Having a Form of Godliness But Denying The Power

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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com. And now here is Evangelist Jonathan.

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Turn to Acts chapter 8. Acts the eighth chapter. This is so how do they operate in the early church? The Bible says that there's going to be a time in the last days where people need the power of God more than ever, but people are going to resist it and uh teach against it and go after strange myths and doctrines of devils instead. This is what this is one sample of what the early church looks like, and it's not like it's just in chapter 8. From chapter 2 till the end, this is everywhere. Acts 8, verse 4. But the believers who were scattered by persecution preached the gospel of Jesus wherever they went. Philip, for example, went to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them. Crowds listened intently to Philip because they were eager to hear his message and see the miracles that he did. So it wasn't just speaking. There was a demonstration of God's power that came behind the preaching. Can you say amen? They were eager to hear his message and see the miracles that he did. What kind of miracles? Many evil spirits were cast out, screaming as they left their victims. And many who had been paralyzed or lame were healed. Paralyzed and lame couldn't walk. Not a few. Many were that were paralyzed and lame were healed. So there was great joy in the city. Keeps going. A man named Simon, who had been a sorcerer there for many years, amazing the people of Samaria and claiming to be someone great. Everyone from the least to the greatest often spoke of him as the great one, the power of God. They listened closely to him because for a long time he had astonished them or astounded them with his magic. But now there's a new sheriff in town. But now the people believe Philip's message of the gospel concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. As a result, many men and women, we say many men and women, were baptized. Then Simon himself believed and was baptized. He began following Philip wherever he went, and he was amazed by the signs. There it is again, and great miracles that Philip performed. When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that the people in Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there and to pray for these new believers to receive the Holy Spirit. Look at that verse again. 14. They sent Peter and John there, as soon as they arrived, they prayed for these new believers to receive the Holy Spirit. I'm going to get back to that. But the Bible doesn't call them sinners, it calls them new believers. So if you automatically receive everything the Holy Spirit has for you upon receiving Jesus Christ, then what an unnecessary trip. If Peter and John had the same theology that lots of churches had when they called and said, listen, there's a lot of new believers here. They've seen miracles, they've been around the power of God, they've been baptized, but they haven't been filled with the Holy Ghost. Peter and John said, No, there's no point us coming there. As soon as you're saved, you've received everything God has. But apparently, there's a second encounter and a second experience to be filled with the Holy Ghost. And not only is it available, it's important enough that Peter and John made a trek to lay their hands on these that they might receive the Holy Spirit. Can you say amen? The Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, for they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John laid their hands on these believers and they received the Holy Spirit. When Simon saw that the Spirit had been given, when the apostles did what? You know, even this, I don't know how. I don't know how. If if stuff like this is controversial, 50 years later, I was listening to a message from 1974 where they're having to explain at a full gospel church. Now, when I lay my hands on, I'm not the healer. If you are still not understanding this stuff as a churchgoer, it's because you don't want to understand it. Can you say amen? This is not new. This is from Azusa Street, this is from the book of Acts. This never died out. That this religion called Christianity is not a philosophy or a belief system, it is the living power of God. The Bible says in Romans chapter 8, if that same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you, he will quicken your mortal body. When you read the Bible, they didn't just go and preach. There was demonstration of that power that came to show that Jesus was alive and he lives forevermore. And if you're around in 2026 and you watch the news or you interact with people, if there was ever a generation that needed that power, it's this generation. And I have good news this week. This week, God is gonna give us the answer to our prayers. The word of God's gonna go forth, and the author of that book is gonna come behind the word and fill you with the Holy Ghost tonight. In Jesus' name. If you receive that, can you say aloud amen? So the Bible doesn't say there that they spoke in tongues, but there was obviously something that happened that made that sorcerer say, Give me this power that when I lay hands on people, they too will receive the Holy Ghost. So when people say, Now, I believe in tongues, but there's lots of things you can receive when you receive the Holy Spirit. You can receive love. You can't see love, you can't see faithfulness, you can't see peace. There was something that that sorcerer said, There's power when these people lay hands on. That's power that's greater than anything I've seen in the occultic round. The power of the devil pales in comparison to the great power of God. The real power is in the cross and the blood of Jesus and the fire of the Holy Ghost. Enough that that top sorcerer in that area said, I want that. I don't have anything like that. There's power in God. If you get rid of that power, the church becomes nothing more than a referral service. Your child has panic attacks. I know a good doctor that'll write you a prescription with medication. You suffer with anxiety. I know a legal weed shop. Is there legal weed here? In West Virginia? Nobody knows because they just buy it from the same people from before it was legalized. West Virginians don't like to change what they do. Um weed legal here or not? Don't pretend like you don't know. It's legal. Yeah, I can get you a prescription for that, and you'll be fine, and that'll help. There's always, if you as a pastor or a preacher, get rid of the power of God. You don't have much to help people. If people are addicted, then you send them for recovery and uh rehab and the methadone clinic and all that. There's literally nothing you can offer people outside the power of God. But when you read the ministry of Jesus and the early church, they didn't bring anyone to Jesus and him send them to Luke the physician because it was too great of a disease. The Bible says actually, the Bible goes out of its way to say just the opposite. They brought unto him all the sick. It would say all the sick. I only played three testimonies tonight, but they're they're wide-ranging lung cancer and uh COPD and chemo damage on the lungs. Then you have uh the second lady with uh an odd disease in her nervous system that makes pain flare up. Then you have a third lady that had a heavy oppression of the devil on her, and it doesn't matter. Every one of them had to bow to the name that's above every name, the name of Jesus. I want to tell you personally tonight, there's nobody in Ripley or the surrounding areas, whatever you came in here with. I know it sounds that's why we play the videos. I don't expect people that go to a church where they don't pray for the sick or or and I'm not talking about here, people come from other places. They've never seen the power of God, and maybe all they've ever heard is it laughed about or talked against or weird people do that. But I'm gonna tell you something. Weird people do all kinds of things. So what why get left out of the power of God? Can you say amen? And it's in the Bible, is it in the Bible or is it not in the Bible? It's not only in the Bible, it's all through the Bible that God has power over whatever the devil has tried to do to mess your life up. I want to break it down that easy for you tonight. You're not battling West Virginia things, you're not battling family traits. There is a devil that won't rest till you're dead and in hell. But thank God there's one called Jesus who left heaven and died on the cross to tell the devil to take his hand off of you and make you his venerable son and his family owned daughter. Tonight you're only one prayer away from the power of God, picking you out of whatever pit you're in and setting your feet on the right this day. If you believe it, go ahead and do what you're gonna do. Take 15 good seconds, clap your hands on ye people, shout unto God with the voice of triumph. Say nice and loud the devil is defeated. Jesus Christ is Lord. Yeah, you can be seated. In the last days, they'll have a form of godliness, but deny the power. Everybody say power. Now say something with me. Power has expression. You know? If you had a hundred pastors here and you said, Um, do you deny the power? They'd all say, No. You know, no, no, we believe in that. We believe that God has power. But then ask them, in your services, what expression of power are you okay with? Or if they're, you know, an American pastor, well, I'm okay with it, but my board. Well, you should you should learn to be a leader. The church isn't run by a board. Jesus didn't say write this letter to the board of the church of Laodicea. He said write it to the pastor. God puts Adam in church. Somebody has to be in charge. That's such a cop-out. Well, I believe in that, but my people aren't ready. Yes. Just like my daughter wasn't ready to read until somebody taught her to read. You'll never have what somebody doesn't take the time to break down for you out of the word of God. That's why you should thank God for your pastor here at this church. In the midst of it being highly controversial, he decided to build a church where the doors would open up to allow the Holy Ghost to touch the people of God. Can you say amen? And I'm thankful for the open door. Where do we meet? Phoenix? At Breakthrough Ministry? Pittsburgh at Breakthrough Ministry. Well, I'm glad you invited me. I'm looking forward to a great, great week together. Can you say amen? Yeah, you need God's power. All three of those people, two of them would be dead, and one of them would be on the streets if not dead, if it wasn't for God's power. Even when you pray. Prayer is not just some empty thing. Prayer, the Bible says in James chapter 5, verse 16, the prayer of a righteous man carries, makes great power available, and produces tremendous results. Prayer's not just, oh Lord, as you see her here with drug addiction, just be with her as this drugs consume her life and take her out early. No. Prayer should be like Jesus prayed. Jesus prayed against things. Jesus taught us, you're not to accept everything. You can look at a mountain, something that's unmovable in the natural, and speak to that mountain and command it to move. And not that mountain might obey your command. That mightn't that mountain shall obey your command. My prayer, and I can feel it happening right now, is that tonight, beyond all the healings, beyond all the salvations, beyond all the people coming back to God, we're gonna release out of this room a couple hundred people that don't just know about God, but they carry his power, and everywhere they go, they become a giant West Virginia wrecking ball to the kingdom of hell. If that sounds like you, can you shout amen? Yeah. Somebody shout power. No, we believe in power. Do you allow uh what do you think about people falling under the power? I don't believe in that. What about healing? I don't believe in that either. What about uh laying on hands? We don't do that. What about speaking in tongues? Definitely not. Okay, so you're not against God's power. Name me one manifestation that you're okay with from the book of Acts. That sorcerer saw something in Acts chapter 10. The Bible says, even as Peter was saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all that heard the message. How many did he fall on? All of them. And there could be, I'm I'm still quoting, and there could be no doubt about it. For they heard them speaking in other tongues and magnifying God. Peter didn't say, hey, everybody, shut up. You don't do that here. Everyone be quiet. He didn't have, didn't say one one at a time and interpret it. It said everybody spoke in tongues when the Holy Ghost hit the place. You don't have Azusa Street, do you? You do. I mean, what set the world on fire? This is going up on 800 million people worldwide, and they projected that by 2050 there will be a billion people, one out of every eight on planet earth, that are filled with the Holy Ghost and speak with other tongues. I came to encourage you tonight. They've been having plans for this state and our country, many, many demonic plans to keep people poor, to break up families, to make it where you can't raise your own children, to get everybody weak and addicted. But the thing that keeps putting a stop to those plans is what the Bible calls the restrainer. That is the spirit-filled church of the Lord Jesus Christ that doesn't get in bed with the world system but carries power to bulldoze the world system. Now, I'm quoting out of Acts, but then for a long time, so I'm not a Zuso street, not like some new movement outside of the Bible, like Mormonism that we just decided to do our own thing. This is all through the Bible, and then in seminary they started to teach that this stuff died out with the last apostle. You're not gonna find anything like that in the Bible. They just to explain why nobody got healed in their churches. Well, I guess God doesn't do that anymore. Rather than get hungry and press in. But then a group of people got hungry and pressed in, and God is attracted to hunger. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, not for they might be filled, they will be filled. That's why if I was you, I'd have an expectation on a Monday night. You could be anywhere else. People in West Virginia work hard. People in West Virginia have plenty to do because nothing's close to anything. If you live in West Virginia, you get happy. You put it on Google Maps. Oh, that restaurant's only two miles away from here. 38 minutes. You know, I flew here in a plane from Pittsburgh? I had a 25-minute flight from Pittsburgh and a 35-minute drive once I landed. So you have enough to do. No one's here because they're bored. Most of you have been up since 5 a.m., 6 a.m., taking your kids to school, picked your kids up from school. But what did y'all have in common? You made up your mind. I was in church yesterday, but it's not enough. I'm hungry. I want to be where God's word is, I want to be where God's spirit is. I believe God has something for me today. And you should get excited because God said, When you have that kind of hunger, I won't leave you hungry. I'll fill you. So this is what hit, this is what hit America coming out of LA. This is powerful. Watch this.

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1906.

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120 years ago.

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The location 214, Bonnie Bray Street. On the third day of a 10-day fast, William Seymour began to preach to the prayer group from Acts chapter 2, verse 4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues. Afterwards, Mr. Everyone asked Seymour to lay hands on him as they did in the scripture and prayed that he would receive the Holy Ghost. When they finished, Lee lifted his hands and began speaking in tongues. And at the same time, a young lady named Jenny Moore fell from her store where she was sitting.

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As I looked at God, it seemed as if a vessel broke within me. And water surged up through my being, which when it had reached my mouth, it poured out in a torrent of languages God had given me. I sang under the power of the Spirit in many languages. And in the home where the meeting was held, the Spirit led me to the piano, where I played and sang under the inspiration, although I had not learned how to play.

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Several other believers in the room were not under the power of the Spirit. And six of them began to speak in tongues as well. Their shouts of joy could be heard throughout the neighborhood as the prayer meeting overflowed to the front porch. Many curious neighbors gathered, and soon others began speaking in tongues and praising God. The word spread rapidly. Even on one occasion, the porch collapsed at the weight of all the people.

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Pentecostal people have been violating permit and code since day one. Keep going.

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Services continued almost day and night, with healings reported and hundreds of people filled with the spirit. After the third day, it was determined that a new location was needed to house the growing crowd of seekers. William Seymour and his followers soon found a vacated church building previously used to stage forces. It had been converted into apartment house upstairs with a large, unfinished, bar like room on the downstairs. His address was 312 Azusa Street. The revival attitudes are stressed from the early morning, deep into the evening, every day for three and a half years. One woman described the services with the following words.

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God also gave me the Bible evidence of receiving this experience and letting me speak in another language.

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Was it legal to have mixed race meetings or not? Was the Susan Street mixed race or not? You know, no one realized it till like a year in. The Holy Ghost moved and they just everybody came like a dinner bell. And then they realized like a year after a year, son of a gun, we violated all of the segregation laws. So the Holy Ghost doesn't care what color you are, he cares whether you believe. Can you say amen? So the Holy Spirit broke the color lines long before anybody else did. Can you say amen? Keep going.

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William Seymour would preach, and soon, following his sermon, the altars were flooded with seekers. No urging was necessary. By the end of the first month, you could find 800 people gathered in the building, and over 500 gathered outside, and it only continued to grow.

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And many would have the power fall on them as the word germinated in their hearts, and they would burst out speaking or singing in other languages.

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Would they lay hands on them or would they receive the baptism and speak with tongues back in the audience? Or did they have a tarrying room or what?

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Well, they had a room upstairs, they called a upper room where you went to tarry for the Holy Spirit. But we could not control the Spirit of God. Sometimes a person would receive the Holy Ghost right in their audience without even an altar call. Just stand right up and begin speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gave up. I maintain you don't have to come to a specific place called an altar. You give up in your heart, and the Lord will save you then, there, wherever you are.

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You mean they had not learned these?

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Oh no, they had not learned because the Spirit of God filled them.

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Now you saw this and heard this with your own ears.

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I certainly did.

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Thousands of people visited the mission. Services over the course of three years. They were drawn by a spiritual hunger or a fascination for the bizarre. Whatever the case, those who came for impact, many who came with emotions full of the Holy Ghost and a desire to spread the message of Pentecost. Hundreds of people were baptized with the Holy Ghost. Then hundreds turned into thousands. Thousands turned into positive.

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That's F.F. Bosworth in the middle. That's William Seymour, bottom left. That's John G. Lake, bottom right from Canada. That guy left those meetings and went to South Africa and started 1,100 churches in five years. So we say power. Say another word, say fire. See, if you don't have that, then the devil can run you. They'll have a form of godliness but deny the power. The devil doesn't care if it turns into 1.1 million churches, as long as you leave the power out. The devil can run religion over easily, but he can't stop one church that carries the fire of God. And if you want to know what the purpose of this week is, I came on an assignment from heaven to light a fire in Ripley, West Virginia that the devil will never be able to put out. Can you say amen? Keep going, finish it.

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History records the Azusa Street Revival as the greatest revival to ever sweep across North America. More than any other time in Earth's history, we need the Spirit to fall again on us. Now is the time. Today is the day. We need a fresh outpouring of God's Spirit on our nation, like never before.

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There's the prophecy. See, when you think about the last days, think about earthquakes, aliens, disease. But God also has an agenda in the last days. That's how I know this service is going to be powerful because I'm not trying to get God and pull him over in a direction I want to go. What's God's answer to the midst of all this fear? Financial fear, extraterrestrial disease uh uh fear, huntavirus fear, whatever the devil's trying to put on people, God's plan is in the last days, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. My friend, all flesh includes West Virginia flesh. If you get full of the Holy Ghost, everything that's in the spirit of this world can't have any effect on you and your household, and that's what God's gonna do for you tonight. If you receive that one more time, put those hands together and give the Lord a great, great hand clap in the sanctuary. Can you say amen? So, you know, if you think that's us of the devil, how come nobody has any demonic reaction after they get filled with the Holy Ghost? I've never heard my dad's a preacher, my grandfather before he went to heaven from West Virginia preached 62 years up near uh Fairmont. I never heard anybody getting filled with the Holy Ghost and uh finish speaking in tongues and go out and stab their wife to death. I heard of people that were thinking of it, got filled with the Holy Ghost and decided not to stab their wife to death. How come nobody has any sinful reaction? You don't hear about people getting filled with the Holy Ghost, go out and do do insane things? It's the opposite. People that were messed up get filled with the Spirit, and God makes them an extremely fruitful tree in his garden. I want to tell you that as well. Not only will God set you free tonight, you'll carry something out of this meeting that will cause you to produce great fruit for the kingdom of God. If you believe it, can you say amen? Now, you saw me show up late to church. That's by design. I'm gonna tell you when I started doing that. Uh, one of the reasons, without going into a sermon on why I show up late for church as a preacher, is uh I've had people waiting to beat me up before, and they got bored and left by the time I got there. That's reason number one. Second reason, I'll tell you what happened to me in a place called Canfield, Ohio. I went to the church there on Sunday morning, drove home, and then I drove back for the Sunday night service, got in at about 7:20, and I was preaching, and uh I saw this lady as I was walking around up the aisle that was smiling at me, and I could tell she had faith. So I walked up to her, felt to minister to her. I said, ma'am, stand up. I'm gonna pray for you. And uh when I said stand up, I meant like stand up, I'm gonna lay hands on you and pray for you. And she went like this. So that well, I guess I misread this one. No big deal. You know what? Before cameras and live stream, you could do whatever you want, and it was your word against theirs, and you're a reverend, but now they got these cameras, kind of gotta watch yourself. So if a lady ver, you know, by j shows you she's not interested in you praying for her, then it's a mistake to pray for anyway. No problem. Went to go back to preaching, and when I went to turn away, the Lord spoke to me, have her stand up and and lay hands on her. Well, Lord, now you're putting me in a very awkward position. Because if I have to go to court, you're not gonna come down and testify on my behalf. And if I say you told me, then I just look more nuts than I did on camera. So I thought, I don't know what to do here. So I just thought, well, I guess I'll just obey. I said, I said, uh, go ahead, stand up and I'll pray for you. She shook her head no. And her husband sitting next to her with a denim shirt on, smelling like cigarettes, look like he could take me out easy. So I'm like, you know, if some guy was trying to get my wife to stand up and she had said no twice, I'd probably make a run at him, and I'm not even as big as him. So now I'm kind of stepping back, she shook her head no again. Felt the Lord speak to me, have her stand up and pray for. So I thought, well, probably the best way to not make this tense is to make a joke out of it. So I said, Don't worry about me, I can't hurt you. Look how skinny I am. Back then I weighed about 30 pounds less than I do right now. And she shook her head no again. And then, strong, I felt the Lord speak to me, stand her up and pray for. Well, I guess I'm going to jail. Only in West Virginia would I get that big a laugh in church. So I grabbed her by the arm, stood her up to her feet, was keeping an eye on her husband, in case I'm gonna have to duck a couple swings. He didn't do anything. Walked her out to the aisle. She didn't resist or anything, she just had this late look on her face. I said, go ahead and lift your hands, and she did. No ushers came. The church was dead quiet, looking like, what's this guy's problem? And then I said to the husband, I thought, well, I'll do this. A, no one's coming to help catch her if she falls under the power. And B, this will keep him where I can see him. So I said, sir, I know this might be new to you, but if you would stand behind your wife, and if she happens to fall backwards, catch her. He shook his head, yes. And I got him in my line of sight, and she's in between us, so I can use her as a human shield. You'd be amazed what goes through your head when you're preaching. So I laid hands on her, and she fell back into him, and he immediately became the worst catcher in the history of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. When she hit him, he fell backwards, and they both hit the ground and were speaking in tongues. Nobody said amen, nobody clamped, people were just like this. So I thought, I'm getting out of here. You know, I got these two laying on the floor, I don't even know if they're okay or not. Aren't you willing to get arrested for the gospel? Yes, but you have to catch me first. So they're fine. So I'm literally gonna come up, give an altar call to get saved, and hightail it out of there. And when I turned, there was a young lady sitting in this section that had a nice church dress on, looked like she'd be like a leader in the youth group or something. And she she's the only one in the whole crowd. She's got her hands lifted crying. So I felt the Lord speak to me to minister to her. I said, Young lady that's crying, I said, Step out of your seat and come up here, and I'm gonna pray for you. She comes up as she got closer, as I was walking towards her. I was just gonna lay hands on her, the Lord spoke to me. And I said, Young lady, you have always wanted to help people. And when you saw how God helped that lady, you thought to yourself, that's the best way to help people. And if you'd like to, God will use you in the ministry. Laid hands on her, she went out under the power, speaking in tongues. No one's clapping, nothing. So I'm again, so I just resumed to close the service. I closed it, gave an invitation to get saved. Some people came out, those two are still laying on the floor, and I I'm looking to get out of there. I'm like, well, no one's saying bringing it up. Maybe, maybe it's okay. And the pastor's wife came up to me. She said, Do you know who that young lady is that you laid hands on? I said, I don't even know you. I just got here. She said, That lady, that young lady is an atheist at school, and she's president of the atheist club. And the youth group had gone to my youth camp the summer before. They kept hounding her, come to the service. I know you don't believe in God, you should come to one of his services. So she finally agreed to come to take notes on how evangelists uh uh get people all worked up to trick them when they're in a heightened emotional state, like they're taught. But her mistake was, unlike me, she didn't come 20 minutes late, she came 10 minutes early. So she sat down, took out her notebook and pen, and there in this other section, that husband in the denim shirt wheeled his wife in in a wheelchair who had advanced multiple sclerosis and advanced muscular dystrophy and couldn't move from the neck down. The husband told me after, for six and a half years, he carried his wife to the bathtub and carried her to the toilet. But they had got our flyers, it said miracle service. They were Roman Catholic, but everybody likes miracles, even Muslims come and stuff. Who doesn't want to be around miracles? Especially when you're in that shape. So she watched as that husband scooped the lady out of the chair, put her in the pew, and then unfortunately for old Johnny, took the wheelchair and wheeled it out of the sanctuary and put it under the coat wreck. So in comes me, 20 minutes late, going to pray for that lady. Stand up, she can't stand. She wasn't shaking her head, no, because she was resisting me. It was like when Joe Biden asked that war hero that was in, stand up so everyone can see he couldn't stand. So then I said a second time, stand. It was like, move along, sonny, you're gonna ruin your service. And that's why the Lord said, stand her up. And I said, Stand, look how skinny I am. I can't hurt you. She's thinking, what the heck does that have to do with anything? I can't move. Then the fourth time the Lord says, stand her up. So I grabbed her without even knowing what I was doing. He said, What does this have to do with the message? See, the Holy Ghost, if I'd have got there early, I know me. If they'd have told me, hey, before you go up to preach, I just want to tell you that the head of the atheist club's here, I would have scrapped my sermon and I'd have preached some intellectual message about how God created the earth and proof that the earth was created by God, and I'd have gone here. Back then I would have. I'd have tried to convince that, I'd have focused on her, but not knowing she was there and not knowing the other lady was there. The Holy Ghost just had his way. And he orchestrated a series of events where first that lady got up. You know, I don't have a picture of it, but her and her husband pushed me out to my vehicle in her wheelchair with their hands lifted, praising God. I want you to know something tonight. I'm gonna tell I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you an illustration what happened, and that's gonna be illustrative of what's gonna happen here in Ripley. Because when God, just like when the devil attacks, if you don't put a stop to the attack, it keeps going and going. You know, like a pastor will die prematurely, and then the wife goes on antidepressants, and then the two teenage kids quit going to church. If you don't put a stop, that attack of the devil will keep going. But when God does a miracle, it's like a rock hitting a pond. The ripples go out. And not only is there the initial miracle, there's the atheist girl, and then it keeps going. God's gonna do something tonight that not only impacts your life, it's gonna ripple through your whole family in Jesus' name. If you believe it, can you shout yes? So that was that was an extended meeting like this one. So I got to come back and hear what happened. And I heard the next day on Monday, that was Sunday night, that girl went to class and went to her atheist club. You know, if you have a club, you have to have a at a public school, you have to have a teacher who sponsors it. So the atheist teacher sponsor, joking around like snarky, said, How was that evangelist meeting last night? She said, That's what I came to see you about. She said, I gave my life to Jesus Christ. And in good conscience, I don't think I can be president of this club anymore. And when she quit, it shut the whole club down. God healed that girl, God changed her life, and then God shut that club down. Let me tell you something. They can keep the Bible out of school, they can keep preachers out of school, but you can't stop the Holy Ghost. That's why God's plan in an hour where people are moving against the Holy Ghost. If you're wise, you lift up your hands and say, Father, fill me. I'm doing a fresh with a fresh baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. I don't want to last up your power, I want to carry your power to my generation. In Jesus' name. Somebody shall have power. Yeah. You shall receive power. After that, the Holy Ghost will come upon you. So every time, nobody ever says we don't welcome God in our church, but they'll they they'll they're against every possible way that He wants to manifest Himself. We're not against God moving in our church, but we don't believe in healing. We don't believe in tongues, we don't believe in people falling under the power. We don't believe in what do you believe in? We're a baseball team, we don't believe in swinging the bat, we don't believe in baseballs, we don't believe in gloves, we don't really believe in bases. Yeah, you don't have a team. You have a bunch of confused people. The Bible talks about that it tells you Philip went to Samaria and preached Christ unto them. Everybody say the word. And the crowds came to hear his message and see the miracles that he did. God confirms his word with signs and wonders. I have to be careful how I tell this testimony. The uh the warden asked me to be careful. We have four churches: California, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania. At one of those states, I went to preach at a prison. Eleven violent offenders, and other people had been going in there to preach, so most of them were already saved. And I just felt kind of strange, kind of like that night in Ohio. Now I've learned more just to follow the Holy Ghost. You know, in my head, if I'm going to preach to prisoners, I'm gonna preach John 3.16, the cross is a bridge from sin to heaven. But I got in there, when they swung it over to me, I said, I'm gonna talk to you guys today like you're all preachers. And I preached out of Ephesians 1 about being seated with Christ in heavenly places and uh uh all that stuff and power over the devil and how much power there is in Christianity. Well, they give you instructions at most prisons. You can't lay hands on the prisoners. So I said at the end, this was all just flowing in the Holy Ghost. I said, uh, I have been given instructions that I can't lay hands on you. But I said, I'm gonna tell you what I want you to do. I want all of you to read Ephesians chapters 1 through 6 if you have some spare time. And they all laughed because they have a little bit of spare time. I said, and when you read Ephesians 1 to 6, you're gonna find out the author that wrote that book is alive. And he actually lives within that word. As you read it, I said, when you finish chapter 6, I want you to lift your hands and ask Jesus to fill you with the Holy Spirit. They went like this. And then I got a call from the leadership of that prison or a text uh four days later. They said, after you left in the afternoon, those guys circled around and read Ephesians 1 to 6, and one guy lifted his hands and said, Fill me with the Holy Ghost. And he fell out of his chair backwards like that Hattie melee. God doesn't care if you're at Azusa street or in a prison, God doesn't care where you are, in a trailer or in the state house, call on me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things. He fell over backwards and was speaking in tongues on the floor. Now I'm gonna tell you something. Preaching in that prison, it's amazing. An old preacher told me, God will never allow his word to not have an audience. So even though there were 11 guys there in one guard, as I was preaching, a second guard came and sat down. Then a third guard, then a fourth guard, and I think a fifth guard. And more people started appearing around the corners. Because the anointing and preaching of the preaching of God's word is it draws people. It's a magnet for people. So all those guards were in that room that day. And when I said, when you read that, you're gonna find that the author of that book is still alive. And when they saw that guy, which you know they know these guys aren't faking, who's he trying to impress? I'm gone. There's no church people there. There's people there that are looking to run a sharpened toothbrush through your rib cage. There's nobody to impress by by pretending to fall over backwards with your hands lifted and shaking on the ground and speaking in tongues. He got up off the ground, laid hands on his buddy that was in the group, and he started speaking in tongues. They told me that that's starting to rip through that whole prison that people want to know about this power. Why? You know, God is a great God. If the seminaries won't have him, God will find people in the prisons that aren't too proud to open their heart and say, Fill me. But tonight, tonight is your night. Tonight is your night to carry God's power. Can you say amen? I wish I could get my grandfather to come back from the dead. That's a that's a tough task. And they might freak a few people out. But I wish he could tell you about Don Knott's from the uh Andy Griffith show. His sister was a Pentecostal 10 evangelist that went all through West Virginia, put her 10 up and preached, and prayed for people. That impacted our family. That move of the spirit that's hitting that prison right now, hit that little coal mining community of Shinston and Worthington. And it took my grandfather. That was a bad man. He he he drove trucks. You know, West Virginians are super smart. So there was major uh uh there was a major penalty for transporting moonshine. But you can't charge a 10-year-old with a crime. So they would have up there, I'm sure you're more refined down by the state capitol, but up in northern West Virginia, where people are nuts, they would have the 10-year-olds and 12-year-olds drive the trucks from West Virginia to Kentucky or West Virginia to Tennessee or West Virginia to Northern Virginia, because if a 10-year-old gets pulled over, or a 12-year-old, you can't charge him with much. That's what my grandfather did. And who knows what he saw when he got to the place, and who knows what he saw at the places where he had to pick up the stuff. But he wandered into a tent and he told me the only reason I went is I saw a pretty girl, and before I could ask her out, she got into a tent. So I sat down at the back. He wandered headlong into a Pentecostal tent meeting, and he said, These people can do whatever they're doing. I think it's stupid, but I'm gonna wait in the back until this is over. Thank God for a committed heterosexual. Amen. He wanted that girl. You guys can pass out snakes or do whatever you want. I'm getting that girl. And so he said, like they would do back then. That preacher saw my grandfather, probably didn't take too much of deserting his spirits to know he he wasn't right with God, and he walked back. And my grandfather had heard that these people confront you and put their hands on you. My grandfather said, I made up my mind, if that guy puts his hand on me, I'm gonna knock him out. And he knocked out people after he was a pastor, so I'm sure he would have done it before he was saved. He said, When that guy came, you know, I've told that everyone tenses up in West Virginia they laugh. Okay, I like your grandfather now. He comes back and puts his hand on my grandfather's arm and says, Would you like to give your life to Jesus Christ? I said to my grandfather when he told me that story, Why didn't you hit him? He said, I tried. I already had my fist clenched, but he said, as soon as he touched me, it felt like something warm washed over me and I couldn't move my arm. And the next thing, I knew he was walking walking me down the aisle to receive Jesus Christ. He went to Bible school at uh Zion Bible Institute in East Providence, Rhode Island, and um almost got kicked out before he was finished registering. You know, people are people in church can be dumb. They think everybody's a church person, and everybody's not a church person. My grandfather had been saved for like like six weeks and was a not a good guy. And so he goes to the dorm room they assigned him to, puts his stuff on the bed, and a senior goes, Hey, hey, freshman, that's my bed, and pushes all the stuff off the bed. To which my grandfather grabbed him by the back of the pants and the shirt, opened the dorm window, and threw him out. Unfortunately, the dorm was on the second floor, and so they marched him right back to registration, filed this paperwork to put him on a bus back to West Virginia, and when they got ready to kick him out, the president's name was Christine Gibson. She was a prophet. The original name of the school was School of the Prophets. And she said, What are we doing here? They said, Oh, this guy got in a fight. We're sending him home. And she looked at him and said, No, we're not. Come with me. And he did. And she drove him. Old Pentecostal lady to downtown East Providence bought him a suit because I don't think he had any, and said, You're going to preach the gospel in this suit. And uh she saved my grandfather's life. My grandfather graduated from that school in 1952, pastored all over this country, traveled all over the world because you can be an illegal alcohol truck driver. But if you have an encounter with God, you can start churches, you can raise a family of preachers. Your grandson can be preaching long after you went to heaven. I'm telling you that power will break every curse in your family life. You might have come from a family of alcoholics or drug addicts or poverty or whatever. But tonight, Jesus is gonna change the story of your last name. Wow. Tessa just flashed on the screen. I have the picture of you with the lady who got another witch. I don't know. We had this. Let me see. If it's the same lady. Yes, that's her. Look at her husband. Got his wife back. This woman came to our meeting in a wheelchair. MS. God touched her and she. What's this? August 31st, 2014. If I tried to put that shirt on now, there'd be six people dead of button wounds. A young lady who was healed of the atheist cloth high school when she sang. I gave her life to Christ and spoke in tongues. This is her walking without assistance. And her husband who received Christ for the first time that night pictured with me one. You think it was hard to get him to receive Jesus Christ? See? When people have an encounter, the Bible says, taste and see that the Lord is good. You need to have an encounter. And I'm gonna tell you, this is I don't know why I'm even saying this here, because it doesn't apply to anybody here. I don't think. But uh you know, I if you watch Sunday live streams at churches, I guess YouTube, because I'm a preacher, just kicks Sunday live streams up to me all the time. You can tell a lot of the people preachers like have you ever met the guy you're preaching about? You seem to know a lot about Jesus, but you don't really feel like you know Jesus. I know about Donald Trump, but I don't know Donald Trump. If I ran up and tried to give him a hug, that uh analogy breaks down because Secret Service is so poor, I probably could get to him and do it. But you know what I'm saying? Just because you know about somebody doesn't mean you know them. And you need to know God. So you hear people preach. Today I want to talk to you about Jesus when he did a miracle in Capernaum. Capernaum is a town 30 kilometers east of the Dead Sea. It's very arid, it's a desert. Who cares? What is this, the weather channel? They tell you about Capernaum, they tell you about Jesus, but there's a difference when you meet a woman who's been marked by having an encounter with God. There's a difference when you meet See, I never had to counsel that girl. I don't think I ever talked to her again. Now you know that you're I wouldn't be in part of that atheist club anymore if I were you. No. She got full of the Holy Ghost and went back and shut the club down. See, you have to do a lot in the flesh if you don't have the power of the Spirit. But when you have the power of the Holy Ghost, it's like my grandfather, he just ended up. How did he even know about that school? How did he how did he follow God's plan like that? You just I'll tell you what he told me when he was older. He said, Johnny, just follow God's plan for your life every day. He said, Every morning when you wake up, allow the Holy Spirit to show you what your task is for that day. And then he said this it'll feel like you're doing a bunch of disconnected tasks. But as you go down the pike, you're gonna realize God has been weaving together a beautiful tapestry, meaning it's all gonna tie back together. Well, I must be down the pike now at 45 and a half to see that tapestry weaving together. That nothing that you do for the Lord is useless. My friend Jeff that's uh doing security back there. Who's who's able? Your brother-in-law? I mean, I I got an invitation to go preach in Plattsburgh, New York. If you ever hear me tell that story of when I was preaching about Jesus spitting in the blind man's eye, and a girl that was legally blind ran out of her seat, pulled her glasses off, and went spit in my eye. 2004. Well, again, no camera, so I thought, shoot, why not? Shake it up. And the Bible says, whatever you do, do with all your might. I let her have it. I mean, I was thinking when I was doing it. How often are you gonna have a girl ask you to spit in her face? Might as well do it while the opportunity avails itself. I spit in both eyes, and then there was no pool of saloon, but there was a drinking fountain. I said, now go wash your eyes out in the drinking fountain and let me know what happened. And I went back to preaching. And she came in about two and a half minutes later, running down the aisle. I can see everything without my glasses. Well, when she did that, about 11 other people got out of their seat and lined up across the front and pulled their glasses off. And the Lord didn't tell me to spit any of their eyes, but why not? I don't think any of them got healed, but I had a good night. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. Well, that was the church that Abel, um, his brother-in-law, Abel Griffiths, uh, came there and uh he brought a girl with him. He was a bouncer to bar. He brought one of the girls from the bar and said, You need to come here. And I called her out. She had never been to church. And I said, uh I said, Something happened to you when you were young, and they told you you're never going to be able to have children. But I said, right now the Lord's healing you. And God healed her, and she was crying while he took her home. He said, uh, did you know I had a fever when I was a little girl that was a real high fever, and it messed up my insides, and they told me I don't have what's needed to have children, and God healed her, and she sent Abel a picture a couple years later of her having her first baby. Well, that guy, everybody say it gets better. See, just like that, shut the Atheist Club down. I'm thinking these people are just getting healed, but it all ties in. Abel has an encounter with God at those meetings. Then we do a mission strip in Hawaii. I meet my wife McDallas. She has a twin sister named Magales. She meets Abel. They get married. Abel's a general contractor. Guess who just built out that church in Pittsburgh? Abel, I didn't know him, but God connected everything in the Holy Ghost. That's why you can ask the pastor. When he when he invited me here, we don't send a paper. How much can you pay me? How much uh uh uh how much a night, what's the nicest hotel? All I want to know is why do you want me at your church? Where did we meet? What's our connection in the spirit? Because the bad meetings I've had, if somebody just heard about me or wants to have a revival and we heard about him. But if it's somebody that's been to the meeting and God impacted them and it's connected like that, then something comes out of that meeting that's supernatural. And I'm telling you, I feel it strong. This Monday night, there's gonna be like a week's worth of testimonies and miracles that come out of tonight. Somebody's church is gonna double out of this meeting, somebody's evangelistic ministry is gonna pack out out of this meeting. You better come in here as weak and broken as can be. But I got bad news for the devil. There is a wave of the Holy Ghost flowing over every place tonight in Jesus' name. If you receive it one more time, put those number of hands together. Give Jesus the biggest place. Now lift your hands and if you're filled with the Holy Ghost, begin to pray. In the Holy Ghost, if you're not yet filled with the Holy Ghost, say, Jesus, I love you. Thank you for healing me. Thank you for setting me free. Thank you for giving me strength. When I was weak, but for 60 seconds, everybody should be saying something. I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise will continually be in my mouth. Bless the Lord, I tell myself, and forget not all of his benefits, forget not all of his benefits, who forgives all my sins and heals all my disease, he ransoms my soul from death, he fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagles. Can I pray for this young lady in the pink? May I pray for you? Yes. Are you able to stand up? Alright, good. I won't do anything weird. Here, come here. Any weirder than praying for you. Lift both hands, close both eyes. Power of God's on you. Total healing from the inside out. Everything you came in here with that makes life out of whack. The Lord is straightening every crooked path. In Jesus' name. Be blessed. Be healed. Command all pressure, all burden shall go. In Jesus' name. This year will be different. In Jesus' mighty name. Your boyfriend, I consider getting another one. Praise the Lord. Lift your hands all over this place. Let Jesus touch you. He's here tonight. Set you free. Praise the Lord. Can you say amen? I see this lady in the black sweatshirt. With the white writing. I pray for you if you don't mind. Come right around. Praise the Lord. Put one hand on your belly, one across your heart and lungs. As you do, the power of God comes upon you. In Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord, for healing. Anything causing pain in your lower body, the Lord removes it. That's it. You got it. In Jesus' name. Be healed. Go right through you. In Jesus' mighty name. Praise the Lord. Praise Jesus. Lift both hands all over the place. Now I'll tell you a way to make the service stronger is as the Lord's moving around, just watch it like a stage show. And when God's here moving, He's looking for who to touch. So it's nice seeing other people get blessed, but it's even better for you to get blessed. Can you say amen? Is that power, power, wonder working power? Let's sing that. Every hand lifted to the Lord. If you know it, sing it. As you do, the anointing's gonna get stronger.

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Oh, there is power.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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Power, wonder working power in the pre-working hour in the blood of the leg. Oh there is power. Want to working out in the breath, shall the lake want to work out the layout. One, two, eight hours in the shell blood of the lame.

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I'm not saying this is power suggestion, actually. Two more things I was gonna preach, but Jesus is here right now, and his power is here. If you're here right now and you feel the Lord, like I saw you already coming up, so it's a sign. If the Lord's stirring you, because people are gonna come up anyway, clearly, I feel God's presence here. I need God's presence and power, and I want his power. I I came in here with something. Maybe your close friends don't even know about it, maybe your mother doesn't even know about it. You've kept it, it's like a quiet battle that you've had, something you're concerned about, but you can tell that Jesus brought you here tonight to lift that thing from you and set you free. If you're here, not not just that you want prayer, I'm telling you, you can tell the Lord's working on your insides right now, and this is the time, just like this lady started to come up. I want with her, everybody that says that's me, and I want hands lead on, I want prayer tonight. I want you to quickly come out of your seat and line across the front. We're gonna pray right now. Go ahead and sing it as they come. In Jesus' name. This is your night to have an encounter with God. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. My friend, here in the gray sweater and and bright red top, come up here if you would. How'd you hear about me? You go to this church, the Lord's gonna do a major work in your life positive right now. In Jesus' name. Be filled with the Holy Ghost and fire. In Jesus' name. I want to tell you, since I've been telling fantastical stories all night, there you go. A little delayed reaction. With every fire, there's a siren. Amen. There were two young ladies at a summer. This is powerful. Lift your hands all over this place. This lady in the green military jacket. Take a step forward if you want. See both your hands. In the name of Jesus, that's it. You're totally free. Totally free. Totally free. In the name of Jesus. Hey, I could be wrong, but I want you to take one hand and put it on your heart and one on your belly, like I had the other lady do. You have some kind of ministry background. At the very least, you've served with someone who's in the ministry and been an aid and a help to them. But the Lord is gonna give you a gift tonight, a bonus for your service for the kingdom. And that is, I don't mean a spiritual heart, I mean a strong physical heart, and then you're a healing in your lower body that's gonna extend your life and make it a life worth. Thank you. Beat me to the punch. Lift both hands, be filled with the Holy Ghost and fire in Jesus' name. I'm gonna tell you one thing. A lot of times, and I can tell you why. My wife's my wife's father had no interest in church. He was a bad guy, and then when he turned uh 70, he's he didn't tell anybody. I think it was when he was in his mid-70s. We found out he had enrolled in a four-year Bible college online and got his degree, Bachelor's of the Bible. Started going to church. You know why? When you get older, your flesh gets weaker, but your spirit doesn't get weaker. So it gets it's like the things you know about heaven and God get crowded out by you wanting to go out and have fun and and football and whatever. But then as that gets dimmer, then you start feeling eternity on the inside, and you want to do something about it. So you saw how easy that lady received. But one thing I did, and I know Pastor Clarita and Pastor Tony did. Why, if if you see everybody coming around to God as they get older, Joe Rogan on down the line, as they get older, they don't want drugs and stuff anymore. They want, what about eternity? What about God? Why wait till you're old? Why not make up your mind now? I'm gonna get everything God has for me in Jesus' name. Amen. I can tell you you have a great pasture. This place is prepared. This this this was this wasn't like shooting fish in a barrel, this was like shooting barrels. Lift both hands. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Now, one of the reasons I play those uh videos is to show you that God will do very specific things. It's not just feeling good or feeling God's power, that power dissolves cancers. That power takes unclean things out of your blood that eventually will wear your liver out and stuff. That power will recreate lungs and recreate organs and discs in the back. You they got stuff you can inject yourself with. Of course, you can get stem cell treatment, but then they have uh peptides you can inject yourself with that'll regrow damaged tissue. Well, if they have that in the earthworm, you think God can't put something on the inside of you by his spirit that'll recreate things that have been damaged over time? I love that woman from Kentucky's testimony because people say, Well, if you got yourself into the mess, don't expect God to get you out. But that's not true. God's a God of mercy. That lady smoked her whole life in Kentucky. God didn't say, Well, don't do that your whole life and expect no. If you'll turn to him, he'll help you. He's not gonna rehearse. Why would God tell you to forget about your past and then bring up your past? He didn't say one thing to that thief on the cross about his past. When he said, I believe you're the Son of God, he told him he could be with him that day in paradise, and he's gonna do the same thing for you tonight in West Virginia. Can you say amen? All across this front, lift both hands to the Lord. Those of you that are still in your seats, lift your hands and agree with these that are here. Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for these that have come forward, that have been wearied by life, maybe by even direct attacks from Satan to mess their life up and take them out. But I thank you that the devil's so weak he couldn't even keep them out of a Monday night revival meeting. And tonight at your altar, your fire is falling on every person that's here. Thank you for those that you've already filled with the Holy Ghost. But thank you for filling even more with the Holy Ghost and fire. In Jesus' name, every external oppression is broken now in the name of Jesus. The things you came in here battling, you won't battle them anymore. He who the son sets free is absolutely free indeed. No more depression, no more anxiety, no more fear. For perfect love casts out all fear, and God is love as Christ comes into you right now. He expels everything that's not of him. Receive healing for your bodies from the top of your head to the soles of your feet. Be healed, be healed in your central nervous system, be healed in your blood, be healed in the organs of your body, be healed in your eyes, in Jesus' name. New cartilage for knees, pain out of feet, everything the devil set up in your life. I declare it bulldozed tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. Receive your healing now, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, and I lose that wonderful baptism of the Holy Ghost. And fire in Jesus' name. I thank you for it. I give you praise. Who uh which one's Diamond Son that wanted prayer? Step right over here. Lift your hands. As you do, the power of God comes upon you. This allergy or whatever it is in the skin, the Lord removes it now. As you came in faith to receive it, receive it. Be healed. Be healed. That's it. Come right now. Be filled with the Holy Ghost by your faith. In Jesus' name. Everything your mother's prayed for you your whole life. I joined my faith with it. Receive it. Receive it in Jesus' name. I pray for the mom. Lift both hands, close both eyes. As you do, the power of God comes upon you. An increase of the gift of faith. Lift your hands even higher as you do the power of God comes upon you. In Jesus' name. Let me just go across this front here. Every hand lifted. Peter and John came to lay hands on these believers that they might receive the Holy Ghost. The laying on of hands is a Bible ministry. Praise the Lord. I want to start over here. Thank you. Yes, you got it. You're totally free. The only tears you'll cry now are tears of joy. In Jesus' name. I never met you before, huh? So just by the Holy Ghost that if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. But there was a multifaceted attack against your life all at once. And it was like too much for anybody to bear. And you did your best and you stood and even stood on the word. But God sent help tonight. As strong as the attack was, God now sends greater strength. As quickly, as quickly as that attack came, it leaves. That attack is over. And now everything the attack took, the devil has to pay back sevenfold. So, including your strength, this stress that came from dealing with this, that caused your difficulty with eating, the Lord not only gives you that ability back to eat and digest your food normally and be hungry again, but then also all the damage that was done to your body from the stress and malnutrition, the Lord heals you. And you get it all back. Let me see your hand by the working of miracles. Receive that power into your body. And now it's your time. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Give the Lord a big hand clamp all over this place. Come on, that'd be good for basketball, but we're this is Jesus, King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Say this out loud. I don't have to put up with the devil's mess. Just like he did for that lady I've never met. Whatever you came battling, I don't care if you've been battling for 25 years. That's why the Bible has specific stories like John chapter 5. A man that was crippled for 38 years. That's a long time. I'm only 45. So be like from the from 1987 until now he was crippled. The Bible goes out of its way to show you people that dealt with things for close to four decades and one moment with Jesus. Jesus. Now listen, you got to bear with me. You've been going through this for 38 years. You're going to start walking again in about eight years. Just give me a little time. 38 years reversed in a couple verses with Jesus. In fact, nobody, no matter how great their problem was, nobody came to Jesus and still had that same problem when they left him. And so has Jesus changed? Has Jesus changed? Has his power weakened? Bible says Jesus Christ the same. Yesterday, today, and forever. Forever means we can be pretty sure what he's going to be like March 12th, too. Same way there was. And not only that, line upon line, precept upon precept, what God began tonight. Now that you scope me out for yourself, and go tell your friends and family he's not nuts. You should come. This meeting is going to grow, and God's going to give the devil a kick in the head this week that he won't soon forget. If you believe it, go ahead. Let's celebrate ahead of time. Take 30 seconds. Do what the Bible says. Clap your hands, all ye people. Shout out to God with the voice of triumph. The devil is defeated. Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of Lords. Can you say amen? Can you say better? Amen. Every head bowed, every eye closed. If you're here tonight and you've never made Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior publicly, I want you to do that tonight. I think one of the things that started to weaken the country by weakening the church in this country was camouflage altar calls. You lift that hand, I see that hand, God sees that hand, that's all that needs to happen. And 35 years of camouflage altar calls produced a generation of camouflage Christians that work, their boss doesn't even know they go to church. They don't pray before they eat, they squint before they eat. They just have never done what you need to do, which is come out of the crowd and be ye separate. Touch not the unclean thing, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. If you have never publicly made Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, I want you to do that tonight and let Christ heal you from the inside out. Then secondly, maybe you have done that once, but you got away from God. A lot of times what happens when an attack hits is instead of pressing into God, people feel shame and they think, Well, who am I? You know, obviously God, the devil will start lying to them. Obviously, God's mad at you or something, and so you might as well just quit going to church. And people get away from God. So if tonight you say, Jonathan, I need to come back to the Lord Jesus Christ, if I was going to stand before God in five minutes, I can't say that I'm living exactly like I should, but I want to take care of that tonight. When you pray, I want you to include me in that prayer. Jesus will save you, he'll heal your insides. All the things you try to wash away and drink away and smoke away and peel away, the blood of Jesus will take it away from you. He who the sun sets free is absolutely free indeed. But he won't kick the door of your heart down. You have to open it to him. And I want you to do that with me tonight. I would love to have the privilege of praying with you in Ripley, West Virginia. If you fall into either of those groups and you say, Jonathan, when you pray tonight, I want you to pray with me. Quickly put your hand up and wave it at me, and I'm gonna pray with you right now. In Jesus' name. I see your hand. Who else? When you pray tonight, I want to open the door of my heart and receive Christ. I see you. Awesome. Who else before we pray? If God's wrestling with your heart, give in to him today. Let Jesus come in and make everything right. Very quickly, everyone that lifted a hand, come and join me right here at the front. We're gonna pray together in Jesus' name. Go ahead and clap for them as they come.

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Yes, yes, Lord. Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, yes, Lord. Amen.

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Go ahead and lift your hands to the Lord. Made my night. All right. Pray this from the depth of your heart. God's gonna hear you pray this, and He's gonna do a work inside of you, even as you're praying it. Say this out loud. Heavenly Father, I've come forward tonight to give you my life. Forgive me of all my sins. I repent, I believe in my heart, you raise 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. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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