The Atmosphere That Awakens Snakes | Rev. Jimmy Toney

grab your Bibles Acts chapter number 27 and we're going to read on into Acts chapter 28. hey one more time I think you ought to give this Choir This praise team these musicians a great big God bless you wow and then to the Carpenters and the eriksens and the Hammonds just tremendous people don't you love brother and sister Carpenter and their family and this great church they have served as our pastors for many many years and I appreciate them being that very pivotal person in our life we love you we support you we're praying for you we know that God does all things well in 2020 I built a house and they came through Florida to pick up a motorhome and so they stopped by to see our house and he was telling me about his motor home and I think it had satellite TV and I was excited about being able to watch TV in my front yard legally and so it was a win-win situation for everybody and we had just finished pouring a driveway up to our house and he parked on our driveway to spend the night and he put out these I don't know what they're called but they're like these little stabilizers or balancers and and I said hey is this going to be the best place to park it because if not we can put it somewhere else is it going to hurt the asphalt oh no it's not going to hurt nothing so he just anchored those bad boys down he got up the next morning he left and I have in my he does not know this until right now I have never told him this story but in my driveway right now I've got four big old holes and indentions and what perfect imagery because if you know the Carpenters and if they get close to you they're going to leave a tremendous impression on your life so they're not a chance in a world I'm going to repair that because every day I think about this man that loves my family and he's left an impression on us and brother Carpenter I know that they're seems to be many that are against you but I do feel the words of the prophet in my ear right now that those that are for you are far greater than those that are against you and if you're thankful for the Carpenters and their family and this staff I want you to Make Some Noise to let you know we are we are praying for and we are standing behind and those comments are even geared toward Lauren my wife and daughter is here my son-in-law got the best son-in-law in the whole world he's given me my first grandbaby that's just awesome got many from our church here that I love very very much got many at home watching if you'll pray for Gainesville we've got a little hurricane headed our way I deal with any good pastor do I left I told my family hey let's head north pastor of great church great people I love them dearly Acts chapter 27 verse 43 but the Centurion willing to save Paul kept them from their purpose and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land and the rest some on boards and some on broken pieces of the ship and so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to the land acts 28 verse 1 and when they were escaped they then they knew that the island was called Malita and the barbarious people showed us no little kindness for they kindled a fire and received us every one because of the present rain and because of the cold and when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire there came out a viper out of the Heat and fastened on his hand and when The Barbarians saw the venomous Beast hang on his hand they said them they said amongst themselves no doubt this man is a murderer even though he has escaped the sea Vengeance suffering this man not to live in verse 5 he shook off the Beast Into the Fire and he felt no harm how be it they looked when he should have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly but after they had looked a great while and saw no harm come to him people are fickled they changed their minds and said oh he is a God and when Paul gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire there came out a viper out of the heat my sermon tonight is this the atmosphere that awakens snakes the atmosphere that awakens snakes if you're going to help me preach shout a man you may be seated what an absolute honor to be here this week surrounded by so many friends and I love you dearly I do not deserve this opportunity but I am thankful and humbled by the opportunity and I'll just kind of say at the the onstart here that if if you're here and everything is great in your life and everything's great in your church and everything's great in your ministry and if you're not fighting any Devils then you might just need to get a copy of the tape because you might need it later and you probably get a little bored you can go ahead and get in line at the food truck and save us a spot we appreciate that but if you came here in a battle if you came here fighting some things then I might have stumbled upon a word for you and your situation and I believe that this week and movement has the potential to change shift energize the spiritual atmosphere of the church and when I say the church I mean the kingdom of God brother Carpenter said it so well last night said it again today tonight what a phenomenal message but this is not about the aljc the UPC the WPF the Paw the Gib the good independent brethren it's not about any of them initials it's about the kingdom of God and while I'm here I'll just say this and I'll quickly move on but I pray that and I think it's changing but I pray that it changes in our movement and and in some of our traditions and we start looking at one another as brothers and sisters and not as competition uh-uh I'm not saying we should merge I'm not saying that we got enough divas and enough politics we don't need any bigger thing than that but I am saying let's start acting like we're preaching the same gospel where we're holding the same God let's reach the world together if one can put a thousand to flight two can put ten let's do something great for the kingdom of God and if you're preaching truth and I'm preaching truth I want to stand with you and I want you to stand with me amen scripture tells us that there are always there's something going on there are spiritual battles taking place all around us we live in two atmospheres at one time in a physical atmosphere but also in a spiritual atmosphere now the spiritual atmosphere we can't can't always see it we can't see with our natural eye but but it is very much it is very real and is very vital that we understand that we understand it somebody shout atmosphere You Feel It In This atmosphere you know you just feel the presence of the Lord here people that don't know what we're talking about they won't catch it but you that do you walk in here you just kind of feel something in the atmosphere have you ever maybe on the other side of the scale have you ever have you ever since tightness or tension in an atmosphere any husband and wife ever argued a bunch of liars this past Saturday me and my bride we have been married for 28 years this past Saturday 28 years ago right now we were honeymooning in Gatlinburg Tennessee I couldn't even rent a car I was too young she had to rent a car 28 years I told her one time I said baby remind me of an Angel always up in the air harping about something I'm talking about arguments with your spouse anybody ever had anybody ever had an argument with your spouse one time I was going into a meeting and I told her to say hey babe I'm going into a meeting so don't call it's a serious meeting I'm not gonna be able to answer the phone so as soon as the meeting started she called and I did what any good husband would do I didn't answer the phone it's like I told her let me look over here I told her so I didn't answer the phone well then she called right back and I was like well I better answer the phone so I answered the phone and and I could tell immediately something was wrong you know you feel something in the atmosphere and she said I've got you on speakerphone I have a police officer standing here in my car he can hear everything you're saying I can't find any insurance I can't find any registration I need to know where all that's at and I said who is this and she said hey I'm serious now Jimmy I'm I'm and I said Mr police officer if you can hear me I don't know what's going on I said I've reported my car stolen five minutes ago so if you can just stay right there I'll be there to get this result and that's how the argument started but have you ever walked into a room where where two people had been in an argument you didn't see the argument you didn't hear the argument but you could feel the tightness and the tension in the atmosphere because of what had been spoken or because of what had taken place before you even walked in no words had to be said for you to realize something's different in the atmosphere the devil knows the power of atmosphere that's why most people are enticed into the wrong atmosphere long before they're ever tempted to sin and that let me just be Pentecostal for a minute and that's why we don't go to certain places and that's why we don't do certain things it's not because it's necessarily evil but it does put you in an atmosphere that may not be the most conducive and the enemy knows that if he can get you in a atmosphere such as a bar or party or some dancing club then you're much more prone to sin there than you would be at a library now you can sin in a library but the difference between a library and the club is the atmosphere you can grow bananas in Jamaica but not in Alaska and the reason is simple the atmosphere is right for banana growing in Jamaica and it's not right for banana growing in Alaska and so the atmosphere creates a climate and the climate creates a culture and the reason we need an Apostolic atmosphere is so we can have an Apostolic climate so we can create an Apostolic culture so people can know I can go to that church and I can find healing and I can find deliverance and I can find peace and joy in the whole I don't know everything that goes on in there but I know they have a culture there where people are healed where marriages are put back together and so if the enemy can get you in his culture then he knows he can get you to sin and the same is true with the Holy Ghost if we can just get people in the atmosphere what a powerful message that we just heard to remind us of our mission if we can just get them in this Apostolic atmosphere then signs wonders and miracles will become our climate and the miraculous will become our culture and if the devil puts stock in in the fact that if he can lure you into his Culture by getting you into a bad atmosphere then we need the same attitude about God and His atmosphere if we can just get them here if we can just teach them a Bible study if we can just start that relationship with them then I just believe that everything is going to be all right this was in my notes but I'm going to say it and I'm going to piggyback off the bishop let us never lose the heartbeat of evangelism and bible studies and going out and inviting people to church the Bible says when it was noised abroad that he was in the house they couldn't get anybody else in the house so they had to rip the roof off because they knew there's an atmosphere in that house that can fix this man's problem and I promise you there's an atmosphere in this house that can fix your problem they can reach down and touch your situation if you believe that I want you to clap your hands and give God praise right now I feel something in the atmosphere right now that somebody could get a miracle tonight somebody could get the word that they've been looking for tonight something Supernatural stir up the Holy Ghost that's in this place right now something Supernatural could happen tonight and that's why praise and worship is so important that's why the choir is so important that's why the musicians are so important when they begin to pray and when they begin to play and when they begin to praise God begins to change the atmosphere I don't like preaching without some singing and some worshiping God inhabits the Praises of his people God does not like showing up to an atmosphere of dead cold lifeless Church but when they begin to sing and when they begin to worship God you ought to thank God for every musician you ought to thank God for every singer you ought to thank God forever sound technician you ought to thank God for every media personnel I'm not trying to score points I'm just going to say what I feel like needs to be said but you ought to thank God and by time you've got a good sound system and every time you got lyrics on a screen and have a time a worship leader gets a microphone and says I want you to stand that ought to jump something inside of you they're trying to change the atmosphere they're trying to give some negativity off of you they're trying to get some depression off of you they're trying to thank God for a James Wilson that'd get up here and try to build a platform for the Holy Ghost to move when the devil attacked job the first thing he took away from job the first thing he attacked in job's life was not his wife was not his kids was not his money it was his livestock because the way you worship God in job's day was through animal sacrifice and the devil's thought was if I can take away his ability to worship then he'll curse God and die and the devil hasn't changed a bit in all of these years he's still trying to take away your ability because he thinks if you don't worship you'll Curse God and die he knows when you begin to clap your hands in faith he knows when you begin to jump to your feet in faith he knows when you begin to lift up holy hands without Wrath and without doubting he knows that's going to change the atmosphere don't let anything steal your worship don't let anything take away your worship there's two times you ought to praise God when you feel like it and when you don't so you ought to go ahead and make up your mind this is the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in here help your hands and give God a shout of praise Something's Gonna Change in the atmosphere this week that's why the atmosphere of Holiness and purity praise and prayer unity love all of that attracts the Holy Ghost just like an atmosphere of lust and anger and drunkenness that all that attracts demonic spirits and God responds to atmosphere and we know God is everywhere we know that but that doesn't mean he manifests his presence everywhere well God's everywhere I don't need to go to church I'll just stay home what God is at your home but he's not going to manifest his presence there like he would at the church I mean if that's the case God's in a bar go there sure his presence is there but he's not going to manifest his presence there God only manifests his presence when the atmosphere is right so my child atmosphere so in the book of Acts chapter number 28 we're introduced to a certain island named Melita and I want you to notice the atmosphere when they first showed up it was cold wet and it was damp and because of that type of atmosphere we find a serpent that is dormant there but not bothering anybody there but out of sight out of mind there but not causing any Potential Threat at the moment there it was there they didn't bring it with them it was there but because the atmosphere had not activated it it just remained dormant isn't it amazing how an atmosphere of coldness can make things dormant in your life things that you may have even thought you had gotten the victory over six months ago you ready for some truth there are many people sitting in Pentecostal churches that think they are delivered but in reality they're just in an environment where that serpent can lay dormant it looks like Victory I haven't saw it in a while I haven't had to deal with it in a while but it's cold here it's wet here it's damp here but now if the conditions were to change the things that we thought we were delivered from all of a sudden come back to into your life how many of you have ever said you're never going to do I don't know a b or c again and you went for six months without even thinking about it and then all of a sudden the conditions changed and things that you said you would never do you started doing again so the Bible says in Acts chapter 28 that when the people now listen to this when the people and the preacher began to change the atmosphere now I love that combination when the people and the preacher begin to change the atmosphere it takes more than just a preacher and it takes more than just the people but when the people and when the preacher make up their mind that it's been cold here long enough it's been wet here long enough it's been damp here long enough we ain't had Revival in a long time we haven't baptized anybody in a little while it's been a few months since somebody got the whole let's go get some wood the atmosphere has been like this for a long time and I don't know what all is laying dormant but why not let's work together the people and the preacher and let's change the atmosphere yeah the Bible says in Acts chapter 28 and verse 2 and and the barbarious people showed to us no little kindness for they so much shall they they kindled a fire they were doing their part and they received every one of us because of this present Reign and because of the cold and I feel this in the Holy Ghost there are people in your cities that's willing and able to help you build a fire I said there are some men and women there are families that's willing to say hey we don't have much but I got this little bit of wood if you think that would change the atmosphere then go at this thank you brother Blackford thank you for bringing your there are people in your city that's just waiting on a preacher to show up and say let's change the atmosphere they may not believe the message yet they may not look like us yet they may not have visited your services yet but you hear me there are people in your city that they're tired of it being cold they're tired of it being lifeless they're just saying with somebody come and help me build a fight there's people in your city they're ready to help you build a church they're ready to support your vision they're ready to get behind you there are folks that's ready to say come on pastor we can do this together we can do this together we have been brought to the kingdom for such a time as this don't let your pastor be the only one trying to build a fire don't let your pastor's family be the only one trying to build a fire and preachers don't let them be by themselves and trying to build a fire but when the people and the preacher work together we can change the atmosphere let me preach every saint of God get behind your pastor get behind his vision get behind to what he's trying to do go back home and get you some wood and build a fire to change the atmosphere and so the Bible says in verse number three that that when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks so he didn't just wait on the people to do it Paul had to get involved oh God I can't stand lazy preachers I didn't like what I felt over there I can't stand lazy preachers everybody God ever called was already busy doing something God has never called anybody that was lazy God has never called anybody that's sitting there waiting on a place to preach you better go find you some wood if they're gonna bring some wood and if I'm the preacher I better do everything in my power to make sure that I'm bringing some wood that I'm out Gathering some wood how did God tell me one time he said every once in a while I get a little bold it's not all the time you have to really push my buttons but when you push them you don't have to know if you did it like we expose I had this guy tell me one time he said pastor I feel like I'm called to preach and I just looked at him and said no you're not now I don't make a habit of doing that because I know how that feels and I said he said no I really do feel like I'm called to preach I said no you don't there's it is humanly impossible for you to be called to preach why would you say that I said because you're the laziest young man I've ever laid my eyes on in my life I said your wife has two jobs you sit at home and play video games all day if God has called you to preach then you're the very first lazy person that he has ever called to preach and I just don't think he's changing the game plan in this late of it so there's not a chance in the work don't you let your people be the only one in the prayer rooms go find you some wood don't you let them be the only one going to outreach you go find you some wood don't you let them be the only one teaching a Bible study you get your Bible study chart and you go get you bring your wood to it if we're gonna change the atmosphere from cold and get wet and damp and lifeless we're gonna have to work together so and so Paul's like well I just got out of the Shipwreck but I'm going to do my part I'm tired of it being cold too and when he the Bible says in verse 3 when Paula gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire that uh that a Viper came out and latched a hold of him oh God I hate snakes there are three kind of snakes that I hate live ones dead ones and fake ones my wife called me the other day I was out preaching somewhere and she said she sent me a video and it was a snake in our driveway whatever them holes are that's actually the truth we may need to get ushers come I want you to put some money in this pot we are going to fix my driveway it's gonna attracting snakes she sent me a video of this snake in our driveway and she said baby I ran out of gas backing up pulling forward backing up pulling four backing up pulling for it I'm selling that house next week I hate snakes but all he was trying to do was change the atmosphere and in the event of doing that from a cold wet environment to something of heat and warmth it was the that atmosphere that woke up a lying dormant serpent the moving of the sticks didn't alert the serpent the Gathering up of the sticks did not stir up the snake and if there was a fire over here it wouldn't have bothered the snake but when the snake got close enough to the source the heat that was produced by the fire that was what allowed the serpent to be shaken out of its dormancy in other words when the atmosphere changed when it went from a cold lifeless wet environment to one of heat warmth and Fire the changing of the atmosphere awakened the snake and brought out the serpent that was always there just not bothering anybody at the moment this week by itself will not wake the snake a good song or a sermon won't stir up the snake our ideas and programs won't mess with the serpent but I believe we're going to walk out of here Thursday night and we're going to have some fire and I want you to understand that fire May wake up some devils and that fire May stir up some serpents but I'd rather deal with some dormant devils and have the fire then be at peace with the devil and live in the cold the atmosphere that's building in this building is going to wake up some serpents and some of you are fighting battles because you made up your mind you didn't want a cold lifeless Church some of you are fighting some serpents because you made up your mind I'm gonna live for God some of you are fighting some devils because you made up your mind I'm gonna be holy I'm going to be righteous I'm going to be separated you're in a war because you decided I'm going to change the atmosphere and that atmosphere is what stirred up that serpent so you got a choice to do put the fire out and go back to the way it used to be or you can just keep building the fire you can find you another log and say we're going to keep praying we're going to keep worshiping we're going to keep inviting we're going to keep flipping the Bible study chart we're going to keep baptizing people if that's the atmosphere that awakes the snakes then that's the atmosphere that's going to give us a move of God now I want you to notice this the serpent attacked Paul's hands and there came a Viper verse three out of the Heat and Fashion on his hand and when The Barbarians saw listen to this word the venomous Beast hang on his hand somebody shot his hand the devil was trying to destroy him I don't I don't know how this works but it it appears that that the enemy had a little inclination of what Paul was about to be used by God to do and it was as if the devil knew that those hands were about to bring Miracle signs and wonders and so the enemy said this is my last attempt to stop this atmosphere from being changed and so I'm going to now attack what God plans on using because if you keep reading in chapter 28 it says at verse 8 it came to pass it the father of publicly sick of a fever of a bloody flux to whom Paul entered in and prayed and laid his hands on him same hand that had a snake on it a few verses ago the same hand that was the object of attack a few verses ago and healed him verse 9 so when this was done others also which had diseases in the island came and were healed and when this was done verse 10 they honored us with many honors and when we departed they laided us with such things as were necessary yeah there's people in your city's got everything you need to have Revival everything you don't think you need there's people in your town has got it they were honored with everything they needed to continue their Journey but that only happened because many were healed many were healed that only happened because one was healed one was healed because Paul laid his hands on them Paul was only able to do that because he handled correctly the serpent that was on his hand how you handle attacks today will determine how God uses you tomorrow Peter the devil's trying to sift you like wheat because somehow he knows there's about to be a microphone in your hand and you're about to preach on the day of Pentecost Paul the devil is trying to destroy you and if the bite doesn't get you hopefully the Venom will because he knows that he's about God is about to use your hands and I don't know who I'm preaching to but if you've been under attack you need to understand that God has great plans for you and you will come out Peter when you are converted I not if you are converted but when you are converted when you come out of this somebody shout I'm coming out of this you may have came to movement with some snakes hanging on you but you're gonna come out of this it's not a matter of if you gonna have Revival when you have Revival it's not a matter of if you're going to have that breakthrough but when you're going to have that breakthrough it's not a matter of if you're going to be able to build that building but win you're going to be able to build that building imagine what would have happened if Paul would have got bitter I don't understand the bite I don't understand the serpent I don't understand the Viper I don't understand why this happened to me I want to help somebody right now that you're being attacked don't get bitter don't let it contaminate the blood if the bite don't get you don't let the Venom get in your spirit and mess you up don't let it mess with who you are don't let it mess with the enemy attacked the very thing that God was going to use to bring about a great Revival and nothing has changed today he's still attacking those that God is planning on using to bring about a great if he's attacking your hands God's getting ready to use your hands if he's attacking your family God wants to use your family if he's attacking your finances God wants to use your finances if he's attacking your church God wants to use your church make sure you handle the attack correctly there's a miracle on the other side of the attack there's a miracle on the other side of the serpent I know the atmosphere has awakened the snake but I promise you God's got Revival on the other side of the Awakening if God be for us who can be against there's not a snake big enough to bring you down there's not a snake strong enough to bring you down there's not a problem with enough Venom to bring you down and the only reason Paul had to deal with the snake in the first place because he just wanted to build a fire some of you fighting problems because you just wanted to build a church the reason they wanted to start a fire is because they were just tired of being cold so let's just change the atmosphere not knowing that they were creating an atmosphere that was going to awaken snakes but yet it was going to also be that atmosphere that changes that Island and Paul the truth is all of that happened because you suffered shipwreck isn't it amazing that God can take something as bad as a shipwreck and use that same horrible situation to bring about things for his glory let me help somebody tonight quit letting the bad that happen disqualify the great that's going to happen some of you are only here because you were in a shipwreck but thank God you're here some of you came in on broken pieces but thank God you're here some of you got here because your marriage didn't work but thank God you're here some of you got here because your kids got all crazy but thank God you're here you may have got here by shipwreck but there's Revival on the other side of your shipwreck God knows exactly what he's doing the steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord so I was up early this morning and I was thinking about this messaging and it kind of hit me and I don't know I think you'd have to get really deep into the Greek and Hebrew to get this which you know I'm there but most people aren't and so I had this thought for the Carson that maybe you know got all the people Gathering wood and you got Paul together and wood that that maybe I think I think this is within the realm of possibility that some of the wood that some people brought were the same pieces that they were holding on to that got them there to begin with some of them said I don't have anything except this little broken piece of the ship that I was holding on to get here but if this will help change the atmosphere I don't know what I bring to the table but I know when I got to church I knew five women and the one I was checked up with wasn't my wife but thank God all I got is a bunch of broken pieces God said that's all I need I can start a fire with that that's good kindling wood right there not preaching anybody your ship ever got turned torn apart and your world got turned upside down take those broken pieces and say all right God let's build a fire and let's change the atmosphere so I looked up that word the island was called Melita and I thought well man you know do we really care so like why is it specific that oh by the way the name of this island is Melita so I looked up the word Melita and it literally means honey honey is sweet shipwrecks are sour but God usually takes a shipwreck it usually takes a shipwreck to introduce us to the sweetest parts of living for God the song says there's Honey in the Rock water in the Stone Eat Your Heart Out James Wilson man on the ground no matter where I go I don't need to worry now that I know everything I need you got there's honey if you've been going through it God's about to introduce you to some honey if all you have is some broken pieces God's about to turn it around there's honey in your rock there's salvation in your shipwreck there's promise in your pain there's blessing in your Brokenness God is not finished with you yet he that has begun a good work in you shall complete it until the day of Jesus Christ hang on to that broken piece and then build a fire and let God give you Revival in about home I feel like slapping the devil for a minute look at verse six how be it they they looked when he should have swollen or falling down dead suddenly and the Bible says they looked a great while he's not going to survive this he's not going to make it through this storm this is the one that's going to get him this is what we've been waiting on he's going down right here and they kept watching and they kept waiting and some of you can look back and you can say that everything you've been through you should not be here right now you should have swollen up you should have got bitter you should have backslid you should have died how many of you could testify had it not been for the Lord that was on your side you'd have been swallowed up but thanks be unto God and you got folks still staring at you saying I don't think they're going to get through that they're waiting on you to swell up they're waiting on you to get bitter they're waiting on you to curse God and die they're waiting on you to fall over there are some devils watching you there are some devils watching your church there are some devils watching your situation there might even be a few watching this live stream but just go ahead and keep watching and keep waiting and keep thinking that this is what's going to get us and that's what's going to get I come with a word to every devil keep watching keep waiting no weapon formed against me shall prosper I know you came here and the atmosphere woke up some snakes but God's got an anointing on you that's greater than any Venom that's greater than any problem that's greater than any attack he is a liar keep watching devil we gonna keep praying keep watching enemy We Gonna Keep shouting we're gonna keep smiling we're gonna keep believing this ain't gonna bring us down this is not what's going to bring us down greater is he the sinner somebody clap your hands and Shout yes but after they looked a great while thank you and saw no harm you kept living for God you kept being faithful to church you kept doing what God's called you to do when you that should have got you and you kept flipping a Bible study chart and when that should have got you and you kept coming to choir practice and when that should have made you change your mind and you kept doing this the Bible says after they looked a great while and when they saw no harm come the Bible says they changed they changed their minds because we're not feeling the Holy Ghost there's gonna be some people about to change their minds about some stuff people that said they'd never come back they're about to change their minds people that said they never want to live like this they're about to change their minds people that lied on you and told her and and run your name through them God's about to do a work in those same people and they're going to change they said you ought to die but now they're going to begin to Revere you and lift you back up because God's about to change them it's not only the atmosphere that woke up the snake it's the atmosphere that God used to destroy the snake somebody you need to make up your mind Sorry Devil I'm not going anywhere I'm going to stay right here I'm gonna keep preaching I'm Gonna Keep Believing I'm Gonna Keep worshiping come on musicians and they changed their minds and they changed their minds so here's Paul God getting ready to use his hands he's got a snake hanging on him I want you to realize what Paul didn't do I know how he did this you had to have the Holy Ghost you know they say they say that if you hit your finger with a hammer and you cuss they say that just proves you had cuss in you make sense to me and they say that if you hit your finger with a hammer and you praise God it just means you got praising you you really will find out what's in you when snakes start biting you now I'm just going to say this real quick I don't know what would have came out of me bro Porterville I don't know what would have came it depend on what day of the week it was but here's what Paul Brogan don't tell nobody in the UPC I'm acting a fool like this keep that our secret let me come back to South Carolina is what Paul didn't do he didn't panic he didn't freak out he didn't get all crazy he didn't put out the fire he didn't say oh I am so sorry I am so sorry I didn't know that was going to disrupt the atmosphere oh I'm sure he didn't say oh you know he didn't go all Peter on us oh I'm so sorry that we bothered the little snake let's just take the little snake over here no he didn't do any of that but this is what the Bible says he did do now verse 4 says it was a venomous Beast but verse 5 says he just shook off the Beast didn't call it a venomous Beast there because what looks venomous to others you can shake off it's not venomous to you because God has called you for such a time as this there wouldn't be enough poison in the fangs of that snake to bring that man down if God was not and all the Bible says was that Paul just went ahead and he just shook that snake off into the fire he just went ahead and if that's the atmosphere that revived that devil if that's the atmosphere that awakened that devil if that's the atmosphere that emboldened that devil then that's got to be the same atmosphere that's going to destroy that don't you go home and tone down your worship don't you go home and give into that Spirit don't you go home and start trying to put out a fire don't you go home and start trying to pet some serpents that Devil Is Alive you go home and you throw you Another Log on the Fire you go home and you make we've come too far to go back we've fought too hard to go back we've endured too much Shake It Off shake it off in the fire Shake It Off in the fire Shake It Off I'm preaching too long I know that but Shane bridge is going to preach next year because he then took my place so I got to enjoy this last time I'm gonna cook hot dogs next year that's what I'm gonna do there are certain cities that are known for their atmospheres Las Vegas is known for gambling Los Angeles for entertainment New York for finance Washington DC where politics and Power each of these places have their own atmospheres let our churches be known as a place of Revival Jesus said Upon This Rock I will build my church and the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail the atmosphere that awakens snakes is the same atmosphere that's going to abolish those snakes so when we respond to spiritual influences or activities we create an atmosphere when that atmosphere is sustained over time we create a climate which now becomes a predictable pattern climate comes with comes from the repetition of the same thing the reason why we can tell you there's going to be 90 degrees in Florida tomorrow and 95 the next day 93 the day after that 96 the day after that and we can do that for like 10 months out of the year the reason why we can do that because that's our climate it has become pretty predictable whenever we sustain a spiritual atmosphere of praise and thankfulness and Holiness and righteousness a climate of God's presence begins to form may have a snake hanging on you but I'm still going to praise God I'm not going to let this get to me and if a sustained atmosphere creates a climate then a climate creates a culture or a climate creates a stronghold you see when we hear a stronghold we just think of the enemy but the greatest stronghold in your city is your church the greatest stronghold in your city is your fire foreign churches I love I mess with people yeah first and third Sundays and I don't tell them any different I'm just like yeah what but it hit me this afternoon some of us need to learn how to be snake handlers because how we handle the snake is going to determine what God can do with us tomorrow now I'm a conservative man I'm a conservative man and lifestyle I'm a conservative man in politics but I think I'm leaning a little left Bishop I think I think I I think I'm starting to believe in climate change I think we can change the climate from something cold from something lifeless to where snakes are just laying dormant I think there's somebody that came to movement and you say and I'm ready to build a fire if you've been battling some serpents I want you to understand the same atmosphere that woke that snake up is the same atmosphere that's going to give you Miracle signs and wonders I want you to step out of your Pew if you've been fighting battles and I want you to get to this front and I want you to lift up your hands and your voices and I want you to help change the climate in this place listen somebody help me build a fire I'll be the father yeah somebody just needs to go ahead and Shake That serpent off in the fire come on man sions who wanted me please Thunder storms come on come on take the enemy of our storm I believe we're gonna shake the enemy off we're gonna shake the enemy off move thank you for the victory songs songs he has defeated I've got the victory I got the victory I got the victory Hallelujah watching short hands with somebody next to you come on after the pastor come on come on leave a little leader saying of God the saint of God come on raise that hand up high and I just want you to chant this with us I got the victory I've got the victory I've got you gotta say it to your beliefs you gotta say hey I've got the victory we Proclaim it is together War has been declared in every city and every town in every County in every Parish boy has been declared Satan this is it come on the atmosphere has already changing in this place in this place come on feel like you really mean it hey you come on where's the car at you all in I don't believe me I'm trying to believe it You're Gonna Know I I hate talking to the devil I would even like to even acknowledge he's there but sometimes he gets so bold in our faces in our lives in our families in our homes if he can be more with a joey Hall if he can be bold why can't we be bold if he's gonna continue talking or here why can't we just turn that around a little bit why can't we just turn around I know what the Bible says about the serpent you know what the Bible says there was one born of a woman there was one who was the son of God he was son of man but he was Son of God and he was born to put that serpent under his foot under his ear and he gave us the liberty and he gave us the power in the appointing come on he's under your feet tonight stop on Metro here he's at the tail come on somebody believe right now you can't have my failure Satan you can't have my Ministry stating you can have my power you're on a muffin hey he's under my face if you only knew what I was gonna be after the storm you're cute put it over come on if you believe the word of the Lord tonight could you lift both your hands and tilt your head back and just go ahead and confirm in your own heart and mind in the face of the devil and just let him know I'm gonna take what I've just heard I'm gonna apply it come on can we lift up a voice a shout just a little bit louder than that before we close out tonight