Ministers and Wives Retreat 3
by T. W. Barnes
1985 · Ministers and wives retreat
Kind: teaching

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devil knows that he tied up the other one because he knew if you kept doing that stuff and what great would happen so he said what I'm gonna do is bless him when he goes a fishing gets in jest at the time so he don't forget to pray you gotta watch the devil he's he's a shrewd operator but prayer never fails it may seem to fail but it don't and devil knows that now the ol Antichrist you talking about when he takes over what now you fellas got you all night hears about everything in the world about this yeah you get off the next to get off into the deep water at I know but I never have felt like he'd bring air the whole world's gonna wonder after but I found in my Bible that there were certain nations escaped his hand I find words or nations that don't like him they make it war with a little boy so he ruining them when he takes own place God's gonna make that overthrown and his feeling like a lecture chair he's gonna have souls break out on him from his nose down a soul will fall nobody can kill her he's gonna raise your or for a while but that's it that's the last go-around and he finally comes down and he gets on the throne God's gonna really work his hide over but right now you and I could tormenting the other day I got the praying and that's it now god I want you to hear my prayer I said I I hate the devil I said I'm gonna work him over today and I said there's one thing you can't stand and that's the blood so I plead the blood and commanded receipt in Jesus name sake not commanding you to see the blood dropping down from Calvary ever second to back every time you bat your eyes I command you to see it I command you to hear as it spiders upon the ground in Jesus name I command you to hear Satan I command you ever child the solid scream of the unborn being aborted command that's mothering gasping for breath to come upon you all the transmissions it's died I said you brought it about I said God make him suffer here don't wait til you put him in the pit I said turn the pressure on him he's hurting the church he's making Church people sick and putting cancer on him heart trouble I said please in Jesus name they didn't feel some of the things that he's doing you said what you think he could guess he's he has emotions he can get scared he had great breath because you knew his time is short it's scaring the daylights out of him I said one day I said devil I said you have been smarting around here about the mark to be scared the daylights I've ever out of everybody I said I'm asking God to do something special for me I like to take all the joy out of everything for the devil for can because he's always after a spot we get after him I said you just you just gloating over that 666 oh boy six six six and I said now Lord I I want you to do one thing for TW boy I want you to put seven years over that 666 every time st. you see 666 T C seven years and that's all she wrote Bay you've got seven little short years and then the Pitts boy seven

years in the change boy you fixin to get the change in just seven thirty years and you have lived millions of years and little seven years that's just like three days so every time he looks at it seven years we could hinder him don't you think that at Henry amen make you miss a meal or something though praise the Lord we are called and ordained with power and authority to

destroy the works of the devil now we can't destroy the devil yet but we can destroy his works the Miller Street well we ever City there's a pyramid principality spiritual wickedness in high places up there and they got demons at work down this pyramid and then down into the city they got human beings that they can work with political and the underworld and everything these all work for the change isn't that against the church and everything I have may take him years to build that pyramid and get it all set up but my Bible says when you wake up and understand the revelation we can destroy the works of the devil in Jesus name we can take it in we can smash his pyramid that he's spent years building in one good blaster prior and he's got to start over that's why we're hinder his works we hinder the work of the devil but turn down what he builds up now I told you this I told this in Jackson brother I've

had contact with a lot of witches but this particular which was wanted to talk of a different one let's talk about last night that last night is a fella call me he's gonna make it he said I've got a witch here and I'm gonna make her so they won't see he deliver some people to Mary anything with me but this one came one of my members had she had just came to my city and one of the members got her to come to my office she was born in Germany reared in black magic her parents before her were witches she was one of the kind that was in black magic and could move objects and so she came in she just sort of walking in the floor real nervous you know she said I don't know why I come over here Satan is my god I worship Satan he said Satan answers prayer said yours dogs and I've talked to her but he don't talk to me I said no you get right he would she said I don't have a key hanging on my door it said always ask Satan before I go is it all right and said I asked him was it all right I said if it's all right it swings to the right and if it's not all right he swings to the left and they said I asked about coming over here to see you and said it's swung to the right I would understand it I said I don't either I said I don't know why but Satan though I make it habit of sending his clients over here to me but she said I'll show you my god that's power your don't what do you mean she said watch these big lights add some lights hanging she said I'm gonna swing them show you what my god finding I said all right I said I'll tell you what your God can't do nothing in my office you can't move a toothpick she leads to her feet Mariah's dancing like snake eyes but the demon couldn't work and so she said well you're right said have you ever had a spiritual on your bed at night I said oh yeah good and bad and she told my member going home she said he won't sleep tonight said I'm sending my spirits over there she said you don't know my pastor said he'll sleep somebody but anyway I know what she's gonna do so before I went to bed I was real tired I said now Lord in the name of Jesus mom I think authority dominion over her spirits and I command them to go back

and do to her what she told them to do to me well a couple of days later I got a telephone call it was the witch she said preacher about to go crazy about to climb the wall I said what's the matter she said my spirits that's always obeyed me wherever I told him to go they went what's that they're standing on my bed they won't move day or night did you stick there I said well you see you couldn't move nothing in my office you know and I said when you sent him over here I said I sent him back and told him to do to you what you told him do to me he said what am I gonna do I said the best thing to do is repent ask the Lord to forgive you I said you have a demonstration that my God does have power over your God your demons have no power and I said the next time you try to send your demons around you better check it out to see if it's a United Pentecostal preacher or a saint that has old ghosts because you liable to get them picture right back into your house then she said well I put a curse on my mother Lord she's dying I said I feel bad about it now said you've told me things nobody ever told her my life I've been distracted I told her I said you witches project your curses upon people through hate I said if you'll stop hating your mother-in-law and love her it'll break the spell she said that's hard to do I said she'll die on her blood will be on your hands if you don't but I tell you that this these spirits slip into our church sometimes through people that profess to be all right

they have backs to the end and another spirit game and they can give a pastor more trouble if he don't discern that know it then he could ever dream up they work hard in the church but they not quite for the pastor just a little something there always we have the authority to bind the spirits to walk through our church at the midnight hours and plead the blood until no devil can come there we have the authority in Jesus names and not only by demons but human spirits it's fighting the Holy Spirit now this is all right and if we let it go on it's our fault I know one fellow said I've got some strange things in my church he said the van is waiting stage none of them evangelistic quarters today door knobs turn at night and sometimes the service is so oppressed until you just change reality I said you got a woman in a church with a familiar spirit that's perhaps profession to be a Christian she has that Satan take a word and begin to use her and I said if you'll check it out in your mind right now I said when a man comes to preacher revivalists in tune with God against the demonic power she stays home he said I know who you're talking about it broke the spell stop the doorknob turning these people don't know their wish but they're being used by a spirit clean the place by pleading the blood calling upon the name of Jesus Christ a lot of these / Saints need help they need deliverance from oppression for morning to fight against the ministry well tomorrow the greatest revival the world's ever seen is here if we stay put 100 percent our doctrine our holiness our standards

multitudes of people will come to our doors they've sick and tired they're Restless out there now they begin to see it many of them are seeing the name of Jesus Christ whole the simplest being baptized in Jesus name and if the same Lord it revealed that to them them will reveal standards also under them

you see I said a while ago if a man's on fire I said son if you pray six eight hours it once in a while I said you would be troubles that let me tell you something your members are not gonna believe if you're not totally convicted on the thing and bleed from your heart they'll begin there although you don't say a thing about you had opened your mouth to nobody but there's something about a preacher 40:20 preaches they pick up there's something in the voice of a man their faith is love warmth others hate colas fear you know the old cow can eat too bitter weeds and I used to want to have fire bite so what are we a bitter weeds could run all my milk and you know way to sweeten it you can pull sugar in it you know that and better weights gets nut cow's stomach hidden gets in the milk I won't ever a preacher let bitterness get in his heart or he don't believe something the first thing you know it's projected right out and the thing that he will stand and never do he won't do it but he don't really believe it's essential they don't be doesn't in his church doing what he has never opened his mouth and said he believed but they'll do it anyway when we preach we need to believe what we preach even that good old Jesus name message is still vibrating with power when you preach it and love an apostolic power there's still there hey all right brother Kraft I guess maybe I'm through here while you were speaking

yes that's just an expression we used to go out in the woods get these old pilots been burnt over and it's richer than any of the rest of them well you have kindling and barn over feel there's some Souls out there started out I heard something said last night about my god he's gonna move mysterious ways

and he's glad safe but if I go I still work on the job and I'm not holding down the path towards yep but I witnessed a lot of people it's really on fire for God these charismatic movements and the full gospel movement and I'll condemn them and I've seen their wishy-washy in their non-standard way and other patriarchs the people have lost confidence in our politicians and our leaders because they have lost their standards and their there cannot put their trust in them but now I'm believing that God is actually moving the charismatic and the Full Gospel movement is not may be the work of the devil but is God poured out his spirit in the Baptist and in the Catholicism which I've came out of the charismatic movement his God pouring out his spirit no doubt about it they have not the truth that's why we must stand on our truth up you right brother we cannot out

pretenders oh we got infirm and I know it complications I know I had me infant who's having a conference the first time in little Osprey in was going through some things in the Lord show us something a lot of times the Lord speaks to me dreams have visions and dreams some time somebody lost and they don't know where the kids are well I prayed and and I like one moment I said I saw what happened in dreams your daughter run away with a fellow got married you'll hear from in three days three days later she calls her mama it's me and a lot of time on the telephones ringing I'm seeing it in my sleep mother calls she said my son got lost in the woods he's drunk stormed all nights and would you pray yes but just before the following I saw him step step out in the road he's closed his horn I said don't worry I said that he just stepped out in the road he found the road he's alright it was running through our patches but he'll be in a few minutes 20 minutes later she said my son's home said everything's are just what you said and sometimes I want to be sick and just the phone rang I'm seeing the problem that's into my sleep and that's the Holy Ghost doing it and so I was praying and I said lord I don't understand all this about the charismatic and all this tell me something so that night I saw there was a highway and I saw a church so we're gonna knew it was the one God people and I saw another larger group than yet they were shouting and running and praising the Lord then I saw a few of our preachers leave and go over there and begin to commit adultery and the spirit said this is not physical adultery this is spiritual adultery this is the people of many gods he said this is a church over here pray for these people but this is a church when we go back to them we are committing adultery we worship with the people that worship more than one God and baptize in other ways we cannot now it's alright to go and see them sometime as ministers in here I'm not talking against that you know and love them and love them the Spirit said pray for him because they should be coming across the road to us and not us going over there the preacher that leaves the truth and stop preaching one God and baptism in Jesus name just to go over there to have fellowship of the big crowd will die and go to hell

he's gone off to meet his reward Fred I said if we lose our generation you know before I forget it the charismatic many of them receive the Holy Ghost and we're so glad we're so happy but they gonna be looking for a place to go pretty soon don't forget that now some of you older ministers heard me tell this I'm gonna tell it for the sake of it for these young ministers he's seem like a touchy about the Lord loves just knowing who we are where we're at and where we're working and everything and how real that is I was number years ago going to Tyler Texas to all Robertson meeting I just wanted to see him in action see what's going on folks had the world largest tent and but the Lord showed me a week before I went there when I got that sit on the front seat and when I got there there was about 10,000 people there and I told my wife and my daughter and her girlfriend I said we're supposed said on the front seat tonight when the Lord said something you just mark it down it's that way I don't gain nobody can change it oh but me I could have changed it but not going fearful I'd been put on the spot old enough we got there ten thousand people we sat down oh it was a long ways in the front and my wife said this is a long way from the front she kept walking by looking at me they had two seats roped off down the front for special guests and of course you know all robbers never had no use for wonders Pentecostal preachers he wouldn't he'd have put me outside if he didn't know but you see the officer he kept walking behind the spirit talking to him you know and he stopped and looked at me he said but you like to have a front seat I said yes sure would and he said I said I got my wife and these women said well just follow me one day I learned he removed the rope setting the right before I was sawing the vision that set right here and he

preached I looked at him I didn't get too much out of the service but I said no Lord why did you go to all the trouble to show me where I was gonna sit he said not just for you but for my people and my ministers tell them that I don't only know where they gonna sit next week but next year and through all eternity no richest woman he knows where you gonna send he's got a pretty close check on you our names is written in the palms of his hand he asked a question can a mother forget her second child he said yes she made but I could never forget you you're continually before me any man he knew ten years ago but you'd be sittin right now that's the God we serve he knows that's why he got a wall the falling softly reverently only he's appeared to me in times I never thought he'd show up there I wouldn't know bad place but you know I don't go there I've sitting motels I'm not condemning nobody else I said motels ever since television came out I never turned one all my life I went in one day in the major left one on I'd like to never get it turned off I finally unplugged at the wall I didn't have it and there's a kind of thing off but the Lord knows all about us she knows our thoughts our feelings our needs emotional needs and brother craft

you can get out the angel food cake you know the Hobbs picture Oh Jezebel is after him he's sick and tired and disgusted that woman was a thorn in this place you ever have one it's throwing your place well it can be man to you no way you got out there I finally crawled up on that tree exhausted probably he'd had it just Pakistan wouldn't turn it out too well everybody ought to believe but they want a kid would you you preach a good sermon how do you enjoy somebody's in its preaching to me but then you know just go to him said the angel said huh one of my preachers downer oh boy I said he's knocked out discouraged disgusted taking some angel food cake woke him up he went back to sleep so he was out things a little old me up I just stayed awake awake awake a week I think are you gonna write back sleep I guess he'd seen morals and I have but he loves this Senate angel food cake you know it might not have been but cherry pie or something you know he he just cares you know that's not the only time that happened to me when I was going through my darkest Valley 21 years ago I was so depressed and I'd preach for camp meetings I think that year the building a new church I just sitting in California and just my strength just left me I just went left I was so weak and 400 days I went through that for that value but during that time I said now Lord I said I want to ask you something I said then you really love me I said I know you Bible said you did but I said don't tell me I said I'm so mixed up I might didn't not even here right I said move on somebody else one of my Deacons was in the woods that they fast and praying for me and the Lord said Billy he never had Lord speak to him before he prayed a good prayer warrior but the Lord never talked to him like that I mean he just supposed to Billy go tell

your pastor I love him and he called his sister and he said has a strange experience said I said I pray and fast and the Lord said go tell your pastor I love him he said his brother Barnes knows anything he knows that and we are too you know his sister said you go tell him I have the letter I've kept it all these years the same day I asked for somebody to come he said him how long he loves his pictures he loves the preacher's wife - she keeps his hand on them I don't think we could get too far without any real blessings God has blessed us with great great women to help us in the ministry but we've told your breakfast table that

brought it up during this time I was going through this terrible time of depression before that people come through the healing line depressed I'd say pray for I'm going and all that I stopped him now hey it's terrible to get depressed I never been depressed since I had a lot of reasons to but I didn't but that night in the vision my Tate you've may have heard it the world's highest mountain the black darkness of a murky black foamy old water to father me as I climb the mountain and our time and that give out here would be right at my feet my kind and finally to the very top and as I thought sure down out of the way of that terrible thing and suddenly it came up to my knees world's highest mountain who are you gonna go now and the very winds that were bowing through the elements it looked so stormy and black and dark so ghostly it seemed that they would say give up there's no need to fight there's nowhere to go you're the world's highest mountain and here it is and when I saw a tidal wave coming a hundred feet high what you gonna do ladies Oh hundred foot waited coming and if winds were just saying see Mike alright let go and I heard a voice break I don't have one like lightning thundered out have you forgot the power of the name come to myself now I felt myself something go through me and I said did that wave in the name of Jesus I command you to lay down and he lay down at my feet like a kitten on the hearth of a far place and the waters began to vanish from off the mountain and suddenly the sun's shining and the trees were in full bloom and the birds were singing and everything was great and I've been in the sunshine ever since a man he loves you and there's no place to quit on the world has well needy there's no place to give up right I God loves fighters dumb preachers tough prophets he rolled it down he was just thrilled to death his David run across that free or that slingshot said watch my boy write it down let all the whole world hear about my boy hanging him down hallelujah look at my picture down there okay hey there was you thought you'd make him backslide did you when you turn them board members against him yeah yeah but he thought you'd in there he wanted me I said that him he goes target man say come in I won't tell you about a few victories bar he said I ain't got time today I've got to walk around little roar a little the

old toothless line Jesus bow to Steve jeez that's why ever since I got the

holder goes before I started preaching newspaper since I've been preaching fasting has been part of my life my ministry weekly fast I've always set aside at least different extended back food every year and to me with fasting and praying go to the world of like you know like faith and work the last I went times where a 7 day fast was simple now when I go on one day fast it's literally like if I mean I know there is power in fasting just like their power in prayer I must have to do that but is it normal to go through time thing though I know I've been through time where prayer was extremely hard but is it normally go through time that this is in our life that walking with God because they didn't always been like this it hasn't always been to the extent when the devil fights you sure he sees something ahead fasting I know some preachers kill itself fasting you can overdo that there's a tough time to all things and fasting don't you don't twist God's arm to make him heal or say that's already he's playing it just gets us ready to be sensitive to the voice of God that's all and I learned that a long time ago but let me tell you this I was praying once and I said lord I don't understand there's times I come into your presence I stay for a few moments and fade out I don't know what's going on and he said you remember Peter when he's walking on the water coming to me yes he said when he got his mind on the winds and the waves he began to st. he said when you come into my presence always remember you keep your faith in my blood and not in your works and not in things around the bouchy he said the moment you think I'm unworthy you're doubting my blood and you have to fade out you can't bring fear into the most holy place where I'm at you can't blame bring doubt you've got to have perfect faith when you come into my presence or you'll automatically doubt he said have faith in my blood that you have been made worthy by my blood not to good works out there but by my blood and when you walk into my presence covered with my blood inside and out you can stand in my presence and never have a feeling of fear or doubt because your faith is not in yourself but in my blood that keeps you before me and I can't see any sense because the Bloods there I can't see anything because the blood washed it away Richards we cannot ever learn too much

about the blood understanding the blood plead the blood that used to be often in her and her and olden day he's pleading the blood but we may have gotten away from that that's one of the great foundational doctrines from Genesis to Revelation you find the blood all the way through Satan cannot stand the blood he that's the one thing he can't stay put around that innocent pure black Jesus now I feel you let me give you this maybe we want to close maybe you've

heard this tape I don't know but I I got a revelation one day I was a flashed revelation I saw the name of Jesus I know what glory and power I saw blood in the name I saw the flashing Shekinah glory unity then I began to pray and I said oh Lord why is that name so powerful we use it and he named five things to me he said my words in it it's the most powerful word that's ever been spoken Jesus when you say Jesus that's the most powerful word that's more powerful than all the rest of the words ever been spoken Jesus that's the power then he said it's my blood city our salvation in no other name then he said my all the authority in heaven and earth there's anything behind it then he said my spirits in it and he said something that staggered me he said my faiths anything it'll work the same faith that holds the universe together he sent that lame and behind that name and when you say that means after praying and fasting brother and Satan sees you calling me he sees the Eternal Word he sees the blood he sees the authority behind it and he sees a settler glory and the faith of God no wonder he goes he has to go that is our heritage what the rod was to Israel the name is to the church nor a hallelujah in your earlier days did you ever wreck the side TW bars campaign and if so what would your reaction to I sure did everybody else is putting up their signs Roberts Heaton campaigning Brown's campaign and I got a sign painter I was going to Arkansas have one and I paid $20 there's a lot of money then man he was pretty hung that thing Barnes healing campaign across the front of the church I backed up that about true you guys looking at it admire and it's never seen my name look so pretty in my life here's something else the Lord said Barnes he didn't campaign never heard of one and he seemed to say well goodbye I hope you have a good him I said wait a minute they you know said he's a barn jumping is it it's a Jesus feet and camping I said bet things coming down I told that buddy up one name he's a healer it's not my name anybody helps us it's the name of names Jesus and remember his face in it his face already there it's working Oh hallelujah I feel power hey man I feel the power that name there's something coming out of it now the name Oh hallelujah when you say it in faith it flashes like a five Mattie neon signs and the kingdom of darkness is her back the king of darkness can't stay that name is called what a Harwich no wonder we're baptized and it's our name did you know that's ours that's my name that's my spiritual name I'm a child of the king hey man I have some

rights as of authority a man he'd give me a a checkbook all the sign he's named for us to take it son eat drink and be merry have a good time preach my gospel praise God let me tell you something the Old Testament church had signs the miracles 24 hours a day why in the world don't we it said this is a better cover than they had they had miracle bread for breakfast dad miracle water they had miracle light miracle quails you lame it they had it do you night did you imagine some Pentecostals over there eating miracle bread drinking miracle water to wash it down and belly aching it where's all the things and the miracles of God or be all the mirrors hand me some all of that man give me another joker they're wrong pull the curtain back a little wife I don't know what's happened to ya pull the curtain back wife I don't know what's happened to God and I really don't let some of that light shine in miracle like God we're belly eating and drinking and having a good time we're not gonna do it all right the call is for tough preachers no shadow of turning no compromise straight ahead pulling for your district back on your superintendent back in your press matter and then if you do that your folks go back you I noticed the preacher that fights his leaders the first thing you know his members are fighting him hey man so he don't cooperate or nobody wanna cooperate is him bang we're gonna get off on that order

yes that's our biggest problem God never called a preacher without giving him gifts we just get so busy we don't keep them stirred up and it takes some prayer and get along with God to stir up the gifts and we can get so busy we're too busy to fill up you know I think it's driving down the highway it gets too busy so occupied if it gets to stop at the gas station well after a while you'll stop water isn't or there's not a gas station and we need to take time and our church needs to know that there's a day to take off to go fishing there's nothing wrong with that I don't get to go much but it's all I like to go I went deer hunting one time stayed 30 minutes and didn't see one quit I like action you know but then there's a day to set aside to just fellowship Jesus it's right we can fellowship one of them we are to blow out a loved one another pool for one another I don't want to ease growing up somebody hit my brother just well hit me somebody hit him hit me that just well to hit him we were together we fought for one another and we need to do that but at the same time he's talking about fasting a while ago there's a time to fast to stir it up to make sensitive to it I pray for ministers I'll leave my hands on them sometimes and bang Oh some mighty gifts they're lying dormant

God give them to him and they didn't study and pray and work what did you know just that two basic you know while you're trying to help other people you can backslide leading prayer meetings you got to have one of your own just you you can backslide getting good sermons you need to get one for yourself or for some while like old Moses oh I check up on myself Lord I won't know how I'm getting along with you and one of those gifts start stirring moving and you know God's there in a special way anybody can put a sermon together every now and then you know sometimes we put them together fast and sometimes we put them together slowly sometime we preach like a house afire and sometimes we preach like a ice wagon we're just not there you know how it is you dismiss it some mark but that's the secret stirring up the gift I see man that I know has gifts Amina I know they have the gift of faith and I go and I listen and I don't see it in action and then though it's lying dormant all staring at them if my Jesus got alone for 40 days and 40 nights prayin I don't mean you've got the fast for these but this season's to get along with God and I don't know Satan said if you're the Son of God command these stones to be made bread a lot of the great so-called healers went down because he's turning stones to bread getting rich but she just said it's written man shall not live by bread alone but if I ever were to proceedeth out of the mouth of God I need to have a Living Word coming to me not just to my church I got a have some of that then he came and said if you're the Son of God jump off of this pinnacle oh you have world water claim you'd be all everybody but just your name of these the front page of the paper everywhere God may want to put your name on the front page but he may not be ready yet there's a time for that too but he said it's written now Jesus could have talked about say they have looked you know all in miracles are performed don't you know all about the vision don't you know about the abelev appearing and John the Baptist well he didn't mention a thing about he just said then he said if you'll just fall down and worship me I'll give you the world all of his kingdoms the devil is coming at you with something it could be money it could be power it could be the opposite sex it could be a lifted up spirit to hinder you and it cuts you off before you reach the beat that God has caused it at all there's many men and the gutter that have been turning cities upside down now by the craft had they walked on with God there's no greater call to the one you have there's not a preacher here on the side of my boss if you called a preacher don't have a gift in your life he don't call a man to preach and send him out with nothing when he called you to preach I don't know which ones he put