Tattoo interpretation and power evangelism

[Music] All right guys, real quick. As Trina comes up, if you need a chair, if you need a chair, let's run over and grab it real quick. Go on the wall. If you need a chair, you don't want to stand up for the next hour, um, I would say grab a chair.

[Music] You help you with P, help you. Give it closer. Good morning, good morning. How are you all doing? Awesome. So, who is hungry for more of God? Yeah! Come on! Who is really hungry? Jesus! Come on, Jesus! So, hey, I feel like this is for you, dude. Leading the way. It's a, it's a book that, um, one of my Ministry Partners, um, Edie, wrote. We co-wrote this book called Radical Christianity 101. And, and, um, if you have any, if you want to know more about what your call is in life, grab that book because it takes you back to scripture. It tells you who Jesus is, who he is to you, through you, and in you. And then it teaches you how did Jesus empower his disciples to do what he did. And then how they empowered others to do what they [Music] did.

It is important that we take everything back to scripture. And it's about time that we actually take and bring the word back into our lives. God said, "Get the word in you. Let it become you." And because if you let the word become you, you're going to go out into that street and you're not going to just say the King James version. Just say the Lord. You know, "How art thou?" You know, whatever. You're going to have it in you, and it's going to be in your language, and you're going to share with people the love of God. You can share with them scriptures that pop in your head. And I'm believing that after we're done today, that you'll have a little better understanding and a hunger to want to get back into scripture and find the little hidden nuggets that will help you walk out Christianity.

And our heart is to create a lifestyle. I don't, I really am not convinced that when I was committing suicide that I was going to heaven. I really do believe that I was going to hell. I was a Christian for 18 years. I did the dress. I served in the church. I catered. I was the social butterfly, but I was dying inside because I did not know the author. I had no clue who Jesus was. I knew what he did for me, but that was it. And so I really believe that God saved me from the pit of hell that day when he saved my life. And I, I pray that I can help others not to walk in that same place. Because what if I know God is about grace? Well, what if we're given salvation and we don't do anything with it? What if it's the one talent that gets buried? Co, and we bury that talent. We don't do anything with that talent. What happened to that person in the Bible? Any a good day. You know, I believe that we have many talents given to us, and what we do with them is up to us. And God will not force his will on you. But I want to encourage you that when you build a relationship with him, and you allow him to remove the fear of man, and the fear of failure, and even the fear of what you think you'll go out there and do, and, and be the vessel filled with the Holy Spirit, guided by Jesus, and watching where the Father is, and you'll pour out Jesus and people, and you'll see lives changed left and right. I don't believe that we're created to do anything but that.

And I believe that for thousands and thousands of years, probably 2,000 years, that somewhere along the line, we got wayward, and we started worrying about our jobs, our families, our careers. We started going to college, but we don't do it with God. We started taking God out of those places. And I get so tired of this. "I can't take God into my job. I lose my job." Do we believe that if we take God into our job and we represent him well, that he's not going to pour out favor on us? What if we don't have favor in our job because we're not representing the kingdom? And the enemy knows that we are not truthful in who we are, and he's just smacking around like a wayward wave to and fro because we don't know, understand our identity.

So, I love tattoo interpretation. It was actually the first thing that God actually ever had me do, and I failed epically. And someone died. Just to be honest, it can't fail any more than that. Um, it was one of the worst things I ever went through in my life, and it was a family member. I do believe that if I would have stepped out and spoke to my nephew that day, he'd be still living today. And all as it was, is a tattoo of a cross on his bicep of his arm. All it had to do was say, "Hey, what does it mean?" That's all God asked me to say. Nothing else. He didn't say to preach to him. He just said, "Hey, just ask him, what does it mean?" So, I'm praying today that we'll get rid of this fear that keeps us held down, keeps us from being who we're called to be.

So, I, I was in, so the reason I do tattoo interpretation, I actually love them. I don't have one, not yet. I'm not convinced I want to get one because if they can find an ink that doesn't disappear or get green or ugly looking, I think then I would get one. But I'm afraid that they'll get ugly looking or they'll grow. You know, and I'm praying I don't grow, but I don't want them to get bigger than they should be. You know, I don't want a turtle to look like a cow. Or, you know, I'm just being real. I love them though. And the reason why I love tattoos is it opens a door for me to talk to somebody that I probably wouldn't have an open door to talk to. And one of the things that I love about it, it's, you may say it's not biblical. Well, Jesus comes back with a, with King of Kings, Lord of Lords on his thigh, you know, and he has a robe that says "King of Kings, Lord of Lords," and he has the T-shirt too. So, I'm not mocking God, but I'm believing that we need to take him out of the box. We need to start letting him live through us to reach people that we wouldn't necessarily have an open door to talk to. He loves you, and he loves everyone of those.

When we went to the bar the other day, we went to the Salty Goat, you know what it is. We got to minister to guys. We literally saw one guy get tears in his eyes because he got baptized in the Holy Spirit. And it was just a random dude that had an awesome bike. And John started to talk to him. And, and we just started to minister to him. You know, you, you guys are, especially the guys that, that have motorcycles, you got something in common with them. This is a perfect week to go to one of these places. You know, don't compromise who you are. Also, if you know you deal with stuff, don't go there unless God goes there with you. And don't go there by yourself. There is wisdom, but they're everywhere. And just, just sit down and talk to them. Most of the people that are here this weekend came to get away from their life. They came to get away from the busyness of the world, and they're relaxed. They're not expecting someone to preach to them. But if you come and you give them a word of knowledge, or you, if you talk to them about their tattoo, this is what I love. I love to go up to someone and say, "Hey, I love your tattoos. Which one's your favorite?" Cuz you guys know that they're costly. You don't get them free. And you got them for art. You might have got them to cover up something, but you got them to display who you are. And a lot of times, people, people get them when they don't want them, you know, and later regret it because they might have been intoxicated and someone talked them into getting one.

This one guy, I was in California, and he had a pit bull tattoo on his arm. And, uh, we were in a fairly prestigious area of, of the Bay Area. And I walked up to him and I said, "Hey, I love tattoos. I said, "What's the story of the pit bull?" And he's like, "Oh man," he says, "I hate that. Every day I look at that, and I just, it reminds me of my awful college days." God's about ready to redefine what that means because he's not going to get it changed. But he looks at that mistake every day brushing his teeth, from the first time he gets up in the morning to the time he goes to bed. It's right there in his view. He can't change it. It would be impossible to change it. So God can change the meaning of something. And so I said, "Can I tell you what God says about it?" He's like, "Man." And he was afraid because so many people have been smacked for having a tattoo. Well, those people need smack. I'm sorry, they do. They need to stop judging people because we were not called to do that. The Holy Spirit's called to convict our heart. They're called to love the hell out of us. And so I, it was something like this. I said, "I feel like God says you're like a pit bull. And everything that you grab a hold of, hang on, high water, doesn't get past you. I said, "You have this tenacity, and you have this passion of life, and the things that mean the most to you, you would lay your life down for." And the guy is wrecked. And he's like, "Wow, yeah, that is who I am." So God just showed me who he was out of a tattoo that he doesn't even like. Now, every time he goes to brush his teeth, or he does anything, it's going to bring a remembrance to him of what God thinks of him. I love to do that.

We had a guy that had an Illuminati tattoo. And if you know what that is, it's, it's a one-world order, and they believe that most of us should not even be existence. And, um, there's a lot more to it. But anyway, his old girlfriend talked him into getting tattoos that are the same on both of them. And he said, "Oh, she would never pick that." Well, she did. And he had already promised her that he would. You know, we need to be careful. You know, just because we promised somebody, man, you better, better own, better take it back to God before you do stuff. You know, I don't care if it is honor to a man, you need to honor God above everything else. Because we live in regret half the time because are we honoring someone we shouldn't be. So anyway, he has it. It's right here on his arm. And he, he really can't cover it up. And he's working as a waiter, makes it hard. Everyone sees his. Was it on the inside or the outside? Inside. So every time he goes to reach out to give someone their check, they see this tattoo. And I felt like God said to tell him that that his eye is single, and I saw Christ in him. And I love it when I see Jesus in people who don't think that anyone can see Jesus in them. And we just had that the other day. And the guy's like, "What? You just made my day that you saw Jesus in me." There are so many Christians out there that don't know that they have Jesus in them. And man, just ask God. God, is this person a Christian? Do you know them? Man, they are the best conversations I've ever had is to go up to somebody and say, "You know what? I see Jesus in you. And he loves you so much that he laid his life down for you. And he's proud of who you are." You know, I don't have to tell him that he's not proud of what they do, but he's proud of who they are. There's a difference. You know, um, so with that tattoo in California, it opened up a door to bring the prophetic. And I started talking to him about his business and what he was going to do in his business. I had no clue who this guy was. I didn't have those words. Words before I started talking to him about the tattoo, I didn't even know what I was going to say about the tattoo. And I started asking him questions. You know, when you ask them, "Hey, that looks like a really expensive tattoo. What does it mean to you?" Man, their walls start coming down because they're like, "Wow, you really care." You know, if we just, if we would hold them with kid gloves, with gentleness and kindness and honor and respect, I don't care how mean they are.

We were over in Malo, and I'm sharing this because I saw how somebody changed in an instant, like right in front of us. He completely changed. So, you know, the movie The Chosen, and you know, um, Matthew has this little black dog. Well, this, this scene, I swear was like in Malo. And we saw this gate, we saw this black dog, and it looked like just out of the movie. And, uh, and my friend Ed and I were like, "What?" Like, this, we need to take pictures. And it was a friend of ours' house in the refugee camp, which is 60,000 poor people, homeless people, that they give them a plot of land, and they expect them out of nothing to build something. And so anyway, our friend moved back to the Congo, and he gave up this house to somebody else. So we're taking pictures. This guy comes running across, and he is furious because we're taking pictures of his dog. Again, yeah, I understand they don't like pictures taken of them because, you know, too many people sell their pictures. You know, but we're taking pictures of a dog. And, and he puts a dog in the gate, and he's coming at a full throttle with anger and fierceness that we don't know what he's going to do. He's high on something. And in that moment, God gives me a word of knowledge. This is how quick a word of knowledge is can change people's lives. I looked at him, I said, "You got a lower back problem." He stops in his tracks. "How do you know?" I said, "Because God brought me from the United States today to heal your back." And his back gets completely healed. And, and all four of us that were on the team prophesied over that young man. He's in years, he's never heard anybody speak those kinds of words over him, to speak life into this young man. He gets baptized in the Holy Spirit, he accepts Jesus, and two days later, he comes to one of our gatherings. And one of our ministry partners was having problems with his foot, and he wasn't able to go on outreach with us. That young man prays for Jacob. Jacob's foot gets completely healed. In two days, he's a, he, he becomes a son, he gets baptized in the Holy Spirit, and God uses him to heal somebody. Like, we don't have to go to seminary school or cemetery school. We don't, like, if God calls you, go and do it. Because a reason like Heidi Baker, you may or may not know who she is. She's a blond-haired little person from, um, Laguna Beach, California. She gets wrecked by God on, like, um, when were you, um, Indian Reservation. She was just going to do some good stuff. She wasn't a Christian. Her family weren't Christian. And they left to go to, and God did a setup. She comes back and radically is changed for God. God uses her to go all over the world, but mainly to go to the poor. And then God called her to go get a doctor degree. By the time she's 25 years old, she couldn't, she couldn't really read or write in high school. She's 16 years old, and her teacher says, "Well, maybe if you do a, a junior college, you maybe you could become a nurse." She had no hope in this girl. She ends up getting her doctor degree, even though she tells God, "Hey, I don't need a doctor degree to serve the poor." He said, "Go do it." And now she has a university the size of Stanford over Mozambique, Africa. And you need a degree, you need a doctoral degree to have a university. She's taken the kids out of the trash dump, given them an education, and they can't just go to a university because they have no birth certificate. But in their college, they are giving them what they need. These kids are going to take over the country. They're already starting to graduate from, from their college now, because of one little obedient woman in the dirt who went and got an education when God said do it. And she becomes the founder of a university that can help these kids get out of the dirt. And don't say that you're not qualified because every one of you are qualified. I was an illiterate person. I couldn't read, write very well. I was, I didn't have good English. I still don't, but I'm an author and a publisher. And that book that I just gave the young man, I'm getting ready to publish my third book. So God can use the little old me to become something. And I believe that we are hidden for a reason. If you feel like no one sees you, that's awesome because God has you hidden for a season so that he can build character in you. It will smack you anything in the face.

So I had this guy with a tattoo over in Brazil, and he had a, he had a black camera tattoo on his calf of his leg. And I had a black camera, brand new one, it was about a $600 camera in my backpack. And I just started to speak life into this kid. And I shared some things about what I saw him doing in media. And I leaned into him. And I heard God say before I leaned in, he said, "Get that camera out of your bag. You're going to give it away." And I'm like, "What? Like, the kid has a tattoo. He should have a camera, right? And the money to get the tattoo. You think he would have had the money to get the camera?" So I was obedient. I got the camera out. I had it in my back. And I leaned into him and I said, "How long or, um, do you have a camera?" And he said, "No, I got the tattoo believing for a camera." And I handed him the camera. And he started to cry. And the most priceless picture I've ever seen on Facebook was him holding a camera off to the side with this huge big smile on his face. And it was the camera I gave him. So just being obedient. And God gave me something better. Couple years later, it took me two years to give it to me. But, you know, just be obedient.

So I had this, this other girl, she had a scorpion on her wrist. I didn't see the, you know, the lines where someone tries to commit suicide. I didn't see that line across there, but I saw where the claws were right on that line. And, um, and I just spoke life into her. I've never felt like this urgency to more or less tell her that she had to choose sides that day. I didn't know her. I knew her sister. And I'm speaking such a life into her. She yells at her sister, gets into a full-fledged fight with her sister because she thinks that her sister told her everything about that I was saying. I didn't know anything about this girl. But in it, I told her, I said, "The enemy has tried to poison you." And I saw it with the tail, not with the claws. And she's like, "Yes." She said, "I drank antifreeze, and I should have died." But the nurse in the hospital said, "You're not going to die on my watch." And she lived, and has no lasting effects of the antifreeze that she drank. She ended up accepting Jesus that day and stepping across the line into God's kingdom because she had a dream. And in the dream, before I met her, she had this dream. And this lady, she's in bed, and this lady is trying to pull her out of the bed, and she knows it's not good. And she didn't know what to do about it. So I got to help her with the dream also. We carry the same spirit that Joseph had. We have the ability to interpret people's dreams. We have the ability to interpret tattoos. So when you look at a tattoo, a lot of it is, some of them look ugly, you know, but ask God which one is he highlighting. Or you can ask the person, "Which one's your favorite?" Like with you, which one's your favorite? Star. The starfish. Ah. So I feel like with the, with the octopus, you're actually this starfish. And so, so, um, the enemy, I believe, represents the octopus, but he doesn't have a hold of you. I feel like the enemy can't find you, and you're the starfish in the sand. And God is protecting you, and you are God's apple of his eye, and he's going to continue to protect you. And that star, and that octopus can't touch you. That's a destroyer spirit that can't touch you. And I feel like it probably wasn't in your life before, but God has removed it. So what's the one on your shoulder? It's a, what? Camouflage. The deer head. Atlanta Braves. A, okay. Yeah. So what I feel like God is saying about it is that out of nothing, you are something. And, and he is, he has protected the knot in the wood. And you're like the knot. Like, you, you define what that wood is. You define what that wood is all about. You're not some skull head, you know, not a knot head either. But I just really believe that I think that is actually really cool one. You know, um, I feel like we're, we're grafted into him. And, and it looks like the knot is grafted into the wood. Yeah. So.

[Music] Um, like if you see a snake, what does a snake represent in your life? You know, do what? Yes, but it also could be more than that too. You know, the way you can turn a snake around is they lay and wait. We're supposed to be patient. So they don't need to know which one you're talking about. And you can say, "Hey, I feel like you're a very patient person, that you lay and wait for the things of the Lord." They don't need to know you were talking about the snake that they have on their arm. You know, a lot of times we don't even tell them which one we're actually prophesying over. And this one time, Ed was with me, and she's prophesying over this guy. He has a whole sleeve, and with them, you can pick all kinds of things out of it. And they're like, "Hey, I want to know which one you're talking about," cuz it was so amazing and it, it was life-changing. And she's like, "No, I don't want you to focus on which one it is. I just want you to focus on Jesus." And so she finally gives in and she's like, "It's right, and it's not there." Like, God gave her something totally that wasn't even on his arm. God can do that when we tap into the source of Christ. And it's like prophecy. It's like words of knowledge. It's everything you do, you do it with the Lord. Word. And you're always talking to him. Like, "God, what are you saying? What are you saying?" You know, a snake actually can be healing because it was put up on a pole. You know, that person might have healing in them and they don't know it. Maybe they're going to be used by God to see thousands of people healed. You know, whatever God does, it's going to change their life. And we get to be the vessel to use it when we can redefine what their tattoos meant and help them understand that there's something different.

Um, so I, I did a tattoo class. Um, this would have been back in 2017, '18. And I had, I had a PowerPoint presentation, and I had people actually looking at some pictures. And I asked them, we did an interactive thing, and I asked them, like, "What do you see in that tattoo?" And I just randomly picked tattoos off of the internet. And I found ones that were colorful, that were different, and some had some meaning. But it was just, I wanted to see what other people saw. What, with God, we can see something totally different than what we see with our eyes. And it was amazing. This one tattoo was, it was almost like, um, an old sleeper, like a, a demonic figure down at the bottom of the arm. And then it had a stairwell going up the arm. And at the top, and the stairs were like breaking apart. And at the top, it had a, um, a clock that was breaking apart. And down below was water. And this little boy is running up the stairs. And they shared all kinds of different, awesome things. And at that time, I put the answers in my phone of what everybody said. I didn't know why I did that, particularly for that tattoo. I just randomly got it off the internet. I didn't know anybody that had that tattoo. And I chose to use it in our class. And I chose to write information down. About a month later, I'm in Costa Rica in Jaco, and we're doing outreach on the streets. What is the chances of, while we're waiting for one of the missionaries to come back after they got gas in the vehicle, and we're meeting up with our translator, we're standing on a street corner, and two guys come by, one on a bicycle, one walking. And the one walking has a tattoo just like I taught in the class. I'm not kidding you. I have pictures of it. And I'm like, "What? No way." So I ripped out my phone, and I shared with them everything that we, we said in that, in that group. And I said, "This is how much God loves you. Then he brought me from the US and we discussed on this tattoo." And I showed him the picture, so he knew I wasn't lying. And he was just undone, accepted Jesus, and it would change his life. We don't know what God is going to use. It could be someone's clothes. It could be just a sign. It could be something that you see over somebody. If we walk with God, we can be the vessels used to change people's lives forever. And they, it, it's not because we thumped them with scripture, but we because we became scripture. We became the word, and the word lives in us, and it goes forth. And, and when we speak God's words, no matter what we use to do it, when we speak his words, we don't have to do anything. It is his words that have the power and authority to create. We just have to be used as his vessel to do it.

Um, so you can have a skull or a crossbone. You know, most time they probably mean death. Um, and I think there's like ones that even have like fire coming out of it. What would you think that would mean? What do you think, Nick? Yeah, like maybe danger. Yeah. Or does anybody have, um, crossbone and skull on as a tattoo? What, what did you, what did you feel like it means? Okay. And I think if it's got fire out, it means more danger. Okay. Okay. So what if I came up to you and I saw that on you and I said, "I feel like you would lay your life down for the people around you. Like hell and high water is not going to stop you from being who you need to be for someone to save their life." You would look at that tattoo different, right? It, and for me, it usually means that you would live to die for something. For the crossbones, one means life, one means death, I think, or something like that. You know, Elisha's bones had life in them, and when they threw the body on the bones, it became, came alive. Let's see. Um, roses mean love, romance. They also could mean loyalty. Um, the color red. Sometimes you see a blue one. Blue to me, and this is different with everybody. Different colors mean different things to you. Just like a dog means one thing to you and something else to you. You know, to me, I like to keep them at a distance. I love them, but I don't, they don't love me because I, I have probably more allergies than I need to when they're around. You know, so they're irritation to me. But Tina loves her dog, you know, and and takes care of them. You know, sometimes dogs are loving, sometimes someone's gotten bit by them and they, they're afraid of them. So, you know, different things mean different things to people. So a rose to me, a blue one would mean that God's about ready to pour out revelation. Red could be the blood of Jesus. It could be, you know, he's the, the, the Rose of Sharon. You know, and as you, as you pray of him, ask God for discernment. Ask God, what is he saying for this person? And what will change their life? You know, what's on your, what's on your sleeve, sir? What's that? Only God. Is it a cross? What's it? Never, never forgotten. What's this here? What's it say? Oh, okay. That's pretty cool. Come on. That's that speaks for itself. Yeah. So I see the wings on there. I feel like you have angels that protect you all the time. And I feel like, um, throughout your life, you could probably look back and see where God spared your life several times because he loves you that much. And he has an important role for you to play as a leader in this, this next movement. Do you believe that? Yeah. And because you've been judged, you learned how not to judge [Music] others. And you have an amazing heart to lift up other people.

So how do we take this into our life? Like, I feel like that's one, one of the things that I know we don't have a lot of time to teach on everything that I would love to teach on, but I want to wet your whistle. So I want to take you back to scripture. So how do we take this into our life? What did Daniel do? Daniel was a young man. He was 16, 17 years old. He was taken out of royalty. He was taken out of one kingdom and put into another kingdom. He was castrated. So, just be real, he was, he wasn't going to have any kids. You know, his power and authority was taken away from him. And yet, that didn't deter who he was. He knew who his God was. And when we know who our God is, no matter what we go through, it will not change us, but we will change the atmosphere. And I love Daniel because he changed the atmosphere everywhere he went. So when they, they're being given all these amazing foods, they're treated like royalty. They could have ate all that, you know, and probably been fine. But they knew that there were some foods that they would be offered that they would defile their body. So in ch, instead of choosing and picking and choosing and being tempted, they asked if they could, um, just eat vegetables and drink water. And the guy is afraid for his life when, when Daniel asks him, because if they get, you know, weak, he's going to probably get killed. And so he doesn't understand it, but he gives them permission to do this for 10 days. Daniel says, "Test us out." In 10 days, they're found to be stronger than all the rest of the guys. They're not only found to be stronger, they're found to be smarter, wiser, and more intelligent than all the rest of the guys. And so much so that all the rest of them have to have the diet now. Well, that's going to probably make them weak unless God keeps them maintained. You know, and I believe that maybe God did allow them to maintain their health by only eating what Daniel and his friends were eating, because it wouldn't make Daniel look good either if they started getting sickly. You know, so Daniel, he has boldness, he has confidence and courage because he knows who his God is. He has relationship with his God, but he doesn't have the Holy Spirit in him like we do. We have greater than Daniel.

So then when Nebuchadnezzar has this crazy dream, and, and all of the sorcerers and, and, um, um, I forget what with the rest of them, the sorcerers and the soothsayers and musicians, musicians, when they all realize that we're not going to be able to tell you that dream, there is nobody that can tell you that dream, because he wanted them to tell him what his dream was and then interpret it. And they're like, "No, you tell us what the dream is, and then we'll tell you what it means." And he, he knew that they were fooling him. He could smell a fool. And so he like, "Man, I'm going to kill you all." So these people are coming to kill Daniel. Instead of running for his life or trying to save his own butt, he says, "Hey, hey, hey, can you get, I think he actually gets to go to the king and he says, "Can you give me a little bit of time? I will pray to my God, and he will give me the dream and give me the interpretation." And they're given time to do that. So the guy that takes him to the king could be killed for doing that because he was sent to do a decree to kill all the wise men, and Daniel and his friends were involved in it. Daniel says, "Don't kill anyone else." This is a young man that he's telling him what to do. He has favor on his life. There's something about power that's coming out of his mouth that they don't understand, but given way to this young man. So Daniel gets the dream, and he gets the interpretation, and the entire nation of Babylon is given to him. And he doesn't just do it with his friend, uh, by himself. He brings his friends along. And he had told them, "Don't kill anybody." Like, he didn't just do this for him and his friends. All these other guys probably mocked them, made fun of him, caused problems for him all the time, but he didn't want them to die. You know, he could have smited all of them. He could have chose to even be about number one and forget about his friends. But Daniel did the smart thing and brought his friends up to where he was because he probably knew to run Babylon, he needed some other wise men to be in there. So what if God would raise you up and take you to a place where you don't know of and use you mightily because you know God? And he doesn't care whether you know anything about their culture, but you're going to honor him, and you're going to look to him, and he's going to show you the way. What if our nations, not just our nation, but all these other nations that all these people that say about the underground church is rising up, and it's greater than we can ever dare dream or imagine. What if God is already putting people like Daniel in place that in a heartbeat, one moment, that everything can change, and nations become Christian nations because there's already the people there, and they're just waiting, and they're, they're waiting and being obedient to God, waiting for that moment when he says, "Yes." Kind of like Gideon's Army, you know, kind of like, um, when they went around, uh, Jerusalem, or not Jerusalem, um, Jericho. You know, they walked around Jericho for six days, quiet, not saying anything. Man, that'd be hard for me. I had to get some duct tape. You know, I like these, least talk to. Well, they probably maybe didn't have any trees, but I, you know, talk to the rocks or something, you know, talk to the sand, you know, talk to my feet, keep moving, you know. But if we can do like Daniel, he stood in the Lion's Den. Even though Darius was his friend, he made a decree, he made a mistake, and in that mistake, he couldn't change it. But Daniel believed that God would save him. You know, when the three, um, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, when they wouldn't bow their knee to any other God also, and I think it was Nebuchadnezzar said that, "We're going to throw you into the fire." And he turns the fire up. They don't even, these other guys get burned up when they get close to the fire. When they throw these three guys in, they don't even get burned. They don't smell like smoke. And they tell Nebuchadnezzar, "Even if our God doesn't come, I still will not bow my knee to you." Are we going to be willing to do that? Are we going to have a relationship with God in such a way that we're not going to be moved? And then we can go into a bar down here and not be moved, but be moved by God. That that atmosphere, like John was telling us, he said, "You know, them girls down here, the Salty Goat, half naked." You know, I didn't even notice. Like, you know, sometimes that kind of stuff, I, I get appalled by. But I didn't even notice. Like, I'm not saying to go in there if you had problems with that, don't go in there. But if you're called to go to a place, trust that God will protect you. Trust that God will honor you and show you favor. When we were in there the other day, this guy had, has a tattoo, Isaiah 6:8 on his arm. And I think he was like, one of the bouncers. The young, two of the young men that serve in the parking lot are Christians. And the one guy, I saw him as a singer, and they called out the greatness in him. And he's a rapper. And he's like, "How do you know?" And I said, "I see Jesus in you. God said you're going to write songs for him." And it just called out his greatness. And he's like, "Man, you made my day." When I told him that, I did. I see Jesus in him. That changed his life because so many people want to judge because of where he's working. But what if I know at least four people over there that we met that are Christian? What if they're praying for people? They come all the time. You know, it might not be laying hands on them, but we don't know the power that of our prayers when we, we come in agreement with what God says about somebody. And people come down here on vacation all the time. What if they meet a parking lot dude one day, and that guy just happens to lay hands on him, and something changes in his life, and he doesn't know until he gets home? We're not responsible for what they do after we do what we're called to. We need to stop worrying, worrying about other people's lives and start worrying about what God is calling us to do in the midst of where we are.

Um, trying to think of another good tattoo. Think I have. What time is it? Ah, we need to do activations. You want to come up? No.

[Music] [Music] These are little microphones that are supposed to block out the [Music] noise because. Need this one. Okay, we're going to do, um, two activations here. Remember some things that we used yesterday about, um, using our five senses. What you see, what you hear, what you smell, what you taste, things you might just know in your senses. There's another one. I forget what it is now, top of my head. But we're going to use that in how we connect with things in nature. God speaks to us through nature. Things that we look at, and we can get prophetic words for either for ourselves or for somebody else. But just looking at things, even what things that people maybe you're wearing on their shirts, they might have like a mountain scene. That can speak to something that's into that. This person really likes. You can speak words into them with that. So I kind of give you a little bit of example. Um, um, is this how you relate this back to scripture? Like in Isaiah, not Isaiah, but Jeremiah, and I think it's 18, there's a story about the potter and the potter's wheel, and how he molds us in the clay into a vessel. And how God speaks. God spoke to Jeremiah through that, um, vessel. And have that potter, if you want to read the whole story, he gives you a whole kind of interpretation of how he uses that potter and how he molds us. And he, even though sometimes he messes, we, he, the potter would mess up sometimes, he would redo it, and he'd make it into a better pot, or he'd turn this way or turn it that way. He'd make the pot into how he, to make us to be. That's kind of how God makes us into to the best what we need to be. So he kind of uses that, this kind of the, the same example, kind of a little bit. I'll give you another little example here. Some things that way God has spoken to me in nature. Then we'll have you think of something that you might want to, that relates to you. Like one day I was walking down, I had this dirt path that kind of, like to walk along. It's kind of like a, uh, path going through like a farmer's field, in between two fields. And I was kind of looking along the side of the path, and I'm like, and it was like season for raspberries to pop up. I'm like, "Oh." And I've walked down this path many times, but I never remember seeing any raspberries the last couple years before that. And I was sudden, I see raspberries. I'm like, "And." And God's like, "And there was lots of them." I had, I had a little, everything I had with me was a doggy doo doo bag, and it was clean. And I filled that bag up with berries and I took them home and ate them. So, so it was more than what I could eat, just taking off the off the plants. Nobody else walks past down there. Hard walks down there. So I had a cu cu amount of them. So just like, like later on, I'm like, "My God, like he's trying to tell me something." Like that area was kind of dry and barren before, and now he's bringing lots of fruit into your life. So get ready, bringing it into fruit. I'm like, "Oh, okay. All right." So he was speaking to me that day. Um, another occasion, um, God was, I was walking along a creek. I like to go out in nature in the woods and stuff. I was walking down a path in a creek, and there was a bunch of little turtles on this log that's along the side in in the water. They were like, I don't know, maybe five or six little turtles on this little log. I'm like, "Okay." So go prob, like, God, me and my friend, we'd like to do little prophetic words together. And we were kind of talking about these turtles, and like we started speaking like over those turtles, like that all these turtles are kind of congregating together, basking in the sun, just kind of basking in the presence of God, and just enjoying themselves and resting in his presence. So that's what God was speaking to me that day. All right. So, so we're happy here. A few minute, in a minute or two here, just ask God what he is saying to you. I want you to think of something. Maybe, uh, a place maybe you like to take a walk, or you like to go, um, maybe a picture you maybe have in your mind, or a picture that your favorite picture, or favorite painting, or drawing, or something along that line. Think, what is your favorite thing? What do you like? Why is God keep drawing you to a certain place? And what is God saying to you about that place or that picture? And we'll have you think about that here for a minute, and then we'll have you pair with somebody, and you tell somebody why that's your favorite place or picture, or you're seeing what you like. So give you maybe a minute to think about it, and then maybe go ahead and start pairing up. Yeah, when you got something, just go ahead and pair up with somebody else, somebody you don't know.

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Let the other person share now. All right, let's round up. Come back to your seats.

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Okay, everybody, take your seats again. Does anybody have a testimony of that that they want to share? Does anybody want to share a testimony? What, guys? Just come on up here, dude. Come on, Justin. Come on.

So, uh, y'all didn't notice we were fashionably late to worship? You didn't? Okay. Um, we actually went down the street to return a golf cart and, um, and get another one. And, uh, this guy walks up. He's with his wife and his kids. And he walks up out of nowhere and he's like, "All right, the heck were you and the kids? I'm going with them." I'm looking around like, "All right, you, what's up, buddy?" And we got talking, you know. And, uh, he, he, he talked about his job and what he does. He does a lot of traveling, work, moving heavy equipment and stuff like that. And, um, I got the gist that he needed prayer for, for safe travels. Um, it's like, as soon as he walked up, God told me, "That's the one right there to do it." So we hopped up. We all prayed for him, prayed for his family, for safe travels. And, uh, when he got done, you know, he thanked us for doing that. And we explained to him who we were, or what we were. Uh, he was very happy about what we do at A Ministries and everywhere as Christians. But he loved the fact that what we were doing, that we were down here and we're doing that. And, uh, he actually said he might stop by today, tonight, tomorrow, whatever, here and check out what we got going on. Um, he said he's got, you know, all kind of stuff that we are now praying to at a [Music] ministry.

Thank you, guys. I'm, I'm a little, I don't like speaking in front of a lot of people. I'm a little nervous. But get in there, boy. It was just, um, really nice to pray for somebody and, and just feel the Holy Spirit, you know, like minister to people. And, uh, like it's more of a gift helping them out than it is receiving. So that's just what I wanted to say. I love you.

Just get activated. Yeah, get used to that microphone being in your hand. Um, hold on, sec. Um, do you have another activation? Oh, the Bible car. Good. Go ahead. We're going to do one more activation. Just, we'll get you later, okay? Sorry.

Okay, the next one. I want everybody to think of a Bible character. Maybe something God has keeps telling you to read in the Bible. Maybe a certain, maybe a disciple or someone. Maybe that somebody else in the Old Testament that maybe a favorite one that you have. And ask God why you like that character and why is he speaking to you and why are you drawn to that, that person. And, and what they maybe have done in their life or what they, um, are doing or what their maybe their characters like. For example, I always, always kind of drawn to Peter a little bit, cuz sometimes, you know, he's a little bit of a screw-up sometimes, but God always forgave him. And, and he still was used mightily. And he was the foundation, starting the first church.

I know Jeff wanted to share one here also. So in the book of Acts, how many know about Philip? Raise your hands if you know Philip. What did Philip do? Bible reading the Bible? No. Awesome. Yeah. But how did he get there? No, that was after. That was the gift. That was a miraculous gift that God gave to him after he, the beginning of Acts, just flipped down. But, uh, it begins at Acts 26. And the first thing he had to do was listen to the voice of God. God told him to go down the road. Yeah. And, uh, on the way, he met the eunuch and he had a conversation with him. As they departed, an angel come, go back to that eunuch and walk beside the carriage. So the second thing he had to do was run. Run after, catch up to him. And as he reproached him, the, the eunuch was reading from the book of Isaiah. And that's where Philip got the word of knowledge. Ask the eunuch if he knows what he's reading. So he got two assignments, three assignments to go, to go, and to ask what the word of, what knowledge. So as he was interpreting what I, what the eunuch was reading, which was in the book of Isaiah, was about Jesus. And the eunuch wanted to know who this person was. So was able to bring the gospel to him, what Jesus did to him. So he was able to minister to the eunuch of Jesus. Then the eunuch wanted to be baptized. So Philip got to another, think miraculous thing he was able to do was, you know, baptize the eunuch. So he got the pleasure of going. I mean, I don't know how many of them brought people to Christ, divorced, the minister to, actually have them receive the, the gift of Christ, which is awesome to do. Then also the baptism onto it is another awesome to do. A gift that Christ has given to us that we're able to do the people. Then after he's able to do all that stuff, that's when God snatched him up and transported them into another town, which was what they're saying, about 12, 15 miles away, instantly. Back in them days, things weren't very instant. So how did he get from point A to point B instantly? So just by listening to the voice of God, he was, was able to receive some miraculous things that happened to his life. And, you know, that's what we, in the end, that's what we like to do, you know, God gifting, you know, giving us some awesome stuff to happen in the meantime. So this rain money, by the way, while you were talking, money. Wow. Hey, yeah, we're praying for triple.

Why are you drawn to the character of? So why am I drawn to the character because what she's asking, you know, is as I'm walking in this path, is listening to God's voice, you know, and God blessing me to, you know, to honoring him that he wants to bless me to experience some miracles in his life, you know? Yeah, that would be awesome to be transported from one place to another. I mean, who would, that would be unexplainable, you know? But we can bring that to teach people, you know, that Christ does want to live with us. He wants to be beside us. He wants to be in us as we are wanting to be in him. That we can receive miraculous things. I mean, right now, a lot of people are interested in the supernatural. I mean, what's more supernatural than Jesus being resurrected from the dead? And we can bring that to people. I mean, he's given us the ability to raise the dead, to heal the sick, to bring sight to the blind. I mean, that's supernatural. People are interested in the supernatural. That's why witchcraft is on the high and the rise right now, you know? They're seeing it from, oh, okay. I thought, thought was like my time up. And the, the devil just takes what God created and perverts it to his own path. But he wants it to come back to his kingdom, to see the miraculous on his side of the team, not the other side of the team. So that's why Philip is, you know, what's drawn, been drawn to me. He was able to receive some of the miraculous, the supernatural of Christ can give to us.

So, so we're going to just have you guys, um, take 30 seconds to think of a Bible character that you feel like impacts your life. And then we're going to have you tag team with somebody else, one other person, and tell them why. Because then you can do this out there today, and you can share with somebody about that Bible character. And just ask God to highlight the person. And you can even do it this way. I bet God's going to highlight the person. Like, so say for instance, you like David, and David is a worshiper, and you're a worshiper after God's own heart. What if God chose you, somebody that is like a David out there, and you shared that same thing, but shared it about them? God can give the, give us. I want my heart, and our heart is to help you go back to the scriptures and read it differently. And how can, when I read about a Bible character, what in them is in me, good, bad, or indifferent? And how did they come through the things that they went through, standing firm on God? So go ahead and team up with somebody. And here, I'll take, yeah, go ahead and team up with somebody. Team up with somebody. Go ahead and team up with somebody. We're not doing test right now. Weird. Together.

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All right, switch for the next person.

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All right, we're going to wrap it up. Jesus told me to use this. There you go. All right, thank you, man. I appreciate that. Yeah. All right, go ahead and just have a seat. We're going to bring Chris up here, and he's going to help us jump into the teams that are going to go out on outreach. All right, the reason why we kind of did this with these two activations is just different ways to hear the voice of God for yourself. So you can also, for you, ways to apply it to your own life. And you can also use it to apply it to others if God leads to do that. And remember, while you're out, you have 30 seconds to grab someone's attention and maybe two minutes to share something that God has put on your heart. Sometimes you get, get more than that, sometimes you don't. But just know that even if they walk away, it's not on you. You just did what God was showing you to do. And you do it in love. Everything you do, do it in love. Even if you see something negative, you flip it, and you flip it good, and you give the opposite. You speak life into that person. We want you to speak life into everybody today. It's not about an end times thing where people are going to get smited. We want to love the hell out of them and pull them out of the pit and let the Holy Spirit convict them. Thank you so much. I think Trina has that real quick anointing too. What do y'all think? Amen. Um, all right, teams, so.