 so they should be getting on any minute now. So if you're logging on, we're waiting for just a few of you to start getting on to our live broadcast here. I'm just sending out the final tweets and posts here that has to do with the live broadcast. Jess is here with me, hello guys. And so like I said, we're giving you a few minutes to log on there. And let me see here. So we're going to be talking today and I don't think it's by accident that you logged on. So Jessica say hello, we gotta be logging on. So this is Jessica's first live broadcast with me. And so we're happy to be broadcasting with you guys. She made us tea for this. I don't know if I'll be drinking that much tea, but so we're gonna be talking today about stewardship and how to move from frustration to fruitfulness. And so I believe that God has called you. I believe that God has purposed this divine moment just for you. And I truly do believe that you who are watching are going to experience, as you listen to the word, you're gonna experience a breakthrough. Maybe you've been praying for a breakthrough in your finances, maybe you've been praying for a breakthrough in your family, maybe you've been praying for a breakthrough in your mind, in your emotions, in your business, in your ministry, in any area where you've been praying for a breakthrough. I believe that if we're faithful to the word of God, that we will see the breakthrough that God has for us. So we're gonna go now. And again, I may be doing some interaction. In fact, let's see if your periscope won't work now, so we can get some people logged on there. So I'm gonna open up my wife's phone. And so this way, those who are on YouTube get to see us. And then also those who are on periscope will get to go. So I'm gonna send out a quick broadcast to our periscope. So again, we're just giving you a few minutes to log on. We're gonna get right into the word. We're gonna pray for you. We're gonna talk with you. We're gonna answer your questions. And we're gonna have a good time. So okay now, so the internet here is a little slow. And I don't wanna get on the wifi because we could disrupt their broadcast. So we'll set this aside for now. So Jess is here joining me like I said, and this is our first live broadcast together. But okay, let's get into the word. And actually we're gonna be in Matthew chapter number 25. And I'm talking to you today about going from frustration to fruitfulness. And so basically, let's go here. So go to Matthew chapter 25. I'm reading out of the new living translation for those of you who wonder, that's the translation out of which I read all the time. So we're gonna look at three different keys that'll help you go from frustration to fruitfulness. And actually I gotta do one more thing. Go ahead and look at this. I'm gonna type into you right now. You'll see it, if you're on YouTube, you should see the chat box appearing. Now if you're watching this on my website, you're at davidinandisministries.com, you can actually scroll down to the bottom of the page and it'll say interact with David. You go ahead and push that button and it's gonna take you over to the YouTube app. Once you're in the YouTube app, you scroll to the bottom and you can participate in a chat or if you're doing this on a desktop, it'll appear right on your, if you're watching this, I believe it will be your right hand side of the screen where the chat will be. So again, so Matthew chapter 25. Let's go and let's start at verse number 14. This is Jesus giving a parable. He's talking about the parable of the talents and he's going to give us some insight into what the kingdom of God is like. So again, you're watching this, you won't break through in your finances, you won't break through in your ministry, you won't break through in your relationships and wherever the area is that you need break through, I believe the word of God has the answer. Actually, I'm gonna pray before we get started. So Lord, we thank you for each and everyone who's logging on and we pray, Father, that you would anoint this broadcast as Jess and I agree with that one watching. Lord, that you would cause them to experience transformation. Lord, that you would remove the frustration and that Father, you would take them from the place of frustration to fruitfulness. We thank you for the anointing that's here now, breaking every yoke in Jesus' name we pray and I want you to say it out loud, say, amen. Okay, so again, I can see the chat guys if you wanna send in some prayer requests and whatnot. So again, Matthew chapter 25, verse number 14, let's go for it here. This is Jesus talking again, the kingdom of heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going on a long trip. He called together his servants and entrusted his money to them while he was gone. He gave them five bags of silver to one, two bags of silver to another and one bag of silver to the last, dividing it in proportion to their abilities. He then left on his trip. The servant who received the five bags of silver began to invest the money and earn five more. The servant with two bags of silver also went to work and earned two more, verse 18. But the servant who received the one bag of silver dug a hole in the ground and hid the master's money. After a long time, their master returned from his trip and called them to give an account of how they had used his money. The servant to whom he had entrusted the five bags of silver came forward with five more and said, master, you give me five bags of silver to invest and I have earned five more. The master was full of praise, well done my good and faithful servant. You've been faithful in handling this small amount so I will now give you many more responsibilities. Let's celebrate together. And we see the same, basically the same narrative repeats again for the second servant. And then the scripture goes on to say, in verse 24 now, then the servant with the one bag of silver came and said, master, I knew you were a harsh man harvesting crops where you didn't plant and gathering crops you didn't cultivate. I was afraid I would lose your money so I hid it in the earth. Look, here is your money back. But the master replied, you wicked and lazy servant. You knew I harvested crops I didn't plant and gathered crops I didn't cultivate. Why didn't you deposit my money in the bank and at least I would have gotten some interest. Then he ordered, take the money from this servant and give it to the one with the 10 bags of silver to those who use well what they are given even more will be given and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing even what little they have will be taken away. Now throw this useless servant into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Now that seems rather harsh but that's Jesus talking and he's giving us a story about what it means to be faithful with the parable of the talents. So I want to give you now three keys to experiencing fruitfulness. Now, before Jess and I met, I was in the ministry. I was, I got saved when I was 11. I began preaching the gospel when I was 13. So I'm 26 now and this is going to be going on 13 years of preaching the gospel. Actually I'm in my 14th year now preaching. Can you believe that? In my 14th year of preaching the gospel and I'm 27 so that's a testimony hopefully that will encourage those of you who are young and young just like me and I believe that God can use your life in the same way and in even greater measures. So we're gonna look at this first key. So the first key to experiencing a breakthrough is stewardship. Now the reason we have so much problems with stewardship nowadays is because people want to be used by God immediately with what they see in their mind. So maybe God has given you a dream and he's told you how he's going to use you and he's told you how he's going to annoy you and he's told you what you're going to say and the message you're going to speak and the people you're going to reach and the fashion of how you're going to carry out the message but the truth is that God shows you the destiny but there's a process to getting to that next step. Now, God will show you intervals of revelation about the will of God over your life. Now in my life when I was 11 years old and I got saved and God showed me visions some of you know I'm on Juice TV which used to be JCTV. When I was 11 years old, I watched on TVN as Jan Crouch revealed the name of the new network that they were starting and the Holy Spirit told me very clearly. He said, you're going to be preaching on that network. You're going to have a half hour program. He's very specific with me and I didn't disregard it. I didn't say, well, Lord how? I just said, okay, with childlike faith I just accepted it because the Lord said it. Now God, since I was 11 years old had shown me a master plan up until this point. Now there's one more phase of ministry that I have to go through and once I'm done with that phase I'll need a fresh word for the next, you know, 15 years or so of ministry. But up until this point the Lord has shown me every step of the way until the next one. Now he's shown me what the steps were. He's shown me what to do but he's not always shown me how to do it. That's where faith is coming over time. But I've been a good steward over it because if anyone asked me, they go, well, where did your ministry start? Brother David, how did you start a ministry? I'm telling you I started in the projector at the church. I was the song flipper. That's all I did. I did that for a year, two years almost just flipping songs in the sound room. And again, this is before I met my wife Jess and all I did was that. All I did for two years was flip the songs on a projector. Now, if you had walked into that church and you saw a 12 year old boy flipping a projector or an overhead projector, the little transparent sheet some of you might not have been used it some of you came into the church after overhead projectors had been outdated and we got the new digital projectors in. But the truth is that if you came into that church and you saw me 12 year old me flipping the songs you would not have visualized anything that you see today. And I'm not saying that as a point to brag I'm saying it as to say God is faithful. All I did was start in the ministry with flipping songs. That's where it all began. And dear, anything you wanna add as we're talking you can go ahead and just chime in. I don't know, anybody interrupt me but my wife she's the only one who's allowed to do that. But she's got a lot of good things to say you'll have to bear with us. This is our first time doing this together. So my wife is just a little bit nervous but she's happy. So she's happy to be here. So she said, I'll let you do the teaching and then I'll hop with the questions on the prayer at the end. So we won't make her do that unless she wants to but I want you to know that's why she's not saying anything because she's gonna wait to answer your questions and pray with you at the end. Anyway, so I remember just doing that for two years and then I began to preach the gospel at 13. Now I didn't start preaching at these amazing conferences with tens of thousands of people inside the arena. I'm not even having to preach to thousands that often yet. I mean, every so often there's a few thousand I preach to but it's not regularly part of ministry. It's still growing. The ministry is still, I believe in its infancy but the truth is that I wasn't a very good preacher. Some of you may say, oh, Brother David, don't be so hard on yourself. Oh, you're just trying to be humble. No, no, no. Trust me when I tell you, 13 year old Diga Hernandez was, I would not have, I mean, I'm telling you, people pay registrations nowadays. I wouldn't have paid 50 cents to go and hear myself preach. I'm not trying to be down on myself. It's just the truth. I was just, it was developing the skill. However, what I did have was a very real relationship with the Holy Spirit and I still do. And because I was in prayer, because I was devoted and faithful to what God had called me to do, even in the little, he raised me to a different place and it started with me preaching at 13. I would just go into these services and just preach a little bit. And then after I preached my 10, 15 minute sermon, the power of the Holy Spirit would start moving. I would start to look into the crowd. I would see things inside of people. I would see sicknesses in people. I would see demonic spirits inside of people. And the Lord would just leave me to different people to tell them different things, pray for them in different ways. And each time he was faithful to manifest his Holy Spirit's presence in that service in such a way that people's lives were transformed, again, not because of me, but because of the Holy Spirit who was around me. And so that started that way. And I would just preach once or twice, every three or four months at my youth service and then other youth pastors would come and visit. And they'd say, who's this guy? To my youth pastor, Eddie Vargas. They would say, who's this young guy you have preaching? He'd explain and they'd get me for their youth service and word just began to naturally spread, but it started with me flipping songs. That's when I became a televangelist. That's when I entered into the TV ministry. There were no cameras yet, but I believe that it was when I began to use my talent, which was just at the time being able to flip songs. That's all I did. And I worked in the sound room. And even when I started preaching, I still worked in the sound room. I worked in the media department. I was the guy making sure the microphones worked and making sure the projector worked. In fact, I took film projector classes just so the church had someone in the building who knew how to use a projector. But here's the issue. Many of us, because what we have isn't what we want, we treat it like it's less than that. But the scripture says, in fact, it tells us to not despise the day of small beginnings, that the Lord rejoices to see a work begin. God celebrates the newness of something that's in its infancy. And we will wait for things to come our way before we start treating what we have like it's what we want. But good stewardship is treating what you have like it's what you want. In fact, excellence is not having the best of everything, but doing the best with everything that you have. So I began preaching and just about 2000 and, oh my goodness, probably 2009. I first, I did one event on a Thursday night and we called it The Encounter. This was one of the first encounter services we ever did. It's called The Encounter and we held it at a little building in Paramount, California. It was called the Madison Building and it seated about, there's about 60 people who showed up to that event. We had brought in TV cameras, we had brought in special guests and that was the first television taping we ever did. And from there, we used that to do local cable, but that didn't even last for long. In fact, it failed the first time we tried. It did not take off. There was one or two episodes that aired, the funding dried up, nobody responded. I don't think even, but a dozen people watched that first broadcast when it first came out. And I was very discouraged, but I said, Lord, I'm gonna be faithful. You promised it. I did what you told me to do and I'm just gonna go with what you caused to happen. And so I remember I would begin, I said, okay, Lord, I'm just gonna keep doing what I do. And I would still take these programs that I had no idea what to do with them. And then I saw that YouTube was getting very popular. And so then that's when our ministry decided we're gonna do Monday night tapings and we're gonna air these things on YouTube and we're gonna do them live on a website called Live Stream. And for almost two years, we would film every night, Monday nights, for a whole hour, for two years, and 30 to 40 people would watch each broadcast. Now, nowadays, you look at the TV broadcast, there is, we don't know the exact numbers because we're not on the Nielsen ratings, but with all the networks combined, we look, it seems as though we have an average of about a quarter million viewers per episode. On YouTube, you've seen on this channel, we're getting over 500 subscribers every 28 days. There's almost 60,000 views every 28 days. We have over 6,000 subscribers now and God's blessed that he's starting to grow. Again, still in its infancy, but God's starting to grow it. But I remember the way we got to connect to the TV was we were just able to do that video every single week, even though it was just 35 people watching overall. I mean, it would sit there until the next week and it took one whole week to get up to 35 views. And so what we ended up doing was tweeting one of the episodes out. And I remember I just put it on Twitter because we just got a brand new Twitter and one of my friends retweeted the video. And one of his friends just so happened to be a family member of the Crouch family, he saw it and said, we got to get this guy in the program. Brought me in the TVN, I did one interview. It was my first TV interview. You can look it up on YouTube. It's my, it's called, the show was called Off the Record. And I did that one TV interview from there. The head of JC, then it was JCTV, now it's Juice TV. The head of JCTV was watching. And he, because of that, I was able to call and he goes, oh yeah, I watched the interview. And because of that interview, it opened the door to go and meet with the head of Juice TV. We talked about having a TV program and it all snowballed out of there, but it started with being faithful to just taping those programs that it seemed like nobody was watching. And maybe you're there right now and you're in ministry, you're in business, you have a family, you're struggling. I'm here to tell you, your day of breakthrough is coming if you just stay faithful. It is a law of scripture. The scripture says, don't grow weary and well-doing for a due time, you will reap the harvest. If you're in a place right now where it seems impossible, that's a perfect place to be. Because an impossible situation is the perfect setting for a miracle. If you're in this place right now and you're watching this broadcast and you're asking, you're wringing your hands and you're going, Lord, I don't know how you're going to do it. Then you're in the perfect place because when you have exhausted all of human effort, that's when God steps in and God allows it to happen this way so that when you've exhausted all your effort and the miracle comes, nobody but God can take the credit. And so you need to be faithful. You need to be a good steward. You need to treat where you're at like it's where you wanna be. You need to treat what you have like it's what you're going to possess when you walk in your destiny. You need to do your best with everything you have right in this moment right now. So that's number one is stewardship. Number two is generosity. Now, how did the parable of the talents, people who are the talents, how did they multiply what they had? They multiplied what they had by investing it, by putting it to use. Often we wanna hang on to what we have and because of that reaction, God is not able to bless us because we're hanging on to what we have. That was the second, that was the third guy. He said, look, I was gonna invest it, but I was so afraid I was afraid you would react to certain. I was afraid I was gonna lose it. I was afraid nothing was gonna come of it. And because of that fear he withheld, how many times do we do this to God? And so generosity, I'm not just talking about with your finances. I'm talking about with your time. I'm talking about with your talent. I'm talking about with your mind. I'm talking about with your relationships, your friendships with people. People who live a generous lifestyle become refreshed because the scripture says it's so. And if you're someone who's watching this right now and you're afraid to let go, you're afraid to give things, listen to what Jesus said in Luke chapter six verse 38. He says, give and it shall be given. I mean, it's just that simple. And then he's talking about how it's gonna come back to you so much though that it's gonna overflow. And I'm here to, I wanna speak hope into you. You may be in a tough situation right now, but let me tell you something. You don't know what the next 24 hours hold. You don't know what the end of this week is gonna look like. You don't know that by tonight God isn't gonna meet your need. You don't know if you're gonna get a surprise phone call, a surprise, something in the mail, anything. Someone's gonna contact you on Facebook and you don't know that that might not happen. But if you have faith and you step out and you say, Lord, I'm gonna start releasing. I'm gonna start being generous. Then God is gonna be able to multiply what you have as you give to others. But like this man with a talent, we often say, Lord, I don't want to. We say we believe in God. We know mentally his word is true. Yet when it comes to our lives, we don't step out in faith. I remember one time I was struggling in the ministry financially. And this happens every now and then because not because of poor planning, but because we're a donation-based ministry. So we can only look at what our average income is and base everything on that. So we look at the monthly average ministry income. We try to keep our monthly costs below that. Anything that comes above it, we put on extra events, extra outreaches, extra media that'll reach people for the gospel. But sometimes there are just seasons where people just stop giving and you'll get 10, 15% of people just have different things that come and they can't give that month. And then those dips come. And I said, Lord, I don't want these dips to come. And he just said, that's part of the walk of faith. It's not all easy. It's not all just planning. Every day you're working to make sure that you're keeping up with what God is doing. And so I remember we were in that week and I was praying, I was like, Lord, you have to bring in the finances. I'm asking you to bring in the finances. It's for your gospel. It's for your word. And I remember the Lord told me, he says, don't worry, I'm gonna take care of it. And I said, okay, thank you. And I kept praying as if he hadn't spoken that. Then I get a phone call from a ministry partner and they said they were sending a check over for the amount pretty much covered, the whole need. And they just decided to be generous. And as soon as I heard that on the other end from that person, I was relieved. And I said, oh, thank goodness, the need is met. And then the Lord said, how is it that you're relieved and have peace when man promises you something, but you remain in fear, even though I promised you something? He said, when you have just as much faith or more faith in my promises that you do in man's promises, then I can trust you with the next portion, with the greater portion. And I said, Lord, how will I know when I have this kind of faith? He said, when my promises bring you just as much peace as that check did. And it shook me, the Lord rebuked me, yes, I'm not perfect. And I said, okay, Lord, point taken. And that was something I had to learn and trust for the ministry there. But that's so true. I mean, if I were to call you right now and say, hey, I understand you've been going through a difficult time. Jess and I are in a good season. We want to bless you. We want to help you. If I called you and said that, you would be relieved. You would say, oh, thank God, the need is met. But God's already promised that. God himself has already told you. And the scripture says, my God shall supply all my needs. It doesn't say some, it says all my needs, according to his riches and glory. The scripture talks about him as provider. And the scripture says that God gives us the things that we need. And Jesus says, you got to just stop worrying. You can't accomplish anything by word. You know when you're ready for God to bless you? When worry no longer grips your heart. When you can face a circumstance and say, God's gonna take care of this, I'll be fine. Then you're ready for the next portion of blessings. In fact, this type of generosity that comes when we give to ministries, when we give to people, when we give of ourselves, of our time, of our ability, of our strength, of our emotions, everything we invest in ourselves, when we give it into the gospel, when we give it to people, then God steps in and blesses us. The problem is, most of us will not make this shift from fear to faith, because it's human nature. Sure, we'll do a little something here or there that's kind of challenging to our faith, but we don't do the whole thing. I know there's been, there was a gentleman who came and he gave me $14,000 in cash for the ministry. And he said, you know, I didn't even like you. And I thought that was funny. He says, I didn't even like you, but God told me to give this to you. And God blessed that man because of what he, but he was withholding. The guy said, I was withholding because I didn't want to give because I didn't want to sell because I didn't like you because I didn't have the faith. There have been time and time and time again where people will come up to me and say, I wasn't going to do this for the ministry, but God told me to do it. I did it. And then a week later, 10 times came back. And I'm not promising you anything like that. That would be a gimmick if I would try to promise you that. What I am saying is that it's important that we be obedient despite what we think the outcome will be. And so now we're going to move on to the third key. So number one is stewardship. We need to treat what we have like it's what we want. Number two, it's generosity. We need to give like we want to be given. And number three, it's faithfulness. You know, if I start a train, a train because it's heavy starts to build up momentum over time. But if I keep stopping that train and switching directions, then that train is never going to go anywhere. That train is never going to build any momentum. So what we need to do, excuse me, one second, I got to adjust something on our screen. So what we need to do is we need to keep going in one direction and not change that direction. So some people say, oh, I was faithful or oh, I was generous, but they weren't faithful or generous, but they weren't a good steward or generous for a long period of time. Excuse me, they say I was a good steward or oh, I was very generous, but they're only a good steward for maybe six months or they're only generous for maybe a year. And faithfulness is the component that brings these to life. So it's like an airplane. I read this in Pastor Paul Paymentel's book, which is a book called God's Number, a very good book on financial blessings. And he talks about in his book, he talks about an airplane and how there are so many things that need to go right in order for an airplane to take flight. He says, but there's only one or two things that need to go wrong to bring the whole thing down. That's what it's like when living a blessed life. That's what it's like when receiving breakthrough. You see, we can do right in one area, but because we're not doing right in another area, we're being wrong, we're being blindsided. The enemy is taking us out in an area we're not considering. So maybe you are very generous with your finances. Maybe you do so into the kingdom often, but you're not a good steward. You don't budget right. You spend money you don't have. You build credit or you use credit you shouldn't use. You acquire things that you don't need. Oh, I know I'm talking to somebody now. So you may be generous. And typically it's one or the other. Typically people who are very generous because they're a little more free with their finances, they're not as disciplined. And typically people who are good stewards, they kind of have it in their mind. They think I have kids. I have a wife. I have responsibilities. And that's true. I understand. I have a wife too. I have responsibilities. I have to take care of her. I have to take care of my home. I have to take care of the ministry. I got full-time employees. I mean, I work very hard to make sure everything's taken care of. So I'm very disciplined, very organized. However, sometimes God will call us and challenge us to do things that we go. But Lord, you wouldn't have me do this. That's foolish. I'll tell you this. The only difference between faith and foolishness is whether or not God has spoken. So once God speaks, it's foolishness to disobey despite what he's told you to do. And delay is disobedience. So I like to do immediately what God tells me. There's been times where I've been strapped and my technical mind, my good steward mind says, Lord, I shouldn't sew this. And God says, sew it. And I said, Lord, I shouldn't. And here I am telling God I shouldn't do it. And I'll do it and there's a blessing that results from it. So usually people who are good stewards aren't very generous. And usually people who are very generous aren't very good stewards. And usually people who do both only do both for a certain amount of time. But we need all three in order for this to take off. We need to be good stewards. We need stewardship. We need to be givers. We need generosity. And we need to be consistent. We need faithfulness, stewardship, generosity, faithfulness. You do those three things and you're gonna see a breakthrough in every area of your life where you apply them. Well, I know that was a short message. I wanna challenge you now, before we get into the Q and A, there are needs coming up in our ministry. And you know, there are needs coming up. And I told my wife, by the way, I just look at the screen here. So there are needs coming up in the ministry as usual. And this month there have been some people they sort of kind of, they don't keep their pledges and that's okay. We know God makes it up. So the way our ministry works is we have monthly donors. They give consistently. And then we have donations that kind of sporadically go up and down. So this week we're a little, not behind, but if we keep at this pace, we will end up being behind. Like I said, we're good stewards. So we plan well ahead for these type of things. I wanna challenge you to sow into this ministry today, not tomorrow, not next week. I'm telling you, God is speaking to your heart. And if he's speaking to your heart, just do it. There's no wrong direction that you can go. So I wanna challenge you, those of you who are watching, if you'll become a $30 a month partner today, not tomorrow, not next week, today, if you'll become a $30 a month partner, I wanna send you this. We just got these in. We got 1200 copies of Carriers of the Glorian. This is from, look at this. Destiny Image is releasing this one. And they did a really nice job in revamping the cover. In fact, I have a side-by-side here. This is the old cover. This is the new one. So they did a, they made a little different, a few tweaks here and there. So again, old one, new one. And I think the new one looks much nicer. Destiny Image did a much better job. Even on the interior layout, it's beautiful. But in this book, I go through several different things. We have an endorsement from Phil Muncie. He's with Joel Osteen. We have an endorsement from William McDowell, who's the lead pastor of Deeper Fellowship Church and a Grammy nominated international worship leader. One of my favorite songs by him is I Give Myself Away. Just a beautiful, beautiful worship ministry. And then there's Dr. Reverend Samuel Rodriguez. Many of you are going to see him at the Planet Shakers Conference this week. Matt Crouch, the chairman of the Trinity Broadcasting Network has given us an endorsement. Dr. Ralph Wilkerson, the pastor of Maladyland. Many, many, many more names. I can go all day reading the endorsements, but they all say you should pick up a copy. And so go and get this. By doing so this week, you do this thing. You become a $30 a month partner and write a little note that you want carriers of the glory, I'll sign it for you, we send it to you. $30 a month, you sign up today, we're gonna send you that copy of Carers of Glory, do it today. If you're on the website, you'll be able to scroll down and see sign up via DHM or give via DHM or give via PayPal. If you're doing a monthly, you want to go DHM. Now I'm gonna talk to you who can do a one-time gift. I have here, now this is funny, and you can drink your tea, dear, if you want. I see you're looking at it. In fact, I'll bring mine over here. Now this is funny. This is my book from when I was 14 years old. Look at this. This is Living the Life on Fire. Now, the picture on the back, I'm not gonna show it to you because it's young me, I have way too much gel in my hair. Look at that, Jeff. I think I have way too much gel in my hair. My collar is a little flimsy there and I had a little mustache coming in. This is before I started shaving. So what I'm gonna do, there's not many of these, there was only a hundred print of these total ever. And someone came up to me, they said, I have one for you and look, I actually signed it for them. This, that's 14 year old Diga's signature. And this was by Trafford Publishing. You know, this is, and it's especially to my heart because it's my first book. You got Table of Contents, Eddie Vargas did the forward and they got a chapter called Where Do I Start? So basically the basics. Chapter two is the sacrifice. Chapter three is persevering. Chapter four is letting go. Your relationship with the Holy Spirit, worship and 19 inspiring. It's a 10 chapter book. It's about 100 pages, again, written by 14 year old me. Now, I look at this and I cringe looking at the writing but I think you'd be really blessed by that book. Now, I have one. Now, if someone, and I'm not saying the book is worth this amount, but I wanna be able to thank our donor who's ever done it. The first person today to give $100 or more. And in fact, if someone's able to do a thousand, in fact, there are some people watching. If we had three people do $1,000 right now, three people do a thousand, some of you who can do that, that's very easy. I know not all of us, I'm not talking to you if you're one of those people who can't do it. 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She's gonna stir it for me. Thank you, dear. So now let's go to, we got some chatting up. Don't read the comments, dear, because I don't want you to read all them. Some of them are, you know. Okay, let's see here. I'm sorry about those of you who are waiting. Okay, guys, so I'm going through your comments now. You can start sending those in and I'm gonna be reading them. So let's see. Yeah, I know, I enjoyed doing this with you. Pray for my finances, please. Actually, let's write some prayer requests down. So this way I can keep this in place. And I'm gonna write these down. So Jess and I will go and pray over these even after the broadcast. So we have Angel Garcia. Why don't you go and write these down for me, dear? If you can. So Angel Garcia wants to pray for finances. Evelyn wants to pray to encounter more of God. So you put Angel finances, Evelyn, encounter, and I'll remember them. Shorty Garcia, financial breakthrough. Thank you, Lord. Oh, thank you. We appreciate the kind words. Willing, but thank you. Thank you. We appreciate you guys. Oh, Angel works in media at his church. Good, that's awesome. You look too young to have been working an overhead projector. Well, thank you, Rosemary. I appreciate that. However, you could say too, I was a young projectionist. Is that the word for a projectionist? Okay, so hey, David, how's it going? Hey, Justin, 288. Oh, Leo Wong. Oh, your wife is so sweet. Yes, she is. She's very sweet. She's good to me. Angel, come on, Jess. Has your back. Yes, she does. Or God has your back. Yeah, see, they're encouraging you. See, Jess, by the way, that bottom left monitor is not on time. We'll keep this one up for you. Okay, so that's what we're looking at. Does that help? Okay, so, all right. I love his ministry. Diggy, you helped me so much. This is Dionne Miller. Dionne, God bless you, my brother. I'm also a young and being used all the way from Barbados. Wow, man. So that's really good to be hearing from you. And so this person is, oh, I thought you said I am a brother. I don't know where Barbados is exactly, but Barbados. Is that Barbados or Barbados? Barbados. Barbados, thank you, dude. So that's why she's here. She helps me with that. Okay. Okay, so, okay. Something, Oleolu Michael. I get this weird encounter while I'm sleeping. Sometimes I'm not sure whether it's demonic or attack from God, demonic attack or from God. Well, if you have peace during the experience, it can be from God. If it's otherwise, I don't think that's God. I think that might be demonic or it could be some emotional issues that are in there. Okay, good angel, you're asking about it. Let me see here. Okay. They seem complex. Like last night, I saw myself fly into a mountain to follow man. It was so real. I saw my body literally suspended in mid-air while I was sleeping. That is interesting. And you can actually write to me. I'm not a good interpreter of dreams. It's not really my area of gifting. But I see Angel Garcia on here. He might be able to help you with that because he's asking questions about it. Okay. Only when you can surrender your will. Okay, so these are comments about the lessons. So you can go ahead and start typing now, guys. We're going to be reading these. Okay, David, I'm going through lots of how things I do at the moment. Also, for the past weeks, I've been getting shortness of breath, neck spasms, chest pain. Can you pray for healing? I ask many times that people pray for it, but I don't get healing. Well, it's Jesus who's your healer. It's not me. I guarantee that. And so we're going to look to Jesus today and we're going to ask him to heal you. Amen, yes. I believe it is also prophetic also. Amen, come on, that's so true. Okay, so we're going to go all the way down. Do you have to be a pastor or could anyone baptize you? I think anyone can baptize people because teaching them to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost is talking about those who believe the disciples. So when Jesus gave his commission, he said teaching them to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. And I think that, you know, I think that you can be just a believer to do it. Did everyone in the Old Testament go to hell? No, they did not. In fact, that's a good, that's a solid question. Did everyone in the Old Testament go to hell? No, let's go to Romans. In fact, let me see here. Okay, so in the scripture it talks about Romans chapter one, verse 19. He's talking about people who suppress the truth and wickedness. He's talking about people who were there since the beginning of the world. So verse 19, they know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. Now he switches to talking about people from the beginning. For ever since the world was created, people, which people, people who were there since the world was created, have seen the earth and sky through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. Abraham believed God and it was kind of to him his righteousness. And so people who believed God back then, they were taken care of by the sacrifice of Christ. In fact, I believe it's first, I'm in Romans now, but 1 Peter 319 says something very interesting. 1 Peter 319 says, and I think it's 1 Peter 319. Okay, this is talking about Jesus. He says, so he went and preached to the spirits in prison. This is after he was crucified. And I think that Jesus went back and preached to the people of the Old Testament. Now he's not bound by time. Especially when he enters eternity. So it's quite possible that Jesus preached to people in the Old Testament even before on our human timeline, he died on the cross. Now again, these are just my initial thoughts on it. I don't think everyone is in hell because even the scripture says that God, he judges righteously, so I can find this. Okay, you can actually read all of Romans 4 and it talks about how God as a good judge is not gonna send them all. Okay, can you touch a little on predestination? Absolutely, I think people like to complicate the idea of free will and predestination, but I don't think it necessarily needs to stay complicated. I think that free will and predestination are both taught in scripture. Now some people say, well, that's a contradiction. Well, it's not because we're often, we're teaching free will and predestination from our understanding of time. However, the more that physicists and mathematicians look into this concept of time, the more we realize we know very little about it. So I think that with the new models of how we understand time, free will and predestination fit rather nicely. So God's predestination is not causal, it's predictive, meaning that he knows the future, but that knowing of the future doesn't necessarily mean he caused it. Another thing to account for is the fact that even though we are immortal once we accept Christ, we are not of ourselves eternal beings. In order for us to be eternal, we would have to have always existed since the beginning, which we didn't because especially as it would play out in our world, this earth, if we had existed since the beginning, then we would have an infinite amount of past events and therefore we would have never arrived to now. I know it's an interesting thought and it kind of messes with my mind when I think a little bit on these things, but I think the more you think about these things, the more you begin to grasp this. So then I think we can safely conclude that the free will predestination debate is there because I've heard people say, oh, it's so arrogant to think that you've solved the free will predestination controversy, but why? Why when the scripture teaches both, is it arrogance to say that both apply and therefore look for reason why they both apply? So I think that because the scripture very strongly teaches both that they can both work together. So it's a little bit less than we think on both ends. So God doesn't necessarily force us into things. I think he predestines positions not necessarily people. And then he gives us a choice of many predestinations. As long as there is a choice, even though that choice may be limited, all choices are limited no matter what we're choosing. So if that choice is limited, that doesn't mean that God can't predict what would have been, which gets into his middle knowledge, which is I think an important component of the discussion. Okay, so let me see. Oleo wants to pray for her church breakthrough in discipleship and growth. And then Alex Joe says, my real name is Dove. Can you please pray for me to receive employment? So put down, yeah, she might have to go, Alex employment, sorry about that. We'll leave that here because we got to keep up with this. Please pray for my health as well for my children to come back. This is shorty Garcia, back to the Lord, the three of them. What are your kid's names? If you don't mind putting that on the chat, we'd like to write your kid's names down so we can pray for them. Evelyn, I've decided to speak in tongues, but it has not happened. Could something be amiss? I don't think so. And I don't think that, huh, actually, I'm sorry, I just, you'll have to forgive me. I'm not completely technically savvy. Usually Tim Leigh's helping me. Actually, Tim Leigh's at the ministry office right now working on a new episode of EncounterTV, a new episode of Spirit Church, a new song from Stephen Mock to Zoom in on a new web because he's doing four videos in one day. He's a great worker. Okay, so we want to pray for her health. And my dad who's having kidney problems is 92, thank you. Okay, oh, and then we're going to Evelyn. I decided to speak in tongues, but it has not happened. Could something be amiss? Evelyn, I don't think so. I don't think necessarily that something is wrong as much as something is not being necessarily received. So I don't think God's looking down at you and condemning you. I want you, I hope that you don't feel condemned at all because you don't speak in tongues. Salvation is not a requirement. Speaking in tongues is not a requirement of salvation. In fact, when Paul the apostle went, or the disciples went to go to talk to the believers, they had to introduce the Holy Spirit. And there are many verses in the Bible that talk about how believers who were filled with the Holy Spirit, as in salvation, the Abba father deposit, as we would call it, that infilling of the Holy Spirit happened, but the baptism of the Holy Spirit hasn't happened yet. And they said, we haven't even heard of such a thing as the Holy Spirit. So I don't think anything's amiss. And I see, but it has not happened. And you put a question mark. You're probably wondering why it hasn't. I have a video of teaching on the truth about speaking in tongues or the truth about praying in tongues here on the counter TV. So full length teaching, I get into every detail and it'll hopefully help you with that. So God bless you Evelyn. Al-Zavian Jones, could you please pray for me? Want to be wife, share a Sultan? Okay, we'll just put Al-Zavian because I don't completely understand, forgive me, I don't completely understand the prayer request, but we are going to, oh, Barbados, not Barbados. Barbados, that was my mistake. Barbados is in the Caribbean. Okay, what are your thoughts on the presidential election? Oh boy, see Jess, I knew something would come up like this. I have promised my wife and I promised the Lord I would not get political. Having said that, I know the lines the Lord has told me I cannot cross, I know the lines my wife has told me. I will not tell you who I'm voting for. I will not tell you who I think you should vote for. I will not tell you who I think is evil or who's not. I'm not gonna give that kind of advice. Instead, I'd rather keep my advice very general. Because I'm a preacher, people wanna hear the gospel from me. You ever see these, like for instance, I'm not saying I'm an actor, but for example, you ever seen those actors on the TV and they're for saving the planet or all these different causes? And most people when they see that they just roll their eyes like we don't care what you say. You're an actor, go be in a movie. That's all we want from you. So as a preacher, I realized my job is to be preaching the gospel, preaching Jesus. That's my message, Jesus saves, Jesus heals. In fact, I can thank my wife for that because she helped me because I was getting frustrated. I was watching the news and I was just getting frustrated with hearing people talk and I was like, oh, people just don't get it. They just don't get what's going on. And I said, I'm gonna do a show on it. She says, don't do it. You need to focus on the gospel because the most important thing is souls. So I know that's a long disclaimer but I wanted to make sure I gave that. But you know the presidential election, I think it's important, but ultimately God is in control. And different people have different methodologies. Some people say you should vote for the guy who shares your faith. Some people say when we're not voting for a pastor, voting for a president, so we should vote for a guy who's gonna fix the country or all of these different things in the way. I just say pray about it, study it and I will give you this information. Do not believe the hype on either side from anyone. When negative things happen in anyone's campaign, I guarantee you everyone else who's not in that campaign is gonna spin it. They've done all candidates, have had something negative happen and all the candidates have attacked each other in that way. So just realize that they politicize a lot of things, the media hypes a lot of things and these people spend millions and tens of millions of dollars to make each other look evil or to propagate a certain idea. So ask yourself, where did I hear this idea from? Was it from memes and from my Facebook feed or did I go do the research myself or am I repeating what the media is saying? Am I repeating? Am I just listening to little clips from speeches and this is for all the candidates? Like I said, I'm not because this has happened to all of them. So I'd say if you are gonna vote, get a clear head about yourself. Don't believe the hype, don't believe the media filter, don't believe the Facebook posts. Go and research, go to each individual candidate's websites and look at what they stand for and make your own decision. Be wise, be sober and don't get emotional about it. Don't take anything personal. Keep Christian unity. Even if you know someone who's voting for what you see as the other side of things because I guarantee you, no matter who you vote for, there are gonna be some Christians who look at you as having made the wrong choice and should not be therefore called a real Christian. But I don't think we should be looking for any more points of division. It's all about unity. No matter who you vote for, if you've got Jesus in your heart, you're my brother, you're my sister. Okay, so, okay. That's okay, Justin. I wanna make sure we saw your message. Good, good. Okay, so, King Solomon, King David, Moses, et cetera, we're safe, yeah, good, good, good thought there, Justin. He's talking about that question about the Old Testament. Was everyone in the Old Testament saved or not saved? Okay, I'm not trying to be inappropriate here, but does the word say that it is a sin to masturbate? Well, that's a question we actually get here. We actually got here a couple of times. So I'll answer the question. First Corinthians chapter six, verse nine through 12 talks about idolatry. And if you look at that word idolatry, it's listed in the middle of a bunch of other sins that are sexual. So in Corinth, they had pornographic statues and they would carry out that act in that temple. So I truly do believe that first Corinthians six is referencing masturbation. Also, the idea is in, when Jesus says, if your eye causes you to sin, if your right hand causes you to sin, that context he's talking about lust as well. So I think in that context, it could be, and I know that's a little bit of a weak observation. I'm not, like I said, I'm willing to be convinced either way on that text, but even more fundamentally, if you can't find it in specifics, the principle is definitely that you want to give yourself totally over to your spouse. If your spouse is not there or involved, you're not giving yourself, you're giving yourself to yourself from yourself. And that to me is a big perversion. So yes, I think it's categorically a sin, biblically speaking. Financial breakthrough. Okay, vision, dream, vision or dream? Okay, just put vision. We'll use that as their name and put financial breakthrough and prophetic and healing gifts to ministry, family, salvation, new job, new housing, give more to ministries and charity. Wow, I like that. This person's got, they're really pushing God on for some things and I appreciate that. Okay, Michelle Hotchkiss, why do you think it takes time, sometimes a long time, before people are healed? Seems to me the Bible healing was immediate or shortly after doing something specifically told to do. Great question. There is one instance though, actually a couple instances and I'll show you in songs. And again, guys, these are all on the fly. So if I can't memorize, I try to memorize every verse I quote, but there was one in Psalm if I can remember. Forgive me for a second. Okay, Psalm chapter 35 verse 13. Now this is an old Testament scripture that I'll show you a new Testament reference. Psalm 35, 13. This is King David praying for the healing of his enemies and they didn't get it. The scripture says this Psalms 35, 13, if that's the correct verse and it is, okay. Yet when they were ill, I grieved for them. I denied myself by fasting for them, but my prayers returned unanswered. So there's King David praying for someone who didn't get healed. In 1st or 2nd Timothy, I don't remember the exact chapter in verse, Paul the apostle tells Timothy because Timothy, historically we know Timothy had a stomach problem, but instead of praying for him, Paul the apostle tells Timothy, a little wine for the stomach's sake is good for you. Now he's not condoning drunkenness, wine in that context is medicinal. So he's condoning medicine. Jesus said, the sick need a doctor, when he of course was making that point in passing about those who need to be saved. And then this you couldn't see just by looking at it once, but this is inductively we know that Jesus was at the gate beautiful quite often. And the man healed at Acts whom the apostles healed, Peter, when he looked at Peter reached up his hand, that man whose legs were crippled since birth, the scripture says he was laid out at gate beautiful every single day for his whole life. And it says he was a man. So he had to be at least 30 years old around there to be considered a man or at least let's just say, even by the United States terminology is 18. Okay, so Jesus had only did ministry for three years. So that man had to have been there in that gap that Jesus was on the earth. So Jesus passed by this man every single day without healing him. And then he was finally healed in the book of Acts. Now I'm not saying that that answers the why, but that at least demonstrates the what we can see that in scripture there are certain instances where people aren't healed instantly. Now why that happens? I think that has to do with the sovereignty of God. So my job is to believe the word and pray for the sick. God's job is to do the healing and that's on him. If he wants to heal, he'll do it. Well, any doctrine that doesn't leave room for the sovereignty is borderline heresy. That's where old Robert said, Oral Roberts was a great healing evangelist. So now let's continue up. Forgive me if I'm scrolling down too far here. I don't know any more questions. Oh, when will there be another live broadcast? Let me see here. We're actually gonna, I'm gonna try to do these one Tuesday out of every month. Okay, when will there be another live broadcast? A main brother, glory to God. David, need prayer. I'm going through a divorce and I serve as a leader of my church. So this is Richard dear. My struggle is with the legalistic opinions from others who say I shouldn't be allowed to be in leadership because I initiated my divorce. Not sure how to handle this. Well, you know, the truth is that there's grace for all of us. And I think the church doesn't really, and forgive me if I'm making a generalization, but I'll leave it positively. I won't be negative, I'll be positive. I think we as the church could make great strides when it comes to restoring people and ministers. You often see if a minister will mess up or he'll fall into sin. And, you know, let me tell you something. Every minister is gonna let you down, whether in big ways or small ways. I'm just gonna, I'll do away with the suspense for you right now. I will eventually let you down. Now I'm not saying that it'll come in a big way or a small way, I'm just saying this. I'm gonna say something that you're gonna disagree with. I'm gonna do something that you disagree with. There's gonna be, you know, mistakes I make in judgment down the line and who knows who's gonna spin it the wrong way. But the truth is, every man's gonna let you down. That's just the reality, okay? No one says a minister of the gospel has to be perfect. However, a minister of the gospel does have to live righteously. Now I understand you're dealing with legalistic people. In fact, I know pastors have been divorced and who remained in ministry and I think they very well belong in there. Now the scripture does give these certain things, you know, such as, oh, you know, a husband of one wife, making sure the home is in order. But then there are some things that are outside of the control of that man. You know, am I supposed to quit the ministry if we have a son who later makes horrible decisions? No, not if we raise him, if we rally him and we gotta be home. And runs his home. Not necessarily about the decisions his family members make. So we have to stop beating these people up. We need more people preaching the gospel, period. And we need to stop raising the bar where the scripture has not. Yes, holiness, yes, live righteously. No, don't live in constant sin. But if you make a mistake or something happens in your marriage and, you know, it's sad you wanna prevent it. But my opinion is we need to be a lot more merciful because it's just pathetic on how many times we handle that. I don't judge you, brother. I say go for it, keep preaching the gospel. As long as you're not in sin, you didn't, you know, it wasn't a moral failure on your part. But, you know, if she was out, you know, cheating, I hate to be blunt, but I figured you're comfortable with it since you put it on a live broadcast. If she was out cheating on you, you have the local grounds for divorce. And you go, you know, that's perfectly fine. It's sad, but I don't think you should quit into being in the ministry. In fact, like I said, a friend of mine, this just happened to him and he was not taken out. Not only he should have been, I think he should continue. And those who are religious, be careful lest you fall. So live communion broadcast. Oh, that is a good idea. We should do a live communion, which Michelle says. Can you write, let's put a little note away from the prayer requests. Let's do live communion. That is a good idea. We're gonna do that. Okay, David Diga, can you pray for my finances, wisdom, knowledge, being able to memorize Bible verses? Also, want to be used as a willing vessel to share my testimony of women as well as churches, et cetera. Wow, that's a noble prayer request. So write that down there. So angel, actually angels up here with the finances, put future ministry and wisdom. Okay, and we're gonna get to the prayers right now. I'm writing all these down so we don't lose track of them. I'm so glad I have Jess here. So I know Jess is doing a good job here. Jess, anything you want to say to these people while we're here just kind of chatting? This is really just a round table chat. Um, no. No, okay. She's so sweet, I love her. Okay, what would you say about Paul going to Jerusalem despite being warned by the Holy Spirit through several people? Did he still decided to go? Was it an act of disobedience? No, because the Holy Spirit wasn't telling him not to go. The Holy Spirit was telling him what would happen if he went. So Jesus knew exactly what would happen and some of the disciples knew exactly what would happen. But the Holy Spirit wasn't the one saying don't go. If you look at the warning that he was given, he was told that if you go, this is what's going to happen to you. And Paul the apostle just says, yes, I know, God showed that to me too. And I think God showed the prophets so people would be praying. So we prophesied in part. Maybe the guy thought he was supposed to be giving a warning, but really he was prophesying in part and God was just showing him what was going to happen so that the church could be praying for the work of God there. So I don't think that was disobedience. Could have been. Paul was not perfect, but that's my take on it anyway. Okay, let me go up here. Yeah, you gotta, so hold on real quick here. We're gonna go ahead and just block some of these things. I do apologize guys for the people who are writing inappropriate things, but okay, please pray for my family and I and also our new worship band to be faithful and guarded from the enemy. Okay, I'll call you Ortiz because I can't, my writing is really small on a screen. So Ortiz wants to pray for family and worship band. So good, okay. So Eddie H. Lopez. Hi, can you pray for my health? I've been struggling with high blood pressure and anxiety. So Eddie just wants to pray for health. He just put band. So Eddie wants to pray for health and high blood pressure. Okay guys, it's starting to load up fast because the comments are coming in quickly. So if I miss it, do forgive me. You can tweet me at dear Hernandez and I'll be there. If we're under grace, do we still need to follow certain laws of the Old Testament? No, not all of them. And in fact, in Romans, you can see the whole differentiating between the moral law and the Old Testament law. Everything has to be funneled through the cross. In fact, I wrote a paper and I should release it. I haven't released it yet. I don't know why I haven't. The different categories of the law and which categories made it in through to the new one. So like people, I had someone commenting the other day. My staff will sometimes forward messages to me from YouTube if they want to know how I want to specifically answer a question. Cause maybe they have their thoughts, but they don't want to contradict what I have to say, which is, you know, cause it's our channel. So they want to make sure where it consists of all across the board. Someone sent me some guy who wanted to talk about a celebrating church on a Saturday. And I just, like, okay, that's one of the 10 commandments. Yes, but the 10 commandments are part of the Old Testament. Yes, the principles of the 10 commandments are still in play. I mean, you talk about honoring your father or mother. That's an Ephesians. You talk about not murdering. That's in 1 Corinthians. You talk about honoring God. Jesus said that, you know, but the Sabbath day, you don't see that in the New Testament. In fact, you see every day they gathered. I mean, were they wrong for gathering for every day? In fact, Jesus rebuked those who tried to, you know, say, okay, this festival this day. And while I honor Judaism, while I think it's beautiful, it's beautiful, it's poetic. And some people hold very tight to those type of beliefs. I'm not going to say I disagree. I'm just going to say, I'm not going to go spending all my time trying to fulfill an Old Testament law. I'm going to live how Jesus told me to live. And I don't believe in, so I don't believe we're necessarily under all the Old Testament laws. Moral law, yes, but Old Testament, sacrificial laws, ceremonial laws, civil laws, not all those things are planned today. Okay. Okay, so again, forgive me that I'm a little lagged because I have to wait to load these things. Here in Germany, we often get offended in school for our faith. We also get offended for praying in tongues. Do you have any advice? It's pretty hard for us to keep loving those people who offend us. We'll just keep loving them. I mean, that's the whole point, right? Yeah, not everyone's going to accept things. I mean, even as I've been on here for no more than an hour, already people wrote some horrible things on here, but I don't care. I mean, it doesn't really affect me anymore. You can't offend a dead man. And if you're dead to self, it shouldn't bother you. You just keep preaching to them. Jesus was crucified, didn't say a word. So we need to just be kind to those who try to take us down or who try to offend us. Okay, I have a really close friend that caused me to sin a lot. What do I do when they're one of my best friends? Well, honestly, if you're talking sexually and it's the person you're emotionally and sexually attached to, you probably got to cut it off because it's not a good idea to be around someone who's causing you to sin. That's just the reality. I know you probably don't want to hear that and you say, but they're one of my best friends. Here's the truth. You cut them off, you live right, and you're going to know in a year or so, you're not going to feel that same attachment. You're probably going to wonder why you called them your best friend in the first place. And that's my assumption based upon what you're writing. Again, I don't have all the information. Please pray for my five-year-old who's often night terrors. Oh my goodness. So Liza, L-I-Z-A, child night terrors. Oh my goodness, my mother-in-law told me that he described something to her and we think that he saw a demon, very possibly could have. I know I did when I was younger. Why does God delay the anointing of the Holy Spirit and gifts of speaking in tongues? I don't think he does. I think that has more to do with us. And I have a teaching called the truth about praying in tongues here on YouTube that I might be able to help you. Several times Jesus told people not to tell you one after they were healed, but they did anyway. Was that a sin? Why did Jesus say that? Well, I don't think it was a sin per se. It could categorically be one. Let's just say it is. I don't think that's important. But I think that the more interesting question is why did Jesus tell them to not tell anybody that they were healed? I think it could have been the number of things. I think he was trying to keep the word down because he had a certain timeline he was trying to keep to. You know, Jesus was very, very fixated in the middle of God's will. So I think part of it had to do with the timing. Some people suggest that he didn't want demons to know, but demons I think knew because they saw him coming from afar. If you ask me, I think it has a lot to do with timing. So what I'm gonna do is, in fact, I have a new book coming out called 25 truths about demons and spiritual warfare. And I addressed that specifically in there. So maybe I'll release a pre-article or something on it, but you can email me and I'd be glad to send that over a portion of that to you. Okay, can God give directions to dreams? And if so, how do we know the dream is from God? Do we need confirmation in case the dream was not really from God? Well, you could take a look at a teaching I have here on YouTube called three keys to clearly hearing the voice of God. That teaching is gonna tell you specifically how to hear God's voice. And dreams are included in that because I talk about categories of voices. Davis, I was saying I wanted prayer for my future wife, Sarah. Okay, so you're engaged. Okay, Azadian, he's right here. Okay, pray for wife, Sarah. Okay, that's it. When you guys get married, I gotta know, we'll be praying for you. I decree that those who are disrespectful to your ministry, that God touches their heart and they give their life. Amen. See, I like, see, I think Angel's on the same. Is that Angel writing that? Let me see here. Sorry, you guys are writing a lot now. Yeah, Angel, we're on the same wavelength here. That's a good prayer. See, I've heard ministers when they're spoken against, they curse people, but I like the idea of blessing them. Let's pray that everybody who was on this chat and trying to say horrible things right now, that God would touch their life and they would get saved. They're hurting, the truth is hurt people hurt people. And we love you no matter what you do, we love you no matter what you say, and we believe God's gonna touch your life. Now, sometimes I have to block people because I'm telling you, I have to block. Oh my goodness, how many people a day? It's just so many, I mean, on and on, and there consists, I mean, lots of people do it. It all gets washed away in the lost anyway. I don't really remember specifics, but sometimes I do have to do that like I did here. Obviously we don't want, you know, words like that posted on a chat like this. And also I gotta be wise at my time. I can't be wasting my time with every little person who wants to talk about every little thing. So if you get blocked, that's just, I'm very patient. So if you get blocked, you really pushed it. Okay, so David, can you pray for my upper respiratory? Yes, we will pray for your upper respiratory system. I think that was Justin, he's right there. We have that written down, Justin. Okay, please pray that I need the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Please pray I'm thirsty for the Holy Spirit. I'm gonna have to go back to these prayer requests later because my wife's hand's gonna get a little tired here. And everyone I read, guys, my wife's trying to write them all down, but I will come back over and look over this chat and pray over, okay? Okay, sir, from India, please pray for God, use me. Yes, God's gonna use your life. He already is using your life. He loves you. Okay, I know you, Ellen, I know you should not depend on feelings, but I still feel far from him. Like there's a blockade or something starting to feel discouraged in my life. Okay, I know I keep referring to YouTube videos, but I did a video, Ellen, it's called, When God Seems Distant. Look that up on YouTube. I'm telling you, I really believe that's gonna bless you. I think it was three things I gave you that God's doing when he feels distant. I think it's really gonna help you. Okay, please pray for me to baptize in the Holy Spirit. Evelyn wants, it's the same Evelyn, so she wants to be prayed for the back. Oh, she prayed for to get the tongue, so that'll come along with that. So how did you know you had the healing power? Well, number one, Eddie, I appreciate the question and I know what you mean, but I wanna clarify for those watching. Eddie, I know you know where the power comes from, but I wanna make sure that those who don't understand the gifts do. I don't have any healing power. I never claim to have any healing power. I'm not a healer. I've never healed anyone. I've never claimed to heal anybody. Anyone who's ever received a healing and any of my services that I prayed for them had nothing to do with me at all. It's Jesus. He's the only healer and he's the only healing power. How did I know? I read it in the Bible. And then the scripture talks about desiring the spiritual gifts and I desired to give to healing. I did a teaching on YouTube called Spiritual Gifts and I give you three keys to knowing that you have a spiritual gift. Three very practical keys to knowing that you have a spiritual gift. So check that out. It's called Spiritual Gifts. It's here on my YouTube channel. Okay, going down here. Thank you for your time, dear God bless. Well, thank you for you guys logging on. Could you please pray for Schizophrenia. Thank you, Chris. Schizophrenia. Now, Jess, there's something. Did you want to talk to that person? I just know that... I don't know if you want to be mentioned. Not with you, but with the person we're praying for. Am I to encourage them? It actually runs in my family. Yes, it runs in... I mean, Jessica's brother deals with it and we're praying for him. And I only say that because we want to be open and transparent with you guys. So my wife, she has to pray for someone with that every day. So we'd be glad to pray for you in that. So we're going to write that down. Schizophrenia, okay. All right, so basically we're going to keep praying for you guys. I'll stay on as long as you guys keep standing up in, I think. Hey, David, there's one. Do you know how much you appreciate what you do? No, I appreciate what you do. I watch most of your stuff. I want to have been working on my walk with God and that I may be able to do his works. Can you pray that opportunities continue to come to just become a better person in Christ? Austin, first of all, thank you for watching. And Austin, I want to tell you, it's an honor when I hear from people like you. I'm just so blessed when I know that I can be a part of somebody else's walk with God and it's a privilege to minister the word to you. So thank you for letting me minister to you and we'll keep you in prayer. Okay, the Lord saves a struggle I have is during school. I forget to follow the path of Jesus because, sorry, loaded up more comments right now. Gotta scroll all the way back up. Let me see here. Forgive me for the scrolling here. So you can just keep looking at the prayer request here. Be in prayer. Okay, Austin. Hey, David, I want to know, okay, so he wants opportunities. Austin, ministry opportunities, opportunities in general. Okay, is it possible to love the Lord our God with all our mind, body, soul, and strength, being totally to pray people? I don't think Jesus would have commanded it if we couldn't at least aspire to it. I'm willing to be convinced either way. I believe that our goal should be perfect holiness. Matthew chapter five, verse 48, Jesus said, be perfect even as your heavenly father is perfect. Job chapter one, verse one says, there was a man who dwelt in the land of us. His name was Job and he was perfect and upright before the Lord. First Timothy chapter three, verse 16, talks about the word of God being given to us for the perfecting of the saints. So I think that there's good reason to believe that we should reach some kind of perfection. This is not to say that we will never sin. And I know that seems like a contradiction in terms. But the perfection that Jesus was talking about, I think is love and loving people. So I think we can love God. I think we can do it and I think it's possible whether or not that love is perfectly reflected in our actions is a different story. But the scripture says in Romans chapter five, verse five, that the love of God is shed a broad through our hearts by the Holy Ghost. And I think he'll help us do it. So I think it's possible, yes. And I think that total depravity is as a past tense. I think we're all the new creation in Christ now. Okay, struggle I've been doing with school. I forget to follow the path of Jesus, all the distractions during school. How do I remember to repent, follow Jesus? Well, you gotta realize that every decision you make is your decision. And I know this may seem legalistic, but you have to hold the responsibility for your decision. And when you're presented with a choice, make the right choice. If you're not supposed to go somewhere, don't go there. If you're not supposed to do something, don't do it. If you shouldn't be meeting up with someone, don't meet up with them. If you're not supposed to be taking something, don't take it. I mean, it really is, I mean, that may be over simple. And we say, no, but you don't understand, it's really hard. No, no, the scripture says, let God be true in every man a liar. The truth is, every time we are tempted, we have a way out, and it is our choice to not do it. So I say, you gotta just determine in your mind to start making the right choices. Email me, call me if you have any issues with that. Call the office, eight at eight seven four zero, one one one zero. We have people who are willing to minister to you, keep you accountable, talk you through this. Okay, the whys. Why would God allow other people's lives to be in the hands of their parents, for example, in the Bible? It talks about parents not prepare their children for the lake of fire, but why would God do this? You're gonna have to clarify your question. Are you saying why does God allow other people to have influence over us in general, or that do you think that someone's parents make their spiritual decisions for them? Forgive me the whys, but I'm gonna need a clear question. My apologies, my apologies. Okay, Brittany Young prayed for my brother who has autism, and for me to resist son and obey God in everything I do, resist sin and obey God. So Brittany strengthened temptation and her brother for autism. Austin also would like to pray for my relationship that it grows with God. Tell me if you want me to slow down my dear. Can't wait for that book. Thank you, shorty Garcia. I can't wait for you to read it. Now, let me see here. Just wanna say thank you, God bless you. Thank you Annie, we appreciate that. Brittany Young prayed for my brother who has autism, and for me to resist sin and obey God in everything that I do. Okay, I just read that because it's loading up again. So forgive me if I repeat guys, it loads up. Pray for my growth in Christ. My brother, I know what I've been called to do. It is way out of my comfort zone. God called me to be a watchman with a healing ministry. It's so overwhelming, pray for me. Okay, we will, Desiree Johnson. The wise, in the Bible it says people are destroyed because they're lack of knowledge. Well, why didn't God make people all-knowing? That's a good question, but I can see how you can, the premise of your question is that if God were to make us all-knowing that we would therefore make all the right decisions or that we would never be destroyed. But if God made us all-knowing, then we would be Him. And I don't think that's necessarily possible. Now you say, well, I thought with God thing, all things are possible. Doing the illogical is not a necessity of being omnipotent. This is something I wrote about in my blog, Faith and Logic. So questions like this arise from misunderstanding of God's capabilities. Can God make a square circle? No. Can God create a married bachelor? No. Can God make a rock that He cannot move? No. You say, that's blasphemy. God can do anything. That's not true. God cannot sin because He is holiness. God cannot lie because He is truth. God cannot do the illogical because He is the basis of all logic. He is order. And from order, all things are derived. From God derived, we get order from God. And from order, we get laws. And from laws, we get the universe. From the universe, we get existence. So if God were to violate His person, nothing could exist. Not even your question could be poised or posed because it would be based on nothing. What would it mean? It's really nothing. No words would mean anything anyway. So the Bible says that people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. Why did God make people annoying? Because then they would be God. And that's a contradiction. Nobody could be God but God. Okay, so Evelyn, I know I should not depend on feelings. I think I read that. What was wrong with these people? God blessed them. I know, God blessed them indeed. Yes, let's come in agreement with that. Blessings, pray for them. Yes. Please, I need advice on dating relationship. Can God give someone an instruction to break from a present relationship? If they're married, they shouldn't. If they are in a relationship, absolutely yes. You just have anything on this, my dear? Oh, yes. God could say no, especially if there's sin involved and if they're keeping you away from the Lord. There's many reasons that God could say no. Yeah, definitely. So actually, I'm glad that I stopped dating anyone I dated previously for my wife because she's the one. And can you pray for it? Yes. Does that mean it's God's will? No. Sometimes we really, really want things and we hope they're God's will. You've got to realize that. Because even when the people who I dated previously, and I hope my wife, I know my wife won't mind me saying this, but when those relationships ended, it broke me. And I said, Lord, but this has to be it. And I prayed, and I really want this. And I'm glad now that I have Jessica, that none of those relationships worked out because now I'm married to Jessica. And I think the same thing might go for you. So yes, you can pray. Maybe God has someone for you who's in a relationship right now. Pray for them, sure. But beyond that, just trust God and don't worry too much. OK, so thank you so much for this interactive session. God bless you. OK, the people making appropriate comments are lost. They are carnal flesh and blood. Pray for them, guys. Yes, pray for them. Pray for them indeed. They need it. And again, I'm not angry with them. Neither should you. My wife's not angry with them. We love them. And we really do want to see them come to the Lord. Is it ever OK to have more than one wife? No. And I know in the Old Testament, people like King David and all of them had it. But you got to remember, just because the scripture mentioned something doesn't mean that it condones something. So King David, yes, had multiple wives. But King David also slept with Bathsheba and murdered a man. So not everything they do is godly. And plus, the best thing is one with one. And that's the best type of relationship you could experience on earth. Let me see here. Dear Heavenly Father, let's come into agreement. That's good. Dear Heavenly Father, I pray for the people who are making inappropriate comments that Jesus will set them on the right path in Jesus' name. Amen. And everyone who agreed said, amen. OK, so about faith, I sometimes question my faith as to whether I have it. It seems like I have a lot of knowledge, like I know the scripture. But I can't tell if it is faith or knowledge. Very good question. And you know it if it's faith. If there's hope, if you have hope, then you have faith. And the fact that you're even asking that question shows that you do have faith. OK, let me see here. Is there a good way to know if you truly are speaking in tongues? Last night, my good friend, who was working with a time to revive, baptized me with the Holy Spirit. And I believe that I'm speaking. But there is a way to know for sure. Yeah, it's called faith. And I know that might not be the answer you want to hear. Speaking in tongues is the language of faith. And I think if you speak it and you believe and you're surrendering those syllables to the Holy Spirit. Again, watch my teaching, The Truth About Praying in Tongues. I think it's really going to bless you. So I'm nearing the end of the comments now. OK, no, we're loading up more here. I'm nearing the end of the comments now. And you guys, again, if I know you might be watching this and saying, well, someone else could help. But honestly, we really need your help right now. I really do need your help in the ministry. We're not going bankrupt. The ministry is not in any debt. Never has been. But I want to go into this April. April, we're going to this year. We're already experiencing tremendous financial growth. Doors are opening like we've never seen before. You've not seen anything yet. This is just the smidgen. This is just the surface level. Everything you've seen from this ministry, God is just getting started. That's what he told me, he says, I'm just getting started. And this is not even the beginning of what's going to happen. But we need your help. In history, ministries either make it or break it. God works in partnership with man. So it's in your hands too, to help this ministry. You may say, wow, wonderful ministry. Maybe you look at some of the larger ministries that have come about. You say, wow, those are awesome. I wonder how they came about. Well, they came about by people like you, partnering with people like us and saying, we're just people who want to trust God and believe for God to do great things around this world. And if you're someone who's watching, you can do that. We need three people to do $1,000 and 10 people to do 100. And if we did that, guys, it would be done. And I don't even like to ask for money, but it's necessary. You understand, guys, I know you know my heart. I know you've seen me for years. I know you know I'm all about Jesus and souls. But this is what it takes to preach the gospel all around the world. This is what, the gospel is free, but the means to deliver it is not. Oh, look, we've got more comments coming. I'm gonna pray for you right now in a moment, but I just wanted to stop and say, please consider doing that now. One gift of $1,000 or three gifts of $1,000 and then 10 gifts of 100, we need you guys to do it. Again, those of you who give those $100 gifts, I'll send this to you, sign. And those $100 gifts that come in a day, you're gonna get a chance to win the original copy of Living a Life on Fire, signed by 14-year-old Diga. There's only a hundred of these in the world, and I only have like three of them. So they're all over the place. Some of them got destroyed too, I think. Okay, Andre, pray for wife. She's suffering with chronic back pain for 10 years, and doctors can't do anything about it. We trust the Lord that he's the only one able to do this, thank you. Andre, I believe that your wife is going to experience the healing power of God, and we're gonna come into agreement with you. The Lord says, can you give specific real-time examples of pride for a teenager? Like, in my, I can give my testimony, because I don't wanna put anyone on blast. Let me see. I didn't like correction when I was, now I love correction. I mean, it polishes me up. I have, you know, the problem with discipleship is a lot of men aren't men anymore. They can't even handle the weight of correction. So I don't understand how, if you can't handle the weight of correction, you can't handle the weight of the anointing. And I have a pastor, I have a spiritual father, I have people who mentor me, and if they correct something in my life, I'm not gonna fight back. I'm not gonna try to explain myself. I'm gonna receive the correction. If this wonderful woman right here, God speaks to this woman, she's corrected me on some things, and I take the correction, right there? Yeah, that's right. Because she put me here. God put me here with her. And so when I was a teenager, I didn't like correction. Oh my goodness, I did not like, I thought, so like I'd be corrected by people. They'd say, oh, you shouldn't, I don't know, they'd say different things. I don't remember one specific instance. But I would say, oh, they're just trying to keep me down. Oh, they're just jealous of what I have. And thank God he helped me with that. That's something that God's really helped me with over the years. I think every man struggles with pride, anger, and lust, all those things. Those are like the trifecta of men struggles. Let me see here. Okay, let me see here. Sorry guys, pause here. Okay, Andre, make sure that his wife is down. Can you give a specific example of pride for a teenager? I believe I'm just wanting to know from your experience. Okay, okay, succumbs, nightmares, spirit, torments, any information? What is succumb, succubus? I don't know what that is, I'm sorry. Vision or dream, I give $30 a month. Thank you, we appreciate that. So, all that give monthly, I mean, those partners are the ones who keep us consistent. And it's people like you who help us do everything we're doing all around the world. Okay, I know I'm asking you a lot. I have watched all, yes, all of your videos, but I'm still lost in how to encounter him, okay? I know there's more to experience and I thirst for growth, but I'm not seeing change. Okay, I've been there. And you have to learn, I know you may have watched it and some people have read the whole Bible and not gotten saved. You can go and look at all the teachings, but unless you start to apply them, it's not gonna help. Evelyn, what I see, I might be, and forgive me if I'm making an assumption, you seem like a deep thinker and you seem like someone who might overanalyze things often. I'm that way and I could tell by your questions that you and I think almost exactly alike. So Evelyn, I think for you it's gonna come down to silence and stillness. And in that moment, the hardest thing for you is gonna be to silence the questioning. And I know for me, it was. But Evelyn, I believe that God's touching you and we shouldn't go on feelings. You already said something to that effect and I know we shouldn't. So you know we shouldn't, so go in faith. What does the word say? And choose to think and believe according to that and you're gonna watch your feelings will follow. David, do you believe in pre-tribulation rapture? Well, there's three different views on this, pre, mid, and post-trib. I'm a pan-trib and as in it all pans out in the end, but I am one who believes that the rapture does occur before the tribulation. I believe in a literal rapture. I believe in the thousand year reign, all of that. I've never done a teaching on it. To me, it's not a central thing to what God has called me to preach. You notice I preach on prayer, the Holy Spirit, healing, anointing, the presence of God, things like that. So, but maybe I'll do one on that one day. Okay, my brother would like to know what your thoughts are on veganism. And also please pray for him well. Rudy Ortiz, thank you. So, Magdalena and then Rudy. Well, I think it's healthy. I mean, I think it's a good way of carrying things out. However, I wouldn't say that veganism is necessarily morally superior to any other diet. It is healthier, definitely. And I actually have considered it before, but with Mike, the way I travel is very difficult to do. And it's not something I'm really passionate about. If you're talking in reference to animals, the truth is that God required animal sacrifices and the truth is that God required of it in the feast. In the Old Testament, the truth is that the scripture in the New Testament talks about eating things, eating even animals is perfectly okay. It's not what goes into you that defiles you, but what comes out. So, if you kind of take that in, God would be immoral to suggest that if animals had souls or the level of awareness or sentience that humans did. So, based upon the New Testament readings and the Old Testament readings, I have to conclude that animals, though they may mimic some type of sentience, such as an AI would, they don't necessarily have the same level. And I know I might get a lot of flack for that. I love animal, I'm a cat person. I had a cat, she died, I was very sad. But the problem is, does say a wise man or a righteous man is kind to his pet in some translations, a wise to his animal, or kind to his animal. I don't think we should be cruel, not necessarily because of what it does to the animal, because of what it does to us. But veganism, yeah, I think it's noble, but I wouldn't say morally superior in any way. Okay, moving down here, how do I know what God's calling is for me? Your purpose will always be linked with your passion. You have a passion for something it's likely because God put the purpose in you. Okay, the Bible says that there was only one God, but my family believes that God is three persons. What does the spirit of God tell you, or could you do a sermon about the God of the Bible? I believe God is three persons in one, one God. I heard one example like solid liquid gas, same person. So I think there are different expressions of them, different personalities, but it's still same one God. And I know this, I'm not gonna be able to get into much detail of that because that to me is, I don't even fully comprehended myself. Maybe I will do a study on it. I'm hoping to be taught in that area. I wanted the same thing. I learned to identify what it was flowing. That was the real deal. If I had to work at it, then I prayed for God. Oh, this is in reference to Michelle's talking about, I believe it was, who's the one talking about receiving tongues? Evelyn, Michelle is referencing, or Austin, she's referencing Austin. I wanted the same thing. I learned to identify when it was flowing. That was the real deal. If I had to work at it, then I prayed for God to help the spirit flow. I no longer question if it's legit anymore, certainty will come. Amen, I believe that. Okay, Eddie wants us to pray for his mom. She has breast cancer and asked for healing if she could pray. Okay. Oh, the scone church in Nigeria seems to be the only one hit to it. You know, I don't spend too much time in demonology. I'm focused, like I said, on those things categorically. There are other experts who could probably help you better than I can on those topics on dreams and visions and things like that. Okay, Medita, did you hear about this, the Last Reformation Movement? And if yes, what do you think about it? I don't know anything about the Last Reformation Movement. I do write in my book, Carriers of the Glory, there's a chapter here where it's called The Spirit and the Fifth Great Awakening. The Spirit and the Fifth Great Awakening. Maybe someone can screenshot that, get a little sample of the book. Feel free to screenshot it, get a sample if you want to read that. But, you know, I believe that there is another move of God coming. Whatever you want to title it is okay with me, but there's going to come another move of God where he's going to sweep in souls and mass sweeping in souls and people are going to be saved. And I'm looking forward to it. Okay, okay, the wise is, okay, you rephrase your question, good. The Bible says God holds Christians accountable for spreading the word. Why would God put the lives of others in the hands of his followers when he could have made man, oh, I get what you're saying. Well, Romans chapter one says that men are without excuse. I don't believe, and God judges us based on the information that we have. We're not the ones who judge people. Yes, salvation is through Christ alone, but we don't know who God is and isn't revealing Christ to. So while there is only one way to God, which is Christ, there are many ways to hear the gospel. And I think Romans one alludes to that. So your question is essentially, what about those who haven't heard the gospel? My question is, is there really such a person? Okay, hello from Tucson. Your wife is beautiful. Thank you. I know she is. Angel Davidiga, my friend Pat's son just had emergency heart surgery. Can you please be and pray that Ramon recovers with no infection? Okay, so we're going to pray for Ramon. This is what I love about this group is we all pray for everybody on this group. What do you think about Christians doing yoga? I did a research paper on it in school, purely secular, and now as a Christian, I can't see how something purely pagan worship can be harmless exercise. Can it be made holy by meditating on? Well, you said you did a research paper. You're going to know more about it than I do, Michelle, because I have not studied that or looked into that in any depth whatsoever. So you're going to be better to answer that question than me. Okay, Rosemary, the blessed Trinity is a supernatural mystery. We can't fully comprehend it. Good feedback. Austin, thank you, Michelle. Evelyn, thank you for your patience with our questions. Evelyn, you could ask me 100 questions every day and it will not bother me. The only, my only regret is that I don't have the time to read it all and I wish I could do this all day, every day, but you will never bug me, Evelyn, as there's some people, like I said, I don't block people who consistently ask questions. People get blocked when they get nasty or they just want to, I can tell when someone wants to learn or when someone wants to debate and I can tell Evelyn you want to learn so I want to help you. I will not lose any patience where you keep writing and you want us. In fact, tell the ministry to forward your email to me and I'll correspond with you consistently. Okay, and tell them I said so on the live broadcast. Okay, and you can reference them to this if they don't believe you because my office is real protective, sorry. Okay, Evelyn, thank you for your patience with our questions. Michelle, Hodgkins, Austin, okay, she gave you a thumbs up. Okay, Eddie, when speaking in tongues, do I have to understand or just let it flow? I think you can just let it flow because 1 Corinthians 14, 2 tells us we do not understand it. All right, Rosemary Keller, Brother David, do you believe there will be revival? Another move of God before the rapture? Do you believe in the rapture? Yes and yes. Okay, Bradley, thanks Oleolu, or forgive me if I mispronouncing that, I've been rebuking the heck out of them, praying fast and still can't get rid of it. Okay, a friend of mine is a homosexual and I really don't know how to deal with that. Our church teaches that it is not just a sin. Our church teaches that it is not a sin. Oh, that's, no, that's not correct. But I read something different in the word. What are your opinions about that? I unequivocally 100% homosexuality is a sin. There's no debate on that. The only debate that's raised on it are the people who want to act as if the scripture is not clear. End of debate, the Bible is clear. But the problem is the people go on debating not because they care about what the Bible says, they care about people's feelings, and we should do it. In fact, I'll be right back. I got a book, I got a book. Jess, talk to them while I'm gone for a couple of seconds. Um, yeah, I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say to you guys. Okay, here. Yeah. Everyone give it up for Jess. She did a good job. Okay, this right here, you need to go grab it. This is called Gay Awareness by Landon Schott. He sent me a copy to review. Excellent book. Like I said, I've not studied, I've studied the topic to see whether or not it was a sin. I studied the Greek, I studied the culture, and then I even looked into, in fact, that's where I wrote that paper. Remember, I told you the paper where I talked about the different laws of the Old Testament? I wrote a paper on it. If you guys want that paper, oh my goodness, I'm gonna do that. Okay, I'm gonna, I'll do it. Email David at davidhernandezministries.com. Now, the paper is not complete. I just started to do the research paper. I only spent a day on it. So I think it's only a few thousand words. It's nothing, it's not this huge paper. But I think it's, I go through just some of the main arguments against the biblical teaching on homosexuality, and it's solid, guys. It's not, there's, let me tell you something. The only people who say there's a debate are the people who have something and they wanna pretend like it's not clear. It is clear, like I said, let's be, there's no debate there. All right, the Bible teaches it's a sin. Now, I love what Landon Schott said in his book. In fact, I'm gonna try to find the quote on it. Oh my goodness, I hope I can find it because I don't know, I don't know, okay. I'm gonna search a couple more pages and then I have to quit it because this is not good for the broadcast. I'm close, I know it. And I won't be able to find it. Okay, well, there's just the idea that people, I wanted to debate this, it tells you a lot. Oh, I remember what he said. He said the reason that the gay community, and I'm paraphrasing, he said the reason the gay community likes to use the rainbow is because they want the presence of God without the judgment of God. And there are a lot of people who live as so-called Christians. You cannot be a Christian and a practicing homosexual, period. You can, look it, I know Christian friends who struggle with it, who from time to time fall into those temptations, but they're Christians who are struggling with sin. And I'm not here to judge anyone. I'm not here to say I hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. I have friends who are homosexuals and I love them. And I don't want to see anybody hurt. I don't want to see anybody in pain, but you're asking me what the Bible says. And that's what the Bible says. And so I'm not trying to attack anybody. It doesn't take me pleasure in making people, you know, they are feelings hurt, but this is the truth. Sometimes you have to tell them the truth to help them. I want to help them. I genuinely believe, I genuinely believe that they want to escape that lifestyle. And I think the scripture offers that truth. So again, I'm not judging anybody. I'm not trying to judge anybody. I'm not trying to be mean, but that's what the Bible says. Okay. Okay. So I'm going to go scroll through. Sorry if I'm missing a lot guys. And that lit up the chat here. So I'm going to miss a lot of comments here. Okay. What do you think about bestiality? I think it's the same thing. Okay. Guess it is a sin. What do you think about people having sex? Okay. That's the same thing. What is the difference between tithe and offering? Tithe is a percentage and offering is kind of what you give of the free will described in the New Testament. I think it was described in of the Philippians or in Philippians. People do come out of the last, okay guys, let me just be clear. If you're a Christian and you're watching this and you struggle with same sex attractions, that is not the same thing as you being homosexual. That's, if Landon Schott said it good in his book, he says, if you cannot separate your sexual identity from your identity, you'll never know your true identity. So your sexual actions do not define you. Every sexual act is a choice. The temptations are not a choice, but the actions themselves are all decisions. So I really recommend this guys, Landon Schott, I don't do a lot of teaching on that. Like I said, there's not a lot of topics I go into other than those seven topics that I gave you, the presence of God, prayer, spiritual warfare. And I like to stay on those topics. I very rarely go off like this because my job as an evangelist is to preach the gospel. And if I'm preaching the gospel and I'm preaching at the heart of the issue, that will naturally resolve itself. If someone gets saved, they're gonna be set free from this lifestyle. So I don't need to go around attacking the gay community or anything like that. I don't see the fruit in that. And I think Landon Schott did an excellent job in his book. So go out and get that. Okay, okay, yes, powerless. It usually appears to me as women. Okay, let me see here. Okay, someone actually says, it is a sin I lived that lifestyle. So vision or dream, it is a sin. I lived that lifestyle, Leviticus. Well, I wouldn't use Leviticus to combat this because then they can go and say, well, is it a sin to eat shellfish? Again, I'll give you the study if you want it or why I say you can just use the New Testament. Okay, sorry guys, if I'm not getting them all again, these are loading up really fast. Okay, and then Evelyn, I am indeed a thinker. A while back I believed that God would switch it off and kind of did. And now it's back like make me two steps four or five. No, no, no, no. Go read my blog on my website, davidernandezministries.com and then go to get spirit resources, go to David's blog and read my blog called faith and logic. It's gonna bless you, it's gonna help you, Evelyn. Okay, it also appears a big foot looking thing. Okay, David, do you believe God will heal my upper respiratory problem after you pray? I do believe that. Okay, is there any specific way to respond when someone says that they're not a Christian but another religion that does not follow Jesus or God? Yeah, you just preach Jesus. I mean, again, guys, here's the good news is we don't have to complicate it by getting sidetracked on all these issues. If we just preach Jesus in the gospel, that message will naturally result in people coming to him. And once they're with him, he'll change them and he'll save them. Okay, okay, so Mora, let me block that there. Okay, I think that's gonna be it for today, guys. Let's pray now and then we're gonna do this again soon. I promise you, I'm just so glad you guys stuck around and so let's begin to pray now. Stay online and let's pray for each other, okay? So there's other people watching in this community. Come on, dear, let's agree. So, Father, we thank you that we're able to bring these needs of your people to you. And so, Father, we lift up angel for finances, for future ministry and for wisdom, and for Pat's son with the heart surgery where we pray for full recovery with no infections in Jesus' name. Lord, we lift up Evelyn right now who is working toward an encounter with you. God, I pray that you would help Evelyn find the silence and stillness that it takes to enter your presence. And Lord, that she would know that you made her mind just the way it is and that you would cause her to experience your Holy Spirit in ways she never thought possible. Father, for Oleolu, for prayer against demonic attacks. Father, we pray for Justin and we pray for complete and total healing in his body. We pray for Ollie, for church breakthrough. We pray for Alex for employment. We pray for Shorty Garcia for the three children to come back to the Lord for her dad who is sick. Father, we pray for Alvayne, pray for the future wife, Sarah. Father, we pray for the person who was under the name, vision or dream, we pray for the prophetic giftings and healings to flow. Father, we pray for Richard, for the fact that he's going through this difficult time with the divorce, Lord, that you would cause him to not feel condemned and like a failure, but God, that he knows the truth of what happened. And that, Father, you would deal with him according to that truth. And, Father, I come against the condemnation and the legalistic spirits that would try to attack this man and tear him down. Keep him, Lord, where you want him, in Jesus' name. Father, for Ortiz, the person with the last names, Ortiz, for their family and their worship band. Lord, we lift up Eddie for his high blood pressure, for his mom's healing from breast cancer. Father, for Liza, for her five year old that has night terrors. Lord, we rebuke those night terrors right now in Jesus' name. And we pray and agree and touch that it is done now in Jesus' name. For Chris, Lord, for schizophrenia, for Austin, Lord, for ministry opportunities. Father, for Brittany, who was a brother that has autism, Lord, that you would enable Brittany to resist sin. Lord, for Desiree, for growth in Christ, for Andre, for prayer, for wife with the back thing. Lord, that you would set Andre's wife free from that back pain in Jesus' name. And Lord, for Rudy Ortiz, we just lift him to you now. And for Michelle, for Lord, we give you the glory for all these lives, Father. In Jesus' name, we pray. And everybody who agreed said, again, I'm asking you, we need your help this week to stay on track for all the needs we have for the ministry. Remember, we do television, international events, global discipleship programs. We need three people to do $1,000. If you can do it or God is speaking to you to do it, please do not hesitate. Go and sow that today. And we need those of you who sow $100. So we need 10 people to give $10, three people to give $1,000. This book right here will go to anybody who sows today. And for those of you who sow the $100 or more, you're gonna enter for a chance to win Living a Life on Fire, which was my first book, only 100 copies, and it's signed by 14-year-old Diga. So we love you guys. We're praying for you. You wanna say goodbye? Goodbye, everyone. So we love you. We're praying for you. Bless you.