascara and eye pencil for the eyebrows it's amazing to me some women shave the eyebrows totally offer then paint them on with a with a pencil that's always thought that was weird or strange or unusual somehow and then they dyed their hair black and the skin is so pale that the contrast it looks like death and then they put on this real dark lipstick if I'm a distant look they have big hole in their mouth their head if you're going to wear makeup ladies get older you wear the lighter Pink's the lighter shades let your hair grow white don't make it dark because it blends Nature has a way of making you attractive but some women look scary because they don't understand what they're doing but God said I will beautify the meek with holiness there is a light in your face there is a glory in your countenance that comes from the indwelling power of the Holy Ghost in fact if I were a woman I'd be really angry at the cosmetic industry because who said that women need help and men are alright that's what these makeup companies are saying they're saying you ladies need help why don't you come to your feet and look at each other and say you don't need help I don't need help there's a light inside of us there's something that comes out in you as women and children of God amazing and I can go on like there was some very interesting details but it's amusing just to watch people in fact I have a recipe if you really get down on yourself this will fix it this will get bring you out of it go to an airport sit down and watch people walk by for about 30 minutes you'll get up walk out feeling very good about yourself I tell you those people don't know where they are they don't know where they were they don't know where they're going thank God I know where I was you know where you were we know where we are and we know where we're going that's why we can to the house of God and shout and clap and dance and worship God and kicked the devil in the face it doesn't matter what he tries to put on us doesn't matter how dark the valley we just come to the house of God and we just worship and run the aisles it drives the devil crazy because there is no problem here today bigger than God there is no problem here today bigger than Jesus everyone shout amen so now I've talked about women for a moment here why doesn't a man have that problem because a man doesn't use makeup as an attractive additive to his personality he doesn't a woman is trying to attract a man in nature it is the male that tries to attract but in the human species it is the reverse it's in a woman's nature to attract in nature or creation they do not attract for life but there are exceptions geese mate for life but there's no special colouring between them differentiation Eagles mate for life but again there is no special coloring but those that do mate for life they have to vie for the female's attention statistics from the motel and hotel Bureau show that when charismatic groups come to town for their conventions there are more pornographic movies rented in those hotel rooms than any other convention group that comes to the city why because they're appealing to the flesh that's a staggering thing to know that charismatic groups rent more pornographic movies in hotels than any other convention that comes to town because they're big on love fellowship makeup jewelry and expensive clothes they are in the animal kingdom the animals that mate for life look very much alike but those that do not the male is decorated and he courts the female but in the human race it is the female that flirts with the male men are stimulated by what they see we really have not addressed this the way I feel we should have addressed it but we need to come to grips with this particular truth that's why men are more likely to be into pornography than women because men are attractive in what they see a woman in slacks for example the body is accentuated makeup appeals to the eye men are attracted to them before I was in the church and I received the Holy Ghost when I was 23 years old I just turned 67 this July this year but in these 44 years I mean it's amazing what I've learned and seen but before all of that the theater was my favorite form of entertainment I used to go to the theater once or twice a week before I came into the church so I have seen all of the really great Bible film productions that have ever been made I've seen all of them at one time or another and I can tell you that Hollywood knows something that we can't seem to get together we can't seem to get the message here if you've ever seen the film Jesus of Nazareth when you first see Mary Magdalene in that film she's covered with makeup once she's been to the feet of Jesus and converted to him the very next scene when she is in the film her face comes to the full screen and there is not one speck of makeup anywhere the contrast is so great it is obvious she has had an experience with God and Hollywood knows when you have become holy you don't need all of that streetwalker attire and masquerade something happens there's a purity there is cleanness if Hollywood knows that when they tried to portray someone that's been converted to Jesus in a film my God in heaven people why should we not understand the super laws of the Bible and what we have in our hearts in our lives tap your hands for a moment and let the Lord just move on you in churches where our pastors have gone charismatic the women are being exploited in fact we've asked questions to some - even pastors wives why did you start doing this and the answers basically been the same well her husband sort of wanted it men are allowing them to become central because they enjoy seeing it they don't they they won't make or take any stand against it and when there are no holiness standards in a church you will find more pornographic material in their homes and in their relationships it's staggering if you do any counselling at all in this hour staggering and yet God has wanted to deliver us totally from all of that how many of you women here today honestly feel free there's a freedom in you of freedom in you how many of you feel that really fill him it's obvious you do because of the way you worshiped I said over there on those steps and watched just purity just flow over this whole group of women there was something so magnificent that came forth that was emanated from you as you worship the way you do you ladies are powerful more powerful than you understand you are God has allowed you to do something that men cannot do if you will do what you're supposed to do we will shake our world we will shake our world I'm not sure you believe that I'm not sure you believe it but if you really leave it clap with all of your might for just a moment Jesus hallelujah Jesus and in all your Jesus hallelujah you can feel an anointing in this place you can feel something stirring inside of you as a people in this audience here today hallelujah Luke 24:29 says Terry II in Jerusalem until you be endued that word in dude means to be clothed with power from on high first Peter 5:10 says make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you perfect comes from the greek word which literally means to make tailor-made in other words to take it up until it fits it comes from the Greek word Qatar Tice if the foundation Psalm 11 3 says if the foundation be destroyed what can the righteous do the literal translation means what is the righteous going to do about it there are several things you can rebuild and remodel but you cannot rebuild the foundation once you put the foundation down it is permanent and it must be built correctly you can do all kinds of things to the structure but the foundation is permanent Romans 8 and 15 says for ye have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear but he have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Galatians 4 5 says to redeem them that are under the law that they might receive the adoption of sons Ephesians 1:5 says of having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will according to the polizia stroke of theological Neri in biblical times when you were adopted you had to change your name address and dress code because every family was known by the kind of clothing that was worn example that kilts that the Scots wear in Scotland each clan has its own design its own color of fabric so when we are adopted into the family of God our names have become changed I'm not just least on King I'm least don't King Jesus that's who you are whatever your name is Jesus is on it's your surname because he's coming for a people who are called by his name he's not looking for your first name your last name he's looking for his name that you are called by everyone say Jesus the name was changed the address has changed I don't belong here I belong to a city that is above and I will go to that New Jerusalem I will go to that holy city in the end result and my dress code has changed we don't look like this world we don't act like this world we don't talk like this world we don't walk like this world because we are not of this world we are only passing through here we're on our way to a place called heaven and that's why we are dancing and shouting and worshipping that because when we get over there we'll do it forever and ever and I'm never gonna be tired again oh happy day it's gonna be a wonderful thing to just be able to worship like that to worship like that to worship like that gift to wave your hand sister Haiti like that and never be tired again so you might say we're just getting practiced up down here if you don't know how to do it here how you ever gonna do it over there but we're going to give it everything we've got here because worship is the prerequisite to the miraculous of the Bible says the Spirit of the Lord inhabiteth the praises of his people if you build a great big house of praise he will come and live in that house in a great big way so throw your hands in the air your voices and just praise him for a moment hallelujah Jesus hallelujah [Music] everyone just cry out and shout that the word hallelujah for a moment wonderful do it again you can feel the air just shimmer because of human voices worshiping the Lord of glory brother Abu gyro a very well-known figure among us a great man of God a tremendous Christian calmly one day he said for the strong King I want you to have this information I said what's that he said after you at the University of Tennessee Medical School University of Tennessee Medical School there are strict requirements for dress code among women and this last for the 22 months that they are there only a very select few women annually are eligible to even attend this university but when they go the women are not allowed whether in that medical school to wear makeup no excessive jewelry only a wedding band in classes no pants can be worn only dresses and the hair has to be worn up isn't that amazing that in a college that is the top of the field in training women insist on these particular standards of self presentation and personal conduct if a medical institution can see the value of that then we certainly should be able to see the value of that with what we have in the Word of God everyone say Amen that means it is so in first Corinthians 11:15 the literal translation for the Greek says but a woman if she wears her hair long a glory to her it is because the long hair instead of a veil has been given her this is some of the most interesting fascinating information that I've ever ever worked with and I work with these things a lot because I'm fascinated by it I don't know about you but I want to know the answers I want to know the reality of this thing I want to know how it really is I've always been like I'm that way about everything I want to know how this really is and how it works so at first Corinthians 1110 for this cause art the woman to have power on her head because of the angels now there are three words that stand out there to me odd power and because the word art means to the indebted the word power has to do with authority rule and because means through by or width so if you read that then as it really is for this cause indebted is the woman to have a thority rule on her head with the Angels powerful powerful therefore the woman is indebted or owes her authority in her head through by or with the Angels the word power the original meaning ability to perform an act the right the authority and I love this and the permission conferred by a higher court look at your neighbor there beside you and say I am special back say so are you look back and say so let's act like it today now always hallelujah for this cause the woman is in dinner owes her power on her head because she has through by with the Angels which is conferred by a higher court power this inward powers has conferred her by a higher court for this cause the woman is owing or indebted to the inward power which is conferred upon her by a higher court through with or by the angels and this is one of the most fascinating things about this that what power comes from a Greek word I think I'm pronouncing a correct I'm not sure a Shuja or Azusa which in the New Testament rests upon three foundations one the power to decide to reflects God's relationship and three as a divinely given authority to act this xuxa implies freedom for the whole community the power that's on your head ladies because of your uncut hair is conferred upon you by a higher court and that power is for the good of the entire community the whole church your family let your voice out there is something you can feel revelation you can feel revelation beginning to take hold you can feel understanding beginning to rise among us here today oh ha Carissa the tattle Erica Shattuck a file handle of ricotta Carissa Takaful from the LA hitaka licorice attire a baja robbery Shotokan and he lured Jesus and he lured Jesus hallelujah Jesus I worship you so in view of what we are reading here from the Word of God a woman if she wants to be free she lets her hair grow if she wants to be bound she does not let her hair grow long but if she allows her hair to grow long uncut and we're going to deal with that in a few moments in compliance with God's relationship to man then the church community has a freedom in the spirit which does not exist without her compliance and it's not the longer the short of it it's uncut I work with two Greek scholars the word for long comes from the Greek word which means uncut it's not the long or the short of it it's uncut because in some cultures women's air does not grow so God would be unjust unfair to make such a law if they had to have long hair when the hair cannot grow long it's not long or short it's uncut that's where the power is it's amazing to me I've been in all kinds of pastor's homes through the years and there'll be some big problem you know that will rise from the church body and he's up half the night and he can't sleep and he's praying and fasting and his wife knows about it and they've talked about it some and I've been in the kitchen when this happened and it's amazing to me the Bible says for this cause of the woman to have power on her head because of the angels and I've watched the husband walk in the pastor sit down at the table with me and all of a sudden the wife just turned and in the simplest language give an answer that was absolutely profound it was like listening from wisdom of God it just came through her because she's got that connection because of uncut air with angelic presences and bigs and men don't have that but women have it so lady if you cut your hair you're missing some of the greatest power in this entire thing you're missing one of the greatest aspects of your walk with God Oh tap your hands and just do your own little personal rejoicing for a moment hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus only eternity will reveal how many times angels have poured back children from oncoming cars and traffic how many times a husband has been spared an accident on the way to work because of the uncut hair in that home on that woman's head only time will reveal that I remember when I first came in this they told the story brother sister butcher's Church in Des Moines Iowa how there was a someone walking along the street and it was a Pentecostal home and the window upstairs have been left open and the mother didn't know it and that little boy had climbed he climbed up on that window ledge and the passerby looked up just as that child fell off that window ledge and them the passerby on the street just cried out not a believer at all and he just closed his eyes in fear when he opened his eyes a man was standing on the ground that had not been there before he closed his eyes had caught the child in his arms power on your head because of the angels it was stories like that that got me into this truth mr. Haney I said if there's a Jesus like this I'm not going to some some some lesser situation out there I'm gonna go where there's that kind of power if there's a Jesus like this this is the Jesus I want to serve if people have this kind of power I want that kind of power if I can have friends like you I want these kinds of friends [Applause] say I'm so glad I'm in this Steve Richardson told the story I met his mother before she passed on to her wonderful reward she was a saint of God long beautiful hair always worn up so nicely and Steve Richardson was in a car driving in the secure 'test Highway around in Annapolis and something happened all of a sudden there was a truck and he went to pass this truck this semi and found himself head-on heading straight for a head-on collision with a car that came over the hill and he cried Jesus and when he did he said brother stone King when I came to I found myself in my car ahead of the collision the car had hit the truck and not me my car was ahead of it off the side of the road and he said I was just sitting there in the car the car was safe he said the truck driver came out of the cab of the truck came running up behind my car pounded of the window and he said I opened he said I've never seen anything like this in all my life he said something jerk Cara carried it through the air and set it down on the side of the road it was an angel of God that did that because there was a mother who had never cut her hair are you getting a revelation of how powerful you are are you getting a revelation of the power that is in your hands for the church for the whole community not just you but for the whole church I can like and walk into churches Pentecostal UPC I can tell you if the women are cutting the hair because there's a power missing there's a depth missing I can tell you that in homes that I walk into it's not the same it's what I call sloppy agape it's a surface bunch of nonsense but the real power of God is not there I don't want sloppy agape I want the real thing I want a church where the drug addict can be freed where aids can be healed where people in immorality can be set free I want a place where the drug addict and the alcoholic and the prostitute can be saved can be redeemed and can be changed by the touch of the master's hand that's the kind of church I want to be in I want to be in a church where cancer disappears when the elders in the pastor play I want to be in a church where blind eyes see where deaf ears here where the lame walk the dead are raised to life again that's the kind of church I want to be in and that is the kind of church that Jesus died for it is apostolic Pentecostalism I'm not a traditional Pentecostal I am an apostolic Pentecostal and there is that difference if there is a difference Oh [Applause] Jesus Jesus [Music] Hokulea hishaku Chaotica the Holy Ghost is powerfully moving upon a number of you right here because there's revelation there is understanding here I know you're Jesus hallelujah Jesus Oh [Music] Rita you may want to just reach up with your hand and touch someone there and pray with them the Holy Ghost is on this lady right here there's that woman is just wonderfully smiling right there because you can just see there's knowledge coming down on her the young lady behind her is just moved by the power of the Holy Ghost and there's people all through here the Holy Ghost is just moving on us in this place a while ago you were you were demonstrating you were reaching for God but now God is reaching for you and there's a difference God is reaching for you hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus hallelujah [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hakuro Halle shot a portal every Avinash Ataka shot ah Jesus I pray for revelation and understanding to come upon every young woman here every lady here today in the name of Jesus that they will never be the same again so let us talk about some in-depth things here for just a moment or two in raising children how many mothers are there here today lots of mothers in this place but never underestimate the power of a mother's prayer let me tell you why know my father was 15 years older than my mother I was born when my mother was 16 years old my mother my sister and I grew up like brothers and sisters more than her being a mother to us one day where my father was playing with the team of horses in Iowa my mother took me out behind the log cabin home that my grandfather stole King had built they all came by covered wagon in the beginning of last century and settled in in Iowa she took me up behind that log cabin home like the pond is still there the Scimitar still there some of the things are still there even now and she took me in her hands as just a baby and she lifted me up among those trees and she held me up and she said god I feel like I made a mess of my life but you take this boy and do something with him I had nothing to do with the prayers of my mother or the decision of her God but I am where I am today because of that 16 year old girl pray that's exactly why I am where I am and in the end result I won my mother back to God I mean within six months after I got the baptism of the Holy Ghost and she was a saint of God she was the best Sunday School they ever had four children in that church we didn't have a funeral for her we brought the body to the church and had church service because that's the way she would have liked it she was a saint of God but her prayers were powerful if you're a mother here right now I don't know what your stories are don't have time to find out that they're probably lost children there's probably backslidden children if you're a mother here today you've got a right to throw those hands and that voice of yours in the air and cry to God with a mother's compassion that only a mother can have pray right now for just a moment for that child maybe a husband a backslidden relative but in particular your children power of a mother's prayer hallelujah Jesus [Music] [Applause] you can feel something you can actually feel something hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Oh tequila to racial America shot at Oliver of Rosetta rhondella Rakesh Oliveira cachaca shot an auto color taco taco decoration at Alicia tell ya hallelujah Jesus [Music] I worship you Jesus I worship you Jesus [Applause] [Music] hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus now that you've cried to him for a moment just worship him for the answer because I believe that you have touched him I can feel that you have touched him mother's prayers have touched him so now just worship Him for the touching for the answer that is on its way hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus hallelujah this may sound like an unusual statement but a boy gets his male identity from his mother not his father her approval her recognition her affection develops his self-esteem his identity that he is a male I've watched teenage boys and they have a big sort of begin to flirt with their mother a little bit I've watched it and they're not vulgar with this it's just that this this feeling this newness in them and a wise mother knows exactly what's going on she knows just exactly how to respond and to give him her approval it's amazing if the mother is rebellious in these matters of divine order that we're talking about here then she transmits her rebellion to his son and a generation that he sires will be more rebellious than hers that is what is so scary about all of this she may be subtle in her expression of it but he will be bold he will be it will become his life style and I've watched and I passed it three times men who grew up and did not have a good relationship with their mother they do not know how to treat their wives there's all there are all kinds of problems in the home because he doesn't understand how to treat a woman it's really really vital that we live the loss of this book and understand his wisdom and his knowledge and carry out the divine order of things all you have to do is go to Roman history and we see how the mothers of the Caesars manipulated their sons to become the most vile cruel corrupt specimens of humanity that has ever existed for example Claudius he was fifth from Augustus Caesar a great example of that even the Pharaohs of Egypt people there are whole volumes written on this particular subject from the theological dictionary of the New Testament by Kidal and published by Edmond listen to this in biblical times when you entered Corinth at the top of the hill was the Temple of Diana the first sailor from the seat to the top of the hill was given free access to the whole of the harlot harems of Diana the prostitutes in the temple all had short hair it had been given as they sacrifice to the goddess Diana I was fortunate because in a National Geographic magazine in June of 1972 page 774 I found the picture of an altar whereupon women in biblical times sacrificed their hair found in the city of Aphrodisias located in southwest Turkey the temple of Aphrodite towers behind this blazing altar women entered to sacrifice their hair in annual mourning for the death of Aphrodite lover adonus a rite that they were able to capture from the ruins of that particular time the cutting of the hair is the statement of our women for women's rights it's filtering into the church it's a sign of rebellion some people say that God has laid a greater responsibility of burden upon our women than men I've heard that every woman's say but the truth of the matter is that God has placed a great deal of confidence in our women and it is a tremendous compliment to them each woman is a picture of the church the entire body of Christ and husbands were to love their wives as Christ loved the church to die for them if necessary the Bible says likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise Dominion and speak evil of dignities you'll find that in Jude verse 8 the word defile from buying expository dictionary their Testament words meaning primarily to stain tint or dye with another color as in the staining of glass the analytical lexicons of the Greek New Testament in Greek meaning to tinge dyes stain to pollute defile hence if any man staying tend to die of this dye this body him shall God destroy I saw someone recently I couldn't find a quarter square inch on their arms or there wasn't some kind of a tattoo all of one guy had his wife shaved his head and had his whole head dyed blue and they think we're strange I mean it's sad you know you know really people aren't just lost anymore they're terribly lost when I was growing up and came into this people were lost we talked about the English but now people are just terribly lost it takes the power of God power on your head ladies power on your heads to bring the reality of God and break the chains and the darkness that surrounds them in Isaiah 66 and 4 God said I also will choose their delusions and will bring their fears upon them because when I called none did answer when I spake neither not here but they did evil before my eyes and chose that in which I delighted not a hypocrite is someone who appears to be someone or something he is not in Luke chapter 11 Jesus went after those Pharisees the Pharisees were hypocrites because they appeared to be holy when they weren't jesus never abraded them for their outward appearance but he did abrade them because their outward appearance did not portray what they said they were on the inside the publicans and sinners were never called hypocrites because they appeared on the outside what they were on the inside for those that say I would wholeness doesn't matter and claim to be holy on the inside they are equally as hypocritical as the scribes and Pharisees in a reverse way because they appear to be what they say they are not they just like the world they act like it they look like it there are only two types of people who are not hypocrites those that are not holy on the outside and on the inside at the same time those that are holy on the inside and outside at the same time these two groups are the hypocrites anyone that is not totally one way or the other is a hypocrite because they appeared to be what they are not that's why Jesus said I would that you either hot or cold but he can't stand that lukewarm business in between people who leave our wholeness their big argument is well God looks at the heart but man is what looks at they on the outside people like that are fools tell him I said so don't they understand that because man cannot see my heart only God can therefore I have to express on the outside what God has done on the inside otherwise nobody will ever see it and you work for some companies there is a dress code and you have got to keep it or you do not hold the job say I'm not a hypocrite I'm not sure you sound real positive about that so say it like you just real positive now say it with a little anger in it do it again and just pretend you're looking right into the devil's face and that's more powerful hallelujah we need here today to look and to recognize the historical significance of hair we need to investigate the associations involved with hair in human history in doing so we find that there was no issue at all for the first five thousand nine hundred years of recorded history the widespread practice of women cutting the hair began in the United States in the roaring 20s a decade defined by the spirit of frivolity materialism immorality and rebellion the world had survived World War one but not without paying the price of great societal upheaval during the 1920s no national issue aroused u.s. citizens like that above what they call bobbed or cut hair Marian Spitzer wrote an article entitled the erstwhile crowning glory in The Saturday Evening Post June 27th 1925 and this is what she wrote there hasn't been a newspaper printed for the last two years that hasn't carried some sort of little story about women's hair it used to be a woman's crowning glory but now it's just hair and Harding wrote an article entitled your crowning glory in Ladies Home Journal March of 1927 she said in her article the most radical change and the custom of women in our time has been the change in their hairstyles hair really is the crowning glory of a woman her hair still remains the most telling item of her appearance and now short hair is considered chick it is also the symbol of freedom for women the number of hairdressing shops quadrupled in four years some department stores and hospitals discharged all their female employees with cut air many men divorced their wives this is our own history folks right here in America in the 1920s many men divorced their wives a Missouri Court in 1926 awarded custody of three children to private homes with Christian influences because the mother had cut her hair God brought judgment upon the United States for this decade of open rebellion in immorality on October 24th 1929 when the stock market crashed on black Tuesday a coincidence hardly the angry decade of the 60s again brought rebellion against God with rioting drug use the hippie culture unisex clothing Eastern religions atheism rock-and-roll music and free sex is it a coincidence that long hair styles for men entered our culture during this period of time hardly this hair revolution was started by the Beatles in the spring of 1964 according to one estimate barber shops across America were forced to close at the rate of 100 a month as young men displayed the RHIB a and against the establishment through their shaggy disheveled air it is worthy of note that nearly all subsequent rebellion in society has been identified with hairstyle punk rockers skinheads or clothing it is clearly ridiculous to claim there is no association this is from some of the historical significance of hair let's look at these spiritual significance of hair if only Christians say Christian say that's me look at your neighborhood at you if only Christians knew what witches and New Agers know there is power on the head because of what we do with our hair that's what they teach what God meant for good the devil wants to use for evil in the encyclopedia of superstition folklore and the occult Sciences of the world it says women's hair is a most precious and and Ward's off a great many evils and diseases the power of magic secrets and mysteries ancient and modern this book says hair has always been considered strong magic witches casting an evil spell needed a piece of air from their victim to make it truly efficacious the women's dictionary of symbols and sacred objects says women's hair carried heavy symbolic and spiritual significance in oriental religions tantric sages proclaimed that the binding or unbinding of women's hair could control cosmic powers of creation and destruction the donning international encyclopedia psychic dictionary says hair has psyche psyche Oh powers that act as a protection from evil entities of the etheric world is that this cutting of the hair was done in a ritual to discontinue this protection if they understand that then we should understand that uncut hair brings the power of angels into our homes into our churches if witchcraft understands these things we ought to be running the aisles and shouting the victory for the glory of the truth that God has given to us as a people [Applause] it is symbolic of strength it contributes to one personality and as a mark of identification to shave one's head is to remove ones self-image so one can begin a new self image from I like this from the encyclopedia on witches in witchcraft it says a witch's magical power is bound in her hair by shaking her head in the wind the power of a spell is doubled I've often thought what would happen if our Pentecostal women got out when the wind was blowing let it down and just shook it if witches can double the power what could apostolic Pentecostal women - who in the midst of the wind blowing Oh clap your hands worship the Lord hallelujah Jesus thank you for revelation thank you for understanding here today from the encyclopedia of occultism and parapsychology is that this hair has had an occult significance since ancient times it has been regarded as a source of strength the association of hair with sexual features of the body has given a remarkable force and distinctions between male and female hair have emphasized sexual attraction the unisex fashions of the permissive society and rock groups have tended to create sexual confusion and neurotic behavior I worked with a lot of hippies of an in the 1960s when I got out of Bible school pastoring my first church I won one hippie to the Lord he had long hair is a nice-looking guy but the moment we prayed him through the Holy Ghost he got that haircut when he walked back in he looks so fine and I said Tommy you look great man he's let me talk to you about the strong King he said I'm gonna tell you something he said I've been a hippie for several years he said people don't understand this he said but I know my parents wanted me to cut my hair and I'd never do it for them it was rebellion but when I came to this church and you taught how that men should not have long hair he said I went right out and cut it because I could do it for Jesus not my mom and dad but I could do it for Jesus and it was in the word but then he told me this he said every hippie that wears his hair uncut for two years at the end of two years the battle begins the spirit of homosexuality comes to him and he has to fight and struggle and decide will I remain state a straight or will I become a gay individual I said you're not serious he said well this trunking it's the worst battle you can imagine he said that spirit comes right against you it comes right against you he said because it's so abnormal isn't that something that's not my thinking that's not from a book that's from somebody who lived in that world and told he said all of us have to fight that he said but when you told how it is a shame for a man to have uncut hair he said I had a reason to do it I did it for Jesus and the day he pastors wonderful wonderful think of the classic image of a witch it is a woman with long scraggly uncut hair why because the evil side of the supernatural realm knows there is power associated with hair when I first went to Fiji to preach for brother sister Carver who are missionaries then we had an incredible move of God there were hundreds that got the Holy Ghost there were miracles of healing he said was talking when we came to this nation and our women did not cut their hair he said the news spread through the whole nation of Fiji that these Apostolic Christians the women did not cut their hair he said as a result that practice has spread to the entire nation the women all the Fijian women in Fiji stop cutting their hair because of our testimony that went there to preach this glorious gospel that is amazing that is astounding I heard the testimony from a mother and father their son was involved in a very serious car accident and he was going to die supposed to die but that mother had heard a message like this I had preached and she went to God and took her hair down and she said Jesus I've never cut my hair there is power on my head because of angels raise my boy up within a week's time that boy was out of the hospital and was in church on that Sunday I was in Brother Nyx's Church in Ypsilanti Michigan there was a very lovely young woman in that church probably 18 19 she had something go wrong with her eyes and the doctors said that she was going to go blind she lose her sight and they want her to cut her hair because they felt like the weight of the hair would maybe complicate the condition with the redness and all of that but she wouldn't do it she said no I will not cut my hair and so she didn't cut her hair in the end result I heard her stand and testify of this the whole house was on its feet worshiping and the end result her eyes were totally healed and when they did a study on why there was something about the weight of the hair that pulled the nerves inside the eyes and kept them from degenerating as the doctor had said they would my own mother when she came to this truth she she had heart disease and she had the kind that there was a pain in this left arm all the time especially when it got tired and she I came home I was just a brand new convert and in just about six months old and I just got her in the church and she had gone to church two or three times and and she was trying that her hair grow and she sent me she's got the crying one day when I was home in the kitchen and she said she said Lee she's the honey I can't I can't go to this Pentecostal Church I said mom why she said I cannot let my hair grow I can't she said I don't have the strength of my left arm to work with the dough I can't hold my arm up to fix my hair the Spirit of God came on me and I must have prophesied to her because I said mom if you let your hair grow long God will heal your arm and give you a simple hairstyle that would be very becoming to you and you won't have to worry about that is exactly what happened her arm was healed he gave her a simple hairstyle and she never cut her hair all the years that she lived for God [Music] wonderful lift your hands again and just praise the Lord and he'll ooh hip Jesus [Music] and I close with this brother Gary Gleeson he is the superintendent of the state of Oregon he told me there was a woman in his church that came and received the Holy Ghost lived for God but her whole family made fun of her always ridiculing her because of her uncut hair no makeup and all of this but didn't change her she was kept right on living for God one Saturday morning several years past one Saturday morning she received a phone call from I think was Oklahoma and there was her mother and she said if you want to ever see your father again alive you better get better get on a plane right now and come she said because he's not expected to live and so she went straight to the airport caught a flight and went straight there she went straight to the airport went to the hospital and walked right into the hospital room in front of her siblings her brothers sisters her family her mother and there lay her father the vital organs had already shut down he only had a matter of hours to live and without ever ever saying anything to them or any explanation she went to her father's bedside now down beside him and began to take her hair down and when her long hair fell down she laid it across her father's body and she said god I've never cut my hair there is power on my head because of angels raised my daddy up that he will be able to receive this truth that he was out of the hospital in less than a week hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus and he Lou him Jesus hallelujah Jesus hallelujah Jesus I have been eyewitness to some of these things in the last two or three years I've know of women that have gotten together over serious problems have never cut their hair and let their hair down and began to pray privately in homes and church buildings and pray God do something do something we've kept the laws of God and there have been miracles of healing people have not died that we're supposed to die people we've got a hold of the greatest thing in this entire world I'm not saying you should take your hair down here today but I am saying you ought to be on your feet with your hands and your voices in the air rejoicing over the law of God the laws of God that have brought you where you are because there are miracles in this sanctuary right here today there are miracles in this sanctuary here today if you feel like running you ought to run if you feel like dancing you ought to dance if you feel like shouting you want to shout if you feel like getting a hold of somebody and praying for them you want to do it here today there is a power of Revelation and understanding that is being unleashed in this sanctuary here today that's it that's it that's it in the name of Jesus of Nazareth in the name of Jesus of Nazareth by the authority of the word of God by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah if the date of Jesus that's it that's it that's it by the authority of the word of God I set you free but to an eternal carita if inhale of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus if it have of Jesus in the name of Jesus there is something trying to get loose right through this area there is something trying to get loose right through this area in the name of Jesus of Nazareth that's it that's it that's it the total cover shot ah there is it a 90 that is coming down upon you that's going to change your ministry in your local churches for your there are pastors wives here something powerful is coming upon pastors wives of that will enhance the ministry of your husband in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth that's it that's it that's it by the authority of the word of God by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Hotel Atatu Raqqa the shotta after a total ricotta ricotta ricotta ricotta ricotta Shaka such as I have in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and the authority of the word of God if the name of Jesus that's it italic I can feel it I can feel that reaching for you in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus yes he tell Atatu Raqqa the casita and then etat aracataca ricotta if in him of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus if there is a power upon you there is an anointing upon you women here today you ought to lay hands on each other when you do there will be healing so there will be deliverances unlike anything you've had to this present moment hallelujah Jesus I encourage you to reach over get a hold of somebody and begin to pray for them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that's it that's it that's it that's it if the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus yes in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah lujah hallelujah hallelujah in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus the healing virtue of God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ he that healed in Jesus name in Jesus name in Jesus name in Jesus name hallelujah Hotel otaku Coretta and Anna Tata Rocco ricotta in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus I worship you because you are God Jesus I worship you because you are God if you feel like running to this altar today to just absolutely throw your hands in the air and say God I want this like I've never had it before I invite you to come I just invite you to come in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] in the name of Jesus that's it that's it there is a powerful anointing upon you ladies in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus eternal Taraka I can feel the brush of angel's wings in this place today hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Jesus of God we have got gotten behind the veil we have gotten behind the veil Harris Oh master of the universe of touch the Lord and make new and whole in the name of the Lord Jesus in the name of the Lord Jesus in the name of the Lord Jesus hallelujah shotta hiatal eternal compassionate initiative from the lubricant duration Turkish occur yes yes yes yes yes yes yes in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus of Nazareth receive it receive it in the name of Jesus receive it in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus of Nazareth yes Votolato Charaka shotta [Applause] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] 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