SkyHawk Leadership Week 1 - Supernatural Leadership

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Won't you come and save me from my P. Reference for you? I need you. Come and save me. He, you [Music] are. Show me who I am. He, you are showing me who I am. He, you are [Music] showing me who I am. I come to worship you. Be next to you. Pull me next to you. Pull me next. Next to you. I come to worship you. Stand beside [Music] you. Pull me [Music] close. Pull me [Music] close. [Music] [Music] [Music] Thank you guys so much. Like, seriously, you guys, I would you brought the presence. That's what we need. That's what our heart is. Flight Deck School of Supernatural Ministry. That's what we want to do. We really want to see the presence of God because if we don't start seeing the presence of God, we're going to be under someone else's control. Like, seriously. Like, if we don't start walking where God is calling us to walk. And that's what I really believe that this, this season of Flight Deck, and especially Skyhawk, you know, it's not about being a leader in ministry. It's about being a leader in your life. You're, yeah, that's what's important. Important is being the leader in your own life. Amen. And what does that look like? You know, and we're going to dive into the book of Acts. You know, we really want you to see what comes alive in the book of Acts because, man, we, we started studying it. We've only got through like 10 chapters. We got to do like a lot of work here soon because y'all are going to catch up to us. We're like diving into the book of Acts and we're finding things that we never saw. Like, I mean, picking it apart and going deep in the word and not just reading it to read it to say, "Hey, I accomplished the book in the year for three months." I'm thinking there's people that are doing that for three months. Man, did you get anything? Like, like this year, I, I've been really walking with the Lord since 2007 since he changed my life and I still have not read it from cover to cover because I caught out. Like, you know, it took me two years to figure out who the one was who didn't have the wedding garment on. Oh, yeah. Do you know who that was? That's the person who doesn't have Christ. Yeah. I mean, taking a journey with God and this is amazing. Like, when you go to a church where God calls you to go, it's not about the pastor. It's not about the people. It's not about the place or the denomination. It is about what God is calling you to do and being obedient. And in obedience, God took me to a United Methodist Church and I'm sitting there and I've been trying to chew on this scripture like, "He sent them out to go out into the highways and the byways to find the good and the bad." And that's awesome, awesome. Who is who is in that wedding banquet that is not good nor bad and they get thrown down into the darkness and the gnashing of teeth? Who, who's that one person? They get past the guards. Everybody else doesn't see that they have a problem. Do we notice there's something going on here that's going on in our churches? How many people are sitting around who do not have the garment of Christ on that are trying to get by and think that it's okay? And a lot of them know better, especially the leaders. And so I'm sitting there, you know, I could have been bored. It's, you know, it was a denomination. You know, could have thought, "Oh, no, God's not here." He's there if you're there and he was there in that pastor that day. And I love that guy. He's amazing. And, uh, he says, "Hey, we're going to study the The Wedding Banquet." I'm like, "I'm going to get some answers." What does God do? He's amazing. He's like, "Hey, I want you to Google the Greek root word of wedding garment." Yeah, the Greek root word of wedding garment. Do you know what that word means? To sink in. To sink in. And it had to be Christ. You sink into Christ. You become one with him. And the only reason I knew, like, they got this revelation that day is because I've been studying Peter in John 21. And Jesus breathes on them in John 20. And Peter's the one that denied Jesus. And he's the one that, that, that he would be sifted by the enemy. You know, and Jesus knew that he was going to deny him three times. You know why? Because when he went to the cross, when Jesus went to the cross, Peter did not have Jesus because he's on the cross. Peter's by himself. And when he went to the cross, Peter could only stand on the foul-mouthed fisherman he probably was. And so it says that Peter put on his outer garment. And when he put on his outer garment, I think things changed. Because the scriptures before in John 20 says that Peter, or that Jesus breathed on the disciples. He said, "Receive my spirit. Receive the Holy Spirit." Something caught. When Peter recognized Jesus on the shore, I think this is my interpretation, not theology, but I think that he saw a second chance. And I think he knew how much he lost when he denied Jesus. I think he felt it. Yes. I think he literally knew that he knew that he knew. And he jumped into the water. I think he dove. I'm honest. Like, I don't think Peter would have done anything but dive into the water because he's zealous. And when you get Christ and when you put him on and you sink into him, you don't want to do anything but sink into him. And so he dives into the things of God. And the reason why, ah, the reason why I feel like this is important is because Peter was one of the first leaders ever in the Bible in the New Testament. He led the way after Christ went to the cross. So he, he grabbed a hold of something that day. He sunk into Christ. He saw that he didn't, that he had another chance. And he carries that net. Jesus says, "Hey, bring some of your fish." Those guys in the boat could not even pull that net in the boat. It was so full of fish, so heavy. What made a difference in Peter and all those seven or eight other men? Like, what was it? I think it was because Christ rose up inside of him. Even though Christ was in front of him, Christ was inside of him. Because the Holy Spirit is Christ. And he tells them, he said, I think it's in John 14, he says, "Who, um, who is with you and will be in you?" I think it's John 14:19 or something like that. That we'll look up the scripture then. It's actually on your homework. And, and this is like, so cool because he sinks into Christ. He changes. I believe he has the faith and the strength of God in him. That's what we need. So he's zealous and he brings all of the fish. Doesn't lose not one. And he doesn't tear the net. Yes. We are that we are going to go into to the nations. If it's next door or across the globe, we're going to go into the nations and we're going to carry the net that God gives us and we're not going to lose a dang person. We're not. Amen. And this is for y'all in the other, in the other nations. Like, America is no different than you. We struggle with Wi-Fi today. You guys probably have better Wi-Fi than we did today. Just, it's a real struggle. But you can take this into all the world and see the Muslims come to know Christ. It's at your back door. You know, it's, it's not any different wherever you go. And so what I love about this scripture is Jesus tells him to bring some and to throw on to fire with the rest. Throw on the fire with what I've already put on the fire. So what did he have in the fire already? Let's just think in a second. What did Jesus already have in the coals, in the hot coals burning? Was it the disciples? Was it a plowing words? Was it really like, because he had those disciples and they were simmering, they were in the fire, they were about ready to get really thrown into some deep fire. So he said, "Throw some of your fish on with mine." So we can't, when we go out in the streets, we can't go and wait till they get it right. We throw them into the fire. And so have, have you ever done this? Have you ever went, um, um, camping? In America, you can do this. I'm not sure about other nations, but we have campfires in some places, not all. And, and when the fire gets really hot and you have a dry piece of wood, you just hold it close to the fire. You don't have to put it in the fire and it catches on fire. What if the fish do represent people? And God, Jesus says, "Throw them in on what I already have." He's, he already has that fire nice and hot. And he, it's you, you, you're in the fire and he's burning away all the, all the garbage in your life. And this is a generation that's going to rise up and take notice. And the enemy is going to run like he never ran before away from us. He ain't going to catch you because you are going to be so on fire. And he's going to know that danger, danger, danger. Yes. Seriously. Like, he is so afraid of this group. And I'm not being cocky and I'm not being prideful. But when your car doesn't start, when you're getting ready to come to the church after a 10-year dream starts to come alive today, a 10-year dream. Yeah. Jesus. So the cool thing about this is Peter throws his fish on that fire. And what does the fire do? It burns away. I mean, they didn't, they did in America, we flay the fish, cut the heads off. I know y'all eat the fish, the whole fish, and it's awesome. But they didn't flay the fish. They just did what the Malagasy would do, the Brazilians would do, you know, the Zimbabwe people. Y'all like, you make it right. You do. We're afraid. You know, and, and I'm just being honest. I'm not making fun of you guys because I love you all. Like, I just want to include you all in this. Yes. But they threw it on the fire. And that burns away all the garbage in your life. Amen. We've been trying, trying, trying to say it in words that other people can understand it because I'm going to try to not use Trina-isms. I don't want Tina to have to explain all the words that I say. But when you're burning away, the word is "drachma," which is all the garbage in your life. And, and God can't do that if I just say, "Hey, Zach, just come along with me." You know, it's okay. Don't, you don't have to get baptized in the Holy Spirit. You don't have to get, you don't have to accept Jesus. Well, partly that's true. But if we are lit on fire for God and they're walking beside us, they're going to want it. We got to start tasting like Jesus. We got to start smelling like Jesus. We get to stop smelling like smoke. Right. Wow. That's, you know, and, um, so in that scripture, there's three things that that happen. Peter is asked by Jesus, "Do you love me?" Yes. And yes, it is about the different kinds of love. What if it's more than that? Let's go deep in this. What if, if it is that he says, "Feed my lambs." Baby lambs. I think if I read correctly, one place they have like seven different teeth levels of teeth or something like that or different kinds. Like, I guess they lose them a lot or something, but they keep coming in seven different kinds. That's a, you have to understand who they are so you can feed them. So we think we everyone is the same. But no, not everyone is the same. Dan, you probably know that they're not all the same. Zach, you, you guys, man, you guys see the streets. Like, so watch out, watch out. Sorry, have a little hiccup over here. So, um, they can barely hear you. They can barely hear. They can barely hear you. Hey, throw me that other mic. I don't think it's coming through the mics here. Huh? Oh, so, but anyway, I'll talk a little louder. Is that better? Yeah. Turn it up. Turn it up. Step this way a couple steps. You're good. All right. Close. [Music] Do I don't know what I stepped, but it's good. So, oh my gosh, wow. God. Yeah, that way. That way. Move it that way. You, you'll be off the video this way. But you'll be off the video. Yeah. Yes, she will be. There you go. All right. I just wanted to look this way. So anyway, come on. So Jesus says, "Feed my lambs." We need to know who we're feeding. Yes. We need to know them. And we need to help them know Jesus. Right. Thank you, Jesus. Then he says, "Take care of my sheep." Man, I'm getting touched. [Applause] More. He says, "Take care of my sheep." Dad, Zach, take care of my sheep. Oh my gosh, I'm serious. Get messed up. So if we, how do you take care of sheep? How do you take care of sheep? The only way you take care of sheep is if you know them. And they know your voice. And then the voice of Christ in you. And they follow him. Then he says, "Feed them." Yes. It's about the love, but it's also about tending to his flock. How do you tend to his flock? Like, that's what this whole 12 weeks is going to be. Is somehow one week after another, building upon a foundation of Christ and taking it in a different direction than we've ever seen. Like, we are tired of the same old, same. And there is no power. We need to see the power of God. Sorry, God. Wow. Sorry. But oh my gosh, this is amazing. This is so worth everything for 10 years. So I want, um, I want Tina and Jeff to share then sometime here in this. But I'm going to keep going a little bit because I feel like God is on this. So one of the things that we want to study, and we're going to have this in the homework, is we want to study how did the disciples lead? How did Jesus lead? How did he teach his disciples to lead? And how did they lead? But not only that, how did they lead in the Old Testament? You know what? We have greater than the Old Testament because we have Christ in us. He's not just on us. He's not just a dove. He's in us. Yes. And when we let him rise up inside of us, that scripture, it says the enemy has been defeated. It's true, right? We got to get this off of our shoulders and let this rise up. Yes. When our heart consumes our mind and allows the Holy Spirit to take over, can you imagine what, what if? Then what if when you're out in public and people fall out in the spirit? Why not? Why not? Cathy, when you, when you walk down the street and you have a handkerchief and you hand it to someone, they get healed? Yes. You don't even have to do anything. You don't have to touch them, right? Like, what if your shadow heals somebody? What if they get completely set free of prostitution or drugs? And we don't have to do a thing. That's right. I believe that God is calling us to walk in a season of wholeness. Yes. So that we know who we are. So that when we walk with authority, the enemy has been defeated. We are the generation that's walking into the promised land. We are the leaders of this generation. And I am so excited. And I want to take you back to Daniel. Man, I tell you what, I really pray that we're not walking in a season like Daniel. But I'm not convinced. You know, and how did Daniel walk it? Like, this is so cool to to understand. Understand that God gives us scriptures to walk by. Like, this young man and his three friends. Like, God doesn't even send him by himself. He has three friends. Like, you three amigos. You know, you know, if one's not on the floor, all will be on the floor. But I love these are three guys or four poor guys that survived being either killed or put in slavery. The royalty, they were raised to be leaders. God spares them. And he puts them in the royal, uh, I don't know, entourage. That's not going to be a word that translates. The royal palace. There we go. And, um, they know that there's food that is going to be asked of them to eat that they know will defile their body. Do we know what will defile us? Right? I feel like that's one of the things that I pray that we gain in the next 12 weeks is we get so close to Christ that we understand what he's saying in our life. And that we understand what out there, what out there is going to cause you to fall. What in your life is causing you to stumble? Right? Because the enemy has taken people down. He's taking major leaders down right now. Yes. And he's loving every minute. Not because everyone that's followed him for decades is now questioning, "Who am I following?" Because they're not. Their eyes are not on Christ. Wow. Because we have eyes on people instead of eyes on God. And so you have these these young men, and they're, they're, they're given an amazing position to stand with, um, in royalty. But they have a purpose there. They have an assignment. Even though they don't know what the assignment is. I feel like this is key. What is your assignment where you are? It's not to get the heck out of dodge. It's not to get, go get out of the refugee camp and go to another nation. It's not to get out of Chambersburg and go to another state. You know, I would like to go to Brazil. I love Brazil. That would be my home if I chose. But that's not what God called me to do. He called me to come back to my own hometown. And everyone says, you know, "Prophet is not wanted in their own hometown." Well, whether you're wanted or not, whether you're a prophet or not, I am a daughter of the Most High. And I don't know what God's going to do. But I know that I know that he called me here. And when he calls you, you stand in it. Amen. And he brings people alongside of you. Yes. God. And he helps you to walk on firm ground. When you have everything rooted in him, it doesn't matter what anybody out there says. Doesn't matter if they're waiting to see if you're going to succeed or you're going to run. Doesn't matter because when people, people really start to see, they're going to want to know what is different. They're going to want to know what is different in you, Camden. They're going to want to know what is different in you, Alex. They're going to want to know what is different in you, God free. Yes. What is different in you that when you go out there to the Malagasy Lake, Malagasy, and you transform that lake, the Muslims are going to come to know Christ? Yes. Touch tonight. Wow. Someone did not like that. That was crazy. So these young men, this is amazing. Like, so they were royal family. They were youth without blemish, of good parents, skillful, all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding, learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace and to teach them literature and languages of the Chaldeans. So when the king assigned them food that they knew that they couldn't eat, can you imagine like sitting down at the palace? You know, most of us probably wouldn't want to sit down at our president's table right now. Um, but you know, that's, you, that's another story. But I'm sure that there's, I'm sure that there's a place or a palace somewhere in the world that you would be honored to go and said that you know. And what if they would serve you all kinds of amazing foods, yet there would be a little bit of dog poop in it? Would you eat it? I don't know where that came from, but that's excuse you know. And they just said, "Oh, just a little, little, little bit that would defile you." You know, that would regurgitate. But he had the, the courage because Christ, even though Christ wasn't around yet, the spirit of God was all over Daniel and his friends. And God had a purpose for them to stand in obedience, to stand in honor and integrity, and stand in respect. That's where we're lacking in ministry today. Is when you can't stand in honor, integrity, and respect, you're, you're not going to go anywhere, not for very long. And so he was honored in that place. He got honor. And the guy says, "I'm going to get killed." The guy that's going to get killed because he gives Daniel the ability to eat only vegetables and drink water. And he's afraid that they're going to deteriorate. He's afraid they're going to lose weight. He's afraid that they're going to be weak. He takes a chance. And he says, "Hey, I'm a little bit afraid here." He had favor with that man because of who he was. We want to say, "Oh, now I can't go there. I can't do this." You know, whether it's money or people or I'm nobody or whatever the reason is. Chuck it away. I don't care what your reason is. Get rid of your reason. Stop reasoning God out of your box. Right? If you're going to have a box, at least have God in it with you. You know, and then we'll teach you how to destroy that box. But he, he finds favor because he walks in, in, in honor, integrity, and respect. And so he, because he finds favor, the guy Daniel gives him an idea. He says, "Hey, just test in, in 10 days. Can't be too bad. In 10 days, we can't get too weak in." But they're found in 10 days to be like, beyond measure stronger than the other guys, more intelligent than the other guys. In 10 days, you're going to eat vegetables and water and get intelligent in 10 days? I've tried. But when God gives you something, that's the key. When God gives you something, yes. Thank you. You got to know that it's God. Yes. And so God let these young, young men be so intelligent beyond measure to the degree that all the other musicians and, and, um, whatever the, what are the words for the, um, the people that the magic and like the witch doctors and all those kinds of people? Okay. They had to eat vegetables and drink water after that. That would tick them off. That would make enemies, right? Can you imagine like, whatever worked for you because he saw it work for you, then God's like, "Hey, we're going to have favor on you and everything that you're doing that's showing them really good results, that's going to make them weaker now, less intelligent, lethargic. They're going to have sugar withdrawals, you know, caffeine withdrawals, alcohol withdrawals, and you're going to super excel." Like, God can do that. Like, in the instant. He can do that in America too. He can do that in Malawi and Zimbabwe and Kenya, Brazil. Oh, man. So he, he finds favor. But the, the crazy thing is, um, I mean, he, they find. So this is what it says down in 20, Daniel 1:20. It says, "And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom." And Daniel was there until the first year of King Cyrus. So the crazy thing is, his memory is short, short-lived. Because then you find that Daniel and his friends are about ready to die, die. You know how many times we go in this roller coaster? You know, they had the perfect roller coaster. They had this high, first they had the low, then they had the high, and now they're about ready to sink down into about dying. But because of the honor, the respect, and the integrity, when the guy comes to kill all of the magicians and all the wise men, including Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they're about ready to get killed. So if someone was walking up to you, Diane, and you knew that it wasn't going to be a good day, what would you do? And I pray that I would have the strength that they had. And Daniel says, he doesn't get cocky. He doesn't, um, try to use words that I normally use. Um, what would you, what would you normally use? Huh? Arrogant. What would you normally? Arrogant. Or he does, he doesn't, he's not prideful. There you go. He's not prideful. And, and he asks questions. So why don't we start asking questions instead of giving them the answer? And he asks, "Hey, what is going on? Why is the king so upset? Why is the king upset?" You know, I think he knew, but he was just asking the question. So it kind of, you know, brings down the level and it opens up a door for the guy to talk to him. And he said, "Hey, can you, um, give me an opportunity?" And I think he takes him to the king. I'm pretty sure he goes to the king. I'll double-check that. But he goes to the king and he says, "Will you give me a time to pray? And my God, not me, but my God will give me the dream and the answer to your dream and tell, tell you the dream that you need the interpretation of." Because all of those other enchanters and wise men, they thought they were smart. They asked the king, they said, "Well, no, you just tell us your dream and then we'll interpret it for you." He wasn't a, he wasn't a dumb guy. He wasn't. That's when he got furious because he knew they were playing him. They knew he knew that they didn't know anything about his dream. And he was done with them. And he was going to kill them all. And so the king gives him time. And they pray. So we need to pull back and talk to God and get the understanding of what we need to do to move forward. So we don't just go pray and stay in our closet. We go and pray and get strength and go. That's where the key is. We need to start going. Yes. And so he went to the king, he gets the favor from the king, and he gets the dream, the exact dream and the interpretation. And the king is undone. And I love this. He puts Daniel in charge of Babylon in an instant. What if God right now has men and women all over the world in high places like Daniel and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to rise up and claim territory when they're already there and they just have to step when God says step? And what if all the people that are in underground churches in all over the world are already in those places? What if, what if they're even in our country? If we don't start standing up, we won't be there. If we don't start helping Christians rise up inside and let them know that it's not about controlling or manipulation, it's not about just praying a prayer. It's getting into Christ and and letting him be you. And when that happens, this will happen. And they find favor and they become. And so I love it because Daniel says, "Hey, can my friends come too?" Like, come on, Zach, you guys come too. You know, and, and the king finds so much favor in Daniel. And I believe it's because he walked in integrity, honor, and respect. Amen. It's short-lived again because Nebuchadnezzar has this big, um, uh, like monument and he wants them all to worship it. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego won't do that. You know, and he gets furious. He kind of forgets, you know, Daniel's king. He kind of forgets the dream that God gave him and the interpretation. He's short-lived brain. You know, we wonder like, "Oh my gosh, like, God, not again, not again." Daniel walked in integrity though. He wasn't moved. He didn't care where the enemy aimed him. I just love what Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego said. This is amazing because I believe that because, because of the way Daniel walked, I believe it helped his friends know how to walk. And that's how you lead. So it's down in, um, Daniel 3:117. Actually, go up to 16. "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, 'Oh, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this man, in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he would deliver us out of your hand, oh king. But if not, be it known to you, okay, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.'" That's boldness, man. You probably know that, "Off with your head" is going to happen, you know? But the crazy thing is, so they're throwing, or they're turning up the heat, heat of the furnace because, man, that really ticked off Nebuchadnezzar. And turning up the heat in the furnace, and the guys standing beside it burn up. They burn up. So we should have noticed something that when they're thrown into the fire, they're not burned up. Something's different. And then Nebuchadnezzar sees the fourth man in the fire. I believe if Daniel didn't walk in honor, integrity, they wouldn't have been able to do it either. So we get to be examples. Joanne, you get to be an example. Cathy, you get to be an example. We are leading the way. We get to lead the way. And the crazy thing is, I don't know where Daniel is in that picture. They, no one knows. Knows. You know, he's taking a vacation maybe. And I'm going to end on this part and I'm going to have Tina come up. I'll give you a couple minutes to to think about what you're going to say. But the awesome thing is, and it's not awesome really, the king's change hands. And once again, Daniel finds favor with with King Cyrus, or no, no, Cyrus. It was the one before Cyrus, um, the one with the lions. Then, um, what is it? Not Nebuchadnezzar. Um, oh, man, I love this guy too. Darius. King Darius. He's still, he finds favor with every king eventually. And that's, we can find favor. I don't care if you, you work in the government, or you work in a business, you, you might work for Apple or Google or somebody that may or may not be walking with God. It doesn't matter. You do your job unto the Lord. And you're always listening and looking to where the Father is and being directed by the Holy Spirit. And watching Jesus rise up inside of you. Snatch that person out of the pit because you're walking with him. God can reveal truth. They'll be like, "How do you know?" "I don't. But I know that God that does." And he wants to know you today. It opens the door to see them come into the kingdom. And not just to pray a prayer, but the encounter the Jesus that we love because he lives in us. And that's what we need to do as sons and daughters. It ain't about being a prophet or apostle, evangelist, or teacher or pastor. I don't care about them. The fivefold lives inside of each and every one of us. And it really is a king being a king and knowing how to decree the word of God and to stand firm on his word and allow the sons and daughters to rise up around you. That's what it is. So once again, Darius gets caught up in a decree because people are mad because Daniel's not serving their lord, their lord, and he's praying to God. So he doesn't change. We got to stop changing to the world. We got to start being focused on what God is doing in us and around us. And not be changed because some law goes into effect that changes your life that you got to stick a a diaper on your face or whatever it is. Who cares? I'm anti-mask. We, we have a right to be who we're called to be. And we need to start owning that. So King Darius, he's, he's caught. He don't know what to do. And so he's like, "Daniel, you know, I really hope that your king, your God shows up." Like, and he, he didn't sleep all night. Like, that's an amazing friend. Like, he made a decree and he feels so bad that he made that decree, but he can't get out of it. What do you do? And when Daniel's put in that pit, they seal it with the king's ring so that no one can open that seal. And there's lions in that den. And the most awesome thing is not one of them attacks Daniel. How many people out there try to attack you? It's not about lions in a pit. It's about the enemy using people to come against us. Yeah. How many times we see the lion enemy coming against us in attacks? And God's like, "I'm going to shut their mouth. I'm going to shut their mouth." He can shut their mouth. And the next day, King Darius can't wait till the sun to come up. And as soon as the crack of dawn, he's at that place. And he's like, "Hey, Daniel, are you still alive?" Like, he, he has a, a little bit of an ounce of hope. And all the people that put Daniel in there were the ones that were thrown in that pit and destroyed. God knows where your heart is. God knew that Daniel was going to walk in his rightness and his righteousness. I'll share more of this story later. But I want to poke people. And I love to poke people. And I love to provoke you. And because if we're never poked by the person speaking, we're never moved or questioned what they say. Did we get anything? We should be taking it all back to God. Every time you walk away from me or anybody else or anything else, you need to take it all back to God. Because when you're standing before God someday, you can't say that, "Hey, John told me this." And God's going to be like, "What did I tell you?" Mhm. What did God tell you? Not what your best friend, not what Mzi said. No, Mzi, what did God say? Not what Jeff said. Yeah. You can't listen to Tina some days. You need to listen to God. And when you guys come together, then it's good. You know, and the, you know, Alex, you can't be listening to Janelle all the time either. You know, you got to be listening to God. Oh, man. And she needs to be listening to God too. And when you come together, it's powerful. Because our spouse is not going to be standing beside us in heaven. No, you're going to be standing by yourself, whether you like it or not. You're going to stand there by yourself. And whatever it looks like. Yes, Jesus. I mean, we want to say, "Oh, God, open up and let me in." You know, we want, we probably desire these words, "Good and faithful servant, welcome home." But if we're not a good and faithful servant here, if we're not walking in obedience, if we don't know him here, how are we ever going to expect him to receive us there? Right? I feel like there's a lot of people that have got rerouted. Yes. Amen. And it's not in a good place. All right. I'm going to tell you here a little bit about Abigail. She's found in 1 Samuel 25. She's given one little chapter in the Bible. This, um, lady, her name was Abigail. She was the wife of a man named Nabal. And he was a really an evil man. He was, did wrong. He just was a harsh man. He did evil dealings with other people. He's very cruel. And I guess not to many people liked him. But he was the husband, husband of Abigail. And she was very intelligent. And she was very beautiful. Okay. Um, and one day, David and his men, I think he had about 600 men with him, he was out in the wilderness and out running around in the fields. And his men said, "We're hungry." And Nabal's over there shearing some sheep. So I'm going to go over there and see if Nabal will give me some, some bread and some meat and just feed us because we're all hungry. You, you, we've been helping him out. We've been in his land. We've been protecting his shepherds. We've been, did not we didn't steal anything from him. He was really being nice to Nabal and his men. But so he went up to Nabal. He was busy in the fields shearing his sheep with some of his servants. And he went up to them. He sent David sent 10 of his men out, not he spared a small crew. And he went over there and he gave them a blessing. Told 10 men, "Give them this guy a blessing and ask if he could have some meat and some things to eat." But when he went up to Nabal, he gave that that blessing, "Long live." Gave him a long life and good health. And well, he's like, "Who is this David? Who is this guy? I don't know who he is. He could be anybody. He could be some servant that ran away and I don't know him." He's like, "I don't know this guy. So I'm not going to give him any of my meat. I don't want to give him any any bread or any water."

Or anything else. I don't know where he's from. Well, they say David's men just turned around and went back. And he told David everything that happened. And David's like, "What? What? What did this guy say? No, no, no. We can't have this. Just no."

"I'm would he said, 'Get up, 400 his men. Get your swords ready. We're going to go fight and kill all this Nabal and his men. We're going to wipe him out. He's not worth anything.'" So he was on the way of doing that, getting, preparing everything, and going towards that direction. And then Abigail, one of the servants of Nabal, went and told Abigail what was going on. He's like, "No, no. He says, 'No, my husband's. He's mean. No, we can't do this. He's going to turn up against, turn against us.'"

So she hurried up and got like 200 loaves of bread, two, two skins of wine, which is about five gallons of wine. That's a lot of wine. Five, five butchered sheep, some grains, some pressed figs, and loaded them all up on the donkeys with some of the servants and sent his, her servants ahead of him, or her. And when she did, then she says, "I'll fall right behind there."

And then he met up to the men, David's and his men. And he's like, he stopped. And he was starting to come towards them. He already had all his men gathered up. It was coming towards them already. He's like, "I'm..." They were already in fighting mode. You're like, "Whoa, who's these people?" So he stops. The servants said the grains and the meat and everything went first. Then he followed behind.

It's like in Abigail's house when she saw David. And she went and just got off her donkey and just fell at his feet, face on the ground, and just started like, "I'm so sorry what my husband has done. He's my husband is Nabal. I'm so sorry what he's done. He's, he's a really mean man, cruel man. And don't, I'm so sorry what he has done. I don't, I have all this stuff here for you. You can have all this meat. You can have some wine and some bread. I'll feed you and take care of you."

And when he did that, um, he's did that. I lost my notes. He went, he went on and he says, he says, um, "Every go, okay, humbly." She humbled herself and apologized for everything that was going on. And David just says, "Okay, all right. I'll, I'll accept your apology." And she blessed, he blessed her and, you know, and said, "Okay, I won't come and fight your men now. I won't kill your household. Go ahead. I'll accept your, all your, your food and everything you sent gave to us and I'll accept that and go on your way."

Um, so she, she heads back home and goes and tells. And he's, and when she comes back home, he's actually, you know, he already had a party. They were killed, just some sheep and they were having a big old party. So she waits the next day. And whenever she tells her husband Nabal what had happened, his heart fails him and he becomes, it says, becomes like a stone. And then, you know, he, about 10 days later, he, he dies from a guess, probably a massive heart attack, assuming what happened. Different translations have say different things. His heart fails, his heart stops. And in the translation this one I have read says that he has a seizure. But either way, he dies because of the evilness he had caused upon David. Just, just how.

And then whenever David hears about that, he goes back, finds out that his neighbor had died. And then he actually ends up accepting her and then takes her into his household and he, she becomes his wife. Just what Abigail did. She's just, she's such a, you know, she was a leader. She what took the initiative, went against her husband's wishes and just went out against what he was said. Yeah, against his wishes and just went on out and just went to David, this speak to him and just instead apologize. How much that would take is going against somebody who's, um, in authority over you. But she went against that and just went on out and just took that initiative to do that because she knows what would probably have happened if she had not done that. Just how important it is. You know, you might not go against the flow of what's popular at that time, at your time, or just just continue going out and just, just that's the word I'm thinking of, just the, that boldness. You just need to have that boldness just to stand out and just to do what you need to do, just to make things happen.

It's beautiful things that we want to do this time. It's not about a person or a face in this ministry. And you'll notice that throughout the 12 weeks, we're going to have different people speaking. And we're also, we're going to have some homework for you guys. Um, one of the things that we want you to do is to research. Um, we want to research someone who has passed who was in revival or a movement. We want you to research it. It could be in your own country, could be another country. It could be someone that was significant or someone who was never heard of. What was significant? There's a lot of people that you don't ever know that they made such a change in culture, you know? And then we want you to research someone who is now. It could be someone that you know in your country. It could be someone who's making a difference, you know? It could be someone like John and Mzi and Nell and you guys out there in that refugee camp that you're seeing people have an opportunity in a refugee camp where, as of, I think September, you'll have 750 kids in your school. Wow. School from from kindergarten to 12. And it's not run by the government. It's run privately. And a lot of people in America are funding it. And, and they're reading the Bible. They're getting into Christ. It's just amazing what man. That's John. You guys are doing amazing, amazing things for God. And you keep running. You know, like Pastor Stanley and Pastor Francis. Oh my gosh, you guys are seeing hundreds and hundreds of Muslims come to know Christ, if not thousands. When we were in Malawi a few years ago, Edy and I got to see 1800 Muslims come to know Christ. And, you know, Pastor Francis and Pastor Stanley were part of that. We were in the bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, bush, you know? And, um, this, this, this is a side note. I love Pastor Francis. It's awesome. Kind of gave us an understanding if we really needed to go to the bathroom. He says, you know, "Really need to go to the bathroom." So just say you need to go to the gas station. Need to know exactly where we need to go. Even if it was far off, he would find a way to get us somewhere. But that's just a side note of how amazing they took care of us always. And, um, but this one moment, this lady, I would love to know what her name is. And maybe one of you guys from Malawi or someone from another country could share with me what the significance of a Muslim who, a woman who wears a white headdress. So I'm standing on the stage that night. And the, the amazing thing that we would do is we would have them watch for the first time ever a movie they never saw a movie ever before. I mean, you go into deep bush and you take, uh, projectors and screen, you know, big white cloth sheet, you know, chap, and you show the Jesus movie. And so you don't just show the Jesus movie. You wait till about halfway in and wait till they see Jesus do miracles. And then you stop it. So you got them on the edge of their seat. They want to know the rest of the story, right? So you put some amazing women up on the stage. And it was my night. And I'm standing up here on the stage. And I got to share, you know, "Hey, that Jesus you just saw up there, he created miracles. He lives in me and he wants to live in you." And they'd be like, "What?" You know, they never saw miracles before. They might have seen the witch doctors do stuff, you know? But Muhammad can't do anything like that. And the awesome thing is, is we would get words of knowledge. They are so key and so important. And this one night, we saw this guy. I had a word of knowledge of back. Someone had a back problem. Young man gets his back healed. So he hasn't accepted Jesus yet, okay? He gets his back healed. Another young man has deafness. We had a word of knowledge for deafness. He comes up. The guy that got his back healed prays for the guy who's deaf, and his ears open up right away. They didn't accept Jesus. They didn't pray the prayer. I'm sorry. They didn't pray the prayer yet, you know? But they got encountered by Jesus that night. They get baptized in the Holy Spirit. And that, that village is never the same. And that village is about, really ready to take some major transformation. And I think it's Pastor Stanley's village. And, and God, man, it's going to be amazing.

So, um, but while I'm standing there, this woman has a white headdress on one night. And I see her standing. I mean, it's dark. I know you have a little bit of light, but it's like no moon that night. And we're standing there. And I see this woman. And I see her. Like, when I ask them if they want to accept Jesus, and we're going to do the baptism of Holy Spirit. And she's like, she's looking around. It's the Imam. He was lurking all day. He was watching. We gave him a big cheese stick, actually two of the big cheese sticks. We prayed over them before we gave them to him, you know? Love sometimes is to their stomach first, you know? And so you knew that she was counting the costs because she could die. We don't realize that they can die for accepting Jesus. They can die and go to heaven, or they can live in hell eternally. One of the choices. And so the, so she accepts him, you know? And I see her say the words. And then we pray for the baptism of Holy Spirit. And, and Pastor Francis, he comes up on the stage. And he's saying some stuff. And I don't understand their language. And sometimes I think it sounds like anger. But I'm like, you know, he knows what he's doing. And when he comes, and they all like run to the stage. Like, man, what did he say? Like, I feel convicted. Whatever it was, like, it's good. You know, God's in the house. And, and so they, they all like raised their hands and like did it all over again. Again. But this time they did it with Pastor. And I said, "Hey, what did you say to them?" He said, "I just told him that if you deny Jesus in front of your friends, he's going to deny you in front of the Father." Right. Where do we deny Jesus? Where, where do we deny Jesus? You know?

Um, I'm going to have Zach come up here and share some stuff, um, about being a leader today. And he is an amazing young man. And leads well. And, um, two years ago, I'm driving up through Tennessee. And yes, I was speeding. But everybody else was speeding. And if I wouldn't have been speeding, I would have got run over. Just being real. We know there's moments. I mean, bumper to bumper traffic through the cattle shoots. It was not an official construction zone, but it was a construction zone. And, um, my, my gas gauge says, "Hey, you know, you need some gas." So I jump off the highway. And all the traffic backs up on the ramp. And it's like, "Oh, what do you do?" Because, you know, you're going to kiss the engine in the car in front of you if you don't do something like now. And I jump back on the highway. Well, when you do that, you lost your commitment because you hit your brakes. And you slammed on your brakes to slow down because it's a turn. Mhm. And I, I jumped back on. No one squealed their tires. No one yelled at me. No one beeped their horn at me. Everything was good. And I'm driving away. And I hear God say, "Did you finish what you were called to?" Every one of us has something to finish. And instantly, John 17:4 came to my heart. And it's Jesus. And he's talking to the Father. His last prayer for us. It's that scripture. That, that chapter of the Bible, the most important chapter of all. And he says, "Father, I give you all the glory because I finished what I was called to complete. Now restore the glory that you gave me from the beginning of creation." That part, that he finished what he was called to complete. And he gave God all the glory. What if this is just a thought? What if we don't give the Father any glory if we don't finish what we're called to complete? We're leaders. Every one of us are leaders. We have something to do. Yes, you want to be like in the glory with with Jesus and God and and walk in his presence. But it means that you're going to do something with it. When Jesus pulled away to the Father, he always came out with power. He always came out with power. He saw things happen. People's lives were transformed. Every time he walked on water, when he spent time with the Father, he saw deliverances happen. He sent his disciples out ahead of him. And they saw that the demons even submitted to them in his name. And they didn't have Jesus with them, but the power of the name. We all have something in us that God is raising up in this season. And what is it? I really pray that you hang into these videos and you do some of the homework, or all the homework would be awesome. And, uh, but I know that people are busy. Take it back to God and say, "Hey, God, if you want me to do this, show me how. Give me the time. Push back the darkness so I can see the light so I can become stronger, become bolder, become more confident, and have courage to stomp on the enemy." And so this young man, Zachary, come on, man. I saw him get wrecked by. Yeah, man. Yes. Whatever you want to share. Oh, yeah. This, yeah. Thank you, Jesus. There we go. You can tell them a little bit about yourself. No, I, um, my name is Zach. Zach Landis. Um, uh, what, what should I share? How we met? Or, yeah, that'd be awesome because that's an awesome testament, right? Um, we went to a school together called Global Awakening School of Supernatural Ministry. And she was actually, she's really close friends with one of my good friends, Heather. And so when I met Trina, it was just wild. We all got touched by the Spirit of God. And the Lord actually said we connected. So we've kind of been through the years. We've still, we've never not stayed connected. I don't really feel. I think I've always been like an intercessor for her and all her endeavors, all the wild stuff. And then we just recently just reconnected. But there was a New Year's party that she was at. And we went through a circle. And we, I had this, we, I have a house church. I had a house church, um, back like further Pennsylvania, Harrisburg area. And at this, I feel like it's so prophetic of what we're talking about. I, we played this game where we prophetically, we do it every year, um, for, um, New Year's. We still do it. And we, yes, we still do it where we write down like what we're feeling like. And my word that I got was, "You will be married this year." Oh, you will. Like, you're going to get married. And so we got to the very last, she opens up her, her little, you know, you rip it like you write whatever and like you throw it in, you know? And she opens it up and it says, "You're gonna be married this year." And then she, she would, she hounded me and like rough, she was like, "This is not of God. This is, I will get married to Jesus. Closer. Like, I am not going to get married." And she even messaged me, text messaged me back and forth and was like, "Zach, your word was wrong. This word will not come true. True. This word is not from God." And I said, "We'll see." And then my acquaintances from Global Awakening, I met him at, you know, cuz he met me when I went to school. And I see du [Music] du and I see marriage pictures and I see rings. And I say, "We got married." And I'm like, "Now what is going on here?" Then, you know, I got Heather, Heather, you know, our friend Heather in my pocket. And I got, I'm like, "Hey." She's like, "Did you see the picture? Remember how she was harassing me about New Year's party and like she was upset with you? And did you see the picture?" I said, "No, I saw the picture, but I didn't have to like, I didn't have to be the person like solidifying something that God did, right? I'm a man of God. I don't need to like change it. I know what I heard. And I'm not backing down from what I heard." Even when she was angry. And I think that it's prophetic that even people like, she's anointed. You know, I, I have a picture that she painted, um, for me. And it's still in my, in my house, you know? Um, so she's very anointed, very powerful. So it's even not, I know everything that we've talked about so far, it was things from broken people standing your ground. But what about anointed people? When you have words for men and women of God that God's given you? Louder, louder. That that God's giving you. What about that? Like standing your ground and being able to still say what the Lord's saying to them? Because I even today, like, we're talking about hogies. I went and got had a, um, a Philly cheese steak. The Lord like, "You need to go in there." And so I went in there. And I saw other alumni there at this Philly cheese steak place. I was going to mess with them, you know what I mean? I was going to be like, you know, cuz they have Global Awakening, you know, stuff on. And I'm like, you know what I mean? I'm an alumni. So I was just going to go in there and harass them and be like, you know, like, "What do you guys talk?" So I kind of did. I was like, "So, what, who is this person you speak of?" You know? Like, "Oh, Randy Clark." And he's talking about everything. Then I just start, you know what I mean? I start sharing all these other people's names that they work with. And all this stuff. And they're like, "Who are you?" And I'm like, "I'm Zach Landis." You know, because we, you know, I went to the school. So I know all of the staff and who, like, you know what I mean? I know all like the ins and outs of the place. And so they're like, "Man, we were going to tell you about this place. You're telling us." Because, like, I knew information that, like, present day that they don't know yet, you know? So it was kind of funny, you know? Because it's just being alone. I think that so prophetic, like being alone with the Lord and getting downloads. And I think that, and this is something I've always really pushed hard for. The first year of any Ministry School is the best year because it's the wildest. God does the most. You have crazy faith because God can do anything, you know? Because you're still getting all the nuts and bolts and how everything works. And but it's a powerful time where the presence of God falls very strong. And like the anointing of God, it's because you're, you're, you're trendsetters. Like you're, you are the first group of individuals that are plowing. You remember Elijah and Elisha? Like he burned his plow and he, and he ran after Elijah, you know what I mean? And I feel like you, you had to burn plows to get here. You have to sacrifice things to be here. You have to give up your week. You have to give up all of these things. You're doing homework. You're giving up things that you had other priorities prior. Then now you're making him the priority. And you're going to get him in the end. You're going to grow closer with Jesus. And so my, what I would harp on you guys with, ask actually become friends with each other. Don't be acquaintances. This thing will end. And you're no longer going to be here. You're going to go back to your normal lives. You're going to go back to what you guys were doing a week ago. You're going to go back to what you're doing prior. Just, you're taking this knowledge. But it's so important to have each other at each other's house. And you guys actually create a time where you guys are actually building a friendship outside of this. This, because one of the biggest things that I have that from doing Ministry School, like we stay connected, like her and Heather, you know what I mean? Like only a handful. And I, and I was in a class of like 50 people. And there's only like three. What's the percentage of that? You know? So it's just very, like, I know this is very practical. And you guys online, the same thing. Make sure you establish strong friendships. That is not, not just ministry related. Like you need to have friends and people that you can run with when all this stuff's over, you know? Like, just because it's the beginning. Like, listen, I went to two years in Ministry School. It goes by so quick. That's the first thing she said to me. She's like, "Clean everything that you can because this is going to be the fastest two years of your life." And I was like, "What does that mean?" But, you know, as as I was sitting down with the people today, you're, you're seeing miracle signs and wonders. You're with people who are on fire for God, who want God the same way you do. It's a very high conscience rate because you're with people that are like-minded, that are so on fire, that want God as much as you do, if not more. And it's very, like, so you're with a select group of people that are becoming Spartans for Jesus and becoming their own leaders. But leaders in a way where they want to create an atmosphere where everyone's empowering each other. Where you become an engine for Jesus, right? And you're with other engines for Jesus, you know? Like, I, I was, um, I saw something before, um, I came. It was with, um, you know, those big horses, you know, those big old draft horses, you know? Like one, it says one can push like it was like 2,000 pounds. How, how much do you think two can push? You think what? 4,000? You think 6,000? 10, 10, 10,000? You know, how is one can only do two? But two of them, it's 10 because they're working together. And I, and I think it's just so important to know in leadership, in making disciples, the best way to be a leader is by how, how are we growing as a team? How, how are we able to replicate this in our lives at home? How can I have my classmates be a priority of my growth as well? Because it's like, "Oh, well, you know, it's like, no, this will go by fast." I promise you, it goes by very fast. And so I think it's just very important to be intentional with the time that you have because that this is all leadership. It's leading your life. It's being able to be like, "How can I grow with other people?" You know? How can I grow? Like, when someone starts a church or someone starts another gathering, how can I be a part of that with them? Or what's my role? Like, how can I support them in their journey? It is, it is so, so important that we, um, I forgot my Bible. Hold on. Yeah, it's so important to know who we are in Christ. And we need the body of Christ. We don't need the church. We need God's Ecclesia. We need the body of Christ. And there's a difference. If you haven't figured that out yet, you keep searching because you'll realize that the church of today is not God's church. There are some that are. And I'm not against, you know, wherever we go, we got to know that God's planting us somewhere, you know? And it doesn't matter what, what they're moving in. If you're called there, you got to know that God's going to do something. And you should be always looking to see where the Father is and going where the Father is. That's what Jesus did. Like, I love this story. Jesus, we need to learn how Jesus led. On, he knew that he was going to the cross. Like, I mean, he sweated blood. And as he's going to Jerusalem that day, before he goes to the cross, he's still looking to see where the Father is. You know, Schindler's List is a movie about how they helped the Jews, you know? And, and I love in the end of that story, is they gave him a gold watch, I think. And he's like, "Man, that's how many more people I could have saved." And like, "I never, I don't know if I really watched the movie, but I remember that part." "How many more people can we save?" And I believe that that was like Jesus. He's walking into Jerusalem, knowing he's going to the cross, knowing that he's dying, probably knowing that he's going to get beat. You know, that's probably why he sweated blood. I believe God showed him what he would do, but showed him that he would be there with him. And in that moment, he sees Zacchaeus up in a tree. Who in our life is up in a tree? Who in our life is looking and watching and hanging on for dear life to see a change? Who in our life? Jesus goes over there. I feel like the Father said, "Hey, over here with my boy, Zach." Was that, you know? And he's like, "Will you help him?" And when Jesus is standing there, I really do believe that Jesus only heard what the Father said. And here, and he spoke what the Father said to speak. He was so one with the Father. He told the disciples, "If you, if you can't believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, at least believe in the miracles that follow me." Like, he is so adamant to try to get them to understand, "I am in the Father and the Father is in me." The Father is in you. Jesus is in you. And we can walk where Jesus walked because Jesus lives in us and already conquered it. He didn't go to the cross for us to be pansies, you know? And for people that don't know what a pansy is, is someone who is scared to death that sits back and waits. "Oh, maybe a pass. Oh, maybe my life will be so bad. Right? I'm going to sit on the couch and watch everybody else have fun with God because I'm afraid." But he sees Zacchaeus and he calls out Zacchaeus' name. And he says, "Hey, Zacchaeus, come down. I want to go to your house today." And in that moment, we get to be the door to shut the murmuring and complaining of people and voices. People are hearing voices. They're hearing voices. And they need to hear God's voice, right? We need to hear our Shepherd, not the pastor. We need to hear God's voice through that pastor. We need to be able to hear God's voice. And so he becomes the door. And so do you. You become the door. You shut the mouth of the enemy, the lion enemy, that lion that is at their door waiting to devour them. You shut that door and you open it up to the love of the Father to embrace them with love they never experienced before. You get to be that. And I'm really believing that in these 12 weeks, that you will get an opportunity to see different ways to step out, different ways to encounter God and other people, different ways to help other people encounter God too. You know, we need to start understanding how to be filled up with presence. And I'm going to talk in just a few minutes about the book of Acts. And we, we had, I asked you to read one and two. And I know it was a little late on that. So we're going to give you a little bit of grace. And, um, little grace because we want you to understand what you're reading and not just to read it to get through it, right? And we'll ask you some questions next week and answer the homework, you know? Um, I'm learning a lot to how to be an administrator. Scared. God is amazing. You can do everything. So anyway, in that moment, he changed Zacchaeus' life so much. And the reason why I believe that Jesus didn't know his name is because, have you ever known anybody who was richer than rich? He was top of his game, chief tax collector, could buy his way out of anything. And he says, "I will give away half of all my money to the poor." Something changed in his life. In that moment, something changed. We get to be that change. And then he says, "I will give, I will pay back four times the amount of anyone that I wronged." So when people are got problems, when they got demons, when they got issues, when they got lies they're believing, they look through this. So how many people do you see with truth? Not a lot. And in that moment, we get to make the change. And it changes that person in such a way that they want to correct any wrong that they did. Like, I am excited about that in my life to see people's lives change. God changed my life like that when he saved me from suicide. And there was no one else around. It was only him. And I knew I was probably going to hell. I was a name-only Christian for 18 years. I didn't know the Jesus I proclaimed. I didn't know him. It says that if you believe, signs and wonders will follow you. It says that you will be known by your love. There will be a relationship with him. You will walk in the gifts of the Spirit. You will do his will out of love and out of obedience. I didn't know any of that. I didn't know that the Holy Spirit was real. I didn't know that the gift of tongues was real. I thought that was of the enemy. And I saw people getting escorted out of church because of it. That scared me. And when I got it, I'm like, like, like, I'm like, I call my friend Stephanie and just met her. I'm like, "Hey, I need some help." Didn't even know that she went to the same church I did. So God even brought someone in my life that went through the same place. That was crazy, you know? But so in the book of Acts, I just want to go back to, um, let me, it's a pivotal book of the Bible. If you want to start anywhere, start in John 17 and work your way. Actually, John 14, all of John is really good. And then go into the book of Acts because John is when God empowers his disciples and leads well and shows them how to lead. And Acts is when they're stepping into it and they're doing it. And it's not Jesus walking beside him, it's Jesus in him. So it goes from Jesus walking beside of him to Jesus walking in them. And Jesus is in us. And we're about ready to see him rise up inside of us like nobody's business. And it's going to be amazing. So when you go to the book of Acts, you know, um, hey, can you give me my notebook back there? I think it has some really good notes, notes and quotes. Yeah, go to book Acts one. All right, someone ate my homework. Find while you talk. Yeah. Oh, there's here's two. Okay, now I found it. Sorry. What it takes. You know, I, I love this. He said, "Do not leave Jerusalem until the power comes upon you." It's the promise from God. Like, we, this is what I do when I go and do ministry. I literally go and if I get a chance to lay hands on people, I pray for the baptism of Holy Spirit. And someone told me one day, Trina, "That's going against their will." And I'm like, "No, it's a promise." So technically, it's not against their will. It's a promise that's due to them. And they just don't know that they, they didn't get it. You know, God showed me one day in a big, big church that a lot of them did not have the baptism of Holy Spirit. They didn't preach about that. They preached that it was that that all died with the disciples, you know? And they didn't speak about the baptism of Holy Spirit or the gifts of the Spirit. And God literally showed me that people were chained to the chairs, not physically, but spiritually. And I'm like, "What?" I'm like, "That's scary." And this is what God told me about that particular church. I'm not, I'm not trashing church. That particular church. What God showed me was they were changing one addiction to another addiction. They were not getting them delivered. They were not setting them free. And they were not getting all filled with the Holy Spirit. So if you don't have the Holy Spirit, what do you have? Works. Works is not God. It is chained to religion. And they took the drug addicts and they got them off of drugs, but they got them into serving. They got them addicted to serving the church for man's purpose. That's crazy, man. I, I want to cry. Like, I'm like, "Be real." Like, we need to allow God to open our eyes to see these things, you know? And it may not be to go and smack the pastor because that's not my job, you know? If God put it on my heart, you know, I need to do that. [Music] But, you know, you need to know what God is saying because it may be for you not to do it in the future. Amen. You know, there's importance about deliverance. There's importance about wholeness. And yes, it's finished on the cross. But why are we still struggling? What is going on in our lives that we're still struggling? Why are we still going around the mountain again and again and again and again? You know, I know you're going around the mountain the next 12 weeks. But that's to come here. It's keep sitting in your problems. Yeah. So he told them to go and wait on the promise. And, and the promise was the Comforter. It was the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot know and receive it. And that's from John 14:15. The world can't receive it because they don't understand it. So we need to stop throwing, you know, throw it at everybody. We need to, that's where I feel like we've been wrong. Is instead of using machine gun and hitting everyone with God, we need to pull back. And as we go, let God highlight, "Who do you want me to talk to? Who are you already spending time with?" This was amazing the other day. I had had a chance to talk to this girl at at a store. And I looked at her and I said, "I said, you're a Christian." She's like, "Yeah." Like, you know, they. And but I got a word for her. And it just lifted her spirits. And like the smile that was on her face was amazing. But the, the thing that opened it up is someone recognized Jesus in her. That's the amazing part. So many people are afraid to reveal who he is because he'll get smacked. But what if we start calling it out? I know some people that have been walking with God and they're well-known people. And they still say, "Hey, are you a Christian? Hey, stop that. Are you, do you have Christ in you? Can you not see that Jesus is in you?" We should be able to see that Jesus is in people, like seriously. And we need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. And it says that we need to continually stay filled, you know? That from Acts 2, actually. In John 20, they get breathed on by Jesus. He says, "Receive the Holy Spirit." In Acts 2, the Holy Spirit pours out. They get baptized in the Holy Spirit and in fire. And then in Acts 4, oh my God, it happens again because they're praising God. Because they just got out of out of prison. They're praising God. And the Holy Spirit crashes down on them again. And it shakes the house. Like, I want to see that. Like, I've seen some major amazing things happen of God. Only for us. Oh, it's 11 o'clock. Everyone needs to get out of the [Music] building. I don't want to be turned to God on that. I'm not judging. I'm just saying for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And if God wants to make me a wreck on the floor in front of a thousand people, I'll be the donkey. Better than being Baum. So have you ever been in a restaurant and you got all these people talking around you and you got to lean into the conversation to hear the people? Whoa. Yeah. But when you're in a restaurant and there's no one else around, you can be more relaxed and pulled back. So you have all this murmuring and complaining all the way around you. You need to lean into him. And oh man, have you ever done this? This, I know this is off the track. But have you ever done this? John 17 says that we are one with Jesus. Jesus says he's one with the Father. I love this experience. I just sat there and I just like leaning. I lean to Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit. And like kind of peeping through the veil, you know? Come on. And then I just pull back and I let them come into me, you know? And I'm like, "Just take deep breath. Come on." Because I'm not filled up today, you know? I need him. I need more. I need more. I need more, you know? I'm, I'm clear, not arrived yet, you know? I, I need as much as I can. We can take that few seconds. If you got to go to the bathroom and you're busy at work, you just need to get away from everybody. And no one's going to follow you in there, you know? And you just take five minutes and just lean into him. And you just breathe him in. Jesus. Oh, wow. And then he just lean back and like this. Fill me up. And this picture of them just residing in there on your heart, you know? On the throne of your heart. And just let him. Well, yeah. You know, this morning before I got out of bed, I love to spend time with the Father. Either one of the three shows up, you know? Jesus, the Holy Spirit of God. They're all the same. But today it was, it was the Father. And it's been the Father the last couple months. I think he wants to know how much he loves his daughter, you know? And I've been seeing the Father and sitting on the throne with him. Literally. He, he gave us permission. You know, we're to be one with him. That doesn't mean that you're down here and he's up here and he's about ready to smite you. No, that's not the God that I read about in the Bible. And this morning, I am not kidding you, I felt an arm come completely around my back. And it was a hand laying here. Wow. And I'm like, "You don't want to get out of bed." No, you're just like, "Can I just stay here for eternity?" Like, then your alarm goes off. Yeah. Practice setting your alarm about 15 minutes before you got to get up. And then set another alarm for the time that you need to get up. And watch that 15 minutes turn into an amazing moment with God to get filled up with him so that you can go out into the world and proclaim the gospel. And you know what that is? When they proclaim the gospel, heaven is at hand. Right here. It is here. It can come out of here. You can hear it. And it comes through here. And it touches them. And it changes lives. Yeah. You weren't on the Costa Rica trip that you sent me on? Supposed to be the last day of the trip. This is awesome. I know I'm getting off. What time is it? We got time. Okay, we still, we still get time. I feel like it. Um, stories are important because I want you to share testimonies. You're required to go and do five to seven testimonies a week. No, you can't quit. Can't quit. See, you got a partner to help you. Uh-huh. Yeah. Encourage you. If you're single, by yourself, go get a friend and drag him into this, you know? Take him into the fire with you. It'll be good. Let them smell like smoke because you won't smell like smoke. It's the best part. So I'm in Costa Rica. And, um, yeah, people probably don't always want to go on trips with me. But that's okay. I do. I see, I see the hand of God. So Edie told me one day, she said, um, "You need to be careful when you pray a certain prayer and let people know around you that you prayed it." I'm like, "Yeah, that's been fun." So my prayer was, I say, "God, I don't want to live to see tomorrow if I don't encounter you. I want to go somewhere where I need to see you every day, or I don't make it to the next day." That's a powerful prayer because I don't want to live one day without him. Am I? I don't want to go back to where I was when I was committing suicide because I know it was only eternal help. You know, I, I can't come back there anymore. You know? And sometimes I get mad at God because, you know, I feel like I'm one that I can't go back and I can't go forward and I'm stuck in the middle until he helps me move forward, you know? And you get mad at him. I'm just being real. I do. I get mad at him sometimes because, like, I'm not going back. There is no going back because it's death. Come on. That's great. Yeah. It's death. Yes. I know that he saved me from hell. Yes. Like, I know. And, and I get scared. I do. On that trip, I wasn't going to share this, but I really feel like I'm going to. You should too. So just give you some. So you don't know the language, okay? It's Spanish country, Spanish speaking people. Went to Costa Rica, went for three weeks. My friend Cal, Kelly, Kelly Flaming, you hooked me up, you know? It was amazing, you know? Um, I got really excited because, um, Zach told me about this trip. And I heard God say, "Yeah." And all my grace. I do need to tell this story. Oh my gosh. So this is crazy, okay? So I'm going to throw some people under the bus. Um, that's fine. I may not give names, but anyway, I might because this is powerful. This is powerful. Yes. Come on. So in, in December of 2014, I get this dream about a school. And, you know, I did the Randy Clark School. I saw signs, wonders, and miracles. I was running in ministry, um, mostly by myself, you know? I, I just plugged ahead. I just, and put 400,000 miles on a car. That's miles, not kilometers. And, yeah, do the math. It's a lot of miles. And, and so he gives me this dream. And it's bigger than life. And, and no one else has done this dream that God has given me. I haven't seen it. And, and it would be empowering five people at a time. Every three months, you'd add another five students. And you would take them on a journey where you would go all over the world. And they would not pay for the school. Yeah, people are like, "Uh, Trina, that's entitlement spirit. They need to learn. They need to pay. They need to give something." I'm like, "God, what are you saying?" So I take everything back to God. God, what are you saying? It's like, "Yeah, where do you see that in the Bible? Jesus. Jesus didn't make anybody pay. It was just your life, you know? You gave your life. That was the highest cost. You laid your life down for Jesus. That was what, what you paid."

And then provision, you know, it doesn't always happen. I'm just, you know, but sometimes when we walk things out, we got to get out of the way because sometimes we're withholding the provision, or we're not where we should be, or other people aren't where they should be to be able to meet you where you need to be. There's so many factors, and it's not a shame on anybody. You just keep going. You just keep plowing. You keep plowing.

And so, um, God's like, "Yeah, whatever. You know, we'll talk about that later." And so then he says, "Each student would do four international trips a year." Four? Wow. Well, one of our good friends, Heather, she's like, "Jay, that's expensive. Just do one." And I'm like, "God, what are you saying?" Right away, I'm not kidding you. This is amazing. So right away, Zach says, "Hey, TR, when you go to KR with me?" And I live my life green light until red because I live in the presence and I hear the Father, and I go. And he'll put the brakes on, and he does. And you need to be hearing him because when you hear "don't go," and you go, "bail," better get out of the car. There's a story about that. Yeah, it's another story.

So anyway, um, yeah. So trip one, I don't have a job. I'm full-time ministry, you know, and it's not about relying on other people, it's about relying on God, you know? You're a frog, fully relying on God, right? And you leap to the next place. That's really good. Don't be a frog. So this is awesome because right away I'm leaving Pennsylvania, going on a trip, and my friend, my really good friend Diane, calls me from State College. She says, "Hey, I'm going to Belize. Would you want to go?" I'm like, "You know, what are you thinking?" God, yeah, it sounds good. "When do you need the money?" "Oh, in a couple weeks." I'm like, "Okay. Um, all right. Pray for me because I'm on a trip. I think I was going to California at that time or something. I was going going to Great, somewhere where it was, you know, it was an expensive trip."

And so, um, so trip two, I heard God say, "Three months, three trips." And I'm like, "What?" Okay. So I thought the other one was Brazil, but it wasn't. It wasn't Brazil. And I was getting ready to leave for the first trip, which would have been Costa Rica in March. That year, March, April, and May. And so I'm going to Cali, California. That doesn't sound great. You know, I'm going to California by way of Georgia, then over to Texas, up to Colorado, up to Utah, down to Southern California, and then up to the Bay Area. And then God told me to get my flight out of out of, um, one of the Bay Area. And that's an expensive trip, you know? I could go to, I was down in Texas, I could just fly out of Texas, be cheaper. God's, God's not into math. Like, his math doesn't make sense. I say it's the heartbeat of America. I think I might have even went to Wisconsin on that trip.

So I'm on this trip, and, you know, it's not cheap, especially at that time when the gas prices were really high. Not, they, they aren't today, but they were really high. And, um, I get another phone call from a friend, and she's like, "Hey, I want you to meet this pastor from Kenya." I go to meet him, and he says, "Hey, I want you to come to Kenya." That's the matric. I'm like, "Okay." So we're going to Costa Rica in March, we're going to, um, Belize in April, and we're going to Kenya in May. And I needed to drive. So I needed to fly back from three weeks to Costa Rica, drive to Pennsylvania, go with the C to Belize, and then go back, and then fly out to Kenya. So that's a lot of money. The trip to Kenya was paid for by two people. I didn't have to worry about it. Um, and and God provided.

So this trip across the US, I get into, um, Kansas, and my emergency brake freezes on my car. I'm like, "What do you do?" You know, I didn't know that when I to drive. A flat-spotted the tires. So I heard this funny noise before, but, and I thought it was because I had two flat tires on this trip already, and I thought it was one of the wheels was weird, you know, and maybe didn't put the balance on, you know? It was crazy. So anyway, I'm driving from Kansas up to Utah, all the way down to California, and I'm going to an LA gathering. This isn't, yeah, this is my crazy trips. And, um, and before I head up to, before I head up to Central Coast or up to the Bay Area, I'm like, "I need to go get this tire checked." And the guy has him up on the on the lift, and he's like, "Ma'am, you need to come out here and look at your tire." I'm like, "And know you trying to pull the wool? Cuz I'm a woman, you know, that thing." You know, so he made sure he wanted to make sure that I saw what was wrong with my car. And two strips, like nice-sized strips, both tires in the same spot. And the one that was a little worse had a nail right in it in the flat spot. Should have blowed out. God spared my life, even though I was in, you probably less than wisdom moments, um, but the favor of God. Like, so this is crazy. I'm getting ready to leave in a couple of days. I have $200 for three weeks in Costa Rica. I have my trips all planned out. I have the flights all taken care of. God provided for that in in amazing ways. But now I need to spend the money on tires. Like, wow, you know?

So I called my brother. Like, "What do you want me to do?" I just need someone to just care, not to pay for them, just love on me. And he's one that would do that. And he just was not in a good place that day, I guess. And he says, "What, what do you want to do about it?" I couldn't get off the phone quick enough, and I was crying. I'm like, "Okay, bye." And I tell the guy, "Do whatever you got to do." And I run outside, and I'm like, and I bawl. Like, I'm sitting along with the park bench where all the homeless people are, and I'm crying because what do you do? You're getting ready to go for Costa Rica, and I don't even know if I have money now to get to the where the flight is. And you got to trust God. Like, trust God. I feel like that's what this whole series is, is trusting God. I should call that "Trust God," not about leadership instead.

So anyway, I am, I'm looking around, and I get this idea. I'm like, "That's a lot of homeless people." Enemy, you're going to die. You're going to die. So I look and see where God is instead of playing, you know, "poor me." I'm like, I put it on Facebook and everywhere. I'm like, "Hey, need some help. Prayer, prayer, prayer." I don't usually ask for the provision. I just ask for them to pray that God provides. Most of the time, sometimes I ask for the money, but most time I just know God's going to show up somewhere. So I take this homeless person, or person that just doesn't have a house, and I take them to breakfast. I'm dipping into my money, you know, and I take her for breakfast, and I give her a card for more food. And then I, I, I got to pray for several homeless people that day, and the one got healed. And I'm like, "You know what, enemy? You're, you're going to die." Like, we need to grab a hold. God says that everything that enemy means for harm, God will help us in the midst of it. He'll turn it into something great. And he did that day. I mean, I saw the love of the Father touch these two people. And the awesome thing is, um, the one guy at the store ends up getting healed of knee problems. And, and I walk around. I didn't see him walking funny. I walk around and I said, "Hey, by a chance, you got a problem in your knee?" And he's like, "Why? Did you see me walk funny?" And I'm like, "No, I just walked around the corner, and he needed knee healed, and he gets his knee healed." And he's just wrecked by God.

They put the tires on, and they didn't just tell me that I needed tires. They also told me that I was four quarts low on oil. Four quarts low. Yep. A baby blue. Baby blue. She, she took a lick and kept on taking. But anyway, I get, God starts to pour out because people see that there's a need. And it ended up in just matter of two or three days, and I'm having about $1,700 for my Costa Rica trip. You know, people sewed into the nation. And it's not, you know, "Hey, go buy tires for this. Do what you need to do with it." People are awakened by there's a need, you know? And sometimes, you know, there is a need before people wake up and help.

But on that trip, I'm flying in as a white American. I don't know the language, and I don't have a cell phone that works. And I'm flying into a jungle area. It's a little puddle jumper. They made me take all my hair products out of the bag because they wouldn't go on the airplane, that kind of plane. So I was without hair products for three weeks too. That's a bad day. Three weeks. Bad. Three weeks. They have long hair down there. They don't, most of them don't have short hair. So, so anyway, I fly this, and, and I'm, I'm getting out of the plane, and I'm seeing that we're in the middle of somewhere where there's no sort of civilization. And you see a little hut. That's where the airport is. It's literally a little, looks like a porta-potty, maybe a little bigger. It's not very big. And, and I'm realizing that that plane leaving is the last flight out, and there is no one there to pick me up. What do you do? You pray in tongues. And then this little taxi driver, he's like, "I take you to address." This is limited in, you know, English. He says, "I take." I said, "I don't have an address. I don't know where I'm going." I wasn't wise. I didn't get an address. So I just prayed. And he kept trying to talk to me. And so, what's chances of the next car that pulls in, that was the last flight, right? Like, there's no one coming that should be there. And, and he speaks English, and he knows my friend that I was supposed to meet, and he forgot to send someone to pick me up. Yeah. So they help me. They get me taken care of.

So I needed to know that God was there. God needed to show up, or I didn't make it to the next day. There's puma out there. There's, you know, snakes, all kinds of critters. Big monkeys. Two steps, two steps in your day. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yes, they're poisonous, and they come out at dusk and dawn. Yes, yes. So it was dusk, you know, and I'm in grass. So, so anyway, God, like, shows up. And the next morning, I'm, I'm zealous, and I'm like, "Oh, this is a beautiful, luxurious place." And my family goes to, you know, friends and family all have these excursions on these beautiful islands, and I get to go there on a missions trip. And, um, sometimes I scratch my head to know why they go there. But anyway, I jump over the fence and I go take pictures because I want to see the sunrise. And then they have, because they're, they're trying to protect you, they don't open up the gates until later. So I jumped the fence and found a French guy. And just being honest with you, like, this is, this is how you walk, like, life out, you know? You just, sometimes it's a woman's prayer, you know? And, and I do. I live on a prayer. And, and he's in my pocket. He's in my heart.

So I'm taking pictures, and I meet this French guy who speaks English, and we have an amazing day. We end up going out along the water and taking beautiful pictures. And we go to the resorts and get some Coke because they have amazing Coca-Cola that's not poisonous sugar. And this is crazy. So I'm walking past these two flowered garden areas, and I'm walking down through it, and this snake jumps out, green, neon green, which means danger, danger, danger. And it jumps across, like, all but my face, and it lands at my foot, and he scares away. And I'm like, "It's like scary." He was, I'm like, "Oh my gosh," because I know that the really fancy colored snakes usually are poisonous. And, and it like, all it went right past my nose, and I heard God clearly say, "The enemy always falls short of his destination." I'm like, "Wow, thank you, God."

So that day, the end of that day, there's a, the high tide comes in, and we get cut off from our cabana where we were. You could just walk across, but high tide came in, so we couldn't walk across where we were. And that's, that's not good because we, it took us all day to walk where we were the other way, and it's getting dusk. Snakes and puma and big, all kinds of critters. And the guy says, "Well, we'll just walk back." The awesome thing is, he heard about God all day. I told him about all my stories. I got a chance to talk to him about everything that God's been doing and will do, and was doing, and did do. And it was amazing. Cra, like, we need to share, you know? He didn't know God yet. And so he's like, "I, we just walk back." I'm like, "Our, our cell phones are going to die, and we're going to have no flashlights. It's dark." So I'd be like an idiot and jump up and down and try to get the attention of some of the little boats. And they get smaller and smaller. I end up, we both of us stepped in, looked like quicksand. Praying it wasn't. It was just sand, but it went up to our knees. Like, I don't know what quicksand looks like, but I had a moment of fear, you know? "There goes my life. That would be a bad death." You know? And you got to laugh about this stuff, you know?

So anyway, I'm praying in tongues out loud in front of him at this point, and a little boat comes and picks us up. And I think I gave the guy a kiss. And they said that most of the drivers of the resorts don't come over and pick up the Americans because they think it's funny, or any tourist, they think it's funny, then they make them walk all the way back. Yeah. But they came and picked us up. And so, so I needed to see God show up again. Then my friend, he said, "Hey, I said, he said, um, plans all changed. You need to go see my mom. She lives over in this other city, and you need, this is the directions. You need to take the ferry to go to get a taxi. A community taxi is cheaper, and you take that to the first bus stop, and then you get on the next bus at the next bus stop, and then you go up to, um, you tell the the bus driver, ready to drop you off at the first chicken coop." Well, I didn't have a lot of boldness. And as I'm wheeling my luggage out to the ferry, I'm crying because I'm like, "Oh my gosh, this is going to be crazy." This fear and trembling. Long story short, the taxi driver saves my day, saves my life. Instead of getting on the bus, he takes me all the way. Cost me a little more, but he finds the place I'm to go. Is the chicken coop no longer exists. And the would have never made it to the second bus because the first bus gets stuck on the mountain in a traffic jam. But the cars could go around it, and they were hand-shoving, um, blacktop, and it wasn't going to be any soon that they were going to get out of their traffic jam. So God saved me that day.

So the, the gist of it is, several days later, I'm, I'm on another bus, and this young man sits beside me. You know how we always say, "I don't know where to share my stuff." God, like, "I feel so full of you, and I need to share it." Like, that was me. I'm like, "So he puts this young man beside me. Speaks perfect English. He's a college student, hungry for the Lord." And I get to share for six hours about identity and the Holy Spirit. And, and I get to see him totally undone by the Lord. And I hear God say, "What if you endured everything that you endured for this moment? What if you, um, in all those days, everything that you went through was to get you in this moment? Is it worth it? Is our life worth it for one person?" That's what a leader is. It's not about leading thousands and millions of people to Christ, then most of them probably don't even stay walking with God because they don't have no one to disciple, right? It's about that one person that is in front of you that gets the revelation from God because the presence of God is moving so mightily and powerfully. And then he was my key to my next stop, and he helped me. So if I wouldn't have talked to him, I would have been lost in the middle of Costa Rica, not knowing where I was going. And on one of those buses, this is amazing, this security guard on a bus, he had "Security" on the back of his shirt. He came and helped me, and he told me that the lady in front of me was going to let me know when I needed to get off the bus stop. I had no idea where I was going. I'm not kidding. I'm just trying to get to the beach because I figured there would be a place to stay. And I love the beach anyway. You like the beach? So anyway, um, and, and my GPS wasn't working, and nothing was working because I forgot that once you left the Wi-Fi, everything disappears on your phone. So I had things planned out, but, and I had to walk out God's plan.

So anyway, this guy literally had "Security" on the back, and he tells me, "I need this lady in front of me will help me." And he disappears. He is not on that bus anymore. It's not that big of a bus. He is gone. And I know that I know I encountered an angel that gave me directions. And this lady, when I need to, she turns around, she said, "Hey, we need to get off this next bus or this next." And she kind of did it and broke English, and I knew what you meant. We just never know how much time I've got done. 9:42. 9:42. Let me finish this.

So the last day of our trip, we are on the mountain of Costa Rica. We're on a vacation day. There's no vacation day in God's kingdom. It's always a vacation day, I think, because we get to see God's glory show up. And so we come down off this mountain, see, after we saw the silver, um, volcano lake, and it was beautiful. And he said, "Hey, this is a beautiful spot to watch, um, to take pictures." So we all get out of the bus, and we're taking pictures. And I'm tired. Three weeks of going through hell on earth, you know? It felt like I was drained. I was done. And, um, I just want to have fun. And there's these horses running up, and I'm like, "Kodak." You know, I love horses. And, and this motorcycle goes, and he runs fast, and he does a wheelie, and he scares the horses off. I was not Jesus at that moment. And I'm like, I'm like yelling at him. Like, and I get this understanding, and I'm like, he goes past me, he's laughing. He's laughing hysterically. They're drunk. They're drinking. They have a car full of beer, and they're running their motorcycles, and they're having fun, just young kids. And, um, he goes past me, and he's just laughing hysterically, and I'm just fuming. And I'm like, "I know, I know what, what I'm doing." I said, "I went and grabbed my translator." I said, "You come with me. He's going to go and encounter God on the mountain of Costa Rica." I, I get, I stand in front of that kid's motorcycle. I, I straddle his wheel. And then said, "God wants to touch you right now." Like, this boldness. I don't know if it was because my anger turned into boldness or what. I just wanted to reveal God, but I felt like it was God. So I'm standing there, and he does this, and, and all of a sudden, I'm praying for him. And he pulls his hands back. I felt the power of God go through me and touch him. I felt the electricity. Like, that can happen. And this kid's like, "I'm like, he done. Give him back to me." I get to prophesy and pray for him. There's like eight of them. The next guy, he's scared because he saw that that guy encountered something. And he's like, he, he waves me off. But one after another, we see these guys get touched by God. Not just prophesied over. They literally see the power of God touch them on the mountain of Costa Rica on a vacation day.

So my one friend, T, is taking pictures. She's getting the Kodak moments. Like, she's got an amazing picture of me straddling that motorcycle with the kid doing this. It was beautiful. And all of a sudden, she does a face plant right on the gravel. You have, you have the little bit of a road, and you have the gravel, maybe about this wide, and then you have a barbed wire fence, and then you have a cliff. She does a face plant, flips over on her back. And I'm like, "There's an angel there." I saw an angel flip her over like a pancake. Like, you can't possibly do that. We're on the mountain. We're not in a church. We're out having fun. And God shows up. And I'm like, "Hey, can y'all like come down and help her? Cuz she like needs some help." So these guys are laughing hysterically. They are undone because they think we're intoxicated. They don't know why she fell out. I mean, and she didn't have no bloody nose or nothing. That's is amazing. She says, "It was nice and soft." I'm like, "It was not soft." [Laughter] But she'd been praying for God to touch her radically, and God waited to that moment to really touch her before she went home.

So our translator, the one that I chose, had been a hippie, a drunk, and just, you know, alcohol and drugs when he was a teenager. And he has his driver's license from when he was young, young kid, and he was the hippie. So he could tell that back in the '70s, you know, he was probably not in some good things. And, and he gets out his old driver's license, and he shows these kids. And in Spanish, he says, "Hey, what you see here is not what you think. Just like an A. What you see here is not what you think." And I just love how God brings everything together. What we saw that day was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on these young men in the middle of a fun day. We got to see God show up in his glory, and these kids got to accept Jesus because they saw God show up and they experienced him. They didn't just hear about him, they experienced him. That's what God wants to do through all of you guys. We get to be Jesus. We get to unpack heaven, and we get to see them encounter God.

So Father God, I just thank you right now. I thank you for touching everyone that is in this room. I ask God that you just come right now. Come, Holy Spirit. Hey, can a lot of you guys get on the keys a little bit, please? I feel like God's going to come back and show up. And, um, I just pray y'all just hang in there. I know that it is 5 o'clock and allowing, um, Holy Spirit, just come. Yes, we just want to see God just show up and do a baptism of Holy Spirit over y'all. So if you guys wanted to stand to your feet or whatever you want to do, just to, yes, take a new position and watch God to show up. Come, Holy Spirit. Worthy. And to you all, all things you deserve the glory for you are things you, you deserve glory. And night and day. Night. Worthy. All are you. You are. You are. All things. You are. All things. [Laughter] All. All. So. [Music] You. And to you are all things. [Music] Oh. Oh. [Applause] [Music] Oh. Oh. [Applause] [Music] You. [Music] You. [Music] Am just as I am. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh. So I could be. You love. [Music] You. [Music] [Music] I. I. [Music] Oh. Oh. [Music] [Music] Are. [Laughter] [Music] All. [Music] We just thank you guys so much. We were going to do the breakout sessions, but clearly that didn't work tonight. And I will help you guys do breakout sessions, and that we want everyone to get to know each other. And we think we're going to do like three people in a group, and that way we don't have to worry about men and women being together. Is there, or maybe two girls and two guys or something like that. Make sure it's safe for everybody. But we want people to get to know each other. And we, we pray that you will respect, honor, and have integrity in those groups, and that you would only have what the Lord has and no agenda. And, um, we're excited that you get to meet some of these people that are in house. And I wish y'all could be here. Um, God, just, God, just pour out right now over your sons and daughters right now. I thank you, Father God, for pouring out over your sons and daughters. And I thank you as we all go about our day. Some are actually going to work now, and some are actually going to bed. So Father God, I thank you for giving all the Africans the ability to have the strength to do what they're called to do, and allow it to be worth their while to do this every week, even though it starts at 1:00 AM their time. Father God, I thank you for the hunger. The hunger draws on the anointing of God. And I thank you, Father God, in Jesus name. Pour out my love. Pour out in Jesus name. [Music] W. Sorry. Somebody. You got you guys want to do true to wow, Lord. [Music] To. [Music] Get the harmony that puts in you. Okay, got it. Just that perfect. [Music] Ch. Next. God bless you all. Good night, everybody. Night. We see you next week. See you next Monday. This glory. You'll twinkle on the keys, twinkle on the strings, sing, whatever it's just coming from here. I'm pull back. Than. [Music] [Music] [Music]