Mark Drost - DON'T DIE BEFORE YOU DIE

Philippians chapter 1, verse 20. Now, I grabbed this on my way over here, and I just, I don't even know what translation I grabbed. Amen. It says like this, "The word of the Lord. I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body." That's powerful by itself. Not only in my life, but exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

Watch verse 21. And this is a verse that many Christians have forgotten about. "For me, for for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain." If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet, what shall I choose? I do not know. I am torn between two. Watch this. "I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far. But it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body."

Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and I will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith. That is so powerful. I want to preach on the subject: "Don't die before you die." Don't die before you die. He said, "I, I, I'm torn in between two." He said, "I'd like to, I'd like to be caught up and taken to Heaven." He says, "But, but I've got to stay to encourage your faith." And so, since I'm going to stay, I might as well live while I'm here. Hallelujah! Praise God. Don't, don't die. Don't die before you die. Amen. Praise God. I didn't know if I said that right. Hallelujah.

Heavenly Father, we thank You. You are just amazing. You blow my mind, and I thank You for Your amazement, Lord. I thank You for Your power, Your Spirit that is moving in this place tonight. I am believing God that we are going to have a visitation of the supernatural, visitation of miracles in this place. And everybody that is watching, God, there is life that is going to be infused in this place in the name of Jesus. Father, I ask You right now, put the devil in his place, and let Your name be glorified in this house. In Jesus' name, amen.

Now, clap your hands to the Lord and give God the praise in the house. Somebody give God the praise in the house. Praise God. Hallelujah. Before you are seated, it's good to see the Spanish congregation and Pastor Webb. Amen. Now, you can sit down. Amen. I wasn't talking about y'all, just in case. Amen. Some of y'all were like, "Oh man, there he goes talking about us." Hallelujah.

Life is, somebody said it like this, life is just that little, that little dash. It's the beginning of one, and then there's the end, and there's that little piece in the middle. There are some folks that you look at them, and you're just like, "Man, they, they are living on top of the world. They're enjoying life." And it's because they chose to live. The Bible says in Psalms chapter 39 and verse 4, "Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered and that my life is fleeing away." My life is just but a little flicker in time.

I was researching it, and thank God I had that cell phone signal and stuff. But we breathe 18 times a minute. We will breathe 25,920 times a day, free of charge. Free of charge. And every time we breathe, what we fail to understand is this, is that that's God giving us permission to live. Amen. Because the Bible says that God is the giver and taker of life. And so, every time you breathe, it's God giving you permission to live. And the very fact that we breathe so often, we sometimes take it for granted. The breath that God has given us. The moment that we breathe and and it comes in, it's God saying, "Live and not die." Amen. If God did not want you to live anymore, you would not be breathing anymore. So, every time you breathe, it's God saying, "Live."

Hell would like to say, "Die." But hell has no authority over death. Hallelujah. And so, it's God saying, "Live." Let me tell you something. You might have a sickness in your body. It's not over with. If you are still breathing, it's God still telling you to live. Oh, God have mercy. Somebody ought to take a breath and say, "Thank You, Jesus, for life." Uh, every time you take a breath, uh, you ought to say, "Thank You, Lord, for life." Uh, I get to live. Is there anybody thankful that God has given you, uh, an opportunity to live? Give God the praise in the house.

Sometimes, without an effort, we breathe. Now, there are things in life that we have not much control over. When we were born, where we were born, who our parents were. I'm sure every child at one time or another wished they could have picked a different parent. Amen. Not going to ask you to raise your hand. Hallelujah. Another thing we don't have control over is death, because that's what God has control over, and He chooses when is our day of dying. But what we do have control over is our life and how we live here on Earth. We have control over that. Yeah.

There might be circumstances that come our way, and situations that come to our life, but it's how we handle those things. There are storms that come that we did not have choosing over them. There are situations that come that we did not choose for them to come. But how we live it out, and how we face it, and what we do with it is entirely our choice. Amen. It's entirely our choice. A lot of times, we'd like to be able to blame everybody and everything for the outcome of our life. But the truth of the matter is, we have a choice. Are you going to let it kill you, or are you going to learn from it and move forward in the name of Jesus? Are you going to let it affect your spirit, uh, or you going to put it under the blood, uh, and believe God for the victory, uh, and move on in the name of Jesus? It is your choice, uh, what you do with what comes your way.

Glory to God. It's your choice with what you do with what comes your way. You choose whether you live or you don't live. There are too many people, they've given up in life too quick, and they end up living life as though they were already dead. They're already dead in their marriage, already dead in their family. Oh, you got quiet. That's good. I'm glad you got quiet. Amen. I like preaching on the radio. Every once in a while, here of late, it's been with cameras. Amen. One time, I was so desperate to see people, 'cause I hadn't seen people for a while, so I flipped my phone so that I could see myself while I was preaching. You know, that's desperate right there. Praise God.

Some folks decide to already quit in life. I hate quitters. Not hate them, man. I, I don't like them. Thank you, Pastor. Amen. Thank God Pastor was right there. Amen. We decide whether we quit in life or we move forward. The great enemy is not death, but it's a life that has not been lived. And that is the saddest thing. When you will see a life that has not been lived, they don't have life in their eyes. They don't have that sparkle in their life. They gave up a long time ago. They're still breathing, but they are a walking zombie. They gave up in life. Well, life is too hard. Everybody's living it. Everybody's going through stuff right now. You're not alone. Everybody's going through stuff right now. In fact, the Bible says there's nothing new under the sun. That means that anything you're going through right now, somebody already went through it, and they came out on the other side. Amen. You're not all by yourself with what you're going through. But you decide how you go through it. Whether you're going to look at it and say, "I'm going to take this, this, and live it out however I can, but in the end, God's going to get the glory out of it." God's going to get the praise out of it. Uh, somebody ought to praise God right now in the middle of your stuff. Uh, you probably didn't even want to come to church tonight, uh, but the Lord kind of pushed you to come to church. Uh, you ought to thank God that you're breathing right now. Uh, somebody give God praise right now. Hallelujah. Glory to God.

I like something that I, I, I read. William Wallace said, "Every man dies, but not every man lives." Every man dies, but not every man lives. It's interesting to see how Paul, in the scripture that we read, he said, "I'm, I'm kind of torn in between the two." I think because Paul was going through a time of persecution in his life, where Paul is even thinking, "Lord, it'd be good if You'd just take me on up right now. I'd like to go right now. It would be beautiful." And he declares, Paul declares, "For me to live is Christ, but to die is gain." In other words, Paul looks at it and he says, "Oh, to die would be a lot better than the situation that I'm in right now. I'm facing some stuff." Yeah, yeah. "For me to live is, is Christ." Yes. But, but if I die, I don't have to mess with the stuff that I'm messing with. He says, "I, I look at it. It's appealing. I, I wish the Lord would just take me." But he says, "But I struggle. I'm torn." Because then, then I look at the life that I should live. He says, "And I realize something about the life that I'm supposed to live, and that is that as long as I'm here, I can help to encourage your faith." Oh, Lord have mercy. As long as I'm here, I've got a task on earth, and that task on earth is to be able to encourage my brethren and encourage the body of Christ. Uh, and let you know that we might go through some stuff in life, uh, but the word of God is not in chains. The word of God is not bound. And that God is still seated on His throne. Somebody give God praise right now.

Oh, Lord, I feel it in the Holy Ghost. I feel it. I feel it. He says, "I must, I must stay to encourage your faith." He said, "Because as long as I'm here, your faith will still be encouraged." And there's something I realized in this time that we've been going through. It has been a thermometer of the faith of the church. Because a lot of people have walked away from God, have allowed for fear to settle in in their life. And I've realized that one of my assignments, and very important assignment from God, is this: I have to encourage the faith of the church. Hallelujah. Because it's all we got. Faith is all we have. Uh, if the devil can take your faith away, uh, he's got you trapped, uh, and he's got you out of the game. Uh, but as long as you got faith, uh, you're still in the game, uh, and you're still living. Somebody give God praise. I don't hear you give God praise right now.

Hallelujah. Glory to God. So, he says, "I've got to encourage the faith." And I've had that assignment from God, God, to encourage the faith. It's amazing, but we kind of experience a little bit of what the disciples felt, amen, when they were with Jesus for so long. But then, all of a sudden, Jesus is taken away from them for three days. And in three days, Peter went back to his old life. That's how long his faith lasted. He went back to his old life. And so, when Jesus comes back on the scene, what's He doing? He's rebuilding the faith of His disciples. That's why He would show up and appear in the middle of their conversation, and then He'd disappear from them, and He'd appear and let them know what they were talking about, so that they would understand, "Even though we don't see Him, He's still here with us." Somebody give God praise. Uh, and so, He had to rebuild the faith of the people. Ah, glory to God. Uh, and I feel that same assignment in these last days, and that is, the faith, uh, of the church needs to be rebuilt. Because we've had a religious faith. It's been a faith based on things, and not a relationship with Jesus Christ. But God is shifting the faith of His people to be a faith, uh, of relationship with Jesus Christ. Somebody ought to give God praise right now.

Oh, Lord, it's going to explode in this place tonight. I feel it in my spirit. Somebody's faith is coming out of the dust. Somebody's faith is coming out of the grave. Somebody's faith is starting to believe. Somebody give God praise right now.

Glory to the name of the Lord. So, Paul, Paul says, and and he says, "I, I, I've got to, I've got to encourage the faith of the people." It's, it's to keep their faith going. Yeah, we're going to go through some hard times, but you got to hold on to faith. Hallelujah. You got to have a Job-kind of faith, where Job said, "Though He slay me, yet will I praise Him, or I will serve Him." Hallelujah. There's another translation that says, "Even though He cut me up in a thousand pieces, each piece will still praise Him." Get to the point, uh, that you say, "Whether He touches me or never touches me, I'm still serving Him." "Whether He blesses me or never blesses me, I'm still serving Him." "Whether He heals me or don't heal me, I'm still going to serve Him." Is there anybody that has faith, uh, in the Lord tonight? Somebody give a shout of praise.

Oh, I love the Lord tonight. In the name of Jesus, watch this. Hallelujah. There's two things that, that I'm feeling right now. Now, I'm already, I didn't even, I didn't, I don't have much. Amen. This isn't even a two-point message. It didn't even get a half point. Amen. Praise God. I want you to watch this now. I'm freelancing. Amen. Pray, church, pray. Hallelujah. I'm freelancing. This is what I'm feeling in the Holy Ghost. First thing is, get your mouth right. Get your mouth right. Because the Bible says that life and death is in the power of the tongue. Get your mouth right, baby. If you're going to be living, you better get your mouth right. You better get that negative out of your mouth, uh, that death talking out of your mouth, uh, that bringing down people's faith out of your mouth. You need God to touch your mouth, uh, and bring, bring life into your mouth. Somebody give God praise right now.

Glory to God. Glory to God. Listen to me. I'm tired of people giving more credit to Coronavirus than to the God of Glory. You would have thought that God went on vacation, baby. God ain't on vacation. He's still seated on His throne. There is no Rona that can take God off His throne. God is still powerful. Stop talking like the world is dying. Live. Live through your mouth. Speak life through your mouth. Somebody got to speak life. Give God the praise.

Clap your hands to the Lord. Somebody got to clap louder than that. Somebody clap some attitude out. Clap some negative out. Clap some stuff out of your life. God shaking some folks right now, baby. You're still alive. Start speaking it. Start speaking life in the name of Jesus. Look at somebody and say, "Speak life." Speak life. I get tired of people that, "Oh, my Lord have mercy. My God have mercy. It's bad out here. It's bad out here." No, it ain't. You're still on a patty pew. You still drove to church. You still got food on your table, and you're still breathing. The church of the living God should not be echoing the death of the world. The church of the living God should not echo the death of the world. I got to say it until somebody get it in this place, and somebody tweet it and tag me. The church of the living God should not echo the death of the world. We should be speaking life. We, oh God, we should be speaking life. Somebody give God praise right now. I dare you. The next time somebody try to be negative, you just put your hand up, say, "I don't want to hear it." But, but no, even tell them, "Zip it." Praise God. We are children of the living God. We should not be speaking death and gloom and doom, and it's the end of the world, the sky is falling. No, we still need to lift up a voice. Our God is still seated on His throne. There's still power in the name of Jesus. Somebody give God praise.

See, you got to, you got to speak life in order to live life. My Lord. Somebody take notes. That way I could preach this later. Hallelujah. Praise God. 'Cause I'll try to go in, I won't have it in my notes. Amen. I'm freelancing right now. Praise God. Oh, Lord. Amen. You got to speak life in order to live life. Tell your, tell a person next to you, say, "Quit talking negative." I don't like negative talking. I don't even like when my dogs bark negative. Hey, man. You know, a dog can bark. Pick it up. We ain't having negativity in this house. Amen. Praise God. Don't allow for the devil to affect your tongue, and you walking into your house, and all you're talking is death. That's why your kids are the way they are. That's why your marriage is the way it is, because all you're doing is talking death. That's why your business is going down because you're talking death. Speak life into your family. Speak life, uh, into your household. Speak life, uh, into your business. Speak life, uh, into your own life. Somebody give God praise.

My Lord. Now, I'm asking the Lord, what else am I going to say, Lord? Yes, Lord. Here you go. Number two. Praise God. Number two. I didn't know it was going to be a one and two. It might end up being a three. Hallelujah. Amen. Is this okay? It's okay. Amen. Number two. Number two. Encourage faith. Encourage life. Encourage faith. Whenever you see somebody that's bent out of shape, you come and encourage them. The Lord said to Peter, He said, "The devil has asked to sift you as wheat." He said, "But I have prayed, what? That your faith fail you not." And then He says, "And once you return, He said, encourage your brothers." Why? Because Peter was about to go through a journey of faith, where his faith was going to be tried. But the Lord said, "You're going to come out of it." And when you come out of it, you need to encourage people. You need to let them know, "I made it. You can make it."

Somebody ought to give God praise right there. Somebody ought to give God praise right there. I, I wish, watch this, I wish that from here, we could flip the internet around. Flip social media around. Because every time I look, "Pray for so-and-so, they got COVID. Pray for so-and-so, they got COVID." What would happen if everybody would say, "I got it, but I'm alive. I got it, but I'm still living. H. I got it, but so-and-so got it, they're still living." You know what it would do? It encouraged people. It would lift their faith. Because they'd see that somebody made it. Somebody give God praise right now. I've realized something that when you encourage faith, it builds your faith. I've realized that in life, I'm not always positive. I, I, I do my best all the time. But I've learned that when I'm feeling depressed, when I'm feeling down and out, if I encourage somebody, it strengthens me back up again. Because in my encouragement, I'm beginning to lift the Lord, and I'm saying, "You know what? The Lord's going to bring you through this. You're going to be all right. You're going to come through. We're believing. We're holding up our hands for you, and we're praying for you, and we're believing, and God's going to get you out of this." Uh, be an encourager. You got to be an encourager. Hallelujah.

I remember we were like, like two weeks in the thing, and and I couldn't preach anywhere. People were canceling me. And what's wrong with those folks? Amen. God bless them. Amen. Canceling. And and I, and I woke up one morning, and in my mind, I was like, "Oh, my Lord, don't tell me I'm never going to preach in front of folks again." And I started dealing like that, and I was feeling discouraged. I was feeling depressed. And I said, "Lord, that this is not me. I, I need to shake this off of me." And the Lord just kind of spoke to my spirit, He said, "Go encourage your brethren." I said, "I said, 'Okay.'" So, I got on, and I did one of those Facebook Lives. Man, I didn't wait till people showed up. I started talking. Amen. Some folks are there waiting. They'll drink their coffee. All right, Sister Susan, I see you connected. I'm waiting for more. Amen. Praise God. It's like, whenever I see that, I'm like, "Ah, hey, man. I ain't going to, I ain't going to wait for you to wait for other people." Amen. Ain't nobody going to show up. Hallelujah. Some folks want to be a star overnight. Amen. Those are the ones that fall. Shooting stars, falling stars. And so, I felt the Lord say, "Go and encourage the brethren." And so, I, I, I got the thing set up, and I just started talking. And I was only on there for about 15 minutes. But before the whole deal was up, I had 500 and some folks that were on listening. When I saw that, I was excited, man. I wanted to already start preaching a message and everything, and then pick up an offering after that. Hallelujah. Praise God. I didn't have a give button on it. Amen. Could have said right there, "Just go ahead and click on that button." Amen. But I began to see people clicking in, and I started seeing the reaction of people. I wasn't preaching. All I was doing was, I was encouraging people's faith. Uh, because people need to be encouraged today. H. The church needs to be encouraged today. Uh, I pray you leave this service, uh, and you be an encourager of life, uh, an encourager of faith, uh, in the name of Jesus. Somebody give God praise right now.

Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost in this place. Uh, can somebody just lift up your hands right now? Begin to just worship the Lord right now. Iy people just worshiping right now. Will you worship Him? I need intercessors. Interceding. Okay. I got, I got a, a third point. But it should have been my first point. So, my third point is actually my first point, 'cause I'm just getting it right now, and I'm like, "Man, that should have been flipped." But then I see what the Lord's doing. First point is this: Choose to live. Choose to live. Whatever comes, I'm still going to live. This is not the end. This is the beginning. Choose to live.

I want, I want you to understand. I'm, I'm different. And just pray for me. My wife does. Amen. Just, just pray for me. I'm different. But I don't see sickness like everybody else does. I see sickness totally different than everybody else. Maybe not everybody else, 'cause maybe somebody out there might see it kind of the way I do. I don't see it like everybody else. Most people, whenever a sickness comes their way, and the doctor tells them what they got, and if it's one of those things that they, that they're not giving much hope, most people from there begin to die. I don't look at sickness that way. I look at sickness totally different. And I hope this helps you tonight. I look at sickness as a canvas for a miracle. That's how I look at sickness. I got to say it again. I look at it as a canvas for a miracle. In other words, uh, God, here I am. Hallelujah. Listen, listen.

Listen. Help me, Lord, to share this. Listen, listen. Most folks look at it, they're like, "Oh, my God of Mercy." See, because we, for, forgotten that we are children of God. We've forgotten that. We forget that we got promises in that good book. The world out there, they don't got promises like we got promises. We got promises. And our promise from God is this: "You shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." That's the promise. And what is that? That's leaving it up to God to do a miracle. But if God chooses not to, then I have not lost anything, because my next step will be in glory. And as a church, we've lost sight of that. That for us is not the end, but it's the beginning of eternity for us. So, baby, you should not be full of fear, but full of faith. Because if something comes your way, then God's going to get the glory out of it. Uh, whether God does a miracle or God takes me, God will get the glory out of it.

Watch, watch. Not, not too long ago, I, I had just had a powerful Sunday night service. The glory of God moved. Miracles happened. A lady even came out of a wheelchair. It don't happen everywhere. Happens some places. Amen. Then I went back home, and when I was there, the very first night, middle of the night, all of a sudden, a pain came into my leg, and it was pain I had not felt before. My Lord have mercy. It almost, I saw Tweety Bird flapping around my head, stars and Tweety Bird. For the ones that are from the '80s, amen. Everybody else, you know, the younger generation don't know what Tweety Bird is. They're going to Google it and find out, then they're going to watch it. Amen. I'm like, and my wife saw me. I, I, like, I lost it. I almost fell to the ground. And I got up to bed, and when we pulled up my, my pants, it, it was, it was red. And so, we started to inquire. We came up with the conclusion that that I had a blood clot in my leg. It was painful. And, uh, now, remember, I'm different. Okay? I'm different. My wife's like, "Maybe we should go to the doctor." I said, "No. I, I don't need the doctor." Amen. That's why I'm different. Amen. Y'all, y'all just pray for me. I grew up in Latin America. To go to the doctor was to die. Hallelujah. Praise God. They'll take stuff out of you. Amen. One time, I gotta say this, I gotta say this. One time, I threw my knee out, and they took me to the emergency room, and and I'm laying in the emergency room, okay? And the doctor comes in, and he looks at the X-ray, and he's like, "Sir, uh, you're going to have to stay in for the night, and, uh, we'll operate." He said, "But good news is, it missed your heart and your lungs." I'm looking at my knee, I'm like, "Well, I guess so. It's down there." Amen. And I said, I said, "What are you looking at?" And he pulls up the X-ray, and there was a knife in somebody's back. Hallelujah. That wasn't my X-ray. They almost were going to take a knife out of me I didn't even have in me. Praise God.

So, I, you know, and so, so the next day, watch this. Next day, here I am. I'm in pain. My leg's all red, and I'm in pain. And and I got my leg propped up, and I'm drinking my cup of coffee. I'm praying. And my dad calls me, 'cause my dad would always, he'd call me and he'd call me at weird times, but it was always just to talk about what happened on Sunday. And so, we're talking. I'm telling my dad all about the miracles that we experienced, and everything like that. My, most people would have said, "Oh, I'm doing horrible. My leg's propped up. I'm sick. I'm dying." That's what most people would have done. But I choose to live. So, right when he was about to hang up, I said, "Hey, Dad, I said, uh, here, we've been talking about faith, and I got my leg up. Said, I got a blood clot in my leg." My dad said, "Right now?" I said, "Yeah. I got pain in my leg. I've got a blood clot." He said, "Well, son, we're going to pray right now." He said, "And God's going to heal you." I said, "Yes, sir." My dad began to pray. He began to cry on the phone. I'd never heard my dad cry. He began to cry on the phone and began to say like this: "God, You know my son is an encourager of faith, and the enemy's trying to bring his faith down. But God, I pray that You will encourage his faith, take it to another level, and heal his body right now in Jesus' name." When my dad said that, the pain left my body instantly. Instantly. Bo. It was gone. By the time a little bit of time went by, the redness was completely gone off my leg, and I have not had any issues after that. And devil, I will not have any more issues, because affliction shall not rise up a second time. Somebody give God praise right now. I choose. I choose to live. I choose to live. I feel the glory of God in this place, and I see why the Lord has had me preach on this tonight. I choose to live. We've been going through some stuff, but we're still alive. And we need to, number one, and I don't know who's listening to me, but you listen to me. You might be home, and you're all afraid. Fear is your killer. You need to put fear in its place. The way you put fear in its place is you begin to believe. You begin to have faith, and you get yourself back in the house of the Lord. I speak healing now in the name of Jesus. I declare miracle in your body now in the name of Jesus. Live and not die in Jesus' name. Uh, somebody give God praise in the house. I don't hear you give God praise right now. Somebody ought to lift up a voice of praise.

Woah. I want to do two prayers tonight. I want to pray first of all for your faith. Your faith has already been encouraged. Your faith has been lifted. There might be some of those that you, you're still kind of sort of right there. I want to pray for your faith. And I want you to know something. I, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not judging you, and nobody else is going to judge you either, because everybody goes through the trial of their faith. It's part of being human. You're going to go through the trial of your faith. I'm going to do two prayers. I'm going to pray for faith, and the second prayer is I'm going to pray for miracles in this house. It's going to be released in this house. I am believing that the Pentecostals of Boer are coming into a season of miracles, a season of miracles. I'm believing that. I have seen more miracles this year than what I've ever seen before, where God's been healing people like crazy. It's amazing. It's amazing. But He's still a miracle worker. God still does it. So, I'm going to pray for your faith. Do, do you? Yeah, you do altar call. 'Cause y'all came up running. Amen. Y'all were dancing right there. Amen. And over there. Hallelujah. Some churches I go to, they don't even do altar call. They're all over. Amen. Please erase that from the tape. They might not invite me again. Amen. It's not even a tape. Hallelujah. Just pause it or something. Hallelujah. Amen. Don't post it. Amen. I'm an evangelist. Can't have doors closed on me. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. But it's the truth, because people think sickness is in the house of God. Virus is not in the house of God. Sickness is not in the house of God. Healing is in the house of God, why? Because the Healer is in the house. It's His house. Amen. I'm telling you, it's Satan's agenda to paint the church as a place of infection so that people won't come to a place of healing. Amen. This is a place of healing. So, I want to call right now, and, and I, I need a little bit of keys, not too much. Amen. Uh, I want to call those. Will you stand? Jesus' name. Father, before I call anybody, I pray that there will be transparency in our hearts, because You're tugging at our hearts. Father, I feel Your love towards this church. I feel Your love towards these people. It's a sweet love. And it is that love that You're reaching folks right now. It's that love that casts out all fear. Oh, I feel the glory. Father, I've lifted You up. I've preached Your word. Now, as Your scripture says, will You draw men unto You? In Jesus' name.

I want to call first of all, all of those that you've been battling with your faith. You don't have to be ashamed or anything, but can you be transparent right now? You've been battling with your faith, or your faith took a hit. Your faith took a hit. Maybe you're like that man that says, "Lord, I believe, but help thou my unbelief." Your faith took a hit. Would you be willing to step out of the pew and come right now to this altar in the name of Jesus? I know there's some. You don't have to be embarrassed. Don't have to be. Thank you, sister. You're my icebreaker. Is there anybody else that you've, you've gone through some stuff? Gone through some stuff. Gone through some storms. Your faith is taking a beat. Amen. I'm waiting because I'm not going to budge. I know, I know in my spirit, more or less, how many should be up here right now, and I'm waiting. I'm waiting. If you want me to get to pray for miracles, you better get out of your pew right now, 'cause I ain't going to pray for miracles until we pray for this right now.

Still coming. Still coming. You know your faith has taken a beating. Come on now. You need God to be able to strengthen your faith. You need God to strengthen it. Bring, come on up here. You need God to strengthen your faith. Come on up here. Come on up here. The Lord's going to strengthen your faith. Lord's going to strengthen your faith right now. Want you to raise your hands. The Holy Ghost is in this place. Father, I pray for these honest folks that have come up to this altar. Lord, their faith has taken a beating. They've gone through some stuff, Lord, and their faith is taken a beating. But Lord, we're believing right now that You're going to bring a faith. Lord, You're the one that gives a measure of faith. Lord, I pray that You will give a faith that they've never had before in their life. A faith that will hold them through any trial, any tribulation that the enemy might throw their way. In the name of Jesus. Lift your hands a little bit higher now. Lord, increase faith, uh, by the power of Your Spirit, uh, by the power in the name of Jesus. Now, I want you to begin to say, "I believe God." "I've got faith, Lord." "I believe that You're still seated on Your throne." "You're a powerful, Your mighty God." Somebody that's watching right now, I pray for your faith. I pray, God, lift your faith right now. Let there be strength, come in your faith, in the name of Jesus. I feel it right there. I feel it right there. Somebody's faith is coming up. Somebody's faith is coming up. Somebody's faith is coming up. That's why the devil didn't want you to come tonight, because your faith is being recharged. Your faith is being encouraged in the name of Jesus. Now, with all you got, I want you to clap your hands to the Lord right now. I want you to lift up your voice. Say, "Give a shout of praise."

Okay. All right. All right. Now, now watch this. Now you're going to put it into action. Okay? You're going to put it into action. I want you to turn around and just look at your brother, sister, whoever's right there, and just tell them, "God's got this. It's going to be okay." It's going to be okay. Just that's encouraging others right there. You're encouraging somebody. See what's happening? As you said that, the atmosphere changed in this place. Oh, God. Somebody give God praise right now.

I want everybody. I can't hear myself. My monitor's gone. Amen. I want everybody that you need a miracle. If you're already here and you need a miracle, that's fine. You stay right there. If you don't need a miracle, if you'll kind of move to the side. If you need a miracle, I want you to step out of your pew and come to this altar right now in the name of Jesus. Everybody that needs a miracle. You, you need healing in your body. You need a miracle. Come on. I'm waiting. Praise God. Come on. Come on. You need a miracle now. I'm going to take it a little bit further. If you know somebody that's in your family that needs a miracle, and you want to stand in for them, I want you to come right now. You want to stand in for somebody? Come on up. You're standing in like a sick. They are right here, and I want you to envision that that they are right here. They're getting prayed for right now in the name of Jesus. Woo. I feel the glory of God in this place. Oh, Lord have mercy. Hallelujah. I feel the glory of God in this place. The Lord's moving already. Lord's moving already. I want you to raise your hands right now. When I get through speaking a word of faith, you're going to, you're going to begin to praise God. When I release a word of faith, you're going to begin to praise Him. I'm first going to pray, and then I'm going to release a word of faith. Lord, You're the Healer. You're the miracle worker. I've preached about You tonight. Now, God, I ask that You show up and show off. Do what You do best, God. Show off of Your power. Show off of Your glory in this place tonight, and we will not fail to give You glory. Your people will testify about it. Your people will brag on You, God, about what You've done in their life, and in the life of their loved ones, in the name of Jesus. Lift your hands. Now, uh, by the authority of the word of God, and by the power that's in the name of Jesus, uh, I declare healing, flow, uh, now. Uh, now. Uh, now. In the name of Jesus. Uh, I command pain to leave your body. I command sickness to leave your body. H. I command it gone. Gone. Touch. Touch in Jesus' name. Miracles released right now. Release.