The Send Pre-Rally | Andy Byrd & Francis Chan

in 2011 that this original word came that a transition was coming to the call and everything that was spelled out in that video that it would turn to and become the send and fast forward a number of years because i'm going to move through some of this a little bit quickly so we can spend time on a few more important points is uh fast forward to 2018 lou calls together uh six different leaders from six different movements feeling that now is the time for the send actually launch many of you would have tracked with azusa now or maybe we're out of zeus now which was a really important event to understanding what would it look like to call a generation to prayer to fasting but also to consider global missions like maybe we haven't in a number of generations what would it look like for young millennials for gen z to seriously turn their eyes both to our neighbors and to the nations to truly declare a war on inaction that was the passion that inaction is the enemy of the great commission inaction is the enemy of revival inaction is the enemy of prayer and if we could declare war on inaction could a generation find its place in the great commission in this grand narrative of redemption all over the earth and so in 2018 we gathered those leaders together and declared that now was the time to launch the send in the video there you'll see we set our eyes on orlando as the first location which really goes back a number of years as well that orlando was the domino and what if orlando would fall in a sense that it would cause a chain reaction funny enough on the way to orlando we had no idea what was after orlando we thought maybe we wouldn't even live to orlando it was so overwhelming it was so over our heads my entire hometown of alaska could have fit on the field of that stadium i'd never let a conference in my life before that stadium and i had no idea we were doing how to raise the money all of it but but god moved and god proved that he was true to his promises and all the while to orlando there was a little promise that is still so true to me today or a declaration that i felt all the way through this sin journey and it's this the zeal of the lord shall accomplish this this won't be marketing this won't be the wisdom of men or women this won't be a great brand or a great organization this will be the zeal of the lord and if it's not the zeal the lord accomplishing it we don't want to be a part of it anyway and so orlando was a sign and a wonder 58 000 young people came many ages but largely young people and it was there that we launched this missional calling of the sand and really was this it was these three story lines you heard is that we really believe the lord spoke to us about 200 000 new missionaries in the global missions force now today there are 420 000 missionaries in the whole world from every nation to any nation so we're talking uh an entire half of the entire global missions force being launched again as another wave of missions to the nations but at the same time as i say that might sound like a massive number we got to know that tonight 3.2 billion people will go to bed tonight largely never having heard the gospel message one time 7 000 remaining unreached people groups there's a huge task ahead of us and an amazing opportunity in front of us so we began to declare and pray god sent 200 000 new missionaries but it wasn't just that we were believing for a great awakening in america that it was time for a third great awakening in this nation and uh this this this declaration this prayer god give us 80 million salvations which is not a literal number a figurative a massive awakening millennials are about 80 million gen z is around 80 million it's a generation being swept up into the kingdom of god and we began to pray towards that in orlando we launched these practical calls to real mission fields the goal was that young people would encounter god absolutely have a life defining moment but at the same time they couldn't walk out of the stadium and not do something about that life-defining moment the last thing we wanted was an epic journal entry from the send orlando the last thing we were wanting is just some great story that we were telling for 10 or 20 years someone need to walk out of that stadium and get engaged in the foster care system walk out of that stadium and be open to adopting children we declared in that stadium that this next generation will be the most adoptive generation in human history wouldn't it be like god to take a fatherless generation and make them an adoptive generation and we declared in that stadium that high schools in america were now a mission field this is not just a place to get education this was a place to reach your friends that every university in america we weren't giving those over the enemy these are mission fields for university students to reach the lost and what happened out of orlando for us was mind-blowing in fact we had been told along the way by well-meaning people don't expect to fill a stadium on the message of the great commission people don't even know what that is anymore you're going to need a really flashy message a huge budget you're going to need really well-known people you're going to need all these things and none of those did we have all we had was a word of the lord but how do you know a word of the lord is far more powerful than the most famous person on the earth and then the biggest budget on the planet nothing can touch the power of the word of the lord so we walked out and then you called on the most famous man of the world and he walked among you and he released his glory and power he really did you really good point mike the most famous man in history joined us for that stadium together walk through the aisles one of the remarkable parts of orlando i'll tell this we'll move to the next part of the story was that the very the lady who had gotten the word in that video her name was christy brent and she's had 38 years of neurological lyme's disease and uh she's sick in bed for 38 years i've known her for almost 15. and she had she prayed lose prophetic journals for three months asking god what was next for the call that's what led to the story in that video on the fast the final five minutes of the send orlando backstage where everyone was kind of wrapping up and bill johnson was there the entire day on the backstage most of it just praying just just enjoying it just just interceding for what god was doing we asked him would he pray for christy before the night ends and he walked up to her just prayed a simple prayer he declared lyme's disease is not too big for jesus and she was immediately healed of 38 years of neurological lyme's disease to this day she is completely healed and restored and it was a sign to us it was a sign of the power of god breaking out in this generation it was a it was a timing device for us that we believe spoke of a healing movement breaking out in america now continuing the story and jump in at any time mike but from there we didn't know what was next and i'll i'll talk about kansas city in a moment but one of the things that shocked us in orlando was the number of brazilians that showed up do we have any brazilians in here tonight give a little shout if you're from brazil because brazilians aren't quiet you have to shout and the brazilians brought the fire to orlando it was astounding there were brazilian flags and soccer jerseys all over that stadium so the day after orlando teo hayashi one of our collaborators is brazilian and lives in brazil needs a dynamic movement there we said hey what about the next location being brazil we literally had no idea what was next this is the day after the stadium ideally you have a plan the day before the stadium and you kind of announce it this is not that this is following the word of the lord every step of the way so we look at him go can we go to brazil next what do you think he goes yeah i think it's god this was astounding he didn't expect it no one did eight months before the event we finally get everything ready we've got two stadiums to pick from to open registration one's small and new and beautiful one's big and we're afraid we can't fill it so naturally we're like god must be saying the smaller stadium it just makes sense we pray and the lord says your faith is much smaller than the hunger of the brazilians rent the bigger stadium you're underestimating what's in the nation so we rent the bigger stadium we take a step of faith we put up one instagram post holds 70 000 people six hours later eight months before the event the stadium calls and they go hey every seat is sold out and we go no no that's not possible check the system they go we did we go check it again they go we checked it three times seventy thousand seventy thousand six hours in six hours they go one instagram yeah one instagram post one post with just words not even a cool picture not even a video just words and we go well how do you know it's you know we checked it three times they go they go because uh this broke the record that's why we checked it three times we go what record we go the record the fastest the stadium's ever been filled in its history we'll go well who held the record they said you too and coldplay and um this is a call i won't forget i was in cairo egypt when we got the call and i thought to myself the great commission is filling stadiums faster than the biggest bands of our day what kind of an hour are we heading into so i was with lauren and darlene we prayed said what do we do darlene had a word about the the um vessels of oil like keep getting vessels and the lord will keep filling them and uh she says i think you're supposed to rent the smaller stadium now so the stadium we originally rent we rented that it filled up over the weekend and in about 10 days later there were 000 brazilians on a waiting list to get into those two full stadiums so we rented a third stadium in the most difficult city in the nation we felt the lord asked us to to believe for a breakthrough they'd never had a large christian gathering in that city and when it came down to february uh eighth of 2020 we gathered in three stadiums simultaneously on the same day with 150 000 brazilians and another 2 million online from 107 or 113 nations and uh i believe that truly history was made that day in brazil as the church of brazil declared that brazil was going to become one of the largest mission sending nations in human history and that day a hundred thousand missional commitments were made by those that came to reach their high schools to adopt children to reach their universities to be willing to go to the nations over 30 000 young brazilians said we'll go to any nation in the world for the sake of the gospel every one of them was followed up with multiple times it was a robust follow-up plan more than anything though it was a sign once again from god about the hour that we're in right now now it was a month later that kovit hit and the whole world got shut down it was one of the last larger events in the world before covet hit we believe with all of our hearts every one of those seeds that has been planted has just been germinating just been growing inside the heart of every brazilian and as the nations begin to open up i think we will stand in awe of what comes out of brazil because of those seeds that were planted but i'm going to rewind and i'm gonna pass it to you here in a moment mike is that uh when we were in going to orlando asking what was next we had no idea brazil was not even on the radar yet because we hadn't been to orlando the only clue we had and i mean the only no one else is inviting us to any other cities because everybody's assuming no one's gonna come to orlando and and so there's nothing there's no activity in that area we get one email the entire year lead up to orlando with an invitation and the email is from a worker at arrowhead stadium asking would we ever consider bringing this event that he saw online to arrowhead stadium kansas city to kansas city and we thought that's so strange like not from you know not from a church not from a organization or a movement or a coalition from the stadium itself from that day to this day we've never gotten an invitation from a stadium and i just don't think they do that and so we get this thing and honestly i'm so tired just a little embarrassing to admit we get the email and i'm like kansas city i i don't know i we're just trying to live to orlando so we just sent a courtesy response and i didn't talk to anyone about it we were just trying to get to orlando several days for orlando the collab the collaboration that pulled this off came together and they go andy what's next obviously people are going to come the registrations are high are we saying anything in orlando about what's next i go guys the only clue i have is an email from arrowhead stadium in kansas city and lou does like a classic lou like andy do you know the promises over arrowhead stadium and i'm like i have no idea i go lou i i think maybe i've heard it in the prophetic history but not enough to really remember them and he's like oh my god oh no no you got to go like yeah yeah and a lot of this the whole time yeah we've gotta talk to mike pickle and so i'm like all right god might be on this so several days after orlando stunned by what god did brazil shows up i sent an email off to mike because he's my fleece and i know mike well enough you just ended one thing so and i know mike well enough to know he's super practical when it comes to these things he's either gonna be like andy that's a terrible idea pick somewhere else in the world or like you know go global or i just know him well and i was gonna shoot super straight or he's gonna say i think this might be gone so i email in literally two or three hours after i send the email mike replies and goes andy you are never going to believe this and i'm gonna pass it to you mike well okay we're gonna tell some of this story we tell it a couple times tonight because there's so many things in the story you're telling so let's let's go back first lou engel he is dean come up here real quick grab a microphone because dean is kind of like not really this title but like the ceo of the call ish that's not the title he used but he ran so many of the things with lou for 10 years lou engel the lord they fill up stadiums about 30 times either stadiums or a big 10 to 20 000 arenas for fasting and prayer it's called the call it's like joel 2 call the people and and and uh dean is right in the middle of that so for lou engle to fill up stadiums for 20 years and big auditoriums for fasting and prayer it was always for the great harvest for the billion soul harvest always that's what it was about so lou and andy and the brents are here in kansas city i'm forgetting the timing we're sitting around talking and lou says the call is over and i'm skipping five or six key points it's the sinned and i go okay we're going to go to the stadium and you're involved in this orlando and we're going to call people not to fasting in prayer we're going to do that i mean you lou every time he gets on the microphone he's going to say something about fasting and prayer and so he said we're going to do and i thought i don't know you know there's calling people for fasting and prayer for a break in the nation you know joel 2 outpouring the spirit but calling them to just hear a message hey go to win your neighborhood i don't i don't know that doesn't sound like it's going to really work you know because why don't they just say thanks we will go to our neighborhood good to know gotcha and so i'm an unbeliever in our room you know just over there by ihop thinking this doesn't seem like this is going to have traction and so when you'd say we're going to orlando i'm thinking andy be careful because this is like one two million dollars three million dollar events these are expensive and your resume he's a phenomenal leader but his big events were 200 members at the internship you know those kind of things the dts totally true he'd never let anything over 200 i go andy do you know how complicated a stadium event is and of course dean you know all about that and i don't even know i just had jeff here just in case because you always got good stuff to say but anyway i and i'm kind of pushing back said andy i wouldn't do that you know there's there's ways we can get on the internet and encourage people to win their neighbors to the lord without spending two or three million dollars in doing all this hoopla stuff and and uh so i am blown away that near 60 000 people come to orlando where i'm going like my goodness and then arrowhead sends it ahead of time now here's why arrowhead stadium here in kansas city they sent it ahead of time the reason that's so remarkable to us because no stadiums ever ask christian events hey come to our stadium you gotta beg stadiums can we come and they double the money and they say no and they put you on the bottom of the waiting list in case nobody else comes they'll throw you in and he can comment on that so no stadium ever actually asked a christian event and they would only ask the christian event after 60 000 showed up because the stadium says well we can make some money we can make this work there's only like 5 000 signed up in orlando it's a couple months ahead of time why does arrowhead call you this is so is this so odd this is so odd uh stadiums don't call and invite it's what you just said you might have a movement or a church and they say we have a big idea but those almost always fail it has to be the word of the lord and that's the story that andy's dialed into here because it's the zeal of the lord it's the zeal of the lord and and lou understood if there wasn't a dream or a word from the lord a stadium is a monstrous undertaking you've done it like a monstrous undertaking and so he was haunted by the word uh i don't know if he actually fully said it in the house here in kansas city when you guys came he was haunted was that 2011 or 2012 2011 uh uh the word came uh from one of the the prophetic uh women inside fighters came together about eight components yeah yeah and and she said there's a change coming the call is going to become the send it's not just going to be stadiums filled with fasting and prayer but signs wonders miracles evangelism and the mantle of billy graham is coming on the nation and that word haunted lou all the way through azusa now and what's susie now most no but not everybody knows zuzanel was the last big one that the call did in the coliseum in los angeles 70 80 000 came for a day of fasting and prayer in los angeles and and it was from that that the shoes were first raised and the reason the send is the tilted arrow is because we had 20 years of fasting and prayer but now it's time for the mantle of billy graham to come on the nation and it's shifting to the send and so uh when when when andy inherited that it was exactly that sort of dna that we see lou moved in spiritual dna divine national assignments this is a divine national assignment that's why when the sound is right and the prophetic word is right you can send out one instagram and 150 000 people show up that's that's good return on investment right that's a good roi right there so the story is so arrowhead when there's five or ten thousand which is that that's not gonna motivate any secular stadium team to because they're not gonna make money they're going to fail but they send it anyway so andy is thinking i have never led anything but dts's ex you know sort of thing maybe a couple conferences probably not even conferences so you're like the last guy we would pick don't last no not me you're a great guy but it's not even my personality it takes i'm from a tiny little hey how about you stay up here because we're gonna have some more come up here and you can give them the mic and that way we got the uh mics all up here okay where did they go i had them all up here a second ago oh there oh hit him there you go and so andy he again they're complicated so they're asking him hey what about the next event i mean andy is like the woman she's eight months pregnant and she's like not comfortable and the guy says hey honey we're gonna have more kids next year and she goes are you kidding me what are you talking about never that analogy's never been used on me but it does it does make sense it does you were like this is amazing are we having more babies and i mean pow at the perfect time he goes i'm not even thinking anything about the next event and then for brazil the day after it's like i want to do brazil what did he want to do you want to take a nap you guys were so ex no exhausted if you know the build up to that exhausted so it was so supernatural so the stadium 70 000 filled up in six hours then forty thousand filled up in a day or two then the other one then hundred fifty thousand waiting here's what heaven is saying earth i am doing something new there's a new hour it's a new season you're in pay attention it's not business as usual that's the message i got from the brazil phillip yeah and so that was all going and so uh i'm gonna pause a second and take a little bit about lou and bob jones and why this is that uh for those of you i wasn't watching i was back there how many of you have not been a part of the last two weekends here raise your hand you have not been apart so the majority have okay the majority know the story that is that uh the last two weekends for those that are joining us by webstream i'm not going to go into the details but the lord has assembled six ministries together in the most unusual way we never would have and we all came together and we had special meetings in the morning and the afternoon last week thursday friday saturday and this week thursday friday saturday so we're just ending six long morning meetings seven or eight hours or whatever they are evening meetings four or five hours whatever they are and we're like this but we're all here and we're happy little dizzy little wow and the send now the rally so we're in the overflow of the last 12 days and so i'm gonna call up a few of our guys that came because we've had a what kind of time in the last two weeks pretty good time we'd say pretty good time so one guy might call chris reed come on up here and some of you don't know chris a lot of you here because you said you were here and the lord has used chris in the last two weekends in a most remarkable way with words of knowledge and so i'm just going to ask him to stand up here and just do what you do stand and look and talk to the lord and kind of i always stand next to him he said lord i'm kind of trying to eavesdrop in and see what's going on so we don't know what's going to happen and no pressure but i just want to position ourselves for ministry and so that's that and then we got a few other guys eric come on up here real quick francis is coming up in a minute just stand up here and we're just gonna we did this for the last couple nights like eight of us just standing here or whatever the number for hours and all kinds of strange things happen i want to note i'm underdressed but this is team spirit right i i was trying to do kansas city where's the red eric i apologize for not wearing a tie you know to do ministry like this is valet apparently it's not right he's the representative of arrowhead leadership right not really but anyway i just want him up here on deck and we got a few more just to be on deck we don't have anything planned to say but if the lord gives you something we'll you know the drill just go and then i know what what that means but uh so what happened is uh and lou lived here seven years so he knows these stories very well is there's a man he's with the lord now named bob jones in 1984 how long was 1984 is that 35 years ago i think some 38 anyway a bunch of years ago 38 years ago 37 thank you 37 years ago bob jones has the most remarkable what he's had a handful of very dramatic supernatural counters i am pastoring a young adult church we're over in overland park the wealthier part of kansas city uh you know 15 20 minutes away something like that and we got a young adult church we're all in our 20s he's about 60. and he says i've had this encounter and the lord takes him and i'm not gonna explain the details to this intersection right out here at it's called blue ridge road in grand view we're 20 minutes away or whatever and he says we're to be at that intersection someday and i told him i go i don't really see that happening because uh you know all of our people live in this part of town and that's really not really you know where our people shop over there that kind of stuff and he said you wait and see the lord's gonna do something on that corner and there's he saw a a march down the road down blue ridge and those of you that aren't local you don't know that that from this corner blue ridge 12 miles down the road is arrowhead stadium and here is harris truman's property and the stadium is called truman sports complex because there's two stadiums there there's the baseball and the football the whole thing is truman sports complex the lord said there's going to be a procession he saw it in a very vivid way it take me five minutes to explain i'm not going to dramatic where there was this procession going down the road and people were carrying jesus like on the ark of the covenant like the priests and there was thousands of people in the street that were healed they had their crutches their wheelchairs they were marching down the road to arrowhead stadium thousands of people were lined up on both sides cheering the parade of the thousands that had been healed jesus is on the ark of the covenant you know the the priest in the old testament had the ark of the covenant they just carried it on on the on the poles there the the four priests and jesus is up there and there's a whole bunch of leaders behind and he were looking at him thousands of people healed thousands on the sideline were marching from harry truman's property which is right here to harry s truman stadium which is on the same road 12 miles down the road and the reason he tells me this 37 years ago he goes the reason because harris truman was the human vessel god used for israel to become a nation now that doesn't mean anything to me and he goes because god is going to do something in raising up millions of singers and musicians a prayer movement across the earth it's going to lead to a billion so harvest we're talking about america right now but it's way bigger than america a billion so harvest and there's going to be tremendous fierce persecution against israel and the body of christ is going to stand in loyalty to jesus and it's going to result in the nation of israel their national salvation big big big big story and what harry s truman did in the natural was the man that made the decision that even israel recognizes that caused israel to become a nation in 1948 after 2 000 years of not being a nation this guy from this property stood up as president united states israel will become a nation and over in israel they honor him tremendously for that and he goes this there's going to be a young adult worship and prayer movement across the earth with millions they're going to going to see a billion so harvest you can see all these dramatic things signs and wonders beyond anything you've seen but the nation that's most hostile against jesus is going to have a national salvation and turn radically to jesus in the aftermath of this great outpouring and et cetera et cetera none of this makes sense to me and i'm going i don't really do israel i don't care about truman i don't even know what you're talking about when i first met him and he told me these things well we live way over there in a and he says when he had this experience starting on this this uh intersection and and and the lord and angels in the vision in the counter says i'm gonna show this reality to mike bickel you know i'm 28 years old at the time again he's about 60. i i i look at him i go what do you mean he's gonna show me he goes he's gonna show you in a supernatural way i'm not gonna tell you the encounter but i've walked to the lord for 50 years the most dramatic encounter i've had in my life it was incredible he showed it to me a month later in a supernatural way i'm not going to give the details but it was here this procession down the road to arrowhead stadium incredible signs and wonders happening and i said like this is real he said i told you the lord is going to show you this we've been sitting on this for 37 years lou knows all of this stuff paul kane comes along about 33 years ago something like that 35 years ago probably 35 and when paul kane first visits here most of you know his name him and bob jones are both with the lord right now his first visit here he stands on the parking lot and i'm going to give the most abbreviated thing he says in essence the bottom take a lo take away there's going to be miracles in that stadium signs and wonders you can't imagine first thing he says to me when he comes to this parking lot we're strangers and i said you don't even know what that means to me this is three or four years after the bob jones had the encounter then the next month i had it and i've never had an encounter like that one time in 50 years three years later paul kane says that's where we're going uh to that stadium and i thought this is more remarkable than you know and we might give more details to the paul kane vision i think we've done it several times on videos even with ascent so the uh was it three years ago when you emailed me three so three years ago i haven't told that story for 15 years to the ihelp staff i'm on this platform and i said you know for the for some reasons i have not told the story of arrowhead for 15 years and i said but i'm going to tell it now and when i tell our leaders i'm going to tell the story this week i'm going to tell it now i said so i'm getting all you know looking all my transcriptions of how i told it in the 80s and getting all the details clear of course of a lot of it i haven't totally memorized but i just wanted to really get into it i was telling our team then i get this this email from paul kane had just passed i might give him the details of that yeah just i haven't for 15 years told it and so uh uh uh andy sends me an email right that very day literally and says hey have you considered arrowhead stadium they just called me and i just said i just told them telling the story after 15 years i've never told the story i go andy my thought would be what i told you about orlando don't do it like i said don't do orlando just do an internet thing and and it's three couple million dollars let's be real about it and he was kind of expecting me to say that again but i just told the arrowhead stadium story from bob jones and paul kane of my encounter and i said you couldn't have sent that email at a more appropriate time to this very day right now so i said we're on something's up well 50 years ago the kansas city chiefs won the super bowl one time 50 years ago bob jones gives this dream vision i don't even like it because it's to me it sounds goofy to be totally honest although i really believe god used bob jones a lot but some of the stuff i went what what i don't think so but a lot of it was tremendous he said when the chiefs win the super bowl you're gonna he's god has a divine appointment at arrowhead stadium he's gonna have an appointment for the body of christ in that stadium well the chiefs never win the super bowl they won it once there's been 60 super bowls and and our some of our people were excited i go oh stop it i go if there's a revival every time there's a super bowl that means every city for 60 years is the revival center for the next year that no stop it and they asked me what do you think about it what do you think about it i go truth is i never think about it don't be totally honest and so we're going to arrowhead because you called you got a hold of me and i was just telling the bob jones paul kane word for the first time in 15 years and a number of months later the chiefs win the super bowl the second time of the 50-year anniversary to when they won it the first time and even the day of it our church you know our body here they go you think it's the bob jones word and i just admit it i was like worse than the orlando meeting i don't think so i don't think it matters guys i'm a chief saying yay but we're not going to win to be honest and we win in the last couple of minutes i become a radical fan i'm in i'm in because i didn't pay attention to that everyone was talking about it and i got all kinds of emails do you think you think i go no i don't think about it to be honest now i do i'm the last guy to the party but i do believe it now i believe that was a timing indicator because we have an appointment the lord is with this city with this nation in that stadium and for arrowhead to call you to put that together and then that crazy chiefs win right after that 50 years to the week i mean you can't make that happen we don't win stuff here it just doesn't happen mike yale educated eric mataxis has an observation yeah talk talk to us eric many of you the locals here we've heard him the last i mean three days last week three days this week all of us together with francis and ken fish and i'm a we're all in this thing to uh uh together what does this add up to to you so talk to us i appreciate being made an object of fun i just want to tell you where somebody dressed like that all right uh no i gotta tell you um if this meeting were in order we'd be making fun of francis chan not me but uh no i when i hear him and francis are good buddies that's correct 12 days together that's correct and i have a book for francis that that's an in-house joke no i gotta say this is no joke uh because we've been teasing francis because he says he doesn't read books and somebody came up to me in the book line there and they said eric i have a book for you and i want you to give it to francis and it's my bonhoeffer book but it's the abridged version so i have i have that for you well wait a second the truth is isn't that francis doesn't read books we joked about it this guy wrote a 600 page eight inch thick book on bonhoeffer a inch thick it looks that way to me okay it's four inches but it feels like it's eight four inches thick 600 pages here's the crazy part it sold a million copies yeah and all francis said is i didn't read your book but anyway well i mean that i wasn't going to bring this up but when the lord says something when the lord says something you know you can take it to the bank it's real and the lord spoke to me in a prophetic dream about the bonhoeffer book when i was writing it and made it insanely clear like confirming it with a miracle a crazy miracle that he had his hand on that book and at the time i thought i cannot imagine i i just wanted to get the book done and move on with my life it was in agony i'm not going to get into that but the lord confirmed it totally miraculously and the idea that a 600 page book on a german theologian would sell a million copies against into 20 languages and that we'd be talking about it today that was not conceivable at the time and the reason i say that is because as i'm listening to this that's why dean is is pushing me forward what is amazing really is how the lord communicates to us and it is humorous because he has to get the kansas city chiefs to win a super which is a miracle which is right but but the idea is that to to do that how many years ago did bob jones say that like 40 years let's say 35 years ago i don't remember to be honest but i'm just saying like the lord does because i didn't pay attention to specifically so that when it all happens it all lines up i mean you get all this stuff from andy and then finally boom that happens and the lord designs it to blow your mind so that you don't have any doubt this is the lord and so what it does is many things but it builds faith and expectation and and you you're willing to persevere because you say wait we cannot go wrong the lord said this we didn't say this wasn't our idea so imagine bob jones that procession he watches it he's not in it signs and wonders in arrowhead stadium the angel says mike bickle will see the lord showed me dramatic two three years later paul kane one of his biggest visions arrowhead i don't tell the story for 15 years i tell him for an hour to our staff you email me what about arrowhead i go you got to be kidding me and some nine months later whatever the chiefs win the super bowl the bob jones where i go after 50 years after 50 years and we're on to something i think and frankly since you you didn't tell the story here this morning we were in a smaller gathering and you told the story the details of that 1983 encounter they're stunning they're stu they're insane when you hear it you're you're in awe you're humbled you know and that alone mike is such an exceedingly rare thing and you said in 50 years it is the most dramatic time the lord has ever spoken i've had two or three very dramatic encounters that's one of them and that's and this is so we're talking 1983 1984. then paul kane out of the blue you know why talking about arrowhead stadium in signs and wonders unless the lord spoke it but that's so long ago and then years decades in the future this other stuff happens and the email gets sent to you exactly exactly when you tell the story exactly and then if you still don't believe it they win the super bowl and it's insane still three stadiums overnight it's an international reality it's a new hour in chur in in human history we're in a new hour right now that's what's going on so andy what have you thought in the two years since because now you've been trying to schedule this totally so what is where are we because you talked about the germination that's happening in brazil yeah but what's the germination of this prophetic word yeah i'll say this and leading into that is i for me you know you're you're just for something like this i have to admit i was like god i know the cost i know the costs on my family i know the cost on our team and our community we have a remarkable team a bunch of them are here tonight we all know the cost and i've got i i this is amazing but i need to know that i know that i know that i know this is you so i flew out here to meet with mike and the team two years ago yeah this is right after a month or two after three emails yeah and uh could we ask that yeah the team there's a bunch of recipients these guys are heroes they're absolute heroes they make this happen they are fighting for the next generation and through the delays and the setbacks they have held steady for kansas city thank you yeah and it's astounding what this small team pulls off and um i met with mike and the team looking for again two three years ago when he visited right after the email another confirmation it sounds bad doesn't it but don't worry the chiefs hadn't won the super bowl yet so at least i have that excuse right and um i went in asking god make it crystal clear and the only way i can describe it is i came out in the fear of the lord and it wasn't an option any longer it was so far past a fleece it was like you're in direct disobedience if you don't say yes to this and i will raise up someone else because i have declared arrowhead stadium so the fear of the lord filled our team all of our hearts to go what an honor what a privilege that we even get to somehow serve what you've been speaking for decades we are nobodies we don't have a clue what we're doing but if we can lay our lives down so that so that millions of people would hear the gospel for the first time in human history let it be god if we can lay our lives down that a billion would come into the kingdom and the decades ahead of us let it be god if we can lay our lives down that the foster care system gets replaced by real families we would lay our lives down for it and so we came out in this fear of the lord going this is not an option so i would say over these last several years every delay honestly was painful it was hard it was frustrating so difficult to keep the narrative going because the arrowhead was supposed to happen and then the cove would put it back put it back put it back but the story got bigger and bigger and it's now an international event not just a regional or national it just that's the i mean the devil overplayed his hand because the lord says watch this absolutely now the earth is listening to the story yes and i would say today i can say to you that i have never in my life had more confirmations of anything more than the significance of arrowhead stadium in kansas city and what god's about to do in this coming season and those seeds have only grown and that's the whole team we're carrying that together and we we are fighting for these promises of god the zeal of the lord will be the one to accomplish this but i think that god is going to absolutely explode this beyond our wildest dreams no human can do what god's about to do and so that i would say our faith has only risen through all the constant delays reminding ourselves of the promises and the stories to go let's we're going to stand amazed at what god does that's good andy because you do know there's two stadiums down there right and we've definitely thought about those two stages the baseball and the football stadium are on the same complex called truman sports complex and truman's property is right here at this corner and it's truman to truman on a 12-mile procession yes there's some poetry and so much poetry so much i'll say one more thing and then i think chris yeah you gotta the lord's giving you a little so poetry is unending we're in our fourth date for arrowhead this one's you know because arrowhead keeps cancelling it yeah covid restrictions all of that so early june 2022 we decided to push way out and go we're not going to jeopardize another delay let's just push to next summer we don't thinking about that date and any significance well it turns out that that day is almost 50 years to the day of explo 72 which some that are older in the room would know was one of the one of the crescendo gatherings of the jesus people movement 1972 it's uh 60 000 people gathering for five days in a row in in dallas in the in the cowboys stadium billy graham on the final saturday a hundred thousand gather in a field with two visions and this is the send the re-evangelization of america in the next two years that was their declaration so audacious but they knew in that hour the next generation had to be touched with the gospel and secondly the the great commission to a level globally that had never been to in the coming eight years we're believing 50 years almost to the day in arrowhead stadium with a boatload of divine poetry pointing the way that what comes out of arrowhead stadium will lead to the saturation of the gospel in america once again god is going to move in the heart of gen z and that what ripples out of there will not be the same the sun the sun the sand what ripples out of there will be the gospel the gospel the gospel the gospel it will be exalting jesus and not only that but looking to the nations going it is unacceptable that we would pass the baton to the next generation that still has 7 000 unreached people groups it is unacceptable and that the ripples that come out of arrowhead stadium would literally touch the nations of the earth that would be part of one piece of this great harvest that we're heading into i gotta talk on arrow i'm in expo 72 for just 60 seconds expo 72 june 1972 uh bill bright campus crusade for christ crew and billy graham together they have the first stadium event in the history of america that's not just evangelism it's not for the lost it's all for christians never has this happened in america they gather together about 60 000 some number like that and like you said it was let's re-evangelize america and let's go to the nations the exact same calling uh our local church i was a part of a presbyterian church we all went i'm a 16 year old at that stadium and i'm hearing billy graham every night there was no it wasn't altar calls will you go to the nations will you evangelize the first stadium event ever in america that was of that nature that was not again an outreach stadium to unbelievers the second stadium event ever in america was five years later kansas city arrowhead 1977 and that was not a go to the nations that is a john 17. let's operate in unity many denominations 50 000 came to that so 72 it was evangelism and world missions five years later arrowhead john 17. let's do it together as a family i went to that one too just because it was an arrowhead i didn't even know what it was about i was going i don't even know what's happening here they were saying stuff i didn't even get but anyway i was there but anyway and uh so that this is an arrowhead 50 years to the week of explo 72 that's just that's poetry again and it's both john 17 unity unto the greatest activation in the great commission in human history locally and globally we want to do great commission together married and you're throwing in something that no one threw in the malachi 4-6 the turning of the hearts of the fathers to the children you're throwing in the adoption and the foster the foster children you're putting that in that malachi 4 6 is a new element that is connected to the prophetic spirit of the end time revival so that's new that's the one new part yeah well chris well we got to get our other two guys up here francis just i know you're going to preach no just stand up here come on man i know you're humble yeah i know you'll do it if i stay with it just come on up here and ken come on up here just stand up here okay we've been up here six thursday friday saturday six times in a row i just don't want to be up here without all you guys mike i'm gonna do what you do say something about andy why did the lord pick this guy because i'm the least qualified person on the planet and everyone would know it has to be god i answered no no no you had no experience on rallies of millions but your depth of humility your leadership because these the collaboration team is five other ministries not here big ministries older than him and they looked to the youngest guy and said you're our leader these guys got big ministries they picked the young david david was the youngest brother of the eight brothers they said you're our leader and you went no i'm not and they made you leader and now you're the leader and you just did it there you have it okay that's why sums it up so chris the six of us and the guy with the number 15 shirt uh he is part of this whole thing too but lou was here for seven years you and lou i mean i think the lou engle 20 years of stadium events is so important to figure into this storyline dramatically it's why i mentioned the logo because what goes up must come down and then it's going out the arrow is the send so chris you're just the lord has used you in the last those six evenings here in such a dramatic way and the way the lord brought the all of us together i'm not gonna tell that story it is so unusual how we all ended up here these two weekends and these two weekends in july is what i called it someone said what are you calling this gathering two weekends in july that's the name of it on the internet because we didn't know what would happen but remarkable things happen so just anything the lord's given you and francis i know you're speaking in a minute but you got little nuggets you know you do come on so the thing that really captured my heart was when andy was talking about how have you come right up the connection to the um the send and everything with adoption and fostering and just 20 seconds share that little bit again if you would about um how this all plays into that with adoption and the reason why my word has something to do with that but go ahead yeah just very briefly as we dove into some of the biggest pain points in the nation trying to understand what does the sin look like on a local level we realize through experience we've had the privilege of adopting two beautiful daughters out of the foster care system we've got another seventh child right now as a little uh two-year-old who's in the foster care and uh the more we looked into this the more we realized it was the in many ways it was the feeder basin for human trafficking for incarceration for homelessness that some of america's biggest issues of brokenness were directly related of course fatherlessness or the brokenness in the family but the foster care system was this broken system of a government trying to fix something that can never be fixed because it's a family issue right and so we just said we have to fight for this and we felt in that journey that the lord was speaking this next generation would be the most adoptive generation in human history where it would become the exception to not engage in in being a solution to marginalized children i mean that you put malachi 4 6 in the middle of this storyline yes yes yes turning the hearts of fathers to children turning the hearts of the fathers to the children the hearts of children to the fathers so i believe there's some people here obviously with a crowd this size there's going to be people here who have been adopted but i i believe the lord when you was talking about that just at the in the service a little bit ago and mike mentioned again the lord highlighted a face of someone to me um i believe of asian descent that was here or connected to this service whose parents adopted them they were adopted out of a uh asian nation and brought to the states i saw you grew up in the states yes yes wave okay go ahead and stand just just keep going stay keep standing please we got we got a couple but wave so we can see you yeah just we got one there one there okay two of them okay i think this person um and if the lord wills i'll come back to the young man but i believe this person now this is really strange to me i've never seen something like this but also had like an encounter with the lord several years ago around like classical music or orchestra music or something like that there was some is that you okay here i mean since we so you had a divine encounter with the lord wait i'm gonna have benji just let's just run back there so we can not try to read their lips yeah go ahead so you know the lord because of the sovereignty of these meetings and the people that have come together for these meetings most of the time when i get words it's usually for divine healing or deliverance or something like that but i've noticed the last two weekends a lot of the words that i've getting have been corporate words lived out or vicariously expressed through an individual and the details of the word of the person speak to what god is saying in the moment for the corporate body and i think this might be one of those so i'm just trying to follow the lord those are the two details uh that i have and i'm just going to wait on him just a minute um so adopted and the music are the two points yes had an encounter a supernatural encounter with the lord something to do with is either orchestra or classical uh yes that's correct and there was another family member involved with that encounter or some kind of connection with that do you have a sister yes was she also adopted yes from asia yes south is it was it was it korea south korea yes okay just keep waiting on the lord is your sister still living yes tina or okay that is her name okay and then and then the mother and father that adopted you um the lord is really highlighting because i feel like that they were simple people imperfect people but they were they they are indicative of average people can adopt someone out of dire circumstances and then that child that is adopted even just by an average normal american family can turn out to be someone who lives for the lord as a as a difference maker in the kingdom and you're your example of that and so we the ihop family we know him i'm not gonna say anything about him how long have you been on our set uh about 18 years eight in hours a day in the prayer room wow he is a difference maker forever i mean you could always count on him being there i mean that's exaggerated a little bit always but incredible faithfulness so lord i just ask right now that what you did through my brother's life that it will be such a highlighted moment by the spirit connected to this malachi 4 6 mandate and the upcoming sin i just pray lord that this will model what you're wanting to do i feel the holy spirit right now and this struck my heart when you was talking about this earlier in the service and we got up here and i just i said to you i want you to share that again about the uh adoption um what took place there uh or the or the the scenario of adoption connection to the sin because what uh carrie and carolyn did for you those that is my parents names okay wait wait god wants to god wants to use people in this movement with the sin i believe we're going to hear incredible stories about what god has done through people and the number of children that that could have been aborted but were adopted that that could have been sex traffic but were rescued out of that system so lord i think it could have been sex trafficking think about that these kids could have been yeah i didn't even know you were going to talk about this tonight but i the lord knew and he's allowed me to tune into your spirit uh just enough to know that uh he wants you to realize this too that even though you have lived a life i don't want to say of celibacy but i see you uh spending a lot of time alone just keep developing that um [Music] it's true so this is encouraging to him i'm not trying to make some accurate thing this is encouraging the lord wants you to know he allow he has allowed that to happen for you to go through a number of years of your life without uh having a marriage partner because he wanted you to be married to him and he wanted that exclusive intimacy with you because out of that relationship you see the lord was jealous of your time and he marked you with that lifestyle as an intercessor and prayer warrior and something is going to happen before i i just see like you are praying about a specific thing a specific situation that you're asking the lord uh to step in and intervene in and i really think especially because something's going to happen in august relative to you um are you about 43 or 4 somewhere around yeah okay so lord i just pray that his life in the next month we are believing and declaring that this very thing for which he has sought you for and petitioned in believe four it's going to come to pass in a miraculous way and man won't be able to take credit for it it's going to be a god thing and lord i just release that blessing into his life and the gift of healing to also increase and flow from his hands and more dreams and more visions lord as he's been seeking and going after it lord give it give him all that his heart desires and honor him for his union with you and the many hours and days he spent along with you and i thank you for making him an example of what you're going to do through the sin with adoption and we just give the lord praise right now in jesus name so his parents are a picture of just the everyday people yeah yes and this is true and the lord gave you their names and they have a son that was deli really rescued out of something who knows what would happen 18 years one of the i mean the sterling pictures of faithfulness to the lord with a celibate spirit crying out to the lord loves the bridegroom jesus bridegroom god revelation i'm yours lord praying for dreams and visions and to honor that dedication i mean this is so precious to you well the lord revealed all of that to me to honor your dedication uh and that whole song of solomon we love you jess we love you we love you yes we love you i know it's him but it's you too [Applause] 18 years he has lived a dedicated celibate life fasting and praying a modern anna a man a modern-day anna in our midst he's building a memorial and i believe heaven is going to open up some kind of new floodgate for him because of his faithfulness acts chapter 10 and verse 2. acts 10 verse 2 don't forget the acts 10 verse 2. praise the lord and i'll i'll just go for one more since this uh meeting came about because of uh several connections that happened on april 9th is there someone here i think it was like around april 9th or if not the day of uh you were healed physically of some kind of divine or some kind of affliction in your body i just i don't know i i felt like that day was marked right around it's a friday nicole of course the leader of our chinese department because she sent us the message daniel do you have the insight is she here no but do you got that i'm going to mix it up can you say it real quick here benji quick because i want us to hear this april 9th she's one of our main leaders get terribly sick with cancer and we're having all these meetings here and we're all all of us are interacting on april 9th in our own strange way the lord put us together she sends a testimony not even aware of what's happening on april 9th i forgot about that tell us benji i mean that's it i mean she sent the video i think we all watched it and she mentioned april 9 yeah like a month later or something yeah of course here let's let's get the mic to him and you guys just stay together for a second so the medical report that confirmed that she's cancelled free came on april 9 and she emailed us while we were meeting you know what the lord i didn't i didn't know anything about that but here's what i heard the lord say that is a sign and a wonder to prove that the when the prince will pass it'll be 4 18 at last and that being declared on 4 9 was the sign we have hit a mile marker in the body of christ and divine healing is going to accelerate in a magnificent pace and we're going to see it perform and every person in this room that has cancer or battles cancer any type of cancer stand to your feet if you will or you have someone that you love that is battling i see one uh person back there quickly stand if you would like and the folks around you're the prayer team go ahead and lay hands on them but just pray quietly while while he's praying up here everybody needs to get around the people standing even you can sit there but go ahead and lay hands on them at least so the ones of you that are standing that you have cancer yourself lift up your hand real quick so i'll know that it's you that we're praying for first so the ones that have their hands up that are battling cancer and we're going to have we're going to have andy stand for benny johnson okay bill johnson's wife so let's we're going to pray for you too in her stead lord we just take authority right now over every form of cancer now lord we plead the blood of jesus and by your stripes we're healed i take authority over prostate cancer yes in the name of jesus christ i declare lord right now you to heal my brother right over here in his body we're believing lord for every single cancer cell that is alive in this room leukemia has to die leukemia has to die in the name of jesus breast cancer has to leave now in jesus name liver cancer bladder cancer has to go in jesus name lord we believe you highlighted this miracle and we're asking you to do it right now to show forth yourself mighty and strong and we just ask in the name of jesus christ that the demon of cancer will be broken in its hold over anybody in this room or the people connected to the people in this room lord we pray for benny johnson we're just asking jesus christ's name that she will be healed healed by the power of god and as a testimony lord of your supernatural power lord we just ask you to release that in her life we ask for healing for her in jesus name we release the healing power of god over every cancer victim in this place and we declare in jesus name that jesus is the healer today we're going to just camp here for a moment i'm going to ask can fish up here the lord's used him dramatically in healing just continue to pray against the cancer and pray for benny johnson as well let's keep praying a few more moments the lord has just used ken a lot in healing over the years before i pray for the cancer i just want to ask is there a woman sitting over there in this section and i don't know what this is but i see some kind of a i don't think you think it's a cancerous mass but there's something wrong with it's either your bone marrow or your circulatory system but it's up high here it's not in your heart it's in the upper left and it's in this zone who is that person this is my process by the way i give a word and then nobody responds until afterward you're right in this zone i can see it yeah i actually think it's you know the way no you're now you're looking back i think it's you with the hair band and the dark hair do you have a problem up yeah you she's got a pain right there a big pain in that area she's got pain in that area but the lady behind him so let's pray for both of them okay we'll pray for the two of you and the cancer and the cancer not not either or both and so father we ask for these two women that have responded here lord that you would that you would release healing upon this injured shoulder and upon this whatever this thing is that i'm seeing i just speak to that in the name of jesus i command you be broken before the lord's power and everything that is not of the kingdom of heaven leave the body get out and lord we ask for the cancer in the room we just ask that the spirit of him who raised christ from the dead would give life into their mortal bodies as your word says it will do and lord we pray that that power that power of the risen christ would drive cancer out of their bodies ma'am the one that i pointed out with the hairband there's power coming on your shoulder right now just relax you got enough people around you if you fall out it's fine if you don't that's also okay but let that come there's power coming right into your shoulder right now and the lady back there now the spirit of the lord is touching you right now that's it let it come let it come it's going through the shoulder now towards your spine in the name of jesus lord we just pray for more release there and we pray for all those who are afflicted with cancer in their bodies that you would just strike it to the ground strike it to the ground and lord we pray for benny johnson lord you know what what a what an incredible leadership couple bill and benny johnson are to the renewal movement in this country lord we ask you not just by your power but by your compassion yes lord that you would fall on benny as we pray at this moment and we ask that you would raise her up out of this cancer and that you would break up the cancer cancerous nodes and nodules in her body especially those two large ones in her upper chest and we asked that they would be broken and dissolve and pass out of her body tonight with the waste stream be gone in jesus name thank you lord we're going to transition in a moment but one of our own dan bohiz in california having healing services in california night after night lord i ask you to extend your hand to heal right now tonight tomorrow the next night use your servant dan he's there for 30 days the thousands of healing testimonies we just say jesus asked for extend your hand to heal even as he speaks those words of knowledge that he does so often we speak grace grace over him and over those gatherings in jesus name amen and amen we're going to uh go ahead and have a seat we're going to transition we're going to take an offering actually for the call so i'm going to ask the the who's the worship team she was healed you she was healed right i'll take it thank you luke how much does this stadium event cost about 2.6 okay 2.6 million i've done a lot of events not state events that means it's 3.2 when it's 2.6 a year early it's 3.2 so let's call it 3 million okay now you're a wyom guy you raise your own support how are you going to pay for this um ihop good answer miracles is the right answer i do need to say that last time we did a rally right after brazil we flew from brazil here some of you were here and it was our first launch of the kansas of arrowhead and you took an offering here that like a year ago yeah yeah it was the largest offering we'd ever received and that offering is what got the send through kovid when no one's wanting to give to stadium gatherings during covet so i just want to thank you that offering is what allowed the send to operate through a year and a half of no events and no way to raise funds so your family has deeply so many thousand dollars and now we have eric matax's million dollar book and the royalties we can pull on that someone get that man a bucket maybe two buckets um i got friends man i got friends now no in all seriousness we're just having fun there's no way he could do louis ingle would do that lou no money at all and he's done like 30 of these events and they every one of them were paid for many of them five tell 12 and one or two of them one minute after 12 but they got paid every single time and there was no resource in view and the amount of blessing that comes through people reaching giving god telling them people getting touched there's so many dynamics when money flows that hearts get touched and joined and blessed and we want to sew in this what what do they make the check out to her how are you doing yeah we have the information up on the screens we need you to make checks out to the send and then there's also online giving information that's there if you need if i know the fonts may be a little bit small you can get up or ask a person with better eyesight next to you what that screen actually says you mean right the details are on the screen and we'll help him um i i am just sitting here i'm struck because the storyline of what the lord is doing here is opening my heart and i know it's opening many of your hearts and then secondly the lord has anointed andy in our generation and he would be embarrassed by me saying this but every time this man speaks and opens his mouth i'm struck by his humility but i'm struck by the call and the anointing of the lord to action and i told him backstage right after we walked off at the beginning i said bro every time you open your mouth i feel like joining wyoming and the sand because there's just an anointing on this man that i'm so grateful for and i want our hearts to be opened and respond to this historic narrative that is unfolding for many of us in our city in the city that we live in and john piper has this famous quote i think it's from john piper and he says there's only three types of people there are those that go there are those that send those who go and there are those that are disobedient and all of us fall into one of those categories and in this in this historic event where we're gathering thousands to arrowhead and this message is going forth that it's time for a great thrust of laborers and missionaries into the harvest field because jesus says in matthew 9 the fields are white with the harvest there are those that are called to go and then there are those that are called to send those who go and we send them through prayer we send them through finances we send them for giving and the enormous burden the enormous mountain of cost that an event like the sand takes is nothing before god and we know that and he can turn every mountain into a plane and nothing is impossible for him but it takes the activation of the saints and it takes us getting behind the storyline and getting behind leaders that god has appointed in our generation and saying yes god let it come to pass in our day amen so i want to pray and ask the lord to open our hearts and those of you that are online as well we want to give extravagantly all of these funds are going to go completely to the sand none of them are going to iopkc or foreigner church because we believe in what god is doing amen so father in the name of jesus father we thank you firstly for the privilege to be a part of the storyline and what you're doing in the earth we thank you for andy we thank you for his wife holly and their children their family lord and how they've said yes to being the tip of the spear for this insurmountable seemingly just crazy journey this mountain they said we're gonna go up this mountain we will respond lord to what you're calling us to we thank you for them we bless them we bless the sentient we bless lou engel and all the years that he's pioneered and labored father we bless lord all those that are responding and going to respond to the call to be missionaries to respond and go to the nations of the earth to preach the gospel of the kingdom in our day father i am asking right now that you would open up our hearts you would open up the hearts of this family you would open up the hearts of those joining us online you would open up the hearts of visitors lord to say yes to his this historic moment that we're seeing develop right in front of our eyes we ask you lord that you would do this that there would be a sovereign work in the name of jesus that every bill would be paid in the name of jesus father we thank you and we bless you in your name amen i just want to say this as i invite francis up just for a moment because i really feel like i need to say one thing just because we together as a community are so focused on pleasing the lord and that is i'm so grateful for the affirmation the encouragement of my role in the sin but it is so important that i say to all of us this has nothing to do with me and so important that i say there's a team behind this a full of humility and radical servant-heartedness these six seven other leaders lou engel that have given their lives for this and that is really important just pleases the lord to say that out loud the face of the sin will never be a person the face of the sand is jesus empowering and equipping and mobilizing and sending a whole generation all across the earth and i just think it's important we say that because we are in a new era and that new era is not propping humans up that new era is propping jesus up and so i want to set the record straight on that and uh then i just truly believe i really believe francis has a word for us tonight and i'm just so excited to to see where we go so let's go [Applause] i was just thinking about this uh passage while we were worshiping is out of john 14 which some of you may or may not know that john 13 through 17 has been the key passage that has brought this group of the six of us together this week um but there's this fascination i've been having with this entire discourse and in john 14 verse 21 it says whoever has my commandments and keeps them he it is who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my father and i will love him and manifest myself to him verse 23 jesus says if anyone loves me he will keep my word and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him man i hope that never gets old to you okay you're talking about almighty god saying i will come to you and make my home with you so i think about that as i walk up onto a stage it's like god has made his home in me god almighty the god of revelation 4 somehow abides in me and loves me that's what the whole cross was about was to bring us together so that we could be one i just want to take some time before i do anything else and just thank god for our union with him made possible by the blood of jesus christ father we are so humbled right now that you would choose us to be one with you that you wanted us to be one with you and you sacrificed you suffered to make us one with you god i pray i would die before that truth gets old to me please lord may we grow in that fascination even right now this second may your spirit fall on us so we are fascinated that we are one with you what is man that you are mindful of him we praise you almighty god for what you did to make us one in jesus precious holy wonderful beautiful name we pray amen as i prayed for tonight i had some some thoughts about the send but before i even get to that uh i was thinking you know this is this kind of wraps up this kind of six night thing that we've had with the six of us and i i want to say some words about that because uh first i want to thank the ihop family because of the love that you've shown how much love you've shown us as leaders as and the way you've hosted us and loved us and loved our families crazy things have happened in my personal family because of this week i it's just been it's just been too much to explain there's there's no way on earth i can come up here and even try to summarize what has happened during those six days it's just i i i there's there's no way i don't think i've ever had a time in my life where i had an experience for such a period of time and go i can't explain it to you i just can't it's it's too much as i said one night i go i feel like my whole life has been like i've been studying this book for 40 years i became a believer when i was 14 years oldish you know in high school and studying every year and there was always like just this gap between what i would study and what i'd see in scripture and then what i experienced and while i was kind of closing in on the gap a little bit it really wasn't until this week that everything really came together for me where i'm going we are living out this book being with this great it's you guys i'm not exaggerating listen to every talk i've ever given i mean don't do that but i've never said that okay something crazy happened something fascinating happened and there's no way i can summarize i want to read a passage from ephesians 4 and i've just been thanking jesus for these last couple of weeks but ephesians 4 verse 1 says i therefore a prisoner for the lord urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called with all humility and gentleness with patience bearing with one another in love eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace i feel like this passage was so real these last couple days this last couple weeks when he's urging us to walk in a manner that's worthy of the calling to which we've been called with all humility and gentleness and with patience bearing with one another in love i love that that phrase bearing with one another in love is followed by eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace he says here here's how if you want to live a life that's honoring to to god then in patience put up with each other put up with me because i'm going to let you down put up with me because i'm going to sin against you and he says be eager to maintain the unity of the spirit spirit fall on us let it rain let it rain oh let it rain lord please may this really be about your spirit god i don't want to speak words of the flesh god may this be a blessing from you god empower the words that are about to come out of my mouth to bring people to unity with you and with each other in this room in a miraculous way in jesus name amen and we're in orlando at the first sin conference there was a moment when we just felt like god's power was going to fall and it began to rain at that moment and the whole stadium started singing that and so i don't think it's coincidence um if you listen to everything that has happened leading up to kansas city and the send if you can listen to all those miracles and stories and say i think it's coincidence i would say you are irrational seriously for me to for me to take everything that i've experienced just in these two weeks i mean i would have to just i i it's like it there's there's no logic whatsoever it would take so such a ridiculous faith to believe that it's all coincidence you don't know everything that i've experienced these last two weeks right here it's blown my mind and at the end of it i'm expecting something more even tonight i just i believe that and i have some words and i believe they're of the lord um i've been thrilled about the unity of these streams coming together like we talked about and god blesses unity okay but i also want you to understand because i mean we can get all excited oh yeah we're one we're one we're one we're unified but there there's a reason why it says bear with one another because you're eager to maintain the unity there's a reason why it says bear with one another because there is a cost to unity there is a cost to unity and i am not oblivious to the cost of unity because we live in a time especially now when i decide to join myself with these five guys the moment i commit to uniting with them i inherit something i inherit all of their enemies seriously think about this the moment the moment i decide i love mike bickle he is my brother in christ you know what happens at that moment everyone who hates mike bickle sees me affirming him and they turn their rage towards me so i understand the cost of friendship in this generation but i'm going to do it anyways that that that's what this is about [Applause] so why would i do this and i i say this to some of you gen zers who are obsessed with popularity if you do that you will you will betray your friends because your generation is all about becoming famous and getting followers whether on instagram facebook whatever and so so there's a very because it happened to peter it happened to peter wait aren't you one no why because he didn't want the enemies of jesus to suddenly look at him and so he betrayed him at that time it broke his heart that he was a betrayer at that moment that's why jesus had to come after the resurrection and then and pay special attention to peter i believe because he betrayed him three times denied him why because he didn't want jesus enemies to suddenly be his enemies there's a cost and so if you're out to become popular you're going to have to betray people and that's what's going to happen in the end times and there's that type of culture but i've committed to your leader mike bickle um number one because i fear god i fear god i i i and according to those passages i read in john 14 just now god dwells in mike pickle okay that's that's a that's a terrifying thought that god okay what sometimes we we we say things as christians so often that we lose the weight of it oh the spirit's in me oh the spirit's in do you understand the weight of that statement okay there's a being in heaven that that he says you can't even look at me or you would die no man would survive that to see him he's a being who says earth and the entire earth appears and then that god says i will come into your human body and so when i look at mike and i think whoa oh mighty god has chosen to abide in him and he is a a part of the body of christ i don't dare divide from him when i see the spirit of god in a man it's out of my fear of god it's out of my love for him and it's out of my need for him because that same passage in ephesians 4 goes on to say in verse 11 that he gave well let's go back verse 5 one lord one faith one baptism one god and father of all who is over all and through all and in all but grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of christ's gift therefore it says when he ascended on high he led a host of captives and he gave gifts to men and saying he ascended what does it mean but that he also descended into the lower regions of the earth he who descended is the one who also ascended far above the heavens that he might fill all things and he gave the apostles the prophets the evangelists the shepherds and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry for the building up of the body of christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god to mature manhood to the measure of the stature of the fullness of christ so it talks about this jesus who gives gifts to men and then a couple verses later he explains what those gifts are it says he gave us these apostles prophets teachers evangelists shepherds it was a gift and when i look at mike's life i go wow he's a gift to me the other day in the prayer room i'm just watching him well god thank you for that gift in my life i i don't want to take a see what we've done for many years is we've taken you know how first corinthians 12 says the eye can't say to the hand i don't need you but the body of christ has done that they go well you're a little different from me so i don't need you i'll do my own church i'll have my own independent thing where i can lead because i don't need you rather than realizing no that's a gift from god and i need him you see when we divide we miss out there's another reason why i've committed to mike i don't want to miss out on 50 years of committed bible study and teaching that he's shown i don't want to miss out from all of his stories the lifetime of experiences and stories i've never seen anything like that i don't want to miss out on the fellowship with a guy whom the word of god was not just studied but it was implanted in his heart to the point where he sacrifices who wants to be say i don't need you to a guy who has led a movement of 24 7 prayer for over 20 years it's like i want that with me i want him on my team so i'm i just want to speak to this isn't the ihop this is for other people who might be watching this because i know some of you have ditched mike and some of you ditched him because of something you think you might have heard someone say that may or may not be true and so you're going to ditch all of that 50 years of prayer teaching you know a lifestyle and i thank god for a simple lifestyle he could have made so much money and be living this lavish life but he lived this way for all of those years you're going to teach all of that and all the ridiculous stories because you heard something from a friend i would say you are so foolish and also you better be careful because the spirit of god dwells inside of him and you so easily depart from a son of god i just can't do that i get it i get it there's differences but aren't you eager to maintain the unity i just met chris reed um your gift in the prophetic and uh i feel like there's a there's a movie that when i think of you i think of this movie um that's uh it's it's it's not prophetic but it almost feels like it and it's about this wrestler uh named nacho and uh but in the in the movie oh some of you familiar with it okay but in the movie okay there is a point when he scales this mountain to get to these eagle eggs right right because he thinks they're going to give him power and so he eats of the eagle egg right which was it was amazing feat to get up that cliff and uh but then he goes to his next wrestling match assuming i'm gonna have these eagle powers you know i was told and he loses and he gets so mad he's like those eggs have no power you know and but okay you may or may not have caught this but at the end of the movie i didn't catch it the first five times that's why i don't have time to read but at the end of the movie when he remember when he actually defeats ramses okay he dives and he die he flies far and the sound of an eagle right oh i didn't catch it till later ah the eagle powers did hit him i don't know if you guys caught that but okay the reason why i bring that up there's a point um i when i started studying the scriptures about the holy spirit i would expect this power you know and even as i was diving in the more recycled no there should be more power and i wasn't seeing it and sometimes i i get in more charismatic circles but it almost felt a little forced or not quite there and then no i mean that the way god has used you this week not just here in the evening meetings but throughout our time together i'm going wow that's that's the power i was looking for the power of god and the way that you always couple it with the scriptures um i haven't seen that before your knowledge of the word of god coupled with that and it's it's weird though it's i think you know sometimes when you're young you're you're and maybe somebody goes oh i wish i had that gift i wish i had i'm not even i don't i'm not jealous of the gifts what i what i marvel at when i when i think about it as i go whoa so at those moments god almighty speaks to you i'll be honest i'm a little jealous of that it's the relationship of god trusts you to speak for him and he talks to you and he tells you something out of his love for you and i get it some of you watching you'll see him do the prophetic thing and because you don't believe in the gifts you'll distance yourself from him and again i'm telling you you're crazy because he is a gift from god to the body and i get it there are differences that maybe we bear with okay i'm not used to some of the things you do i'm not used to even the way you talk and scream sometimes i i'm just being honest like it's that pentecostal and i'm like ah i don't really do that and uh you know and sometimes you know some of the things i i'm not saying i agree with everything with these guys okay but i'm going i'm not going to let go of all of that then humble power of god i want him on my team i go i need you right why would you go well but but he yells oh yeah so i don't need you anymore let me distance because you yell really and i heard something about mike's okay yeah just distance yourself yeah just see how it works out for you but i'm like and i don't dare separate from these guys the spirit of god in them let's move to eric i'm just i just want to say god has given him a gift um and i know it's given you a gift with words that is outrageous there are so many times you say something and i go i wish i could say it like that i wish i could as that's you put words exactly what i wanted to say now there's other times where i go i'm yeah there's times i cringe when you talk i now no let's let's just lay it out there right right i'm sure your wifey cringes did right they're okay exactly but that's it that's it but you know what i've learned you may have impacted me most of anyone this week as far as courage and boldness and and restoring something in me a boldness to say you know i'll stand with you and i'll take all of your enemies i'll take it because every time i take these i lose you've got to understand i lose friends every time i commit to one of these guys and that's just that that's just it i mean it's it's really not that funny it's actually sad you know where we are at but it's it's just what happens suddenly he's like whoa francis you were you were with that big prophet guy from you know you know yep i'm not into that stuff and they start to question you you you sat next to eric you said he yep i get it maybe he's more republican than than i am just laying it out thrown out there but that's not going to make me distance and the more i understand him he is fighting for a freedom of speech and he's exemplifying that for whether you're a democrat or a republican he wants us to be free to voice and then he exemplifies it he feels very free to voice no i and i i admire that and if i'm going to war i want him on my side i want that mouth on my side ken fish um of our group i mean not of everyone but i go of our group i think we'd agree that that you are probably the strangest um i mean would you guys agree like it's okay thanks eric i knew i i knew i had you for sure um no here's what i have so admired about you ken is you you keep pretty quiet and you'll let others defer to others smart people don't usually do that um if you've met many intelligent people and i believe the six of us in a room would all if we had to vote who was the smartest guy in the room we would all point to you and yet there's a humility about that but here's what i really love about you is when i look at your children you know your your daughter who's married prophesied over me today in such a beautiful amazing way that doesn't just happen okay the way you've raised your kids and i know the struggles that you and your wife must go through and the integrity and and the perseverance and everything you have and i don't even know all of your gifts other people here have experienced them but i'm just saying for you as a man and what you've done and i i and other people are so quick to just go you're done you're done because of this or that or whatever it may be and i'm going man i've loved standing with you and i'm sure there's haters out there of you um are there yeah okay and uh it's good it's all good and i feel like i i get that from you eric like you just go i'll take it i'll tell you what kind of man you're gonna be that every time i might hurt your reputation you're gonna betray and so you won't stand with that person that you know has the spirit of god in them that's how little your fear of god is that that's crazy to me and then there's andy he's the only one i think that has no enemies so right i i i'm being honest here like how do you not like andy bird okay so that one's easy i don't have to worry like oh no people are gonna be mad i like andy bird you know everyone likes annie bird so we'll just skip him um but he there's a there's just a uh there's a power about him and and he's probably the one i'm closest to and uh um if you ever doubt whether god's blessing is on his life ask him to show you his wedding picture it is the most ridiculous thing there was no i you know i partially i noticed something when i was a youth i noticed like the most homely looking youth pastors would have these gorgeous wives and i thought i'll become a youth pastor you know [Applause] but in 40 years i've never seen a bigger gap than your wedding picture seriously i should have brought it tonight it is outrage it is it is the weirdest thing you go no no no no that's not real that is not real god has blessed him um so i i say this i just go you know what um we've had such a great time together this week and i believe it's a picture though that was supposed to be for the church to understand that there's a cost to unity we all think it's all beautiful but the reality is i really have lost a lot of friends by deciding to unify with other streams in the body of christ and i know that there are some that are listening right now and watching that you're gonna distance yourself from me after these two weeks and and i'm okay with it but what i want to say to you is i don't think you really want to do that um i i don't think you really want to distance yourself from me either not just these guys because you know what despite how whatever is said i'm a child of god and he loves me he's shown me that my whole life the way he's answered my prayers the way he's put me in places i don't belong i feel so blessed and loved and secure despite what the accuser tries to say to me in my own flesh despite what others try to tell me i am i see what the word of god says about me and god has shown me that he loves me and i'm okay personally with you distancing yourself from just saying [Music] you know is mike is a gift to the body of christ and as these other guys are a gift to the body of christ i'm just going to say it i'm a gift to the body of christ [Applause] because god tells me that i am and i'm not going to listen to anyone else but i also want to say to you guys that i just mentioned i want to exhort you please please don't let me down don't let pride change you don't get cocky if god starts using you in greater ways because it it it it affects me too and everyone says oh see look you were partnered with ken fish oh you were your advised with my taxes and look you guys don't do that okay because now you're hurting us okay don't don't chase after the glory don't don't get greedy too eric if your books do rise and start to sell like mine do don't um [Applause] like in all seriousness i'll bring it back no but i'm serious like that's something that happens where the greed and suddenly you start living this opulent lifestyle because you can rather than caring for the needy and using those resources for them like when you start living that way now it doesn't just affect you because i've committed to you okay and if there's any if there's any of that stuff where you guys are looking and considering anything that would break the bond between you and your wives any seed in your heart any look in your eyes any addiction to pornography you're looking at man seriously you guys man it's not just about you anymore can we take a hit for you guys okay i get that and i will take it but i'm telling you seriously don't screw this up i'm i'm being serious right now because it affects the body so we live holy lives i want to be fear of god and that's why i am joining with you guys i see the fear of god i see the humility but don't lose that and don't ruin this thing because it happens i i there's been power this week because of the unity and i don't i'm not trying to put a damper on things i'm trying to be realistic about what the enemy wants to do he hates what's happened these last couple of weeks and if we're not aware of the warfare that's coming our way because he hates this so much we need to wake up to it okay i'm getting serious i have gotten so much more serious this week we joke about the reading study thing but i'm serious like i'm i'm i'm getting into it i'm getting my kids into it i'm preparing them for this i mean it's it's it's a shift in mindset which is what i wanted out of this we're headed into a serious war and i want to be together with you because you guys have loved me so well and love my family so well and that's why i exhort you because i'm saying the same things to myself i don't want to let you down i don't want to fumble you know it's it's that same football analogy we used this week earlier about we're about to score but any one of us could screw it up you know and everyone's got to play their part and i want you to understand the thing about us this week that we found is we have a common goal we have a common goal that ken is not out to lift up the name of ken eric is not here to lift up the name of eric mike is not here to lift up the name of mike and he's we're we're all together going gosh we're not even thinking about ourselves we're thinking about the next generation how can we come alongside of them how can we lift them up how can we all be behind the send how can we figure out how to get this next generation to live differently how could the future church actually be unified and bear with one another and be eager to maintain this unity how can we exemplify this for them how do we teach them to be humble and to care for the orphan and the widow and to not live lavish lifestyles but to be simple so that others can live how do we do this how can we build in and protect them see i got a word the first time i went to y wham over to andy singh and again andy was in that whole ywam group was a group i was taught to distance myself from you know because there were some different theologies and things like that so so stay stay away from them but then when i finally went and got to know them i was blown away and the first time i stepped into one of their meetings it was like if it wasn't the audible voice of god somehow god spoke to me and i'm walking to my seat and god says these are your children protect your children like my child what are you saying i've spoken to hundreds if not thousands of places and i've never heard god speak to me as i'm walking to my chair and i'm telling god did you just say these are my children and protect my children and i'm sitting at my seat like what just happened i don't know if lindy was leading or someone and worship's going on and i just had to close my eyes and i apologize to god oh god i'm sorry i've asked to hear your voice now that i think i hear you i'm questioning whether it's really you and going god did you just say these are my children and that they that i'm supposed to protect my children i'm just having this private conversation as we're worshiping and then the guy next to me sitting next to me who i don't know whispers in my ear francis these are your children okay first of all why are you talking right now i'm having like a time with the i've never interrupted when someone's like this in prayer during worship i don't go hey but he does and he says the exact words that god spoke to me these are so i just bawl my eyes out one of the next times i go to kona crazy thing i'm reading through the scriptures because in our church we read through the bible every year and uh we're in numbers chapter eight and so i read numbers chapter eight and i never noticed numbers chapter eight before i've read it but it just i don't get it and it i get it but it has nothing to do with me i just kind of browse through it i mean it's one of those books you kind of fly through and um but numbers 8 verse 23 the lord spoke to moses saying this applies to the levites from 25 years old and upward they shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meaning and for the age of 50 years they shall withdraw from the duty of service and serve no more they minister to their brothers in the tent of meaning by keeping guard but they shall do no service and i thought what and and re reason why it jumped out to me was i was 50 years old that year and i'm going to wait from 25 wait and i wrestled with the lord i go so you're telling me that if i lived in old testament times now that i'm 50 i would have to retire from my service and i seriously had this battle with the lord i go that's crazy because i feel so strong i mean honestly physically at 50 that was the best shape i believe that was the best shape of my life honey would you agree i was ripped at 50. no i was pushing it hard crossfit lifting i mean i was like i was impressed with myself i'm just going god i feel andy what i wasn't i okay thank you specimen i like that word i mean i'm going god physically at 50 i feel strong i feel like mentally i'm there i've got all this background in ministry so why would you have me step down for some 25 year old and now all i'm supposed to do is is kind of protect him and god revealed to me he goes look what are you going to do if you wait till you're 75 then that kid doesn't get a chance till he's 50. you wait till you're 100 if you live to be 100 that guy doesn't get to start till he's 75. he goes there's a pattern here i wanted you while you still had the energy at 50 to guard the next generation to protect these are your ch and then i realized whoa he says guard that was a word from the lord these are your children protect your children and god has been revealing to me this last month remember the word i spoke to you out of numbers eight in fact when i went home to the elders you know in san francisco of my church i go echo man when i read numbers eight god was clear to me i need to step down you guys i think god's telling me to step down as elder and i just kind of support you guys and then one of my elders go oh i forgot to tell you when we're in kona some old man i don't know who he was said tell francis to read numbers chapter eight are going you forgot to tell me that that's pretty significant too um this is why we don't want these 25 year olds that you know but i go whoa that was a word from the lord and so i'm trying to eat and it was actually i think it was isaac uh when you um at one of the meetings here you said something about uh stewarding when the lord speaks you stewarding those words well and my wife actually confronted me after hearing you say that thanks and uh saying hey that word from y wham did you steward that well i go you know you're right that this next season isn't about you francis it's about you while you have the energy building up this younger generation and guarding them and leading them and making sure they they avoid some of these pitfalls of pride and lust and greed so they can actually let them lead but you be right there guarding them that they don't fall into some of these traps because sometimes we've heard guys like me that will preach till we're 90 years old and now suddenly we're saying things that don't even make sense boring people to death but we're not going to let go because we want to stay in charge and that's hurt the church because we didn't pass it on at an age young enough to where we would actually protect them and guide them and guard them and lead them you know i think that's what a lot of this is about this week i've got these two candles these candles represent me and my son i love my son they represent me and my son and i know your initial thought is okay there's you and there's your son nope i'm the candle that's been burnt down to almost nothing i've lived my life what is the point of lighting me and putting this up on it you know some candlestick holder you know it you know and mike is like i don't know way down here it's just no but but i want you to think about this like i recognize the wisest thing i can do is take whatever light i have and enlighten some of you 25 year olds you've got a whole lifetime of service ahead of you and i seriously this next season of my life because before this month i was saying god you're gonna show me what i'm supposed to do in this next season of life and he's revealed it to me over this month and he's shown me so clearly this is you it's not about you you've done what you need to do and now your responsibility is to protect these children to build into them to start a new generation of power that's united and so if you're in this room i want you to think about this next season of life man i've taken this seriously see i i took my kids before i came here i took them to alaska and i told them look no telephones we're not using cell phones we're not using any screens no ipads no movies nothing because i want your mind to get clear again i i see what's coming and now more clearly i understand what's happening at the end and it's my responsibility to get my kids who have a full life in front of them strong enough to survive what's coming you know and so my 15 year old son isn't with me here in kansas city you know why because at the end of the trip to alaska i thought man i want him to be strong i i need him to know how to how to sacrifice and and i talked to him like hey if i could talk to one of these alaskan fishing boat captains and and if they agree to take you on one of those ships to where you learn how to work like day and night and keep up with like five grown men on one of those crazy fishing boats i think it'd be good for you to learn how to work like that and sacrifice like that and be strong like that would you do it he says yeah dad so he's in the middle of the gulf of alaska right now on a fishing boat these last two weeks hardly steve you know and then we'll facetime i've only gotten through them once and i'm just so proud i'm going man you're becoming a man dude this is it because i i'm thinking about your future i'm doing this because i love you man i want you to know what it means to endure and persevere because our times are coming see this is the role that we are in okay so i hope if you're 50 60 70 you're not just thinking oh how come there's no retreat for me or there's not enough are you still thinking about yourself no the send is the retreat for you to build into the next generation to light these candles with everything you've learned it's time for you to invest and protect this next generation and so i'm pumped about it i know this is a thing of god i've heard all the stories seen all the signs and everything else and he's put it in my heart i i i must decrease you know and even as a father i'm telling my kids i need to decrease and god has to increase as your father there needs to be a shift now he's your true father and i can get you closer and closer to him because he's the one you can depend on it's not about that anymore it's not about us anymore that's what the send is about man most of you know most of us grew up in a generation and a youth group that was not thinking about seeking the face of god and i've been blown away not just here at ihop but other churches in kansas city and youth groups that i've been to where i see teenagers that are praying till like one in the morning just to seek the face of god teenagers groups of them a couple times a week because they want to i go no one talked like that when i was in youth group i'm seeing a generation that is seriously saying i'll go anywhere that was not my thinking as a teenager as a christian teenager and youth group i was not considering being sent but there's a generation right now and they're serious and so what are we going to do with our lives with what's left make more about ourselves buy stuff for ourselves or pour into the next generation and go you know what i want my kids to grow up in a different kind of church than what i grew up in i want to grow up in a church where people don't betray each other and slander each other and divide over every little thing i wanted them to grow up in a church and form churches where they can stand and they speak out against injustices in the world they don't just hide i really this whole bonhoeffer spirit that we've been talking about we believe in this and we see god has begun something here and i'm just begging you all jump in with us protect this next generation don't fumble this don't blow this don't get so focused on yourself i had to tell my whole family you guys have followed me around long enough you followed me to san francisco to hong kong and back and you know what now it's my time to build into you what is god calling you to do and i'm going to support you it's not about francis chan anymore it's about zeke it's about ellie it's about mercy it's about rachel it's about peter and justin claire it's it's about them and that's what i'm devoted to and that's what i believe the message god has called me to send to you is set that example let's not betray one another anymore let's set a new example let's not be about ourselves anymore and let's be about the next generation and so with that i want to bring andy up because i said you know what god's given him a gift i he says okay you just close it as a spirit leader and no it's better it's better like god's given you a gift i don't every time we've been together we've experienced god in crazy ways right more than when we're alone that's why it's like i don't want to be apart from this i don't know what the future is going to look like i just know i want to be by your side buddy seriously i'm serious man i don't know anyone i'd rather be with wow seriously and mike your example to us man it's like i don't want to ever divide from you okay we're body and my i fight for purity more now because i know you guys depend on me to do that and will fight for my humility and simplicity in my life because i'm not going to let the team down i'm not going to turn my back on you and i know what kind of tip-toed into this thing but i'm in it now so andy whatever the spirit is leading you and mike to lead us into i i love this you know that we hear this and we say wow wow i like what eric said the other day he said this is normal christianity this is an extra credit to live this way this is what believers do he's just doing what believers do but i just got one thought is that i would like the 40 and older crowd that is saying because it's when you're 40 you've got to be a spiritual dad and mom when you're 40 you can't wait till you're even 50 and 60. if you're hearing this and saying i need to make some adjustments or i want to buy into what he just said about sowing into the next generation and thinking about them i'd like you to stand i want to pray for that group and then we could do a few other things but this is this was absolutely the word of the lord to us this thing is about when i first met bob jones 38 years ago he said i was 27 years old he goes da da da da this movement worshiping he goes it's for your children and your grandchildren i was 27 we had a two-year-old and a four-year-old boy and they're both here and my grandchildren are here and i went my grandchildren bob jones says it will be past my day i won't even be here i'll be with the lord you'll be an old man this thing i'm talking about is for your grandchildren they will be in their strength i couldn't comprehend what he was talking about that was 38 years ago a lot i've ran into a lot of folks that are 30 40 50 years old i'm looking for a spiritual father and i said i'm happy that you are but be one i mean if you get one that's cool you probably won't but go be one go be one right now and a lot of 40 years that's just like what what i got there's a whole bunch of 14 and 18 year olds that are waiting on you to be a spiritual mother and father here we are lord francis that was man you just washed us you just washed us thank you lord we were washed tonight here we are father i say come holy spirit just touch us just wait on the lord for a moment here we are father malachi 4 6 the hearts of the fathers male female will turn to the children the 40 and ups we'll turn to the five to the 20 year olds we're going to turn to them father malachi 4 6 here we are come holy spirit just gotta wait on the lord for a moment come and manifest your presence on our hearts right now more lord i'm asking for more of his manifest presence to rest on us right now more lord release your fire release your fire with generations waiting on us waiting all of us around the world on all the folks our age they're waiting on us there's more kids under 20. i don't really know the real numbers in the earth than all the other ages above 20 something like that they're waiting on us lord lose your fire here we are lord well give us your heart for the younger ones change the conversation inside of us let us ask different questions let us be burdened about different things them not just us we're asking you lord to help shift the conversation in our soul more lord but release your presence right now release your glory right now upon hearts and minds it's gonna wait a few more moments it's a special moment right now if the thing shifts in us even a few degrees our lives will change even a little shift in this direction will change what we say and think in the next 10 years tonight could be a life shifting moment in your life tonight can right now by hearing this i'm gonna have the worship team come up if they would we're just gonna stay here for a few more moments we're gonna worship it here until 10 and again i the prayer room opens at 10. you can go back down there if you want to continue there'll be live worship teams and the doors will be open marcus malachi 4 5 and 6. marcus the spirit the lord said the spirit of elijah i mean elijah will come malachi 4 5 that's the spirit of prophecy elijah will come and turn the hearts lord i ask for the spirit of prophecy i ask for the spirit of prophecy to rest on us in a greater measure but a spirit of prophecy that would shift us in our mindset to the younger ones i ask for dreams visions words of knowledge holy spirit inspiration that shifts us to the group under us in jesus name i pray for the release of the spirit of elijah the spirit of prophecy the holy spirit lord let us ask the questions you're asking that you want us to ask about the 15 and the 20 year olds let us see what you see and feel what you feel when you look at the 22 year olds let us see what you see and feel what you feel when we look at the 22 year olds and the 18 year olds lord we believe you for this [Music] now man this is a little bit strange i'm going to ask the the the 20 somethings and younger to actually stand up and be the ministry team and one of these old guys that are praying just go lay your hands on their shoulder and i want you to pray any verse bible verse that comes to your mind don't even try to be prophetic let me share some of that if a bible verse just comes to your mind just say it over them yeah we're going to do that isaac's going to say something a minute but the holy spirit i want to tell you this really does things if you'll go to someone you don't have to try to be prophetic god so loved the world he gave his only begotten son just say a bible verse over them and i'm telling you this i've watched this for many years about half the time it will be like a prophetic arrow don't even try to make it just pray a verse over and move around we're going to do this in a few moments i just got to say something but i want the 20 somethings and under you're the minister team move around you don't have to be stuck to the two feet each way move around the room this is a big living room we're a family and anybody that's over 40 that's got their posture of prayer just go pray any verse you don't have to say it right paraphrase the verse but say it over go ahead isaac yeah i want to encourage even those that are 39 and younger to be a part of the ministry team and i'm going to keep this really short this verse suddenly came to me because i believe that we're living in one of the most narcissistic generations as young people that we've ever seen and we're so fixated upon ourself and paul tells us in corinthians that the gospel has saved us from ourselves and this verse came to me out of genesis 45 it was so random and this is about the hearts of the sons and daughters turning towards the mothers and fathers that they would see their promises because as young people we love when the attention is on us but the lord doesn't want us to have attention on ourselves but to turn to the mothers and the fathers and listen to this this is when news gets back to jacob that joseph is still alive hear me on this if you're praying just focus on that that's okay but hear me on this genesis 45 they told him jacob saying joseph is still alive and he is governor of all the land of egypt and it says that jacob's heart stood still because he did not believe them but when they told him the words with which joseph had said to them and when he saw the cards what joseph had sent with him listen to this is the key phrase the spirit of jacob their father revived the very next verse that's verse 27 the very next verse the spirit of jacob their father revived then israel said it is enough listen when the dreams of the mothers and the fathers revive their name changes into the identity of the name that the lord had previously called them jacob's heart revives and then it says israel the name that god had given him says it is enough and beloved we want to see the promises come to the mothers and fathers amen so i want to release you again i know mike released you those that are 39 and under to begin to lay hands on the mothers and fathers and to bless them father we ask in the name of jesus for the mothers and fathers those that have labored for decades for the promises of heaven to come those that have sown in tears those that have plowed dry fields those that have removed stones those that have labored for the gospel those that have a labored in the workplace those that have labored for something believing that there will be a day that their eyes would see the salvation of god just like simeon and just like anna and father we asked that you would release your power and that you would revive the heart of jacob that you would revive the heart of the simeons and the annas in this hour and that they would be strengthened by the might of your spirit and that their eyes would see what you promised to them in their twenties that their eyes would see what you promised to them in their 30s in their teen years when you marked them and called them father don't let the dreams of your heart that you put in inside of them die [Music] in the name of jesus [Music] you

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Published: Tue Jul 13 2021