How to Pray in the Holy Spirit | Pastor Otha Turnbough Powerful Teaching | Pastor Otha Turnbough

All right, let's go ahead and jump into this. I am, uh, um, I'll just jump right into it. I'll just jump right into it.

Uh, we thank God for where He has brought us, where He's taking us. You know, I am, uh, I have so, uh, let's just jump into this. Um, so that's right. I got to remember to talk a little bit slower today. Um, so that you can follow me in the scriptures. Write them down if you like, or never mind. I keep forgetting, you know, we're, we're in the midst of finishing up this sanctuary and doing another sanctuary at the same time. And so, uh, I keep forgetting where I am, you know. So, just listen to me carefully today. Very, very carefully.

Um, uh, there's nothing, you know, for me as a person, as a pastor, just because of my development, um, there is nothing that I am afraid of in planet Earth, um, including death. And of course, you know, I'm not afraid of Satan. Um, there's nothing I am afraid of, period. I'm not afraid of death, not afraid of the afterlife, I'm not afraid of Satan. All of those things. Um, that is very important. That attitude that I has carried, that I have carried, has helped those I am going to talk about, people who follow me. Because Paul said, "Follow me as I follow Christ," which means the person that you're following needs to teach you as much about Christ as he knows, so that you can know to follow him properly. Every pastor is really required to keep the people safe from himself in case he ever gets off track. You know, most pastors, you know, they jump off the bridge and so they say, "Well, let's jump off the bridge with him." Not me. I'm the one standing at the bridge looking at everybody dropping to see what happens when y'all hit the ocean. Okay.

But that fear has enabled us to operate at a certain level of dominion in planet Earth. Extremely high level of dominion. I don't have the problems that other churches have. I have the little nuances that comes from personality types. You know, people who, they want me to be their personal Jesus, you know, or people who, you know, just the nuances of people who don't come to church on time, don't come to prayer, do come to prayer. We just stand there or sit there and don't pray. I always have to keep telling people, y'all, you, you, you get the benefit by praying, not by listening to other people pray, you know. But sometimes people, their emotions, because of their own carnality, their emotions are stuck. You can, you can put two people in a classroom, one gets an A, the other one fails, but the teacher was the same. So you have, you can have the same atmosphere and one person is locked in to God and the other person stands there, they don't feel anything. Has nothing to do with anything except for you. You're stuck. Your emotions are off because of how you carry yourself, you know. And so in the future, I won't be, the Holy Spirit says something to me. Couple few things, actually. So I won't be, I've been pushing, pushing, pushing, but I'm not going to be pushing so much about people being here on time and people coming to prayer. Just let people do whatever they want to do, 'cause minute you won't be able to get in the building.

[clears throat] Listen to the scripture. This scripture is what we have experienced because of my attitude. It's found in Philippians 1 verse 28. Got to go back to the old school. Y'all remember old school church where you give a scripture and and the preacher had to wait for everybody to turn their pages? You, oh, I just realized that. Yeah, that's where they, and then, yes. So, you heard, you heard he say, "Turn to Philippians 1:28." And you hear everybody turning their pages. Boom. Boom. And then people will be having contests in the in the congregation to see who can get to the scripture first to show how spiritual you are because I read my Bible. I know where it is. You got to help the first-time visitor because they don't even know what Philippians is. And then you come from the churches where the pastor just gets up and tells the person to read the scripture. Those are always hilarious. "Read." Person starts reading and he keeps interrupting the reader. [laughter] You got to go to that stuff. That stuff is hilarious.

Okay. But Philippians 1:28, if you don't have a Bible, or just listen, don't be intimidated in any way by your enemies. >> Amen. >> This will be a sign to them that they are going to be destroyed, but that you are going to be saved, even by God himself. It's a very, very powerful scripture. So it, let that's a, that's a law there. It lets you know that if you are unafraid of what you are facing, that thing, that scenario, that circumstance, and that being understands that they are going to be destroyed because of your level of fearlessness.

>> Y'all got that? So that's the reason why Line Her Church dominates the way that it does is because there is no fear of darkness in any form or fashion. I mean, no, you have to be fearless to actually say on a regular basis, "Satan, I dare you to try to kill me." >> It's impossible. If you can kill me, you kill Jesus first. I mean, no, that's that's that's arrogant to the dark side. What? This dude is not afraid of us. No. You know, it's, they recognize and they've told me that in others, you know, when they tell you, "We're watching you," and you say stuff like, "Wonderful, I'll keep the lights on bright so that you can see clearly." Well, then they recognize, "Yeah, this dude, we better leave him alone because his, because he is not intimidated. That means we're going to be destroyed."

>> That's why God said, "I haven't given you the spirit of fear, okay? Power of sound mind, all of those things." Okay? So, but there is one thing that I was afraid of, and I had closed my heart towards just one thing. That one thing is actually a whole world. The one thing that I had closed my heart towards were, uh, towards were, um, you can, you can close yourself off to stuff without saying anything, just by closing off your heart. Okay. And that was encounters with the other side. I have had encounters, but they've been very, very light shadow examples. I've had dreams. Um, I've had more encounters fooling with these devils than I have with, um, other things. So, the Holy Spirit, of course, speaks to me. I've had small encounters. I've had some, but I shied away for from it in some ways. Um, I was afraid of it because of things that I had seen in the scripture. And so, uh, so there are some things that if you block God off in a particular area, He will allow you to block Him. But He, what He'll do is, He'll work in that area and try to grow you so that He can get unblocked. And so I'm just going to read to you some of the reasons why. I was just like, uh, um, well, I'll just read to you some of the reasons why.

Um, Daniel chapter 2 verse one. Daniel chapter 2 verse one. We back in the old school church where you got to pause and let the people get there. But that's okay. Daniel chapter 2:1, it says, "One night during the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had such disturbing dreams that he could not sleep." Okay, go to Daniel 4:5. Daniel 4:5. If you joined us online, we have some technical difficulties. So, I have to go slower this morning so that people can catch up with the scriptures. And so, see, when I read stuff like that, it says Nebuchadnezzar, it says he had the type of dreams where he could [snorts] not sleep for days because of the dreams. And see, I look at that and I'm like, "What type of dream is that where you can't sleep for days?" Daniel 4:5. "But one night, I had a dream that frightened me. I saw visions that terrified me as I lay in my bed." Now, this is just Daniel, and these are just a few that he have, and these are the few that are recorded. He had many more, but he said, "I had a dream that frightened me and I saw visions that terrified me." How many know it's one thing to be frightened, it's another thing to be terrified. Okay.

Daniel 4:19. Huh? Same chapter, just drop down. "Upon hearing this, Daniel, also known as Belteshazzar, was overcome for a time, frightened by the meaning of the dream." How many of you know that's different than you having a dream and you're like, "Woo, that was scary." And you still get up and brush your teeth and head to work versus you have a dream that was so scary it messes you up for a time. See? So, I don't know. I mean, it's just, every person has to be developed. And I don't, uh, I don't know. Uh, in some ways I thought that I could bypass having these encounters by, by, watch this, by practicing all of the Bible. But if you reject the encounters, you're not practicing all of the Bible. >> That's right. >> You understand what I'm saying? If you take the supernatural out the Bible, there won't be one. If you take dreams and visions out the Bible, there won't be one. If you take angelic encounters out the Bible, there won't be a Bible. You understand what I'm saying?

So, was that a rooster? I, we, we going to hear all type of sounds today, Bishop. Let them pull themselves out. Next is going to be wink on a prayer call day before yesterday. Apparently, my song, my phone was playing elevator music. Divine text me. He said, "Man, your phone is playing elevator music." I said, "No, it's not." I said, "I'm praying on the call with y'all and I'm reading the Bible. I'm praying." So, he tested it. He said, "No, the elevator music is coming from you." I don't even listen to elevator music. I mean, know electronics can be very, very, he said, spooky.

Daniel, Daniel chapter 5. Daniel chapter 5. Daniel chapter 5 verse 5. Daniel chapter 5:5. "Suddenly they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king's palace near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote, and his face turned pale with fright. His knees knocked together in fear, and his legs gave way beneath him." I mean, know that's crazy.

So, so here's the thing about, and I might say this a couple of times, that is Daniel 5:5. Here's the thing about encounters. That scripture that you brought up the other day, there's a, I'mma flip it. There's a scripture and it says, um, it says that, "Hey, y'all be careful up there. We can hear y'all talking." [laughter] If people are looking. Scripture says that, uh, it says if you have an ox, it says you'll have to clean up the droppings behind the ox, but if you have one, it produces much prosperity. See that? So it's saying that there are some things that in order for you to really go up, you're going to have to deal with the nuances of the thing that takes you up.

>> Amen. >> So, so it says that, you know, back then, you, if you had an ox, it produced, it mean you were rich, it produced prosperity. And so it's telling you, yeah, you going to have, how many know nobody likes cleaning up, you know, behind behind animals, you know, nobody likes doing that. You do it because it's necessary. You know that if you have a dog or a cat, you know, but you don't enjoy the process of watching your dog poop. And I don't know what it is about dogs while they're pooping. They just looking up at you. If you have a dog, you know what I'm saying? Like, "Why you looking at me?" I got nothing to do with this. None of your business, okay? And nobody wants to go outside and, and because the reason you have to walk the dog is so that he can use the bathroom. So, you got to go out there. I remember one time I was out there with our two cocker spaniels holding the umbrella in the rain. Like, "Look at this foolishness right here." Okay. I didn't want to be out there, but it was necessary. Okay.

When in the same way the Bible says that if you want the prosperity that comes from an ox, oh, it'll produce prosperity, but you're going to have to deal with the part that you don't like, which is small compared to what you, y'all got that part. So, in the same way, these, these things from the other side and these encounters, they can be terrifying. They can scare you and they can mess you up for days. But the benefit that you walk in, >> Amen. >> You know what I'm saying? And so when you read all of these encounters of these crazy things in scripture like this, yeah, the person went through, but it has, still is still helping us two, three thousand years later. The person went through, but the revelation that was gained allowed everyone to shift and dominate. You understand what I'm saying? And so in this particular case, can you imagine if we are in the sanctuary teaching and then all of a sudden over there above Robert's head, you see a hand, not a person, you just see a hand writing on the wall? I can guarantee you some people with all the Holy Ghost they got going to leave right out the building like Elvis. I am not into this right here, y'all. It was a hand that just dis, and you know, I guess it would be alarming, but this king was so alarmed by it, you know, he was shook, as they say. I mean, his, you imagine his knees are knocking together. I had never seen somebody so afraid that their knees knocked together and his, his legs gave way out from underneath him. Okay, excuse me. Let's look at the next one.

Daniel chapter 7 verse 15. It says, "I, Daniel, was troubled by all I had seen and my visions terrified me." Okay. It's not that the, you know, what the Holy Spirit shares something to me and I, I'll, I'll share this point also. This message is more about an invitation that Jesus gave me on Thursday. It was a personal invitation. Um, I knew that He was standing there. I knew He was standing there, just, I mean, I could see Him, what I'm seeing Him. I just knew He was standing there. He was giving me an invitation to step away from what I am afraid of. Now, guess what? You know what any of any of you ever hesitated and didn't make a decision about something because you were afraid to make the decision? And then when you actually made it, what you were afraid of didn't come to pass? So, this is a bad assumption on my part that if the Lord takes me into that realm like that, that I'm going to be terrified and frightened. That's just an assumption. It's 'cause me, I'm paying attention to other people.

The Holy Spirit said something to me that was very, very, very interesting. He said, "Whereas there are experiences that will make you extremely uncomfortable and in shock." He said, "You, in some ways, are buffered. You've, you've been prepared for them because of the technology in planet Earth." He used the example, y'all know, uh, Optimus Prime with the Transformers. Okay. Now, there are some angels that look exactly like that, even more glorious than that. Okay. Um, I'm going to teach on that in January when I talk about sex, where there is a, what we call the angelic race. Um, are made up of many different types of beings. Some look human, some look like gods, some look like machines, some you have no idea how to describe it. Okay? But because of the movies and the superheroes and the Transformers and the aliens that we constantly see on television with Star Wars. Okay. So, back then, they never saw stuff like that on TV. So, for a being to reveal himself to someone back then that looks like Transformers, it's going to freak him out. But because of the age that we live in, if one of those robots appears to me, it wouldn't freak me out as much 'cause I'm used to seeing that on. Are y'all following me so far?

>> Yes. So this is more of an invitation. Okay.

Daniel chapter 7 verse 28. Daniel chapter 7 28. So, so here's the thing, and I'll, I'll mention this also in a moment as you turn there. Daniel 7:28. Um, is that the Lord has given me an invitation to come in because He wants some of you all that are ready to come in. Some of you are not ready because you don't even do the foundational stuff. You're not ready for that. If you don't spend time in the word, if you still struggling to pray, strugg, that those encounters are not for you. But there are some people that are ready. The rest, they got to learn the foundational things. Okay? Or, you know, and it's, I don't like that. But He said, "Well, you have to go first." His exact words, his exact words for me. He said, "If you don't do it, you're going to mess up everybody that's following you." Daniel 7:28. That's why the Bible says, "Don't be quick to try to be a leader."

>> It says we stand in the greater judgment. Daniel 7:28. "That was the end of the vision. I, Daniel, was terrified by my thoughts, and my face was pale with fear, but I kept these things to myself."

Daniel chapter 8. Daniel 8 26-27. Daniel chapter 8 verse 26-27. This vision. This reminds me, uh, see that I, no matter what goes out, I relax. I don't put our people under pressure because, like, they went up there and say, "You know what? Let's mess with pastor today and make the computer not work." Had nothing to do with them. They struggling and all trying, sweating, trying to get the thing working, and you go up there and bark at the people. That's just crazy to me. I used to be under ministry like that, you know. But I'll never forget, I was under a ministry and, and this is a 5,000 seat sanctuary, and the power went out. Okay. And everything. So everything is not working. Thank God it was the daytime, and the church had windows, so the light was coming in. And so the pastor, he went and got a, he said, "Someone bring me a bullhorn." So they brought him a bullhorn. Bullhorn. He told the congregation, he said, "You have to be silent. You cannot say amen today. You have to listen because there is no sound, and I have to preach through a bullhorn." And he preached to 5,000 people through a bullhorn, and all the call was still packed. Don't let these small nuances of technology mess you up and now you can't think.

>> Amen. Amen. >> You know what I'm saying?

>> Now, the things that we're doing in the building, we're creating streams and backup systems and all of those different type of things, but you know, I just always like to share that. I have a lot of pastors that listen to me and, and but anyway, Daniel 8:26, "This vision about the 2,300 evenings and mornings is true, but none of these things will happen for a long time. So, keep this vision a secret. Then I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for several days." See, I would read stuff like, "Yeah, I'm trying to get up out the bed, Jesus. I'm not trying to lay around." Where I am, I just, I mean, I want you to imagine something that his sickness had nothing to do with the health. The sickness had to do with what he saw, and it messed his system up. Messed his system up so bad. This boy was sick for several days. That's the price that you pay for this side and the other.

>> Amen. >> "Afterward, I got up and performed my duties for the king. But I was greatly troubled by the vision and could not understand it."

Daniel chapter 10. Daniel 10:12 through 15. Hallelujah. Daniel chapter 10 verse 12-15. It would be a trip if the Lord took the power out the computer. So I would slow down today. I almost said, y'all, there. You remember that you came to, y'all ever come to a church, they they give you the scripture and everybody page and they say, and and they would ask you a question, "Are you there?" And everybody would say yes, but they weren't there.

>> Or, or say amen if you're there. Amen. And the pages are still turning. Okay.

Daniel 10:2-15. "Then he said, 'This is an encounter where, don't be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer. But for 21 days, this is a, a demonic spirit with an army. But for 21 days, the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels, came to help me. And I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia.'" This is also important for deliverance because sometimes when we do deliverance, we get frustrated because we didn't told this demon to come out, but he won't. We're actually in the same struggle as that angel was. "Let me go. I need to get through." "No, we're not going to let you go." Those things are very rebellious. So that's why you have to stand in prayer. Okay? You ask God what you need, and then you give Him thanks, and then a war starts. And so you have to wait for that war to end to get you what you need because those creatures are going to stop that angel from giving you what you need. I left verse 14. "Now I am here to explain what will happen to your people in the future. For this vision concerns a time yet to come." While he was speaking to me, I looked down at the ground, unable to say a word. So this is Daniel telling you, this being was so scary to me. I was afraid to just look up at him. So I just listened to him as I looked down. I didn't have anything to say. Okay.

So these, these are encounters with the other side. And this was an angel that very much scared him because this angel, a second ago, he was in a battle with a demonic army. Michael comes and lets him get through. And you got to remember, this angel had been wrestling with a whole army for 21 days. Can you imagine the energy? Can you imagine the anger? Can you imagine? You're still at that level of emotional energy, you know, boom, boom, boom. I mean, you just, and then Michael comes through and you, bam, bam, right there. He shows up in all that vengeance and all of that fire, and it blew Daniel. The Bible says Daniel, when the man, when the angel spoke, he said Daniel went into a coma. He had to be resurrected just to hear. He said, "I," for you read the rest of it. He said, "I was," he said, "I was on my knees," 'cause he dealt with one of those warrior angels.

I was listening to a man, and, um, see, one of the reasons why this is necessary is that the, the, um, planet Earth is at a new level of evil because of, of the demonic wisdom that has now pulled through. They're teaching me and how to tap into that realm. Um, the technology, the AI, you know, the, the music. Okay, the main two things that are being used against this culture are sex and music. Main two things. When y'all hear what the Holy Ghost has given me on sex and music, you're going to be like, "Man." Okay, y'all. You know, a lady told me something day before yesterday. She said, she said, "Y'all ministry," she says, "and on an entirely different level than everyone else." But but Jesus just told me that that level that is on other, He said, "Our level is now low level." And I know, I know what He said is true because the stuff that He's given me, I never heard this message before in my life. I'm just like, "I don't want to say that, but I got to say that." You know. So, all right. Where am I at?

2 Corinthians 12. I might have, I went, I might have went into a story, then a side story, then another side story, but it'd be all right. 1 Corinthians 12:2-4. Oh, I know what I was saying. Still turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 2-4. 1 Corinthians chapter 12. So I was listening to a man and so, okay, let me slow down. We live in the realm called time. Something that never existed before and God created. Time is something that God creates. There is an angel in the book of Revelation that at the end of time, it says that he comes down. It says he puts, sets one foot in the ocean and one foot on land. Lifts his hand to heaven and says, "From now on, time now disappears and it no longer exists." Indian minister Sadu, the Lord let him see the angel. He said the angel was about as tall as the Empire State Building. I don't need, see, send me, send me somebody regular, Jesus. I need a 7-foot-tall dude. I don't need somebody that tall coming to my house. Okay. And so he said, "Time should be no more." Now I want you to think about something. I, I try to use marriage. This is how this is the difference between time and eternity. It's hard because we're not in eternity yet, technically, with time. When my wife and I got married, we got married in '96 of June. So that was an experience at that moment of time. Understand? In order to relive that experience, I can't go back and relive it. In order to relive it, I have to daydream. I have to look at pictures about that moment in time. Eternity is not like that. With eternity, if you want to relive a moment, you relive it. You understand what I'm saying? So, you don't have to daydream. You don't, you actually, that's eternity. Eternity is eternity, but it's also one moment for eternity. And so, these moments can be revisited, and you can revisit it as much as you want.

So he said, this gentleman said that an angel came and took him. And so, so what we call visions, sometimes the Lord taking you back to the moment. So he was taken to this moment in Daniel chapter 10. He said it really, it wasn't a vision. He said he was taken back to the moment. And he said the angel was just very, very disturbed and grieving. You know, y'all know we all know the story about Satan being kicked out of heaven, right? >> And we've taught it from a point of view. This is why we have to have encounters to start correcting our doctrine a little bit. We've all heard these stories about Satan being kicked out of heaven. And we preached it from the point of view of, you know, Satan ran up against God. God smacked his behind and there was a great war. The angel said to this man, he said, "That was not like that at all." He said, "You have no idea how Jesus wept over that moment," 'cause Him and Satan used to be best friends. He said, "You got to remember," he said, "all the things that y'all call demons," he said, "those used to be our brothers for eternity. We loved each other. We did everything together." He said, "So Satan and that group was forced out of heaven, but we wanted them to repent." He said they were forced out of heaven. He said, "And when we kicked them down to the planet, there was no rejoicing." He said, "Everybody was crying. Everybody was depressed. Everybody was sorrowful." He said, "For the first time, he said, we had to experience emotions that we had never experienced before. We never knew what sadness was." So this was not a joyous event. And then the angel told him that Michael, the archangel, that is a warrior. He said he was never, he said, none of us were warriors up until that point. He said, "We became warriors because now God says, 'Well, are you willing to take up arms because now this dude is going to fight against us?'" He said, "We were worshippers. We became warriors that deal with Satan." So you got to learn these things. You understand? Thought it was so powerful. Okay. Uh-huh. Oh.

So back to the point. So the guy that was shown this, he said as he observed the battle between this one angel and this entire army, he said it was so intense and it was so vicious. He thought that he was going to die and not be taken back to human earth. I mean, back to planet Earth. He said, he said, "There are no words to explain how vicious and how intense." And, and I, I knew this. And he said, "Just the fighting forms that these creatures and these beings use." You see a small example of it with the Chinese martial arts, you know. I used to love that stuff. You know, they would fight and one guy, he'd do this. He had the crane. Like, "Oh, I want to be like him, Jesus. I need to be reincarnated as a Chinese karate master," you know. And, and they do all that type of stuff. And not tiger. [groaning] My favorite one is the Tai Chi, you know. This, this is very flamboyant. And he said, but he said that's trash compared to the art forms in the spiritual realm. He said, "Imagine it's martial arts and superheroes and aliens and dragons." He said, "You're not ready to hear the revelation." He said, "Of angels from above riding dragons in the war." Yeah, it's a lot of stuff that we're going to talk about.

2 Corinthians 12:2. "I was caught up to the third heaven 14 years ago. Whether I was in my body or out, I do not know. Only God knows. Yes, only God knows whether I was in my body or outside my body. But I do know that I was caught up to paradise. And look at this. And heard things so astounding that they cannot be expressed in words. Things no human is allowed to tell." What's must I'm all I did. All I'm doing is just giving you the scriptures that cause me to have my justification about why I'll wait till I get to heaven. Jesus, I don't need to see none of that right now. I trust You. Okay?

Now, I want you to think about that. That man said nothing about what he saw. I mean, typically, you go some, well, think about it. Whenever you go to some place, unless it's church, you don't come back home and talk about what you heard. You come back home and talk about what you saw. This man said, "What?" I saw. That's in a different category. He said, "I can't tell you what I heard. I came back from a place and I don't have the ability to tell you one thing that I heard in that place." So, one of the things about the glory of God, this is going to sound strange. The glory of God is more terrifying than darkness. I always tell people, "Everybody afraid of the darkness." No, you need to be afraid of the light. You know, there, watch this. There is no darkness in planet Earth that can destroy you. I'm talking about scientifically speaking. It doesn't matter that you're in the woods in India or Africa. It doesn't matter how dark it is. The darkness cannot destroy your skin. But how many, you don't fool around with that sun? See the difference between light and darkness. Okay? So light is much more terrifying than darkness from a scientific point of view. Same thing on the other side. Okay?

And so, all right. So, I made this request and let me still, I'm, I'm preface this. I don't know if this was the Holy Ghost or me, but I made this request and, and yeah, that was the Holy Ghost. You know, that is, nobody needs to help me in this. You know, sometimes I have a measure of transparency that's going to even be greater now, and humility. And some people use that as a license for them to try to mentor me. And no, I don't need your help. I, I don't need your help. So, don't send me no prophecies. Don't send me no dreams. If, if, if Jesus gave you a vision, put it on the shelf in the library for me to look at later, you know. Don't, don't send me no poems, uh, no songs, don't send me no YouTube videos. Don't send me nothing. 'Cause you don't have the ability to help me in this regard. This is way outside of everybody's tolerance. Everybody's. [snorts]

So I asked, so here recently, I've probably prayed this prayer a couple of times. I'm going to use this as an example. Okay. Um, you know, Donald Trump will be u made president here in January. And with that, whenever you're made president, it comes with an inauguration dinner or dinners. You know, you, you have these dinners and you just stop by. Then they have side dinners where the president ain't coming. You just come together and do whatever y'all want to do. So, but I want you to imagine, because her and I are pastors, I want you to imagine if we were invited to the inauguration dinner and Donald Trump put us in charge of, uh, bringing in all of the pastors and ministers. Imagine if he said, "Hey, we're having a big inauguration dinner and I'm putting you and Lana in charge of inviting 50 pastors to the White House." How many know that would be very honorable? And because as pastors, okay, we would, I mean, can you imagine the honor of, he said, "And as, as you get groups together," he said, "keep talking to me. I might have some suggestions. I want to hear about these individuals." Could you imagine the honor of that, that you walk alongside the president to bring in other pastors and ministers, the joy of that, the, the way that you would feel important. You understand what I'm saying? Y'all got me. Imagine if you were a, um, imagine if you, never mind. Y'all got that example? I started use examples about if you were a great cook and, and all this. Never mind. Y'all got the point.

So, my prayer was this. I said, "Lord, I need You to start revealing to me what I need to change in order to work hand in hand with You for eternity." I said, and I told Him, I said, "I know that there are things that are beyond our comprehension. You said that we would rule and reign with You, but those positions are different. And I said, I want to be one of those guys." And watch this. This is available for anybody. Has nothing to do with me being a pastor. [laughter] In order for you to make that request, yeah, your pastorship is thrown in the, in the, has nothing to do with title and education. This has to do with heart. I said, "Lord, I want to, I want to work alongside You with that important stuff and other universes and dimensions. I want to be the guy standing around with You in the boardroom when we're talking about what's going on in this dimension over here and this over here. I want to be the one that works alongside with You." Okay? And so I prayed that prayer, and so then certain things start coming in. You know, now watch this. Okay? That's why I said I don't need your help. Everybody say, "He does not need your help."

>> In order when you pray those type of prayers, you have to get ready to be corrected. Would you like to hear the first correction that He gave me? "I have fought for the king, but do not know the king like I should. I am known in heaven as a great warrior who fights for the king, but not a great worshipper who intimately knows the king." That's to you. They don't mean to make you feel bad, [clears throat] but they got to tell you the truth. In order for your desire to come to pass for eternity, we got to tell you what's hindering you from that coming to pass. That hit me so hard, man. That hit me so hard. Oh, you're known as a great warrior and you're celebrated as a great warrior, but [snorts] you're not known as a great worshipper in heaven. You fight too much. Not people, but sometimes you, you, you're always worried about fighting. Watch this. There's a difference. Rick Jordan said this. The Lord told him, he said, "There's a difference between doing the ministry for Jesus versus doing it with Him. Y'all got me?" Ah, okay. Thank you. I don't know what you mean by the showing in-house. You mean they're showing online in here? Oh, so they can, so they'll be able to see the scriptures. All right. So, if you, you all that are online, you're going to have to just, yeah. Oh, thank you. Okay. [snorts]

So, I'm going to read that statement again. "I have fought for the king, but do not know the king like I should. I'm known in heaven as a great warrior who fights for the king, but not a great worshipper who intimately knows the king." And see, that's a problem because if I don't, I might start fighting wars that I'm not supposed to fight. Amen.

>> Let me give an example. Rick Jordan was in heaven and he was given a sword. See, so remember I told you that the dimension of the ministry will begin to change. I don't even know how it would change. It's, we know power at this place. We, we got the mechanics of that healing, [clears throat] demonology, dream. Now we're not super experts at it, but we have the mechanics of it. We get a great measure of success. This has to do with the other side that's more important. Rick Joiner said that when he was in heaven, he said, uh, there was an angel that was flying with him in the form of an eagle. And he said he was given a great sword. He said, "What is this sword for?" They said, "These swords are for the purpose of cutting down, um, the enemy's works. They'll be res, they'll be represented by demonic looking trees." He said, "Okay, excuse me." So he had the sword. He said they were walking. He said he noticed a tree there that would fit the description of what this angel said. So he pulled out the sword and went over there and he just brought that tree down to the ground. The angel immediately said, he said, "That was the stupidest thing you could have ever done." Okay? [clears throat] And he said, "I'm confused." He said, "Is this not a sword for cutting down trees?" "Yes." "Is that not a demonic work?" "Yes." "Then what's the problem?" You assumed you were supposed to cut it down. Did not we say, "Acknowledge the Lord in all your ways, and He will direct your paths."

>> You assumed you were supposed to cut it down. He said, "That was someone else's tree. Now you got to deal with the demons of your tree and theirs." See, this is why you can't chase problems. You got to chase the Lord and let Him show you which problems to solve.

>> So, we're at a very dangerous moment because this church is known as problem solvers.

>> And the whole world is coming after us. And I have to say, "Lord, which problems do You want me to solve?" Remember, I told you that this point that I am now is, is that I am not, uh, I don't have a mind anymore. I had a mind of Christ. That's what it means to have the mind of Christ. Setting down what you think about everything, >> including the outfit you're going to wear. But they'll call you goofy, but when the asteroids come, you'll be the one holding an umbrella made out of steel.

Philippians 3:10. "That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. It's three different things. Being made conformable unto His death." Okay, so that's what I was told. I know this is the other thing the Holy Ghost told me. "You know more about Him than actually knowing Him." That would hurt too. There's a dangerous thing about about knowing about someone. If you know about someone, then it gives you the impression that you know Him. See, I know how Jesus, see, I know how Jesus thinks about you because of how He treated people in the Bible. The woman in adultery, Peter, who left Him. Jesus had to go rescue them. So, there were two ladies, um, first-time visitors last Sunday. They were in the back, and one girl, she was just asking me a question because of her family members and everybody else and all of the preachers that told her that tongues was of the devil amongst other things. I mean, she just broke down crying. Then there was a, another young girl who she was pregnant. She was a single mom and she was pregnant, and her family members have kind of just basically disowned her. Said that the baby was going to be cursed, you know, and all that type of stuff. I wish you could have been there to see the way that my wife and I went in on that girl to rescue her from that lie. We were tag-team preaching on that girl. It's like it was an audience of one. We went in on that girl. "How dare you think that this child is cursed? Please, you must be." So, where was I going with? Oh, so I know how the Lord thinks, but that doesn't mean I know Him. See what I'm saying? See, do you see? See, by me being transparent, I'm helping some of y'all.

>> Psalm 105:4. If you're listening online, we have some software issues, mechanical issues, whatever type of issues you call them. So, you will not be able to see the scriptures online, but just grab an iPad or a Bible, write the scriptures down, or look at, never mind. Y'all know what to do. "Seek the Lord and His strength. Seek His face forevermore." That's three different things. See, seeking the Lord has to do with kind of seeking, okay, you know, which direction did I go here? See, when we got blessed with this building and I now had the Saturday service, the Sunday service, and then another Sunday service. I got three congregations now. So, I had to seek the Lord. We went to the mountains to pray. I had to seek the Lord concerning direction. That's one. That's one style. Now, got that. Then the second one says, "Sk." That has to do with power. Okay? How do I get filled with the Holy Ghost? How do I pray in tongues? How do I use the word of God? How do we cast out deep? You understand what I'm saying? How do we operate in the gifts of the spirit? That's seeking His power. But that third one, "seek His face evermore." Those are encounters. I'm move. We going, we getting ready to move.

So, you know what? I heard someone say something. This is very much true. They said, "At this particular moment," he said, "there are two churches. The church and the other group that's smaller that follows Jesus. The church that has church services and those who follow the king. And those who follow the king will be talked about by those who just do church because you don't know the king. And because you don't know Him, you don't know what He would and would not do." And one of the things that I noticed is that every person that had an encounter with the king was always dead wrong about everything. And those [snorts] were the good preachers. So seek His, what it said? Seek the Lord about your decisions. Seek to walk in His power. It's always three. But then also you're supposed to seek His face. What does that mean? Uh, that means encounters with Him face to face. And that is something I think that the body of Christ is afraid of. But there's something that you must know about Jesus, that He's always in planet Earth. Same way the Holy Ghost can be in you and you and you and you and you and me at the same time, is the same way that Jesus can be in multiple places at the same time. But you see superheroes like, you know, like in, there's, there's one guy I can't remember his name in X-Men. He had the ability to reduplicate himself. You saw that with what Doctor Strange, he had the ability to, low key. They seek the Lord. Seek His face everymore. When you start seeking His face, that means, "Lord, I would like to have an encounter where I talk to You." And Jesus, people always, "What does Jesus look like?" Everything. He always changes form. People trying to figure out whether He's black or white. I don't care if the man is polka dot. What they got to do with anything? Everybody want to [laughter] The Hispanics got enough to know, well,

We don't think he's Hispanic. Chinese looking at the black people and the white people just arguing with whether or not everybody wants to own him for pride's sake. When you're not even this. You are a spirit.

But anyway, that's a whole another subject. He seek his face. That is a new role for maybe all of us because we have not been taught that we can have encounters with Jesus. I'm going to give you two quick stories about how those encounters can be.

I was listening to the testimony of a man battling with his identity. He said that he was watching porn in his bedroom and as he was watching porn he said Jesus walked through the walls and, uh, he said one of the things about these encounters is is that, and many times you will not be, you will be afraid to look up. He'll be standing right there, but you don't want to look at his face. You requested to see his face, but you don't want to see it.

He said, uh, he said Jesus was standing right there. And so, he said he just slowly closed the computer and said, "I am getting ready to die and go to hell right now." Jesus walked into my room while I was watching porno. He said, "Jesus just stood there." He said, he just kept his head down. He said, but he noticed as he looked over a little bit, he said Jesus was holding the most beautiful robe he had ever seen, like a robe a king would wear, but it was otherworldly, he said. And so he noticed the robe and how beautiful it was, he said. And then Jesus grabbed him very firmly and stood him up. And then Jesus took the robe and threw it on him. Then he placed a crown on his head. And then he gave him a big kingly ring. And then he said at that moment he looked at Jesus and Jesus said, "This is the real you," and it disappeared.

Do you know what that would do to your mindset? Do you know how quick you would give up sin when he would do something like that for you in the midst of your sin? That's the real Jesus. Not this foolishness being preached over pulpits. That's the real Jesus. That's why the Bible says it is the goodness of God that made you change. Y'all understand what I'm saying? Can you imagine you watching porno and doing something crazy like that and Jesus walks in the room with a king robe, puts it on you, puts a crown on you, then puts a ring and said, "This is the real you, not this foolishness you're looking at."

This same gentleman, he said that, uh, um, he wanted to go see, and I think it's Avengers Infinity War. Those superhero movies more talk more about the kingdom than you would ever know. He said he had planned to go see it. He said he was looking forward to it. He knew, like me, he was going to watch it multiple times. Okay, good. [snorts] Not not too much longer. So he said, and people who have an intimate relationship with Jesus, they'll hear this. And he said that he heard Jesus say, "I'm going to the movies with you." He was like, "Cool."

So he went to a morning session and, um, a morning viewing, I should say. [snorts] And, uh, he said, you know, he said he likes to go to the morning show because he likes his space. You know, I've seen that. You ever been some place and why you gotta park right next to me? Whole parking lot empty. You from Detroit, you're like, "This is a trick."

So he get in the theater. He said, "I like to create a spread. Popcorn, just everything. Just boom." And he said, "There's a few people in the theater." And he said, "Here come this man with white socks on." He said, "And some flip-flops with some jeans and a Spider-Man t-shirt." He said, "And comes and plops his behind down right next to him. And he's like, 'Are you serious right now? I like my space. What is going on?'" And so then the guy said, "Man, this movie is going to be good. I've seen it before." He was like, "Oh, I am in trouble now." One of them guys, I got to open up his mouth. Look at this scene. Look at this scene. Oh, here it comes right here.

He said, so he said they were small talking about the Avengers series. He said, "The man didn't put his hand in his popcorn without permission." HE WAS LIKE, [screaming] "THIS is going down quick. Sure enough," >> problem. >> Yeah, that's a huge problem. >> They like they make little Tik Tok videos on it now. Okay.

He said the movie is going on and the man is just like, you know, you know, oh, this part right here is really, really good. He is so like, you got to be kidding me. He said the movie ends and then the guy stands up and says, "Man, that's a great movie. I just wish as Christians they believed in themselves the way the superheroes do." You know, so he's like, "Oh my god, this guy's a Christian. I got this bad attitude." And so he said, "Yeah, you know," he said, "Man, I feel the same way." So they're talking about how Christians don't believe in the power that God gave them. And if they would believe in that power, then they will be able to do great exploits. And so, so the guy introduced himself. He said, "My name is Micah." He said, "What's your name?" He said, "My name is Jesus," and then disappeared.

He said the man was holding the cup and everything. He said, "My name is Jesus." And then disappeared literally in front of his face. He said, "And the cup just dropped to the ground." Thud. See? So, but see, those things can't happen if you're not open. Now, this man has these encounters like this all the time, every day on a regular basis. And so, one of the things that I realized, and I heard this from someone else, see, let me tell you something. When you start seeking this stuff, God will then bring those type of people into your life supernaturally for you to, oh, wow. Because there is a veil between heaven and earth, but the ones who were supposed to make it disappear were God's children. Why would God not visit you if you were his child? Why would he stay hidden from you? What type of sense does that make? Why is he trying to keep things from you? I mean, if your child is overseas in the military right now and and and you could go visit them and you had the means, I know the mamas will. The dad is like, "Let him fight." The mama, "I'm going on the plane. I got to go see my child. I got to go see my baby." But when your child is away, you look for every reason. You know, you know, some of our kids were away for college and, uh, I think they, oh, they came back for my, uh, for Lana's birthday. And I mean it was just such a joy. They've been away and it was just such such a joy. You know, Thanksgiving is going to be such a joy to have the kids in the house and to do different things like that. Why do you have that? Because there's your child. So if that's the case with human behavior, why is God trying to hide from you? Right? He's not trying to hide. He's not trying to wait until you come to heaven. He wants to visit you now. Religion has talked us out of this and say, "Oh, that's strange. You got to be careful. You got to be careful walking your dog at 12:00 in the afternoon." Y'all are you know this same guy, you know, see you start drawing into your life and meet this same guy and his last name is Turbo. That's the crazy part. Yeah, that was I thought that was just it's a black guy. His name is Turbo. Somebody thought it was my cousin. I was like, "No, I don't know this dude." And he said something that was so powerful. He said the Holy Spirit visited him and said, "Hey, are you willing to go into the spiritual realm to rescue an unbeliever who got stuck there cuz they went in illegally through astral projection?" He's like, "No, not doing that. Not doing that."

See, when you read, see, this is going to make you start reading the Bible different. There's so many things in the Bible that the church ignores. Like, can angels have sex? Yes. Well, wait till I teach that one along with the sex series in January. Angels have sex and they reproduce. This stuff is in the Bible. You saw the first case. It says the sons of God came down to the daughters of men and impregnated them and reproduced. Did it not say that? See, this the reason why the kids are locked out of church. They ain't thinking about all of. Hold on until. No. No. I need you explain. Well, they don't believe in that. You know, they try to explain it away. No, y'all. Heaven and hell are outside the domain of your intellect. You not getting ready to learn this at Harvard. That opens up a whole another world. The Bible says angels came down to planet Earth and had sex with women. Stop. What are angels doing with sexual organs? And how many of you know God never does anything without a purpose? So if they have sexual organs, then maybe this is getting ready to mess up your religion about what heaven is like. Oo, we they going to take me down to the ground. That's okay though. No, they're not. No, they're not. See, where we're moving to is a level of understanding where when Jesus argued with those people, it says he constantly shut their mouths. It was one particular scenario and they agreed, we're not going to ask this man any more questions. So he, he just keep destroying us. There's a level of wisdom. You remember, y'all remember the scripture that I wrote read last weekend? It says God's purpose in all of this was to use us to display his wisdom to the demonic kings in outer space. I want you to think about who you are when you're supposed to operate at a level of wisdom and spiritual intellect where Satan doesn't understand you. See how far low we are? We won't do it. So Satan has hired the witches and now the kids are doing it. They doing it. They are the kids are are are far advanced more than the church is. So when you invite them to church for what? To come to learn what I can't do that I'm already doing. That's what you're telling me. So the Lord now keeps pulling the man out there. Certain people astral project out there. He says I'm in another realm preaching the gospel to people that left their bodies. So all this stuff is in the Bible. [snorts] But as a preacher, you're not going to even see that. If you reject tongues, you're not going to see that. You reject dreams. Dreams sometimes are another dimension that God takes your spirit to have real encounters. Ezekiel 1:4. This man was given a vision of this. As I looked, I saw a great storm coming from the north, driving before it, a huge cloud that flashed with lightning and shone with brilliant light. There was fire inside the cloud, and in the middle of the fire glowed something like gleaming amber. We just don't read this. This man is trying to explain the unexplainable. From the center of the cloud came four living beings that looked human, except that each had four faces and four wings. Their legs were straight and their feet had hooves like those of a calf and shone like burnished bronze. If you're online, I'm in Ezekiel 1:4-28. Under each of their four wings, I could see human hands. So each of the four beings had four faces and four wings. This is some mess, right? Soon as you read that. Yeah, I'll wait to get to heaven on that one. I want you, I wish I should have thrown some pictures and I might do it tomorrow service. Okay, let's get this right. A being appears. Yes. And it has four faces. Yes. And and several wings. Yes. And their hands underneath the wings. Yes. All right, I'm out. Let me know when he gone. Verse 10. Verse 9. The wings of each living being touched the wings of the beings beside it. Each one moved straight forward in any direction without turning around. What does that mean? Each had a human face in the front, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and the face of an eagle at the back. Each had two pairs of outstretched wings. One pair stretched out. One pair stretched out to touch the wings of the living beings on either side of it and the other pair covered his body. They went in whatever direction the spirit chose and they move straight forward in any direction without turning around. The living beings looked like bright coals of fire or brilliant torches and lightning seemed to flash back and forth among them. This is just one of God's creations. And the living beings darted to and fro like flashes of lightning. In other words, you saw them here and like the flash of lightning, they're right here. Then they're right here. Then they're up there. This man is sitting up here looking at this. Verse 15. As I looked at these beings, I saw four wheels touching the ground beside them, one wheel belonging to each. The wheels sparkled as if made of beryl. All four wheels looked alike and were made the same. Each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it. So, it's a wheel like this, but inside of it is a wheel like this. You've seen that in superhero movies also, haven't you? I told you they imitating Jesus. Verse 17. The beings could move in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved. The rims of the four wheels were tall and frightening. So this is not the size of a car, folk. And they were covered with eyes all around. Stop. What does a wheel with a wheel in it turning with eyes around the rims? What is even the purpose of something like that? The wheels have eyes. When the living, when the living beings moved, the wheels moved with him. When they flew upward, upward, the wheels went up too. The spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. So wherever the spirit went, the wheels and the living beings went also. Also, verse 21. When the beings moved, the wheels moved. When the beings stopped, the wheels stopped. When the wing beings flew upward, the wheels rose up, for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. Spread out above them was a surface like the sky, glittering like crystal. Beneath this surface, the wings of each living being stretched out to touch each other's wings, and each had two wings covering its body. As they flew, their wings sounded to me like waves crashing against the shore, or like the voice of the Almighty, or like the shouting of a mighty army. When they stopped, they let down their wings. As they stood with their wings lowered, a voice spoke from beyond the crystal surface above them. So, these beings are holding up some type of big platform that's made out of crystal. You know how like your chair sits on legs? This throne is sitting on them and they are sitting on wheels. Beneath the surface, 23 Beneath the surface, the wings of each living being stretched out. I did that. Verse 24. As they flew, their wings sounded. Did I already read this? Above the surface was something that looked like a throne made of blue lapis lazuli. And on this throne, high above, was a figure whose appearance resembled a man. From what appeared to be his waist up, he looked like gleaming amber, flickering like fire. From his waist down, he looked like a burning flame, shining with splendor. All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining in the clouds on a rainy day. This is what the glory of the Lord looked like to me. When I saw it, I fell face down on the ground and I heard someone's voice speaking to me. How many know you got to be ready for something like that? Ezekiel 2 verse 1-10. This is a continuation of it because the voice was speaking to him and it says, "Stand up, son of man. I want to speak to you." The spirit came into me as he spoke and it set me on my feet. I'll listen carefully to his words. You had no choice. Son of man, he said, I'm sending you to the nation of Israel, a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have been rebelling against me to this very day. They are a stubborn and hard-hearted people. But I'm sending you to say to them, "This is what the sovereign Lord says." Now, the Lord gave that big old introduction of himself just to tell the man, I got a message. You could have sent this to me on an email. You know what I'm saying? Verse 5, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for remember they are rebels. At least they will know. Let's start out with verse four. They are a stubborn and hard-hearted people. But I'm sending you to say to them, this is what the Lord says. And whether they listen or refuse to listen, for remember they are rebels, at least they will know they have had a prophet among them. Son of man, do not fear them or their words. Don't be afraid. Even though their threats surround you like nettles and briars and stinging scorpions, do not be dismayed by their dark skulls. Even though they are rebels, you must, you must give them my messages whether they listen or not. But they won't listen, for they are completely rebellious. Son of man, this lets you know why the Lord has me say something, knowing that some people are not going to bed. Has me say something knowing that they going to fight against it. [clears throat] Son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not join them in their rebellion. Open your mouth and eat what I give you. Here we go. Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me. There's something about the other side that you have hands that are that connected to bodies. I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me. Watch this. It held a scroll. Scroll, not him. That proves it was just a hand. That's why he said it. It's a hand all by itself. You've seen that in movies, too. It held a scroll which he unrolled. I saw that both sides of the scroll were covered with funeral songs, words of sorrow, and pronouncements of doom. Those scrolls are for today also. It's unfortunate. While we down here living a foul, they upstairs writing songs about you living a foul. They creating poems, pronouncements of doom because of the lifestyles of men. That's something I'll teach right now. How God is a songwriter and a poet and also an artist. And this graphic, it says, "If we allow God to give us these experiences, the understanding and wisdom that will come from these experiences will greatly help us in earth and greatly hinder hell. The side effect will be masses coming to Christ and committing to him." Ezekiel 3:10-11, he added, "Son of man, let all my words sink deep into your heart first." First. The preacher got to go first. He got to live it first. Let all my words sink deep into your heart first. Listen to them carefully for yourself. Quit worrying about being a good preacher. Listen to them carefully for yourself. Then go to your people in exile and say to them, "This is what the Lord says. Do this whether they listen to you or not." That was hard for me. With that election sometimes. He said they're not going to listen. Some of them that they he was talking about were the ones who wouldn't listen. He said they willing to listen to you when you helped them out of bondage, but they won't listen to you or other stuff. And then never mind. Matthew 23:13, "What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees, hypocrites, for you shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You won't go in yourselves, and you don't let others enter either." I would have been doing that on purpose. The preacher, unfortunately, he has to go first. And then he says, "Okay, everybody can come in and have keep you safe." Versus, y'all understand what I'm saying? Versus you start trying to have these experiences and then I fight against you because I don't understand because I'm not in the same place as you. There are a lot of people that are more mature than their pastors, by the way. So if I don't do this, I'll cause those following me to miss out on a great many things. So this last part is just one scripture. The Lord brought this. I couldn't believe you said this is where the church has to operate. What we are going to now move into fully. The world is at is where is very, very extreme. Very, very extreme. I started to play it today. I'm going to wait maybe until February. Maybe. I was on my phone yesterday and, um, I don't even know how this popped up. It might have been Lucifer. It might have been the Holy Ghost. I don't know. But I was on iTunes. I wasn't even on iTunes, but all of a sudden iTunes popped up on my phone and this, it's like a playlist of songs to that it suggest. And the second song was a song called Holy Ghost. I was like, "Oh, I got to check this out." My African kid, Holy Ghost. So, press play. I was like, "Oh, oh, this is it. Oh, man." And I was listening to it. I was I rewinded it and oh man, this is woo. I got to have them learn how to play this at the Holy Spirit said, "Wait a minute." I was like, "Uhoh, I think I'm in trouble again." As I dug further, it is a man making a song about the Holy Ghost. I don't even know what the boy is doing, but it is him merging it with witchcraft. And, uh, so I then looked him up live and he's singing the song while a bunch of women are dressed in white, um, feeling on his body and you on the hook. Oh yeah, it, it's crazy. The hook is unbelievably sweet. But one of the things that you have to realize you all is that the music that the kids are listening to, it's, I don't know what the Holy Spirit meant by this. He said it's laced with sticky stuff. And whatever this sticky stuff is, if you listen to it one time, it can be perverted. But, but something stuck to you that makes you want to go back and listen to it again. It's sticky stuff. Okay. [snorts] When I start the first message in January is on the ways that you enter the spiritual realm without knowing it. One is music, second one is sex. Can't believe the Holy Ghost told me this. You know, sometimes he'd tell me stuff and I just can't wait to share it. And he just showed it to me in a picture. He said, "You stick a key in an ignition and an engine turns on." You know, your password is a key. When you put it in, it opens up to whatever you're trying to get in. You understand what I'm saying? Okay? You put the key in the door. Can't even believe I'm getting ready to say this. He said, "You put the key in the door and it opens you up to whatever room you going in." He said, "Well, unfortunately, what mankind does not know is that the man's penis is a key." And when inserted in the vagina, he said, "A world opens up. If you are not married, the wrong world opens up, and you go into that world. And when you're done, something in that world comes out with you." That's why the Bible says, "He that fornicates and does these things destroys his own soul." Because the, when he showed it to me just clear, the penis is a key. The vagina is it's a connection. It goes in and two worlds will open up. Actually, one world, but two different spaces. You go into that world and the first question they ask is, "Who are you? Did you come in illegally? And what is your purpose?" See? And so, but you don't know these things. So, you just having sex with people and don't know that every time penis is inserted into the vagina, a world opens up because all you thinking about is the physical. You thought about, you forgot about the soul and the spirit. All right. Oh, dang. All right. So, so again, I have to match this foolishness out here by overwhelming it. Oh, you think you something because sister such and such witch is showing you this? Let me show you this. I didn't even read it. 2 Kings 6:1-18. One day the group of prophets came to Elijah and told him, "As you can see, this place where we meet with you is too small. Let's go down to the Jordan River where there are plenty of logs. There we can build a new place for us to meet." "All right," he told them. "Go ahead." "Please come with us," someone suggested. "I will," he said. So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees. But as one of them was cutting a tree, an axe head fell into the river. "Oh sir," he cried. "It was a borrowed axe." "Where did it fall?" the man of God asked. When he showed him the place, Elijah cut out a stick and threw it in the water at that spot. Then the axe head floated to the surface. "Grab it," Elijah said. And the man reached out and grabbed it. He said, "Get back to work." How many you know, we would have shut down the whole church service right then. Shout. Turn up that organ. Shout. Somebody needs to shout. [screaming] This man didn't even pray. He didn't say, "Lord, first of all, we would have just went to Home Depot and bought another axe. If it's shallow river, then well, jump in. You the one broke the thing. Jump in and see if you can feel around for it." How many know that's common sense? Did not the prophet ask him where did it fall? Over there. Then jump over there. See if you can feel around. Hold your breath and get to the bottom. We're not going to do that. Is that where it fell? Yes. Snap. That's the tree. The the tree. No prayer. How do you do stuff like that? You got to know Christ. And when you get to know him and know his face, he will reveal those different type of things to you. Wow. That's real power. No, let's all have a word of prayer. Let's conjure up the powers of God to. No, just go to Walmart, man. They got plenty of axes on sale. Black Friday is coming. Just go get another one. No, we're not doing that. No prayer. No consulting of God, son. No. In the name of Yahweh, I command you to rise. See, I see that in the physical. I want to know what goes on in the spiritual to make that. So, that's the first thing the church will have to operate in these days is we will now sidestep and dominate physical law. You can't do it if you afraid to try it. Hallelujah. This church is already dominating physical law. That's why during COVID we gave more, spent more and saved more just during COVID. The church has to get to a place to dominate physical law and sidestep it in order to show these people out here who really is God. Second one, same man. 2 Kings 6:8. When the king of Aram was at war with Israel, he would confer with his officers and say, "We will mobilize our forces at such and such place." Immediately Elijah, the man of God, would warn the king of Israel, "Do not go near that place, for the Aramians are planning to mobilize their troops there." So the king of Israel would send word to the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again, Elijah warned the king so that he would not, so that he would be on the alert there. The king of Aram became very upset over this. He called his officers together and demanded, "Which of you is a traitor? Who has been informing the king of Israel of my plans?" "It's not us, my lord the king." One of the officers replied, "Elijah, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel, even the words you speak in the prophecy of your bedroom." So this is the Holy Ghost and angels revealing secrets about the enemy movement and plans against the righteous. So that's the second step the church will have to be. Now, we just showed our hand to the enemy over this election. That election got turned because of the way that this church and a few others prayed, particularly this one, because we just went harder than most. We went extremely hard with that formula. The formula was given. It was a secret to battle what the enemy was working on. You don't need to worry about the enemy. Just work my formula. Told somebody quit. Y'all, y'all stop calling me because you're going through spiritual warfare. I'm going through spiritual warfare. Okay. What am I supposed to do? Call Satan and tell him to stop? Yeah, just fight back. See, right now the church is too, the church is too busy trying to defend itself. That's right. Now, what's supposed to be happening is in hell they going to Satan, man, we under spiritual warfare. Who? No crazy church with the lion, man. They tearing us up, man. They tearing us up. I'm on, I need prayer for spiritual warfare. No, you need to pray. Then the other thing you need to do is just start ignoring stuff. There are always flies outside. You just shoe them away or you ignore them. We too busy running from the devil. We so scared and because you're looking at darkness rise and and me personally, I'm just enjoying it. Oh, this is getting ready to be fun. Because again, if you're in the forest, it doesn't [snorts] matter how dark it is. If you turn on your camera phone, all of that darkness does not have the ability to squash out the little light on your phone. That is the dominion of light over darkness. If you're in the middle of the forest and you have a lighter, it does not matter how deep and vast the African forest is, forest is, you can't see the stars, you can't see the moon, and you can't see your hand in front of your face. Flip on a lighter, flick, and all of that darkness does not have the ability. So, it never matters how deep the darkness is. The question is, do you just have a little bit of light to let shine? So, I don't, I don't pray over that type of stuff. I just ignore it. Me ignoring Satan is letting him know that he is irrelevant. I feel stuff every day. Just ignore it. You're not ready for the next level. You just walk around all day like this. Cuz I'm dealing with spiritual warfare. I feel Satan. Yeah. Keep them down there. Y'all, you got to be like Paul. Paul got stoned to death and and they raised him from the dead. He went right back in the city where they stoned him to death. He said, "I do all this stuff with great joy." Listen to Paul's testimony. He said, "I've been stoned. I've been beat three times to the point of death. I've been shipwrecked." He said, "I've been in the cold without anything to eat or to drink. Hungry, working, people don't appreciate me, but I do all this with great joy. Here you are. I got a job, got a car, got a roof over your head. I'm dealing with spiritual warfare." No, you just need to go work out and then you'll probably be fine. But complaining about spiritual warfare, you are the light. Soon as I saw that, there are no scientific experiences in planet Earth where darkness overcomes light. When we turn off the lights in this room, that's the only way that darkness can invade is because the lights were shut off completely. You can shut off every single last one of these bulbs except for one, but the one that stayed on still keeps the darkness back. Y'all follow me? We come on here on the weekends to turn the light on. Darkness said, "Wait a minute. You know, I'm strong." We reinforced ourselves. We've been in fasting and prayer with witches for the whole week. So, watch this. You turn that light on. Darkness has to flee. That's why the Bible says you are the light of the world. No, it says Jesus is light of the world. Wrong. It says he's the light of the world, but it also says you are the light of the world. It says you are a part of the kingdom of light and your father is light and he has sons and daughters of. We had this dummy one time who said, "Y'all got lights panels up there. What that got to do with worship?" Nothing. We just like lights the same way our father likes lights. We're going to put up a a Christmas tree right in the lobby. So if you're offended, you might want to go ahead and join the church that don't believe in, go ahead and join the black Hebrews who don't join believe in Christmas trees. Okay? I don't care nothing about the whole doctrine and pagan. I like trees. I got one in my front yard. You ain't cutting down trees in your front yard because trees is a Christmas tree and I like lights. I like lights and I like trees. So I'm putting it up because I like the feeling that comes from a tree. Y'all get me? Telling people to come to Jesus, but take down your Christmas tree first. Did you research? No, I don't research anything. I just use whatever I want to use. Now, every once in a while, the Holy Ghost has to tell me, "Oh, you're listening to Satan." Okay, sorry about that. I'll throw that one in the trash. Y'all got me. Can you even have Starbucks coffee? Did you research Starbucks? No, they just make coffee. I don't care what they doing. Did you research where your gas come from? You do realize you're actually indirectly supporting terrorism every time you use your gas. [sighs] Man, Jesus can't get nothing done. Okay, so again, this is where the church is at right now. The Lord revealed to us what was going on behind the scenes. Y'all remember Prophet Tommy, never been to America, flew past Pentagon. Lord told him about the four secret things that were going on in the Pentagon. He got arrested in Nigeria because we needed Nigeria. They arrested him because they thought he was a spy. Okay. Same way this guy, the king, same thing. King said, "Who spy? Who's the spy?" They said, "No." They said, "You got a guy over there on another level and even what you talk about in your bedroom. The one he knows reveals what you said so you can sidestep him." So that'll be the second thing the church has to operate in. Here's the third one. Second Kings 6:13. "Go and find out where he is." The king commanded, "So I can send troops to seize him." And the report came back, "Elijah is in Dothan." How many know you're on another level when they send a whole army after one man? And like I always tell Satan, you need more men because it still wasn't enough. So one night, the king of Aram sent an army with his chariots and horses to surround the city. When the servant of the man of God got up early the next morning and went outside, there were troops, horses, and chariots everywhere. "Oh sir, what will we do now?" the young man cried to Elijah. "Watch this. Immaturity can't see." Telling the young people, they want to climb the ladder of success overnight. "No, you have to learn some things so that you don't get killed." "Don't be afraid," Elijah told him, "for they are more on our side than on theirs." Well, I don't see anybody. Then Elijah prayed. Now watch this. The Lord would have never opened this boy's eyes if he had not made the request. There are some things God has not done for you because you just simply have not requested it. Come on. He didn't say, "Lord, do I have permission?" He said, "Lord, open his eyes and let him see." The Lord opened the young man's eyes. And when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elijah was filled with horses and chariots of fire. So this is God responding to the request of a man asking him to show what's in the spirit world. Now if he can make that request, why can't you? You got a better relationship with God than he did. He didn't have, he didn't speak in tongues. He didn't have the word of God. He didn't even have the name of Jesus. He just knew Yahweh. See that? He said, "Lord, you over here all scared and everything, Lord." See, and I love the simplicity of this because if you do this in a church service, let's all bow our heads and hold hands for a word of prayer. For what? What they got to do with anything? Father God in heaven. They had a raise. We were at a birthday party. Never mind. It was at your birthday party. Yeah, it was at your birthday party. We were sitting at the table with a man. He was just talking regular and everything. Just we were just kicking it and he was just talking boom boom and and then when he got up to give you an accolade, put on that preacher's voice, dearly beloved, we were like, you were just sitting at the table with us. How did you flip like that? But anyway, these are the things that I keep secret in most cases, but I want you just just think about, think about that for a moment. The Lord opened this man's eyes. That's another teaching also to let you know it's not invisible, you're blind. That's very important. See that little small concept right there? Oh, it's not an invisible realm. No, it's not invisible. It's very tangible. It's very real. There's something about when you're in this body, the side effect is that your spirit man goes blind. You can't see it. You have a set of physical eyes and a set of spiritual eyes. He said, "Lord, open his eyes that he can see." And simply because the man made a request, the Lord opened up his eyes and let him see the invisible realm by which all things are birthed. So guess what? I wonder how many things would have been revealed to you if you would simply have enough boldness to ask. Amen. I won't give you the backdrop, but I was outside. The Lord seems to rebuke me when I'm pulling up weeds. I'm pulling up weeds. So he pulls up weeds out of my heart at the same time. I was pulling up weeds out the yard. And just like this, the Holy Spirit said, "Why would we have a problem with you coming up to heaven to see where you're going to live forever?" What type of sense does that make? And guess what? We're too afraid. Oh no, we don't have. Watch this. And then people are telling you you don't have a right to even ask God. So, if you don't believe you have a right to ask God about anything, if you don't believe you have a right to question God, why in the world would you be bold enough to say, "Lord, could I have a vision or a dream of what heaven looks like?" Yet, the Bible says, "All things whatsoever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive." You see how far gone we are? I like this one. If you being evil or carnal know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more, watch this, how much more shall your father answer your prayers. Didn't say that. It says, "How much more shall your heavenly father give good gifts to them who ask?" So God wants to give you good gifts. You still worrying about praying about stuff. He said, "If you know how to give good stuff to your kids, why wouldn't I give good gifts?" God is in the gift-giving business. Are you understand? And we're being tricked out of everything. Amen. And see, these experiences are what teach you about God. These experiences will let you divorce the world and let go of sin. It won't even be a temptation. One experience can change your whole life forever. I understand what I'm saying. Yeah. That's a blanket on planet Earth that says don't ask. He doesn't want you. Then you got another scripture. He's answering what the devil is telling. See, the devil speaks. Jesus writes cuz when you write it down, it's legal. When you speak it, we don't do we have. Watch this. If he and I decide, if I decide to do something to him and it's going to cost him $5,000. If we just say it, we can't go to court with that. But if we write it and I don't do it, we going to court. See, Jesus said in Romans 8:32, well, scripture says Romans 8:32, "If I gave you Jesus, why wouldn't I not with him freely give you all things?" See, I have a problem with scriptures like that. And then you got this man that wrote down 55,000 prayer requests and the Lord answered all of them. And we sit up here wondering if God to give us a biscuit on Sunday morning. So that's secrets. Lord opened up his eyes. 2 Kings 6:18. This we going down. I mean when I say we're going down, the sermon is almost done. As the Aramian army advanced toward them, cuz they can't see nothing. See that's the wonderful thing about wickedness. Oh, they going to attack us because they can't see. So, we are living in a time when we're going to have to watch this. Lord, before they attack, open up their eyes and let them see. Okay. I, uh, I don't know why this just popped in my head. I was listening to a testimony of a man and, um, hold on. Listen to testimony, man. And, um, he said that there was to set you, he said to let you know how violent Jesus is. He said there was a being in my room. He said and it was from the waist down it was a spider. From the waist up it was a beautiful woman. Um, that's those are beings in that realm. They're half half. Yongi Cho, he ran into the same, not the same, but one. He said this one, shoot from the waist down she was a snake and from the waist up he said it was the most beautiful woman that he ever seen. Satan has the ability to shape. He said the being came into his church. He said all the, he was praying about an issue. He said and, uh, uh, he said the doors of the church just flew open and he said the being just came to her levitating towards him. She said, "You don't have to cast me out of this region. We can live together in harmony, can't we?" They don't want to be kicked out. See, it's a completely different world behind the scene. He said this thing is in this room. He said, "And and the being, it was it was spider down, woman up, and it, but it, it, it kept changing. It would change to a man and and this is when he was dealing and fighting homosexuality. It would change into a man." And and then he realized this is the source of it. Change into a man, then it would change into a woman, then it would change into an animal. And the being said, "I can help you be whatever you want to be. I can even change your gender." He said that the thing was used as some type of power. And, uh, that kind of like paralyzed them for a moment. Anytime you recognize, anytime that happens, just the name of Jesus. If you just say Jesus, boom. But I'm also have to teach next year a lot on angels because we do. Bible says the angels are there to serve us. If you know, if you don't teach on it, they, whatever. So, but he called on Jesus. He said when he said Jesus, he said his angel showed up immediately. Boom. No, wrong story. He said when he said Jesus, Jesus showed up. He said when Jesus showed up, he showed up in full vengeance. He said, "You should have seen the way Jesus was angry." Um, his vengeance and he said his eyes, he said fire was coming out of Jesus' eyes. He said Jesus just grabbed the wing and literally ripped it in half with his bare hands. [laughter] And he said, and so they asked a question. They said, "Well, does that mean they don't exist?" He said, "The reason why demons are so

Deformed and out of symmetry, sometimes, some, some. There are some demons that like, part of their whole head is gone, like somebody sliced it off. He said, "The reason why you see them with, like, sometimes one leg or one arm, broken fingers," he said, "the face smashed in," he said, "is because when you see demons like that," he said, "not only are they rotting away because they're outside of the light." He said, "But you're also looking at what is happening to them when they run up against angels." He said it was, he said, he said it was a witch. Astro projected into his room, put some type of spell on him for a second, and, and, and, uh, um, and she pulled out a knife, and, and, um, he just said Jesus. And he said his angel, same angel, his angel showed up again, and he said the angel disarmed the witch, held her, and then the angel said, "What would you like for me to do?" He said, "What do you mean?" He said, "You are sons of God, so you have a right to tell me whatever you want me to do. Do you want this woman dead or do you want her forgiven?" He said, "There's going to be a huge responsibility in the last days because wickedness has gotten so evil and going to attack us." He said, "This is, this is a word for me. You can't be trying to kill everybody." He said, he told him, "I'm going to have mercy on you." He said, "Put her back in her body." Angel snatched her away. Put her back in her body.

He said it was another scenario. He said it was a bang in his room. And he said he was awakened by a sound in the room like somebody was fighting. See, he, see, see, when you engage this, your spiritual eyes will start opening more and more and more. Some of you, your spiritual eyes have been open from birth, but they told you you were crazy, and you kept it a secret.

He said he looked up. He said he said an angel got a demon held down to the ground, and the angel said he was going to try to attack you in your sleep. He said, "But don't worry, I got him." [clears throat] He said, he said he had the demon's head, you know, holding his head down to the ground, and he said when the angel said, "Don't worry, I got him." The angel took his head and smashed the demon's head in like a roach. So when you smash a roach like that, it's smashed. It doesn't cease to exist. But imagine somebody smashing you, but you're still alive. Now the roach has to walk around looking like smashed all the time. So [clears throat] that's one of the, I can't believe I'm teaching y'all this stuff this morning. Stitch. Bishop Roi just throwing in stuff. They got me preaching on roaches now. Just, is this helping y'all?

Yeah. Amen. Amen. Imagine being able to live in two worlds at the same time, but you can see both of them. [snorts] [clears throat] I don't even know where I am. Do y'all know where I am? Oh, as the army advanced toward him, Elijah prayed, "Oh Lord, please make them blind." That's going to be another thing that we will walk in. We won't kill you, but we will hamper you. So the Lord struck them with blindness as Elijah asked. "Don't need permission. What do you see? That's where the church is right now. What do y'all want us to do?" That is not being taught that heaven is sitting up there listening. Let's wait and see what they tell us to do. Make them blind. So the Lord struck them with blindness. Then Elijah went out and told the army, "You've come the wrong way. This isn't the right city. Follow me and I will take you to the man you're looking for." He's the man that they're looking for, but he's lying now and said, "I'm going to take you to the man." And he led them into the city that they were always trying to attack. As soon as they entered Samaria, Elijah prayed, "Oh Lord, now open their eyes and let them see." So the Lord opened the eyes of an entire army, and they discovered that they were in the middle of their enemies. So this is God responding to a man's request to hamper and hinder an entire army to stop their ability to attack. This will also be important because it is obvious. We'll see where this goes that more and more this thing with Russia and Ukraine is spiraling out of control. So, so now Biden is now making all of the decisions he should have made for four years. It's unbelievable to see what this man is doing. It's unbelievable to see what all of them are doing. Now they want to protect the borders. Now they want to do all of this type of stuff. So, just in case you don't know what's going on, Biden released Ukraine to use long-range weapons into Russia that are made by us. Putin said, "If you do that, I am now at war with NATO." So, Ukraine, soon as they got permission, I didn't even know they had the weapons. They started releasing longer-range weapons into Russia. Russia responded by using bigger weapons on them. What in the world is North Korea doing sending their troops to Russia to help them? In whatever his name is, Jong Kim? He's crazy anyway. You can tell he's crazy. He looks like a commercial for Teletubbies, doesn't he? He just, man, looks crazy. I shouldn't have said that, but it's true. I can't believe I said that.

Last one. 2 Corinthians 6:21. When the king of Israel saw them, he shouted to Elijah, "My father, should I kill them? Should I kill them?" "Of course not," Elijah replied. Do we kill prisoners of war? This is where the United States got it from. Give them food and drink and send them home again to their master. Watch this last part. So the king, watch this. The king made a great feast for the men that were trying to kill them. Then he sent them home to their master. After that, the Arabian raiders stayed away from the land of Israel. They said, "No, we can't fool with these people. These people are on another level." First of all, it's crazy that we as an army were sent to get one man. When we showed up, that one man made one prayer, and all of us became blind. Then that man led us by the hand into the enemy camp and then said, "Now, Lord, open their eyes." And when we opened our eyes, we are now surrounded by the individuals that we were going to kill. Then the king wanted to kill us. And the prophet said, "No, give them a great feast. Send them back home." So when they went back home, they said, "We will be permanently at home. We will never fight against you again." So there are going to be some things that we will operate in and we will demonstrate our hand so that they'll stop. We did that one time. It was a lady, she was a witch sitting right there. And don't forget, my wife told Nicole, "Go down there and disarm her." Nicole just stood next to Lily and totally disarmed the girl in the spirit. Totally disarmed her. At the end of the service or beginning of the service, I said, "I said, 'Now you can come here.'" I said, "But when you were here, we knew that you were in some, in some stuff." I said, "Uh, I don't know if you knew. We knew that." And she just shook her head. I said, "So, we had to disarm you to help you understand some things." And so, uh, when she, before that, she was always dressed to the nines, hair laid, nails laid, just dressed to the nines, just, ooh, like she was just going to, to, to an award show. After we did armor, the next time we showed her, she looked like she had been homeless for five years. Couldn't believe that. It was, it was almost like it was a different her. Her hair was all matted up. She dressed, came here dressed like she was homeless. It was unbelievable. [snorts] Have I helped y'all today? Amen.

This is what it means by the path of the righteous is as the shining light grows brighter and brighter and brighter. Right now, the church is sucking doing the same thing. All churches do the same thing, the same way, the same way. [music] It's unbelievable. Just do it the same way, some way. And I understand why it's hard to break out of that, because I got to fight against the world and the church in order to follow Jesus and, and the mess that's out here now. Um, yeah. Okay. So, I'm ending this just with these couple of announcements. You know, this is a serious quest. Thursday, the presence of the Lord was so strong, he was standing there with a door open. I haven't even told him yes yet. I'm going to do it this weekend. But, but Thursday, I felt that if I said yes, I would have been taken someplace, right? Then, it's a huge trust. God will never let you handle anything that you can't handle. You know, but [music] you might see something one time, one dream, one vision, one encounter with an angel. And guess what? I'm going to tell her, "Make the yes." Lord, I'm willing to do and go places and have these experiences, and you can visit me except [music] for one thing. I don't want to go to hell. What I mean by that is, I don't need no visions of it, you know. [music] And so, but, you know, maybe it's not wise to tell Jesus, but he allows it. He allows [music] it. He allows it. And he'll work with you. Whatever you give him, he'll work with that. But this is very necessary. And so, it's [music] going to be a form created for people that have these experiences. So, um, Oh, you want to see yourself? Oh, come on. All you got to do is get up. Hallelujah. She was talking. I was, I just feel led to say, "Don't, don't try to interpret what you think I was afraid of." I have to say that because people didn't, "Hey, I got a revelation." No, you don't. You know, it's, it's, it's easy. You know, somebody walks up. God has not given you the spirit of fear. Anyway, he was talking about a demonic spirit. So, but yeah, that was that was a very weird experience. We were in Nigeria, and I walked past the room, and, um, she was laying there, but she was like, it's hard to, Oh, okay. That's how it kind of looked. You know how when you blow bubbles?

So imagine like the Holy Spirit being a big bubble on the bed, and she was in the bubble. She was in the bubble, and she's praying, but, uh, she's praying, but you can see the bubble more than you. It's hard to explain, but, but what, what afraid me, what made me afraid is I had never felt authority like that before. I had never, so much so that I mean, you know, I just, you ever seen something dangerous and you look at it, and it's so crazy, you just keep walking. That's what I did. I mean, the thing really, it really, it really just alarmed me. It made, made me like a holy, reverential type of fear where, where, um, put it this way, I knew that if an unbeliever would have seen what I saw, they would become extremely afraid of her. That's, that's, that's what I saw. And you can't explain these things, but I, I kept it moving. I'm serious. You know, I didn't say nothing to her. I'm leave that alone. I mean, that thing was just as clear, just as clear. And, and I think she was rocking back and forth. And to see a, to see my wife sitting in another being, you know, that just, that messed me up. Okay. So, but you can see how, and she's right. I never forget that angel walked in that room before he said anything. I said, "No." Just like that. No. I was just, I didn't want my daughter to have to go to a place, you know, and I was too afraid of having, you know, I didn't want her to have to go to hell, and the Lord show her something to mess her up, and, and I said, "No." I said, "You're not taking her nowhere." He respected that because angels will do what you tell them to do.

I said, "No." You know, but that also lets you know how it is your fear of things that can hamper people from having experiences because you need to know the Lord to such a degree where you don't ever tell him no again. But if you don't know him like that, you know, and I was new. I mean, this is back in when we first moved, uh, to Atlanta. No, that was Belleville. Dang, that's crazy. Wow. Yep. That was Belleville. Wow. Belleville, Michigan. [snorts] So, y'all see how important this is, you know. So, we're going to continue down this path when I tell you what I will start sharing in January and beyond. This is an entirely different level of teaching, and it's going to cause you to walk carefully, walk softly, all of those things. You know, it lets you know also that no matter what level that you're on, there's another level. No matter how good you are, there are some still some things that God has to correct you. And in some ways, we're demonstrating it just from our own personal life. Always remember this. There are things that God will tell you, and it will hurt. Not because he meant to hurt you, but because of how you think. You know, when a doctor sends you through an operation, it's a reason why they give you that anesthesia or all of those things. They knock you out, the laughing gas, whatever it's called. Whatever it's called, you know. So why they don't want you to experience the pain of it? You know how many know when you wake up, you wake up sore? So if you wake up sore, imagine how bad it would be if you were awake during the operation. That's one of the reasons why you have to pray in the Holy Ghost. Spend time in the word. That's the ointment to make things soft when God shares with you what you need to correct. That's why you understand why, you know, as a leader, I mean, think about that. If I never get that right, I have to go stand before the Lord, and he has to show me, hey, if you would have done this. And see, watch this. The more people that follow us, the more dangerous it gets. Cuz if we get to the point where we have five million people following us, I got to answer for everything that the five million heard me say. I'm not trying to. So, how many know that's very powerful?

What my wife shared, and ladies, it really falls into the category of, "Lord, open his eyes that he may see." We, that happened with bankruptcy one time. We got fired from a church. They put me in a bad situation. We ended up losing our first house. And my wife was like, "We need to claim bankruptcy." I was like, "No, we are not doing that." Cuz the very pastor, y'all get the point. I can't remember what I was going to say about that, but y'all get the point in regards to when the Lord showed that to me, I instantly saw it. And, uh, and then I claimed bankruptcy, you know, they, they let you do it every seven years. I'm not saying you do it on purpose, you know, but I'm just saying that's how. But ladies, if you don't have a, I, you be, I've told so many women, I said, "Did you ever consider praying about praying for your husband as though he's already a Christian?" Praying those Ephesians, Colossians, those prayers, you know, don't go to heaven with more complaints than prayers about your spouse.

Amen. You know, you would have done such, such. Yo, do you know that you're your, I don't want to share that, but your, your complaining and your gossiping about him is empowering him to be what you're gossiping about. You, you're going to the beauty salon talking about your husband and all those different type of things. No, leave that alone. So, but, so I'm looking forward to this adventure. Time is short, and I'm just looking forward to, uh, to this open door. That's what I was saying about Thursday. I didn't say yes then because I felt like if I had said yes then, he would have took me right there to some place. These things are going to be very, very necessary. Very, very necessary. Without them, you become hindered. So, in January, we're not going to do a 21-day fast because I realize that everybody just keeps doing the same thing over and over again because what everybody else does. So, we're going to be led to do fast when the Holy Ghost tells us to do a fast, like he did told us to do a three-day fast with the election. We're not doing that. Okay? So, what we are going to do is teach on sexuality for the entire month on in February, unless the Holy Spirit tells me different, I'm going to then for the entire month of February teach on how music is corrupting us. Um, three. No, that's an announcement for tomorrow. Um, next, I'm going to do a meeting with the younger people in January in order to raise them up. So, because in January, I'm teaching on sexuality. It's called Eros. And then in the midst of that, I'm going to do a three-day teaching seminar for the single people on how to live whether you want to be married or not. And, uh, and then February, I'm going to teach on music. And then, uh, we're also going to begin to roll out and start the house churches across the United States. So, if you'd like to be involved with a house church, you can send an email up here, housechurch.org. Now, I tried this before, and I don't know why. Maybe I can ask the Lord. But I think I was trying to do it before because that's what you should do. This is different. This time, my heart is fully in it. It is in there. I can't stop thinking about it. I'm excited about it. So, I apologize for trying to start this before and it never got off the ground. But, you know, I don't know. I don't know exactly why, but I just do know now that it's fully in my heart, like, yes, this is what you're going to do. I'm excited about it. And so, uh, if you want to be involved with the house church, you know, there's also a book that you can buy. This book right here, it's called Starting a House Church, a New Model for Living Out Your Faith. We cannot touch the world without doing this model. Yangi Cho uses this model. Bishop Odapo uses this model. And both of them didn't want to do it. Both of them said it won't work if the pastor is not intricately involved in it. And so Odipo tried to get somebody to do it for him. Didn't work. He now has like over 60,000 house churches. That's a lot. 60,000. Okay. And so, uh, and so then it's a lot of things I'm going to rework. How we do music, how we play it, how we do worship, all of those different type of things. But I am quite sure that we are getting ready to have a huge makeover. I mean, imagine y'all imagine Jesus. This is where I close. Imagine Jesus coming to sit with you, and you say, "Hey, could you kind of analyze every area of my life?" You got to ask yourself, what would he ask you to change with every area of your life? What concepts would he? You know what I mean? So, I'm excited about that. I'm very, very much excited about that. So, let's go ahead and stand. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Soon as I'm, as soon as I'm, as soon as I'm done with this work. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If you're here, you're not saved. A lot of stuff rolling through my head. These are just some scriptures I'm going to read. It says, "Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight. Yes, what joy for those whose record the Lord is cleared of guilt, whose lives are lived in complete honesty. When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long. Isaiah 30 says, 'For the Lord must wait for you to come to him so he can show you his love and compassion. For the Lord is a faithful God. Blessed are those who wait for his help.' 1 John 1:8 says, 'If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all wickedness. If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.' Romans 10:9 and 10, this is how you do this. Says, 'If you openly, not in your mind, if you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved. For it is by believing or accepting in your heart that you are made right with God. And it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.' That's just a scriptural foundation for the prayer that you're going to pray. If you've never given your life to Jesus Christ, or you need to rededicate your life to Jesus Christ, okay? Or you need to get things right. That's the prayer that you're going to pray. In a moment, I'm going to have the audience just lift their hands and just give God thanks for everything that we have experienced and heard on today. And as we do that, you go ahead and begin to just pray this prayer on the screen. It is the prayer of salvation and rededication. If you pray that prayer, mean it and accept it, God will change you where you stand. Give you a fresh start, forgive you of all of your sins, and then write your name in the book of life. Whether you're here or online, if you need to get on in that prayer, you go ahead and pray that right now. Rest of you, let's lift up our voices and lift up our hands and give God thanks and praise. Truly give him glory and honor and thanks. Come on, open up your mouth and give him thanks. Too many people in here for it to be so quiet. Father, we bless you and we honor you. We magnify you and give you thanks and praise. We give you glory and we give you honor, oh Lord God. Thank you, oh Lord. Blessed be your holy name, Jesus. Thank you, oh Lord. Thank you, Father God. Thank you, oh Lord God. We bless. We magnify you, oh Lord, and give you thanks and praise. We give you glory and honor, oh Lord God. Come on and thank him some more. Thank him some more. Thanksgiving is something that God cannot do for himself. So the more you thank him, the more he gives. The more you bless him, the more he blesses you. We magnify you and thank you, oh Lord God. We bless you and honor you. Thank you, Lord, for it. All that you have done. Thank you, oh Lord God, for enabling us to continue to climb. Continue to climb. Continue to climb. We thank you, Lord God, for that. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. If you prayed that prayer for the first time or you rededicated yourself, just let us know. I'm amazed when we do it. People reach out from as far, I mean, we had a lady from the Philippines that said she gave her life to Christ. And, um, and it was so crazy. She said, "How can I start giving?" I was like, "I don't know. We don't have, I don't even know what the Filipino money is called." So we've been getting that now. People want to give from other countries. So, I got to figure out how to work that out. But, you know, we'll figure it out. So, it's just a blessing. The Lord showed me how to do this this way because it moves it faster and allows people to just stand there on their own without having to always come to an altar. There's nothing wrong with coming to an altar. That's just the Lord, how he showed me to do it. So, just a couple of announcements, and that is the Wednesday night prayer is canceled this week. We can get away with that because how many, how many know we pray all the time?

We have early morning prayer seven days a week by conference call. And yeah, she said, "No, and then y'all wait a minute." And then some people got the nerve to get up at 3:00 a.m. in the morning on the prayer call praying. And so, yes, and in warfare, you also need times of rest. So, Wednesday night prayer is canceled this week. You all enjoy Thanksgiving. I know that I am. Okay? Put up this text graphic. If you're not on this text system, [clears throat] you can take a picture of that or text the word Lionheart Church to that number to be placed in our auto texting service. Those are the things that we'll use to keep you aware of changes, weather problems, all of those things. We want everyone to be on that system so that if we need to send out an announcement, you would know. Okay? You already know about the giving graphic. If you all that give, most of you give online. Um, and then if you're a first-time visitor, just go ahead and step out in the aisle right quick and just walk to the back. They're going to take you to a conference room so my wife and I can just meet and greet you for a moment. If you're a first-time visitor, we always have somebody, so let's start clapping. Anyway, yep, there it is. Thank you. If you're a first-time visitor, and if you brought them, they're here with you. You're also welcome to step out and go to the back room with them so that they're more comfortable in case they think we're going to do something crazy. Okay. So, [snorts] if you're a first-time visitor, step out. All right. They already stepped out. Hey, last thing is is that, uh, you know, we inherited the food pantry that the other church has. And so, they have, uh, we have quite a few contracts with organizations like Publix and Kroger. And so, we're ending up with too much food. So they said if anybody wants to take some of this produce and this food home, you know, to drive around to the back side of the church, um, which is, I think, the, the hurt roadside, um, just drive around the church until you see the pantry thing because people may not know what the hurt roadside is, but I think it's that way. Yes. Look at me. Okay. But just drive your car around there, and they'll just have you fill out a form, but it only takes a moment because they have to have a record where they need to get rid of some of this food. So, if anybody needs food for Thanksgiving or you just want extra food or you want to take this food, you know, once we dismiss and you get in your cars, they'll be open for a while. Just drive around to the back of the building, and they will load you up with food. So, hallelujah. There's never a shortage of food. It's just always being mismanaged. And so, uh, so we, our pantry is always open. If you ever have a need like that or know someone in need, always let us know. Even if it's not open during those hours, we're opening it for you. That's the worst thing in the world is to not have food. So, all righty. Y'all good on today? All righty. I think that is everything.