Build Revival Ep #2
by Raymond Sloan
May 11, 2022 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)
Kind: teaching
Scripture: Acts 3

Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/raymond-sloan--build-revival-ep-2
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we are we are building for revival this month that's our topic build for revival um as i mentioned just a moment ago brother and sister healing will be back with us this sunday for round number two i thoroughly enjoyed his first service with us he'll be here the next three sundays for our revival in may and i want i want you to know that uh this is on purpose on purpose i i'm ready to see a a next next level kind of stuff going on anybody else yes ma'am oh sorry oh that's good i welcome our guest tonight we're so glad y'all are here welcome to the house of the lord if you have your bible tonight we'll need it here in just a little bit so go ahead and knock the dust off of it or find the app this month of course we have been focusing on the methods and whatnot for revival now just for those who are new in church revival used to be a state of mind and then it became a special event and now it's a just a chore to get it done and then i'm talking about uh therefore i feel like it's necessary for us to do this year our theme is we are building there's a lot of things that we're trying to get last year of course foundation this year building i'm trusting that the lord is helping us the the rebirth the renewing if you'll remember that is that is the definition of revival um last week we talked a little bit about the things that revival does the cost if you will the the in the um what was the word i was looking for investment thank you in in revival there is a price to pay don't don't be don't be deceived there is a price to pay if you're going to go deeper in god you're going to have to get a shovel out if you're going to go higher in god you got to put your climbing gear on amen now the beauty of the lord god is this is the depth nor the height has yet to be plumbed or climbed the more you want the more you can dig in and the more he says come on amen years ago when i was a young young lad my grandmother and i used to have great conversations together and one one afternoon i was at her house uh on my lunch break i'd walk from where i worked to their house and uh she'd fix me bologna and cheese sandwiches is that still a thing oh bologna cheese oh come on somebody that's that's that's that's worth revival right there seth where are you at but uh the uh she she would she and i would discuss what the lord was saying i can still remember this so vividly she would say what's the lord telling you raymond i'd have been 15 at the time probably and i'd say well granny he told me this week in prayer and i'd say it and she'd she'd cut me off and finish it for me i said you too and she said yeah she said in fact the other night i was or the other morning i was praying and she said the heavens opened and i saw him sitting up on the throne and when i raised my head to look at him he simply looked at me and said come here and sit i want to show you something she said lord how can i get to you he said you're on the path keep on climbing come on up here i want to show you something she asked if i'd seen that i said no she said then you can't go so guess what i kept doing lord god if there's a way so i then it wasn't long i knew what she was talking about there's just something about wanting something from god again the old timers they were called holy rollers jesus only people they were called jesus always people only jesus people as a kid i can recollect the tomatoes being thrown at the tent set up and the eggs being thrown and the drunks driving by and honking their horns and playing their music loud and whatnot but i can also remember the hunger and desire for things of god anybody live through that yeah good stuff so here we are though 2022 i think that there is a indeed a rebirthing of that desire if you're under the age of 30 35 in here would you lift your hand come on don't be afraid of it come on question do you guys want a move of god do you want to see heaven opened huh you young folk you want to see heaven opened let me tell you something once you've sat at the king's table and eaten the king's meat it'll never satisfy you anything else amen y'all keep digging we're going to get there this month we're talking about revival tonight in particular i brought out some old tools here now some of you may have this on your smartphone or whatever this is called a home bible study chart huh anybody know what i'm talking about all right now this one in particular has coffee stains on it has water stains on it has uh you know it's pretty high tech for four dimensional it is see one two it just takes a little effort logan to get it out there but there you go you won't get that at disney anyway um it's uh uh it's a bible study chart bible studies tonight i'm not going to teach a bible study but tonight we are going to talk about some ways that you and i can declare revival in in ourselves i have several of these now this one of course let me give you just a quick view for those of you that are interested again it's four colors so the print the press was real real good that day look huh there you go yeah don't get that lately huh go on and swipe that huh all you young folks have no idea how to flip a chart you gotta swipe left and right right watch me zoom in watch me zoom out come on somebody that's high tech stay with me drawn come on um this this is exploring god's word it's a bunch of lessons in here about about the bible now give me a moment okay i'm going to build a foundation for just second this is very time consuming first of all it takes a couple of hours to prepare the lesson as a teacher because anybody can teach it look at your neighbor and say even you can yeah okay look back some people need convinced no really you can uh notice the artwork this is fred flintstone stuff see there it's all side view there's no three-dimensional stuff in here now here's here's the point of this listen carefully i know that in 2022 it's a high def world and it's very technical you can get this on your phone and you can get it on your ipad this study the problem you have with it on your phone is you got to do this because they can't see this imagine then you'd be like wait a minute i don't know what bible is that you know you're all like you understand so this makes good sense hang on to me man the purpose in this is just like anything else if you'll take time to know jesus he'll take time to let you talk about him there's a lot of times brother gibbs and i was sitting across the table from somebody and then asked me a question and i just look at them and i had that look of you know you pull your glasses off like that's a great question what the bible says about melchizedek and they're like well i wasn't asking you that i know but i got to go there because that's the only word i can say um my wife and i did one several years back with her aunt both of her aunts they were like and and then we get through the lesson and about the end of the lesson they say can we talk prophecy now like is that all you want mm-hmm tell us about the 70th week of daniel tell us about the the the dragon and the horns and my oh lord here we go so i'd have to study this one and then study that one so that they i could try to help them with the questions they had to some of you in here right now that i'm talking about this you are losing your mind because this makes you so anxious to have to think that you got to know all of this information some of you right now looking at me you you think for right now i just can't it ain't in my makeup to sit across a table and talk about the bible or anything like that look see i got jelly donut on this one to talk about that that that doesn't make sense horton doesn't make sense horton has sat with me before bible studies drawn yeah uh one of the coolest things to watch is when somebody says uh uh wait wait wait wait wait wait say it again am i right here's the thing guys anybody can do this because the truth of the matter you you will never have to qualify nor justify the bible it stands on its own what you will have to justify and qualify is your idea of the bible so guess what you need to do before you start pray study learn i'm not asking you don't have to be a bible genius you don't now i'm really going to blow your mind all right i'm going to scooch this one to the side over here so y'all can still see it but for those of you who don't want to carry around the big chart seven steps go ahead this is my go to quickly seven steps of salvation excellent bible study it takes literally 10 minutes to go through this whole thing and it gives the seven steps of salvation anybody know what number one is save by grace saved by faith saved by confession saved by repentance saved by baptism saved by the holy ghost saved by endurance then there's verses for all of these quick and easy listen stay with me if somebody's really hungry and really have some direct ideas you can go to the godhead revealed yeah go ahead wait watch ready the next syllable is ah you you can go now this one i brought the one i have notes in and stuff you can go through this one and it talks about the godhead jesus now this might not be appropriate for everyone you can decide that okay now i have a lot more of these i think some of them i've given to people or whatever but uh that's the godhead revealed hold on here's another small one it's called a place prepared for you wait this one this one guess what it's about somebody may have some questions about heaven thank you for asking let's talk about it i'm just going to quickly touch here's one this is one brother lorenzo has in spanish right you have it in spanish this one's in english for all of us non-uh taco lovers this is bringing us five lessons in this one it's not just for men this is just about bringing people to jesus this is on cd as well for those of you who know what a cd player is a couple more and then we're going to go somewhere here's a good one this one i've used multiple times into his marvelous light look at the color huh this is a good one isn't it this is short sweet but it's very specific very direct it has a place where they can ride in it some of you right now you have just unplugged from me and you have walked away as fast as you can run because sitting down in front of somebody and trying to teach them about the bible scares you to death stay with me i'm going to help you with that part here's one help for the journey of the loss born to lose this is by does anybody uh no beverly mcmanus this is hers lesson this is a good one yeah who sees slick pages and all that means you can spill coffee on it wipes right off okay that's one here's one this one is really old school god's word made plan this is actually the english edition look it's got two colors jeron huh this is when the press was just getting pushed this i think has guttenberg's name in the front drawings and this is another one of the other ones now y'all hang on to me for just a moment this month of revival brother hewling's preaching his guts out last sunday when he came and preached a fantastic job ministering the word wednesday nights we're we're talking about this the our our bible study numbers are hanging in their 60s and 70s how many here tonight 81's here tonight listen carefully god is is very interested in us being very interested in him some of you i'm going to read your mail for a second if you'll let me some of you god is waking up in the middle of the night with ideas and dreams and stuff i i can tell when you walk in the church house that that's true you know how i know it it's because you come in with your eyes wide open wondering if you're actually going to see what the lord just showed you in the dream i'm telling you some of you in your prayer time god has given you some in-depth understanding and you don't know why i'll tell you why is because when the body of christ prays the word of god speaks all right because we are in the month of revival this is the focus for this month it will not end at the end of this month what my prayer has been is lord let there be a shift in the atmosphere let there be a shift in the expectancy let folk lord get here not just in time for church but lord let them show up early and find a corner to pray in to get rid of the world that week or that day and let them plug into the things of god i know i'm talking old school i know that i appreciate the fact that a lot of you pray on your way to church at least two-word prayer some of you i know you know what i'm talking about your parents lord jesus that's your prayer all right tell me i'm lying one of your parents out there huh i see some of y'all like hey man take up an offering right here's the thing about bible studies guys i am not asking anybody in this room to teach a whole bible study i'm not what my prayer is is that god will ask you how's he going to do that i'm going to tell you how i'm going to tell you how where's my time i'm still good i need help can somebody help me thank you tyler thank you lauren you want to do pins that's fine herb come on get up act like you care i don't know if i have enough of these but we should everybody needs an index card and a pen please now here's the thing about bible studies whether you're at home whether you're sitting at a table i did set a table up here so you could kind of think you know in the terms of sitting across the table this could be in your in your job this could be at a restaurant believe it or not this could be at panera bread right horton uh he and i did one there this could be at somebody's table you can learn so much sitting around you can have food on the table or not you can have a cup of coffee on the table or not does anybody here go to wired coffee shop raise your hand if you've been to wired that's that little coffee shop out in college next time you go ask for my jam coffee somebody told anybody had one of those that's my jam coffee it's hot coffee drawn with peanut butter jelly and oat milk that's hot guy my neighbor told me about it i went over and i said i understand there's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich they said yes that's what i'll have guys um yeah unless you now now i would say no if it was peanut butter and or if it was uh ham and eggs or something but peanut butter and jelly is that it lauren everybody get a card okay you have to share somebody right on the front somebody else on the back here's the thing you can sit over a cup of coffee whether it's a peanut butter and jelly coffee or just coffee with a little cream whatever you like it you can even do cold coffee i understand doesn't sound good to me but you can here's the thing on this card that you've got we're going to use it in just a moment i am i am convinced my prayer this past week the last couple of weeks my wife and i have been trying to spend 15 minutes each night before we go to bed we've been trying to stop and kneel down by the couch or by the bed and pray for the healings for our revival we are mentioning names there's some of you in here that need the gift of the holy ghost we are mentioning your name to god we are we are calling your name out there are some in here that he baptized in jesus name we are calling out your names god is hearing your name all right there are some backsliders that need to turn around come home we are calling those names out we're reaching now i'm convinced through 57 years of life 40 plus full of the holy ghost that god hears prayer and there's a lot of times in my life that i have not seen the hand of god but i have heard the voice of god and i've watched god move now here we are you know somebody right now on your job in your neighborhood at the store in your family you know somebody is there anybody here that doesn't know anyone come on it's okay identify okay is there anybody here who knows more than one so you have multiple choice right because if somebody didn't know anybody i was going to ask you to slide over and tell them about one of the extra ones you have i want you to write now on that card that you have or a piece of paper i want you to write three names of people you know they don't know your money you're not interested in finding them because they owe you a million dollars these are three names people you work with people on the line people in the office come on everybody right everybody needs to write three names if you don't know their last name you only know their first name put that down if you only know the last name put that down come on right everybody needs to be writing it could be a neighbor it could it could be somebody that you just met this week somebody that works on the line with you now for those of you are interested i have i have prayer time with my company every day well it's just me i didn't want to go through those details i want you all to think ooh his whole company in prayer yeah we do our banquets and all that stuff you know boss appreciation administrative appreciation yeah we we celebrate all of them all right so i have to go outside the box a little you know because because what i do or if i'm here at the church i'm in that office and the door's shut and i'm doing something right i'm saying so i have to be creative it's a challenge for me all right because usually if i run the ace hardware or home depot i'm just running in getting screws and coming out or you know going in and get something coming out come on write names you got them you should have at least three okay while you're finishing that up i just read an article this week some of you may follow the news like i do i try to stay abreast of of current events the best i know how i read an article this week because of the roe versus wade issue that's now come to the top in our in our cities the the fear of protest has has been something that's very real anybody keeping an eye on that the protesters out in front of catholic churches in these big cities and the protesters out in front of religious facilities and so forth they're protesting because they don't want anybody to take away the right that the law gives to them and i'll be honest with you pastor of the church here i'm sitting here saying i don't know if anybody knows we're down in that hole so we're probably okay you know some people out here protesting out in front nobody would see him would they oh we was protesting out front of your turret really nobody could see because the road's up there so it wouldn't have the same flavor you know what i'm saying also i read an article yesterday churches are now closing their doors because nobody wants religion anymore in fact read that article i didn't know so i thought well i need to know this so i read it churches have lost their ability to influence our modern culture so people are walking away by the droves it said well that's cool i'm sitting there reading this stuff going somebody is trying their best to convince somebody of something that's not at all happening i thought i thought you couldn't pray out in public anymore my wife and i go to restaurants we grab hands we pray over the meal guess what the the waitress does she waits wait a minute i thought nobody wanted us to pray in public anymore what's your name my name's diane diane i'm glad you're here today anybody's ever eat lunch or you know that's what i say to them because if you weren't here what do i say we'd starve oh no you know you'd have somebody to know but i want you because you're the best that's here or what am i trying to do invariably through that i know that it's a simple couple of phrases and i'm pretty sure that she's not going to fall on her face and just start squalling and crying and wanting to know about but i know this if you act interested in people people will know how you think of them you just took a few minutes here and you wrote down some names on this card so my question is this anybody you wrote down do they need jesus come on do they need jesus some of y'all probably wrote down your parents and your brothers and sisters so he's all safe right yeah i was going to teach him all bible study but they already know well then flip the card over and go to somewhere else here's a question do people still desire god how do you know that how do you know they ask for what they ask for prayer i know you're a praying person i know you're a church person can you pray about this situation what do you tell them no don't ask me is that what you say i've had people say why you bless your food i said why don't you bless yours i don't know who's in that kitchen by the time it left the stove and came out here i don't know what could have been done to it but i know if g if jesus can turn water to wine he can take whatever junk out of that food you know what i'm saying come on low we pray for the calories to go don't we sometimes here's a question how how is your personal influence with the people on that list that you just made do you have any influence are these your enemies and you wish that you didn't know their names yo hang on a pastor for a minute my next question is this whoever you wrote on that card listen carefully are you willing to help them are you willing to stand in the gap for them here's the last part how many does the lord want to go to hell how meaning does he want to perish he would that how many none would perish now we all have our limits don't we i i mean i'm just telling you as much as i don't mind at all standing up here i i'm not like josh over there josh loves to stand up in front of people and talk uh uh john would you come up here and finish this lesson why are you gripping her so hard turn her lips josh ran out of here screaming that's why i said at the outset some of y'all this probably turned your stomach here's my question for you we all have limits agreed and we all have things in a way i don't know about you but i have i have a limit right here i can do give smile interact but then there there's a time when i gotta back up and unplug jesus said i'm going away i say i'm going home and shut the door okay we understand that right but how much time i'm asking on the list that you made how much time would you be willing to invest in that person 5 minutes 30 minutes an hour come on can i get 2022 my my one of my greatest challenges is this and my my bride and i she she oft times reminds me of this not everybody gets the message when you text them because everybody every anybody ever got a text from me how long is it sometimes i give two or sometimes i give this in the face mask so how much some influence am i having in your life except for you're sitting there going i mean i've had people sending me this whole text and i say okay and they say well they didn't even pour it out my heart he didn't even say nothing i did i read it you know i thought about this today duron sent me a text earlier said not sure if we're going to make it home because of flight yet or the other and i just said okay well there you go what else do you want me to say okay a lot that's what i should done you know hang on to me hang on to it because of our modern culture we can justify that because indeed it is communication and indeed our culture accepts it as so i've come to tell you friend you can teach somebody about the bible via text now if i were to do it it would take hours huh that's not what i typed spell check yeah but you could you can talk to somebody about the goodness of the lord and it will turn their world upside down how is that possible pastor are you saying i need to go teach them 12 lessons no i'm simply asking are you willing to do something to help that person whatever it is now facts are this because of our culture because of the the busyness of our lives because of our connection with with those that are in our our groups if you will we in our in our modern day 2022 world you could literally wake up in the morning go to the shower go get your coffee get dressed go get in your car push the button and go out of the garage get to work park in the garage walk up the stairs go into your office sit in your cubicle at lunch time get your lunch out when the day is over you can get up walk down the stairs walk out the hallway get in your car out of your cubicle into the car drive home pull into the garage push the button and never see anyone to some of you here in 2022 culture that's very strange to you because you work from home and you don't even have to know anybody you could fake the whole thing you could act like you was at work i'm not giving anybody secrets away am i just at eight o'clock go log in and then every once while there's probably an app for that huh refresh every three minutes or something here's my point when it's time to unplug when it's time to slow down when it's time to for your me time your quiet time your your reload time what are you trying to accomplish in that short span that's a that's a logical question what are you trying to accomplish you're basically trying to recharge some batteries try not to have to worry about everybody else's world some of you i know if you've got kids all you want to do is brush your teeth see look revival broke out that's me time if i could brush both sides it'd be great listen to what i'm saying i asked you a few minutes ago to put some names on a piece of paper on a card and i'm sure that you thought long and hard about it well here's what i'd like for us to do i've got a clock here i've got a couple of verses i'm going to read listen to me carefully i want to know tonight would you consider praying about an open door an open opportunity for the names you wrote on that card would you and then and then if god so opens the door would you actually step through it would you would it have to be so supernaturally over the top that that god would literally have to open the heavens and let the angels ascend and descend down to you to bring you that message or would you simply just trust that people knowing god is a good thing here's my question i am 100 convinced that if you were to invite somebody to come to this church they may or may not show up i've been told multiple times i'll be there sunday i'm going to bring some family with me and this i don't know which sunday they were referring to still hasn't happened okay it might any day now and i'm not sure if they got confused what day was sunday but anyway they probably showed up monday afternoon or you know oh i didn't even know sundays right but i'm still convinced that if you will pray for them god will make a way for somebody to talk to them years ago there was a missionary he was terrible missionary this guy believed in the some of the coolest things and god would somehow some way some reason show up he's deputizing he had a flat on his vehicle out in the middle of oklahoma anybody ever been in the middle of oklahoma where there's nothing yeah as a flat devil now you're trying to keep me from going to this church service all right devil five souls five souls he'd lift his hands to the sky and he'd say devil i'm gonna get five souls from you and he would start the process so his story is he's walked into a grocery store and he's simply trying to find potato chips to buy to take to his family who was visiting with another family and he's standing in the potato chip aisle and the frito-lay guy is on the floor on his knees stalking the shelf and he's standing back trying not to get in the guy's way and he simply makes a statement hey buddy if you were going to buy chips tonight to take home to your family and friends which one would you buy the guy says well i'd get that one right there he said yeah why would you get that one it's a frito-lay product it's what i sell i know it's good the conversation starts it's words it's not long topics of discussion it's not any kind of thing going on it's simply that and then the guy says are you taking these home for your family what have you got a party going on he said yeah i've got a bible study going on and the guy stands up and looks at him excuse me he said you want to come guy looks at him got chips in his hand standing in a store and when the missionary asked him the guy said his chips down he said tell me what you're going to talk about and he said very quickly and a guy starts crying standing there with chips around him saying i got out of bed this morning i said god if you're real let somebody tell me about you today he said devil s1 he's going to the oklahoma camp meeting on the campground how's it going he needs one more to finish out the five for that week he said to himself how am i going to get one on the campground during camp meeting that's kind of a hard task his church is going on he has to step out because they got missionary tables on the picnic table outside the tabernacle is a young man sitting there he said i walk over to him just just to have a conversation and i start a conversation and within about four words the guy looks at me and says no one has ever asked me that before and he says can i explain something to you when he starts explaining that the guy's crying the reason he came to the campground was because he was going to tell his family he was leaving and nobody cared and so he sat out on the table waiting on the opportunity to get the nerve up to leave and when the missionary walks over the missionary talks the guy comes in gets the holy ghost he looks up and says devil i told you five every time an opposition would come against this guy he would simply stand up and stop and say all right devil five souls five so now not all of us in here have that brashness do we i wonder if there's anybody in here that would just do this lord one soul just one anybody come on they're on your list just one are they on your list one soul now let me ask you something does one soul matter i'm going to end this and then we're going to take some time to pray anybody ever heard of brother murrell cornwell pastors in kansas the guy's a nut he's taught 5 000 6 000 bible studies he's just he's out there it's all he's mister bible study anybody know him was that at a conference when he spoke and he said listen to me carefully the power of one he said i have taught thousands and thousands of bible studies yes i have but he said the guy who wanted me to the lord taught me and that's all he taught one and it was to me and then god put this in me and i've taught thousands here's the point guys the one that i'm asking you about i think the lord is already speaking to your heart has been over the last several weeks i wonder could that be the breakthrough is it right now represented in this room on one of your cards that one that is going to go out and change chattanooga huh that one this is what i'm asking you to do it is 7 55. i wonder would you get out of your chair right now bring that card with you to an altar and would you kneel on the carpet and would you pray over that list of names would you come on if you've got 20 on there fine if you've got one on there would you come come on now i want you to pray over that name you you call the name out if it's a co-worker family member or neighbor anything you know about them i want you to pray about it come on young folk this this is on you you can do it too come on mom and dad lord would you give me an opportunity i don't need 12 lessons i just need about 5 minutes 10 minutes lord to talk about you come on if god has healed you if god has raised you up if god has done a miracle in your life come on somebody would you believe for it right now god i'm asking you to give me an opportunity to be a witness to this person this week god i want an open door lord where i can simply step in lord and without without fear or favor i i don't need to take a weapon in there and beat somebody up i don't need to i don't need to harass them i just simply need to share the love of jesus come on pray church god make a way lord god make a way jesus make a way come on somebody pray during this revival lord i'm gonna i want to see them come to this church i want to see them pray in the altar i want to see the waters of baptism troubled for them come on i'm not asking you to find some stranger somewhere you already know this person there's already a connect there jesus oh god i pray for the confidence that i need the confidence that i need lord jesus i pray for the opportunity that i help me god to be sensitive to you jesus surely lord i can tell surely lord you're worth talking about surely lord you're worth talking about come on pray church come on pray for it lord god i'm asking you for an open door i'm asking you lord i'm praying myself into position tonight god help me lord god to be able lord to do your will and accomplish the task at hand oh god we want revival in our church a rebirth or a renewing in the name of jesus that's right come on in the name of jesus the name of jesus in the name of jesus that's right claim him right now while you're praying for them you visualize them in an altar praying come on you visualize them in in a baptismal being baptized in the name of jesus come on i'm not asking to go against your your your nature and all just an open door just an open door jesus it's revival in our church lord there's so much to be yet done god great god great god great god great god great god i love you jesus i love you jesus i need you jesus i trust you jesus come on somebody pray for the burden pray for it pray for it lord god lay some soul on my heart jesus help me god to love them lord to share the wonderful good news of salvation and hope come on the church is time to shine in all the darkness the church is time to shine that's right come on in jesus name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah jesus oh that's right come on in the name of jesus the name of jesus that's right come on in the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah jesus jesus jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah jesus jesus jesus jesus holy holy holy holy holy god holy holy holy holy god jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus benitos jesus jesus i glorify your name i magnify your name i love your name i love your name i love your name jesus hear your worthy worthy worth jesus come on pray for that opening now listen carefully before we go home there's a great testimony in the scripture of a guy that's sick it's a new testament stuff the bible said every day he was lay at the gate and he begged from people go you know you got anything can you help a brother out i got no way to get anywhere i'm just crippled and i beg been this way my whole life that was his life right anybody heard this story in john 3 or excuse me acts 3 about john and peter they walked by i said i don't have silver gold but what i got i give in the name of jesus anybody heard this rise up and what what what did god do leaps walks so now the the judge steps in and the jury hey what are you doing why are you doing this why are you running around the church here don't you know you need to be reverent in here huh i know i'm translating today's who what weren't you the guy and that look what are you doing man you're screaming all this stuff you're acting like you've been healed or something so they call him the leaders of the day and they say tell us all this what'd the guy say to him you know what i don't have any of those answers the one thing i do know these guys walked in they reached out and now i'm whole that's all i can tell you now i'm healed well what would they say to his testimony well you leave here but don't tell nobody right here's the point i realize that one of your greatest obstacles your greatest challenges of this day is what if they ask me something that i can't answer i just gave you the answer you know i don't know i do know this when i got out of bed this morning i spent my time with the lord in prayer he was there when i bless my food and i say in jesus name he's here i don't know i'm not a theologian i'm not in there stuff what i do know is this my life was a mess but he came in and put me back on that's what i know that's all i know come on some of you may go a step further i know that i had cancer i know that i had a sickness or a disease somebody prayed for me and now look i'm completely whole i don't understand that what i can tell you is it happened to me now what just happened is right now you just taught them a bible study you didn't have to dig out charts and papers and pamphlets and all you simply said what it is by the word of your testimony people are looking at you and you're going to stand there and say you know what all i can tell you is this i don't it doesn't matter how many folk that i tell about when i was a kid and i had this sickness and disease and they told me i'd be in a wheelchair that i'd and all of my life was going to be blown up and out of the water and then when i went to the military and i did my in processing the doctor said there's no way you should be standing here and i said all i know is he said turn him over he said you should be shaking and trembling right now all i can tell you is this i was sick and now i'm healed i didn't have bible verse i i didn't have chapter all i knew is that this is what jesus did to me now everybody can do that everybody can do that does anybody believe that god can give peace god can heal that god can direct would you stand with me sister karen gibson would you come she's having surgery tomorrow she wants the same testimony doesn't she i once was blind but now i i see she had surgery on one eye they they were able to fix hit and and now they're gonna fix this one a little more challenging fifth surgery she's got her car they're gonna stamp it after a dozen you get the next one free is that right i need all you ladies of faith right now come on up here come on every lady of faith come on come on we're going to ask the lord to intervene we're going to ask him to touch her come on touch what's going on come on she's been prayed for time and again but we're going to believe lord jesus tomorrow god you know lord the process she's going to go through you know already lord the outcome but we are praying god that you would call nerves lord you would give faith to believe lord that even right now you can make restoration happen in her recovery oh god you can be there lord and bring completeness to her iguala come on somebody pray right now lord we are claiming we are believing jesus we are believing in you jesus we are trusting you for it oh god hallelujah hallelujah that's right come on in the name of jesus you do great things oh god yes you do you do great things great god yes you do it is by your name your stripes your sacrifice things are done jesus pray with me now lord go with us as we go our separate ways help us oh god lead and guide us lord in the plain path show us the way jesus that leads to you let us walk up right before you lord give us opportunities as we leave this place jesus i pray for it lord i believe you for it i trust you for it in the name that's above every name jesus jesus order our steps dear god lead us jesus i pray we're going to come back for revival service this weekend believing it lord for miracle signs and wonders for manifestation of your spirit in the name of jesus we pray somebody say man turn around hug somebody's neck if it's appropriate love y'all have a great week and the lord we'll see you this weekend