But He Told Not His Father | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

i want you to be seated for just a moment i have something unusual to do tonight and that is you know covet has knocked everything off of schedule and um conferences that were scheduled two years or two years ago um you know you're scheduled to be there there's a there is a a church in um toronto canada right outside of toronto canada pickering and it's pastored by brother castro and uh every year they have a conference and it seems like for the last few years sister carpenter and i have been invited to that conference over and over again to preach um i was to i was to be there this week preaching uh for them but uh due to covet in their own country and they have you think our restrictions are something uh they have a tremendous restriction upon them there in toronto so uh they they asked they said pastor could you could you just could you just send us something online could you could you preach something and could you send it could you send it online now i could have gathered here tomorrow and uh they had turned the lights and the cameras on and and i could i could i could preach all right but there is nothing like preaching to you folks all right there's just there's just nothing the chemistry's there uh boyfriend girlfriend there's just nothing like there is just nothing like the chemistry uh that that we have so what we're gonna do tonight would everybody like to go to canada with me tonight would you like to go to canada with me all right so if you would like to go to canada with me if you'd stand right now all right i give jesus name greetings tonight to the out of the ordinary and into the greatness conference that's going on right now in the wonderful country of canada i give special thanks for this meeting being put together by pastor castro pastor brown and pastor eastman as you are gathered there doing an online conference and we're coming to you we are praying here tonight in maryville tennessee that the mighty power of the holy ghost will be upon this meeting and that there will be miracles signs and wonders done in your conference that you have the theme out of the ordinary and into his greatness i would like to invite your attention tonight to the first book of samuel first samuel chapter number 14 and verse number 1. this one simple verse has within it a golden a golden truth it simply says now it came to pass upon a day that jonathan the son of saul said unto the young man that bear his armor come and let us go over to the philistines garrison that is on the other side but he told not his father but he told not his father for a few moments this morning i want to minister on the subject but he told not his father lord jesus tonight i ask you father to touch us i ask you lord to let your hand be upon us i pray and believe that god as were gathered here that you would allow anointing to flow through me that you would allow the anointing to flow across canada god i am by faith believing that there will be those that will see their need to be baptized there will those that will see their need to pray to be filled with the holy ghost there will be those whose faith will be raised and they will begin to believe you god that you're still the same yesterday today and forevermore lord be upon this and i'll give you praise and honor in jesus wonderful name we pray let's give the lord a hand of praise right now you may be seated but he told not his father but he told but he told not his father now it will take me just a few moments to lay the foundation for this one verse because unless we truly understand everything about the life of king saul it will be hard to reconcile why jonathan saul's son would go engage the enemy but the simple phrase is he told not his father before saul came on the scene there was the wrong desire among god's people they had the wrong desire they had the wrong wants they had the desire and the want and the request make us a king like the other nations make us a king we want you samuel to make us a king at that time israel's king was the lord god of israel at that time when israel thought about a king they thought about the lord god he was their king but as a result of leadership not walking in the ways of god the bible informs us in first samuel chapter eight and verse number five it says and said unto him behold thy thou art o the people came to uh samuel and they said behold thou art old and thy sons walk not in thy ways now make us a king to judge us like all the nations they they came and they said the people did they came and they said samuel we see the handwriting on the wall you are old in age and soon to pass we have no future in your sons for your sons are not walking the leadership your sons are not walking in the ways of the lord we understand first samuel 2 and verse 22 tells us a little bit about the sins of the sons of eli and it says now eli was very old and heard all that his sons did unto the unto all israel how he lay how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation now we have the prophet samuel he's old and his sons are just not walking after god they don't have any desire to walk after god they don't have any hunger to walk after god then we visit the priest eli that's over the that's over the temple and eli's sons are committing gross immorality they're using you talk about an abuse of power they are using their power to seduce women that would come to the door of the tabernacle to worship you see this evening it's not only it's not only imperative that we live good moral lives i believe every child of god should ask god continually to search their hearts i believe that we are we ought to be people that that strive to live above reproach we need to be people that that ask god continually god search my heart lord if i've said something i shouldn't have said lord if i if i didn't say something when i should have spoke up lord if i thought something that i shouldn't have thought lord o god created me a clean heart and lord renew within me the right spirit and i want to join the psalmist and say and oh god don't ever take your holy spirit away from me i wouldn't i don't want god to ever take his presence away from me but you see in leadership being morally pure is important but we've also got to have the right mission and we've also got to have the right motive we've got to have the right mission and the right motive jesus is coming soon and we need to do all that we can to get everybody that we can to turn to the word of god we need to do everything that we can to get people to turn to the gospel and of course the people came and they have the wrong desires because they have the wrong leader you can't you can't have a church with the right desires if you got if you don't have a leader with the right desire and so they come and they they request that they want a king like all the other nations and god god reluctantly allowed them to have a king we find this king in first samuel chapter nine and verse number two we find the introduction of this king he had a son whose name was saul a choice young man and goodly there was not among the children of israel a goodlier person than he from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people he was the tallest man in the crowd if there was a crowd you could spot saul out of the crowd he stood ahead and shoulders or shoulders and head taller than anybody he was he was nice looking he was a choice young man and god chose him that way because that's what the world was looking for they were looking for something that was pleasing to their eyes they were looking for something that looked like a king that would represent them well he started out good he started out good we find him going on a journey looking for his father's donkeys and um on this journey of searching for his father's donkeys they give up they go several days looking and finally they just they him and his servant give up they said let's let's just give up looking for these donkeys and let's go back said we're we're we're we've been gone so long that my father will stop caring about the donkeys and wonder if we've got lost or something would happen to us and the servant said to saul he said saul over in that city is a prophet by the name of samuel and over in that city is a man that people go inquire of well let me read it first samuel 9 and verse number 6 and he said unto him behold now there is in this city a man of god he is an honorable man all that he saith cometh surely the past now let us go thither per adventure he can show us our way that we should go now that's what the servant said the servant said let's go to the man of god let's let's go let's go inquire at the man of god listen to saul in verse number seven then said saul to his servant but behold if we go what shall we bring the man for the bread is spent in our vessels and there is not a present to bring to the man of god what have we now i want to introduce something here saul started off well he started off well this is a key to his character he honored the man of god he had a high honor when the servant boy said let's go to the man of god and he'll show us our way saul's dilemma was we don't have a gift to bring the man of god we don't have some kind of a token to bring him what would we what would we give him and the servant answered saul again and said behold i have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver that will i give to the man of god to tell us our way before time in israel when a man went to inquire of god thus he spake come let us go up to the seer for he that is now called a prophet was before time called a seer then said saul to his servant well said come let us go so they went into the city they went into the city where the man of god was now i want to show you something tonight that is so valuable in the character of saul and that is he honored he honored the man of god he honored that man now let me just tell you this any man that that demands honor is not worthy of honor that's an unusual thing any man that demands honor is not worthy of honor but a man that can show you god's word and god's way is worthy of you to come and voluntarily give him honor because he is showing you the way of god saul said that's well said well it was there when they went to samuel to talk about the donkeys that were gone that god had been whispering in the ear of samuel and he said israel's king is coming and when saul came walking down the road and samuel the prophet saw him god said that's him that's him and samuel took him aside and samuel gave him a list of things that was going to happen to him you are israel's king you are the desire of this whole nation you are the one that everyone and god has appointed to be and he told him he told him a number of things that would come to pass and the bible says in first samuel 10 and that after the man of god told him you're the king after he told him you're the king it says and it was so that when he had turned his back to go from samuel god gave him another heart and all those signs came to pass that day now he didn't realize it but when he turned to go from the man of god god gave him another heart god gave him god gave him another heart some time later that samuel the prophet blew a trumpet and told everyone that they were together because he was going to present israel's king to them he blew a trumpet and he called all the tribes and he had the 12 tribes come before him had a platform built and had the tribes come before him and as the tribes kept passing by it came to the tribe of benjamin but they couldn't find saul they couldn't find him and the bible says in first samuel 10 22 says therefore they inquired of the lord father if the man should yet come thither and the lord answered behold he hath hid himself among the stuff and they ran and fetched him fence and when he stood among the people he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders from his shoulders upward now look at look how humble the man is well look at what a great start he's got look at what a great start he's got he he god has he's got a great respect for the man of god and and because of that god has given him another heart but but he feels so unworthy of this honor that when they blew the trumpet and they said we're going to anoint the king when it came time for saul's house to come by saul was missing and they had to break out in a prayer meeting and and they had said god where's the king at and god said he's hid himself among the stuff you know what the stuff was when the people gathered there they brought their carriages and their suitcases and everything you know what saul had done he had climbed up under some carriages and pulled a bunch of suitcases out around him because he was afraid and they went down and started moving some suitcases out and started moving and they looked him up under the up under the carriage there and there was come on out of here saul and all his when he come out from under that carriage and he stood up and there he was he was israel's king what a start that we have here but it gets better it it it it it just gets better as it goes first samuel 10 and 26 says and saul also went home to gibeah and there went with him a band of men whose hearts god had touched now look at this not only at god giving him another heart well that's what we all want for god to do to us we all want god to give us another heart but you talk about a protective measure god not only gave saul another heart but he gave him a band of men a band is a circle that's your influence god said not only is your heart touched not only is your heart new but i'm going to give you a band of influence around you and there are also men whose heart god has touched if i could preach anything to us this morning i would preach this here allow god to change your heart oh continually ask god it's not my brother it's not my sister but it's me oh god standing in the need of prayer it's very easy to point your fingers but you've also you always got to remember when you're pointing one finger at somebody there's four pointing back at you you've got to always remember when you're looking at the spec that's in somebody else's eye just make sure you don't have a moat in your own eye you know what i want i want god this morning to give us a brand new heart if i'm going to get out of the ordinary and into god's greatness i've got to allow god to give me a brand new heart oh i wish you'd put your hand right on your heart right now and i wish you'd say god give me a new heart god give me a new heart lord i need a new heart oh yes but i not only need a new heart i need a band of men around me that have a new heart well saul he went to battle and he fought some battles but he seems to take a wrong turn you see we're never ever over fighting you are going to fight your flesh and the devil till the day you die or the day you fly all right you're either going to fight the devil until the day you draw your last breath up i've seen that old slew foot i've seen that old devil slither into nursing homes well you'd think that he'd give up on that woman or that man after all they stayed faithful for 85 years they'd never missed a service they paid tithe they gave offerings they worked in sunday school they worked in the church well you just think of sleuthful would just leave that 85 year old man or 95 year old woman alone he doesn't he slenders his way into that nursing home and whispers in their ear there is no god god doesn't love you you are useless you're not important and on and on and on he goes can i tell you this morning you will never stop fighting the devil until the day you die or the day you fly so just just settle it right now there is no ultimate victory there is no one blow you give to the adversary and you can set back and do nothing it's a fight fight fight you will fight him in your teens you will fight him in your twenties you will fight him in your 30s 40s 50s 60s and all all the way it will be a fight all the way well no wonder when we get to heaven no wonder we get to heaven we're going to understand why the gates have made a pearl you do understand that pearls are the product of a piece of sand a foreign object that gets inside the oyster and the oyster begins to fight against the grain of sand it begins to secrete a substance it begins the oyster literally begins to fight what has invaded it and throughout the fight finally they cracked the oyster open and there inside the product of the fight is a beautiful pearl to be behold no wonder when we get to heaven we're going to walk by the gates of pearl and we're going to understand it was a fight to get here but it is a fight worth fighting i'm preaching about get out of the ordinary and let's get into the greatness of god so oh saul made a bad turn saul made a bad turn somewhere he fought one battle he fought one battle and one and after that something got in him and he just settled down he just i guess my good canadian brethren it just got ordinary to him i guess it just became ordinary to him to to just settle down i've had a victory we got a little building here we got some people we've got a little choir we have some church we were established in the community and saul just kind of settled down into the ordinary i do not believe if the landscape is not ordinary if we can talk to one another about the news and we can say man things are not ordinary anymore could i present to you this morning that if things are not ordinary in the world they sure shouldn't be ordinary in the church we shouldn't have cut and dried services we shouldn't have service as usual this ought to be a day that somebody says i know we fought a battle years ago i know god gave us signs miracles and wonders years ago i know god gave us healings god gave us all kinds of miracles years ago i know god gave us all of that but he's still the same as anybody with me this morning jesus christ is still the same do you believe that he's still the same yesterday today and forevermore do you realize that if god has done one miracle that god is obligated to continue to do miracles no ordinary no ordinary no ordinary we have a precious lady that that's been coming to our church was sometimes friends of the richmonds kathy robinette she's been diagnosed with cancer and the diagnosis is not that that well for her and yesterday we called her and just had a simple prayer with her we were on our way to the sevierville campus we just had a simple prayer with kathy and and we prayed for her and we could tell she was very weak but she did tell us this she said if god will give me strength brother carpenter she said edith told me you've got an elevator that could get me up to the baptismal pool and she said if god will give me strength said it's either this sunday or next sunday but i'm going to come get baptized in jesus name i'm talking about out of the ordinary and into the greatness well today i got a long text on my phone from sister kathy robinette and she said it was unbelievable she said i was having the worst day that i've had since i've had this cancer and treatment she said but you and your wife called and she said you'll never know in a million years the power that i felt on that simple prayer i'm here to tell you that it's not a day for the church to settle in to be ordinary it is not a day for us when we look at the landscape and we can say this world is not ordinary it's time for the world to look inside the church doors and say it's not ordinary in there it's not an ordinary place in there why today today listen to me now today my wife and i were eating at a local restaurant here and the owner of the restaurant came over to the table and uh he told us he said i watch you all he said i watch you all every service he began to tell me about messages that he heard he said i've watched you all every service he said as a matter of fact as a matter of fact i have hired we have hired some more workers for this restaurant because we can't go to church on sunday but we have hired two workers out of new jersey and they're coming down and said this sunday morning we're going to be at first apostolic church he said i want you to know something now he's he's saying this on he all he has seen is a computer he said the holy ghost is in that room he said the holy ghost is inside of that room he said the holy ghost is inside of that recent you can feel it he's right there in the restaurant talking about it can i tell you something we've got a world that's not ordinary and if we got a world that's not ordinary it's time that we have churches that are not ordinary filled with the power of god it's a fight somebody say it with me it's a fight it's a fight so man why did you do this why did you go from greatness to ordinary why did you allow the enemy to surround you and why did you why did you cut a deal with the adversary and here's one of the problems here was this great problem the enemy was about to attack him and in the 13th chapter of first samuel i make reference to this chapter the enemy was about to attack him and the man of god sent word the man of god sent word i'll come in seven days and do a sacrifice before you go fight the adversary you better do a sacrifice before you before you fight the adversary i want you to do a sacrifice and so saul waited seven days and as the seventh day broke saul got impatient i'm going to tell you something we're going to fight in this last day is being patient on god is waiting on god one thing we're going to fight in this last day the bible even says it jesus even says it in reference to his coming in your patience possess ye your souls if there's something the enemy wants to cause us to be is impatient give up pray a little prayer for our loved ones and if they don't come into church because we prayed five times for them we don't pray for them anymore we just we prayed for them we really got we prayed 30 days or maybe back when we did the 41 days of prayer well i prayed for my loved one 41 days and nothing happened and the enemy is hoping you will stop bringing his or her name before the throne room because every time you bring his or her name before the throne room there is a god who is faithful that hears you praying that prayer brother cincotta brother cincotta shared the testimony of his mother and father he prayed for his mother and father for years as a matter of fact as a matter of fact he told me that he really didn't believe his father would ever come into the church he really didn't believe that that that would happen so he just prayed he kept praying and praying and praying and praying and praying for his mother and father to come to the truth praying and praying and praying praying praying not getting impatient just kept praying until one day his mother called him and asked if they were having church that night yes and then she asked could she get baptized that night because the lord had spoke to her and told her that she needed to get baptized and while they were on the phone his father spoke up and said i want to be baptized too and they were baptized in jesus name and his mother was filled with the holy ghost come on church it's a fight all the way to the finish line come on my good canadian brethren come on brother castro come on brother brown come on brother eastman it's going to be a fight pray revival harvest miracles signs wonders backsliders coming back unusual things happening come on let's pray that prayer out of the ordinary and into the greatness but he got impatient the seventh day rolled around he got impatient and he said hey bring me the sacrifice and he got out of his place you hear me saul is the king saul is not the priest you are a saint not a sinner don't get out of your place don't get out of your place i know he was supposed to come on the seventh day the seventh day is not over yet don't get impatient you are a believer not a doubter don't get out of your place you're not a doubter young lady you are a believer you're not a doubter you're a believer you're not a sinner you're a saint don't get out of your place because if you get out of your place i'm the king i'm not the priest he stepped out of his place took the sacrifice offered it up and no sooner had got it offered up then the man of god showed up and he just pronounced a curse on him he said you've got a wicked heart now you look and say well all he did was offer a sacrifice no god just revealed his heart because when he offered the sacrifice he literally said i've allowed i've allowed the blessings of god to cause me to think i can do this all by myself oh friend the greatest pill the enemy wants you to swallow is that you can make it by yourself the greatest thing he wants you to swallow is that you don't need your local congregation he wants you to think he wants you to stay at home and he'll convince you i'm just as good as those people or maybe even better than those church-going people oh don't swallow that pill don't get out of that place you don't belong on your couch on wednesday night you belong on your pew on wednesday night you don't belong on a fishing bank on sunday you belong in the church house you see don't don't don't get out of your place well he cut him a little deal with the philistines and the philistines said look i said look as long as you don't mess with us as long as you stay ordinary just stay ordinary as long as you stay ordinary i won't mess with you oh i'll give you enough well let me see here here's the deal that was cut here is it here here it is here's the deal first samuel 13 19. now there was no smith found throughout all the land of israel for the philistines said lest the hebrews make them swords and spears guess what the enemy did he took away anyone from israel that could make a weapon it's a pretty smart thing they did they didn't go in and try to kill them all they just went in and found anybody that worked in iron and they said you come with me there was nobody in israel that could make a make a weapon verse 20. but all the israelites went down to the philistines watch this all the israelites went down to the philistines to sharpen every man his share his coulter his acts his medics yet they had a file they had a file wow they had a file for the maddox and for the cultures and for the forks and for the axes to sharpen the golds so it came to pass in the day of battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with saul and jonathan but with saul and with jonathan there was found a sword now i want you to look at this for a moment it's the way the devil like to do that's the way the devil likes to our churches the devil likes to have superheroes in the church all right not not listen not all four or 500 of us can be superheroes oh no shh you just got a little file that's all you got he's got a fingernail father you got no pastor and pastor's got a sword and maybe one other person's got a sword that's that's all that had a sword and just saul and jonathan now let me tell you something saul's sword was simply to defend himself in case anybody comes messing with my tent i'm going to be able to defend myself but jonathan had a different spirit about him his was offensive he said i i'm tired just sitting here you know why he's tired of sitting here you can't see a giant fall and it not affect you you will go to your grave haunted by a miracle if you've ever seen a true miracle because you'll live your life and when other giants pop their head up you'll look at them and say you're not as big and bad as that goliath you see the difference between jonathan and saul saul forgot about goliath and jonathan never had forgotten about goliath and i could see jonathan he wasn't the leader but i can see jonathan pacing back and forth in the camp saying you know if somebody david was all by himself when he went out david was all by himself when he fought goliath all it would take would just be one person to go over there to the philistines while saul his father was was in his tent hoping nobody came around and he had an apple or two to eat to keep him from starving jonathan had something in him i wonder this morning if there's not some people here and in canada i wonder if there's not some jonathans that are saying i'm just really tired i know what god did for me years ago i know that god filled me with the baptism of the holy ghost i doubted it was real i didn't believe it was real but that sunday night when i went to church and god laid me flat on my back and i spoke in a heavenly language you can't convince me that the holy ghost is not real you can't convince me the holy ghost is not real the enemy he wants to work on us tonight to cause us to forget about our goliaths but we've got too many giant killers that are here in the house this morning and we cannot be silent you say i do how do you believe in healing how do you believe why do you believe in healing i believe in healing because i've seen people healed that's why i believe in healing i've seen people healed i know what it's like to be in nickel ridge kentucky preaching a camp meeting in a young man that was legally blind got in a prayer line and she don't give any praise or any honor to a man and if a man takes any praise or any honor for it god won't do it again because god does miracles not so men and churches get elevated god does miracles so he gets elevated but i'll never forget that young man running across the campground that night in nickel ridge kentucky with his glasses in his hands that looked like the ends of coke bottles and he was saying i see plainly i see clearly i've been healed i've seen too much i've seen too many goliaths fall why do you keep praying for people that's got cancer and you preach funerals of people that have died of cancer i'll tell you what i preach because i've seen cancer fall and i've seen i've seen people healed of cancer i've seen reports turned around i've seen absol i've got a mother-in-law here that god healed a broken arm i've seen god do all kinds of miracles don't look at me tonight and get in my prayer line there's nothing in my name there's nothing about my faith but i refuse to be an ordinary apostolic preacher in this last day because i've seen too many giants fall i see too many giants fall now does the verse make some sense now does it make sense he gets tired of setting he gets tired of being ordinary and he finds an armor bearer you see somebody's got your armor tonight god has designed all of us to have somebody carrying our armored armor tonight and he said to his armor bearer he said come on let us go over and let us discover ourselves to the philistines come on let us let us let us go over chapter 14 verse number six and jonathan said to the young man that bear his armor come let us go over into the garrison of these uncircumcised it may be the lord will work for us for there is no restraint to the lord to save by many or by few he said let's go but the last thing i'm going to do don't you tell my daddy don't you tell my daddy my daddy would represent tonight my past you see if you ever gonna go after your greatness you can't tell you're ordinary you're going when you get ready for god to do something with your life don't start replaying your past history because your daddy will tell you why you are unfit and unworthy to do a great work for god he'll bring up every failure you've ever done he'll bring up every reason you can't do it so i got to tell you tonight if you want to come out of ordinary into greatness don't tell your daddy don't tell your flesh because he's going to tell you every reason why you can't be used of god he's going to tell some of you young ladies waiting why you never could be a sister carpenter why you're not being brought up in a preacher's home well you didn't have a preacher for a father you didn't have a preacher's wife or a mother well you can't meet a sister carpenter you you you can't be like that you can't be like that can i tell you something about her she didn't have a preacher for a daddy and she didn't have a preacher's wife for a mother she come out she come out of a home that's like a lot of homes today that that are broken but you see when she stepped from ordinary into greatness she didn't say i can't do this because of that i can't do this my last name is not this don't tell your daddy just go fight the devil don't talk about your past put it behind you stop rehearsing your failures stop telling everybody what you did 20 years ago stop trying to find comfort in rehearsing your story get out there don't tell your father and get out there after the enemy and let god use you don't tell your father your father's in a survival mode that's all he's in your father has forgotten about goliath your father has forgotten about the miracles isn't it amazing that in the new testament jesus takes five loaves and two fishes something that was not enough and holds it up and blesses it and prays over it you see if you listen to your daddy your daddy's gonna tell you don't move till you have enough but if you'll listen to the spirit of jonathan you'll hold up not enough and give not enough to the one that's able to do more than enough five loaves and two fish is not going to feed 25 000 people i'm sorry to inform you five loaves and two fish are not gonna feed this multitude but put it in the hands of the master and he holds it up and begins to bless it you see tonight instead of sitting on your hands of not enough you ought to get your hands up tonight instead of sitting there waiting for your miracle to come and then you'll get happy and excited and praise him you ought to begin to praise him right he just lifted it up and he began then he set him down and he began to multiply what had not been enough and you know what this is a miracle meal you know how i know it's a miracle meal this meal there's more left over than what they started with that's a miracle meal he started with five loaves and two fish and when he ended up he said hey pick up the straps that are on the on the tables and when they picked up the scraps that were on the tables they filled up 12 baskets full they ended up with more leftovers and they didn't start starting with and then they put them 12 baskets in a boat and the boat went across the sea to go right into a storm please hear this now to go right into a storm and in the midst of the storm they begin to doubt him they begin to doubt the lord they begin they begin to doubt oh oh we're going to die we're going to now previously they just watched him do miracles but now in mark 6 51 listen to this and he went up unto them into the ship and the wind ceased and they were so amazed in themselves beyond measure and wondered for they considered not the miracle of the loaves for their hearts were hardened the last thing the enemy wants you to remember is your goliath we've all got a goliath we've all got a testimony we've all gotta we've all got a testimony of when the fire fell in our lives of the baptism of the holy ghost come on let's rekindle that fire tonight you know what it was like you went to church with not having god on your mind but before you left that service that night you were in the water getting baptized you were speaking in other tongues as the spirit of god gave up you you went to you didn't have god on your mind but before you knew it your chin was moving and your hands were clapping and you know that you know that you know oh deuteronomy 4 9 listen to what god says to israel only take heed to thyself keep thy so diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen lest they depart from thine heart all the days of thy life but teach them thy sons and thy sons sons teach them to thy sons and thy sons sons sunday night here at this church a little girl a little girl [name redacted] received the baptism of the holy ghost and spoke in other tongues somebody somebody holler out how old [name redacted] is seven seven that that came from [name redacted]'s grandmother tonight but you know what's beautiful about this sunday night [name redacted] received the gift of the holy ghost with her mother beside her hannah would you stand up right now hannah is [name redacted]'s mother and hannah grew up in this church and hannah received the gift of the holy ghost and years ago many years ago this guy named jason amburn and whitney amburn came in to this church came around got you coming around the apostolic church they wasn't apostolic they got to coming around the apostolic church and i told my wife one sunday night i said if you get that baby out of her arms i believe i could preach that woman into this altar because every time she'd get under conviction that kids still win them kids with them amber kids i got 20. one of them to start crying out when uh huh it was hannah it was the one that it was hannah she get to cry and mama get her pace back and forth in the lobby and i told sis carpenter i said you get to hold that baby i preach that woman into this altar says carter went back and got that baby and whitney walked to the altar and god filled her with the holy ghost so you know what we saw sunday night around here we saw a grandmother and we saw a mother and we saw a granddaughter to receive the holy ghost but you don't have that happen if you stop preaching the mighty baptism of the holy ghost i don't care how educated we get i don't care what kind of cathedrals we have and what kind of music we have and what kind of lights we have we need the holy ghost we need the power of god don't tell your daddy we need it can fall again hallelujah it can fall again thank you jesus hallelujah it can fall again the days of revival are not over the days of miracle signs and wonders are not over it can fall again come on praise him with me right now whoa canada i'm talking about out of the ordinary and into his greatness texas texas tried to subsidize his energies with windmills but they're now reporting that the windmills let them down in that last winter storm they had the windmills let them down can i tell you man-made windmills will let you down but there's a wind that started blowing 2 000 years ago in an upper room in jerusalem they were all gathered together in one mind one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the hat let me tell you what you need tonight you don't need a psychiatrist couch you need a re-baptism of the wind of the holy ghost oh i need some direction the direction you need is some wind to blow in your life you need to get some wind to blow i wish somebody helped me preach this morning i wish somebody helped me preach i hope to god you canadians are up on your feet shouting around i pray to god you're shouting today listen to this listen to this god said don't you ever forget what i spoke to you don't you ever forget how i spoke to you from the mountain of mount sinai don't you ever forget disciples oh oh my how in the world can you end up being a boat having to move 12 miracle baskets around and doubt whether god loves you or not how in the world can you ever be i don't care what kind of listen the miracle is for the storm don't you know that you don't have a miracle unless you have a storm some folks want a testimony but they don't want any tests i'm sorry testimony is not moaning's about your testings testimony is not moaning about how hard you got in life a testimony is i don't know what happened all of a sudden work shut down i've been on this job for 42 years and all of a sudden i'm unemployed but i just believed that i'd served a god that had brought some goliaths down god's able to put meal in a mirror barrel god's able to put money in a fish's mouth god is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we're able to ask and i think only unless you're just really ordinary it's ordinary you're supposed to get laid off i'm just supposed to hit rock bottom i'm just supposed to say you may get laid off and you may hit rock bottom but bless god you're designed not to stay on rock bottom you're you're just your design your design you have dna in you he didn't say things wouldn't come to our lives he didn't say trials and tests wouldn't come he didn't say we wouldn't get the wind knocked out of us but what he did say be of good cheer i have overcome the world your design let me end this tonight jonathan said to the armor bearer jonathan said to the armor bear in verse 6. and jonathan said to the young men that bear his armor come let us go over into the garrison of these uncircumcised it may be that the lord will work for us for there is no restraint to the lord to save by many or by few that's exactly right you may be gathered around a little monitor in your church and there may not be 20 people in your church and don't you allow the devil to try to tell you that you're not good enough to have a miracle don't you gather around in your number and say one of these days we're going to have a large congregation god's going to do things with us you rebuke that spirit right now because when god comes into the crowd god doesn't work based on how many is there that's why i used the number and he said were two or three are gathered together in my name there i'm in the midst thereof why do you say two or three not actually people two is less and three is more he just simply said less or more i'm right in the middle of you you may be gathered there with 20 people around the screen right now begin to believe god for your miracle begin to believe god for something supernatural to happen been a while since you baptized somebody put water in the pool been a while since you prayed somebody through get to teaching a bible study get out of the ordinary into greatness he said it may be the lord will work for us because god is not restrained to save by many of you watch this right here boy if covet's done anything to us it's isolated us if there's one thing i desire more than ever before is to be able to say this without fear would you lay your hand on somebody beside you oh covet came in kovit came in man you don't listen i'm smart enough to know this you don't even have to get coveted at church just get it well i drove by the church yeah i'm sure it just jumped out the doors and chased you down the red light and jumped in your car but i got news for you i long for the day that i can say well you just lay your hand over on somebody and pray for them you know why watch this armor bear and his armor bearer said unto him do all that is in that heart turn thee behold i am with thee according to thine heart i want you to see this brother nolan would you come up here for a second he said hey we're going to fight these philistines but we're not going to tell our daddy i'm not going to tell dad he's too busy sipping on kool-aid out there underneath the tent he got him a little church got incobody's brother over there he's not concerned with advancing he's got enough apples coming in to satisfy him he don't want he don't want to advance but i saw a giant fall i can't live here with these philistines i can't live here with drug addiction raping our city i can't live i can't leave here i can't live here with a culture that's trying to so pervert our children i've seen a giant fall in my life i know what it's like for god to slay the giant of tobacco i know what it's like for god to slay the giant of a poor self-image i know what i know what it's like i know what it's like to have that giant tail tell me you're never going to make it you nobody knows who you are i know what it's like to lay my bible down and say that's foolishness to believe that god would call me to preach i know what it's like to kill that giant don't you tell daddy let's go and that servant said to him step over here with me and his armor bearer said to him do all that is in thine heart turn thee behold i am with thee according to thine heart if there's ever been a day that we need loyalty to baptize us it's today yes sir if there's ever been a day that we need to have loyal people surrounding us it's today and i found out one thing the way to have a loyal friend is to be a loyal friend if there's ever been a day that we need to cast out backbiting we need to cast out backstabbing we need to cast out gossiping we need to cast out belittling one another we need to have some people say hey look in my eyes i am with you do whatever's in your heart i'm with you come on would you stand with me there's ever been a day and we need to ask god for some loyalty yes because the most important thing you better get you some friends around you that are interested in going to victory you better get you some friends around you you better get you some friends around you that are interested in living for god you better get you some friends around you that you can get off at a restaurant and listen i'll go ahead and tell you tonight i'll go ahead and tell you right now if you running with the wrong friends or not if you are intimidated to share that you enjoyed pastor's message you're with the wrong friends if you're intimidated if you can only worship god when your closest friends are not here you've got the wrong friends you need to get you an armored bear that says i've got your back i've got your heart let's go with the philistines let's go do it hallelujah it went into the ark two by two he sent them out two by two now tonight i'm not gonna ask you to lay your hand over on somebody but i'm gonna ask you to do something i'd like for us to have an altar service tonight and i'd like for you to come to the altar two by two two by two tonight come on it might be your spouse it might be a friend if you're interested in having victory you want to go from being ordinary that's right you want to be from being ordinary huh i don't want to be ordinary i i'm tired i'm tired of being ordinary i'm i'm tired of being ordinary i'm going over to the camera i'm going over to the camp i'm going from being ordinary i'm going for greatness i'm believing god's going to bring my parents in the church i i'm believing i'm believing that we're going to have we're going to have some of the most unusual people stepping through the doors of our church come on right now oh god i i'm with you i'm with you pastor i've got your heart pastor i've got your heart pastor do all that's in your heart pastor do all that's in your heart let's stop talking about our past let's not stop talking i've seen a giant fall oh i've seen a giant fall instead we've been on come on come on remember the night you got the holy ghost come on remember the night you got it come on the enemy wants you to be quiet about it oh i've seen him heal i've seen him change hearts i've seen him turn things around god is able to do exceedingly abundantly above cannot believe him tonight believe him believe him believe me believe me come on lift up your voice like a trumpet lift up your voice like a trumpet you say well i've tried that before stop talking to your daddy i've tried that before stop talking to your daddy do it tonight do it tonight do it tonight go ahead young lady go ahead young man hallelujah hallelujah come on come on come on our daddy is telling us our daddy is telling us it's wednesday night our daddy is telling us it's time to go home but could there be a miracle tonight i've seen a giant ball come on oh my god my god my god two by two two by two the husband and wife put your hand over on one another and pray for one another right now in the name of jesus christ i've seen giants fall the name of jesus christ i've seen giants fall in the name of jesus christ i pray for evelyn croucher to be healed the name of jesus christ hallelujah the devil wants us to stop talking about healing by the stripes we are healed i pray for glory as he hinder right now i pray for glory as he enter right now in the name of jesus oh god let your spirit touch glory as he under right now oh god touch glory as he enter right now oh heal her body right now lord god move down her spinal cord right now god from the top of her head to the souls of her feet lord by your stripes we are healed i refuse to allow the enemy to keep me beat down i refuse to allow the enemy to tell me the days of healing are over i refuse to allow the enemy to tell me answered prayers are over i refuse to allow the enemy to tell me i'm over here hallelujah hallelujah come on we're going to pray a little bit around here tonight oh we're going to pray around here a little bit tonight husbands lay your hands over on your wives wives lay your hand over on your husbands family members that live in the same home put your hand over and pray for one another my god come on nolan pray come on brother nolan pray over this congregation pray over right now oh god i pray that you would help me to open my eyes tonight that you're gonna do it once again god that this wall that i'm faced with tonight god that you've walked up down walls in my life oh god let me have the faith lord to believe oh god that you have done anything in my life you're gonna do it again god nothing is too hard god nothing is too big for you to do lord god help my faith tonight lord if there's any ounce of doubt in my life god help me to see lord through it lord i want to be led by faith o god i find that doubt i find fear lord in the name of jesus let it be done lord you've swayed the giants in my life oh god and you're gonna sway more in the name of jesus god help our unbelief god the greatest the greater days are not behind us but they are before us they are ahead of us in the name of jesus our greatest revival it's not behind us it's before us oh god i know you've done miracles after miracles in this church but the greatest days are ahead for this church in the name of jesus god the families got the families that have seen miracles in their lives in this church god greater miracles are ahead of them in the name of jesus i believe it right now in jesus name hallelujah i want you don't you listen would you listen to me for a moment we may need to change the music just a little bit did you hear me jonathan and his armor bearer it was an uphill climb if you read that verse if you that chapter was an uphill climb they had to climb up hill and when they got right to where they could get discovered by the by the philistines jonathan said to the armor-bearer he said here's what we're going to do we're going to step out here in the clearing where the enemy can see us and said this is the fleece if they say wait right where you're at said we're gonna stand still but if they say come on up and we'll show you something he said we're gonna know god's with us they just stepped out in the clearance too many of you tonight too many of you tonight have given up on your miracles you're just coming to an ordinary apostolic church that's why some people slide from here into the nominal churches because it's an easy slide just an easy slide but if you're somebody here tonight that says you know what i think i'm going to step out in the clearing and let the enemy know i'm back yeah oh yeah i'm back i may be a little older and my hair a little wider and my voice a little weaker but slew foot i want you to know i'm back yes yes yeah i'm back oh yeah watch this they stepped out in the clearing and the enemy started intimidating them they start barely laughing them look at that look at the hebrews the mole people the mole people have come out of the holes in the ground the mole people are out look the mole people are down there come on up here mold people and we'll show you something they start climbing they got up they jump down and the bible says round number one round number one jonathan his armor bear slew 20 men two men killed 20. it said it looked like a half acre of property had been plowed by an oxen but then god said i kind of like this 220 business and god started letting the ground tremble a little bit and when the ground trembled a little bit it discombobulated the philistines and they started fighting one another and when they started when the ground started shaking saul stopped sucking on his lemonade long enough said look what what in the world was going on said put the ephod on it he had his old religious god put the ephod on and the ground kept shaking he said take the ephod off take it off take it off said number the people number the people they said we got everybody here but jonathan and the armor bear well jonathan got to fighting and they got in the woods and in the trees we're dripping with honey that's that's that's high energy that's that's red bull well we don't do that that's red lamb red lamb right that honey's at five hour old jonathan was kind of weak he took the end of his rod and dipped it in the honey got him a big smack of that honey and that sugar hit him man he got him a sugar rush and he was ready to go he was ready to fight some more but you know what his old daddy had done his old daddy had got down in the camp and said well the victory's here and i make an oath to god if any man takes one bite today i'll kill him now what an ignorant thing to do you got victory in the camp and you're calling the fast you got victory he did he said he said if somebody anybody eats one body food day i'll have him killed and the people's out there trying to fight and they didn't have a lot of energy because they did that they were weak and but here's oh jonathan boy he was man he got him a five hour i mean he got some honey on his lips and i mean here he was killing him somebody said jonathan ate and saul said well i'll kill him i'll kill him and the people rose up against saul and said you ain't going to kill him he said he's the one that's brought victory i said all that to say this the devil likes to keep you down in your praise where did we get off by thinking we've got to have a goosebump to give god a shout amen this is a day of victory so come on why don't right now why don't we just lift our voice up not in a low hum drum beat down oh woe is me why don't we get a little honey on our lips and begin to give him a shout out come on if a shout worked 40 years ago a shadow worth tonight if a shout worth 40 years ago shout shout shout shout church shall church shout shall victory is here victories ours shout in the name of jesus shout shout out