Rev. Tim Gaddy "Suddenly"

well let's put those hands together and add our voice to it right now come on let the redeemed of the lord say so on friday night make a joyful noise to the lord right now hallelujah amen

i am so thankful to be in church tonight and i want you to know i have immensely enjoyed my time at the power conference and i'm just thrilled thank you bishop hodem thank you pastor hodem thank you all these sponsors all the preachers it has been such a privilege to be here and i'm glad that i made the drive east to mississippi

how many of you are from mississippi would you wave at me if you're from mississippi now how many of you are glad you're from mississippi would you wave at me amen i was in mississippi last week i'm in mississippi this week i'll be in mississippi lord willing next week i may need to just change my citizenship to mississippi i am so grateful to be here and uh

i hail from cabot arkansas how many of you have ever spent some time in arkansas would you raise your hand these are the blessed and the anointed ones among us right now cabot is about an hour and a half from the town of 56 arkansas and yes you heard me right 56 arkansas it's not the number five and the number six it's completely spelled out 56 is a suburb of why arkansas not w-h-y just why and then cabot is about 45 minutes east of pickles gap arkansas and pickles gap is just next door to my favorite town in our state toad suck arkansas

now how many of you are glad you're in corinth tonight amen what a privilege to be among god's people and i understand my place tonight i want to just set the table for everything the lord will speak through brother huntley and it has been a high honor to be with brother wayne huntley this week this has been such a treat aren't you thankful for his dynamic powerful ministry i appreciate you brother huntley

i will direct your attention to the book of acts chapter number one i have several friends here brother britt brothers carney sister brit i believe is here and then of course several others that i know and i am just appreciative to see all of you and i'm excited about what god is doing in this part of the country i'm grateful for that and i believe that the lord still has something for us tonight before we leave this this conference

acts chapter number one and verse number 15 in those days peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said the number of names together were about 120 men and brethren this scripture must needs have been fulfilled which the holy ghost spoke by the mouth of david concerning judas which was guide to them that took jesus for he was numbered with us and had obtained part of this ministry verse 21

wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the lord jesus went in and out among us beginning from the baptism of john unto that same day that he was taken up from us must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection

and they appointed to joseph called barsibus who was surnamed justice and matthias and they prayed and said thou lord which knoweth the hearts of all men show whether of these two thou hast chosen verse 26 and they gave forth their lots and the lot fell upon matthias and he was numbered with the 11 apostles

when the day of pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting verse 4 and they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance

i want to direct your attention to one single word in the second verse of acts chapter number two and it is where i will lift my title for this message tonight it is simply the word suddenly would you say that word with me suddenly i want you to turn to someone near you right now and say to them god has a word for you tonight amen

my wife has been in prayer for this meeting all while this conference has been going on i know you've been praying and i wish one more time we would set our bibles down and lift up our voices and holy hands in his presence and invoke his glory on this arena right now would you pray that the gift of faith will operate this evening in the name of jesus

lord it is by your authority that we come to this sacred time and i pray lord that you will set the table for every miraculous demonstration that you will bring about on this friday night

let there be no hindrances let there be no distractions lord but give us a clear word and clear direction as we leave this power conference this weekend we thank you we give you all the glory all the praise and all the preeminence lord it belongs to you and you alone we praise you and we pray to you in your matchless name the name of jesus and everybody would you say amen one more time would you say suddenly god bless you you may be seated

it was a statement made to me recently by an elder minister that i took note of when he simply said brother gaddy the older that i get the more i realize that i don't have nearly everything figured out that is a thought-provoking statement it is not an excuse to not be convinced of the truth but it is simply the fact that god is god and i am not god is god and we have to let him be god we have to trust him as the one who knows all things one of the things that i am realizing more and more is that

one of the most pointed attacks that the devil will ever make on people that are seeking god will be targeted at the point of their faithfulness god loves faithfulness churches are built on faithful people it's why paul declared it to the corinthians in the fourth chapter let a man so consider us as servants of christ and stewards of the mysteries of god moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful the wise proverb writer penned profound words when he said a faithful man shall abound with blessings but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent

let me preach it clearly and directly to some people in this arena tonight every single day that we draw a line in the sand and square our shoulders and lift our voice and declare our faithfulness to god i will tell you tonight you and i are blessed when we assume that posture

there is a great anointing upon faithful people there is a stability that comes in the kingdom of god because of faithful people it's why jesus was speaking and he made it clear his lord said unto him well done good and faithful servant when we stand before god he's not going to say well done good and talented servant he's not going to say well done good and charismatic servant he's going to say how faithful were you and if you were faithful that's well done and so god loves faithfulness

but hear me tonight the devil hates faithfulness he hates anything associated with faithfulness to god it's why he will fight us at the point of faithfulness it's why he spoke to adam and eve in question has god really said that you'll die if you'll eat that forbidden fruit it was a plot to discredit god's command to be faithful to his word

the reason why the enemy will fight so hard against you and against me being faithful is because when you and i are faithful it makes us like our lord paul said to the corinthians god is faithful by whom ye were called under the fellowship of his son jesus christ our lord he told the thessalonian church but the lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you from evil

if the devil hates faithfulness i want to be faithful to god if god loves faithfulness i've decided i'mma rise up every single morning and say i will walk with god come on i've come to preach to a preacher right now when you have church and it doesn't turn out too well step back in that pulpit preach that word from god declare the whole council of god stay faithful the devil hates faithfulness

i was preaching many years ago in southern illinois it was in the sleepy town of glendale illinois i know you may have never heard of glendale it's not the suburb of anything i called the pastor i said pastor can you give me directions to get to your church and just give them to me from when i hit the city limits that'll be fine and he just laughed at me he said son we don't have city limits we gauge everything by trees and fence posts that's when i knew i was in the sticks

we started a revival on sunday morning i hadn't been preaching all that long and he said we're going to go sunday morning sunday night monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday we're going to give you saturday off and then finish sunday morning and sunday night

i thought to myself when i got this invitation lord that's many services i don't have that many sermons i've only got about six of them so i guess what i'll do is i'll preach all six of those and then i'll massage them a little bit i'll change the title a little bit and maybe make it through the rest of the revival we started on that sunday morning and it was a small congregation but oh they loved to worship god and

it was the kind of church where we had testimony service how many of you remember those days and there was only one prerequisite for testimony service you had to be breathing and if you were breathing not only should you testify you were expected to testify

and i watched a sweet white-haired lady at the back of the church and ever so often someone would pop up and give a testimony and she'd be ready to jump up and be a little bit late and they'd sit down and she'd start to get up out of the pew and someone else would beat her up and so she probably was the last one every single every single service to testify

i always also notice that during the worship service while we were all singing you know i have great admiration for people that clap on the two and the four those of you that are music people you know how valuable that is because there's other people they're consistently clapping on the one and the three let me just show you what i'm talking about

can you give me the key of g for jesus brother oh i'll fly away o gloria fly away now most of you right now are clapping on the two and the four you are musically advanced let's sing it again and let's clap on the one and the three you ready fly away oh glory ah fly away good good that's good

this sweet lady in the back of the glendale church she didn't clap on the two and the four or the one in the three she clapped on the one quarter and the three and an eighth she was always several beats off it was the most awkward looking clap that i've ever seen in my life and yet she was there every single service

we got ready to close out that revival on that sunday night my voice was hoarse i preached everything i knew and a few things i didn't know we got done with service and i walked toward the back to leave the sanctuary and sweet sister davis the white-haired elderly lady was sitting in the back and she intercepted me in the middle aisle she stepped right out in the aisle and blocked the way and have you ever met anybody that doesn't understand personal space you ever under you ever met anybody that

instead of talking to you from a very nice distance say i'm not going don't worry bishop i'm not going to get up in your face they get right up in your business sister davis was one of those gals she'd live long enough it really didn't matter anymore she got right up in my face and she said that was good preaching son just yelling at me i said thank you sister i appreciate that and she started in on an explanation that i did not ask for

she said son let me tell you something this has been a good revival and every single day about four o'clock i laid down for my nap she said i'm 89 years old and i usually nap for at least two hours every single day and every day at six o'clock when i wake up she said i have a decision to make

one voice jumps up on my shoulder and says sister davis just stay in tonight everybody knows you're an elderly lady just lay up tonight rest up for tomorrow night nobody's going to feel bad at you pastor's not going to feel bad at you the evangelists won't feel bad at you just stay in and she said but just as sure as that voice speaks another voice gets in the other and says come on sister davis get up it's time for church come on sister davis get your clothes ready fix your hair it's time for revival it's revival time at the church she said sir i don't know if you've noticed but i've been here every single night of this revival

she said i have 10 percent hearing in this year i have no hearing in this ear she said i have heard about every 10th word that you preached she said but oh it's been good and then without asking my permission this sweet 89 year old lady lifted up her voice and she said when i think of the goodness of jesus and all that he's done for me my soul cries out hallelujah praise god for saving me

now you're gonna have to pardon me on a friday night but i've got good hearing i've got good feet i've got a healthy body i will be faithful to god come on are there any apostolics in the house that would say as for me in my house we'll be faithful in worship we'll be faithful in the house of god we'll be faithful to the kingdom whoa oh i got a challenge for somebody

when you have a good day stay faithful when you have a bad day stay faithful when you feel like a million bucks stay faithful when you don't have a dollar in the bank stay faithful i will bless the lord at all times when you've had a setback and it seems prayers are going unanswered when you have failed yourself and failed god get back in the battle when you fall down dust yourself off repent of your sins and become faithful when you have a victory stay faithful when you feel all right stay faithful stay faithful to god come on somebody clap your hands with me right now

the year was two my wife and i had planted our church about six months prior to that and it was coming up on the springtime of the year and it was time for pentecost sunday year 2000 we would all survive y2k and now we were at pentecost sunday i think it's interesting that this is pentecost sunday weekend and as a very young church of just a few months

we had determined we were going to have a blowout pentecost sunday we had about 15 people come into our church at the time and i remember paying for slick ads and door hangers and advertising we canvassed entire areas of our city we prayed over doors and prayed and fasted in in chains of people it was a rather small chain but it was a chain nonetheless

we prepared we got everything ready brother huntley i had a good sermon to preach on pentecost sunday our music team which consisted of two people had a pretty good song to sing on pentecost sunday i was primed i i was believing that the doors were gonna open on sunday and dozens of people were going to flood through and we have a massive outpouring of the holy ghost

at that time we were having afternoon church on sunday afternoons because we were renting another church's facility it got about 1 45 and i was pacing back and forth in the sunday school room in the back of the building and i was so excited about what god was going to do

i walked out about two minutes or so before church was to start in order to start the service off and i looked with anticipation through the back doors of the sanctuary to find that there were not many people there and i'm here to testify to you that on pentecost sunday 2000 we had seven people

now some of you are waiting for the rest of that sentence some of you are expecting brother gaddy to say we had seven people receive the holy ghost we had seven people water baptized no that was it the period should have been right there on pentecost sunday 2000 we had seven people i didn't feel like god's man of power for the hour

i stood up and led worship that day and the worship was pitiful the preaching was very pitiful the reason why i can say that is because i was the preacher i think out of pity the six other people when i gave the altar call came forward just to make me feel a little bit better about being in the ministry we had a mediocre season of prayer so much planning had gone into this so much preparation had gone into this we'd spent money we didn't have for this

i get done with the service and i put on the pastor smile i had a lady meet me at the back door she was also a lady that didn't understand personal space she looked at me and god love her she said pastor i'm disappointed and normally normally i have a pretty good filter but i didn't have a filter that day i looked at her and i said i am too

truth be told i was shattered we'd spent all this money all this time i'd gone without meals for this so i got in the car i had to head down to a youth camp i was on youth leadership team at the time in our district and

i called my pastor i said pastor are you in your office he pastors in little rock brother lumpkin said yes sir i am i'm getting ready for church tonight i said can i have five minutes of your time he said sure come on by i walked into my pastor's office i'm on my way to the campground to lead a youth camp

i walk into my pastor's office i sit down in the chair and i start crying like a baby i'm just sobbing in front of my pastor pastor we planned all this we passed out tracks we knocked doors we prayed we fasted it was horrible we had seven people i don't think the holy ghost was within 20 miles of that church i'm just broken completely broken and in my mind i'm thinking i need a word from my pastor right now i need an encouraging word from my spiritual authority and i'm just sitting there with my head down

and i'm just heaving and sobbing and i'm thinking god speak to my pastor right now give him a word for me right now let him have a prophetic word from heaven for me right now and it seemed like an eternity and he was doing nothing just letting me cry i kept my head down

finally i heard him get up from his chair i didn't lift my head but i heard him get up and he came around the corner and i felt his presence near me and inside i started thinking here it comes i'm going to get a word from god right now i'm going to get a word that's going to keep me going right now and i felt my pastor's hand on my shoulder he put his hand on my shoulder and i was primed for a prophetic word

when he leaned down into my ear and just simply said stay at it i'm broken and inside i didn't say it to him but inside i was thinking is that it give me some more and with that one simple phrase he walked around and sat down in his chair and just looked at me just stay at it get back up in that pulpit next sunday morning when pentecost sunday is over and it's just the 12 again get up in that pulpit and preach the word of god

when you feel the rush of the spirit stay at it when you don't feel the holy ghost a million miles from there stay at it oh i got a word for a preacher right now stay at it stay at it stay at it there is a day coming when heaven's going to open up the glory of god is going to be seen we must be faithful come on somebody help me celebrate faithfulness tonight

brother huntley i can take you to the pentecost sundays when we had 20 filled with the holy ghost 25 filled with the holy ghost 18 baptized in the name of jesus you say how does that happen brother gaddy that's just kevin oh no honey that is a pastor and a church just staying at it day after day week after week year after year if we will be faithful god will show up oh

i feel it there's coming a day pastor when you're gonna preach and you're not gonna be expecting it but that back door is gonna open up and prodigal children are gonna walk down that aisle and be filled with the holy ghost there's gonna become a sunday when healings are gonna break loose the power of the holy ghost is going to come in that house come on i'd hate to give up one sunday too soon i'd hate to keep believing one weekend too soon there is an outpouring of the holy ghost stay at it stay at it stay at it

be seated just for a moment i have always always always been amazed by this guy in acts chapter one named matthias number one i like his name i like the way it rolls off the tongue matthias he was the man who took judas's place and the bible says that they propose to and then they cast lots now i won't go into a long understanding of what that was like but basically they just voted they kind of put it out there and let the lord in fact they said lord show us which of these two will be numbered with the eleven and the lot fell upon matthias

now i need the help of these guys this back row guys can you come and help me real quick come on come and stand right here if you would just right here ladies and gentlemen these are the great disciples right here of jesus christ right there yeah aren't they good looking strapping handsome bulging with muscles they just felt the anointing sweep in here but if jesus well he walked along the shores and healed bodies and opened up deaf ears if he had taken a selfie these are the guys that would be in the front row i'm going to stop here and say this as short as i am

i have never been on the back row of any picture you know how much i long to be on the back row of a picture but if jesus had a picture with his disciples

here's the marquee names but when it came time to replace judas another one of the front line picture guys here was the prerequisite we must choose a man acts chapter 1 who has accompanied with us all the time from john's baptism until right now

we don't need somebody that showed up yesterday saying this jesus thing is pretty cool we don't need somebody that meandered in last week and said i heard jesus is in town but in the good times and the bad times in the breaking of the bread and the fish and those that turned and walked away we've got to choose somebody that has been there the whole time

so if you will look hard enough in the back of that picture there's matthias we usually have to look on the second or the third row but there he is there he is at the raising of jairus daughter there he is at the feeding of the five thousand and the four thousand there he is when we came down off the mount of transfiguration you don't see him up front but he's in that second or third row you'll notice that matthias is there all the time

and his decision to show up every single time positioned him for an opportunity that he probably never thought he would ever get i'm preaching to a pastor that's on the third row of the picture and i'm saying to you stay in the picture stay in the balance stay in the fight keep showing up

there is coming a day when god is going to break loose something that you get to be a part of that you didn't see coming oh i feel faith rising up in this house it might be this sunday it might be this month that god breaks something loose you've been praying for it you've been fasting for it you've been asking for it you've stayed faithful for it

there is coming a day you may be seated and the scripture simply says and the lot fell upon matthias and he was numbered with the eleven and when the day of pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place and suddenly

i want us to examine that word here for just a second that wasn't some lottery ticket that happened at the day of pentecost but for three and a half years jesus had been walking and teaching and connecting and imparting jesus had showed up when people's kids were dead and when people needed bread to eat for three and a half years apostles walked with him on the mountaintop and by the lake for three and a half years they stayed faithful even in the midst of religious leaders putting them down and talking bad about them just stayed faithful

i'm gonna be faithful in january i'm all be faithful in february i'm gonna be faithful in march and in april i'm gonna be faithful in may and and we'll be faithful at power conference i'm going to be faithful in the doldrums of the summer july and august in september i'm going to stay faithful october i'm going to be faithful november i'm going to be faithful december i'm gonna be faithful it doesn't matter who's in the white house it doesn't matter who the governor is it doesn't matter who goes where or who does what i will stay faithful

stand with me right now i feel a prophetic spirit on me right now somebody is going to have a suddenly happen oh brother huntley i feel it somebody who's been on the third row of that picture for a long time jesus is going to say it's your time i've seen your faithfulness i've seen your consecration i'm going to open up something in your community you haven't ever seen before

suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind suddenly it happened i didn't see it coming but suddenly it showed up brother you can come to the keyboard that'll help me to quit suddenly i'm going to turn it back to we're going to pray in just a minute i believe god's going to baptize this house with glory suddenly how many of you will give god permission to surprise you

i was preaching on water baptism back in december of last year i didn't realize who all was there is a guest of our church big old tall lanky guy with his wife was sitting in the back i called everyone up front and i've had people turn to each other and say have you been water baptized in the name of jesus everybody did that and i saw a lot of people doing this and a couple people doing that

i noticed a big tall lanky guy did that he was standing right in front of the pulpit on the floor i said now if somebody said to you they have not been water baptized in the name of jesus christ and they said no if you ask them and they said no i want to ask you a question those of you that nodded know how many of you would like to be water baptized in the name of jesus christ for the remission of your sins right now and without hesitation big old tall lanky guy didn't just raise his hand

he came up on the platform right next to me he's a big tall drink of water his hand is way up in the air he's i'm ready i'm ready to be baptized right now his wife who was standing on the floor she raised her hand she said i am too

so i grabbed one of our ministers who's over our baptistery ministry i said take them in the back and let's baptize them they took them in the back we water baptized tommy and we water baptized his wife karen she came up out of the water speaking with tongs it was a glorious service we baptized six people that morning

i came out of the baptistry area and i had someone grab me and they said pastor do you know who that is big tall lanky guy i said no that's tommy smith i said that's good i like his name tommy smith easy name to remember they said you don't know who tommy smith is i said no i don't know who tommy smith is they said

he's the number one talk show host on the number one talk show station in all of arkansas he has a show monday through friday from 6 a.m to 10 a.m and we just water baptized him in the name of jesus christ and his wife just got the holy ghost now i'm a child of the 80s and so my response was that's cool that's cool i want to say this everybody in the kingdom has equal value every single person has equal value but not everybody has the same influence

so about 6 15 the next morning on monday morning my phone starts blowing up bishop my phone would not stop text messages just coming left and right here's what they said pastor pastor are you listening to the radio right now i said no i'm they sleeping you got to turn on the radio i turned on the radio and they were talking about somewhat sports thing and i just turned it off about an hour later one of the men in our church sent me a transcript of what tommy had said on the air that morning at 6 15.

they have a segment of the show called what'd you do this weekend they went around the table talking about what they did when it came to tommy tommy said y'all want to know what i did this weekend i said yeah we want to know what you did he said i got water baptized in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins a hundred thousand watts strong broadcasting it out all over the state of arkansas they said you got water baptized you mean just sprinkled

he said no they took me and put me under the water my pastor preached that there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved you must be born of water and spirit to enter the kingdom of god

i didn't see that coming bishop but i just made up in my mind i'm gonna keep on preaching it i'm gonna keep on speaking it and declaring it and saying this is the way of the lord walk in this way

here's what i want us to do i want you to reach over and find somebody and i want you to speak faith over them right now i want you to lift up your voice i don't want you to melee mouth a prayer but i want you to say lord i see it happening for him in the name of the lord jesus christ come on i see it happening for him in the name of the lord jesus christ come on pastor i see that day coming

i see that day coming i see a visitation i hear the sound of abundance of rain come on somebody is going to have a sudden move of god somebody is gonna have a sudden visitation of the holy ghost

come on pastor find another minister right now speak faith over them speak the word of god over them right now there's coming of hesitation oh i feel it in the holy ghost there is coming a visitation of the spirit of almighty god suddenly there came a sound from heaven suddenly there came a visitation from on high come on somebody i wish you would praise god like you would praise god when the miracle happens i wish you would lift up your voice and glorify god like it's already taken place it's already happening god is at work