How to Access, Enjoy & Keep The Power of God

Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com. And now here is Evangelist Jonathan. I want you if you have your Bibles to open it with me to Hebrews chapter 13. Verse 5. Or sorry, Revelation 13.5. Revelation the 13th chapter in the fifth verse. Great job, musicians. Anointed. Revelation 13, 5. Welcome everybody that's watching online. If you are watching anywhere near Phoenix, Pastor Jay's there. They're going to have church tomorrow morning, Saturday at 10 a.m. If you're in Toronto, I will be there tomorrow night at 8 p.m. And we have communion and baptisms here at 6 p.m. And so if you're wondering how that's going to work, Toronto is a 32-minute flight. We got our own airplane. So Revelation 13. Verse 5. Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. This is revelation. This is after the church is taken up out of the earth and it's talking about the Antichrist. The beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God, and he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for 42 months. And he spoke terrible words of blasphemy against God, slandering his name and his dwelling. That is those who dwell in heaven. And the beast was allowed to wage war against God's holy people and to conquer them. And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation. And all the people who belong to this world, say that with me, all the people who belong to this world worship the beast. That's the rub that you get in now that you can feel. There's people that belong to the world. You know, I'm sure you had people you invited tonight that are sick. Some came and some belong to the world. They don't get it. They're in the wrong flow. So that's where the separation is becoming very distinct right now. Then those who bel belong to this world worship the beast. They are the ones whose names are not written in the Lamb's book of life, that belongs to the Lamb who was slaughtered before the world was made. Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand. Anyone who's destined for prison will be taken to prison. Anyone destined to die by the sword will die by the sword. That means that God's holy people must endure persecution patiently and remain faithful. Verse 11. Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb, but he spoke with the voice of a dragon. He exercised all the authority of the first beast, and he required all the earth and its people to worship the first beast. Do you guys have the um flash me if you have it? Yes or yes or no? The the Pope going into the mosque and worshiping in the mosque uh 10 days ago or 14 days ago? Yay or nay? You can just put wire in. Anything but blank. You don't have it. So uh it's probably for the best, because then Catholics think you're picking on them, which I'm not. Wouldn't it be a great idea in the ministry to go after the Catholic Church in Pittsburgh or Baltimore? Because that's probably second-third to the Vatican of most Catholics. So uh, but when you see the last two popes basically coming out with videos that, regardless of how you reach out to God, it doesn't matter whether you use Jesus or Buddha or Muhammad, you see the beginnings of the paving for a one-world religion. The Bible says that after the rapture, there's going to be the Antichrist is not just gonna be a political figure, he's gonna demand worship unto him, and you can see the beginnings of that right now. So I want you to see that you're not living in the last days, you're living in the final moments of the last days. Sunday morning, I'm I think I'm gonna get into this unless the Lord puts me in a different direction, uh, pretty pretty deep, because everything that's happening right now, including in this church, is a sign of how soon Jesus is coming. We had many experts, and all of them from a physical standpoint are correct. You will not be able to acquire this building and get it rezoned for church. And they were right. That's why I was on uh Colin Dunlap, uh uh uh Colin uh Dunlap, right? That's why I was on his show, you know, because they they don't like that. They don't want any property becoming a church because you lose tax revenue. So in the natural, you're not gonna be able to acquire this building and get it rezoned and get it permit permitted. You're looking at best four years or five years before you can meet there, and that's if you have the money. But in ten months, God supernaturally supplied the money, rezoned, and and major, major favor with the permits. You know, when we found out that Dallas is having the World Cup, and uh, I think like Hampton Inns in Dallas are going for 550 a night because of the World Cup. So, you know, that's gonna cut down on people's ability to go there. I think the I think Hopewell reached out to us and said, if you work with us, we can help you get permitted. We would we would like this to be here. I mean, they easily could say, until this is all done, you can't have church here. But instead, they're letting us meet in this part that's supposed to be phase two because uh phase one's not permitted yet. We have a pretty beautiful sanctuary upstairs that you'll see soon. God did that. We started with$700,000 in the bank to do$4,050,000 worth of build-out, and phase one is paid, and we had double in the bank left over that we started with with no construction loan. So I'm I'm telling you, if you want to talk Bible prophecy, you can get into the depressing devil part of it. But first of all, even this stuff, like they'll be beheaded. I'm not here for that, I'm not losing my head. Everybody say, I'm not losing my head. Yeah. If I was able to keep my head in the merging on 376 to go through the Fort Pitt tunnels, then I can keep it the rest of the time. And so there's problems coming for the world. This is the great dichotomy that makes people unable to understand churches like this that don't want to understand it. They talk blessing and wealth. The Bible says the end times there'll be tribulation. Yeah, you know you can have two things at the same time. That the Bible says, while that tribulation is going on in the world, that he's gonna make his people a shining light that the world will be able to see they serve a living God. Yeah, whatever they're planning in the world, it's not gonna touch you and your house because you're in covenant with the Most High God. Can you say amen? They got the video I called for off the cuff. Take a look so you don't think I'm nuts. That was going in a mosque and praying and worshiping and then coming out and saying that that's that's a proper house of worship. And you know, you never would have had that. How does the cat if you can't tell we're coming to the end of time, how does the Catholic Church go for calling for a physical war in the crusades against Islam to doing that? So if you don't know the Bible, you get upset. I can't believe he would do that. Well, you should have been able to believe it, because it told you it's heading there, and Jesus said, When you see these things happen, don't let your blood pressure spike. Look up for you know your redemption's drawing now. We're we're coming in, so why did I bring up the church and all that? Because why would God supernaturally, I'm not saying that this church has grown faster than any church in the history of the world or the United States, but it has to be top 25 in the cert of the country. I was asking, what was Charles Finney's biggest revival in Rochester, New York? They said at the height, it got into the multiplied hundreds of people. We're in the multiplied hundreds of people on a Friday night service in a freezing cold rainstorm because Pennsylvania never got the memo that it's may already. All the clothes I was hoping I'd never have to see again, I'm digging out to wear. So, why is everything accelerating? Then a second church, well, is that gonna work? If you do one in Texas, well, this one, this one continues to explode. Texas now getting to the point where six and seven hundred's normal on Sunday, there or not. Then California, Kofi cracked. Kofi had more people after Easter than he had on Easter. That's that doesn't happen. That's taken off. And then Phoenix, I think we had our second biggest crowd just under 300, which packs that. First of all, the church we're meeting in already knocked out their back wall in Phoenix to accommodate more people. And last Saturday, it was it was it wasn't jammed. There were some seats, but it was very full. Like an usher had to walk you and move people to sit down towards the end. So how's that how's that happening? Because we're so awesome? No, it's because the devil is not gonna have the final say in the last hour of time. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ is gonna have the final say, and we're having it right now. There's gonna be a revival, the revival you're seeing right now, that's having all those thousands of people receive Christ at Pittsburgh University and all the universities across the country. That's not going anywhere, my friend. It's gonna blow up all over the country, and I'm glad you are a part of a church that doesn't just have a stake in the ground here, it's all over the country and all over the world. Get ready for the best closeout to a year that you've ever had in Jesus' name. If you believe it, can you say amen? Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb, but he spoke with the voice of a dragon. He exercised all the authority of the first beast, and he required all the earth and its people to worship the first beast whose fatal wound had been healed. He did astounding miracles, even making fire flash down to earth from the sky while everyone was watching. And with all the miracles he was allowed to perform on behalf of the first beast, he deceived all the people who belonged to this world. There's that phrase again. Everybody say, Who belonged to this world? So the Bible talks about we have not the spirit of this world, we have the spirit of Christ. Staying in church and getting the word in you, the word embodies the spirit of truth. That's why some of you have enough word in you from just the time you went as a child to church that when Dr. Fauci was talking about vaccines, you I don't know. And you could you actually couldn't even give an explanation to family why you didn't want to do it. Why aren't you doing it? I don't know. I just something doesn't like taking a shower with your socks on, something doesn't feel right. I'm not doing it because that's what the word does. Actually, the more you load yourself with the Bible, the more you can't be deceived. You can spot somebody lying. It's like when they lie, a siren goes off when they're talking. I was telling the the um Bible college students today when I met with them, because they're about they're about to graduate. When is graduation? May what? May 16th. So probably the last time I I addressed them as a group like that group. And I told him, I said, there was one evangelist that was talking to me. I guess he was trying to impress me or something. He said, Every day that I'm in meetings, I fast and pray all day. I said, No, you don't. And he said, No, I do. I said, every day that you're in meetings, you fast and pray the whole day. Well, well, not every day. Oh, so we're backpedaling. Yeah, because you're lying, because you preached 250 times last year, and I don't believe you. So you're a liar. Now I don't believe anything you say because you lied. So that this is something that helps you, the people of this world, and you went through that in 2020, 2021, 2022. How can people fall for that? How can people not see it? They can't see it because they belong to the world, and the same way they're gonna get swept into all this stuff. But then when you have the spirit of Christ in you, you can spot a liar, you can spot somebody that has the hand of God on their life. I was preaching in in Butler County prison yesterday to a small pod, like 11 guys they let in at a time. And uh I could I I could tell, I could tell a lot. Just so as I started preaching, I'd say 20 minutes, and I bet you I could have guessed who did what. Because I could pick it up in my spirit, who's extrovert, who's been coming to the things when Nadalis is preaching with her crew and have have really received the word and they're clean, and you can't even tell they have a past, you can tell just by looking at people's eyes. So the Bible is what equips you supernaturally to be strong in the Lord and the power of his might in the last day. I don't know how people live. I'm not saying this as a pastor. I don't know how people live in this hour of time without the Bible. If I had to meditate on what they tell me to meditate on on TV commercials, it was my life insurance paid up because I could die at any time. I have a one in five chance to have colorectal cancer. I'm a woman, if you're a woman, you have a chance, uh, one in two and a half chance of having breast cancer this October. It comes in October. You're good for now. Everything's death. I mean, where were we? Where were we two months ago? Where the chance of a recession this year had spiked to like 71%. And now I'm gonna make me a little bit of money because I went on cow she, because I told you when I was preaching, I said there's not gonna be a recession this year. So when the odds went like that, me put some money in and me up now. I'm not promoting gambling, I'm just telling you. I knew we weren't having a recession. I know there's problems that aren't gonna take place because it's not the time for the devil to take over. This is the hour of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Can you say amen? So then watch this. Uh he did astounding miracles, even making fire flesh down to earth to deceive the people who belonged to this world. He ordered the people to make a great statue of the first beast who was fatally wounded and then came back to life. He was then permitted to give life to this statue so that it could speak. Then the statue of the beast commanded that anyone refusing to worship it must die. He required everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a mark in their right hand or in their forehead, and anyone, and no one could buy or sell anything without that mark in the forehead or forehead. Again, I don't want to get into Sunday's message, but I mean, if you came from a background where they taught theologically that all Bible prophecy was fulfilled in 70 AD when Nero attacked Jerusalem, tell me at what point in history people could buy and sell with a mark in their hand or in their forehead. I mean, this is pretty wild. This would have been a wild thing to write in 1892, let alone 92. That the day's coming where people won't be able to buy or sell anything unless they have a mark in their right hand or their forehead. Israel reborn, May 14th, 1948. Credit cards introduced, like seven years after that. Before that, people had wealth. Your dollars could be exchanged for actual gold. Then everything has gone this direction where you can see these far-out prophecies that look like they were never gonna happen. The infrastructure for it is there right now. Can you say amen? So now you can see what is the Antichrist plan for man, what is the devil's plan for man? That nobody can buy or sell without that mark or the number uh representing his name. And then and wisdom's needed here for the number 666. I'm not gonna try to interpret 666. People wrecked their ministries doing that. They thought Ronald Reagan was the Antichrist because Ronald has six letters, whatever his middle name was had six letters, and Reagan had six letters. Mikhail Gorbachev has the mark of the beast, that birthmark he had on his head. You know, and now you don't have a ministry anymore. But I can I don't have to wade into that. I can go into what's literally written that people will be required to take a mark in their right hand or in their forehead, and they can't sell. And then you have all that. I mean, the legislation's up for that now. South Dakota and Florida and a couple other states have already preemptively drawn up laws that you you can't have that because it's available. So once you go to that, you can't say, I'm I uh well, no one's gonna tell me to eat crickets, I'm eating meat, because they'll restrict how much money can be spent on meat, even though it's your money. Your taxes aren't paid, your taxes are deducted out of your you've got nothing. And if they want to make it where you can't function, they turn you off. That's the antichrist system. Well, what if the antichrist system is controlled spending? What is God's system? Go to Deuteronomy chapter 8. If you haven't guessed, I'm thinking the offering depends on people at the end. Because it's a miracle service. And I want you to I want to show you the power of offerings and the power of coming into financial covenant with God. Deuteronomy chapter 8. Hallelujah. Be careful, verse 1. This is God speaking to his people. Everybody say, I'm I'm God's people. Be careful to obey all the commands I'm giving you today. Then you will live and multiply. Everybody say, live and multiply. Our churches are multiplying, both in attendance and number of churches. It's God's way. You're starting a second church? Yes. Because one times two is two. You have a fourth one? Because two times two is four. Multiply. You know, if John Wesley, remember if he can start 700 churches on horseback, what should you do with a plane and a car? And you two. And then, you know, Toronto's a four-hour and 40-minute drive because you have to go around the lake. But a plane, you go over the lake. I'll be home tomorrow night before people that live in Toronto are home. Yeah, it's a different age. Why run like it's 1600 when it's 2026? I don't think God made this technology for the devil to spread pornography and sex traffic. The church should grab hold of it and knock the devil in the head. Somebody shout, praise the Lord. Then you will live and multiply. Now look at that. Living and multiplying is just a natural expression of obeying God's commands. You're not, I'm not trying to start four churches. They just started. In fact, it's why you have people, you know, people will copy what a Dallas does or what I do, because it looks easy, because it is easy, because it's not us doing it. But if you try to do it, you're gonna find out there's a God that's making this stuff happen. Can you say amen? And so it's not you trying. That's where people get messed up. This prosperity message teaches people to be discontent. Buddy, I couldn't be any more content. My blood pressure is like three over one. I inhale like three times a minute. I'm as relaxed, I'm more relaxed, needing 2.8 million a month to come in. No, more than that. Are we over three million a month that has to come in to break even? Yeah. I quit looking. I was I was more, way more worried when I had 3,500 a month that needed to come in to break even one of Dallas when I first got married. I was thinking about it. Because you can come up with a plan to get 35 million. You can't come up with a plan to get three million a month. Denzel Washington tried in training day, he got killed. You can't do it. You might be able to do it one month. So it's actually so out of control that it's just God. And you just trust him and you let him do his thing. Prosperity is not you trying to get blessed, it's allowing God to do what he said he would do when he told when you obeyed to do what he told you to do. Can't you say amen? Everybody say, live and multiply. You will live and multiply, and you will enter and occupy the land, not heaven, the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors. Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these 40 years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands. Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna of food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did this to teach you that man doesn't live by bread alone. Rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of God. For all these 40 years, your clothes didn't wear out, your feet didn't blister or swell. Think about it. Just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you for your own good. So obey the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and fearing him. For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land. God's bringing me into a good land. God's bringing you into a good land. Flowing with streams and pools of water, with fountains and springs that gush out in the valleys and hills. It is a land of wheat and barley, of grapevines, fig trees and pomegranates, of olive oil and honey. It is a land where food is plentiful and nothing is lacking. It would say, Nothing's lacking. Nothing will ever lack. It is a land where iron is as common as stone and copper is abundant in the hills. When you've eaten your fill, be sure to praise the Lord your God. That's all he wants. Eat all you want. Just remember me. And I don't have to tell you, you're not in church on Easter or Sunday, you're in church on Friday. He must say, I'm remembering God. Yeah, that's all he wants. That's what the tithe is. The tithe is you gave me a hundred, here's ten back, to remind you that I haven't forgotten where the whole hundred comes from. God says, as long as that comes back, then I'll open the windows of heaven. It's not a tax. The IRS doesn't collect your taxes and go, thanks for remembering all the work we do. Now here's some and more. It doesn't multiply, it disappears. But with God, it's a sign every time you're paid. And I'm not receiving the tithe. I'm telling you why there's tithe and offering. It's not to help God, it's to help you. See if I won't open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that's so great you won't have room enough to receive it. Try it, let me prove it to you. And I'll rebuke the devourer for your sakes. Man, I've been blown away just being around unsaved people. Barbershop, uh, where else have I been around unsaved people? Restaurants, FBO, uh fixed-based operation for aircraft. You know, this one, this lady, the second to last time I got my haircut in Phoenix, she talked about cancer, the whole haircut. Somebody knows I had skin cancer, and they it was past the point of it being treated, and he could die. And uh he was about your age, you know, so you you gotta be careful. And then I was quiet, you know. I'm not looking for fate, I was looking to get a haircut. But after the third time of you making me wear a cancer, I went, let me tell you something, lady, I'll never have cancer. She went, You sound sure. I said, however, sure I sound, I'm more sure than how I sound. And she went, Wow. So then, because she had that, I just figured I'd like to twist the knife. I said, I have as much chance of getting cancer as I do of getting pregnant. Now, other people in the barber. Yeah, tell me, explain to me from scripture how I'm getting cancer. Well, you know, you've got to gotta be careful saying that. What do I gotta be careful? Well, you believe in jinx? Where's that in the Bible? I'm not thinking about death, I'm thinking about living and multiplying. Whoever came in here aside to death, you're coming out of here alive in the name of Jesus Christ. Can you say amen? After you've eaten your fill, be sure to praise the Lord your God for the good land he's given you. But that's the time to be careful. Beware that in your plenty you don't forget the Lord your God. I haven't found this as much in Pittsburgh, but Texas, you can barely find a rich person that has a pastor. We go to Gateway sometimes, and then there's a people we know that have a prophetic ministry, we'll go there sometimes. They go like they go like two times every six weeks to some church, do them a favor. Tell the pastor we'd like to meet you for lunch. Check, we're thinking about giving. They don't know what to do with me down there. I don't think anyone's ever heard of Pastor Tell them, take your check and shove it. I'm not a politician. But I'm gonna explain what I'm gonna do and see whether you'll donate. If the Lord spoke to you to give, give it. What did uh what did Peter tell Ananias and Sapphira? The money was yours to give or not to give. Nobody has to. Who's ever been contacted here and we told you, you know, your tithe belongs here? Remember, this is your home church. Who's ever heard that? If you have, tell me what pastor did it so I can fire him before service is over. We have never guilted anybody or even brought up money to anybody because it's not God's way. Can you say amen? So the Bible, these are other verses that people think guys like me don't know. The Bible says that when God prospers you, that's when you need to be careful. You're darn right. Because that's when pride enters in. You know, there was a dentist, I'm gonna say as vague as possible so I don't get sued, but it's a true story. There was a dentist in Dallas. He has a chain of dentistries all through that part of Texas. I'm sure Pastor Luke and Marissa would know who it is. They got billboards everywhere. So they did what oh, you know, what rich people do, especially in the South. They in they incorporated a church and he made himself the pastor. That way he can tithe to his own church. And then he did it, he had in a big music act, Christian music act, to draw a crowd, and then he got up and spoke during the concert and talked about how it's wrong that churches speak out against gay marriage, Jesus was for gay marriage and lost the whole church and had to shut it down. Yeah, because you can't call yourself in the ministry and you can't get so much money that you you anoint yourself a pastor. And very few rich people can submit to a pastor, um, except in Pittsburgh. Because Pittsburgh people don't aren't jerks. I'm not saying you're a jerk in Texas, you're great people. But Pittsburgh people are different, they're just different. I've never been in a city where you go to get paint and they say we can't do it for any less than 38,000. But if you go see my competitor, I think they can do 31. It's like everybody's trying to save people money here. You can't tip people in Pittsburgh. Try to hand somebody a tip here. They go into like kung fu mode. I can't take that. I bought a jacket and the sleeves are too long, the story gets more interesting. And I and I, I know it's it's an older Pittsburgh lady at the alteration shop. I said, she said, uh, I said, is there any way I can have this for Saturday? I wanted to take it up to Canada. And she went, no, the soonest we can do is the middle of May. Go on, what about if I give you$100? No. $200? No. $300, no,$400. She would stop. I went, all right,$400 it is. She went. She went, no, I can't take that. I said, can we drop the whole Pittsburgh I can't take your money thing? You're helping me out. I tip everybody else. Why can't I tip you? You know, our senator dresses like he's ready to go skateboarding. I told people, I'm not saying it after the fact, when Oz was running against Fetterman, I I was in Texas, and a guy pointed at the screen and went, How does that guy think he's gonna beat him, talking about Fetterman, how does he think he's gonna beat him? Because Oz was all dressed up. I said, let me tell you something, someone who's from Pittsburgh, he's gonna beat him because he looks like us, and Dr. Oz has a wine tumbler at a Penn State game. So I'm even me was like, man, I don't like you. So it's different here. Never use, never lose that humility where the more God blesses you, don't become somebody that's unpastorable. Um, excuse me, Pastor Dallas, were you speaking about me when you made that uh illustration in your sermon? So what if she was? She's not, but take the rebuke. Are you too big to get rebuked now? See, if you'll allow yourself to stay ever humble as God blesses you, then God will never stop blessing you. So go to war against pride. Now think about it. And I'm I'm preaching to the wrong people because you're in church on Friday. But I was telling people on TV on uh all week. I said, some of you already have plans this week not to go to church on Sunday. It's my mom's birthday. Our son has a little okay. Do you know what that is? And I know this sounds overly harsh, but but it's true. Now you are entering into Deuteronomy 8 warning territory without you knowing it. No, I I know it. I know church is important, but but now I'm coach of a of a travel baseball team. And my son, my daughter's doing very well. She's at the university of whatever. We're going to visit her on the weekend, so we can't. So now you've allowed the blessings of God to pull you out of church. I am telling you, if you will work overtime, to the more God blesses you, making sure you're rooted in the house of God, God will never stop blessing you. I see the windows of heaven coming open over your life, and pouring out a blessing that's so great you won't have enough room to take it all in. Verse 12. When you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes, plural, to live in. And when your flocks and herds have become very large, and your silver and gold have multiplied along with everything else. Be careful. By the way, pull that back. Silver and gold have multiplied with everything else. Where's my uh vest that I give you? Let me see real quick. Cam, pull the wallet you gave me out of here and just grab the uh I think there's silver in there, and then I was going through now. People, I've been sowing silver when people because I don't feel like cashing it in, and you lose money. So I've been like giving it when people give it to me, like I like you saw me do that one Sunday. How many of you remember when I said I'm gonna give a hundred thousand for the church? So I just grabbed all my silver and put it in. I've been a silver magnet who's walking up and giving me, I want to give you silver. They didn't see that that meeting or anything. It's the blessing of God. And so Camila's teacher, which I don't mean they keep bringing her up, but I mean, to teach people that God doesn't bless people on earth, this is talking about heaven. My friend, now that's not public school, that's Christian school in Bible class. You have a major problem with Deuteronomy 8. I will bless you in the land that I swore to your forefathers I will give you. Say a word with me. Say land, say homes, say silver, say gold. And then it talks about food, all the things that the world is worrying about. God said, I don't care if the Strait of Hormuz is open or closed, I will be faithful to my word for my covenant children. Any silver in there? In there? I'm zipping Jack. Deuteronomy 8. Find homes to live in, and your flocks and herds have multiplied. Your animals multiply, everything multiplies. The people multiply. This Friday night miracle service used to have 140 people if we were lucky. Twenty people were there because they got in the wrong parking lot, meant to go to Pramani's. But it's multiplied, and then on camera it's getting carried. And then you get contacted by a guy in West Palm Beach. I own Real America's Voice. I've always wanted to start another faith network. Can I put you on six hours a day? And can I make you part owner of the station? Now it's on. Everything multiplies. As long as you don't sin. So just you don't sin. You'd be nuts to be a pastor that sins. If you're a pastor that sins and you you pastor in Pittsburgh, you're extra nuts. Because everybody knows that. If you had, I think that's why you never hear about Pittsburgh people getting like having an affair and their ministry fall. You can't do it here. Everybody knows everybody. If you had an affair in Pittsburgh as a pastor, everyone in the whole city would know within eight minutes. My cousin's hairdresser slept with this pastor. Everybody say, don't sin. Everybody say, live holy. When your flocks and herds have multiplied and your silver and gold have multiplied along with everything else. Be careful. Don't become proud at that time. And forget the Lord your God who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt. Don't forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions. Now, we're not going through a terrifying wilderness with poisonous snakes and scorpions in Pennsylvania. Arizona, you are. But here we're not. But this there's allegory here as well. Now, God literally did that, but then what's the allegory for today? You're living in a turbulent time. There's snakes and scorpions on the path to get to your destination. But God has promised not only to bless you, but I'll lead you by my spirit how to navigate through all those things. Do not forget that He led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poison snakes and scorpions. I took it out already. Where it was so hot and dry, he gave you water from the rock. He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. I mean, think of this now. You're in a desert, there's nothing anywhere, there's no UNICEF, and God, I'm I'm getting off, I can't get into this. What I'm about to say sounds insane, but you can look it up for yourself. There was a rock that traveled with them, the water came from the rock. And the Bible says the rock was Christ. You say, what does that mean? I'll be honest with you. I've been studying the Bible for 40 years. I'm not really sure, but that's what it says. Everybody say water from the rock. And then he fed them every day. I'm just worried about the economy. Are you living in the middle of the Egyptian desert? Where there's literally no functional economy? God didn't care. God is not. And that's why I say some things that even for prosperity people you don't hear. You know, that are that are jarring. When you hear me say, if everybody in this church, why do you think I've never contacted you about tithes or know who tithes and who doesn't? Or made some little joke to you. Hey, heard you got that contract for your company. Just remember we're building the church. None of that. You want that? You can go to another church, they'll do it to you every Sunday. Nice car, you know. Just remember the church while you're at it. Don't do that. You can't guilt three million dollars out of people every month. So this thing either works or it doesn't work. You know what? You know why I don't do it? Because what we do as this church is not dependent upon you. I've never had the Holy Ghost speak to me and say, I want you to move into that church building, but I don't know if you can get the people to give enough money. You're not sent by the people, you're sent by God to the people, and God is the one who supplies all your needs according to his riches and glory through Christ Jesus. Say with me, all my needs are supplied. My friends, I never at any point in this process, and now we're doing phase two, have felt like I needed four million dollars or needed three million. You never heard me say it. You heard me say when we turn the key, we'll be debt-free. That need, God already said supply, it's not even worth praying about. So, how do you show God that you believe that? By going forward as if all the money's already there. Did it work or did it not work? Did it work or not work? And that's what I love about faith. You seem nuts when you first do it. I had qualified, not in this church, but you know, people talk to you. How are you gonna pay for that? How much do you have in the bank right now? I'm not paying for it with what I have in the bank. I'm paying for it from the open windows of heaven. Okay. Okay, you know, and I'm not trying to stifle your dreams. Yeah, but I know, but you saying that, I feel like the next thing you're gonna say is to stifle my dreams. I'm not trying to stifle your dreams, I'm just saying, you know, there's a lot of pastors that have, you know, believed that like that, and they've they've stepped out to do that, and it, you know, caused them a lot of problems. So just be careful. No, I'm not being careful. Because first of all, it's not my dream to have a big church, it's my dream to go home by myself and play Xbox. That's how it's very easy for me to tell anything the Lord speaks to me. That's how I don't have any doubt the Lord spoke to me to go to Toronto, Canada to preach. Have you ever heard how I talk about Toronto and Canada? So when you hear that I plan to go preach there, you know Jesus spoke to me. Because I don't have a desire. I'm not trying to build a network. However, if if I work for God and I'm in covenant with God, and he told me his biggest desire is that he's willing that all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. And how can they call on him whom they've never heard? And how can they hear unless someone goes? And how can they go unless he said, How can they hear without a preacher that I'm gonna pour my life out to do what the master said? Can you say amen? 16. He fed you with men in the wilderness of food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good. He did all this so you would never say, I have achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy. 18. Always remember the Lord your God. That's why we pray before we eat as Christians, not squint before we eat. Pray before you eat. And then you don't have to go the other way either and do a devotional prayer where it's cold by the time you're done. You'd have loved my grandfather, A. E. Shuttlesworth, I promise you. He should have passed it in Pittsburgh because he has your humor. Our humor. One time they asked the guy to pray before the meal at lunch after uh church at a restaurant. Father God, we thank you, and Lord, you're he went on for like four minutes. When he was done, he said, Amen. My grandfather went, Do your devotions on your own time? Yeah. But just remember, you know, what does a meal prayer have? Two things. Father, thank you for the food and nourish it to our bodies. That way you don't have to worry about whether the chicken has hormones in it or not. I don't know what they're doing for it. And why ask your server? You think she knows? Excuse me, does this have any hormones injected in it? She's 19. She's trying to get through beautician school. Leave her alone. Remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the power to be successful. Let me see King James. Always remember the Lord your God, for it is he who giveth you power to create wealth. Deuteronomy 8.18, King James. Always remember the Lord your God, for it is he that gives you power. In the King James, I guess you have, oh, there it is. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth. Now, since you here's how I feel. Since you already get maligned for teaching on prosperity, then why not teach it? Ra. I'm not cleaning up anything. There is a power to get wealth. The same way there's a power. Now notice, people that don't believe that, that's why they call it the health and wealth, that's why your teacher was knocking health and wealth. They don't believe there's power to heal the sick, they don't believe there's power to make women that can't have babies have babies. They don't believe there's power to speak in tongues. All of the power parts of the Bible, it's not just the wealth part they have a problem with, they don't believe there's any power. That's why when you go to their churches and say, How many of you need prayer today? Every hand goes up. Because there's no power. But Jesus said, Don't worry about when Israel's going to be restored. Receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost, and you shall receive power. Power. Power to receive wealth out of the hands of the wicked and into the kingdom of God. Nobody would be against prosperity if they traveled with me for 30 days and saw the weird ways money comes in. Right, Pat? Pat. Now Patrick's German. He's like the least emotional person from a country of unemotional people. Trying to offend whole nations of people at once. Pat, like, off the top of your head, what's one of the craziest, like, baffled you as the accountant of the ministry that how did this happen? Tell him. Can you get them up? Do we have two mics still or do we leave them all together in building? Why does Pastor Dean have to do it? He's like, he does everything. One time Pastor Dean's gonna be preaching and praying and just explode. That's how he's gonna go home to be with the Lord. Just blow up with blood and skin all over the sanctuary. Go ahead, Pat. Thanks, Pastor Dean. You said that if anybody wanted to give a million dollars, you'd fly there personally and pick it up. And how long after I said that did a family call? Less than 24 hours. And it was there. That's power. Do you think I had it in my notes that day? I actually had it. A gift for people that gave any size, gift for a thousand, gift for 10,000. And then it just comes up. And if anybody wants to give a million, I'll fly to your house and pick it up. Nice family calls. Is he serious? We have it for him. Went and picked it up. Finished off phase one. No special offering. I'm glad I run a ministry that's not connected to eating fish on Wednesdays. That the way we get money is forcing you to eat fish, and then the fish companies have a deal to give back. You know that's how it works, right? The people that serve the fish to you on Wednesday when you eat fish or Thursday or Friday, whatever day it is, they're in league with the church. I'm glad I don't have to spaghetti dinner my way to the top. I'm glad we don't have to wash cars. I'm glad we don't have to have our youth group be a part-time, illegal labor camp. I'm glad there's power to create wealth. And I won't keep bringing this up. It's funny, Adallis, when I brought up Camila's school, she called me out. She's like, if you keep talking like that, they're gonna probably kick her out of school. Then I saw last Sunday. Adults went on a rampage. Half the Sundays my wife preaches, she should put on war paint. Put on the Ray Lewis eye black. You know, everybody say power to get wealth. So they teach, you know, there's fringe Christianity, Jehovah's Witness, Mormon, the people that teach health and wealth. And I told you I called before and then we emailed. How are you gonna put me in league with Jehovah's Witness? I said, let me know. Let me know if you're gonna teach that. Because if my daughter's gonna have to take crap for what she believes, then I might as well put her in public school. And then she told me Me the other shit, I think your message got through because she doesn't talk about it anymore. Yeah, you know why? Because they found out we have like, you know, us revival today sends like 13 kids to that school. And that you know what else I told them that nailed their head to the wall? You don't believe in prosperity. Why do I have an email from your school asking if I can give$10,000? Oh sounds I don't have any emails from me asking for$10,000. So which one of us wants money? You want it, but I got it. Because prosperity is not wanting money, prosperity is receiving power. Come here and take 30 seconds to clap your hands. You cut your club season to be clap your hands all over this place. Somebody said hallelujah. And whether you're due to this church or a four-year member of this church, let me plainly state again. All of the power parts of the Bible that nobody believes in, we believe in all of them here. We believe in power over sin, power over cancer, power over death, power to open black eyes, power to open the world, power to speak in the Holy Ghost, power to prophesy, and power to get one. Receive that power. In Jesus' name. If you believe a shout, I receive it. Hallelujah! You're gonna be seated. So we're gonna receive the offering. It's and then we're gonna sing, It's my season to be blessed. Everybody say it's my season to be blessed. We're under a real season of attack right now. Why don't you switch it and change it to a season to be blessed? Can't you say amen? Hallelujah. Say it out loud, the Lord is good. And his mercy endures forever. Power to get wealth. Not only did all this happen at this church, now you remember this is the unfinished part, as you can see. It looks like we're having church in a Costco. And someone knocked all the aisles down. Wait till you see upstairs. And it's pretty great. It's gonna be a thousand-seater for Wednesdays and Fridays and stuff like that, and then Sunday when this is done, they're gonna cut this roof off and it's gonna be a balcony, and it's gonna see 3,000 people. And as quick as we get it up, God's gonna fill it. You know why? Everybody say power to get wealth. Yeah, the power gets you the money, then there's power to fill the place. When the Holy Ghost was poured out in Acts chapter 2, he didn't draw nine visitors, he drew 3,000 that were added to the church that day. As quick as the building is being built, that's how quick it's gonna fill up. Hallelujah. I'll tell you what you're gonna see. Remember, I said it. When it's all said and done, you're gonna see why the devil had his panties in a bunch about this place getting built. And why there were lobster in Moon Township. Because the devil knew if he couldn't stop what God's doing here, he was gonna lose his hold on the whole city. And I prophesy in Jesus' name, the devil has lost his hold on the city of Pittsburgh. Let me see Luke 6.38. This is Jesus talking, an obscure figure in Christianity. Luke 6.38. Give, and it shall be given to you. What happens when you give? It says right there, give and what? Given unto who? I mean, no, we don't give to get. Jesus said differently. Jesus said, When you give, you'll receive. Saying we don't give to get's like saying, when I breathe, my blood doesn't receive oxygen. Yes, it does. You're not the one that's in control of how giving works. Why are people on a rampage to try to get Christians poor? I'll tell you, I'll answer my own question. This is from the World Economic Forum, and I want to ask you a question. Just like the Pope's going in league with those other religions, when you hear this, now you're gonna understand why it's popular to preach against prosperity. Because most of the preachers have bowed their knee to what World Economic Forum and everybody else wants, which is you owning nothing, the state taking care of your family. That's the Antichrist plan that I started with in Revelation 13. And God's plan is not for the state to own everything and dictate what you can have and the state to raise your children, it's for you to live and multiply, and you're gonna live and multiply in the face of that spirit. In Jesus' name. Watch this. This is publicly put out by the World Economic Forum. No time like the present. Why are they going after 2030 so hard? 2,000 years from Adam to Abraham. 2,000 years from Abraham to the birth of the church. Which is what, 33 AD? And 2,000 years to that benchmark. And that's why the devil, what do you think? The rapture's gonna happen, and the devil's gonna go, now just give us like 15 years to get the infrastructure and place. It's all there. There was a lady that I was with um, her and her husband, in Texas, and her mother was missionary, uh, missionary to China. She said they use biometrics. It's illegal in China to be drunk in public. You'll get a ticket in the mail that you were drunk sitting in this taxi. The camera scanned your eyes and saw the signs of inebriation, and and you're monitored 24 hours a day. Monitored anytime you're on the street. You get into your apartment by biometrics. Canada, China is like the test pad for all this stuff, and that's why Canada's going communistic. Because Canada kind of cut ties with America and they're in bed with China. That's why they're going against churches, Australia too. You can always tell who's in bed with China because they start shutting churches down. Why? If my friends at seminary that teach the Bible actually teaches communism, then why does every single communistic country make the number one target shutting down the Bible? Because the Bible does not teach you sacrificing for the common good of the community. The Bible teaches that as you do what God's told you to do for his kingdom, you and your family and your children and your house shall be blessed. So pick a side. You can pick my daughter's teacher's side and be for that. You'll own nothing and be happy, you'll rent and not own. Literally, every point that they have put out is the opposite of what the Bible says. You'll rent and not own. Oh, yeah? Somebody's got gotta own it. So who's owning it? And who are you to make decisions about my life? I feel like Michael Corleone talking to James Kahn. Pop wanted you to join the Navy. Oh, you're making plans about my life and you never talked about me. That's how I feel about these people. I told you in 2022, Klaus Schwab will be removed and I'll still be preaching. And Klaus Schwab stepped down about eight months ago, the leader of this whole thing. I saw Janet Mills, the governor of Maine, that shut the churches down. There's hardly anybody left on TV or in government that was a face during COVID. Do you know why? Anybody that touches the church, they're ground to powder, but the church keeps rolling on. Hallelujah. Go ahead. Your rent, no private property. Pause. Who's making that decision? Why does it feel like there's been such an attack against America? Why would they make those border policies knowing that if you flood the country like that, it'll collapse the economy? Because it's on purpose. Because you cannot have a strong sovereign nation full of churches. There's 3,800 mosques in the United States. There'll be 4,100 new churches started this year. They start more churches every year than there are total mosques. There's 3,800 mosques, there's 410,000 churches. And if they know that if they don't shut this country down, that's why if this church feels a little different, that's why it is. We're not just trying to have nice services and get more people to come. We are fighting, and we do our fighting by the sword of the Spirit, by preaching the word. We are fighting against the attempt to knock this country down and bring in global rule. The devil will not have the United States of America and he won't have the city of Pittsburgh. Can you say amen? Continue. Is almost bankrupt. Scientists can't even keep us healthy on earth. Pause. What's Western values code for? There's a war, my friend, whether you want there to be one or not. And it is between, it's not Republican and Democrat, as we're finding out, they're two heads on the same snake. It's between the spirit of this world and the spirit of Christ. And the spirit of the world has no power over the spirit of Christ. So he has that spirit has to get you to compromise. And when you don't compromise, you unlock a power where God sets you on high above all the nations of the world. Can you say amen? Nobody stands for God in Allah. God said, if you'll stand for me, I'll give you homes. I'll give you so much food you'll eat until you're full. I'll make you some person say fat and prosperous. I'll make you overweight from all the food I'm getting. Just give me thanks and don't bow to this unclean spirit. Don't let anybody manipulate you about it. If you don't do that, if you don't go to this, then they won't promote you. Promotion doesn't come from your company. Promotion comes from the Lord. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. Man, I got a great feeling about not just tonight, this weekend is going to be a powerful weekend in the presence of God. Amen. Go ahead. Whatever's time's left. And there that that video was put out right around COVID when they were strong and they're as weak as can be. Their last meeting was addressing how they can get their power back. So I don't know why it's okay to put that out that you'll own nothing and you'll rent. Who are you? What kind of eight prophecies are those to give out? They're like the the the exact opposite of the word of God. You'll own nothing and be and be happy. How about I'll be the head and not the tail? How about I'll buy your World Economic Forum building and turn it into the biggest church in Switzerland just for spite? Don't tell me what I'm gonna do. I don't even tell you what to do. You can do whatever you want. Never call anybody left the church. You should, you know, you should come here. No. You do what you want. People are meant to be free. Can you say amen? One of the builders told me, I didn't even know any of this was going on. The first I showed up here was to preach on Easter Sunday. So the one builder he told me, he said, Man, he was blown away by how many people have got saved and all that. And he said, uh, you know, people have been wondering why would a church spend all that money? First of all, what do we spend it on? We're gonna do a gold-plated swing set? If the church is at 1400, it's not a decision whether to spend the money or not. It's either lose everybody or accommodate what God's doing. So why do the penguins or the Steelers or the city of Pittsburgh have to answer no questions about why would they spend all that money on the NFL draft? By the way, did the city make money on it or lose money? Little money or a lot of money? It's okay for the world spirit to spend money on whatever they want, but there's zero value in what we do here by that world spirit. But I'm not of that spirit. The greatest endeavor on planet earth is what we're doing together in this church. Congratulations in advance on the best year that you've ever had. Offering envelopes in the seat? Offering envelopes are in your seat? Oh, ushers have them. So if you need one, just lift your hand up. If you want to give online, revivaltoday.com, you click give now. And um, those are the individual ways to give. If you're watching online, thank you for your giving. Thank you. No big corporation stepped in and did anything for this church. This whole thing was seeded by God's people. You know, even the people that gave a million dollars, they said, I think they'd only given one time before, and it was like 17,000, right? They said, We sowed that as a seed of faith, and God exploded our business. And so we're believing, we're, you know, they're hitting challenges as they're growing, and we're believing to go to another level. That's how it comes. Seed time and harvest. God's not looking to have Coca-Cola underrate this thing or Anheuser Busch. He wants you to give because he wants to bless you. And you know, everybody would clap if somebody walked in and wrote a check for$10 million and finished everything off, but then he gets blessed and we all get nothing. Now, if you want to give$10 million, knock yourself out. But when you see that it's not, I hope somebody does this so I don't have to do it. But instead, Lord, what's my part? And then as you make God's house your priority, God makes your house his priority. Give me a second to do that. RevivalToday.com, you click give now. It's my season to be blessed, is what we're gonna say. Praise God. RevivalToday.com. Thank you for giving online from all over the world. It's incredible what God's done. Thank you, Jesus. Hold your seat up before the Lord. Let me pray over it. Because we don't say we don't give to get here. Father, as they give, I thank you that your word says they receive. And the amount they give doesn't come back to them. It comes back pressed down, shaken together, running over to make room for more. You cause men to give liberally into their bosom. I pray that unexpected promotions, unexpected open doors, unexpected contracts would break forth in this month called May. Let May be a supernatural month in the area of finances for the people of God. In Jesus' name. We thank you for it and give you praise. And all God's people said, Amen. Go ahead and receive the offering as we sing. Let it rip. Oh, it's just commit you a promise. It's gonna open up the window. Oh, you're gonna bless it. Oh, it's just a little bit of a lot of the same. Praise the Lord, you can be seated. This is our first Friday of the month miracle and healing service that we devote, and then the communion service tomorrow. To keep people healthy in God's plan. Everybody say power to get wealth. And everybody say power to live healthy, long, and strong. I want you if you have uh your Bibles open to Exodus 15, 22 through 26. While you're turning there, I got a text today that I had forgotten about. So I was in Salt Lake City. We had a row and a half of not Mormons, what they call FLDS, fundamental Latter-day Saints, those are the people that still do polygamy and won't drink coffee and uh you have to shed your own blood for certain sins, like old school Mormonism, not the cleaned up Salt Lake City kind for corporations. We had a row and a half get saved, and then when I was preaching, there was a couple, which you know I I travel, so I can't remember who I see where. And I remembered them from Pittsburgh. And so I said, Are you out here on vacation? They said, No, we moved. We we we moved to Salt Lake City. Go ahead, get him some help, guys. We moved to Salt Lake City, and uh we wanted to come hear you preach. We haven't been able to find a good church out here. So then as we were talking, they said, We're believing for a child. We've been trying, the young couple, they said, we've been trying for four years and nothing. And then I prayed for him, and then I got a um text from Stephanie that goes to church here. She's friends with them, she worked with them when they were here, that she took seven pregnancy tests today, I think, because she was like, wanted to be sure, but they're all positive. And uh the Lord gave her a baby. Everybody say, power. Yeah, power. God's a healer, God's a producer. So a womb that shut down, ovaries that have shut down, a kidney, pancreas. Then I want to give you another one, and this one shook me up for about a week, and I'm still shaken up from it. Um, there was a blind girl in the meeting in Salt Lake City, and uh, red, red and white came, and she said she waited out in the lobby on Friday night. And uh, can I talk to you? I said, sure. She said, Do you remember me? I said, No, I don't remember ever meeting you. She said, I was at your meeting in South Carolina. Well, I didn't connect it, you know, South Carolina and Utah. I said, Oh yeah, I remember, I remember there was a blind girl in that meeting. I remember I prayed for. She said, I had my mom fly me, her mom was with her. She said, I had my mom fly me out to uh Salt Lake City to tell you after you prayed for me, I can see the sky and I can see the outlines of people, and my eyes are starting to come open. And I didn't realize it was her. She's and then this is what she said, and this is why I'm bringing it up mostly. She said, Thank you for praying for me. I've asked other preachers to pray, and they won't. And what she meant is not that they won't pray, but she wanted her eyes to come open. And they'll pray a prayer like somebody give me an example of what? If it's your will, or just dismissive. Lord, we know sometimes we want things, but you have another plan. You know, if you're a minister and somebody has faith for something, you should stand with them for it. And so I say that because whatever you're here with, whatever you're believing God to do, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it. This is your night to be healed in Jesus' name. If you believe it, give the Lord another great hand clap and another mighty shout. Praise the Lord. So I just had uh Tessa pull like our three most recent testimonies. I think these are all from the last 20 days, and they're powerful. Go ahead. Good morning, Revival Today Church. I just want to come to you today and tell you about a little experience. Uh last week I, well, starting over this week. Very powerful. I didn't watch this yet. Good morning, Revival Today Church. I just want to come to you today and tell you about a little experience. Uh last week I, well, let me back it up. I went into the hospital with low blood sugar and uh low um blood pressure. During I was there, they found a lot of medical things that were wrong with me. During an endoscopy, they had to uh put a stent in. And when I came out of that, my left side was paralyzed. Basically, I couldn't move it. I was just like this. I didn't even notice it. My daughter said, Hey, mom, you're not moving your left side, and I'm like, No, I'm not. So from there, they took me to a physical rehab therapy. And when I got there, I had faith, and I told her, I said, I'm walking out of here without my walker. And the devil came in and said, To me, through the physical therapist, the best you're gonna do is come out on a walker. And I I you know she said the devil talked to her. She's from Fort Worth. If you've ever listened to country music, people in Texas have a lot of conversations with the devil, Georgia too, banjo contests, all kinds of stuff. Keep going. I let that seat get in there, right? And the Lord had spoken to me Saturday, and I talked, I texted my son, and I said, Will you come pick me up? I need to go to church. And I got in the van that day and I professed to him. I said, I'm walking out of church today without that walk. And the minute I got into church, guys, I felt the Holy Spirit. I was like trembling like this the whole time in my seat. And when uh Pastor Jonathan came up and walked up there, the Lord said, Stand. And I'm gonna tell you at that point, I couldn't physically stand on my own. I had to grip up and I was shaking, and the Lord just told me to stand, and out of faith I stood, and I stood, and Jonathan says, and went like this to me. The final two thirds of this year. And all I can I was tripped over my walker, and from there, I apologized. I wish I was gone. All I remember is him laying a hand, and that was it. When I stood up, I walked up and down the alley. Praise God, hallelujah. One week later, I look at that people! Look at that! Look at that. All in the mighty name of God, and all because of faith and standing on the word and the mighty healing of Jesus Christ. Give Jesus a great hand. That's awesome! When you have faith in God, you're supposed to expect God to perform his word. But I'm telling you, that lady was so gray and thin. And I she's been coming to the church, so it'd be like if one of you was healthy and had thickness to you, and then I came back to preaching in six weeks, and you were like 40 pounds less, and all she looked, that's what I prayed for her immediately. She looked like she was gonna die before the service was over. And then I do it, and then I hear, hey, you remember that lady you prayed for at the walker? And I'm literally thinking the next words are gonna be she passed away or whatever. Because she looked like gone. And they said, This is her, and sent a picture and she's testifying, dressed like that, with makeup on, and she left walking and she was back looking like that in by the next Sunday. So these are not services that we title healing services. This is for people that had an attack on your body. Jesus will lift that attack off tonight in Jesus' name. Can you say amen? And if you weren't able to make it and you're watching online, text prayer, text whatever you need prayer for. Uh text prayer 75767. I'm gonna include you at the end. What else we got? Hello, my name is Dina. My daughter Samantha is in Dallas. She lives in Dallas. We had a phone call Monday that they had admitted her back in the hospital. She had just had her um a lab call again, which is her gallbladder removed 10 days ago. Um she had she was admitted back into the hospital in Dallas, medical city. And um her her blood tests were I don't know, her liver enzymes were high, her white blood count was high. She wasn't feeling well, so they didn't know what was going on. They thought maybe a possible gallstone had got away. They started running test, ultrasound, just confirmed that there was a stone and not just a shadow. After that, they drew her blood, her blood, her liver enzymes were outrageous, three times as high as what they're supposed to be, is what the doctor said, and her white blood count was really, really high. Monday was the first service here with the evangelist Jonathan. I came, I was just standing on his word. Um, I was standing on uh first Peter by his stripes, um, you were healed, and I was putting myself in my daughter's place. Jonathan had said something about sometimes we have to speak things into existence. Her blood work, her blood tests were still outrageously high, her white blood count was extremely high, her liver enzymes were three times as high as what they're supposed to be. So the doctors were still very concerned. They needed to know where if there was a leak in the bowel duct, um, a leak in her liver, where what what what was causing these um enzymes to be so high? So they were just like, okay, well, we're gonna have to do a liver biopsy. Of course, she was a little bit frightened. I told her we're still standing on First Peter, you know, by his stripes, you are healed, my son called, so she picked up a phone. It was about maybe 10 o'clock at night, and Jonathan was on was on there FaceTime. She said, Mom, I don't know this man. That was 11 o'clock at night at church that I was FaceTiming her. I'm not FaceTiming random sick chicks after the service. Keep going. Um, I've heard about it, but I don't know this man. He started speaking words. I just felt um like this heat come over me. She started saying that I was healed, but that's something about you, but uh she was just like I was just speaking. He prayed for me, spoke some words again, and um the doctors had said they were gonna drop my blood that night and that morning to see if any of the enzymes dropped my blood down had to come down. Well, they ended up just drawing it one time about two, three o'clock in the morning, all of the blood tests came back. And they're regardable. Now she's home from 11 at the time. Slept all day. That's what the power of prayer can do. Yeah, they sent her home that morning. Prayer was at 11 at night, and she was out of the hospital in the mor by the next morning. All levels, right? The majority of the tests that were done were they couldn't understand how the liver could regenerate that fast. Say this out loud. I serve a supernatural God. Exodus 15 22. Exodus 15, 22 to 26. NLT. Can I get it on my screen that I can see too? Exodus 15, 22 to 26. Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea and they moved out into the desert of Shore. They traveled in this desert for three days without finding any water. When they came to the oasis of Mara, the water was too bitter to drink. So they called this place Mara, which means bitter. Then the people complained and turned against Moses. What are we gonna drink? They demanded. So Moses cried out to the Lord for help, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. Moses threw the wood into the water, and that cleared out everything that was making the water disgusting and made the water pure and sweet to drink. Dio Moody said that that wood was a type of the cross, making contact with your body and clearing out all sin, all addiction, everything else. It was there at Mara, the Lord set before them the following decree to test their faithfulness to him. He said, If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees. He didn't say I'll heal you when you get sick. He said, I will not allow, in the original Hebrew, I will not allow you to suffer any of the diseases that come on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord Jehovah Rapha, that's where you get his name from. I am, if you serve me, say this out loud, part of my covenant package. How many of you work in a job where you get insurance uh as part of your pay package? Let me see your hands up. Okay. So then if you went to if your daughter had to get uh her leg broke and they had to beset it in a cast and they said you owe this, what would you say? No, that's uh contact my insurance. I said, No, no, uh, we don't know anything about that. So, well, you need to find out about it because I have it. I'm not paying it. That's part of my package for who I work for. Now, all analogies are crude if you break them down long enough. We don't work for God, we're his children. But God's telling the people here, I didn't just pull you out of Egypt and I didn't just feed you with manna. You see how I cleared all that crap out of that water when the wood hit it? The same way I did that, I'll clear all sickness and all disease out of your midst. And I won't allow any of the diseases you saw come on the Egyptians, they will never come on you. For I am the Lord that healeth thee. Now, if you hear people preach that, I mean, you know, if you never got sick, you could never know him as healer. No, that's only if you're illiterate. Say this out loud: I can know God as my perfect healer by reading his word. That's right. Don't listen to people that teach, whether they say it directly or indirectly, that experience is the best teacher. It's not. If it was, then in driver's ed class, they just have you smash the car into a tree at 50 miles an hour. Then say, don't do that again. It would say, instructions are the best teacher. Now, you should go on a search when you read the Bible. Now that I've made the decision to not be part of this world, what belongs to me as a child of God? Healing belongs to me as a child of God. Can you say amen? Go to John chapter 5. John chapter 5, I think, verse 1. John chapter 5, verse 1. Afterward, Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. Inside the city near the sheep gate was the pool of Bethesda with five covered porches. Crowds of sick people, blind, lame, or paralyzed, lay on the porches. One of the men lying there had been sick for 38 years. When Jesus saw him and knew how long he had been ill, he asked him, Would you like to get well? I can't, sir, the sick man said, for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me. Jesus told him, Stand up, pick up your mat and walk. And instantly, everybody shout, instantly, the man was healed. Exclamation point. He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking. But the miracle happened on the Sabbath. So the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was carried, You can't work on the Sabbath. The law doesn't allow you to carry that sleeping mat. Do you know how many people get healed? And the people who give them a hard time is their old church? We've had people come to our meetings and get healed on the road, go back to their old church, and they ask them to please stop telling people they were healed. Because they don't believe in healing and their healing's ruining everything. Like, hey, listen, I know God healed you out of the wheelchair. Can you still use it on Sundays? Because otherwise we're gonna have to explain to people why you're walking and we know, you know, it violates our theology. So nothing's new. Nothing's changed. Keep the scripture up. But uh uh so the Jewish leaders objected. They said to the man who was carried, You can't work on the Sabbath. The law doesn't allow you to carry that sleeping mat. But he replied, The man who healed me told me, pick up your mat and walk. Who said such a thing as that? They demanded. The man didn't know, for Jesus had disappeared into the crowd. But afterward, Jesus found them in the temple and told him, Now you are better, so stop sinning. Or something even worse. Let me see King James. I don't think it says may happen to you, it says will come upon you. I'm almost positive. Now you're better, so stop sinning. KJV. Afterward, Jesus findeth him in the temple and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you. Now, if you think that because God heals you, you're just healing that thing will never come back no matter what. You got problems with several scriptures. Because Jesus said, Listen, brother, I healed you. If you go hang around with those people that are upset about your healing and are trying to get you to sit back down, not only are you gonna get crippled again, the Bible says when an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes to the dry places seeking rest, but finding none. Then finds seven spirits more wicked than itself and comes back to the original host and finds it swept empty and clean. So the latter end of the person is worse than the beginning. I'm not saying this to depress you, I'm gonna I'm making a point. Lest the worst thing come upon you. Now, I wrote down four reasons people struggle with health, and then I'm gonna tell you reasons Jesus heals, and then I'm gonna pray for you. Number one, and this is number one because it's number one. People, if the Bible says when you serve God, none of the diseases that come on this world will come on you. Why are so many Christians sick? Why in the book of James did James say in chapter five, are any among you sick to the early church? They weren't sure if there was anybody sick. Now, if you wrote it, you'd have to write, are any among you well? But everybody say, say this, we're going back to the Bible. Number one, because they have no idea that you can be healed and stay healed. They think sickness is a normal part of life. They watch commercials. Are you a woman over the age of 45? Are you a man over the age of 50? This could happen. There's this possible side effect. If you eat too much fish, this can happen. If you do this, this can happen. And you allow that thought to think that applies to you. And I'm telling you, that's why I said it right out loud to that lady cutting my hair. Hey, lady, since you brought up three times, I'm not getting cancer. So I don't know who you're used to talking to. This is a cancer-free zone. Now, why? Am I being positive? No, I'm being scriptural. If you serve me, everybody say I am, then I won't allow any of the diseases that come on the rest of the world to come on you. For I am the Lord that healeth thee. If you receive that tonight, can you give God a mighty hand clap and a great shout? Number one, because they don't know. You'll never receive what you don't have taught and preached to you. Number two, because they don't have a church. They bounce around. They're revival junkies. Hey, I live in um Greendale, Iowa. Do you know a good church here? I don't think there's a good anything there. You know, there's just no good churches where I live. Boy, have you picked a stupid place to live. You don't go live somewhere and get a job and then find the near the nearest church that's okay. You should build your life in church. Now, unless something's changed, have we had any funerals this year here for members? No, there's not. Now, we're in May now, so we're going to the five like almost halfway through the year. Do you know how many people have been buried in most churches by this time of year? Most churches have a cemetery outside the church just to save the trip. Just carry out. They're dropping like flies. Four members in four years have passed here. Three maybe. And there'll be more. It's appointed unto every man who wants to die, and after that, the judgment. If Jesus Terries, they'll have my funeral one day. Not anytime soon. Why is the death rate so low here and so high at other churches? The front yards are a cemetery. Good Lord, some churches might as well just put a crematorium in the basement instead of a there's no kids left. Why not just make the children's room a crematorium? There's death. Well, why? Say with me. Death and life is in the power of the tongue. I'm not saying this against anybody. Who do you think's going to be healthier? Camila through her life, or the teacher that says, healing's not for today. You are rejecting. Let me see Mark chapter 6. Mark chapter 6, verse 1. And now, if you change, if you get the word and speak something different, you can have something different. Jesus left that part of the country and returned with his disciples to Nazareth, his hometown. The next Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue. And many who heard him were amazed, but not a good amazed. They asked, Where did he get all this wisdom and the power to perform such miracles? I was his little league coach. I was his preschool teacher. Now all of a sudden he's the son of God. He was in carpentry school. I tried, I taught him in trade school. He wasn't even, you know, he's okay. He didn't make great tables. He was good with drawers and shelves. I didn't think he was even the best student in the class. Now he's supposed to be the Messiah. They scoffed. He's just a carpenter. The son of Mary and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas, and Simon. And his sisters live right here among us. They were deeply offended and refused to believe in him. Then Jesus told them, a prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family. And because of their unbelief, not he would do no mighty miracles. He couldn't do Mark's writing. Watch what Mark writes other places. The power of God was present to heal in many. Not here. Nothing was working because of their unbelief except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. So unbelief. You cannot go to a church that peddles unbelief and enjoy the blessings of God. For Camila to sit in that class and hear that healing's not for today and all that, why didn't she receive it? Because the teacher's too late. She's been in too many church services. I told you the first time it happened, I said, What did you say? She said, I didn't say anything. I just laughed. I don't think she hangs around the right people. Then it fazed me. I'm too loaded with what the Bible says for anybody to sway me. May there be a strength in your spirit tonight from the word of God. Can you say amen? But imagine the other kids. Healing's not for today. God'll bless you when you get to heaven. Not now. They've never heard. Most churches, the only chance you have of getting healed is to go on a retreat. Or they'll have like, you know, Sunday night. For those that are interested in a little bit more, we're having what's called our more service. Why can't you have the more service on Sunday? You know, most churches would be the equivalent of you going to Del Frisco's steakhouse in downtown Pittsburgh and all the plates are empty and there's no menu. And they said, now listen, if you're hungry, we invite you to come back at the end of the week where we're going to be serving food. But our normal restaurant times is just for you to sit in this beautiful place. Whisper quietly among yourselves. Restaurants are for eating and churches are for healing. Can you say amen? Now, John 5, Luke 13, they get mad that he healed on the Sabbath. There has always been a war about allowing the main service to be a place where God's power moves. Can you say amen? So the church they choose. There's a um, we have several testimonies we've played, probably up close to six or seven now, of people that basically were dead and came back to life. They weren't dead yet, but they were all they were on life support or down to 90 some pounds. And one of the ladies just Called Adolis and needs prayer again. Came back on her. Well, what did you do? You came down here, had Kofi pray for you, you got healed, and you moved back to whatever God forsaken city you live in and went to some church where there's no healing. That is a colossal mistake. Now you already are in this church. I'm not trying to get you to move here. You already live here and are here. But I'm telling you, let me get the scripture out of the out of the book of Psalms. I think it's Psalm 84, 7. I could be wrong. Those that appear before God at Mount Zion, they go from strength to strength. Those that appear before God at Mount Zion, and Hebrews tells us Zion is the assembling of the firstborn. They will continue, it was a continue to do what? Now, you have the opposite in John 5. If you keep hanging around with these people that like you crippled, a worse thing's gonna come upon you. But if you abide where the power flows, you not only keep your healing, you go from strength to strength, those that appear before God in Mount Zion. Why do you think the the first thing that Dr. Fauci wanted instituted was the closing of churches? Because you you're strong when you're in the house of the Lord. Everybody that leaves here is leaving stronger. You're getting stronger listening right now. The word of God is quick and powerful and brings strength to your inner men. So they knew they knew that none of that crap they were pulling was gonna work if every Sunday everyone gathered, unmasked, so then even when they let you gather, you're a thing on as a reminder. You know, the only thing I've studied a similar amount of time as the Bible is per is the subject of persuasion because human behavior is fascinating to me. And when they mandated mass, I thought Addis, this is a persuasion thing, this is a thing so that everyone cannot is not allowed to live a day without thinking about this and have it at their forefront and look at other people and be reminded every day. It's a fear thing, it's the devil. And if churches would have stayed open and preached the word, that thing would have gone down the toilet in 21 days. I can't, we can't go back in time, we can't change that. But I'm telling you, if you're a wise father, I'm 45, if you're my age, if you're 51, if you're 34, and you have kids and a wife, you should, if you don't live here, then you need to find a Bible-believing church that demonstrates, not believes in. Jonathan, I talked to my pastor after hearing you on YouTube, and he said he believes that. Why'd you have to talk to him to find out? How many services do you have to go to here before you realize I believe in healing? One. What about prosperity? How long do you have to follow me on Instagram before you find out I have a jet? Six minutes? Yeah. You know what? And people don't realize how people are. You know, I told him about you. He said he watched you on YouTube and really liked it. Yeah, he's saying whatever he has to tell you to keep you in church. But they actually hate the Holy Ghost. If there's any move of the Spirit, everybody tenses up like British soldiers at Buckingham Palace. They don't like it. They've turned their church into the Luke 13, John 5 type of thing. No healing, no tongues, no prosperity, no nothing. What do you even get there except boredom? Church is supposed to be a place not where you're bored to death, but you're brought to life by the living, powerful, awesome word of the Almighty God and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. You receive it, can you say amen? Wrong church. Number three, no pastor. Can you find the scripture for me in the Old Testament? I think it's in Jeremiah. In that day, I will give you shepherds that will watch over your souls. You should not just have a church you go to, you should have a pastor that you're connected to. Doesn't have to be me. Despite what they say on the Moon Township message word, we are not a cult. If you leave a cult, they manipulate you. If you leave this church, we give you a welcome gift on the way out and wish you all the best. But you need to have a pastor that you're connected to. And as a minister, I have preachers that I'm connected to that are older than me, that I'm under them. And I'm under their covering. And there are people I would fear to be in a church where they say, Well, anything can happen. You know, we all get sick. That's your spiritual covering? A guy that's got zero resistance to the things that are in this world for you. How many know we can raise our children any way we want, and we do our best, but ultimately they can go into the world and they're gonna have a time where they rebel. Oh, that's your spiritual covering? And you're wondering why your teenager's having problems? There's literally no violence in their spirit against the things the devil's doing. Somebody say spiritual violence. The kingdom of God suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Say this with me. Faith has a violence attached to it. When you get full of God's faith, there's a violent force to go after the thing that you want. Carried me into court and out of court. Carried me into crusades and out of crusades. That woman with the issue of blood didn't have in her journal that day. I'm gonna push people out of the way and grab Jesus' robe. When she saw the press, that faith that she had already confessed, I know when I touch him I'll be made whole. Before she knew it, in a weakened condition, hemorrhaging out blood. In the Middle East, as a woman, she was pushing men out of the way to grab the hem of his garment. And Jesus said, Daughter, be encouraged. Your faith has made you well. Faith is not wishing for the best. Faith is grabbing what belongs to you out of the word of God. Those guys didn't say we're gonna go to the house and tear the roof off. They got there and they said, Nobody can get in, it's too packed. Oh, we're getting in. And before they knew it, they were tunneling through a roof. Because if you've been watching the Middle East, they love digging tunnels. Even in Brooklyn, they're digging them. It's the only thing the Arabs and the Jews agree on. They love tunneling. They tunneled through that roof and uh got their. And what happened when they tunneled through the roof and lit their friend down? And Jesus, seeing what they had done, said, now that's not a way to behave. All things are to be done decently and in order. And Jesus seeing their faith. TL Osborne preached a message called two kinds of faith. And he talked about one is invisible, just what you say you believe, and the other is visible. Nobody has to wonder if I believe in church growth. I'm working, my actions are consistent. That's why when we preach about revival, or Dawes preaches about revival in the nation, it carries a different weight than when you hear other people preach on it. Because we're not just doing it, we're in it. Our lives are in it. There'll be a greater weight that comes on my speaking when I talk about Canada now, because I'm getting in the mix. I'm going for it. Faith has corresponding action. I don't have anyone to help me. Stand up, pick up your mat and walk. The action, no confession, just action. Action proves belief. Let me see the scripture I asked for. You gave up on me. Jeremiah 3:15, and I will give you shepherds after my own heart who will guide you with knowledge and understanding. That's a prophecy about future pastors. The pastor has a responsibility to tell people about the baptism of the Holy Spirit out of the word. Healing out of the word. Prosperity out of the word. How many of you, by a show of hands, knew next to nothing from the Bible about prosperity except being taught against it, maybe? And then since you've been coming here, can say, I feel like I have a good grasp on it. And once I got a grasp on it, or even as I was getting a grasp on it, I saw my finances change. See, the word has accompanying force with it. You receive it, it's too simple for people. They wish there was more. Everybody say, Hear the word, believe the word, speak the word, act on the word. The action is a big deal. There's a big difference between a family that believes in going to church and a family that goes to church. Who are we going to find in Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh, whether it's Presbyterian, Catholic, Greek Orthodox, full gospel, people are, you know, they're not anti-Gody. It's not like Seattle here or Portland, Oregon. People, no, church is good. I think it's good for there to be church. I mean, one of the reasons they permitted us for Easter, they don't want to mess with Easter. Even people don't go to church, they're like superstitious. Like, you know, if we tell them we can't meet at Easter, I kind of feel like I'll die. So go ahead and have your service. So people believe in the concept. You're not going to find hardly anybody that says, I don't believe God heals ever. Even reformed people believe God can heal. It's just sovereign. That guy Justin Peters wrote on social media this week about something about God not healing. He got lit up in the comments. It wasn't even by full gospel people, it was by other Presbyterians. Well, I wouldn't say that. I've had this happen. This happened to my aunt. What Christian are you going to find that's been saved for more than 18 months that hasn't had some type of supernatural encounter with God changing their life? Because God is not a philosophy, nor is he an idea. He is a living spirit full of living power. Hallelujah! I was driving with Adon, she got two calls when we were driving to prison to go preach in Butler County from people that need healed. So why are they calling her? She's not your pastor. There are people from other states. I need prayer. See, they haven't reached out to anybody at their church. You know why? Because they know, no, we don't condemn them, she prayed. We help people all the time. I was helping the Mormons. I said, Where do you go to church? Oh, you go to the church a lot of day. Jesus didn't uh condemn people, he helped them. But then what was I talking about? John 5. Now that you're better, you're gonna get a touch from God tonight, powerfully. And then what are you gonna do once you're better? Go hang around the people that like you being an addict, people that tell you it's illegal for you to walk on the Sabbath. Oh, sorry, I didn't know the man told me to wait. I won't do it anymore. I won't walk anymore. I wasn't that, I forgot it was Saturday. Please forgive me. And you go right back, Jesus said, if you hang around that crew, you're gonna be worse than you were when I met you. So you got that guy that was a moron, and you have other people that left everything to follow Jesus. You have Obed Edom. Listen to this. They left the Ark of the Covenant with him. And then David wanted it back because when the Ark of the Covenant was in Obed Edom's house, everything began to prosper in 90 days. And David was jealous. He said, Go get that Ark of the Covenant. It's not staying in his house, I'm bringing it back to where I live. And you know what you read about a few chapters later? Obed Edom, his children, and his children's children. Though they weren't uh Jewish or Hebrew Israelites, they moved to go serve at the temple because they got a taste of God's power and said, I'm never leaving that again. I pray, like Obed Edom, he will build your life around the power of God, the word of God, the anointing of the Holy Ghost. Can you say amen? And number four, wrong company. I already covered it. Say this out loud: I can't go forward tied to people who want to go backwards. Gotta change your company. Hang around miracle people. You'd be amazed what happened. I met up with when I was in Utah, I met up with four pastors that asked if they could have dinner with me that were um Baptists. And they got my books. What an old preacher told me turned out to be true. He said, if you write books, he was from Texas, people read your books, they don't ever come to your meetings. People that have no interest in hearing you preach will buy your books and read them and get impact. That's what happened to these guys. They're Baptists, they started reading about prosperity, helped them with their church. One guy said, I was always plagued with worry. One Baptist pastor told me, who's 51? He said, After reading your book, I found the Pentecostal pastor in my area and asked him to lay hands on me and I received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Yeah. So they met for dinner and they said, Um, you know, when we started a church here, they told us it's very hard here. Churches don't grow. Like they tell everybody everywhere. And I started to think, see, you hang around people that facilitate your crippledness. I chose to hang around people that will facilitate my flight. When I met Jesse DuPlanis, he said, if you have time, I'd like to take you to come see my plane. He was finished preaching. I said, sure, I'd be honored. Drove there, got on the plane. Now, what did he say to me when I got on the plane? By the way, this was a Falcon 900. Did he say, now listen, I know you see this Falcon 900, let me tell something, they're very expensive to run. Just remember, I've been doing this for 50 years, you know, so don't expect something like this. I don't even know how this happened, to be honest with you. God just sovereignly chose this. No, you know what he said? He said, God will give you a plane like this soon. I was this close to going, no, he won't. I'm having trouble keeping my car registered. Getting my car fixed and the brakes, that's where I'm at. So I know it was easy for you. I'm not there. But I had enough sense to lift my hands and go, praise the Lord. Which I've told you, I like saying that. It's my go-to phrase because I didn't agree to anything. But I also didn't disagree with anything. Praise the Lord. And then that man came after he told me that and dropped off a Falcon 50. And then as we were going out to LA, he said, I'm upgrading you to what plane? A Falcon 900. The plane I was on with Brother Jesse, that he said, God will do this for you. He doesn't love you, me any more than he loves you. See, what if I was I could hang around with other people? Ministry's hard, evangelism's hard, churches don't grow. Do you know how many people came to tell me churches don't grow in Pittsburgh? Saying can't get churches to grow here, it's a Catholic stronghold. Um, you know, people, then the Steelers are king on Sunday. And uh yeah, you want to know why churches won't grow? Because of you. Because of you and your stupid mouth. You think God's gonna send people to hear you preach on Sunday when all you do is vomit up on belief? Talk about how hard the region is and how bad fentanyl is? Nobody's getting up on Sunday morning at 8 o'clock to get showered and dressed to hear about what the devil's doing. Why don't you flip your mouth around and start talking about how great God is and how wonderful his power is and how he who began a good work in you is bringing it to completion? Say this out loud. Change your company, change your life. You want to live holy? Hang around holy living people. If I pulled out a cigarette to smoke it, everybody I hang out with would excuse themselves. Jesse DePlant's gonna stand there while I smoke a cigarette? You alright, buddy? What's going on with you? They're not encouraging me to wickedness, they're encouraging me to holiness. That's why, if you notice, the people I follow in ministry aren't just powerful ministries, they're all on wife number one. And look at me, 20 years in, uh, September, it'll be 20 years, wife number one. No problems. And there won't be. I hang around people whose kids wanted to follow them in the ministry. And there she is on row one. She loves going to church with me. She was telling me, I what when do you get out? June 5th? I get out June 5th, Pond, then I'm on the road with you all summer. I'll be I'll be with you. So, like if you can hold it down, you'll have help coming soon. It was basically how she was saying it. Yeah. I don't have to, a lot of pastors don't have that privilege. They gotta, they gotta try to get their kid to come to their own church. I don't like something's wrong. But I hung around people that showed me. My dad was great at that. My mother was uh, on a scale of one to ten, a 2,085. She she instilled a love for us for Central Assembly of God Church in Houston, Texas, or Houston, uh Pennsylvania, and a love for Pastor Volpe, and a love for Royal Rangers. I couldn't wait till Wednesdays, I couldn't wait till Fridays. I didn't even know my dad was on the road. I was too busy having fun in God's house. Let me tell you something. If you've had fun at revival today, get ready, because now that we got some space, we're gonna ramp it up. You're gonna have the best time. What the world's crying? You're gonna be crying tears of joy and laughing in the face of the devil. Say it out loud. Change your company, change your life. Hang around people who live holy. Make a point to do it. I had a talk with Pastor Jay and Pastor Donnas last night. All of the all of the stuff that kind of has dipped as we change buildings, Total Bro, which I think they're gonna do the UFC fight, uh, the White House UFC fight, softball team, golf outings. You know, basically up until now you can have this umbrella club, but in a few weeks we can start having fun again. Swim team, whatever the heck. We're gonna have every possible thing. Gaming club. You know, you know, we're not staying like this, right? I hope you get to see upstairs soon. That place is about finished. This thing's gonna be done as quick. We're not gonna be having church talking about how we're believing to get this place fixed up. Watch what happens by what Noah has seen. We're three and a half million away from completing it. Abel's here. What time are you here? Every time I leave after Broadcast, I see your truck here. What time do you go home? One? Huh? Then what do you do? Walk? Are you like George Costanza and you leave your vehicle here so it looks like you're the last one here? Abel, how many hours a week have you been working? 95? Between 80 and 90. And his crew with them too. This thing, this thing is a miracle. And it's good, it's gonna, it'll look more beautiful every time we meet here. My wife has been chopping down trees, getting ready for rooted. I thought, man, I I must be more hard to live with than what I know because I look out the window and my wife has a machete just going through the woods. I was like, okay. I'll do the laundry myself. You want to live holy? Anything you lack in life, start hanging around people that have it. Hang around. I thought to myself, I felt bad for that young couple I talked to. They felt to start a church there. All the pastors asked, can we have a cup of coffee sometime? We'd love to talk with you. It's gonna be very hard here. This is a Mormon stronghold. Mormon stronghold. Mormon church is uh losing all their people. Salt Lake City used to be 80 plus percent Mormon, it's 47% now, and dropping. Yeah, it's not strong. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ is strong and getting stronger. I would do, uh let me see uh 2 Timothy 2, 19 through 22. Then I'll start praying for people in a little bit. Anyone enjoying tonight, getting a little bit out of it? I love being here and preaching with you. This is this is a great church to pastor. Great church. You don't ever hear about me taking a sabbatical. You guys are a sabbatical, you're fun to preach to. But God's truth. See, people Pittsburgh people clam up if you say nice things. They like if you insult them. If you start talking nice, they start distrusting you. So I'll get you back on my side. Look at yourselves. Do you live in a house with no mirrors? But God's truth stands firm like a foundation stone with this inscription. The Lord knows those who are his, and all who belong to the Lord must turn away from evil. In a wealthy home, some utensils are made of gold and silver, and some are made of wood and clay. The expensive utensils are used for special occasions, and the cheap ones are for everyday use. If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you'll be ready for the master to use you for every good work. Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. So, who's here uh 30 and younger? Let me see your hands. Don't go back to the bar and say I'll just have a Coke. You're gonna end up having beer. Don't hang around sin. No, you know, I'm not doing that anymore. You know, I'll go. No, just just just cut it. Cut the head off the thing. I don't go to bars anymore, I don't go to clubs. I I'm I've given my life to Jesus Christ, and I'm very serious about my relationship with God. Can you say amen? Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Instead, pursue righteous living. Everybody say pursue righteous living. Do you know what pursue righteous living means? Let me tell you the opposite. There's no good churches in my area. That's not pursuing righteous living. That's just taking the best of where you are. If you want miracles, I don't mean tonight. If you want a life of miracles, there has to be Something in you, like was in the woman with the issue of blood and the guys that brought their friend on the map. When's Jesus coming to our town? They didn't say that. They found out where he was, burrowed a hole through the roof, and said, I'm getting to where Jesus is at. I'm getting a miracle and I'm staying with the power of God. May an insatiable hunger and thirst for God's power and God's word never leave your life in Jesus' name. Whatever separating yourself to God costs you up front, the returns are priceless. Run from anything that stimulates youthful lust. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, peace, and enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure heart. Surround yourself with people that are on the same path as you. You know, I um I met another preacher in the airport when I was flying a commercial, and I went to his gate with him, and we got to talking and we got coffees, and I almost missed my flight. You know why? I was sitting at the wrong gate. When you hang around people that are going in a different direction than you, you miss, you can miss where you're going and end up in a mess. And then if you sit at your gate with the people that are going where you're going, I used to not have enough money to fly first class, so I would fly coach when we were starting that church in Hawaii, 13 hours in coach, and I'm six foot one, and I didn't enjoy it. And so what I would do, I'm not recommending this, but I would take three Nyquil for the first leg and then two NyQuil after the layover. Because it's a muscle relaxer, but you also have to remember your heart's a muscle, so you gotta be careful. So I'd go to sleep. This is terrible advice. Please don't do anything I'm saying. But I did have somebody tell me one time when they saw me do that. I said, You gotta be careful because it was like it was like hour number 10. They're like, You gotta be careful, you could die. I was thinking, like, actually, at this point, I'm considering it. So I've been on this plane for 13 hours. Crunched like this. So, anyway, I went to my gate, I think it was in the San Francisco airport to go out to Hawaii, and I passed out from the NyQuil had like a purple jewel. I was in a glorious, drug-induced sleep. And I slept through the boarding announcements and all that, but I didn't miss my flight. You know why? Because some lady came over that was like 60 and her grandmotherly instincts kicked in, and she's like, hey, they're boarding the plane. Come with me. Help me out. They probably all thought I was on heroin. Especially back then, I weighed like 145. What are you doing? I'm starting a church. Yeah, sure you are. Because I chose to surround myself with people that were going to the same direction as me, when I got drowsy and was going to miss it, somebody came back and got me. And if you'll surround yourself with people that are committed, not just to going to heaven, to being healed. I'm preaching a little different tonight because this is my my my place. You know? Isn't it interesting how since uh Dallas and Megalas had the idea to open that gym, that there's like a health culture at our church? Everybody's looking the best they've ever looked. Everybody's working out together, injecting themselves with semi-legal substances. So when you go to this church, you're actually surrounding yourself with people who are pushing you in the health direction, pushing you in evangelism, pushing you. No one at this church is gonna see that you're battling in your body and go, yeah, me too. Miracle Service is Friday, I'll pick you up. You will not go to this church and miss your gate. This church pushes towards prosperity. I'm gonna tell you something pretty cool. To me, anyway. So there's um there's a restaurant that the guy that wrote Yellowstone and Landman, his name's uh Taylor Sheridan. It's called Cattleman. It's a steakhouse in the Fort Worth stockyards. It used to be one of the top steakhouses in the country, and then it turned into a tourist trap that was like a two and a half star rating on Yelp. It stunk. So Taylor Sheridan bought it, fixed it all up, and then he opened a private club downstairs that you pay a membership and you can go eat down there. So I like that kind of setup because if I take ministers, you know no preacher's gonna pay a membership to go eat. So you can talk freely, you don't have to worry. If you're at Denny's, you're surrounded by preachers. They like pancakes and$4.99 specials. But if you go someplace like that, you know, you can you can talk exclusively. So I go down there and uh as soon as I went down, my whole point in going down to that club was to not see anybody. A silver-haired businessman gets up from his table and comes over and goes, Pastor Jonathan. I said, How do you know me? He said, I watch you on YouTube all the time. So I find out this guy owns the fourth largest car auction in the country. He said, He's done really well. He said, I've been watching you on YouTube. And I knew he was telling the truth because I had a guy with me, and he said, I saw you today, you were sitting on the front row. He said, You've really helped me with your preaching. I was gonna take a picture with you, but they told me we can't take pictures here. You know, if they'd have had that policy at Epstein Island, a lot of people could sleep easier tonight. So, what an insane thing to throw in at the end of a message. So he said, um, thanks for helping me. So I went up and I met his uh I met I met his uh the girl he was with, and that was it. So then I go to Arizona to preach, and there's a guy in the front row. I didn't know it was him, but I didn't connect it. So I said, I feel like I've met you before. What's your he said, no, I've I met you at the uh Cattleman Club. I said, Why are you in Arizona? He said, I flew out to come hear you preach. I had business out here for my auto auction. I wanted to come to your church. I said, Man, that's that's crazy. Two times in eight days. And then when I went back to Texas, he had asked me, if you're ever in town, call me and uh we'll get something to eat. So we went to a barbecue place and ate. We're both on that injection stuff I found out. So we both had like a quarter of a thing of brisket and one green bean, and we were done. And uh I'm getting all my injection sites covered with tattoos. My belly is a mess right now. So we talked there, and he told me, and he shares his testimony publicly, and I'm not saying his name, but if the testimony sounds familiar, he shares it. He said, I built an eight-figure business. That's 10 million dollars. I think he said he sold it for 85 million, and obviously could live the rest of his life without ever touching the principal, and he started gambling$75,000 a hand on blackjack, and they deal quick. So I mean, you think you lose 10 hands in a row, you're down$750,000 in like four minutes. And he said, I gamble, I not only gambled all the money away. Now think of this. They he said they would give me an open bottle of gray goose vodka so they didn't have to take the time to re pour. And then after having down three-quarters of a bottle, they'd have him sign papers that the casino was gonna lend them money. And you're gonna try to make me feel bad for taking a free will offering? I didn't have you have nine my ties first. Here, drink up, and then we're gonna talk to you about the blessing of God. I'll pay for the whole church, Reverend. Homer Simpson just gave a million dollars. So he he said, uh, I I I I I I gambled everything away. And in Nevada law, you can't um in bankruptcy, you still owe the money. So he said, I lost everything and owed money. Go from 85 million in the bank to nothing, plus I owe millions of dollars. And he said, I got back on track, and he said, I started this new business, and in six years he's built it past the old one. And he said, but I was miserable. I had money, but I was miserable. And he said, I got in a business group and met up with Adam Lamb and Brock from your church, and they said, We were like that, and we started watching this guy. Watch him. You won't like him at first, but after 11 to 12 years, he'll start to grow on you. And he said, That's how I started watching you on YouTube. And he said, I gave my life to Jesus Christ. And that Sunday he was sitting in church. Uh, what when was I in Texas? Two Sundays ago, right? Yeah, two Sundays. He was in church, the full gospel church because he's been watching. Who pushed him in that direction? Adam Lamb and Brock from this church. Who you hang around determines where you go. You could hang around other people when you say, Man, I'm miserable. Try this. It's it's like high-end cocaine. Doesn't have much, they didn't cut it with nothing. It's like Pierre from Bolivia. This preacher seems to know a lot about cocaine. Don't mind your business. I'm just making a point. This would be a terrible time to get a nosebleed. Uh say it, say it out loud. Who accompanies me in life determines what accompanies me in life. I'm glad I didn't hang out with some evangelists that told me how hard it was. He took me on his plane and said, see this? God'll do it for you too. You can be home more with your family. Hanging around people who encourage you. I'm gonna tell you, whatever you know or don't know about me, whatever you like or don't like about me, you're never gonna have me be telling you how hard it is. When you turn 60, life's harder. That floor gets further away every year, your eyesight goes. When you stay at this church and stay around here, you're gonna have a pastor in me that's gonna push you in the spirit to have the best of what belongs to you. And you have done very well, but you're about to do even better. There are people in this room that from May to December, you're gonna have God do more than the entire last four years that you've been serving Him because everything with God grows and multiplies as you step on that path. I tell you a third time tonight, get a ready, glory, and I'm gonna go. Let me see King James. They will continue to grow stronger, and each of them will appear before God. They go from strength to strength. So you remember when you hear us say glory to glory, victory to victory, strength to strength. Give uh Camila a microphone. This is where we get it from. That's not positive talking or just something we say. The Bible says when you plant yourself at Mount Zion, you go from strength to strength. Lift your hands all over this place. You're getting stronger. I got you. You're getting stronger every day. However, strong you are now, and let me tell you something about the strength of God, the lawsuits that got thrown at us, whatever else. Yeah, we're not teaching that there's no trial, there's no, there's no opposition. What teaching is when God makes you strong, nobody can make you weak. When God makes you strong, they can beat you and throw you in prison. And one song knocks off all the chains and opens every prison door. Receive the strength today. So I'm giving I'm giving my daughter a microphone. Because a dollist makes a point to drive her to school every morning, and then they have a confession, they go over by the pulpit. And just say, I know you can write a lot off, but just say it slow so people can hear you. That what mom you and mom say before you go to school every day. Okay. You are the head and not the tail. You are above and off beneath. You are blessed going in, blessed coming out. You have the mind of Christ, you are healed of the Lord, and um you are righteous, and uh what's the other one? Wall of fire. There's a wall of fire protecting you wherever you go, and um, when an enemy comes at you one way, he'll flee from you in seven. Everybody lift your hands and now say it over them. You are the head and not the tail, you are above and not beneath. You it you are blessed going in and blessed coming out. You have the mind of Christ, and you are healed of the Lord. And if and if an enemy comes at you one way, he'll flee from you in seven, and you have a wild fire protecting you wherever you go in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Did you know that all those things are scriptural? Donna's didn't make that up. All she did was just combine a bunch of different scriptures. Why do you hang around people that don't talk the word? Now, if you're if you're 14, you can't control what your parents do. If you got married before you started coming to church, you know, you don't divorce your husband because he talks unbelief. The Bible says, the Bible gave instructions uh to the church in Corinth. What do you do if you're married to somebody who's an unbeliever? Don't leave them, believe for them. But then outside of that, choose who you're around. You know, we go to the Methodist church because my mom's my mom likes to see that. I mean, you know, you're 55 years old having your wife controlled by your mother. Me and you are part and company. When I was a child, I thought and reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. There comes a time at about the age of 19 that you need to say whatever did happen or didn't happen before today. Now I'm a man and I'm taking responsibility for my own life. And the first thing I'm cutting off is unbelief. Find a scripture for me. The sin of the world is their unbelief in me. Jesus said it. John 16, 9, let me read it. Let me do a. When he comes, he will con talking about Jesus, he will convict the world of its sin and of God's righteousness and of the coming judgment. You're gonna have to do King James. And of sin, the world's sin is that it refuses to believe in me. KJV? Of sin, because they believe not on me. The first thing we have Satan on record doing in the Bible is trying to get Eve to doubt the word of God. When the Bible says, fight the good fight of faith, say with me nice and loud. Fight the good fight of faith. The fight of faith is the only fight the Christians called to fight, and the only fight the Christian can't lose. It's a fight against unbelief, it's a fight against people. I know, I know, I know you go to that church and they say that, but I don't know if it's true. Okay, if you let a little leaven in, it spoils the whole loaf. So you don't allow anything to get you to doubt God's word, and you can't try to have faith. Well, no, I I believe you, Jonathan. I'm trying to believe. You don't try to believe. Faith cometh by and hearing by. Who would you say had the revelation on faith that shook the world? Kenneth Hagan. This is something on my phone called massive preaching files. Audio. You wonder why how I stay all fired up? You think I'm having a two-liter of Mountain Dew before the service? When I get caffeine into my system. I keep the word. And I'm telling you this as your pastor. You know, it's almost 10 o'clock. It's not like anybody's gonna leave and say, I didn't feel like I got my money's worth. But since I get to be with you for once, let me tell you something. I've never allowed myself to go, I understand the faith message, I understand healing. I listen to faith and healing and prosperity and joy all day, every day, and it loads into me. Remember, I told you I was gonna have 11 points on how Jesus healed? We're not getting to that tonight because I couldn't talk about the first four things without running it until 10 o'clock, because I'm word-loaded. And I want to encourage you. That's not something to do as a pastor. Whatever benefit a pastor gets from taking an eight-month sabbatical, I can get it on one 35-minute drive home listening to Kenneth Hagen. Does it take you longer to get to this church than it did our old church? Then use it as time to listen to more words. Driving is great. It's a time, is sometimes it's the only peace you get. So pop some audio on. Load your spirit with the word. And when you do that, and you got a teacher telling you God doesn't bless you, you go, I don't believe you. When a lady's telling you got to be careful, you're gonna get cancer, you say, Lady, I don't know who you're talking to, but I'm cancer free and I'm staying cancer free. There's gonna be something different inside of you today, and you're gonna win your fight of faith. Receive tonight. In Jesus' name, every head down, every eye closed. If you're here tonight and you have never received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you can you cannot do the principles of God's word without having the power of God, of Christ living on the inside of you. So if you're here tonight and you've never received Christ, the first thing that has to happen is Christ has to heal you from the inside out. Today is your day of total transformation. Today is your day to tell the devil enough is enough. I'm picking up my mind, I'm walking, and all my old friends that like seeing me crippled, tough luck for them. I'm gonna be healed, I'm gonna stay healed, and I'm gonna walk on the path of God. If that's you and you say, Jonathan, I'm not living like I should. But today I make up my mind, I'm gonna live for Jesus Christ. As for me and my house, we're gonna serve the Lord. I'm not living halfway in. Maybe like that guy in John chapter 5. God has touched you with his power, and when you were confronted with the opportunity to turn back, you took it to appease your old friends, your family, whoever that enjoy seeing you struggling. But tonight, God's offering you a second chance to say, I come out today. I come out of the world spirit, I'm gonna go a hundred percent in with Christ. When you do that, you stop chasing miracles and you become a miracle who carries miracles for your generation. If you're here and you say, Jonathan, that's me. Tonight, I'm gonna surrender my life to Christ. Allow him to heal me from the inside out and serve him all the days of my life. Quickly put your hand up nice and high and wave it at me. I'm gonna pray with you right now. I see your hand. I see your hands. This is awesome. Allow me the privilege to pray with you tonight. Let today be the day. You tell the devil enough. Very quickly, everyone that lifted a hand, come out of your seat, join me at the front. We're gonna pray right now. In Jesus' name, I'm gonna go. Lift your hands if you would. Sister Jenna, when did you backslide? Lift your hands to the Lord. Say this out loud. Heavenly Father, I've come forward tonight to give you my life. Forgive me of all my sins. Wash me in your blood. I believe in my heart. You raised Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth, Jesus is Lord and my Savior. Right now I receive forgiveness by the blood of Jesus. I am saved. I am forgiven. I am clean. In Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you for sharing the Jonathan Shuttlesworth podcast. If you're interested in supporting our mission to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to our generation, please visit revivaltoday.com and click on Give Now to become one of our monthly partners. Thank you in advance. We hope to see you soon.