Troy Brewer Joni Table Talk (May 29th, 2018)

coming up today's guest is here to share his story and how simply saying yes to God can radically change the lives of others the conversation starts now real friends loving laughing and learning together share these stories one life at a time so grab a seat welcome to Joanie Table Talk so what does it take to make a difference is it boldness is that willingness could be all those things and more well today we'll introduce you to a man who's dared to follow God wherever he may lead and exchanging lives but first show me around the tables my dear friend April Simon's how are you I'm doing great not love this audience you do so glad you're here today Dorothy how are you I'm doing great really really good really good Cindy wait big shoes to fill Cindy's out of town with her with her son in California thank you for being here I tell you it this is like it's a lot of pressure on you you're doing bad John I'm trying to make Cindy proud and here we go and you're making me proud thanks for being here of course kyndra's usually sitting over here somewhere so pastor Troy brewer will you so much is such a great honor yeah y'all can just move em a big hand well if you can't tell this is part of the congregation of pastor Troy Brewer he is the pastor of open door Church in Burleson Texas and his ministry is impacting lives all over the globe but it's an adventure that started decades earlier so let's talk about how did God take a nineteen year old and lead him on this lifelong journey of reaching the world well believe it or not it started with a rock band it did okay I did well I'm a musician and that was a musician from the time I was a little boy and when I first got saved I quit all of my bands and I didn't have a single Christian friend when I got saved myself so how did you say I was in Hot Springs Arkansas and I went up there to go see a friend of mine graduate from high school I had graduated the year before and it happened to be at a Christian school and the first thing that happened was they brought this lady preacher out and while I was listening to her preach I felt the Holy Spirit come upon me and I thought oh no I'm fixing get saved and that's exactly what happened spirit of God hit me I mean for no reason I started bawling and squalling I felt like I was loved like I've never been loved in my whole life Wow and I came home and didn't know what to do with this and it was like how do i fire this thing off what do I do with this so I knew I just knew that I needed to get separate from how I had been living so I quit on my blame all of my bands I was playing in five bands then I quit them all but already the word was out Troy Brewer got saved Troy brewer has become a Jesus Freak what is your friend say that was graduating what's wrong with you you know what's wrong with you no I love Jesus like that I didn't have a clue the Lord completely ambushed me completely and I knew he was real I knew he was alive I knew I wanted to live for him and with him forever and ever never so so I came home and told my friends quit my bands and by the end of the night the phone was ringing and said can we just come over and look at you we heard you just look different okay so people came over to look at me and a friend of mine who is a saxophone player said Troy I heard of a Christian rock band that their their singer needs help and they need help and once you come and try out for that mic there's a such thing as Christian rock bands like yeah like yeah so whenever practices them made the band and the very first gig that we had was was a small high school Christian high school graduation and so we're sitting there that night and I'm waiting for the graduation be over because we were gonna use their PA system or they actually they were using ours and I see this girl walk across the stage and she just kind of floats across the stage and I was like yes so I asked the base man who's sitting over something I don't know any of these guys I'm like who is that and he said Who and I said that one right there and he said her name is Liana and I said you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna throw her over my shoulder and I'm gonna haul her off and marry her that's what I'm gonna do and I looked at him and he just got up and left and I thought what that's kind of weird they came back with the band and they were mad because that was his girlfriend and so he said hey man that's my girlfriend and I said listen you're not gonna have any trouble with me but she's gonna get to know me is she so gonna dump you and when she does I'm gonna haul her off and I'm gonna marry her oh my goodness so later on that night I was introduced to Liana this way you need to meet your future husband and that was how I met who would become Liana brewer we got married four years later and I loved her love for Jesus I loved her love for people she her she has four biological siblings and her parents raised over 300 kids in a foster system Wow and their house was like a circus it was it was like the Mardi Gras it was crazy I just I'd never seen any place like that and it was so loving and so caring I'd never seen a family that was like that before so they really had a heart to help thee oh yes absolutely so so I think it's a very special family they are special no you have to be so selfless I tell everybody all the time the opposite of love is not hate the opposite of love is selfishness and so as a matter of fact you should hate poverty you should hate slavery you should hate it when children are not given a chance you should hate racism you should hate those things but the opposite of love is actually selfishness and they are such selfless people when the Spirit of God comes into people it makes you selfless yeah we say a lot of times out of her Jimmy Evans say this that if you you're gonna get married then prepared to die a man that you sure can't be selfish or you don't need to get married right because and that really I mean that plays into what Jesus was he was the greatest servant of us all so that was really providential really that you would marry Liana because what would happen in the future with your life which you had no idea what happened is you were gonna help a lot of people just like her parents did through her whole life well she's probably the only person on the planet that wouldn't wouldn't be mad at me yeah I mean there was there were you ministry when you all got married oh no no I mean I was in I was in a band that that was ministering okay yeah we traveled and we did all kinds of cool stuff and I was on people's albums and I write songs I'm like this is what I'm gonna do for the rest of my life yeah and as a matter of fact whenever whenever I asked her to marry me Joni the one thing I said I said all right here it is I got down on my knee and I handed a ring and she said you're not gonna become a pastor are you and I said no way you got nothing to work toward okay only thing I ever said I wouldn't do there's only one thing I said I will never ever do and that is marry somebody short this is things that I tell God you can never make me go to Alaska and fish that'll never happen King Jesus you can never make me go to Fiji and hang out there for a few weeks that's the only thing I tell God I won't do anymore yeah yeah okay that kind of thinking you know one of the things like for people who are watching right now I think it's so good for you to hear the stories that were choice story because some of you are thinking you know I don't really know what you want me to do with my life and and I'll tell you what God has something so unique and amazing for you and I don't care what age you are I don't care how young you are how old you are middle-aged married divorced single it doesn't matter God is just waiting for you to say okay and really that's what you did early on when you I guess when you came down to that altar you really surrendered no I did I did I'm all the way in and that's you are something I know you're either and all the way in or all the way what did they say you look like by the way they just said I was different yeah and I what are your eyes look different that's where you can always tell and I I think I think more than anything just one of the things that God did was yeah I'm a lot like the demoniac of Ghaderi once I was clothed and in my right mind right the Lord said I'm not gonna allow you to leave and so Hara was from Joshua Texas I was from Joshua Texas and eyes like King Jesus please send me to Africa please send me India please send me anywhere I don't want to be in the same town that I grew up in because I had a terrible reputation yeah in the town that I grew up in yeah and the Lord said no and that's exactly where we ended up found in our church yeah but is the good name Joshua oh yes yeah first totally profess okay so let's talk about God begin to open doors and begin to lead you in the path of ministry that you probably never expect to tell us how that started cuz that's such a neat story we fell in love with number one I want to see I'm a fruit fanatic okay I'm not a method guy I really don't care about the methods as long as it goes by certain values right but the methods I don't really care as long as their results and as long as their fruits and so I was we were planting bands and we're doing stuff and then Leanna and I started having babies like crazy and then we had twins so I went from two kids to four kids and then two other kids moved in with us so we went from two kids to six kids it was a lot and so and I was gone a lot and some like I had to be home and I have to help her and and so we started doing different things well it was during that time when I was not on the road that my father-in-law called me and he said Troy I've noticed that there's an old man that is roof in his house and I was like okay and he's like you need go help him and I said yes sir I was too young I felt the need to impress my father-in-law back then right right so I went over there and what was happening was there was like an 85 year old man who was roofing a house one shingle a day and he was thinking it was gonna take him a couple years but he was gonna get his roof done and he would go and I mean he was literally risking his life to climb that ladder every day taking one single up there and then getting up there and hammer it down and resting it's the heat of the summer yeah it's as hot as it gets he didn't think about taking more than one shingle everybody oh oh yeah oh so did you see your mama doing that she probably would yeah so I went over there saw what was going on there are a couple of bundles over my shoulder climbed up the ladder just starting the ELMO stuff down and he didn't say one word he didn't say what are you doing thank you he was just sitting over there watching me before long my wife showed up my father-in-law showed up Lee and his brothers showed up and in a matter of about three hours we had the entire roof finished and I said hey we got your roof done and he goes they say my roof is my girlfriend's and I said well you need to go see her because I promise you she's gonna be happy with you you need to go see her and he said no no you need to come see her she's gonna want to meet you so we said okay we got down off the ladder which was a big event okay we knock on the door not not knock his girlfriend opens the door in the oldest human being I've ever seen in the history of the planet Earth was standing there she was over a hundred years old okay now we became big big big friends and she lived to be 106 okay but she was the Ancient of Days I couldn't believe she was breathing I was yeah that's his girlfriend okay she kisses me I love you I love you and we go inside her house is she's so sweet she's so tremendous and she says I have to give you some lemonade so it takes her a long time to get over to the icebox she opens up her refrigerator and there is no food in her refrigerator whatsoever there's no food and Lyanna said Troy there's no food in this old lady's refrigerator we have to help her I mean she said I'm gonna go to the grocery store I'll be back in about an hour I said okay about an hour later lianna comes in with all these groceries and she's crying and she's carrying on and she's so grateful thank you Jesus she's so thankful and this old man he's got his arms folded he goes what about me I don't have any food and I was like well since you're so sweet we'll take you to the grocery store - he's a crotchety old man so I got ready to load him up and then he said I got another girlfriend lives across the street and she's a lot poorer than this old woman and we need to go pick her up and I said okay so we go across the street she comes out to the door and she says well we have to take my friend that lives behind me because we share all of our food together and I was like so I said okay this is a never ending subject I said you know why I'm gonna come back this coming Saturday I'm gonna bring my wife and I don't bring my all all my kids I'm gonna come with enough groceries for you and all your friends I'll be here in nine o'clock in the morning on Saturday morning now I was thinking there might be seven or eight people there so we prepared for like ten or eleven when I showed up it was like a convention of old people it looked like the Gaithers were in town there was there was scores and scores of old people that were standing out there and I came pulling up and I was like what you know how do I work spores is happening yeah so there were 71 people there in 71 people that were waiting on us to bring groceries to them and so we started every single Saturday taking groceries - though peaceful but beginning early in the morning ending up late at night can you imagine how long it took to visit every one of those houses because they want to talk they want to visit you but what I love on your kids but that turned into what is now the open door Food Bank and that was over 25 years ago and what started off with the 71 25 years ago last year we fed over 71,000 people and what's amazing is in Johnson County there's only 170,000 people so we had influence on 71 thousand people in a County that only has a hundred seventy-one thousand so why did these people not have food like because cuz I know people watching or saying wait this is America this is tech oh it is American it is Texas I I want to just think I just want to just tell you that poverty is so real here and people are desperate and people are hurting and we think well just because we got air conditioners then there's nobody suffering well that's craziness these are Isis are every these are the gamut these are single mamas these are single daddies these are elderly people these are people that are already working several jobs but they're very low paying jobs these are people that are hurting in every way that you can imagine and this is really all over America it is all in every state I mean every church could find a community that you promised you yes ma'am and you know what and in the context of serving you actually have authority to pray over people Jesus says whoever's the greatest servant has the most authority so we actually see miracles happen and we treat people like kings and queens we pretend like they paid $200 to enter onto our property and we say thank you thank you thank you when no strings attached just bless them and help them and bless them and help them demonstrate Jesus that's important because I feel like a lot of time they elderly feel like they've been forgotten yes and maybe that's why some of them were so hungry and they didn't have because mom didn't have the energy to go grocery shopping or they may be afraid that they might have found their way back yes you know there's all kinds of different things that could happen so that's such a blessing miniatura many elderly people are taking care of their grandkids or their great grandkids now Wow I mean we see that constantly and they're totally overwhelmed I mean they're totally overwhelmed and this is one of the things I say all the time if the body of Christ does not answer that call I don't think so that's why it's so important that we go out yeah you know it's the body of Christ I mean we have to go out we can't just stay in because we you would have never seen that no that's right I would have never known and as a matter of fact if I'm not out there in the trenches I'm gonna become the kind of pastor that just sits in his office and complains about things it's like the biggest fear that I have and so it's one of the one of the main reasons why I'm Steve after all these years I want to be on the frontlines I want to have my heart broken it is so healthy to have your heart broken so healthy now I like results too but I'm also a method a person and I'm sure that there are other pastors and people in ministry that are watching this and they want to know how are you able to afford to be able to buy food and groceries to take care of that many people so often how does how is God bringing the fun I think you're do it how does it tell you doing the works of Jesus is a lot like having kids if you wait until you have money to do it you're never gonna you can never afford to have kids right time that's exactly right and so the New Testament is different than the Old Testament in that Jesus says go and put your foot on it and then I will give it to you okay god bless this pursuit and this is so important we have never ever ever ran out of food ever and we have always been in over our head even right now we are in over our head we can't afford what it is that we're doing but somehow it gets funded but you know the Lord bless his faithfulness god bless his bravery god bless his courage he loves that you know we need to be like King David instead of saying do we have the money we need to say is there not a cause yeah right is there not a cause and get up and do something so you're continuing to do that feed hungry people every week right one of the things I won't plan on doing this but we want to give you a check for $10,000 Oh [Applause] one of the reasons why that God has blessed us here at day starters because we are free-flowing of course we all know we help people all over the world but I especially want to help sisters that are right here where we're Daystar you know is in the state of Texas you can tell this is a this is a passion this is the heart of this church and there's this group actually knows that we just actually rescued 16 girls this last week and we're trying to did that that will more than help us fund that exactly right I mean we all know what that is yeah we all know what $10,000 is it's it's people who have no hope having hope and it's real and it's tangible and I mean we actually see it so we know what that is so let's talk about these girls that you're rescuing cuz that's another aspect we talked about the feeding program what is just with us sex trafficking which is just incredible that this is going on right here it is America there are more slaves right now on the planet Earth and has ever been in the history of mankind slavery is not something that went away several hundred years ago there are more slaves right now alive than have ever been in slavery in the history of humanity that's what a big deal slavery is today and we have come across it in several different ways we actually my wife and I 20 years ago we were in Uganda and we went across the border into Sudan and there was a man that offered us and told us we could buy 60 Christians Lyanna and I went mortgaged our house and we came back and we I'm telling you we were poor we're we're poor and we mortgaged our house and I don't I'm not Tooting my own horn I'm just time just gonna tell you how God will bless you if you will do what the Lord tells you to do liyan and I mortgaged our house seven times to make this happen before open door charts blew up before you know we had opportunities like this before people like you were helping us and so God was faithful God was very beginning despised not small beginnings you're you able to rescue those 60 we did we literally did you do with those people in your team across the border and literally took the chains off of them literally took the chains off them and set them free and I left there going I left there going this is what radition is this is what Jesus did for me how can I just walk away from this if this is the kind of thing that God is trusting me with even though I'm just a Yahoo from Joshua Texas I have to be engaged in this I have to conform my life to the image of this yeah so I started getting educated I started getting serious about it and then we started taking food into different parts of the world Joanie and one of the things that I one of the things that I noticed that what happened is like when we're in trash dumps Leanne and I love to go in trash dumps and we're being trash dumps for feeding people were loving people people would look at me and because I'm a middle-aged white guy from America they would think that I was a sexual tourist because people sexual tourism is is so real people will go to different parts of the world to molest children and they would look at me and so they would start bringing me kids and they would say hey you want to buy this kid you want to buy this little girl and the first time that that ever happened that happened in Costa Rica and these two beautiful beautiful little Nicaraguan children around twelve years old and they were skinny as a rail they look like they were nine or ten years old there's starvin they were shaken they were scared they were beat-up and this lady brought him to me and she said she started speaking vulgar things and saying you can have these girls and just saying terrible demonic things and I understood what she was saying and I said yeah yeah I'm bound right now I bought those two little girls for 160 bucks and she didn't care if I killed them she didn't care what I did with them and so I got those little girls in the car and they were just stone-cold zombie no emotions right man I told him I said ladies have y'all ever heard of Jesus they didn't say nothing and I said well he knows you and he loves you and he sent me from the other part of the world to come here and to rescue you and I took them to a home and they didn't believe me you know they didn't care if all they wanted to do was eat if they could just eat that was all that they wanted and so I told him hey man we're gonna feed you and that was the first time they showed any life but we took them to a home a mama met them at the door when presa prisons I came back a week later and they had found they were completely different human beings just one week later than what they were the week before I thought it would take years for them to recover and obviously there are a lot of things there's a lot of healing that has to be done but I'm amazed at what the power of the Holy Spirit can do when you when you bring Redemption into the midst of some kind of horrible situation yeah it's amazing that you didn't that that didn't shock you that you just rolled with the Holy Spirit because yeah I mean how shocking was that that two little girls came to you well this is the cool version of the story they own that what's real is on the inside I wanted to become the machine gun preacher yeah yeah what's real is I wanted to lose my mind and I even thought should I go back there and burn that place down I mean I thought all this stuff and you have to you have to submit if I pay attention to what God brings me Joni I I never ever ever go looking for ministry just I pay attention to what God brings me and then I want to take care of what God brings me yeah and so after that and you have to start getting wise about that kind of stuff and you have to start learning how to flow with and it took a while to do that and then we got so boat I actually started going into brothels talking to everybody shooting the bull and saying now I'm looking for little girls y'all have any little girls I mean I always have little girls and actually leavin leaving with them paying for them and leaving with them getting them in the car and asking them the same question have you ever heard of Jesus Wow because he loves you so much he sent me from the other side of the world to come here and to rescue you and you're gonna remember this day for the rest of your life that is incredible isn't it I'll tell you that is just so awesome to think about the opportunity to do that and how many more there aren't out there that hopefully what you're sharing today will inspire someone that's watching to to get involved and just start where you are so spark we're almost out of time tell us about spark we talked about feeding the hungry we talked about rescuing and now the orphans these when you've done it unto the least of these yeah so we've had an opportunity to save babies through the years and we're still saving babies we have several thousand kids and our ten orphanages now we have two in Uganda we have two and by the way we also have thirteen leprosy villages and you I'm sorry in India 13 so every time we're in India we also have to and Vishakapatnam India don't you just love saying that word he's like gesundheit yeah my daughter loves from India so she would know is that yeah and so yeah which I don't because every time I say it they say oh no anyway so people who are watching that maybe we'd like to go on a missions trip with you experience some of the things you're talking about being a part of it can they do that go to Troy Brewer comm and they can and literally every month we're going someone we just got back with 94 people from Israel yesterday the day before yesterday memorable moment of course yeah 70 years it's huge so what your favorite moment in Israel there are so many but you know I actually being on the Sea of Galilee and preaching on the get on the Sea of Galilee and doing praise and worship on the Sea of Galilee nothing like that so we've done that heavily for sure well would you just take a moment and take about 30 seconds and just pray for those that are watching those that feel a call in the ministry that you want to do more maybe you're not maybe you feel like you're washed up God's through with not he's through with you when in reality he's not even spired about what you've heard today would you just pray for them yes ma'am friends I want to I want to just say to you that when God tells you you're somebody we always say no that's not us and it's not that he's mistaken us for somebody else is that we are mistaken us for somebody less and you are so important and I pray right now in the mighty name of King Jesus that you have a revelation of how much God loves you so that you can finally love I declare and the mighty name of Jesus that chains are fallen off of you because of the power of redemption and I declare that the Lord Jesus Christ is making you an instrument of redemption in Jesus mighty name amen amen amen everybody said amen man all right well we are out of time and I want to thank Troy for joining us at the table today and for more on his ministry and other resources you can visit him as he said online at Troy brewer calm as always if there's a need in your life we want to pray with you that's why that toll-free number is on the screen people call from all over the world we pray over this prayer request every day here at Daystar we have a prayer team of amazing people standing by ready to pray with you and you can do that 24 hours a day seven days a week or you can send us your prayer requests by going today Starcom clicking on prayer again we pray over all the prayer requests that come in so go to the phone right now if you just need some encouragement you just want to hear a voice that will agree with you in prayer that's why we do what we do every day also don't forget to join the conversation online after the program by leaving us a comment on Facebook or Twitter we'd love to know your thoughts about the program thank you so much for watching thank you ladies Thank You Troy Thank You audience was he you next time this has been a day star television production [Music]

Channel: Troy Brewer

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Keywords: Troy Brewer, Prophecy, sermons, teachings, Opendoor Church, Burleson TX, Jesus, God, church, ministry, fort worth church, texas church, holy spirit teachings, holy spirit filled church, holy spirit

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Thu May 31 2018