FDSSM Alabama Week 2

So welcome guys, thank you for coming tonight. And just come on in. We've got some live worship tonight from Sandy Evenson.

All right. So Father God, I just thank you for the worship tonight. I thank you that you will usher in your presence. I thank you, Father God, that you will take us deep into your heart, that we would understand how to be seated in Heavenly places tonight. Father God, that you would seat us on the throne with you, so that we can have the power and authority of Jesus Christ that lives in us. Father God, I ask that you would just undo every ounce of religion in our hearts and allow our spirits to fully come alive in you tonight. In Jesus name, amen.

Amen. Right, I've known I was coming for about three weeks, and I would just kind of sit around and even, you know, lay in the bed at night and just think about what worship was going to be like tonight with you guys. And I just really started imagining, um, the Holy Spirit just wrecking every one of us in a new way, in a real tangible way. And I could see you all, um, just being touched. Amen. Just something different with your hands raised and really encountering the Lord. And, um, so I've been praying for this night. I've been praying for you. And I don't even know you, but Spirit to Spirit, I do. I told my husband yesterday, he, he brought up something and I said, uh, I don't want to live an average Christian life. I don't want to live that way. There's so much more, so many deeper things we can encounter. God has such good things for each one of us. And there's not one day that he wants it to be a bad day for you. I mean, he, he said we could raise the dead, heal the sick, cleanse the leper, cast out demons. That's the kind of life I want to be part of. And I do feel the Holy Spirit. I feel his presence right now. And I, I want to share something that a friend of mine posted, and I'm like, wow, I'm going to share that tonight. Um, he said, this is just the kind of supernatural life we can live. This is how we can hear from the Holy Spirit every day of our life, every second. He said, how many times has God saved you from from death in this life? He said, I've been in 15 car wrecks and walked away unhurt from each. He said, three wrecks, the cars were totaled out. He said, when I was 12, a distinct voice said, drop to your knees. He said, and I instantly did as a bullet whizzed over my head. He said, um, another time, he had stopped at a crossroad at a red light. He said, he heard a boy say, don't move the car. And he, he said, a driver ran through the red light. He said, he was in Pensacola one time and his voice said, don't move the van. And he said, a large truck pulling an Airstream trailer ran through the red light. He said, if I had pulled out, the truck would have come through the driver's side of my van and surely killed me. He said, things like this voice has been guarding me for years. With me asking why he kept me. Well, he goes on, you know, to say some different things, but that's the kind of God, y'all. That's the kind of Holy Spirit we can hear his voice. He said, my sheep hear my voice. So tonight, if you will, I'd like you to come up front. I don't want to sing at you. I want to sing with you. I want to praise the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who has kept me and my family safe. Uh, these are songs you probably already know. I hope you do, but let's worship together.

I want to just pray right now. Lord, I love you. I love you so much, Lord. Thank you for loving me, Lord. I thank you. You've been so, so good to me, Father. And I know you're good to all these people in this room, Father. And if they don't know that goodness, Lord, they need to meet you. They need to hear your voice. They need to hear the voice of the Father who loves them, who has good things planned for them. So I invite your Holy Spirit to fill this place up, Father. Let us worship you, Lord. You deserve all the glory, Lord. In Jesus name. If you will stand up with me.

Spirit, Holy Spirit, you are here. This is the atmosphere. Your glory, God, is what our hearts long for. To be over by your. What does it look like to look at, read the Bible as a road map? How many of you struggle with that? Be honest. Okay. How many think it's just a history book and something that just happened to people in the past? Well, that's good. Yeah. Come on. So we want to share some of the leaders and how did they become leaders in the Bible? Because God's going to use you all. And I'm not kidding. Every one of you is called to be a leader. And if you think that the enemy, um, if you think that your life has been really rough, can you imagine? Like, the enemy doesn't mess with junk. And if you went through a lot of crap in your life, there's probably a big call on your life. And just being serious, y'all, because the enemy doesn't mess with junk. And none of you are junk. You know, we just get caught up in stuff that we just got caught up in. But we want to show you like, I'm going to start off with David, okay? David went through stuff. You know, this young man, he's out in the field, pretty much forgotten by his own family, sent out there to go and tend to the sheep that his brothers don't have any respect for. And when they, and he, he leans into God, and God becomes his father. And that's what we need to do. We need to learn to lean into God and let him be our father. And, and this young man, he, he learns how to take out a lion and a bear that's attacking his sheep. He learns how to lay his life down for the sheep that he's tending to, the lonely sheep that the rest of the family really don't care about, but he does. And he learns and builds character because of that. And he wasn't raised with the other heathens because really, his brothers were brats, they were jerks, they treated him like dirt. And his father dismissed him as a son. When it came time for Samuel to come and anoint, and, and his, in the scripture, I just love this. So I don't know how many realize this, but Saul, the anointing of God is removed from Saul because he's disobedient to God. And our key to life is being obedient to God, not to anybody else. Like, we can have other people hold us accountable, we need to be held accountable. But when God is putting something on your heart, and even if, if you're not sure about it, take it to some other people. But sometimes God will have you stand out amongst everybody else. And Saul didn't have the character to do that because he, he was afraid of what the people would think. And God wanted him to go and completely clean out a group of people, and he doesn't do what God says. And God removes him from king and removes his anointing, and the spirit of God is lifted from him that day. Him and Samuel are the only two that know that. And then the next chapter, God says to Samuel, how long are you going to mourn for Saul? You know, Saul was Samuel's boy, he was trying to take care of him, he's the one that put him in as king. But when God removes something, are we going to recognize that God is serious? And God's like, how long are you going to mourn Saul? And then he says, I want you to go and anoint the next king. And he tells him to go to Jesse's family, but he doesn't tell him which one. And he's like, Saul will kill me. He's afraid. Samuel, the prophet, is afraid of Saul. He's afraid for his own life. And he goes, no, but what if, because he had fear still, then it hindered him from hearing God and seeing who God really wanted to anoint king. Fear can cause us to miss God, or it can sound like God, or it can be, um, kind of like a veil that would hinder you from seeing and hearing clearly. And so he looks at all the sons. They've all been set apart, they've all done the sacrifice, they've all been cleansed in God's eyes. But Samuel is looking on the outside. How many people dismiss you? If dismiss me, I'm not any different than you guys. And you ladies, but a lot of us have been dismissed. And Samuel's looking on the outside. So how many times are we looking at the big pastor of the mega church and think he's amazing, or she's amazing, or this amazing prophet or prophetess gives an incredible word? And our eyes are on that person, but we're not on God. Every time we walk away from somebody, we need to have our eyes on God. God, was that you? I don't care how big and how amazing that message was, was that you? And is it for now? And is it for me? It might be for your next-door neighbor, but it might not be for you. And so Samuel, he's looking, and he's not finding anybody that God is approving. And he went down through everyone. So we can all miss it, even in the Old Testament. And he didn't die because he missed it. And so he's like, okay, do you have any more? And I just love this because he says, um, Jesse says, oh yeah, we got this ruddy old little brat out in the field. And Samuel says, we won't even sit down until he comes. But yet they did sit down. If, if Samuel was really anointing him king, when they went out in the field and got him to make sure he was safe, instead of trusting servants to bring him in, something's totally off. Like, I really believe that fear can cause us to be so off. And he says, we won't even sit down. Well, when David comes, God tells them to stand up. So they sat down. They didn't even honor David with their words. And so in the midst of it, said this young man, he walks into this group of people, his dad and all of his brothers. And this, this, this boggles my mind. And I've searched and searched and can't find a scripture that says, I anoint you king. He says, I anoint you, but he doesn't say I anoint you king. And he doesn't put him in a kingly role. He knew how to do it, he did it with Samuel or with Saul. We totally dismiss that little piece. And everyone says that David was anointed king that day. The words were not spoken. How many of you have been dismissed like that? And whatever it was, and the enemy grabs a hold and smacks you left and right, right, to keep you in that place of rejection, insecurity. So we can use David as a road map, you know. And then David hears about the battle with Goliath. And he goes in there, still a ruddy old kid, but he's supposed to be anointed king. Where in history ever, I dare you to go search it out and find it for me, where in history ever was a king anointed king but never put in the place of king? Even Jesus, his friends helped him step into the role of being a king. And he came against Ahab's family. So in the midst of it, he has his slingshot, and he's not afraid of Goliath. And Goliath is speaking negative about his God. We should get indignant about people when they speak negative about our God, but we can show them love. We can do it in a different way. Instead of taking them out with a slingshot, what if we ask God for a word of knowledge for him and cut to the chase and hear the heart of God for him and watch the demonic fall off of them? Because the only reason they say what they say is not a godly row in their life. It's usually that they're they're blinded by something. And so in the midst of all this, David takes out Goliath with a slingshot, with a pebble, and it hits him right square in the head. How many of us might be in God's slingshot and wear the smooth stone that he has helped smooth out all the rough edges of you? And what if God is aiming you right towards a giant to take him out? The giant in the land of Phoenix City, the giant in the land of Columbus, Georgia, the giant in the land of the United States. What if God has calling one of you or many of you to stand up against something that is unrighteous, like Martin Luther or Martin Luther King? You know, that wasn't very far away from here when that happened in your own state. The Civil Rights Movement happened in this state. Man, I got goosebumps. God's in this place. He's raising up sons and daughters just like he did with David. And David went through hell. On earth, Saul was mad. So, you know, it just hit me last night why Saul was so mad at David. So Saul knew what the presence of God was like, and he knew that the presence of God left him, and the demonic entered him, and he was to in a day and night. He recognized it in David, and he was one of two people that knew that God was tearing the kingdom away from him that day, not next week, not 15 years later, but that day. The kingdom of God was being ripped from Saul. And I'm not against Samuel, but if he didn't do what he was called to, is that why David had to wait 14 or 15 years to become king? Is is that what caused him to walk in a place where a lot of bloodshed happened? You know, he had to scrap his way through. He had to dodge the sword of Saul. And he had mighty men that followed him. It's an amazing story. But what if it looked different? Because someone might have did something different. What if you are called to do something different? What if God puts it on your heart to do something for somebody else? I was in those shoes three months after God turned my life around, saved me from suicide, radically spoke to me audibly, filled my car with the Holy Spirit, and set me on a path that has been an amazing journey. He asked me to speak to my nephew, Mark. And Mark had a tattoo on his arm of a cross. And all I had to do was say, hey Mark, what, what does it mean? That's all God asked me to do. Hey Mark, what does that mean? He was 23 years old, he's full of life, he is, he could be the best friend of anybody. He would have talked to me. But because I saw how church treated me and how I saw people try to evangelize me, it changed how I, what I did in that moment. I was more afraid of pushing him away from God than I was of drawing him to God. And I, I didn't talk to him about God that day. I didn't ask him about that tattoo. Six months later, he's killed in a car accident, drinking and driving. He was in that car for five hours. If I knew what I know today, hell and high water would would have kept me out of that car. They would have had to take me to prison. Because if I would have known and really understood about resurrection, oh man, they would have got lit up that day. Because they left a power, um, a transformer set on him for five hours while they were working around him because to them, it was just a dead body. I have that in my memory. But you know what? What I, I do every day of my life, I don't live in regret. I know that I made a mistake. And I know that Mark probably would be running with me, and we would be thumping the hell out of the enemy together. Because he had a Bible in the glove compartment of his car, he had a cross around his neck, and he was searching. The way I was searching for 18 years when I was a half-hearted Christian that didn't know the God that I profess. So if you're out there and you don't know the God that you profess, and if you don't even want to profess him, I really encourage you to get by yourself and say, God, I need you to show up. I need you to be real in my life. Because especially if you're coming out of drugs and alcohol, you don't have a chance in hell without him. I'm just being real. You can't do it on your own. You can't. I know what it was like. I played Russian roulette with legal drugs, and I had some really good ones. But in the midst of it, I thump the enemy every day because he touched my family. And I run hard over 300 days a year. Our ministry runs, and I wear them out. I do. But David kept falling short. And it's okay. But this one point, I'm going to end it, and I'm going to let one of the other ones share. David doesn't go to battle with his men for the first time, and he sets up a plot to have Bathsheba's husband murdered, and he follows through with it because he's lusting after a woman. I want to challenge every one of you that if you're single, get your eyes on God. Because the enemy knows that there's a plan for your life, and he will bring a woman that is less than who you are called to be with into your life. But if you have your eyes on him, he will show you who it is. You don't want anyone but the one that God has for you. Same with the women in here, you don't want the man that, that is not the one that God has for you. And so David knows he does wrong because Nathan comes and talks to him and shares. And God knows, like, God knows all. I don't know what he thought that he was going to pull the wool over God's eyes. But the thing that he said, "Don't take your presence from me." He saw what had happened to Saul when God took his presence from him. Go after the presence of God. Go after the intimacy of God. That's what's going to get you through the day. That's what's going to, you're going to know when there's an issue in an electrical field or an issue in the foundation that you just built. You're going to know that, wait a minute, there's going to be a crack right here. We need to fix this. We need to go back and double check something. You're going to know when that fence is wrong. You're going to know because God's going to tell you. He speaks to his sons and daughters all the time. And we can take him into our job. It's not just for pastors. It's not just for evangelists. We're all called to do the work of an evangelist. We're all called to prophesy, which is only hearing God's voice for ourselves and other people. And we're all called to pray unceasingly. We're all called to worship. We have all the gifts inside of us. And God wants to show us all how do we walk this out? How do I walk it out like David? Like, that broke my heart when my nephew was killed in that car accident. But man, I, I grabbed a hold of God in that moment and I apologized for missing the mark. You know, and I had to work out some stuff because I don't want to ever feel that again. I don't want to ever feel that moment that I missed God. And I don't want you all to ever miss that moment. And the reason why we have this school is because I sat in a church for 18 years. I wore the dress, I did the beautiful thing, I served well. I served in the catering department, I was in the Welcome Center. I was a happy, good-lucky person. But inside, I was dying. And nobody knew. And I believe that nobody was taught how to hear God's voice for someone else. And no one knew what words of knowledge or the prophetic was. So no one knew that I was suicidal and I was going to commit suicide. And that's why I want to emphasize it so much in this class is for you all to learn how to hear God's voice for yourself, for your job, for your career, for your family, and also for those people out there. Because y'all have a testimony. Every one of you has a testimony. And John 17:20 says that others will come to know me, which is Jesus, through their testimonies, through their messages.

So this is Jeff Hoover for you who don't know. And you probably see his beautiful face out at Abel a lot. And, um, Tina and Jeff actually moved down here with me. We moved in, uh, beginning of August, and we're here to plant some roots and see what God's going to do. And, um, yeah, raise some cane. So I'll give a little testimony here, some of the journey. Um, we were at an event last night. And from the Wednesday prior, we're supposed to, we were given the name and we're supposed to ask the Holy Spirit, what kind of gift are you supposed to give for this name that will that can resemble them spiritually? And, uh, I get there, we get there last night, and there is a package in the middle of the table. Has my name on it, a couple other words and stuff on it. But it was in a waterproof, terrible plastic package that you would get in the mail. And, so the lady says, this is for you, Jeff. And she goes, I don't know why it's in a plastic bag. I was looking for a gift bag. And, you know, but all the gift bags were, you know, birthday or little kidish. But that wasn't, that wasn't representing you. And I just happened to turn around, there was this plastic bag, storage bags for shipping stuff. She goes, I don't know, but I just had to get that for you. I said, what? You don't understand what I gave up to be down here. I was a truck driver for 30 years. 18 of those, those years, I was an inter-operator, and I delivered packages in the trailers. It's is a resemblance of what I had to give. You know, what I gave up to come down here just to be with you guys. And it, that's the first time I gave, I gave up my business end of August of last year. And this is the first time that I felt that I have a purpose down here now. And, and what is you guys' purpose? You don't know, but it, it's there in front of your eyes. It just took a package for me to remember why I'm down here. And being behind the microphone, this is not my cup of tea. But it's being in Christ is in me. The Holy Spirit is speaking through me. That sometimes I don't even know what I'm talking about. And I'm going to be talking about Stephen. And I know Stephen, but we're just relying on the Holy Spirit, what he wants to hear from you or into you guys from me using me as a vessel to speak out what needs to come out. So, um, Stephen was, you know, they, they needed a select group of people, seven people. The apostles needed seven people to do a specific job. And the seven people had to have qualifications to be able to be in this position. They need to be Holy Spirit filled. They need to be with wisdom. They need to be godly men. They need to be honorable. So four things that they need to be equipped with in order to to be qualified for this job. This job was just serving. Why do you need all this stuff just to serve? I'm sure there's another, I know there's another message behind it, but that was their qualifications just to serve people food. And Stephen was one of them that they chose. And he was so full of the Holy Spirit that some of the religious people did not like it very well at all. And they came up against him. And the Holy Spirit just filled Stephen up, and he just spoke out the truth of what he believed. And it says, Stephen, who was a man full of great supernatural power, performed many astonishing signs and wonders, mighty miracles among the people. What if that's us? That we can do this too? The Holy Spirit allows us to do this. And this upset is some of the men, the religious men, uh, the men set free. And they confronted Stephen and started arguing with him. But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit with remarkable wisdom, answered them with words prompted by the Holy Spirit that they could not refuse. How many of you people go up against somebody trying to denounce your faith in Christ? How many? And when you're filled with the Holy Spirit with so much joy in your belly, it just comes out. You don't even know what you're saying because the Holy Spirit is speaking for you. First thing you know, comes in mind is, you know, it's fear. It's like, uh oh, what am I going to say? I don't want to mess this up because I don't want to look bad. I don't want to look bad. But the Holy Spirit says, let me, let me speak for you. But the men, these men started getting the crowds around them to, you know, false accusations against Stephen. And how would that make you feel if people started coming around you saying, yeah, you're doing this, even though nothing is true? I'm sure a lot of you have come across those situations. And it got that bad for Stephen that they actually, they really came up against him. Chapter 7 of Acts, if you ever have time, it's his sermon. And it's almost a full chapter of seven. Um, I'll let you guys read that on your own. But towards the end of seven, chapter 7 is when he comes up, you know, he speaks out, why would you be so stubborn to close your hearts and your ears to me? You always oppose the Holy Spirit, just like your forefathers did. And this is, you know, this is some Saul people that he, I mean, Saul was the same way. He thought he was doing right in God's eyes, but he didn't have the Holy Spirit. And Paul, you know, Saul was dragging people out in the streets and just killing them right there because he thought he was doing the right thing. He was under the Old Law till Jesus came and just showed him who Jesus Christ really was. And this has happened. You know, this happened against, uh, Stephen also. But Stephen was overtaken with great faith, full of the Holy Spirit. He fixed his eyes on the Heavenly realm and saw the glory of God and Jesus who stood on the right hand of God. This is as the guys were starting to throw stones at him. He was so full of glory, he's so full of the Holy Spirit. And Stephen just shouted out, look, I can see the heavens open up and the Son of Man stand on the right hand to welcome me home. His accusers heard this as he's speaking out, and they couldn't handle those words. They had to cover their ears, scream at the top of their lungs because they didn't want to hear what Stephen had to say. And as he crumbled, the presence of God was glowing. And Stephen, when we're out amongst people, you know, accusing us of being Christians or lovers of Jesus, you know, mocking it, are we willing to stand for him? Are we willing to let the Holy Spirit speak into us? Are we willing to let the glory of God come over to us? Allow the Holy Spirit to speak through us to help us? He says, the Holy, he will send the Holy Spirit, which will be our Helper. And when we accept the Holy Spirit in us, he will help us. He's helping me right now because back in the day, I'll be in the back corner. I don't want anybody to know I'm here. But two and a half years ago, he took me and flipped me around. Mom, and this is starting to be more comfortable. As you get more comfortable, this is practicing speaking in front of people. It's practicing. It's practicing for me because the more I do, is the more comfortable I'm getting with this. It's helping me to go out through the doors to be more comfortable just to meet people where they're at. I'm not going to show up to them the person with a three-piece suit and the King James Bible. I'm going to be showing up with Jesus beside me and just asking them, how can I pray for you? Or are you struggling with this? Do you have a pain in your body? I see you as doing this. Does this resonate with you in any way? I see you as being an artist. I see you as being a guitar player. Does that resonate with you? You know, just jogging their minds that, yes, I used to have the passion playing guitar. But I gave that up. Well, I think I'm here to help you to get you back onto that because God has a plan for your life. And that's with Stephen. Stephen didn't know what was going to happen. Steph didn't know he was going to get stoned. But he stood up for what is right. Are you willing to stand up for what is right, even if it's going to cost you your life? As Stephen's death was coming, all he had to do was look up and look up, and he's seen where he was going. He's seen his father just standing there, and he's ready to welcome home. Are you willing to make the sacrifice to step out beyond your flesh? That's what I got to say. Because me, I like to be in the back. But the Holy Spirit's liking me to move forward to speak things that I'm not very comfortable speaking.

Okay. All right. I'm going to tell you about a character in the Bible, or a person in the Bible that you may or may not know much about. Her name was Deborah. She's found in, um, Judges, Acts, yeah, Judges 4 and 5. She was a woman, you know, during the time, you know, during a time period, you know, a lot of times women didn't, weren't leaders in the Bible. But this lady was chosen to be a leader. She was actually was a judge, a prophet, a singer, a poet, a wife, probably a mother, it doesn't say that, but she probably was. But she was also very important because God had chosen her to, um, lead her people during a time, uh, when, you know, men were mostly ones that were leaders. She had this, you know, spirit of God upon her. She had, she was a very wise woman. I believe she had the spirit of God upon her. And she was, with many people came to her. She, many, like if she had, um, a palm to go, the grove, like palm trees, and people meet her underneath the grove of palm trees to get, you know, to speak, to get wisdom from her. They, she would be a judge and she'd help make decisions. You know, you guys have gone to judges. Do you meet judges underneath the palm tree? No, we go to a building these days. But you, back then, they would go meet underneath the palm tree. That sounds like a good, I think that sounds a good idea to me. Be outside, you're not cooped up inside. And but, you know, it's just different place. Yeah. They were only a time they were kind of underneath the suppression of some enemies that are nearby. So I guess that was a safe place they meet, you know, they nonchalantly, kind of in a hidden place, kind of they would go there instead of inside some his house or a building or the temple or anything. I'm sure he even had a temple at that time. But, but she was full of wisdom and people went to her for many things. I believe she was very bold and courageous because she had to speak up and speak out when people really weren't going to the women for wisdom. So she was very much respected. Um, in one situation, she was very, very well known for is she was, it's the story of when she went to, uh, Barack, he was a general of the army. And she called for him. She urgently called for him one day, says, come to me, I, I have something I need to tell you. Says, and he, he were very, he, he came to her. And like, what do you have to say to me? Says, I have an important job for you to do. God had come to her and had a word for him that he was going to lead, help save the nation. And she just like, okay. And he listened. He listened to her and what she had to say. He says, I'm going to help. God's going to go with you. You're going to go out and you're going to defeat the enemy. And God's going to be with you wherever when you do this. He says, but, he says, I will do this, but I, I will only go if you go with me. Okay, right. He's a general. Why would you want to take the woman against the prophet with you? And like, he was almost, he, it doesn't say this, but he says, he might have been a little fearful to go by himself. I don't know. But he says, I'm going to go. He says, sure, I'll go with you. But, but, but if I go, I'll certainly go with you. But you should know from the beginning of this battle, this will not lead to your personal glory. The Eternal One, God has decreed that it, that the money Sisera, who was the enemy army, will be defeated by a woman. Okay, all right. That sounds like a right. Who's going to, he says, I'm going out to fight the enemy. Well, how's a woman going to win? We'll find out later on. You know, the day came for him to go out, and he sent for her to, he's, yeah, she sent for him to get, he says, hey, it's time. Today's the day. Get up and go out and defeat him. He's God's going to go before you, and you're going to have a victory here today. See, he went out, and the enemy was defeated. God went out before them, kind of set a confusion amongst the people of the enemy army. And next thing, you know, they, they killed every single person except for one person. He escaped. The, the leader of that army escaped. And he left the chariots behind. There was like 900 chariots. So they left them all behind. He jumped out of his chariot and ran off. Of course, you, you, we don't want the leader of the army to, you know, get away. But, you know, God had a plan. He actually went, another person comes in. He goes to a person he thought was going to be a safe person to go to. He went to this tent of the lady named Jael. She, he went in there. And I believe she was a God-fearing woman. And she believed, I believe she heard many stories of Moses, the time of Moses, and all the stories how Moses that, you know, God was with him and everything, all the stories. And I believe she feared God and believed in him. So she, but she didn't tell him, um, I'm not going to, you, you can, she told him, come on in. I'll gave him some warm glass of milk to drink. And because he was hungry and thirsty from being in fighting a battle that day. So he says, I'll just give you some warm milk. And here, I'll give you a place you can hide here. And laid a blanket over him, and he fell fast asleep because he was exhausted. And of course, when he's in the middle of the night, you know, if his sleeping well, she hadn't, she knew what to do. She says, this is, she knew what was happening. I guess in the next valley over. He says, I'm not letting you him escape. This is a, he, she knew who he was. So she gets her tent peg out and puts a nail in his head. So the enemy was completely defeated that day. And because of that, and because of the obedience of De, well, obedience of Deborah, given the word, and then Barack going out and going out to meet the enemy, and her killing the, the leader of that army, they were in, um, in peace for the next, say, I think it was 40 years, I believe I read. But, you know, how God had used such a, you know, a woman, an ordinary person. And, you know, God, you know, can use anybody, really. He used this woman who had no, Joel, who with no military experience, no background, they didn't even know, you know, the Bible says not much about her. But, you know, she defeated, helped defeat the enemy that day. And back to the prophecy, the Deborah has spoken over Barack, he says, the enemy will be defeated by a woman. So I'm just going to just go to say, he can use anybody. Imagine you, you know, she entered that tent, he thought it was safe. He's say, so safe that he could go to sleep. You, you go someplace, you think it's safe. It may or, you know, is it safe? That day, it was not, not for the enemy. Not for the enemy. He never woke up again. So it tells you a little bit, yeah, he can use anybody. He used them. God can use anybody. He used their gifts, their talents. He can even use your weaknesses to help you get through whatever you're going through.

I want every to think of somebody they know, probably from the Bible. The Bible character. Some of you know a little bit of something about. So give it, give you a minute here to think about that. And we'll going tell you what to do with it all. All right. Next, we're want to have everybody find a partner. Some of probably some of you sitting close to. And we'll have you talk to each other. I want you to talk to the person that's in front of you. And you have like two minutes. Share about that Bible character. You can either share about who they are, or you can share how you can relate to that person in the Bible.

Y'all don't know me. How y'all doing? Okay. So my person that that stood out to me, there's a lot of them that stood out to me. There's a lot I can relate to. But for real, it'd be Gideon. And, uh, Gideon, when God called Gideon, he wasn't ready, man. He was scared. He was, he was nobody in his own sight, you know what I'm saying? He was, uh, weak in his own mind. Which I don't really come off to people as being like that, man. But inside, bro, I'll be scared to death sometimes, you know what I'm saying? Like, for real, for real. I'm, he called him and, and Gideon said, Lord, he said, he said, who am I? He said, I'm the least of my household. I'm, I'm nobody, man. I'm, I'm, I'm counted out. Nobody. I'm scared, Lord. I don't know what to do. I don't want to go grab this microphone. I'm scared, Lord. And the Lord said, man, shut up, Gideon. He said, he said, he said, you're a mighty man of valor. He said, I want you to go down here and I want you to defeat this army that's that's risen up against you and your people. And Gideon's like, man, what do I, how do I do this? And, and the Lord said, man, he said, listen. He actually, if you know the story, he broke it all the way down to where there was only like 300 men who went against this whole army. But, but what happened was, is the Lord went out before them and defeated the army before they got there. When I was in prison, I always told the Lord, I said, Lord, I said, go and defeat the battles before I get there. I don't want to have to, I don't want to have to get out of character. I don't want to have to become something that I don't want to be. And, and, and I was scared, you know what I'm saying? But I'm going to tell you like this, I never had a bad time. The Lord always, if there was anybody who had animosity against me, I never knew it. Like, I never, I went to Alabama Chain Gang, bro, and I never, some of the best times that I've done. And that's crazy, you know what I'm saying? For real, for real. But, uh, I don't know, man. Just, he told me, he said, he said, Jeffrey, he said, just go. You know what I'm saying? He, he said, just go, and I'll defeat the enemy. I, I will, I will, I will touch hearts. I will, I will, I will save your family and your friends. All you got to do is just stand up. And, uh, here I am, Lord.

Okay, everybody call me me. Hold. Oh, anyways. Um, what's really cool is I used to think like, I'm, I want to inspire to be like King David, um, just because even he called a man after God's heart. But recently, I realized that I'm more like Paul. I'm radical. Like, um, and then I thought, well, you know, I didn't persecute Christians, but I did persecute God's children until my conversion. And then it's funny because I guess what, and I call myself a lot of times, and I don't do it to emulate Paul, but I call myself the worst sinner of all. Because things that God has shown me, and I've been through that and seen him, um, I have no excuse to ever run from him. Um, I have a saying that it's like, I don't, I don't want to have to worship Him from hell. That's how much I love God. Um, but the other night, I was struggling with something again. But I didn't think about it until this little exercise happened. I was struggling in in the house, in a house with the sin, with a thorn in my side. But I didn't realize it at the time. I had, um, prayed one day, committed it again the next day, prayed again. And now at this point, I'm, I'm in shame. You know, and, um, third time I actually went up to the house, like, like 4:00 in the morning, laid prostate on the ground. You, I was so ashamed. And then, um, the next following night, I woke up and I almost heard an audible voice that my grace is sufficient. And because I was to the point, I was like, uh, there's no way he's going to love me. You know, I keep sinning, I keep crucifying Jesus, Jesus again. And I got woke up and I'm not, and I have never, like, like I said, it was just so strange. It woke me up, boom. And that's the scripture that was in my mind. And I've never done that before. So that's my, that's my Paul. Come on, come on.

So I, uh, I started the homework. I kind of messed up a little bit, just kind of did two days, 14 through 15, two days in a row. Um, but before I left last week, she said, how does God choose her leaders? Um, but anyways, as I was reading, uh, so I started reading into it. And I started, she has the names on the piece of paper, um, that we have in our books, you know, different Gideon, Deborah, Steph wasn't on there, David, etcetera, etcetera. Well, I started reading about them. But then when I read 15, I got to 15:6. It says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you would go out and bear fruit, and that your fruit will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, it may be given to you." So the really, the only thing that stuck out, the main thing pointed out to me was that this is the first revelation in what I read. He chooses us. And if you go in, you look at any natural leaders or in the Bible, anybody that was that was high up that's been mentioned, they didn't choose it. If you read judges, not one of those judges chose to be a judge. Every last one of them, Father, God showed up was like, "Hey, I choose you to do this." And every last one of them was like, uh, no. Are you, you, you don't know me. And then he always was like, "Yeah, I know you, and you're mighty." Because we're not mighty in our own self. We're mighty in Him.

Um, and then I went on, and I was reading. I, I kind of skimmed through 16. I listened to it right out. Road. I had a meeting in Atlanta Monday, but then the next morning, I read John 17. And this was what was really powerful for me. It was a really good revelation that I had about. So, this is the chapter before, uh, Judas betrays him and he goes to the cross, etc. And so, he, he goes up to the high place and he starts praying to the Father. He starts talking to the Father. Um, and I really believe that what, what, what we're trying to really do here and get into a lot of our, our head and what I feel with this spirit that is here is, is that we would learn to become one with the Father and learn how to become one and operate as he operated. Um, and get outside of the religion that I'm only going to find out who Christ is and that's what I'm going to do and I'm going to go to heaven and that's all I accept Christ and go to heaven. But what I'm trying to re-understand that is, is when I read 17, I'm going to read 17:13. It's going to take me a minute, but I'll point out, I'll stop. I'm sorry. I'm going to take over this.

"But now I come to You. And these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one."

So, first off, he's praying that we will be protected on this Earth. I'm not, he's, he's basically saying, Father, I'm not asking you to take them from here yet. I'm asking you to leave them here. But while they're here, I'm asking you, Father, to protect them, to keep them safe, to hold them firm, and don't let the enemy really hurt them. Like, you can, a lot of times the enemy get, how you, you think the enemy has so much power over us. But in reality, Jesus already prayed this. So, if the Bible says that whatever I ask in the name is answered, what do you think it does when Jesus asks?

And then it goes on in 16: "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth." So, therefore, we're called to be sanctified here on this Earth. And the only way to become sanctified in this Earth is to understand His word, the word of truth, to grow in His word and in His truth.

"As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world." So, He sanctifies us by understanding truth. And the truth is that He's chosen and anointed and appointed you, and He has taught you the truth of God in the word of God. And He gives you this in front of us to guide us as a book, as a, as a map. Yes, it seems crazy, man. When I first started reading this, and sometimes when I'm in the flesh and I, I try to read it, it's like I'm reading Chinese words. But when I get in it and I'm in the spirit, and I'm reading it in spirit and in truth, and I'm worshiping in spirit and in truth, it's like these words pop out of my face. Come on! And it's like, and it starts to sanctify me. It starts to change me. And it's like, you're not, I'm not of this world. I'm just here. My, my flesh may be a part of this world because that's the number one battle is, is the flesh. And if we can get out of the flesh and get in the truth of the sanctification process of the, the Spirit of God, it cleanses us from the inside out. It does. It's not an outward thing. I'd rather you come in here filthy, dirty, sinful, than I would self-righteous. A self-righteous man isn't going to receive anything that's going on in here. They're going to be hard at heart, hard at everything. He wants us to be sanctified from inside out. But He's doing it because He wants to send us.

But why is He trying to send us? Why does He want us to be sanctified in truth? If you read on and down, he, he prays, he says, "Also have sent them into the world. For their sake I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth." So, in this prayer, He's sanctifying Him. He's cleansing Himself. Well, He knew that what He was getting ready to do, it was going to sanctify all of us. He was sanctifying Himself by sanctifying in the truth.

"I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word, that they may all be one, even as You and I in Me, and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me."

So, He wants us to become one with Him. He wants to sanctify us so that He can send us into the world, so that He can be, be lifted up, so that when people see us and see the Spirit of God and being one with Him as He was in the Father. Now, He's saying, "I want them to be one as I am one with the Father." That means that you have the DNA that Jesus had inside of you to be able to walk out here and say, "Get up off that ground, dead man!" Your back, oh, it hurts. Let me lay hands on you. You're healed in the name of Jesus because I'm sanctified because He wants us to be one as He is. So, therefore, as Jesus walks on this Earth, we can walk on this Earth. We can be perfect. Our flesh ain't, but our spirit is. But Paul says on later on, it says, "Be, um, um, no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me." My flesh died with Him when He died on that cross. And when He died on the cross, He rose back up three days later. So, when He died, I died, and I rose back up as a new man. Therefore, the old things are gone, and new things have come. And I have to have that in order to carry out what He's calling us to do.

Jesus is praying this. Yeah, He's praying this for us, each and every one of us, before we were even born, thought of. We weren't even in our daddy. Wasn't even a thought. And He was praying for us for these things. But then, what I want you to really understand is, the church is really missing this. He, he prayed all this before he prayed this next sentence. And this next sentence is that he would be, we would be with Him in heavenly places. So, he prayed that we would be one with the Father. This is the revelation that I got. We would be one with the Father before we would go up there. He don't care about us coming. He wants us up there with Him. But His top priority is not just to go to heaven. It's not just for me to convince you to pray that Jesus died on the cross for your sins so that you can go to heaven. He didn't die on the cross for our sins so we go to heaven. He died on the cross for our sins so that we can be sanctified, so that we can be cleansed, so that the Holy Spirit can come inside of us and dwell and become one with Him. All right, amen. That is the whole point of the cross. The point of the cross is to be free here on this Earth. Jesus said to prayer, uh, "Let Your will be done as, as heaven is, is on Earth." He wants us to bring heaven down. Yeah. When we fill up with the Holy Spirit, we have that fire. When we walk, we should see. We should, we should, they should see it. Yes. Amen. Amen.

And not to mention that, man, I really want to know, y'all hearing this fire coming out of me, man? I want you to know something, man. I really, I really shouldn't really be sitting here. Including, if I could tell you what I just was doing with my wife 45 minutes ago, y'all would make me crazy for stepping up here. I'm not perfect, man. I just left. I had an argument with my wife. My finances are in the bucket. My business is still struggling. And I was to the point I wasn't even going to come. Man, I really had no, been snapping. But I did because I wasn't in this flesh. But what I really want to share too is this. I was in prisons 10 years ago, probably more than that now. 10 years ago, I was heroin addict. Me, addict. Straight up junky. I encountered the Holy Spirit because I tried to kill myself. I prayed. That's the Lord. I said, "Wait me up." That's not where it was meant to go. Hold on. That's not where it was going to go. I, I read this morning, and this is in Jeremiah. And this is what He showed me this morning. This is, this is me. This is, it's only in second, in second. This is, this is, this is my life in a nutshell of what I've done. So, I was reading in Jeremiah too. It says, "What injustice did your fathers find in Me, that they went far from Me and walked after emptiness and became empty?" I grew up in a church house. My granddaddy's a pastor. My daddy was probably called to be a pastor, but, but he just let the enemy take some steps. Um, my uncle's a pastor. They even started a church. I grew up in this, but I walked after the emptiness. Nothing in this world ever going to satisfy. I chased it. I chased after the money. I chased after the girls. I chased after the high. I chased after everything you can think of that's in this world, but yet nothing satisfies. Nothing ever will. And, and, and, and you read on through there. It says, "I brought you into the fruitful land to eat its fruits and its good things, but you came and defiled My land and My inheritance that you have made abandon or an abomination." I've tasted and seen, but I still fell short. Even now, even just today, I mean, and, and I don't even know how to describe it, man. It's kind of like this. He says, "You can relate to Gideon." I did it real hard on Gideon this week. I felt like Gideon was on my heart this week on the study. I know He called me. And it's like this. Every time that I get, I'm going to tell you like this. When you do find Him, it's not easy, man. Right? The really, the number one key is to keep that truth in front of your face because the moment that you look away from that truth, it's the moment that it gets hard. Because all I can see in front of me is everything that around me that I built in the world is falling around me. But the thing is, my wife said this too, in the middle of the argument, "All those things that you're fussing about, that you're stressing about, that you're angry about, that could go away, that could fall apart, that's of the world, and you're not of the world." I mean, I'm acting like a heathen. And my wife, my wife's spitting truth at me. But I know, like, if I focus in on Him and I lean into His words and I look and see Him, all those burdens go away. Like, when I was like, "Please, Lord, don't let these folks call me up there. I don't deserve to go up there." But my spirit's like, "Do it." And the reason that I'm saying this is because I'm trying to get myself back on there. And then the enemy's coming at me any way he can. Every time that I get, feel like I'm getting breakthrough, something else is coming. Just the other day, so I went and I helped a lady for free, pretty much. I mean, she gave me some money, but I, I really didn't ask for anything. She's from church. I had the most amazing encounter with God, just talking, talking about this right here, about being one with God and about how when you become one with Him, you become as He was. But anyways, and then she, I told her what was going on, and she rebuked the spirit of, um, the spirit of destruction and the spirit of poverty off of me. Okay, well, then the next day, yesterday, I went and helped a friend of mine. And I went, didn't really help a friend. I went to go do something for him for a couple hundred bucks. And I was picking up railroad tires. Anybody know how heavy a railroad tire is? I was doing this by myself. All right. Uh, I, uh, bent down. I got two of them up on my back. What it is, is this dude don't run over this retaining wall three times in his truck because he comes a little drunk every three months. He pays us $300 bucks to come put this thing back up because he's drunk. They fell over. And I'm got three of them up, and I'm on the last one. And I, I go down. I'm going to tell you this. I can do this right now. There's a miracle, uh, from last night. So, I went, I went down. I picked it up. When I picked it up, it was, I was stuck like this. I mean, it was so agonized in pain, I couldn't even sit up. I couldn't even get out of, I couldn't even sit down. I couldn't bend over. I couldn't do anything. So, I, I'm, I'm really, I was under, under attack. But I'm going to tell you something. All this really started, I think, who said it earlier? Y'all said earlier that the enemy's going to come. I think TR said it. The enemy's going to try to stop something. Doesn't mess with if it's jump. The reason that everything's hard on me is because I'm digging back in here. Yeah, because I just got back into this, this revelation that I can be sanctified as Christ is sanctified. So, I'm, I'm, I'm under attack. But see, what happens is, I'm trying, my heart is to keep my focus on. But then he wants to throw something over here that's of the world to get me distracted. And then I get into my flesh. Because see, what happened really was, is I got in my flesh because I have a 16-year-old boy that is crazy. He done, I went upstairs to his room, and he done drew his girlfriend's name in my wall with a damn knife and has a hole in the wall. And I confront him about it, only over text, because he's, he's my stepson, he's at his dad's house. And so I'm in my flesh, mad, because now that's something else I got to fix, and I ain't got the money to fix, and I, you know what I'm saying? So, it's like, boom, boom, boom. But I'm going to tell you this, though. The one thing I do know, like, I mean, I got to my wife, and I was like, "I don't understand why I even do this. Why do I even ever attempt to try to get into the world?" Because I know that I'm called to be back here. I know that I'm called to be an evangelist. I know that I can sit here and sit and have a conversation with each one of y'all by myself, and I have us both in tears. And I know. And what I, I run, man, I run. But He won't let me run, bro. He won't. 10 years I've been running, and every time it ends up in the same place, either in the street, busted and disgusted, behind a bar. Yeah, you can have the best time you want to behind them bars, because you imagine what you could do out here when you had the same thing. Amen. I was in, I was in max. So, I should really, for real, I should be here. 10, six, seven years ago, I was looking at 10 years in prison. I ain't never, by the grace of God, I really ain't never met it to prison, man. But I've been so close. I'm, I got 17 felonies on my record for first, second degree. But the last was assault and battery. I had folks call me preacher. But the reason that I ended up in jail six years ago is because I was called. I was at Jensen Franklin's Church, man. And this is, he's never done, I've looked it up, he ain't never done this again. I was at this man's church, and he said that, "I'm willing to, I have a discipleship program, and I'm willing to pay for anybody that comes up here tonight and wants to commit themselves to becoming a disciple, and I'm going to put you in front of a church." I felt that tug to go up there, but I didn't. Two weeks later, I was sitting in H-count jail, maximum prison, maximum security for aggravated assault. I went, I start, I dove right back in it because I'm going to tell you this too, man. It don't matter how far you go, brother. You always come right back to Him. That sin don't not separate you from the love of God. Um, but I was sitting in, in, in jail, man, aggravated assault. I led like three or four, I don't know, a few, a few people from, they were on there from murder charges that they told me they done it. They said they shot, they fell. They did, you know, say they told me they did. And I'm like, they're like twice my age. I was 20 something in, in, in here, and these folks are like in their 30s and 40s. And I'm like talking to them, and they're coming to me, talk and preach, because, because I know that when you get in this word, in His prayer, and He talks about sanctified out the truth, He said, "In and His word, the word of truth." And when you get in it, it pours out. Amen. It pours out. But He says, "You got a river that flows out of you." This is the river that flows out of you. But I, what I really want to get out of to just to say is this. Never forget that as long as you keep your eyes on Him, nothing else matters. Paul says, "I have learned to be content in every situation." I had learned that yet, but I think I've learned the key of it. And the key of it is to keep our eyes focused on Him and to never lose sight, no matter how heavy, no matter what's really coming your way, don't never lose sight. Because man, my wife said this to me too. Me, of all people, of all people that have seen the goodness of God, could sit there and say, "Why do I have to? Why should I have to do this? Why do I need this? Why shouldn't I even be trying to compare myself to no heathens?" Because they've already, I've already been a heathen. And when I was a heathen, it wasn't that great. Because I'm like, I said, "Why? I said, 'I'm so, I'm really mad.'" She's like, "Why are you so mad? Why are you so on edge?" I said, "Because old Joe Blow over there, that's probably smoking a blunt in the truck, has two months of business lined up. Homeboy over here goes and drinks his Twisted Teas and his beers every single night and doesn't never even think about God, but they're flourishing in their business. Yet here I am, seeking the Lord, trying to do what's right, and here I am, I'm getting scraps." So, yeah, I'm mad. And, and I, and I really did. I told her, I said, "I don't understand why I keep doing this." But I can't. The reason I keep doing it is because I know. You can't convince me otherwise. It doesn't matter how hard life gets. The Lord is still right there beside me. Yes. And He will always be right there beside me. It doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter where you're at. He's still right there beside me. I should be in prison, bro. And I should be just now getting out of prison. The judge even said, he said, "Man, he said, 'Because I wouldn't pull that judge they off me, 10, eight, a 10-year sentence.'" I told him, "I ain't taking that." I don't know if any of you ever heard of the Valley Rescue Mission. I told, I told my dad, I said, "I got accepted into a rehab, uh, it's a year program, and I want credit for time served, and I'll take 8-2." I already did a year in, in max, on max, in Hall County. I went before the judge. But before I went with the judge, and I remember now, I'm sanctified, and I'm filled with the Holy Ghost. Make sure you understand that you can't do any of this unless you are sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost. You can't do any of it out of flesh. You can't do any of it out of selfish ambition. I prayed for seven people in that, that, that, that van before we walked in. I prayed. I said, "Lord, I said, 'Right now, I said, I decree that everything and everybody that's going to go in here is going to go home today, no matter the charge, no matter the situation, no matter what it is, they're going home today.'" I was the last person to go see this judge. And usually that's not good because the judge is usually tired, and they ain't really trying to deal with it. But every single person that walked out from that van with me were getting released that same day. I went in front of this courthouse. And so the assault and battery was kind of a domestic violence, something I came home, caught it. Don't really matter. I caught my girl doing something I shouldn't. I snapped. Anyways, the judge looked at me. He said, "I have no idea why I'm doing this. He said, 'If it was up to me, I'd send you to prison. I don't even want to see you again. You came, because I'm not from there, I wasn't from there. He said, 'You come, you, you come here and I only got, got record of you being here for a few months, and you come here and you cause havoc like this, and now you're in front of me. I should be sending you to prison.' I see here that the first offer they offered was 10 to the door with no chance of parole. He said, 'But you come at them with this.' He said, 'But I'm going to accept this. He said, 'But if you make one mistake, it's over with, and you come back in front of me, you're going to prison, and I'm going to start all the way over.'" That was eight, that was seven, six years ago, and I'm completely through probation. God. But I'm telling you, the one, the key, man, to the addiction, to the struggle, to the worthlessness, to the unworthiness, to any kind of feeling that you have, there's a song that's always getting said, "No, the, uh, His name is greater than all things." I think you said that today, didn't you? His name is greater than depression. His name is greater than anxiety. His name is greater than all things. All you have to do is speak His name and let Him sanctify. I, I just really feel that this school is set up to help teach that we are to be sanctified and be one with Christ here on this Earth. And it's not just about going to heaven. And I'm here to tell you guys that I know that from the background that y'all are coming from, in the back of y'all's head, there's a feeling that I'm not worthy, that I don't deserve this, that I'm not ever going to be able to be like this. But the greatest kicker of it all is, He made you worthy. He chose you. He appointed you. He chose me and He appointed me at the rightful time, the rightful place. He placed me in the right place to be anointed and held and become one with Him. I used to think that a lot of the preachers that they have, you watch, were freaking from the devil, man. Todd White. I met Dan Mohler. But I never heard of him until I met him. But Todd White, I thought he was the devil. I defended Todd White on Facebook when somebody was saying the same thing that I believe. This is real, bro. This power is real. It really is. Then, and y'all all ought to know that if you, who in here did methamphetamine? Who in here saw shadow people? So, y'all know that the devil was real. If y'all seen them shadow people, this is legit. If that's real, the Holy Ghost is real too. No. Amen. Seek after earnestly, man. And I promise you, He'll show up. Ask Him. I, I, I was at Able when I was separated with my wife. Um, I, the first time I heard Dan Mohler, well, actually the second time, he was talking about his wife, how he encountered the love of God. I really ask that y'all would really ask to encounter the love of God. Really, just kind of matter of fact, right now, I, I just feel like that we should close our eyes, um, and just, and just say, "Lord, I want to, I want to encounter Your love." Ask Him to come down here and hug you. Ask Him to come down here and, and, and just touch you. Because when you encounter the love of God, as Kim Walker Smith said, the best way, when you encounter the love of God, you will never be the same. That's right. And so, right now, Holy Spirit, I just ask that Your love would fill this place. Just fall in this place right now on each and every one of these men's hearts, that they would encounter You right now tonight, Lord, that they wouldn't be the same, that they would never understand anything different than You. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how hard their head gets, no matter how hardheaded they think they are, that they will never know anything different but You, Father. I just ask that You to show them Your identity, show them Your love, show them the sanctification, show them their truth, Your truth, right now. Holy Spirit, just fall in here with fire. More in here, Lord. Engulf us with Your flame. Engulf us with Your love. Come down and hug each and every one of us right now. Any worthlessness, unworthiness, I rebuke it in the name of Jesus. Any spirit that is in anybody's mind, I rebuke it in the name of Jesus. And I fill it right now with the truth that you are loved. You are made worthy. You are anointed. You are chosen. You are called here for a purpose. And we just thank You for all the things that You're doing in our lives, the things that You have done, and the things that You haven't done. And Father, I just declare freedom in these men's hearts and these men's minds right now. Amen. That they are no longer that addict. That they are no longer that failure. That they are righteous. They are holy. They are blameless. And they are perfect in Your sight. Just let Your love flow, Father. Let it flow right now in the name of Jesus. In Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you, Jesus.

That is amazing because I sent sent emails out last week. You were here last week. You got an email from us unless we got the wrong email address, but we're going to send out, um, Bible readings and videos and like some of the videos that we sent out was, um, Todd White's testimony and Toby and Tommy. Yeah, their testimony. And, um, and we also had a, a testimony from, it's Todd White's testimony of, of a guy who was an atheist that had a dream about Satan. And that is really important. Um, I'll send them out again. You guys can, uh, do the homework this week for last week. Um, but also the scriptures of John 14, John 15, 16, John 17, and John 20 through 21. Like, they're really important to understand your identity. They're really identity scriptures. Um, it's Jesus, especially John 17 through 21. You know, John 17 is Jesus' last prayer for all of us. And, and we want, we want to stir the hearts. Like we did with Ezekiel. Like I wanted to see every one of you a different person by the time you leave in 12 weeks. Because I know what it was like to be in church for 18 years. And when I was committing suicide, I served. I spent time almost every Sunday, twice, maybe even Wednesday nights, in church. But I didn't know that God had a purpose. And I know that I know that when my car was on that embankment, as I'm committing suicide, that I was going to hell. Like, I know that it gets tough. I know that it gets tough. But we got to pull on Him because there's nothing like, you can't go back. Going back is going back to hell. Like, there's only one way. And, and I just want to encourage you that it's not, it's an adventure. I don't want to say it's easy because it's not easy. I mean, I've struggled. Even last year, this is crazy. I know you all have to leave, but last year I was ready to throw in the towel. I really was. I've been doing this since 2007 when He changed my life from suicide. He healed me radically of 12 years of medical problems. The next year, He sends me to Global School of Supernatural Ministry. 2014, He gives me a dream of a school. This is the start of that dream. We had the first one in January in Pennsylvania. I, I woke up in the morning and I, I was so ingrained in my brain that I could write down all the details of the dream. And I wrote it out and I did a PowerPoint and I gave it to as many leaders as I could think. I did the Joseph thing. Do you think any one of them ever gave me a hand? It could have helped. Any one of those leaders, every one of them could have grabbed a hold of that dream. Not one. For 10 years, 10 years I fought the battle because I knew that if God gave it to me in the middle of the night and it was so vibrant in the morning that it was Him. And there's nothing but going forward. I've been running throughout the world 300 days a year, going to at least four nations a year, because the dream that I had is students going to four nations a year, not paying not one cent for the school. It's going to stump a lot of schools because they, they charge you like thousands and thousands of dollars. And God showed me how to do it free. Everyone says, "Well, there's an entitlement spirit. They can't, they're not going to want what you have. They're not going to put the time in. It's not, they're going to value it because they don't pay something." My God said, "Where in the Bible did I ever charge anyone?" Right. And I love these pastors. I love these schools. I, I've been to several of them. But when God tells you, you can't charge, man, you can't. And why would I? Why would I want to charge and undermine what God wants to do? Free. And it's a, it's a black market in a lot of people's faces. It is because they're charging an astronomical amounts of money for something that we're giving away free. And so I want to encourage you that you have an opportunity to gain something that God is doing. And He's doing something in Phoenix City in Alabama. There is a word out there that whatever God is doing is coming to Alabama first. Praise God. And we didn't come down here just on a whim. We knew that it was God to come to Alabama. And I just want to encourage you that when God gives you something or when God touches your life, go after that again and again and again. It's called habitation, not just a visitation. Because why do I want to hope that I will be welcome in heaven someday if I don't know Him now? Because Jesus was approached by a man and he said, "Hey, we healed in Your name and we cast the demons out in Your name." But Jesus said, "Be gone, I know you not." So, if Jesus told that one to be gone, why do we want to hedge our bets on that He's going to want me then? Or you know what? I have time. No, I'm telling you, my nephew didn't have time. I pray that he's in heaven. I've seen him in heaven since then. You know, I pray that he didn't go to hell because of my shortcomings. And a young man actually got to witness to him a few years earlier, and that's when he accepted Jesus. But I had the more for him. And I just want to encourage you that as you step out of your comfort zone, do it with God, and He's going to show you amazing things. And I want to challenge you this week is to at least pray for two people this week. And I, I don't know if you understand what words of knowledge are. Some of you have been around Chris Cloud and they've taught on words of knowledge and the prophetic. But ask God for something about someone that you shouldn't know that would be edifying, encouraging, and uplifting. And watch God give you that word for that person, and it changes their life. Like, literally, we were in Walmart tonight, and I got a word for the one clerk, and he was a downtrodden young man that looked like he had no hope in hell. And when I spoke to him, he had a leap in his spirit. That's what a word of knowledge and the prophetic will pull them up out of the pit of hell. And you all get to do that. So, we're just going to end here. God, I just thank You so much for this amazing group of people. I thank You for what You're doing in our hearts. And I thank You, Father God, that as we walk out of here, we have questions. And we're going to take them to You. God, why did You save me? So many other people died, suicide. But why did You choose me? Let Him tell you. God, I could be in prison right now, but You have another plan. Why me? I should be in a grave right now, but I'm not. Why me? Philippians 1:21-26 says that Paul would rather be with Jesus right now, but he said, "Because I'm called to be here, I'm called to be fruitful." And so I want to challenge each and every one of you to go and ask God, "What does it mean to be fruitful in your life and to have lasting fruit?" Because you all are called to be leaders. And God, I thank You for touching each and every one of us in our nighttime hours and give us the courage, the boldness, and the understanding to walk where You call us to walk. To give us dreams to show us where we're going to go the next day. Allow this roadmap of life to completely be our GPS. It would be the God Positioning System in our life. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you for.