You may be looking for a confirmation or an affirmation. You may be looking for direction and purpose. You may be looking to be used by God in a greater way. You may be here and you know God, but you don't know he fully exists. And he cares about you, that you matter. You're significant. You may want to hear his voice for the first time or you haven't heard it in a long time. You want to see his power demonstrated. You want to receive the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit manifesting nine fruit, right? And gifts. You may need renewal and restoration in a marriage, in a business, in your family. You may need deliverance from something. In Hebrew context, we say the Shema, right? We all know the Shema. It's the number one prayer in Judaism, right? In the context of when Jesus was living in Paul, there was also a prayer called the 18 blessings. Back then, it's probably 12. They've added more to that. Amadah prayer. Have you ever heard of the Amadah, anybody? In Hebraic roots movements? So the 18 blessings are 18 prayers. But it, it stems from this context of kingdom, power and glory. And one of the first mentions of this is in First Chronicles 29:11. And it's David. He says, yours, Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the majesty and the splendor. For, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom. Now that's packing some heat. If David knew about the kingdom, power and glory, he's saying it right here. So when we read Matthew 6, the Lord's Prayer, really, the disciples prayer, it's, it's. He ends with that closing phrase. It's not just a phrase. These are, these are act action words. These are declarations and praises to our King. So I want you to have that mindset as we talk through some of these topics. And in Revelation 3, he emphasizes this again, and he says, jesus is the Amen, the faithful and true witness who shows us the power and glory and the kingdom of our King and Father. Revelation 3:14, When he's ministering to the seven churches and this is where they finish up. So let's go around for a second and talk about the kingdom, power and glory and what it really is. And we maybe take a minute or so each and just go around and what kingdom, power and glory means to you. It may be one aspect of it, it may be all of it. But from that context of those scriptures, what is God speaking?
All right. Yeah. Well, thank you for having us. The Pharisees and many people in the first century had this question for Yeshua because they assumed that, well, he's the Messiah. He is the. The chosen one. He is going to come and change the world. Where is your throne? Where is your kingdom? Right. That's the big question they brought him. And he said, the kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed. Nor will they say, look here or look there, for the kingdom of God is within you. Right. So. And there he's starting to establish what he has come to do during that first coming, and that is to start establishing that kingdom within his people. So I'll just start there before I. And we can go on to someone else perhaps. But I think we can begin with understanding that we play a massive part in bringing that kingdom about in the world around us.
Well, my context is I work in Uganda and I work in rural villages. I have many people who've never even held a Bible till we hand it to them. And yes, the kingdom is within us. But First Corinthians 4:20 also says the kingdom is not a matter of talk, but of power. And so many of us talk, but where is the power? And is God? But as we are walking with the kingdom within us, if we are walking in that, the power will be there. It's not showy. And yet we see him moving, and we see the impact of his kingdom in individual lives, and we see it spreading into communities and. And beyond. And so we, as kingdom bearers and image bearers, wherever you are, whatever country you're in, as you walk in the power of that kingdom, it will spread and there will be power, and he will be the one that's glorified.
I would again, thank you. And I would agree with both of them. And even, like Brother Petey said, the kingdom of God is not with observation, but it is within you. And so to me, one of the things that that means is the operating principle of the kingdom is planted inside of me, inside of you. And when you show up to any given place, as you're a part of the kingdom and it's operating in you, you are an ambassador of that kingdom to that place. And so all of the authority, all of the power, all the majesty and the glory should be and can be and could be exemplified through our lives as we do our daily task. Even, you know, Brother Lawrence wrote a book practicing the presence of God, where he lived in unbroken fellowship with God for seven years. And even as he did, I think he was a cook. Even as he did his daily task, he had an absolute Unbroken fellowship with God even. He said even if he sinned, he would immediately confess and go right back into the presence of God. So to me, the kingdom of God, the power of God and the glory of God, the kingdom is an operating principle that's been deposited in me. And if I will yield to it and I will submit to it, then I see the presence of God, the kingdom of God, the power of God in my life and in around my life. And so for you, I know we're sitting up here a little bit elevated, but listen, it ain't just for me. It's for you. You're part of the body of Christ. I'm no better than you. I'm no different than you. God has called us all here that the kingdom of God may be manifested through us. Amen.
No, I was just going to add to. To me, with the kingdom of God, you know, talking about power and the glory and all this, but it's meant to, like, be spread. And if you think back in the medieval days when you had a kingdom, it wasn't meant that you had an underground bunker and you hid yourself like you built massive castles, but you took territory. And you think about today, it's about literally the kingdom of God. That's why it comes within us. But I was just thinking, in Matthew 13, it says another parable he put forth to them, saying the kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all. See all the seeds, but when it is growing, it is greater than the herbs, and it becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and the nest in its branches. And so I think we're truly. When the kingdom God comes within us, it manifests. You begin to take territory for the kingdom of God. You will begin to have people literally latch onto you, have people come to you that are broken, that are hurting because they're wanting what you have. And it's not because we're something special. It's because we have something special. It is the kingdom of God. And so I think today, so many here in America are like, looking to, you know, save our lives and. And, you know, build underground bunkers and store up all this food. It's not bad to have good extra food and all this, but the kingdom of God literally should be taking territory for the kingdom and expanding. Just like you go back once it said, you know, back in the medieval days and all those, they expanded their territory. There was kingdoms all over, and they battled. You guys Were in a battle today with there's only one enemy. Well, I would say there's two enemies. There's your flesh and there's the devil, and you have two enemies to war against. But the goal is, is in our lives to take much territory for the kingdom of God.
So good. Something that came to my mind is, you know, we talk about authority, walking in our kingdom. Authority. I think that's one thing that's been missing in the body by and large, in many ways. We recognize we are to bring God's kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven. But we've forgotten his power and our authority to walk in his power. We've forgotten to give him glory. And we've sometimes claimed his glory for ourselves. And in which case we. We take his name in vain. We are not a good representative of his name. And in which case we stifled bringing his kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven, in the way we could, if only we would give him the glory. If only we would say, father, use me and I will not quench your Holy Spirit so that I can walk in your authority. To walk in power, to know that you do speak today, that you do heal today, that you can move today and use me today.
I always go back again to letters in red govern my life. And it has to start where Petey said the kingdom of God from his mouth. It doesn't come with observation. It's within you. And I think we live in a walk. We're always trying to understand the kingdom, and we're big in eschatology and we're longing for this reign of our Messiah and our king. And that's good. But it has to start with what Jesus said point blank. It's not going to come in this observation. It is within you, and it's within you to flow out of you, to take territory. And I think of Isaiah 62:10, where it says, go through, go through the gates, prepare the way of the people. Cast up, cast up the highway, gather the stones, lift up a standard for the people and the kingdom. Truthfully, it's this thing of Isaiah that when he came into the presence in Isaiah 6, he saw the glory. He was a man of unclean lips. And the glory, it always goes up and in and out. And this has to be where we start of the commission to go to take territory. But it's you alone with him in your secret place. It's you beginning to say the kingdom, period. The baseline has to be. It's in me. And what does that mean? What does it mean that angels desire to look into the fact that the Holy Spirit was sent to you and for you to live there and to meditate on that, to know that it's not just for you to hide, but you're called. You're called to be a light unto the world. You're called to be the hands and feet. And there's a. There's an awakening happened, John. Like, I think that there really is this mantle in this mandate for us that are actually even walking in a deeper revelation of covenant and obedience of. Of having this thread that's going from Genesis to revelation. Like we should be the most prime people to display the love, the compassion and the mercy of Yeshua. And I think that truthfully, is what this kingdom thing has been trying to happen inside of us. I even feel that in this room today, there's some of you that are here because you're. You're looking for what God's commissioned you to. You're, you know, he's calling you deeper. You know that it's more than just your rhythms of what you've been doing. And you may be waiting for some crystal clear, like, audible. But the truth is, is God's just wanting you by faith to take a step because he doesn't want you to have every T crossed and I dotted because doesn't require faith. He wants you to begin to say yes to him. But it has to start within you.
I'm hearing a lot of language that I love to hear because I truly think we need a kingdom reset moving into this kingdom language which very few people understand and very few people demonstrate. They don't even know what it is, but they're hearing kingdom language. And I'm going to paint two images for you in your mind up here. Picture a cruise ship out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Now picture on the other side, a carrier strike group of the US Navy raised by show of hands. What does the church look like? Is it a. The Good Ship Lollipop cruise ship leaving Carnival Cruise Lines out of Cape Canaveral? Raise your hand.
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How many? See it, See it now demonstrating as a carrier strike group in the Persian Gulf. It's quite a different contrast, right? So think about a reset. When I first heard that from a dear friend of mine, I served on his board. He was a Navy submariner and he chased Russians for 12 years. And he would take pastors of megachurches on an aircraft carrier overnight. He'd say, is this how your church operates? Everybody's color coded when they're missional, they're nuclear powered by the Holy Spirit. They go forth, they're running missions, they're always ready at any moment's notice the response of their king or their president or their leader of a nation. So what, what does a, what does a military do? It projects and presents the will of the nation with which it was sent. Think about that. When you enlist in the military, you're not your own anymore. When you say yes to, to Yeshua as your lord and savior and master, he's king, he's everything. That means you're not a serf and he's not this. He actually makes you an heir and a co laborer with him. He says no, we're doing this together. And that's the beauty of the Kingdom of God. And it's missional, it's coming back and forth. It can be sent on rescue missions, it can be sent on military missions, but it's an organism. It's vibrant and moving. It's not just leaving Cape Canal with millions of pounds of food and people listening to concerts, going swimming, doing excursions, coming back empty. Drop the people off and do it again every Sunday. We need to reset. That's what this conference is for. Many of you need a reset from a church Christianity mentality, Hebraic roots mentality, Messianic Judaism mentality to what God is really doing in the earth right now. Because it's happening and I'm seeing it. For people who don't understand, I can tell you what the Bible is in three basic words, the whole Bible, a king, a kingdom and a royal priesthood or kingly priests. That's what this whole book is about, a king, a kingdom and a royal priesthood. It wasn't a Levitical priesthood. That was kind of plan B. He wanted a kingdom of priests, all of us, male, female, working together. There's a difference between an individual relationship with the Lord and a corporate one. What the earth is waiting for is the corporate body to come together and understand what its assignment is and it what this church and your church in this community, what their individual assignments are in the earth as part of his kingdom to represent our King. So think about that. I hope that's that creates a word picture or an image for you. I don't want to be on a cruise ship, fat, dumb and happy church waiting for the rapture, not active. I want to be part of what he's doing in the earth. Amen. All right, so we're going to shift into something we talked about last night is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And at Pentecost, it wasn't only for those that were gathered there, the apostles and the. And the 120. And it didn't end in the Book of Acts. It's a continuous Acts. That's why it has s on it. It's, it's. That means it's continuing. So we're that new temple. And his glory is telling the story, and the story tells about his glory. For some of the younger people, that may help you rhyme and remember this, but we were baptized in the Holy Ghost for a reason. We are the burning ones. We're set on fire because people love to see what's burning. Talk about Book of Acts and how pivotal that was for a turning point within the kingdom advancement that's been 2,000 years ago.
So one of the first things that comes up, I think, interdenominationally between churches when we talk about the Book of Acts is is it relevant for us today? We love reading it, but is it for us Now? I just want to bring this up for a moment first, because remember that what the prophecy is that Peter stood up to quote of Joel, right? In the last days, God declares it shall be sons, daughters, all young. You'll prophesy, I have dreams, visions, and so on. So God declares in the last days, okay, God declares not man. God declares authority high above every authority. In the last days. Are we in the last days? Somehow some believe that 2,000 years ago, they were in the last days, and we're no longer in the last days, even though we're closer than ever before to when he's going to come back. So let's just get that out of the way first, right? And what happens there? We see the Holy Spirit not only falls on Yeshua at his baptism, not only falls on the 12 as Yeshua breathes on them, says, receive the Spirit, not only falls on the 72 Yeshua said out on Luke 10, but now falls upon thousands of people. 3000 is baptized. And then you read what happens in Acts chapter three and four and five, and you start recognizing that the impact of this is great. And it starts shifting what we know as what it means to be a believer. It's a new complete walk that has never been seen before. It has been seen in prophets of old. It was seen in the Messiah. But now we're seeing it in all types of believers like me and you.
I just would simply say, yes, it's still here and it's for you. And I think we struggle sometimes that we think, I Love what John said last night about this. We love to call it the, the renewed covenant. No, it was new. And if you're not spending time reading or Paul and the prophets and the event and the Gospels, if you're not spending time in the, specifically just the New Testament and learning how this walking out, living in a totally new thing, when the Spirit failed, it changed and it marked history. It's not the same that it was, it wasn't always the same. They were walking in something that no one had ever walked in. It didn't just rest on people. It didn't, it became within people. And if we minimalize what happened in Acts and if we minimalize what we see in these, these New Testament books of how to walk this thing out, it's not, it's new. There was a shift and a change. And that's why it's just important for us to be diving deep into the New Testament and understanding how men and women that God anointed and appointed to how to live this thing with the indwelling prayer presence of the Holy Spirit. And so I think that's so important for us that we can't marginalize what was happening in the New Testament. And we can't continue to think that it was the same old same old, something forever changed and it's never the same.
You know, we called it the book of Acts or how the apostles acted. This was the picture of their life after the outpouring of, of the Spirit of God. But one thing that I try to make myself remember is that Bible that you carry is for you to read and see that men and women like you called on God and God done something amazing in their life. And that story was captured that you would pick up the Bible and open it and say, God did it for this man, God did it for this woman. And as you read, the Spirit of God breathes on the word of God and it comes alive to you. And then you are raised up and you're generation and you begin to act out just like the apostles did. And you begin to do things just like the apostles did. When you do what Jesus did, you see what Jesus saw. When you and I begin to act like the apostles acted, there's a verse that, it cuts me to my heart every time I read it. When they're, when they're there and it's a, it's a church that's brooding with life. The widows begin to get neglected. And they said, listen, we can't stop serving the word of God and praying to serve Tables, but choose men. For we will give ourselves to the ministry of the Word and to prayer. And the next verse says, and the church grew. The church grew. And so to me, when I think about the Acts of the Apostles, my understanding is, as long as the body of Christ is on the earth, everything that was then will be now. If it's a real, vital, living body of Christ, that means every gifting, every calling, every talent, every ability that I've ever read in any man or any woman is accessible to me by God and through his spirit. And if they saw it, I can see it. Amen. If they did it, I can do it. If they heard it, I can hear it. I still believe I'll see the Son of God with my eyes, not in glory. I believe it. I confess it everywhere I go because I believe that. Because they were men that did. And the Bible declares to me that if the man or the woman that's pure in heart, they shall see God. Amen.
Amen. And something I just think we need to remember is we love reminding others and ourselves that God has not changed. So his festivals, the Sabbath, is all here. For today is Torah. It's beautiful because God has not changed. So that would biological nature still apply also to the Book of Acts? Our God has not changed in any way. Which means what we see in the Book of Acts, if we see the walk of Yeshua, should we not desire to walk like Yeshua, to walk as he walk? And Yeshua says even greater things, you will see. And that's what we're seeing in the Book of Acts. And that's what we are also called to do, to act on, to have an active faith, to have faithfulness in our faith.
Yeah. Talking about seeing greater things. How many, like, read the Book of Acts and are like, wow, like, I want to see that. Right? Can I tell you guys, like, you can read biographies, like from Reinhard Bonnke and some of these guys, and today, and they've seen crazier things than the Book of Acts. I'm telling the Book of Acts, like, not to belittle, but I'll tell you, it's bottom level of what God has done even in the last hundred years, even in Africa. This is in Uganda last year. But I was listening to a testimony this morning about a church and her daughter was sharing and how they were just believing. They started off with a hundred people and they. They thought, oh, this would be the big enough. You know, we don't need to grow at the church. They actually now have a church that's over 100,000. They have people lined up outside. They don't even know how they can even build a bigger church. And this has happened over the many years. It's not about building a big church. But I want to say God wants to move. And the Book of Acts is the book of actions. And every one of us can have a book of actions. Every one of you can carry your journal, begin to write down the actions of what Jesus. What God is doing in your life to others. That's. The Book of Acts is literally the Book of Acts is just the written stories of what happened with the disciples when they went forth. But that's every one of us in this room. We can carry a book of Acts in our personal life. And I believe that every one of us in this room, that we, you know, that when we die, that people would know us by the love of Messiah, by the kingdom, not by how much car, how many cars I have, how big of a house I have, or. Or man, yeah, this guy sat on the street and did nothing. I want to be knowing that the kingdom of God was within me and that I changed the generation. Not because of me, but because I gave my life to him and I want him to just move in this hour so strongly.
I would say also, just as we go about doing what God is doing in us and walking in obedience puts you in the place, put you in the position for him to then use you. Um, and. And it's like I. I started to go into Uganda in 2019, and it wasn't till after a couple of years I realized God was sending me there to prepare Uganda for the spiritual awakening he is bringing there. And that's crazy. Some old lady saying God wants a spiritual awakening and I'm supposed to prepare you. We're seeing people come and what's drawing the others. We. I don't do. We don't do big evangelistic anything. I just go to villages where I'm invited to share about the God I serve. But the transformation in those people's lives is drawing others. That it's not some great preaching or teaching that I'm doing. It's like they see you used to just drink and fight. And now what's changed? You used to be a thug. You'd rob me and beat me up. Now you're a pastor. What's different? And they say, let me tell you about my God. And the power follows the obedience. And the obedience comes from knowing this. The whole book I love. I'm working on teaching through the Torah. But like teaching in Leviticus about all the sacrifices, they all point to Yeshua. But you understanding that helps you understand Romans 12, where it says, you present yourself a living sacrifice when a sacrifice is given back in Levitical times, it was assumed the giver had already had a pure heart before the Lord and asked the Lord to identify with that animal. But once that animal has been placed and sacrificed, it goes on the altar. It no longer belongs to the giver. It belongs to the one whose altar it sits on. So when we give ourselves as a living sacrifice, we say, I no longer belong to me. I belong. It's the Lord's altar. That sacrifice belongs to him. So the unforgiveness, the bitterness, the past, it's not mine. It's on the altar. What's done with that sacrifice is no longer mine to say. It's on the altar, and he'll take you. I never thought I'd be going to Uganda. And yet. And I was invited to come teach the Bible, but you can't teach it without doing it. And that's what acts was. They just started obeying. Yeshua told them, go to. Go to Jerusalem. You wait till. And wait till the Holy Spirit comes. And then the Holy Spirit started leading them, go here, go there, speak to this person. Oh, even the Gentiles out to the nations. God will take you amazing places. And his kingdom is spreading. It's breaking out. What are you doing? To walk in obedience as a living sacrifice, where he's the one who directs your every path.
I just want to add one thing too, because the only time we can share big stories. And yeah, God wants to move and do big things, but he loves the little things, too. And little numbers matter. Big numbers. I just want to even in this room here and just say this one part too, because I'll tell you that one of the bigger callings in this earth is the mothers. Like, you guys are stewarding the children. And I know a lot of time, even I talk to my wife and, you know, it's like, discouraging. Like, you get to go see these things. You're part of this stuff. But no, don't be discouraged, because even in your season, you're pouring into a generation that you have an opportunity that would radically change things. And so I just wanted to say that just so, like, for the mothers in here, because, like, you're actually. Your role, I believe, is even a higher calling than someone who's preaching on stage in front of 50 to 100,000. And so don't be discouraged in that way. But know that you're pouring through and you're calling and your gifting inside of you as a mother is just as important and more important than someone that's like, on a stage preaching in front of thousands.
And just because you're a mother or you're a father and you have children doesn't disqualify what God's called you to. Like, what would it look like for every one of you here and online to really begin to write a paper to the Lord with no limits, with no. With no ceiling, with no fishbowl over top of you? We do this with young people, with people that we try to pour into. Like, what is God calling you to? With absolutely nothing that in your practical, rational mind says why it can't happen. God is big and he is amazing. And just because you're a husband or a wife and you have children, you have work and you have bills and you have all these reasons, God is like, can't do something. He's called. So many of us is to lay all these natural things of the kingdoms of. Of this earth that are exact opposition to the kingdom of God. So what would it look like for you to get alone with the Lord and to say, the kingdom's within me, and what has God really called me to? To Uganda, to the prison, to South Africa, to my backyard, to my neighbor, to my children? Like, what is God calling you to? Yeah, and begin to stop believing why you can't do it and believing that God can do it.
It's add in really quick jumping off what Nathan said. You know, each person, God has placed you in a different sphere of influence. If you're a mom, you're. You're talking with other moms, you're able to speak to them, encourage them in a way that we might never encounter them. Or if you're someone at school, you're a teenager, you're someone at university, you just started your own job. You know, wherever you are in life, whatever age you are, you have a sphere of influence that you can encourage, you can build up, and that you can witness to. You can share the love of Yeshua, to never discount that.
One more thing. There are seasons too, in life. Sometimes if you're the mom with the little bitty kids, your season is to pour yourself into them. Me, I'm a widow. I can speak to widows. You guys can't relate to, and I pray you never can. But there's. I work with so much with widows and abandoned. And even though I said being A widow is not easy in any culture. So God has a specific use. There is nothing that happens in your life for no reason. God's very efficient. And so the things that are your life story, whether it's. And you say, well, I don't have some big, you know, saved out of drugs or prostitution or anything. That's fine, God. The little things build the kingdom. That's why the mustard seed is so powerful. It's tiny.
Amen.
But we can build God's kingdom if you take your mustard seed and plant it where he tells you.
Yes. Thank you. I think. As we were. As I was hearing, the Lord just spoke to me. He said, do you know there's a book with your name on it in heaven? It's the Book of Acts, of Tyler, of Nathan, of Tom. There's a book, and do you know, it's before the foundations of the earth. He's already given you an assignment to do the good works He. He has planned for you. The question is, have you ever asked him about what are those exploits, those good works, those acts, those actions, those activities he's already assigned to you before the foundations of the earth. That speaks to your identity and purpose. I'm specifically speaking to a lot of our young people here because I want you to know that. That he. It's foreordained. It's been planned before the foundation, before you were even conceived. The works and exploits in Ephesians 2:10 talks about that. Psalm 139 talks about that. Psalm 91 talks about that. And I want you as an exercise when you leave here and write this down. Ask the Lord in your time of prayer with him. Lord, what is written in my book? When we think about our backgrounds and the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the movement of the Holy Spirit, the gifts as in leadership in the Holy Spirit. We go back to Pentecost. We get into the appointed times, right? The feast, the holy days, Yeshua and the Holy Spirit are present in every one of those, and particularly at Pentecost, since we were talking about the Holy Spirit outpouring. The Holy Spirit hovered over creation, right over chaos and brought order. The Holy Spirit operates in the earth. In of chaos. You bring the order. When you walk into a situation, situations become made whole, whether it's healing or deliverance or situations. So Holy Spirit was active, as Nathan said, and he would come upon for different things. But this became a resident internal power that we were. We were given. And at. At Pentecost, I believe that the Holy Spirit breathed on the Word, the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, the Holy Spirit has been active and now he wants us to be walking in those feasts, those holy days, those promises. And so if you have people in your sphere who don't believe this is true, show them where the Holy Spirit and Yeshua is within the appointed times in these seasons. And that's why we celebrate them. So any context on that and how you've, how you've done that and how you bring, you mix the Sabbath, the appointed times, and bring in the Holy Spirit and how you celebrate those, I think that'd be really helpful for folks.
Well, I just think if you're doing anything just to do it, you're doing it for the wrong reason. Because God didn't give us instructions. I know he said shema here in Du, and we've used that of like, you don't question God, you just obey his voice. But he didn't say, I bore you on eagle's wings and I brought you here. And it's that greatest betrothal kind of conversation. He had just delivered them and set them apart and showed Himself powerful and mighty. He had built history with them. He had showed himself to be true and living and real and authentic and powerful and practical and in his and in their face and. And showed himself to be the only one that can make every knee bow. And then he said, do this. And so I think sometimes when I was in my college of prison in 2009, 10, 11 and 12, my higher learning, just my journey of, like, I couldn't run to pastors and I couldn't run to YouTube. I remember what was in Hebrews chapter 10 when it says in the volume of this book, it's written of him. And so for me, it's. It's been this place that I don't do things just to do it, because I know my, my God, my God, which is your God. He wants us to understand that it has to be about Christ and it has to be about the anointing and it has to be about the Holy Spirit. He doesn't need us just to do things because he's a dictator. He does things because of biblical principles that are on the earth and the. In the warfare of, of darkness and light and the practical kingdoms of this earth and the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God. And so for me and my wife and my children, it's really this place of always trying to find that white fire behind the instruction, the reason why God has asked us to step into something, because I can find him in it. It's no longer just a box that I check. And I always talk about even the Zee Z.
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I was incarcerated when I read this thing about the blue fringe. And so I was literally like, what does this look like? And so I got yarn, blue yarn, period. Didn't know about ties and knots and traditions. And I literally just tied this string of blue yarn on me. And I just. Every morning I would wake up and say, this isn't some habit, some just road routine. I do this because I'm putting my arm. I train my hands for war, my fingers for battle. Let me not let this become a common thing, but let me just be a part of, like. Like finding the reason why God's asking me to do that. And still today, like, you don't see it. I wear an undershirt. I still rock blue yarn, blue simple. Tie the string yarn under my undershirt because it's not for anybody else, but it was for me and him in this relationship. Because I know God has given me instructions for my good and for power and for my ability to live life and walk life and navigate this thing as Yeshua did. Did. So that's my always. My heart is like, find Christ, find the anointing in the things that we do. And that's what changes you. That's what keeps your kids close to you and not going wayward out there. Because it's not some routine. It's living. It's active. It's alive.
Amen.
Yeah. And every feast is connected to the Kingdom of God, right? You think. Think about Passover. And you see, that's what the kingdom of God is being established through the Son, right? When he comes, he dies. He's the lamb. We see Shavuot, of course, Acts 2, we talked about that. Holy Spirit is now poured out. We see when we fast forward to like the Feast of Trumpets. What is that? That is about trumpets that will one day blow, that will usher in the coming of the King. That means that we need to be blowing trumpets. We need to be trumpets upon the earth to prepare the earth for this kingdom that is going to be established upon the earth, for the judgment that is going to take place, for the wedding that he will come to have with us. So all of the feasts like what Nathan mentioned, I think too. Right. Don't just observe. Okay. I need to now go and figure out how do I keep Passover, how do I keep trumpets, how do I blow a shofar? Let's get this right. Okay, cool. Right. But what does it mean personally in Your life? Are you actually walking out the Feast of Trumpets every day? Like, is the Feast of Trumpets a part of your life? Is the Feast of Passover a part of your life? Are you partaking in the Passover lamb every day? Like, think about these things that we just do, which are there to remind us of the reality, but is that reality actually reality in our life?
I'll just add really quick. I grew up going to a traditional Messianic synagogue, and God had my family there for a time, and it was a wonderful season. I learned a lot of these things. But one thing my family noticed is that we never really heard the Holy Spirit mentioned except for Shavuot. That was the time to talk about Holy Spirit. But that should not be. It's like what PD said. This should be, you know, this piece of Trumpets in your daily life, Passover in your daily life, the Holy Spirit, Shavuot, in your daily life.
What would it look like for you to stop asking everybody else how to do it, other than get alone with the Father and the Spirit that's in you and say, it may not be perfect, but, man, the Father loves the fact that you have a heart to try to understand why he's asking you and. And leading you into this good thing. And I'm telling you, when that becomes your walk where it's not about just copycat, and it's not. And again, I'm not against. People have revelation and tradition and all of these things. There's value in that. I get it. But I'll tell you what. If you teach your kids tradition and it's not yours, they're going to walk up and it won't be life, it'll be burden, it won't be freedom. It'll be rules. And man, the Father has a way of making his word that's beautiful and holy and amazing alive where, like my kids long for Sabbath, they long for certain things because they know it's actually active and alive. And so that's my heart for people is don't just copycat. Don't just be. Feel like you're gonna do it wrong. You. You can't do the instructions wrong. If your heart is to truly do the instruction. He's going to see your heart in your faith, and he's going to meet you there. And he may shave off a little here, chisel something there and bring you a little there. But he longs for us just to be willing to say, you said it. I'll try it. Even if I don't fully grasp it. I long to know you. That's the truth.
And my husband and I began this messianic whatever messy antics walk back in 94. It's been a long time. And one thing that I see even in in Deuteronomy, Moses said, this isn't too hard, but it's in, in your mind and in your heart so you can do it. Yeshua said the same thing. If you love me, keep my commandments first. John says this is love for God, this that we keep his commandments. If the love doesn't come first, you are not keeping Torah. I don't care how many prayers you know, how long your zitzit is, how much Hebrew you know, if it is not from the passion of your heart, you cannot keep Torah because God's heart and his Torah are together. And we in our little human pea brains want to try to itemize it and separate it, but it cannot be. And when we embrace the whole of Torah, which includes the heart of God, then the passion comes. His kingdom is revealed, his power is revealed and he gets the glory.
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Hallelujah. You know, Jeremiah 31, 3133 and then Hebrews 8, 8 12. Talk about that is that he's putting his Torah on our hearts and our minds to be that expression, you know. And I heard this one time and I added one little part. I added the Holy Spirit to this phrase. But I heard a teacher say one time, rules religion, right? Without relationship would breed rebellion. But I would say rules without relationship with Yeshua and the Ruach breeds rebellion. And that's what we see today. Paul said we were to earnestly desire the spirit and the gifts. He said, I pray that you all speak in tongues and I'll prophesy right? But there's an earnest desire to seek not just the gifts, but the giver and why he's giving you those things and are those residents. Someone may have the expression, maybe people get healed when they're in a meeting. Some people walk in with a gift to be able to help deliver people. Some it's words of knowledge, visions, all this stuff. Administration. Do you know that's a gift of the spirit? Those who are preparing food for us, hospitality. To open your home is a gift of the spirit. How awesome is that? So there's a lot of expressions of the gifts, but we're to earnestly desire them because he wants to manifest himself in all those areas. And it's a way for you to open up like a flower, like into the expression. When you earnestly desire, seek first the kingdom, meaning earnestly seek the king, the kingdom and his kingdom, righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. How do you earnestly desire these things? I mean, in your own life? For people who maybe haven't walked in or experienced the manifestation of gifts, how do you. What's the first step? How do you. How do you get there?
Why do we earnestly desire? First of all, I'm always going to be taking it back to the beginning. And then I know the race are going to fill in the race for us. He says, pursue love and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts. Right? So it's all about how do we love our Father? How do we love one another better? And that's what the gifts allow us to do. Right? So it's a supernatural empowerment from above to love in a supernatural miraculous way. That's really what it is. And it manifests in different ways depending on what the issue is that's in front of us. There is someone who is sick, will let them be healed. There is someone who needs a word from the Father. Let them receive it. Right? So, yeah, I'll begin with.
For me, it was because I was hungry. What I was doing. There was no manifestation of the presence of God. And it made me to go to God in secret and say, lord, your. Your word tells me that it's not in word only, it's not in man's wisdom, this gospel, but it's in the power and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. And that's what grips the heart of man. When I was in, you know, I know most of their Stories, not everybody. But for me, I would not. I wasn't raised in messianic Hebrew, anything, nor was I raised in the church. And so I had neither of those. And so my upbringing in the things of God was minimal. I didn't know God from a rock. I didn't understand God. I didn't know, you know, God's last name was a cuss word in our home. And that's what I understood. But that God interrupted my path one day, and it came to me in such power, I didn't understand it. It began to transform my life. And I said, lord, I know I've gone too far and done too much, but if you will, will you change me? So the power that I felt. And by the way, I called on Jesus, I didn't know Yeshua. I didn't know Yahweh. I didn't know a verse of Scripture. I just called on the name of Jesus and said, lord, if you will, will you change me? And he did, and he changed me. And that same power is what those around me need. And if I pray for Tyler's knee and I don't see that, it makes me go to God and say, God, I need your help. I need an outpouring of your spirit because I'm not a good representative of your kingdom. If I say, need be healed, Jesus did it, Yeshua did it, and I'm supposed to be like him. So something is off. And it ain't you, it's me. And so, God, I'm asking, pour out your spirit. Why? I want to see your kingdom furthered. I want to see your name honored. I want to be a part of the kingdom, but I want to see your kingdom manifested on this earth. And for me, anytime I've ever seen that, it was a hunger that was inside of me that caused me to go to God and say, God, your word says it, and I believe it. And I'm going to stay here until you do it for me or in me or through me.
Yep. Amen. And Yeshua speaks about this parable to explain exactly what Tom is talking about to the crowds. And he says that there's a man who goes to his neighbor's house, and he knocks on the door, says, I have a gas at my house, but I don't have any bread in my house. And Yeshua concludes the parable with saying that if the man doesn't come out and roll down and open the door to give him the bread because he is simply a friend, he's going to be doing it because of this man's persistence in knocking. And that's what Tom is talking about, is there's a persistence. There is a. We need to be knocking. We need to be earnestly desiring the Holy Spirit and the gifts. Sometimes I think we are like, okay, you know, I've heard this before. People say, look, if God wants me to speak in tongues, I'm going to speak in tongues. Right? They have this idea that God is going to force me in some ways to walk in whatever gift. If God wants me to pray for healing, well, I'm going to. It's going to happen. I'm going to pray for healing and they're going to get healed. Well, look, God is a gentleman. He's going to give it to you if you earnestly desire it. Because he gives and apportions and empowers. He does that. But we must earnestly desire. We don't force him. He doesn't force us. It's a loving relationship. And so when you want a gift, because the Holy Spirit is putting it on your heart, because your flesh isn't opposed to the Holy Spirit, your flesh isn't desiring the spiritual things. The flesh is like, I don't want to pray for that person. I'm going to look weird. What if they don't get healed? And all this stuff that comes along with that. And so I'm going to go and say, look, this is what I read. The Spirit in me, I can see he's drawing me to this. And I'm going to step out in something called faith.
Amen.
Faith. I'm going to actually be vulnerable. I'm going to, like, you know, what if they don't get healed? So what? Why do you care so much about how people see you care for them? Absolutely. But let us be a people who earnestly desire by stepping out. And then we see him come stepping out on the water. And even when we start drowning because we feel like our faith is not strong enough, whatever Yeshua is right there, he grabs a hold of us. He says, you know, if you have the faith of a mustard seed, you say to this mountain, move and it'll move. Do you have the favor of a mustard seed? Because a mustard seed is a type of seed, specifically, it's a very small seed, but it grows bigger than any other tree. So that means that it starts somewhere, starts with a seed, a small seed planted in us that we allow to be watered by the living waters, the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit works with us. We have to step out. We have to let him lead us. We can't just wait and be like, okay, Holy Spirit, if you want to use me, you'll use me, right? While we just go on with our life.
Paul, who didn't have the Holy Spirit but was learned in every bit of the Torah, being groomed right in the. As a Pharisee, witnessing the stoning of Stephen, holding the, the.
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The. The robe on the road to Damascus, something powerful happened. Kingdom power and glory showed up in Paul's life because God had a major assignment because he was a Roman citizen. He had all the qualifications. What he was missing was to know who he was actually persecuting. And then the Holy Spirit hit him and he goes. And, you know, he goes on and he could speak like nobody's business, right. As a teacher, academically. But what, what caused Paul to be one of the greatest ministers and leaders to the gentiles was in First Corinthians 2, 4 and 5, it says, My message in my preaching were not with wise, persuasive, academic, laden words, but with demonstration of the Spirit's power so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power. And the question is, will we demonstrate what we claim to believe? We had a situation last two weeks ago was two weeks ago Jennifer and Andrew. I. Jennifer brought her daughter up and her daughter's been suffering from something and it was troubling and we just prayed and didn't seem like anything happened right away. But my wife told me last night, hey, Jennifer didn't see you. But she told me that her daughter was completely healed. She woke up the next morning, ran downstairs, she's right over there, and she was full of joy and excitement and happiness. Right? Because God healed her in that moment. So beautiful. Yeah, I was just gonna finish one thing is this. The Bible says these signs shall follow the preaching and teaching of the Word. You can't not have preaching and teaching. You can't not have worship. Right? But it's a divine setup for the manifestation, demonstration of God's power. That's what it's for. And it may be five minutes of preaching and teaching. It may be one scripture, and all of a sudden a prophetic word comes and God ministers in that service and does something. And I'll tell you what, we'll talk about testimony in a second, but the power of testimony is, is.
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I was just going to say, why do you desire something that you know you can't have? We are commanded, desire these gifts. And what I When I was just listening, I remember reading Wild Revival Tarries by Leonard Ravenhill. And he said, as I write, I have absolute faith that God can turn this desk into a solid piece of gold. But I also will say I do not have any faith that he'll do it. So even though God can turn this stage into gold, my faith is he would never do that. Right? So it isn't, you know, when we begin to desire something, it's because I actually believe that God can do it. But I also believe that God will do it, and I also believe God wants to do it. So when I begin to ask for it, then I begin to get in line with God and say, God, I agree with you. You can do it and you want to do it. And, you know, I have. There was one time I was ministering on this bus that we park on the streets, and that morning, for the first time, I said, lord, I ask you, give me words of wisdom for someone. I spent time in prayer a few hours that morning. I get there, we pull out on the streets, we got our team ready. I open the doors, and not one person person shows up on the street. I'm like, where in the world is Everybody? After about 30 minutes of worshiping and nobody came on, I said, listen, you guys stay here. In case somebody comes, I'm going to hit the street and just walk. So I got out and began to walk. I got about 100 yards away. I turned around and there was a line of people that were going in the bus. So I ran back, I sat down, we began to worship. God was showing me some things. I looked out the window and there was a homeless man that I'd ministered to so many times. I go over there and I'm talking to him, and the whole while I'm waiting on this desire that I just asked God to manifest itself. Well, then after a few minutes, honestly, my conversation with this man is fruitless. And I had to say, listen, I gotta stop. So I turned around and there was a man and woman walking down the street. And I walked across the street and she looked at me and she said, hey, you want some liquor? I said, yes. She said, what are you going to do with it? I said, I'm going to pour it out. She said, no, man, I need some cigarette money. I'm being serious.
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You want some liquor? I said, yes. She said, what are you going to do with it? I said, I'm going to pour it out. And the guy, her boyfriend said, give it to him. He's a preacher. She said, you a preacher? I said, yes. She said, you don't look like no preacher. I said, thank you. She got on the bus and for the first time, God began to download to me her life. And I began to say things to her. She looked at this man and said, how do you know this? I haven't even told you these things. I said, I don't know nothing about you. All I'm telling you is what I'm hearing from God. I said, God's trying to get your attention. She said, he's got my attention. But it started with just me that morning saying, lord, I ask, will you give me words of wisdom? Not for myself, not that I may be gloriously exalted above others, but that that person's life will be impacted when that's the motive. God has no reserve in giving to us. When the motive is twisted and bent and somehow I rise to the top and I get the glory and I'm in the light, I will wonder and I will look and I will not see those things. But when my heart is pure, my desire is pure. God has no reserve in giving us these things.
Hallelujah. Anybody else?
I just think again, we go back to being disciples. And Yeshua point blank says, and I think it's one of the most misappropriated verses and. And Petey was talking about the parable, but Yeshua says, ask, seek and knock. And we make that about a whole lot of things. He literally says, ask, seek and knock. And it's point blank, period, to give you the Holy Spirit. That's not for your own little thought of ask and seeking and knocking for this or for that. It's point blank that if you get serious with him, he will give you it if you're willing to have a hunger for it. And for all the things that the men and women up here have said, you're on this earth for one reason, and that is to be shaped, to be looked, to look, to resemble, to be sons and daughters of God. And for some of us were on the Earth for 70 years, and some of us were on the earth for 15 years. But this whole walk, when you became a follower of him, it becomes a training ground. And just like in a mother's womb as a baby, being formed and being created and being knitted and getting their spiritual DNA and who they're going to be when they're birthed. And one day when that sky splits and we walk into a place where death has no more sting, this whole earth is a training Ground for you to express the kingdom of God within you. If you pray for somebody and it doesn't happen, what is the fear? It's fear. And what's that? Out of torment? It's lies. Why don't, why are you embarrassed? It's pride. Because what will it look like? See, all of these things that stop us from being willing just to say, I'm willing to apply, to try and whatever the outcome is, it doesn't matter because God is teaching me, training me day in and day out as a follower, as a disciple of Yeshua, to be, look, love and exemplify him. So if I pray and it doesn't work, God, you're still teaching me something. If I get a word of knowledge wrong, you're still teaching me something. That's what this earth is about anymore. You are being formed and knitted to be a son and a daughter of him.
Hallelujah.
Yeah. I just want to add to that. The Bible declares that God is more willing to give you the Holy Spirit than you are to feed your own children. That's what it says. How many of you having children would say to your son, if he asked an egg for you, you'd give him a scorpion or a piece of bread or a fish, you would take and give him a rock or give him something like that. And he said, and if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those that ask? So I have nine children. I do take joy in feeding them. And they eat a lot, right?
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They're like. Especially my oldest son. It's like a revolving door on the refrigerator. But in all honesty, when they sit down at a meal and we're eating, I take pleasure because I know God through me has supplied that. And if I take pleasure now, how much more does God even right now want to give you? The Holy Spirit? Hallelujah. He wants you right now to have it more than you want to eat, more than you want to feed your children. God is in heaven saying, I will give the Holy Spirit to whoever will ask me. So can we do something? Let's just ask him. Father, give us the Holy Spirit. More, Father. Give us more of your spirit. We believe in this moment as we listen and as we talk. God, you said desire. And so, Lord, we have a desire this morning for more of your spirit, that your spirit would take more ground in us. Give us more of your spirit, Lord. We ask this Father for your glory in the name of Yeshua, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, they ask, as I also.
Want to add to, you know, earnestly seeking. I think a big part of my life of seeing is who you run around with, who, who's in that inner circle of influence and, and something that's revolution. My life in the last couple years is like running with, with burning ones. And you know, there's a secular quote show says that. Show me the books you read and the people you hang out with and I'll show you your future. So what are you intaking? Whether it's social media, YouTube videos, books you're reading and who's in your inner circle? You know, we say a lot of times I was homeschooled, but my parents always told me like if we would put you in public school, the influence of all the other students or even just there would change you. Right, it's the influence. And so I was even sharing with the young people last night. We were just talking up late is like, man, find the ones that are burning and latch hold of them and learn from them because they will pour into you just being there's an automatic impartation that you will receive. And they're not even talking to you, you're just listening. You're even here, you're listening to these things. You're receiving an impartation of a stirring in your spirit for more. Well, there's more out there. There's more than what's up here. There's so much more. Why did Yeshua attract so many? Because they saw him burning and he drawed the crowds, the disciples. I want to follow you. It wasn't just because, oh, he was just a good, you know, fisherman again, because he was a burning one. They saw something in him that they wanted that was more important than them having their fishing rods and casting out there and grabbing fish. That's that. So that's what stirred my heart in the last many years. Yes, it's a secret place. Yes, it's seeking earnestly, but it's who's influencing your life, who's in it doesn't matter. You can minister to everyone, I'll be friendly to everyone, minister to anyone. But who's in that inner circle of influence in your life? Because that will determine the hunger in your life, that will determine where you're going, but place in that inner circle, your inner circle of friendship. And like, like a cross, you got up, you got down, you got over. You should have someone above you mentoring you. You should be mentoring someone below you and you should be reaching out to everybody around You.
Amen. You know, the impartation is for the demonstration. It's not just so we can have it for ourselves or hide it like. Like, you know, under a bushel. It's meant to be expressed. And when we don't earnestly desire or we reject. I reject the Holy Spirit, say it's not for me or not for this time, we're actually rejecting the very thing that the world is crying out for. You know, we'll talk about Romans 8 when we finish tonight, because we're. We're being manifested in this time as sons and daughters for a really, really specific reason. It's a very redemptive time in history. In Revelation 12, we know this. Many of you know this by heart. It says that we. They overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. We know a lot about the blood, and the blood is so powerful. A lot of churches don't talk about the blood anymore. We know we have the blood, but what we need is the testimony because we overcome. We establish beaches. The kingdom is expanding, it's influencing, and it's. How do we overcome and overtake and experience the dominion of the kingdom of God? Not to take over and rule everything, but how do we manifest this? We manifest through testimonies. You've heard that you can't have a testimony without a test, right? I learned a powerful lesson about the Hebrew understanding of the word testimony. It says to repeat, to do something again or to do time again. So we've all experienced miracles, signs and wonders. Test. We have testimonies and we can we share a testimony. And people get excited about that, and it gives them hope that maybe that could happen to me, you know, and if you don't have a testimony, borrow somebody's. Until you find one, till you get one. Until. Until your life. Every day, every week, you. You have tens of testimonies. You can't even choose which one to share because you. You're walk. You're a walking testimony. The same power that raised Yeshua from the dead resides in me. And that's what your word says. I'm holding onto this testimony. Okay. It's like holding onto the testimony of yeshua's garment after 12 years of bleeding. Right. She did it. I mean, imagine the testimonies that came from that. Talk about the testimony and the power of it. Or maybe share, if you can, briefly, a powerful testimony you've witnessed recently.
Yeah. I would like to share first, something for everyone in here, no matter where you are, how long you've been a Believer, you have a testimony. Don't you know, think we're about to start sharing some, I'm sure some amazing things. But I want you to consider that it doesn't have to be that someone is raised from the dead for you to have a testimony. You were blind and now you see. I remember one of the first things that ever happened to me. I was a little kid, one of my first memories of church. Sitting in my Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. And there was a blind man. He was one who helped lead worship. He had these, you know, dark glasses. And I'm a little kid. I know nothing except he comes forward and he starts sharing about how the Lord has been with him, how the Lord has empowered him, how the Lord has used him, how the Lord has carried him through all of his struggles. And I'm a little kid and I'm thinking like, you can't see me. You can't see who you're talking to. You're just standing there blind. And suddenly, from where I was blind, I can see my spiritual eyes were opened. For if the Lord can do that for a blind man who is still blind, having faith to speak and believe and know that he is God, how much more can the Lord open my eyes, spiritually speaking? And so a blind man opens my eyes. That's my testimony. And I'm sitting here today because of that man. And he has no idea, because I hear of his testimony and I say, I want to believe in that God who empowers him. I want to have the faith of that man. See? So you have a testimony, whatever you came out of. Maybe you were a gossip, the busybody, and the Lord just shut your mouth and he opened your eyes to the beauty of the sun and purity of speech. Maybe he. You were looking upon things you shouldn't have looked upon, and the Lord delivered you of that. Sexual immoralities, whatever it is. We all have a testimony.
Yeah, I was just say too. Last year I was in Uganda and speaking about like multiplication of a testimony. We'd go on the streets and we had. There's about 60, some of us that were all over in Kapala, Uganda. And we would literally, in the very beginning, when we got there, we didn't have fresh testimonies. We just arrived. But we had heard a testimony from one of the local pastors. And so. But we would literally go on and we would share the testimony. Because testimonies build faith. And if you've ever been to Africa, like, their faith, like, can just go like that. And they see Crazy things. In America, it's a little bit harder. You got to stir it up a little more. But in Africa, and we would share testimony and we would see crazy things, but then it would multiply because then we'd go out the next day and we could use the testimonies that we had from yesterday. You know, we go out tomorrow and we use the testimonies that happened yesterday. And I remember my friend James was preaching and shared a testimony and called forward guys. Like, hundreds of people would listen. Like they're not even in the audience. They would be in their shop. They're listening because we have big speakers going out. And they would get healed like crazy. We had this one lady came forward. She was on crutches. She had sticks wrapped around her leg. Her femur was broken. He just went up to her. The power of God touched her. She started jumping up and down, just took off. He was like, wait a minute. Like, what happened here? We need to know. Twenty minutes later, she comes back with an X ray showing that her femur bone was totally messed up and not in the right place. It was completely healed. Because of that healing, over 100 witch doctors came out in the streets and received Jesus right there. That's what the power of testimonies can do. That. That's the. You start reading this, you read the book of Acts and read the Jesus, Yeshua. And the disciples operated is with the power of God. That's why the crowds were drawing. And so I. I actually want to share. I don't know. Would you open to share your testimony you shared with me last night? Would you share, Nadia?
So I've been dealing with sleep paralysis for, like, a few years now. And Tyler was like, in Belize with me, and we were at a church service, and he's like, okay, so anyone who's dealing with sleep problems, like being attacked by the devil, having nightmares come up. And I said, okay. So I went up there and asked for prayer and he prayed over me. And I just felt like something leave me and like, oh, my goodness. So I haven't had a sleep paralysis since. So hallelujah. Had a breakthrough.
Come on. Give it up for Yeshua Jesus. He's the one that gets the glory.
For any of you ministers in here watching online line, please make testimony freshimonies part of your services.
And testimonies might not look like what you expect. Okay, we think, oh, you're going to walk up. Oh, they jump up and then do this. Maybe. When I was here last and shared with this congregation back in September, we Prayed specifically for two young boys, same village. Some of you remember Brandon, the little boy who had a rare blood disease. We needed either a miracle of healing or $100,000 to take him internationally for treatment. And we prayed passionately. We prayed for a second boy, same village. Cyprian, 13. He had a hemorrhagic stroke in June. Totally paralyzed his right side. Took him to Kampala, and they said the only hope was going to Kenya with surgery to heal the aneurysm. $40,000. I. I'm just. It's just me. I don't have some big ministry. And we had to say, we don't have that. Nobody walked up and said, let me give you 40,000. So we sent him home. They said they thought they were sending him home to die. He laid totally paralyzed in his bed. June, July, August. And in early September, I was here. And you may remember that night we prayed, and the spirit. And I told her, my. My partner over there said, when you go to his village on Monday, go by and check on Cyprian. He says, okay, Mom. They call me Mom. Eleanor. And so that. That Monday, his Cyprian's mom was already at the meeting place. So he took Susan and they went back to the house. And when they got to the house, Susan screamed and fainted because there was Cyprian sitting up on the doorstep. Okay.
Huge smile.
Huge smile. Yeah. If you can see our web Facebook page, you see, he's just. He's smiling. And so I went back a few weeks later, and I did physical therapy with him every morning, every week, morning, when I went over there. And he has made amazing progress. He's still having headaches. Okay. Right now he's back in Kampala because he had some other health issues and a headache. The doctors there, the neurologist said, in all my years of practice, I've never heard of a brain aneurysm healing itself. And they don't call him Cyprian. They call him miracle. And so. But they did it. They did a scan to see why he's having headaches. He still has the aneurysm. There's still the ruptured blood vessel, but there is no blood in his brain.
Wow.
Okay. But he still needs a miracle. And they say, we think the headaches has caused that. We still need to repair that. Still huge, expensive. However, God gets the glory. Right now. Right now, there is a team of Indian surgeons who are in Kampala training these neurologists how to do aneurysm repair. And they are going, how is this Happened and. And museum has told them, well, we just do this. And how is he walking and talking so well? And they said, well, this, you know, this lady was doing physical therapy with him. And they're just amazed. And they said, you know, who is this? God. But he needs surgery. They're going to do it at their cost. That's still $13,500. There's a window. They're only going to be here about another three or four weeks. Then they go back to India. So either God heals Cyprian the rest of the way, God provides the surgery, the funds for the surgery, or whatever the option is. But Cyprian is God's child. You are God's child. Whatever the testimony looks like. Brandon, the first little boy, his little body just gave out. And we buried him. He was only five years old. He's not just a name. He's a little boy who sat on my lap and hugged my neck. And in Uganda, you. You go back to your village of origin for burial. So when they went back and took him, we figured there are a couple hundred people, 700 people showed up for this funeral. I'm over here, so I'm not there. But Fazera Musama's mom, who. She's our team leader over there, they said, don't do a eulogy, preach the gospel.
Amen to that.
And 700 people got saved that day. The testimony of even this little boy's death, the love in the way and the power of God brought glory to him. The testimony. I wanted the testimony to be his healing. God had a different plan. God still got the glory.
Amen. He always does.
He will get the glory. Whatever your testimony is, whether the man stays blind. But God used him to change this man. And this man has impacted thousands. You know, we keep talking the faith in the mustard seed. You'll never reap a harvest from seeds you do not plant. Plant your seed. Let God make that testimony in you. It may look like something spectacular. You may think I'm just an ordinary wife, farmer, student. But God can do amazing things, unexpected things.
Amen.
And obey.
I think all across the earth, God's opening up doors for people to burn with missions, burn. To go to the far reaches of the earth, to Belize, to Jordan, to Brazil, all over, right? And I think, you know, that's what God's calling you into here and across America. And it's not just the blood of the lamb and the word of the testimony, but it's also not loving your life unto death that the reason we don't have testimony sometimes is because we're afraid of death. And there's fear. But man, you're already paid for and bought and purchased and your inheritance is incorruptible. And so we've been doing work in Jordan and we're taking a group over there this summer again to be our seventh trip. And it's, it's not just in Jordan. Tyler and I and a lot of us just have a heart to see you guys empowered and active outside of church seats, outside of just your Sabbath gatherings. Oh, that's important. Don't forsake the assembly. But the real work is going to happen with your hands being trained for war and your fingers for battle. And he's given you gifts so you can go.
I want to thank everybody here for their contribution. I hope it ministered to you on multiple levels and will continue to minister to you including. I'm just going to say a prayer, Father. Seal the word, seal the testimonies, Seal what fresh bread do you deliver today through your sons and your daughters. Stir the hearts of this church and the greater church that we touch and online with a hunger for the gifts of you and your spirit. Bring a holy discontent for just doing life or ministry without them. Satisfy this hunger with impartation activation. Invade hearts and impact lives for your glory. Heal even as people worship today and they seek you with all their heart. We ask this in Yeshua's name. Amen. It.