e e e. Prayer time for those of you that are watching. Welcome. We are about to uh, pray. Jonathan's going to be here momentarily, but for now let's just lift up our hands and begin to praise God, because that's how we start this thing. Father, thank you for your presence. Thank you for your goodness. You've been so faithful, so merciful. We love you so much, and we honor you today, and we thank you for everything you've done. Thank you for being a good God. Thank you for taking such good care of your people. We honor you with our mouth today, with our words. Father, we say thank you. We lift you up. We glorify you, because it's yours and yours alone that it's due. So Father, we love you. Thank you for everything you've done in our lives. Thank you, Father, for your blessing. Thank you for your hand of strength over our lives. Thank you for bringing us to this place. Many of us, we wouldn't be here had it not been for your wonderful Grace, had it not been for the hand of God on our lives, and today we say thank you for it, Father. We love you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Father, for your faithfulness. Thank you, Father, for your goodness. We love you.

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Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. And all God's people said, Amen. Matthew 16:18 says, "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." In the moments to come, I want us to pray for the church. Revival today church here in Pittsburgh and also our Fort Worth campus, that the gates of hell will not prevail against the church, but they will be open wide for the Church of Jesus Christ in our location. So I want you to pray specifically for the church, to uh, for her gates to open wide in whatever community that you are living in. If it's Clinton, if it's Aliquippa, if it's Pittsburgh, if it's Moon Township, whatever it might be, whatever that territory is, I want you to claim it for God. And for those of you that are watching from Fort Worth, we'll do the same as well for our sister church in Fort Worth. But I want you to pro—uh—to pray for the church. Can you say, Amen? Go ahead and pray.

Father, thank you for your increase. Thank you, Father, for expanding our territory. Thank you, Father, for expanding Revival today Church in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, we command that those gates fling wide, Revival today Church. In the—the—the gates of the Church of Jesus Christ to swing wide in the mighty name of Jesus. And I thank you, Father, for Aliquippa. I thank you, Father, for Moon Township and Robinson, for Pittsburgh, for Clinton, for Wexford, for Cranberry, for Washington, for Bridgeville, and all of the surrounding areas. Thank you for Fort Worth and all of those surrounding areas, Lord, Southlake and all the other places that I don't really know. Father, thank you that the church will prevail and the gates of hell won't. So in the mighty name of Jesus, shut out every oppression, everything that would block the Church of Jesus Christ in the mighty name of Jesus. We command them to not prevail. I command this month of September and October to be the most glorious months of Revival today church history in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, bring in the uh—uh—lost people. Bring in people from the north, the south, the east, and the west in the mighty name of Jesus. Exponential growth. Too much. Let it become the necessary problem for Revival today Church. No more room to fit the people. No more room to fit the children in the mighty name of Jesus. Increase our capacity. Increase this church with signs and wonders. Thank you for your divine presence. Thank you, Father, for that magnet in Revival today that would draw men to you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. And bless the staff, bless the team, bless the pastors, bless the people like never before. Make them billboards of your presence. Make them billboards of this church. Make them the head and never the tail, above and never beneath. Father, we thank you for all the things that you've done in this church, but we don't want to camp out there. We want more. Increase us in every facet in the mighty name of Jesus. Increase Revival today. Okay. Draw all men to you, Lord. Draw them in by the droves. Draw them in by the thousands in the mighty name of Jesus. And every form of delay, everything blocking the Church of Jesus Christ from the growth, I command it to be removed now in the mighty name of Jesus. Frustrate every plan of the wicked one to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the mighty name of Jesus.

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And all God's people said, Amen. Exodus 15:26 says, "If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee." So in the moments to come, for just a few seconds, I want you to pray for your body and also for the church and all the people in the church, for the protection of the people of the church and also for healing in Jesus' name. So go ahead and pray.

Father, in the name of Jesus, every sick person in this church, every sick person attached to this church, even watching through means of—of online or television, Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, I thank you for your power that protects. I thank you for the power that heals. Every person watching, Father, I declare healing and wholeness over every person in this place, over every Revival today church member in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, I ask you to make them the healthiest they've ever been once they stay connected to this church. Father, I pray that they would thrive. Let them be healed now from the top of their head down to the soles of their feet. Every form of cancer, every—everything of depression and anxiety, every crippling disease, every pain in their body from the top of their head down to the soles of their feet, I command you to be healed now in the mighty name of Jesus. Whatever bad report you received within the last couple of days, I command the turnaround even now in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, we declare out of our mouths that by your stripes we have already been healed, and so we walk in that healing. We proclaim that healing even now, and nothing shall by any means harm us. Any plan of the wicked one to destroy any one of us or this nation, I thank you, Father, that it comes to nothing. You frustrate the plan of the enemy even now in the mighty name of Jesus. And all God's people said, Amen.

Why don't you welcome Pastor Jonathan to the platform? Give Jesus a great hand clap today. Revival today Church. Revival today Bible Institute. Give a big hand clap for everybody watching around the world online. We love you. Lift your hands one more time. Father, thank you for this crop of Bible college students that you're going to put your fire on today to change the world. I pray they would receive things from your hand and from your spirit that make them—make them a force for the Kingdom of Heaven, to destroy the kingdom of hell. For all these things we give you all the praise, all the honor, and all the glory, for it's to you and you alone who it's due in Jesus' name. Everybody said, before you're seated, if you're—if you feel the call of God on your life into the ministry, this is Revival today Bible Institute. We'll have our next intake of students in January. Revivaltodaybibleinstitute.com. I'm sure they'll put something on the screen uh, to sign up if they value their jobs, so uh, you can—you can do that. Sign up today. Ages 18 to 35, to try to just uh, cut down on the amount of weirdos that sign up, so we'd—we'd love to have you here in Jesus' name. Little ringing in my monitor, if you could take care of that. Uh, I want to take this week—you can be seated—I want to take this week and I want to deal with—thanks—five laws for supernatural—sorry—four laws for supernatural promotion in ministry, and I'm going to take one law every day. So if you came from a Revival today church for prayer, I'm here one week a month and uh, we have the Bible card, so I want to—I want to have this as a dual purpose session, to—to preach into the Bible college students, and obviously you'll get a lot out of it as well, because I know people are interested in ministry, whether they're in the ministry or not. Four laws for supernatural promotion in ministry, and I'm going to deal today with the law of distinction. Take your Bible if you would and open it to Ecclesiastes chapter 10, verse 15. Ecclesiastes 10, verse 15. They're going to put it up on the screen. Put it in the King James if you would, and then maybe I'll take a look in the New Living as well. Ecclesiastes chapter 10, verse 15: "The labor of the fool wearieth him because he knoweth not how to go to the city." NLT, the New Living Translation: "Fools are so exhausted by a little work that they can't even find their way home." What a terrible translation. KJV: "The labor of the fool wearieth him because he knoweth not how to go to the city." There's people that work very hard and have nothing to show for it. In general, like you could meet a lot of people today in any sphere of life that are making 50,000 a year and are working harder than people that make hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Not that the people that are rich don't work hard, but wisdom is how to apply—uh, you know, if there's water in a well, you can try to get it out with your hands, or you can try to get it out with a bucket, or you can try to get it out with uh, commercial construction equipment to pull the water out of the well. The labor of a fool wearies him 'cause he doesn't know what he's doing. He doesn't know how to go into the city. So in ministry, most Bible colleges that you went to, and I'm not trying to make our Bible college better than others, but there is a distinction in this Bible school in that basically the remedy that's taught is to pray and fast and study the Bible. Pray more, fast more, read more of the Bible. I'm not telling you to read the Bible less, fast less, and press into God less, but there's great pastors who can never break 200 people that pray and fast and love God. That's not the problem. The problem is they don't know what they're doing. They don't know how to grow a church. They don't—they—they've never heard how to grow a church. It's like uh, you could be the best cook in the world and have a restaurant that—that goes into bankruptcy because you don't know how—there's more to running a restaurant than cooking food. There's getting customers, there's inventory management, and I'm lucky I was able to think of those two things 'cause I don't know anything about running a restaurant, but I do know about running a ministry, and so I'm taking these days and you're going to hear more in your classes, but I want to talk about some intangible laws that guarantee promotion. I'm going to show them to you out of the scripture, and if you'll engage these, not just know them, but engage them, then you won't be somebody like Ecclesiastes 10:15, that's a fool who doesn't know what he—can't—he—he's just worn out. And that's the funny thing. You meet somebody like Pastor Paul Adefarasin that pastors the largest church in the world, and he's fresh as a daisy, happy, joyful. Then you meet guys that pastor 60 people, and they look like they're in charge of negotiating the Gaza-Israel peace accord. Sorry if I seem a little worn out. We had a board meeting, and then I had to go visit Sister Anderson because she just had a knee replacement, and then my wife uh, told me that the brakes on the car went down. They don't know what they're doing, so they're wearied by a little work, and then there's people that know what they're doing that are enjoying the ministry. That's one impartation you're going to get from this place is not just effective ministry, but enjoyable ministry. Donas and I are having fun. People that work for us are having fun. This is—this is a joyful environment, because that's how ministry is supposed to be. You're not going to last 50 years in the ministry like this. The joy of the Lord is your strength. So one of the attempts of the enemy is to try to get you involved in a bunch of things that have nothing to do—Pastor Paul, uh, Pastor J and I were in uh—uh—Nigeria. He said Dr. Bishop David Oyedepo told them when they were going into the ministry, "You're not in charge as a pastor. You're not in charge of public relations." So Pastor—the—the—the labor of a fool wearies him because he doesn't know how to go into the city. Some people think pastoring is just going and visiting everybody that needs visited, and so some of you came from churches like that. Church never grows. Pastor doesn't have time to develop the church 'cause he's eating cherry pie with older people that are lonely or—or somebody that's sad, and they're running in a—in a bunch of different directions. They don't know what pastoring is. They don't know what evangelism is. They think evangelism—uh, you know, you see some guys' schedule on Instagram that call themselves an evangelist, believing for revival to shake America. September schedule: September 3rd, 7:00 p.m.; September 17th, 10:00 a.m.; September 28th, 10:00 a.m. Don't worry yourself out. Three services in a month, believing for God to shake America. See, I know what evangelism is 'cause I followed top evangelists. If you're going to be an—you travel and preach, and you—you preach a lot, twice a day. I feel half-backslid when I'm only doing 7:00 p.m. at night. Isn't it interesting that without ever—I only met Dr. Adefarasin two years ago, but we have the exact same pattern of ministry: preach Sunday morning, travel out, do crusades, come back. Bishop David Oyedepo or Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, same thing: preach in the morning, do crusades, come back. So there's a pattern of how things grow. You watch people that are doing things at a high level. The Bible says Paul told Timothy, "Pattern your life, follow my pattern of right living." You don't just follow people's doctrine and preaching. How do they live? Do they bring their wife with them or do they leave her home? Do they preach three times a month or do they preach 30 times a month? You know, wow, that's amazing how big Dr. Paul's church is. He does commanding the day, midnight prayer every night at midnight himself, midnight to uh—uh—11:00 p.m. their time till about 12:30, and on their TV audience, everything. There's a different level of work. People don't get lucky into success. I'm not talking about hard work, because you can work hard. The labor of a fool wearies him because he doesn't know how to go into the city. Amazing how much bigger things grow when you expend your energy doing the things God said a minister's to do: lead the people in prayer, lead the people in fasting, preach so the word of God to the people, then using the same energy into a bunch of—"We had to get brakes replaced on the church van, so I had to run down to Miniki." No, you don't have to run down to Miniki. You're a fool that doesn't know what—what he's doing. You don't know how to go into the city. So you're—you're exerting the same amount of energy, and that's why the guys like Dr. Paul are fresh as a daisy, because they're only exerting energy in things they're called to do. So that you get an enjoy this—this is enjoyable. If I had to go sit in some office somewhere and negotiate tire prices for the—the church shuttle, or "We need another shuttle uh, for the people that are coming to 1442, so can you go meet with the—" Why—why do I have to meet with them? That's not my job. I don't read anything in the book of Acts about Peter negotiating insurance prices with Affleck. There's nothing like that. So because if you get a wrong idea of what ministry is, you'll spend your whole life working hard, and there's nothing to show for it. So then you come up with some kind of doctrine about how many—you know—"God just expects us to be faithful. He's not interested in large crowds. He just wants—" No, that's not true. You made that up to just write off that I don't understand how things are working. So that's why it's great to be in school at 18, 19, 20, 21. You haven't had a chance to screw up yet. You can learn right from the beginning rather than hitting a brick wall at 50 and getting desperate for books that you could have got desperate for in the beginning and know what to do straight out of Bible college. You won't waste one year of your life in Jesus' name. If you believe it, can you say, Amen? Four laws that—for supernatural promotion and ministry. The law today—the law of distinction, which is distinguishing yourself from the crowd. Preachers are a dime a dozen. There's a zillion churches, there's a zillion pastors, there's a zillion evangelists. If you want promotion and ministry, there has to be something about you in your ministry that makes people want you instead of the other 11 zillion people that feel called into the ministry. So what—how do you distinguish yourself? What are the Bible ways that people distinguish themselves and receive promotion? Donald Trump is an example of distinguishing yourself from the pack when he ran for president in 2016. Um, there were 15 people running for the Republican nomination, and people gave him a 1% chance of winning the nomination. People laughed. I could play video clips of political analysts saying, "What a waste of time. He must be going senile in his old age. He has as much chance of winning the Republican nomination as I do." And after the first night of the Republican debate, he was the favorite. What happened? He distinguished himself from the other 15 people. By the time that was over, 15 people had talked, but people were only interested in discussing one person's policies and what they had said, because everybody else blended in. Michelle Bachmann, uh, Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney—just a bunch of cookie-cutter, same look. Then there's one orange man who, instead of talking about things that nobody cares about—"Um, right now the GDP is at 8%. Some experts say it's 1.1. It would take some time to get it back up to three, but we believe we could get it to 1.3." Nobody knows what any of that is. People can't even balance their checkbooks. So everybody's rambling on, and then they go to one guy—"We're going to build a wall across the entire Southern border of—of the United States and make Mexico pay for it"—and everyone went like this. And after he said that, every person stopped talking about what they were going to do and started commenting on how ridiculous it was what he said, and he became the total focus of attention. If you study persuasion, they say there's three people that are experts in persuasion that are alive, like—like nuclear-level persuaders: Robert Cialdini, Tony Robbins, and Donald Trump. Donald Trump, when he did that—why? What an idiot. Who would say something like that? You don't have to know why he did it, because when that was over, they weren't discussing 15 people anymore. Actually, there's another guy named Scott Adams. He—he's—he's a persuasion expert. He got famous because as soon as the—as that first debate ended, Scott Adams tweeted, "Donald Trump just won the Republican nomination tonight and the presidency." And people thought he was nuts for saying that, but he saw it. You made all 14 other people irrelevant by one statement and the way you conducted yourself. Now our goal in ministry is not to make every other rival evangelist irrelevant. We're not running for nomination of the one evangelist in America, but we are talking about how do you distinguish yourself from the—from the crowd. I met with a preacher when I was uh, 39 years old. He invited me to his house. He's almost 80, and he's an international-level preacher. He said, "Are you on television?" I said, "I am." He said, "What channel's on?" I told him. He said, "It's good you're on television." I said, "Why is that?" Because I was thinking about going off television. He said, "Well, whether anybody writes in or not or whether—"

Anybody sends money in or not? Tell he said, preachers are a dime a dozen, and being on television elevates your ministry from the rest of the pack. It gives the perception, at least, that you're on a different level than all the other evangelists. Now, that's not why I went on television, but he was talking to me about the law of Distinction, separating yourself out. Why is it—and I'm I'm not trying to—any boasting I'm doing is Bo—I'm not boasting at all. I'm just—but I am going to use myself as an example a little bit because I know my life very well, and I don't have to worry about getting letters from me about, "Please don't tell that story," because they're my stories.

So why is it, of all the thousands of ministers that Dr. Paul Anichi met in America, I was invited to go to and preach? And then he said, "On that night, you're the third Minister that's ever been allowed to preach on this platform for our big Friday night service." There's a way to separate yourself out from the pack. And when you read the Bible, which we're going to read, there's people, both negatively and positively, that stood out. Daniel was not the only Hebrew in Babylonian captivity; he distinguished himself. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were not the only Hebrews in Babylonian captivity; they stood out by actions that they took. So we're talking about the law of Distinction, and then we're going to cover five ways that the Bible shows you—is it five or six? I added one on—the—in five ways you can distinguish yourself according to scripture.

Now, let's—since I brought up Donald Trump—let me talk about that a little more because it has a lot of relevance for Ministry. What do you hear all the so-called intelligent people say? That no one follows and no one cares what they think. I wish he wouldn't speak like that; I wish he would tone it down a little bit. Yeah, so then he could be like you with 300 followers on Instagram, where nobody gives a crap what he has to say or think. The pressure comes in this world; they try to turn everybody into a cookie cutter. Basically, for all the flak you took for choosing this as your school instead of going to Harvard or Yale or Everest Community College or wherever, you turned down to come here. One of the things, in my opinion—and I know this sounds harsh—when they give you a master's in business, to me that's like the stamp of approval that this guy is not going to cause any trouble. We taught him to think like us, behave like us, wear khaki pants and a blue button-up shirt and a lanyard to mid-level managerial conferences held at the Hilton in Orlando. He he he, we we stamped him as a cookie cutter. And most Bible colleges are the same way; everybody's the same. Even the places where they'd be different, like like uh like you, Hillsong Bible College—we're not religious. Yes, you're not religious; you trade it in a navy blue suit for everybody wearing the same traveler hat, traveler cowboy hat, Chelsea boots, and ripped jeans. Everybody's the same. So it doesn't matter what it is, whether you're in the United Pentecostal church and everybody has on a drab suit with a white shirt and tie and same haircut, or whether everybody has the same cool haircut, half-sleeve tattoo, and whatever—you're the same. Everything in the ministry tries to make you the same. Be done in 38 minutes; we don't give altar calls here. So they tell you there like they want to make you interchangeable, because then you can never stand out, because then if they can't get you, they can get somebody else just like you.

But Jesus in the Bible was nothing like the Pharisees or Sadducees; they couldn't figure him out. John the Baptist didn't wear the normal clothes; he wasn't wearing a robe; he was wearing a camel—he was wearing a a a fur coat with a camel leather belt and had a and had locust and honey that he ate—different than everybody else. And he held church out in the wilderness; he stood out. Jesus stood out. King David stood out; he didn't he didn't he—not only did he kill Goliath, he wouldn't kill him the traditional way. So you have to know who you are, and you have to be—not in a sinful way—but you have to be proud of who you are and celebrate your difference. I know that sounds like something you would hear at a transgender rally, but I'm telling you here, somebody say, "Celebrate your difference!" Cate your difference! My dad sings; I don't sing. My dad's singing distinguished him. When my dad would bring his guitar and Marshall amp and set up his own JBL speakers because the church had garbage sound where he went in the 1980s—still wired microphones and crackling speakers—he would set up a top monitor, carry his own soundboard. My dad carried—you see that soundboard that's in the back? That that guy's by side—my dad carried a rack like that, a sound rack, and put it on the platform where he could control the sound, so the religious soundman couldn't turn his guitar down or turn his voice down. I don't know if that's why he says the reason is, but that's the reason. And so you had this garbage, crackling, unrehearsed worship team still plugging in the bass guitar 7 minutes after church had started. "Sorry if we sound a little off-key tonight; we didn't really have a chance to practice." But how many know God hears our heart? Amen. Then you went from that to a guy that got up—God, polished guitar, shine cowboy boots, nice suit. I made some adjustments on the sound, and then my dad would open his service—doesn't do this anymore—but I'm telling you what built his ministry. Then he'd step forward and to do a sound check, he'd go in the 1980s Assemblies of God church, and at that point everybody had forgotten—like it or hate it—there was a new sheriff in town, and it was different. It immediately went to another level; it was different. People weren't doing that, and then he'd start playing. So if if the whole praise and worship was an unanointed mess within 9 minutes, it was a Rocking Revival. The youth loved it; heavy metal was big; they were preaching against electric guitars, and my dad's playing an electric guitar with a big mullet, and they loved it. So it shook things up when you do that. I wish I could bring my dad here. I wonder how many Presbyterians ever met with him or suggested or told him, "We don't don't want you playing the guitar. See, we want you to be regular; we want you to be just like the guy we had in two months ago."

I'm not talking about doing things in the flesh to just be different; I'm talking about figuring out what your flow is and not being ashamed of it. I preach hard—for me, I preach hard, I preach long. I minister to people in the gifts. Hey, um, "We'd like you to come, but we're only going to have about 35 minutes for you to preach. We don't give altar calls, and then—not that we like what you do—but we've had other people in before that prayed for people, and it caused a lot of confusion. So if you could not do that." Now, what if you say yes to all that? Then I I'm I'm David in Saul's armor; I'm just like everybody else. So you're going to have to not only know your distinction, you're going to have to fight for your distinction. And if you don't, I'm going to tell you exactly what will happen: you'll get to be my age, and there's a lot of preachers like this, and sadly there's preachers like this in their 50s and 60s. They so shifted into to whatever platform was available to them that they don't even know who they are anymore. They've gone through 10 identity changes; they went from suit and tie Pentecostal to cool hip, you know, 55-year-old in skinny jeans relating to the youth. They don't know who they are. If you let people define you and make you who they want you to be, then you'll never you'll never fit into who you are; you'll never know—you won't even know who you are. When it comes—what do I do? I've I've let other people tell me—when I go to a Hillsong church, I'm skinny ripped jeans, tunic t-shirt, traveler hat, Chelsea boots. If I get invited to an Assemblies of God Church, um, navy blue jacket, uh, whatever—what Under Armour button-up shirt—whatever they're down to now. I just I just fit into wherever I'm at. There's—I mean, when you watch KLA Harris now starting to offend people because she talks Black when she's at a Black place, then she talks Indian when she's in an Indian place—people don't like that. Be who you are. If you watch me on the road, I'm the same at every church. Doesn't matter—Pastor storms out, meeting gets shut down—doesn't change. I am who I am, by the grace of God. Who are you? What are your talents? You're going to have things God's gifted you to do that are different than what he's gifted me. I don't sing before I preach. Think think—what would get you into the anointing? I had a conversation with my cousin Teddy about this. I said, "Do you think this—your music gift—is so great that when Dr. Pichi heard you, he said, 'I want you to come to Nigeria and play in my church,' which I'm sure is an invitation that's been extended to next to nobody?" I said, "So why are there any of your evangelistic meetings or church services where you don't play the keyboard and sing?" Because there's this thing that like, "I lead worship, but then one day when bigger doors open, I'll preach." I wouldn't do that. Jimmy Swaggart shook the world sitting down behind the piano before he'd preach. People love the music. Don't shut out the parts of you that God gifted. Even to imitate me or imitate a dollar—what are you? What gets you into the anointing before you preach? I don't know that anybody in our in our outreaches at the apartment complexes—I don't know because they're not videoed—has anybody ever said, "Before I preach, I want to sing a song," and got up and sang before that group, or is everybody just—see, if you're not careful, even this will turn into a cookie-cutter thing. What do you do now? There's things you can't do, but but there's also things that are in the realm of what you can do. You don't have to be like me; you should be anointed like me, but then the anointing has a bunch of different flows. David played the harp; Solomon didn't play the harp; Saul didn't play the harp. David played the harp before uh the prophet prophesied. "Bring me a minstrel; have somebody play some music before I I prophesy." What gets you into the anointing? You know what gets me? For my dad, it was his music. If you ever listen to my dad, you'll hear him make light banter with the crowd, talk about his new golden retriever, talk about whatever else, but then once he starts singing, a switch flips, and then when he puts his guitar back down, he's in preacher mode. That gets him into the anointing. For me, it's videos; I usually play a miracle video or something before I preach, because if I don't feel like preaching, by the time that 4-minute video is over, I feel like preaching. It gets me into the anointing. What gets you ready to preach? What brings out the best in you? Can you say, "Amen"? Amen. So the law today, we cover the law of Distinction—distinguishing oneself from the crowd. Everything is designed to make you vanilla and interchangeable. I still remember as clear as day when I was 20 or 21, somebody that was in leadership who liked me in a denomination that said, "Listen, I don't have a problem with it, but if you stand on the chairs when you preach and do a lot of what you did tonight and preach on healing as strong as you do, a lot of churches aren't going to have you." You know what ends up happening? People are so worried about doors that are going to close that they don't s—they don't look at who they're going to lose that they don't concern themselves with who they're attracting. I get I get negative feedback all the time. "People don't like your vehicle; people don't like your your plane and you posting photos of your plane." So what? If I okay, so I won't fly a plane anymore, or I won't post pictures of the plane. Well, think of this: number one, the people that don't like me, when you ask him, "Where do you go to church?" "I don't go to any church." Okay, so obviously if no Pastor on planet Earth is good for you, I'm probably not going to be the first one either. You don't like me, but then you also don't like Joel Osteen, and he he doesn't do anything I do; he's super happy, super encouraging, doesn't doesn't put pictures of any of that stuff on. So obviously the problem is not with me. Secondly, in trying to please people that will never like you, you miss out on the people that that your life would inspire if they saw you. You—let's say I quit posting—I'm not going to do the jet; I'm not going to show that. Then what happens? What about the what about the guy that gave me a jet because he saw I was flying jets? I missed that. So OB—why am I going to let critics' voices be louder than the voices of the people that God sent to celebrate and stand alongside me? Why am I going to let critics define me instead of my life be defined by what I know I should do? That guy would have never given me a jet if he didn't know I was already flying. If somebody gives you a jet, you have to give it right back if you don't have the money to fly it. But getting it is like 20% of it; maintaining it's 80%. It's not like a car or a house; it costs more money every year to fly it than it did to buy it. So you—but he knew I could handle it because he knew chartering was actually more than what I was doing. Can you say, "Amen"? Amen. Secondly, what about the two guys that saw I got a jet and liked it, and it inspired them? And one businessman sent $125,000 into the ministry and said, "That's for jet fuel," and then another guy saw that guy did it and sent another 100,000 from another state—"That's for more fuel; keep doing what you're doing." In your effort to please everybody, you please nobody. Having a church that has 900 people on Sunday morning here means repelling about 2500 people in two years. The the strength that attracts large crowds is offensive to many people. So I mean, you hear most people preach; they can't even say one line without tempering everything. Now I'm going to I'm going to say some things that I probably, you know, might get me in a little bit of trouble with—who are you, the pastor in the United States of America? You you can preach what you want. Who see—they're so worried about the Johnson family or the Smith family or the Williams family that they like—they're in a they're in a prison; they're in a prison about what they can wear; they're in a prison about how they can speak. They're in a prison—when I hear pastors say, "Now I'm almost out of time"—it's your church; who put a time restraint on you? Somebody told you that if church isn't out by this certain amount of time, we're going to lose people; people aren't going to come to a church that's three hours long. Well, I hope one thing—not that you have to have three-hour-long services—but we just did on Sunday; church is growing, not shrinking. So I hope one thing you'll see while you're here is that all of the rules and cages that people have designed for you to be in, they're not true. You—if you do that, it's going to turn a lot of people off. It's—how about my vehicle? When I had the chrome Escalade—I'm not telling you to get one—I'm just—and I had it before we started the church—did people leave the church over it? Pro—some, I'm sure. "I give the offering; I guess we see where all our money's going." No, it was paid for before the church started; we had a ministry for—but no, nobody cares. There's no point in defending yourself to people—people that are committed to misunderstanding you. One thing you need to lose from a young age is is a thinking that if everyone could hear my side of the story, everyone would like me. If I could just tell him why I did this—no, there's people that are committed to misunderstanding you. They hate God; they hate the church; their problem's not with you; their problem's with God, and he's not available to insult, so they insult you as his servant. Can you say, "Amen"? You got to lose that. "If everyone goes—"Well, no, there's a reason I—"No, no, no, no. You don't like it? No problem; you don't have to ride in it. Can you say, 'Amen'?" But why would I focus on the people that didn't like it when there's people who came to church when they were invited; they had seen people TikToking my vehicle and say, "Is that that Pastor that drives that one vehicle? Is this his car? I've been wanting to go check that place out," and they come. Stop focusing on who doesn't like you and focus on who is attracted to the anointing that God's put on the inside of you.

Four laws for Supernatural promotion and Ministry: The law of distinct distinction—distinguishing oneself from the crowd. Number one: Mark chapter 6. Mark the 6th chapter. Anybody getting anything out of this today? So glad that you're here at the school; you're going to have the best two years of your life. Mark chapter 6, Mark 6:1-6. Mark chapter 6, verses 1-6. Who'll read that for me, nice and loud? 1 to 6. Keep going. Three. Let's go. Can you get a mic to whoever reads? Go ahead and—Judas and Simon and are not his sisters here with us, and they were offended at him. Everybody say, "They were offended at him." Verses Verses 4 through 6. Keep going. But Jesus said unto them, "Is not without hon—but in his own country and among his own K—and in his own house—" Before she continues—do you think Jesus probably could have learned to say things a little better, and then people wouldn't have been offended? If people hated Jesus and wanted to and killed Jesus, do you know what that should should let you know right up front? No matter how well you conduct yourself, no matter how good your heart is, people will hate your guts. So if you'll understand that up front, it'll free you not to just—well, okay, then I'm just GNA—no, no, no, no. I'm going to do what God's called me to do, knowing 70% of the people are going to want to kill me, right? Why do you take someone to court for opening up a church and having free brunch for seniors and giving cars and homes away to people in the community? Because people hate God and they hate his church, and because you're a part of it, they hate you, right? So just be comfortable with that. Yeah. Are you one Instagram comment away from arguing with a stranger for the next two hours? Anytime you see—I'm telling you, I'll revoke your degree if I ever see on your Instagram a 20-thing back and forth with Anonymous 6874, Son of Satan 6616. "You don't even know what you're talking about. Yes, they're a demon; relax." Can you say, "Amen"? So and you know what happens? The average person—it's like me—if I put a picture of me traveling on on my jet to somewhere, because it gets the most response. And if you notice, I never post it without showing where I'm going. If I put a graphic up, it gets 100 likes because Instagram doesn't like advertising. Put the jet up; people are sending it—"Look at another picture of a jet"—but that still counts as interaction, and it boosts in the algorithm, so it goes up and get the message out about where I'm going to be preaching. And that's why I can just sling up that I'm going to be in Los Angeles next week, and 500 and some people show up without anybody on the ground, nobody inviting anybody. It's a strategy, but I I don't—why would I—the average person would pay more attention to the person that said, "You're a false prophet, taking people's money," than they would the two people that sent in a quarter million dollars. And that's what hinders their ministry; they let one jerk talk them out of the reward and benefit of where they're going. Can you say, "Amen"? Amen. Uh, five—hopefully everybody's okay back there—five, and he could there do—Noy work that he laid his hands upon a few sick FK and he healed him.

Six and he marveled because of their unbelief.

He went round about the villages teaching. Number one: five ways to distinguish yourself. Number one: by uncommon honor. The dishonor and disrespect of that crowd shut down the ministry of Jesus. And you live in a nation, the United States, that was founded upon dishonor, disrespect, and Rebellion. That's how this country was birthed, and I'm I'm fine with it, but it's in your DNA because of that, and it's in Americans' DNA that they don't respect anybody. They don't—I'll respect him when he respects me. Then you're not going to go very far in life. Someone doesn't—Dr. I say, when Dr. Paul shows me some respect, I'll respect him. The average preacher would have been from America could have never functioned in that setting. They call the pastor buddy; they slap him on the back: How are you? Good to see you. There's no honor. You saw if you watched how many you watched when when I was over there—you saw the honor I showed, adapted to to the culture. We don't bow and shake hands; we slap on the shoulder: Hey buddy, good to see you. You do that over there; it's over. They'd have two ushers escort you; you you'd never make it near the front again because there's honor. They—you saw the honor the congregation has for their Pastor. I'm not looking for that here, but I'm I I know how to adapt to it and not be a stupid American. I know they do that over here, but you know he's he's just like us, you know what I mean? Every man of God still uses the bathroom and has to take a shower. Amen.

No, and Jesus was amazed at their unbelief. Well, how did their unbelief manifest? They didn't show him any honor; they were offended by his miracles. Who is this guy? Heaven? Oh, now he's the Son of God. He was building book cabinets with the Carpenters Union three years ago; now we're supposed to believe he's the Messiah? I don't think so. And Jesus was amazed at their unbelief and disrespect. You know, these guys like when Dr. Robert Kena came to preach—he has a seat on the government Advisory Board in Israel; he meets with the presidents of European and African nations routinely. So for him to come is a big deal, and you see how they're received as royalty and dignitaries because they are. But if they came to an Assemblies of God church and they saw a big crowd—if I if if you were an American Pentecostal and you saw 3,000 people come to your church and that guy's there to preach that night—they—you know what they'd say? How many of you are here? How many of you know who we're here to see tonight? We're here to see Jesus—in other words, not him. We're not—how many you know we're not here to see a man? Okay, then let's go home. If you're here to see Jesus, I'm not Jesus, so I'm going home. Jesus isn't speaking; I'm speaking. So the Bible doesn't just teach to honor God; it teaches to honor Servants of God. Whatever you've done to the least of these, my brothers, you've done it to me. I'm not—we're not taking an offering of honor at the end. I'm teaching this so you won't be an idiot overseas that shuts every door God opens to you.

Hey brother Paul, how are you? There was a guy when we landed in in Africa—now I wore that like trench coat because if you wear a suit on a 20-hour flight, you're going to get up; you're going to look like you got robbed wearing a suit. Suits don't travel well, but I at least I didn't wear shorts, and I I wore that trench coat and looked halfway respectable. There were other Americans; they just ushered them out as quick as they came in—shorts, Crocs, t-shirt, baseball hat. They look like criminals. Criminals dress better than that overseas. So you take your American wearing slippers to Walmart overseas; they're going to slipper you home. Somebody say dignity. Dignity. Somebody say honor. Honor. Somebody say class. Class. Conduct yourself that way at all times as a minister. We'll get to that as one of the other points. It's how you distinguish yourself. You show honor—honor in your words. I took—probably—did anybody watch me preach Friday night? Did anybody hear me get the whole crowd on my side in 3 minutes by showing honor to what? Nigeria. Honor to their Pastor. Honor to the fathers of their Pastor. I know where I am. For some people, that's just Africa. No, it's a country, right? Then it's a city and a country. You know what most Boos would have done if they got the mic? They talked about how much witchcraft there is, so much poverty. People are like, okay, go back home. There's people that get invited overseas and to raise money or whatever; they take pictures of all the worst parts of that—the how bad things are. People see that and they—oh, you don't like our country? Why don't you show the good parts? You know, it'd be like if somebody came to Pittsburgh and just went to the Hill District in Homewood and took pictures of Section 8 housing and said, look how bad the city is here. You as somebody from Pittsburgh go, why don't you take a picture of a a PPG Place? Why you take a picture of our—that's like the worst part of our city. Why are you showing that instead of the good things? People only know how—people don't know how to act overseas. So you speak up. Speak up to people. Now now I know many don't believe here, and I know there's a lot of witchcraft. No, no, no, no—don't lower—raise—what a privilege to be in the greatest Church in the history of planet Earth. Your nation has impacted me greatly, the nation of Nigeria. I had people come up to me after—you know—you know who benos was? Yeah. Take time. Take time to learn about people and where you're going—now—not just overseas. Most ministers only know about their Ministry; they don't know a single thing anybody's doing in the ministry but except what they're doing. So take some time when you're going to preach for a pastor to find out about what he's doing, what's going on in his life, what's going on in his church, what do they believe in God for? And then when you get up and get the mic, talk about them in their in their Church in a nice way. What a privilege to be here at uh uh the River Church in Baton Rouge that holds Evangel—the biggest Evangelistic outreaches in this part of Louisiana every year and has seen thousands of souls come to Christ. How many appreciate Pastor Butch who's been the pastor here for decades, never wavering and staying here? Show honor. Can you say amen? Amen. I I'll tell you a story. Bishop David O. Oyedepo had an American come to preach about 15 years ago, and the guy gets up and calls him David and says, Hey Hey Brother David, remember when you came to Texas and I took you out for barbecue and we ate all that barbecue? Wasn't that great? Left—they they called him in his room after the service and told him, um, you know you we've canceled your evening session; we're going to go in a different direction. Disrespect. You don't talk like that. Show honor. Why are people crossing their arms and staring me down? Somebody say honor. Honor. Show honor with your words. Show honor with your actions. I don't know what you get for an honorarium preaching at a church that's that big—one of the richest Ministries on Earth—but when he leaned over and said, um, let uh make sure you guys send your bank details so we can wire you the honorarium, I said, I'm not taking a dime from this place. And he said, we want to bless you. I said, I know you do. I said, and then I wired—we wired $100,000 from our ministry to your account. I said, we don't—you don't get paid to preach at a place like this; you should pay to preach at a place like this. That's called honor with action. If there's no action or substance, there's no honor—for your wife, for your husband, for your pastor who you don't honor. Now contrast Mark chapter six with the woman with the alabaster box. She honored with her substance. There's no honor without honoring with your substance. No, I like him. Who have you honored? Some some Christians have been saved for 35 years; they couldn't point to any man or woman of God that they've ever honored. They've never shown any honor to anybody with their substance; they've never done something from their heart to bless. And look, when that woman with the alabaster box did that, what happened? Religion flared up. That money—that she gives—that to him—he already has clothing that's nice; he's already staying in a house that's so big a crowd can come in—that could have been sold and the money given to the poor. People are always concerned with anonymous poor people; they've never helped one specific poor person, but they—the poor in general—they're very concerned with. And G, what did Jesus say? You're right. Scoop this back up and sell what's left of it, and let's help the poor. Jesus said—I imagine saying this today—and back then it was the same thing—that's when they made a plan to kill him. You always have poor people with you, but I'm only here for a few years, so get—leave her alone. In fact, what she's done will be talked about wherever the gospel's preached for the rest of time, and that's exactly what happened. She she carved a place out for herself in honor. I didn't send $100,000 because I feel bad for Dr. Paul—these poor African P—poor—nothing—doing much better than me in America with a 600 to 1 exchange rate. I didn't do it because I felt bad; I did it to show honor. You know when I told him that, he leaned back over to me and said, when I preach for my father and the Lord at his main conference—I've preached there for 21 straight years—I've never taken one honorarium ever. He said, you're just like me. Then he leaned over and told his wife, and his wife said, too much wisdom. See, distinguish yourself. Instead of it's payday, I did the same thing when I went to Jesse Duplantis' church. I'm sure everybody that comes to that church thinks, kaching, this is my payday. He believes in prosperity; he believes in giving. Now it's my turn to finally get a good honorarium. I wouldn't take whatever they gave me, and we sent $100,000, and he told me the last time I saw him that—I don't know that he wants me to tell what I told him—that doesn't happen. No one has done that. You'd be amazed how many people that—nobody's ever blessed because they see them as—you think Kenneth Copeland? Anybody gets to meet him; maybe he'll give me a plane. It would be—it would be nothing for him to give me $10,000 for my minute. They're always thinking about what to get instead of what to give. You'll distinguish yourself by giving instead of looking to receive, and if you look to give, you'll never have to concern yourself with what to receive. May your ministry always know Financial overflow from the day you graduate Bible College, in Jesus' name. If you receive it, go ahead and clap your [Applause] hands.

Four laws for Supernatural promotion and Ministry. What's the law we're dealing with today? Thew disting—distinguishing yourself from the crowd. Do it by uncommon honor. I mean, we we could play it if we if we had it queued up. If you heard the introduction Dr. Paul gave me—I—very uncommon. He—I mean, we we should play it if you could find it. Very uncommon, he said, from some for someone from his culture to show the kind of Honor. Yeah, I'm not—I'm not an American. We texted one of the ministers that was there from North America, 'cause I know him. He was wearing a suit with an open collar. I wrote, what are you saving your necktie ties for? Do you have like a bigger Church you're going to next? You know, there's some places—if you're not going to wear a tie, then just throw your ties away. When I went to meet with Donald Trump at his Club, there were guys—Polo—what are you saving your good clothes for? I'm telling you—I'm not saying this to like rail—I'm telling you, think like that. When are you going to dress up? If you don't dress up to meet President Trump, and you don't dress up to minister or be on stage at the largest church in the world with a million viewers, what are you saving your good clothes for? I got invited to meet a senator about a year ago; I dressed nice—very nice—dressed nice. It's not about how you look; it's about your heart if you're meeting God, but the Bible doesn't say man uh God looks on the heart, and man looks on the heart. Unfortunately, man looks on what? So why have it count against you when you can have it count for you? A dollas was with me at a place—I was out of clothes, and we had just done a wedding on Long Island, and the wedding was formal, so I wore a black tailored tuxedo that I had just got 'cause I had to get it for the wedding. It was all I had left in my suitcase, so I'm sitting on the front row of this church meeting in a black tuxedo—tailored. The preacher preached for a little bit, and then he said, look at you—you look like a million bucks. Why don't you come up and preach for a little bit? And handed me the mic—just for how you look. Man judges on the outward appearance. I had nothing to say, but I looked like I had something to say. Where's Abraham? Moving my car. If Abraham was here, he could tell you—the guy's always in a suit and tie, and we're driving a black Tahoe—black Suburban—some type of black uh uh SUV. He pulls up in the place you're not allowed to park to pick me up from the hotel; waits for 30 minutes; the valet comes up, Sir, you're not allowed to park here. He'll go, I am. And oh, sorry. He looks like somebody that's allowed to park there. I've shown up with Theonas at restaurants wearing that tuxedo, and there's an hour wait, and they take us right to a table. It's different. Why have it work against you when you can have it work for you? Look like somebody that's sharp. Look like somebody that a board member would think twice before confronting you and saying something. Let me tell you this because you're young—you don't have to look younger; you already are young. You already look cool. You're young; you have tight skin; you look great. So you don't need to look younger, and you don't have to look old. Uh brother R.J., stand up. If—is that—is that an old—St.—see people—people think suit and tie—they think old—sty. Hey, take every American—take that suit off and be—getting into something comfortable. You know, you can actually wear a suit—suits made out of comfortable materials—Italy—everybody's biking to work in a suit. That's not an old-saggy suit; that's a that's a young cut. Now, he'll never be able to fit in that in 15 years; he'll blow the seams out of the side of that, but for right now he doesn't—no one's looking at him go, what happened to—he doesn't look religious. That's not a religious—he already looks young, so you already have that working for you. You don't need to accentuate that—accentuate the class part of yourself, and you can look classy without looking stodgy. Do you guys use the word sty? No. What word would you use for sty? Do you even know what I'm saying? Whack. Whack. Adon said whack. You can look classy without looking whack. Write that down. You don't have to wear a boxy suit, and I'll tell you another thing—you don't have to wear expensive clothes to look classy. They did an article in GQ back when it was run by heterosexuals—that uh before I taught you how to dress like you're applying for a dancing job in South Beach—they they they ran an article where they showed somebody a man in a $5,000 Dolce & Gabbana suit—on tailored—and a $300 suit from Express—tailored—and the guy with the suit from Express looked a zillion times better than the Dolce & Gabbana Armani every time. So it's it's your fit; it's not your clothes that make you look poor; it's your care for the clothes that make you look poor. Instead of buying a ton of clothes when you leave Bible College—you know what my dad did when he graduated? He had one gray suit, one blue suit, one black suit—get them tailored—take care of them—look your best; it'll open doors for you; it distinguishes you from the crowd. Can you say Amen? Number one: how do you distinguish yourself scripturally? Uncommon honor. Number two: uncommon behavior in life and Ministry before you. Okay, so let me say this first—what's uncommon behavior? I'm not teaching this as a principle, but I'm just—for my life—this is uncommon Behavior. Then sometimes when I had more balance and Agility, I'd walk across the open seats. Let me tell you something—nobody stays on their phone when the preacher could be in your Pew next to you at any given time. Now let me ask you a question: why can I do that and not get thrown out of the church, with the exception of about three or four times, which isn't that many over the course of 22 years preaching every week? How come it comes off okay? How come my radical Behavior at church on Sunday morning grows the church instead of going—we're we're out of here—like—okay. I was talking about appearance. Imagine if I wore camouflage pants, military boots, a black T-shirt with a Revival Today logo on it, and this gold chain, and and then I'm like this and across—okay, that—now it's a little much, but I'm dressed like a Southern Baptist acting like a lunatic, so it balances out. I have on a very nice suit, behaving like someone that just escaped from an insane asylum, so it equals. So I wrote this for behavior in life and Ministry before you break the rules; you must take a step to show that you know the rules exist. That's why—that's why I don't get thrown out because I do things where people know—if if it looks like you don't know there's any rules and you're just acting like a feral animal, they'll take steps to reign you in. But Jesus broke all the rules, but he always let people—he know he knew the rules better than they knew the rules. Number uh in life in Ministry before you break the rules, you must take a step to show you know the rules. Jesus let everyone know he knew the rules better than they did, then began to shatter them: healing on the Sabbath—Matthew 12:1-14, Mark 3:1-6, Luke 6:6-11; teaching on the law and the prophets—Matthew 5:17-20; cleansing the temple—John 2:3-22, Matthew 21:12-13. Let's ready quote of the scripture before he braided a whip and beat them out of the temple. To use myself as a modern example: my suit is an acknowledgement that I know church is a holy place, and my attire is a sign of respect to my listeners, balancing out the unconventional communication and actions soon to follow. This small key is essential—essentially the difference between being perceived as a reformer instead of a lunatic. Number three: so let's talk about uncommon Behavior. Well, I think we talked about it enough. You know, it's like—like me—like I I—you're not supposed to even walk around—supposed to stand like this—and so as we get to our second point, and as we reflect on these scriptures that we—I know all that—so I start off that way. It's not like I just come up, rip the mic out of the passage—hand—let's pray—so nice to be here—how many you ready to receive from the word of God? Let's open our Bibles. I know—I know where I'm at. I know how it's supposed to flow, and so a little head nod that you know where you're at. I mean, I I preach the same in Nigeria—very formal in a good way—very formal church. I didn't get up and just start acting nuts; I waited a little bit—showed I knew where I was at; I knew what nation I was at; I know the history of the church; I know the history of the pastor. I follow you; I love you. Now it's different because it's not some guy with no no regard for our church, our customs, or anything that's acting this way. He knows, and then and then he's doing his thing. How many that makes sense, too? So they'll try to—they'll try to quote refine your behavior. It happened to me in year one. If you stand on the chair—on the chairs—there's a lot of churches you won't be allowed to preach at.

That's fine, because there's a lot of—there's only 52 weeks in the year, and there's a lot of churches I can't preach at. There's 30,000 Assemblies of God churches in 52 weeks, so if you do the percentage on that, I can have a high percentage of rejection even in that denomination and still preach in a lot of places. Can you say Amen?

Number three: Appearance. Uncommon appearance. Man judges by the outward appearance. Never forget that. Man judges by the outward appear—appearance. I was in a suit store years ago. I had to go to court for a speeding ticket, and uh, so I—I learned a little bit about court. I was in my early 20s, and then I was buying a suit in New Jersey. And for whatever reason, maybe because I was dressed nice, this young guy was buying a suit from Express—black suit with white pinstripes, very nice-looking suit—and he goes to me, he said, "I have to go to court. What do you think about this suit?" I said, "It's a nice suit, but I wouldn't wear it to court." He went, "Why not?" I said, "You're Italian, right?" He said, "I am." I said, "I wouldn't want to wear something that invokes images of Al Capone, cuz subconsciously the judge could see you there and be like, 'Wait a minute, I've seen that before.'"

You ever noticed politicians basically all look the same? Drab navy blue suit, drab gray suit, no logos on anything. No, you'll never see them wearing a tie that says LV, Louis Vuitton, on it or anything like that, because your policies may offend people, but you don't want your appearance to turn people off the second they see you. Even John Fetterman—black plain hooded sweatshirt, black plain shorts—and he won the election. Tan pants, navy blue suit, plain. So they understand there's actually a science to appearance. Genesis 41:14. If you would. Genesis 41:14. Somebody read that nice and loud, one more time. Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. Why did he shave himself and change his raiment? Not everyone at once. Yeah, he uh—they hated people with beards. They hated the Hebrews' beards. What else? Maybe if you're going to appear before the president of a nation, don't come in an orange jumpsuit and white slippers. If you come in prison attire, they're going to see you as a prisoner, no matter what you do.

Oh, that's nice. Thank you. You've helped me with the dream, and please escort him back. Make sure he gets the best cell possible. He had enough sense to shave himself. You notice nobody in Nigeria has 5 o'clock stubble or beards, period. So when I was on the plane, we were supposed to be able to stop before we got to the meeting, and we weren't. So I did the thing Jerry Seinfeld made fun of: I went to the airplane bathroom and shaved. Which I always saw that thing for disposal of razors, and you think, "Who in the world is shaving on a plane?" But there were only three people in our section and two bathrooms. I had plenty of time. I shaved and got ready. So that says, first impressions matter. First impressions matter. Yeah. Wouldn't it help Joseph if he came unshaven in prison clothes, then changed later? How people meet you is how they remember you. How you act. Disrespect is an odor that's tough to get out of the air. Honor is a fragrance that people remember. How you appear matters. People will make their—their mind up about you, like, you know, I'm never going to see somebody when I go to a church and preach and they're on the keyboard and sweatpants and a T-shirt and think, "I need to take that guy on the road." Maybe I'll have Tony and Clarita stay home. Or, "I like that guy. I want somebody traveling with me that looks like they just got thrown out of Walmart." It matters. You should have an appearance. And I don't mean to overuse RJ as an example for demeanor and appearance, but he looks sharp—dressed as sharp. You don't see guys his age that carry themselves like that. Jacob's the same way. There's something about our new pastor, Pastor Caleb, same way. There's something about how you carry yourself and how you look that people think, "I—" You know, Dr. Anichi, I wasn't wearing a white tailored suit—that's his thing—but I do look in a way I'm not embarrassed to have him come up on—on the platform. I wasn't wearing—I, you know, I had two suits made for that trip where other people brought their old suits, because you know, if he anoints with oil or—and it's Nigeria, it's going to be hot. I don't care if that suit makes it through one service. I'm going to be in front of a million people on television and 90,000 people alive. If I had that suit made for that one thing, I'm going to look the best I've ever looked—the best I can humanly look without radical plastic surgery. I want to—I want to leave this with you as Bible college students: When God opens a door, recognize the door. I'm not heaven, you know. That day will come, and it might not—it might not start at a 990,000-person church, and you should be happy it doesn't. If I was asked to do what I did last week when I was 25, I'd have bombed. I had never done a room of 800 people. You can't jump to that, but what—what are you going to do the first time you're offered a Sunday morning at a church that has 800 people? It's a diff—I remember Don. There's different levels. When Pefi Assembly of God had us preach and there were 600 people in a brand new church, that was different. We weren't in some old busted-down church with 70 people. Look your best. Look like you belong there. Look like somebody the pastor is proud to have on that platform. Can you say Amen? Go ahead and play the clip.

Value. We met um, Evangelist Jonathan only two years ago. He had heard—watched our messages and so on, and knew that I was in America, and he said, "Can you come over to Pittsburgh, even if it is for one day and minister in their church?" Are we obliged? I saw his heart, even—I hadn't met him, but I felt his heart. I felt his desperation, and I got down—that they were in a rented place, right? Yeah, rented place. And then preached. At the end of the preaching, he asked me to lay hands on him. He needed an impartation. I took off my suit, laid it on him. He was on that ground for one hour. Pause it real quick and bring it back. Was ended. What would most American preachers have done to Pastor Paul? Would they have asked him to pray for them, or what would they have done? Hey guys, let's all just gather around. Let me know—Brother Paul's come a long way. You're an idiot. Impartation doesn't flow both ways; it flows downhill. You don't have the congregation come praying. You might have come from churches like that—everybody gather around, squeeze your shoulder—the oil drips down Aaron's beard. In a zillion years, you would never have me—Now, Pastor Paul, you've given out so much this week, mind if I just pray? You better drop that Assemblies of God thing, American charismatic thing—everybody prays for everybody. You know how many times when we started the church in Fort Worth we had people from those nutty charismatic ministries in Texas come around, "Hey, after you—you mind if I pray for you?" Yes, I do mind. Why? I don't know you. You're some lady I just met. I don't want you laying hands on me. Tomorrow I have a desire to buy a cat and flat iron my hair. You want to pray for me? Pray when you go home that God opens more doors. Amen. Continue. And his wife as well. He will tell us the rest of the story. And within one year, property worth $15 million was released to them for nothing. Church exploded. Ministry exploded. His father is a pastor, a minister and evangelist, but he grew up in a pastor's house, in an evangelist house, but that value—that sense of value for grace and for unction back to me since then. What did he say? That sense of value. Value. People value where you're at. As crazy as I act in church, nobody ever gets the impression I don't value that I'm there. Pray for every person, preach a long time, regardless how many people are there. I value, so it comes off differently. That's like, "How do you get away with what you do?" First of all, who's to get away? I'm not getting away. I'm not doing anything illegal. I'm just walking around slapping people's wives. How do you get away with it? Just everybody say, "Unconventional." Unconventional. Put up Daniel 1:12-15, if you would. Media team, can you get the picture I have on my Instagram of me when I visited the Feed the Hungry place in Northern Uganda at the refugee camp? I want to show you my standard of dress there, just in case you think I got dressed up for a big church. Daniel 1:12-15. Who will read that? I get you the mic. Who'll read? Right here. Wait, the mic's coming. Test your servants for 10 days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then our appearance and the appearance of the youth who eat the king's food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see. So he listened to them in this matter, and he tested them for 10 days. At the end of—at the end of 10 days, it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youth who ate the king's food. So there's another example, Daniel 1. Great read. Daniel 1:12-15, of people taking steps to distinguish themselves by appearance. Daniel said, "No, listen, I know you eat differently in Babylon. Let us eat our Jewish food, and if you think it's not correct, give us 10 days and let's see who looks better—you guys eating macaroni and cheese with bacon or us eating what we eat." And they tested them in 10—10 days, and they found them looking better. So they took steps for their appearance. Number three: Uncommon appearance. Man judges by the outward appearance.

Number four: Uncommon commitment to the advancement of the kingdom of God. Nehemiah 2:4-8. Who will read that quickly? Nehemiah 2:4-8. Right here. Your name, one more time? Nally. Nally. Spell it? N-A-T-S-H-A-L-I-E. Nally. Gotcha. Go ahead. From where? What state? From Florida. GL, glad to have you. Thank you. Then the king said unto me, "For what doth thou make request?" So I prayed to the God. Let me have NLT 2:24-8. Make it easier on you and me. Go ahead. The king asked, "Well, how can I help you?" With a prayer to the God of Heaven, I replied, "If it please the king, and if you are pleased with me, your servant, send me to Judah to rebuild the city where my ancestors are buried." The king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked, "How long will you be gone? When will you return?" After I told him how long—long I would be gone, the king agreed to my request. I also said to the king, "If it please the king, let me have letters addressed to the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River, instructing them to let me travel safely through their territories on my way to Judah. And please give me a letter addressed to Asaph, the manager of the king's forest, instructing him to give me timber. I will need it to make beams for the gates of the temple, fortress for the—the city walls, and for a house for myself." And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me. Nehemiah had an uncommon commitment to advance the kingdom of God. What was Nehemiah's job at this time? Anybody know what—what did he do for the king? Cupbearer. How do you go from cupbearer to the head of Jerusalem? A desire to advance the kingdom of God. If you're upset about where you are in life, don't blame the people who aren't promoting you, cuz promotion doesn't come from your boss. Promotion comes from—have a strong—it's how I went from assistant children's minister to pastor of two churches. When there was break—and I'm not saying this—you drive home from break. This is not a prison or a cult; you're free to go home and be—be with your parents. I'm telling you what I did of my own volition. Oh, Jonathan, we're sorry that you won't be around during school break. We really love having you at the church; you're a big help. I'll be here every Sunday. You're not going home? No, I'm going home. It's only a 4-hour drive. I'll be here in the morning. I'll leave after church is over. You don't have to do that. I want to do it. You assigned me to St. Paul Evangelical Church in Lexington, Massachusetts. That's my mission, and my heart's going to be as tied in with that as the senior pastor, regardless of what position you give me, or if you don't give me any position, then I'll sit—I told Dr. Paul back—"It's amazing that you've come here all this week." I said, "If you never invited me to preach, I was already planning to come here. If you had me sit back with the youth group, I don't care. I said I would stand in that back corner to—and hear you preach. I was going to watch it online anyway." I'll tell you another thing that made him laugh and like me and increase the time that he gave me to preach, because our plane got messed up. They canceled our flight that was leaving in the morning, and I had to charter a jet. So the jet was going to leave at 5:00 in the morning, which it was now 1:30 in the morning, and he leaned over to me and said, "Do you have time to preach? Are you going to have time to minister?" I said, "Sir, just so you know, if I missed the plane, I missed the plane." I said, "My goal—" I said, "My total focus is on this service." See, I—I'm a preacher. I know you know—this guy's already like half checked out, worrying about getting on his plane. I said, "If my goal was to be home, I'd have just stayed home. My goal is to preach and do well at this service." And he pat—he patted me and smiled real big, cuz you're like him. So that—that's how—preacher. I'm feeling a little under the weather today. I don't know—you know my daughter—um, we didn't think her softball team was going to make it to the finals, but they did. Would you mind if we push the service back, or I can come another time? No. Full commitment. That's what Nehemiah showed. What other scripture do I have for that? Let me see. 1 Samuel 17:45-47. Who'll read that? Grab him the mic. New person. 1 Samuel 17:45-47. David replied to the Philistine, "You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defiled today. The Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head; and then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel, and everyone assembled here will know that the Lord rescues his people, but not with sword and spear. This is the Lord's battle, and he will give you to us." Let me see, uh, 18:5. What happened after that? Whatever Saul asked David to do, David did it successfully. So Saul made him a commander over the men of war, an appointment that was welcomed by the people and Saul's officers alike. Leave that scripture up. Whatever Saul—you want to see a secret to promotion? Whatever Saul asked David to do, David did it successfully. What happened to Revival Today Church, University of Pittsburgh? They said we can't meet there anymore, so we—we shut it down. Okay, on to someone else. So you got—that's a secret to demotion. If I leave something in your hands, it goes away. If I turn it—you know, this—this is—I—I'll use another example, because it hasn't started yet. Who am I going to turn Revival Today Anglers over to? I could turn it over to someone that we start off with six people fishing on the weekend, and it turns to zero, or you can turn it over to somebody that starts with six people fishing on the weekend and starts to be so many they have to pass an ordinance about how many people are allowed to go into the Mananga Halo River in one Saturday. They have a 400-person fishing club, 600-person fishing club. See, people don't commit to the thing because they—"I don't want to be the—for my life—the head of the Anglers." What you—who—he who's faithful with little is made ruler over much. My success in doing the Pennsylvania Delaware young adults conference with 120—you're not working for men; you're working for God. There's no connection in having a good youth conference with getting invited to—to uh—uh the Glory Dome, but God is the connector. He is faithful with little. So that's why the Bible says, whatever you do, do it as unto the Lord, because promotion doesn't come from your current boss. Promotion comes from the Lord, and the Lord promotes not based on showing up on time. They mis-define faithfulness. I'm always there. He's been here faithfully for 40 years, doing what? A tree faithfully growing for 40 years, producing no fruit, is uprooted. It's not showing up; it's not doing your job; it's not maintaining. We have other shakeups that are in the works. You know, we—we started an outreach every Saturday. Basically the same crowd comes every time. We're on our third leadership change. I'm going to find somebody that's going to be a little me. If you gave me the ability to go and—with a church check—not my—I don't even have to raise any money, and you're going to give me a sound system and helpers to go into the inner city and have a crusade, I'm not having 60 people. I'm not going to go to the same apartment complex lazily every Saturday till I wear out my welcome. I'm going to hit this place, and I'm going to do—where word gets back—Guess how many were at the Saturday outreach? How many? 60? No. 200? No. They had over a thousand people show up. So-and-so brought their friends out. Went door-to-door for two weeks ahead of time. See, there's people that when you give them something to do, they make sure—You came from churches like that. Youth group was at 30 in 1980; it was at 30 in 2000; it was at 30 in 2010; it's at 30 now. The average person when they're given something to do just makes sure the lights are on, there's music, there's a sermon, and then there's a dismissal. That's it. There's no desire to push it to the next level. But if you do, word gets back to the boss, "Hey, you—you don't want to hear what this guy did." And let me tell you this: Listen to your leaders, but the average person doesn't do anything because they're more worried about making somebody upset than they are worried about not producing. I would do that. I didn't know we were allowed to do things. So you find out what you're not allowed to do. Can you say Amen? Instead of making sure no toes are stepped on—that's the average declining church in America. They made sure no one was offended. They made sure church started on time. They made sure the lights were on and the doors were unlocked, and they made sure everybody was dismissed on time, and they left and went—"Success! What a great service. We were done right at 12:15." But nothing—nobody at the altar, no new—no growth. Their eyes are on maintenance instead of expansion. May your eyes ever be on expansion and blowing up your assignment in Jesus' mighty name. Uncommon commitment to the advancement of the kingdom of God. And number five, we'll close with this: 2 Samuel 23:8-23. Who can read that nice and quick out of your own Bible? New Living Translation, Second Samuel 23:8-23. 2 Samuel 23:8-23. How many? Okay. Go ahead, Mr. Dallas. One second. 23:8 through 23. Yes. Okay. These are the names of the mighty men whom David had. Joseph, Bashsheite, chief among the captains; he was called Adino the Eznite, because he had killed 800 men at one time. Is that eight? Yeah. Okay. Now do uh, nine and 10. And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, one of three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle; and the men of Israel had retreated. He arose and attacked the—

Philistines until his hand was weary; and his hand struck, struck, uh, stuck to the sword. The Lord brought about a great victory that day, and the people returned after him only to plunder. 11 and 12.

And after him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there was a piece of ground full of lentils; so the people fled from the Philistines, but he stationed himself in the middle of the field, defended it, and killed the Philistines. So the Lord brought about a great victory. Uh, 18 and 19.

Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of another three. He lifted his spear, spear, against 300 men, killed them, and won a name among these three. Was he not the most honored of the three? Therefore he became their captain. However, he didn't attain to his first three. 20 to 23.

Beniah was the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds. He had killed two lionlike heroes of Moab. He also had gone down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day, and he killed an Egyptian, a spectacular man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, so he went down to him with a staff, wrestled the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear. Give me this okay, I read it; there's more to 23. Uh, these things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did and won a name among three mighty men. He was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to his first three. And David appointed him over his guards.

So out of the 600 men that joined David, there's 30 that stood out of the 600. Then out of the 600, there were three that stood out, the commander of the three, and then another guy that wasn't part of the three but did things as great as them. Now I'm not saying this insultingly, but this is just how life works. There's going to be people that graduate here in two years; no one will know you left. Who, who was that? Oh, so-and-so. They, no, what do they look like? I, no, I don't remember. Then there's going to be other people that people will sort of know you, and there's going to be other people that you're going to have a meeting with, Magalis, and be asked to, please, if you don't have other plans, we'd love to have you here. You know, Pastor Caleb that I just hired. I was at a funeral, and he was there because he, he knew the family. And I was standing there, fresh off the road, dead tired, and looked across at him and his wife and thought, they're Bible College graduates. I see them helping all the time with no pay. He carries himself super well. Why have I not hired him? So I, I asked him about his plans. He's working with his dad. I called his dad over. I said, I'm not looking to rip somebody out of your company, especially your own son. We can work something out if you're okay with it that benefits both people. As dad said, we dedicated him to the Lord as a child; we always knew this day was coming. He, he separated himself. He wasn't there in a Scooby-Doo faded sweatshirt and Crocs and and gym shorts. I wouldn't have—I'm telling you, he could be the same guy dressed—he doesn't really get it. He's at a funeral looking like he got kicked out of Teen Challenge, so it wouldn't happen. Carried himself, standing with his wife, married, going forward.

So like those 600 men that were with David, they don't—R about all 600. Out of the 12 disciples with Jesus, you barely hear about eight of them. You hear about three, and one more than the three. Book of Acts, a bunch of people start in the upper room; you hear about five of them afterwards. There should be something in you that aspires not to push others down to put you at the top. I wasn't pushing anyone down to be assistant children's past—uh, uh, church worker. It was the lowest spot you could give me at the church; nobody wants it. But my behavior grew the ch—the children's church, doing crazy things, crazy prizes that I bought with my own money to reward the people that are quiet, to reward them for dancing and clapping during praise and worship, because it was an Italian Pentecostal church, and they had learned how to be Christians from their parents. There's no difference between an Italian Pentecostal church and a Catholic Church in general with the behavior of the people. So the kids were on there in children's church; they're playing praise and worship for the kids because they learned from their parents' church, the way you—s—the way you—uh—uh—reverence God is by not moving or singing or making any noise. I said, listen, we're going to have a prize today; whoever dances and claps the most gets this toy. I turned it into a zoo. Bunch of Christian kids that don't even know how to dance. [Laughter] Broke it. God liked it. Teaching them to praise God, read the scriptures to him about praising God. What a sign. If you're looking to make it through school, you do the same; you make it through life, you can do it. Some church will hire you; there's empty churches everywhere. You can maintain 40 people, make sure the one rich board member is happy with what you've preached and what you've done there.

I pray this week and today something fires on the inside of you to rise up from the crowd, not looking to put others down. I don't need—I didn't need to put anybody down to get to the glory dome. I didn't get there by saying, hey, Dr. Paul, I know you're having so-and-so in to preach; let me tell you a couple things I know about their ministry. No. Rise to the top on your—those guys in David's mighty men, they didn't put anybody down to get to where they were going. They just—instead of coming back and telling David, hey, um, we were going to do it, you said, but there were 300 Philistines there; there's only one of me, so that would have been suicide. No. Oh, there's 300 to you. Hey, were you able to carry it out? I heard there were 300 Philistines. Yeah, they're all dead now. Here's the thing, you asked for—see, there's people that make excuses, and they're even legitimate excuses, right? If you—if they had told David, there's 300 Philistines there, and I was the only one, I at least need to come back and get help, he would have like had him killed. David wasn't like that. David lamented when they broke through the ranks to get him a cup of water. He cared about his man. That guy never came back. He never said, I don't have enough resources. He said, I don't care what's ahead of—I'm busting through, and I'm going to do the thing that I was assigned to do. And whatever he was assigned to do, he did it well. See, so then that guy began to remind him of David, because David never made excuses. Everybody else was making excuses, how big Goliath is. Then even once you kill him, there's 900 more of his friends. Oh, is there? Then I'm going to kill him, and I'm going to kill all 900 other friends. If you don't pick up that impartation from me being your pastor, I, I don't know what you've been doing, because you've seen me. That's why I have no tolerance for the University of Pittsburgh campus getting shut down, because whatever you face there, I have faced it a hundred times in this building and a hundred times more at the tent, but here we still are, because there's no excuse. Put any obstacle in my path, and I'm going to beat it, not by might, not by power, but by the spirit of almighty God. If that's in you today, stand on your feet and give the Lord the biggest hand clap in the biggest shout. Come on, give Jesus a great hand clap. [Music] [Applause] Distinguish yourself the most be refusing to turn back. I didn't start this when I came to this church. I'd already heard in Camden, New Jersey, you have to take your stage down. I already heard in Newark, you have to be out of here. They tried to run me out of everywhere, but the God that delivers you out of the lion and the bear delivers you from the next thing too. Take a run at the challenges. Ex—distinguish yourself by the results that you bring forth. Some people don't even do what they're asked to do. Some people do exactly what they're asked to do and nothing more, and some people come—come up with creative ideas to grow the ministry. I'm going to tell you, especially if like—M—you're called to be an evangelist, you better develop that, because there's nobody that pays you, there's nobody that opens doors, there's nobody to give your resume to. It's you, by your desire for the advancement of God, that have to forge it ahead. And if this should be the thing that differentiates this Bible school, that we don't have uh, four people that graduate that actually go into the ministry, and after three more years, one's left. Everybody graduate, everybody make a mark. Nobody allow themselves to be chained down to mediocrity. Nobody allows their destiny to be defined by mediocre people and by critics. Students that change the world, may you be those students, in Jesus' mighty name. If you believe it, shout, "I receive it!" I receive it. If you're watching online, I'm going to give you a chance. Everybody stand on your feet, 'cause I'm going to have you pray. You can keep playing. I want everybody to have a chance to sow seed this week that's online. We are building a ministry, Holy Ghost Bible Mi—Bible College that produces ministers. We're not going to have America turn into France, churches burned down, ministers stabbed while they're giv—their sermons. No, we're going to fill these churches with Spirit-filled pastors that pack those churches out with young people dancing in the Holy Ghost, older people giving their lives to the [Applause] Lord. If you'll stand with me financially right now, those of you that are watching, they're going to put information on the screen on how to give. I'm going to send everybody that gives today a book that was written by Gordon Lindsay from the Voice of Healing movement. It's called *The Pentecostal Ministry*. Put the book up. It's an old book. He writes about what makes ministry successful and what he learned that made ministry unsuccessful by being around some of the greatest ministries that were also became some of the greatest failures; not all of them, but he writes about what he saw. How do ministries fail? How do ministries succeed? It's an old book. I'm digging back out, and I'm going to put it in your hands for your interest in the ministry today, for helping us build what's going to be a shining light of a Bible College, heading up on 100 on-campus students in as—as we begin the third year from all over the country and different countries of the world, and it's going to keep growing. Thank you for standing with me. Thank you for giving this week. Anybody that gives $1,000 or more, which should be many people, I'm going to throw in with it the Dake Annotated Reference Bible. What you should get—you have people ask questions, what does the Bible say about this? Study, get study guides and study like there's no answer to the question. Look it up, know the word, study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. So everybody gets the book that gives—everybody gives a thousand or more, I'm going to send that Bible as a token of my appreciation. Thank you for standing with us as we build this Bible school, build these churches out, and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ all over the earth. I'm going to have Sister C.L. and Brother Tony lead us into the presence of God. I have a 2:00 appointment; I'm going to swing it back over to my wife. I want to open the altars like we would at youth camps when I was growing up—not me lining you up and lay hands on—I may do that before the week's over. You don't have to stay any period of time, but I want, however long you stay, I want everybody to spend some time at the altar, and whatever has risen to the top or that this has churned up in your spirit while I was preaching, I want you to say some things to God, commit yourself to him, consecrate yourself to him. I'm not in this to be mediocre or ordinary or average. I want to advance your kingdom. I'll go where you want me to go; I'll do what you want me to do. Lead me, lead me on in the path I should go; show me how to behave, show me how to conduct myself, give me supernatural wisdom in different—different circumstances, in Jesus' name. How many of you got something out of this message today? Well, that's one of the laws. We're going to do three more that produce. So today was the law of distinct. How do you—how do you pull yourself out from the group? How are you remembered when other people are forgotten? There were a lot of Southern Baptist evangelists that started in the 1930s and 40s, but you remember Billy Graham, you remember Oral Roberts from the Healing Air. There was hundreds of Voice of Healing gu—but you remember Oral Roberts and a few others. So do you want to just be another name or you know, whatever? Oh yeah, I remember him; didn't he go to the church for a little while? Or do you want to be somebody that, like you or hate you, nobody can ignore you? You know, I got one of the most encouraging texts last night or messages on Instagram. I showed my wife that a lady that follows us on Instagram wrote us and said, my husband and I took a vacation to the Bahamas; the taxi driver picked us up from the airport; we started talking, and I told him I'm a Christian and I'm from America, and his first question was, do you know Jonathan Shuttlesworth? I've never been to the Bahamas, she said. I, yes, I do actually; I'm a partner with his ministry. Said, he said, man, I found that guy on YouTube; I like him. He talks the truth, and he doesn't care what anybody thinks. So all the people that care that I tell the truth and don't care what people think, that guy—it's—what attracted—the thing that makes other people hate is the thing that makes other people like you. So don't lose it. Lift your hands all over this place; receive an impartation today for greatness, in Jesus' name. Greatness in Jesus' name. May every trace of mediocrity and caring what people think be burned out of you today by the Holy Ghost. The thing that's already stirring in your spirit, may God pour His gasoline on it and make it burn out of control to do the thing you know what you're called to do and not let anybody talk you out of it, in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. I'm going to turn it over to Pastor Ad Daras to continue to pray. Go ahead.

I actually want to do something a little bit different. I want all of the Bible school students to line up all around here in the front, one single line, shoulder to shoulder, then you're going to wrap around the building, um, up against the wall. And as Pastor Jonathan was saying, we're going to take some time to consecrate ourselves, new and fresh before God. And I want all of the pastoral staff to come up on, um, the platform with me, because we're all going to lay hands on you. And so while you are just actively, out of your mouth, pursuing these things that you are called to do that Jonathan was talking about and really, uh, refining that gift, and I know in my class today we were talking about what to do when you don't know what the call of God is on your life. Now's the time to get that answer. And so I want you to shut yourself in, and those of you that want hands laid on you can—you can—you are more than welcome to—to be a part of this, but we're going to really focus in on these things to refine the call of God on your life so that you can leave here knowing that you know that you know exactly what God wants you to do. And through the laying on of hands and impartations, you're going to receive that kind of clarity, and your lives will never be the same. Do you believe that? Go ahead and pray in the Holy Ghost. Miss Clarina, whatever's on your heart you can play. I'm going to start over here, and then you guys follow me. Excuse me. Excuse me. [Music] [Music] Everything you desire in the mighty name of Jesus, let it be clear. The blueprint of Heaven, I command it to come alive on the inside of you in the mighty name of Jesus. Everything of confusion, everything of defeat, it falls off of you right now, moving forward. Clarity, overwhelming clarity; no more doubting. I thank you, Father, for clarity, divine clarity, divine understanding of what the gifts and callings are in your life, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. No more doubt, no more confusion. From this moment forward, clarity, clarity, and more clarity. The blueprint of Heaven is downloaded to you even now that you walk in confidence, knowing what you're called to do with certainty. From this moment forward, no more confusion, no more confusion, just understanding and clarity to know what you're called to do from this moving forward. Clarity, clarity, clarity. Make it known, Father, make your will for their lives known from this moment forward, in the mighty name of Jesus. [Music] Christ, I anoint you, consecrate you, set you apart for the work of the Lord. Thank you for clarity, fire, in the mighty name of [Music] Jesus. No more confusion, you walk with clarity from this moment without a doubt. No more doubting what you're called to—my—today you receive the divine blueprint from Heaven as to what it is that you're called to do and where you are to be geographically, in the mighty name of Jesus. Every form of confusion, everything—I life—now in Jesus' name. No more doubt, no more defeat in the name of Jesus Christ. [Music] Clarity, more clarity, from the top of your head down to the souls of your feet. [Music] In us and blessing overwhel—[Music] [Music] Your all time is the highest; your is—[Music] [Music] the—[Music] your—your—the highest; your name is the greatest; your name sh—[Music] the all and all; your—[Music] name; your is the highest; your great—[Music] your cre—[Music] holy forever; Angels cre—[Music] you are LIF High—[Music]

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4 Laws For Supernatural Promotion in Ministry. Law 1: THE LAW OF DISTINCTION

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