 From the highest heights to the lowest lows, God is there with you. You know, I just got done traveling all over the United States here for a week and a half or so and having a vacation. God is in every place. He's moving in every place. So glad you joined us today. This is Hope Today. I'm Tom. I am here with Amanda and Sydney. Sydney, we're gonna travel some places in the spirit today. Be sure you are. You know, it is time for you to receive your divine inheritance and experience a move to the Holy Spirit like never before. You don't want to miss our upcoming conversation with prophetic speaker, revivalist, destiny image publisher, Larry Sparks. He's here in studio and he's gonna reveal the revelation he received from God about the power behind Pentecost and why we are called to cultivate the upper room experience now like never before. Amanda, I am super excited because I know right now is a time for us to be charging our spirits to go after God like never before because he wants to move. Revival isn't coming. Revival is now. And we're gonna unpack that today in a greater measure in a greater way. That is so true, Sydney. You know, God is wooing people. I had the opportunity to be with a bunch of church of God women and some other women at a retreat at Markleysburg and at, let me see, Camp Sunrise Mountain. It was absolutely beautiful, but I can tell you there is a hunger for God's word and for his truth and for the Holy Spirit. Like I never have seen before among women and it's amazing not that it's not among men. Well, I just think that God responds to that expectation, that desire, that when we, he's always ready to pour out. We just need to be ready to receive and to go after him. And so stay with us. We're gonna see just an, I believe a move of God on the program today. Right now we're gonna see what we can do with Stump the Host. All right, so play along with us. These are all books of Acts, book of Acts edition questions. And I always say that I love the book of Acts and every time they give me book of Acts questions, I miss them. So here we go. Let's go ladies. You're gonna have to help us out here. What vision did God give Peter before he met Cornelius in Acts chapter 10? Was it of the sheep? In all the unclean animals? It's the sheep coming down with all the animals. Unclean and unclean. Unclean and unclean. I have no idea. I believe that's it. It rise Peter, kill and eat. It was a vision of animals coming down on a sheet. All right. All right, we're good. We're good. First one's good. That's from Acts 10 9 through 16. I definitely need to read that chapter because I don't think I remember that at all. All right, here's question two. What sin did a niacinth sapphire commit according to Acts 5 1 through 11? So they lied about how much they got from the property they sold. Yep, I believe. They lied and they said they give the whole amount and they didn't give the whole amount. They didn't and then they died. And then they died. Yep. Wow. We all say we want the spirit to move like it did in the book of Acts. I don't know. People who pay their time, they fall over dead. I don't know. It just, they lied to the Holy spirit though. That's what it was. So here's the last one. Paul had a dream Acts 16 6 through 10 about a man begging for help. Where was this man from? It's from Macedonia. Wow. Praise God. It's from Macedonia. Look at that. All right. I got a sprinkle of joy. Yes. I got a sprinkle of joy. Woo hoo. All right. All right. Take that producers. Oh no, I would definitely have to give it to you too. Cause sometimes I was like, I really haven't dug into the book of Acts that much. Cause I was like, I don't know about all these. But it's all good. 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We are so glad that you are getting connected with us and we are so excited about our guests today. Larry Sparks is a prophetic minister, revivalist and publisher of Destiny Image. After a life-changing encounter, the Holy Spirit revealed to him a biblical blueprint for believers to experience supernatural awakening like never before. Larry Sparks is a dear friend to our ministry and he's joining us now today to share insights and keys from his new book, Pentecostal Fire. Larry, it is such a joy to have you with us today. Sydney, thank you and the team for having me here. I'm excited. Well, we are truly excited because you have something that has been burning in your spirit about Pentecostal Fire. So can you share what it is and what God has dropped in your spirit? Well, I was even getting ready to come up here. I actually felt like the Lord said, I want you to bombard the people who are watching with testimony. Because this is called hope today and what happens is when we hear the testimony of what God is doing right now. I wanna encourage the folks who are watching, God is actually moving right now. It wasn't like 100 years ago when he moved into the Azusa Street Revival. That's great. 20 years ago when he moved in Toronto and Brownsville. Great. We just got back from California, Southern California, we partner with a ministry there called California Will Be Saved, all Gen Z people, going up and down the coast of California, seeing thousands coming to these open air gatherings, saved, delivered, baptized, healed, filled with the Holy Spirit. They actually closed down Hollywood Boulevard and did a whole open air meeting there where again, thousands come because there is such a hunger. You guys were talking about God responding to hunger, responding to that expectation. I'm seeing that right now. That's just one place. But I felt like the Holy Spirit said, tell them California is not off limits because dark places are hard place. Have you ever heard that? Like, that place is a hard place. It's a dark place. New York City, Las Vegas, San Francisco. I just got back in March from Wales and Ireland. Hard, dark, atheistic, secular. The Lord said this, Larry, those places will always be hard and dark if you go in with gimmicks. But if you go in with the gospel and the glory of God, the manifestation of the power of the Spirit, there's no such thing as a hard or dark place for God. And we are literally seeing that. And like I said, right now, like last eight months, God is moving. No places off limits. Oh, I love that. It's just like, we can really feel like in those hard places, it's like God is like, His Spirit is going through those places and He wants His fire and His glory and His presence to be released like never before. Can you just share with us because you had a revelation with God that just even to burn this idea of awakening and how it's so tangible, it's right at our fingertips. Can you tell us about that? Yeah, yeah, I'll contextualize it very briefly. When I was 16 years old, I'd gone to a Christian school. I wanted enough of Jesus, so I didn't go to hell and I didn't miss the rapture. That's all I wanted. I didn't want to get left behind and I didn't want to go to hell, but I had no desire to really serve the Lord. I went to a church service at 16. God just sovereignly awakened to hunger, holy curiosity in me. I got touched by the manifestation of the presence of God. I even feel like as we're talking about God moving this way. For those of you who are watching, I don't want this, I'm just gonna be bold. I feel like God is just gonna touch you supernaturally. I'm not trying to whip anything up. We're not trying to manufacture anything. I actually feel like some of you are gonna feel heat on your hands. Some of you actually may notice a trembling. You might need to actually fall on your face before the Lord because I believe the Holy Spirit pours out His presence while we even talk about Him. So I was 16, got radically touched by the Holy Spirit and since then that has been my heart's desire. Anything I do in ministry or publishing, I want to see people connect to God, not as a concept, because he's not a concept, not as just a theology. And I believe in good theology. I got my masters from Regent University. He is a real person who does what Isaiah 64 once says, he rends the heavens. He tears open the heavens. He comes down and it was 2021. I went to a church in Peoria, Arizona, highly recommended called Fresh Start Church. Those people mean business, man. You gotta go there. You gotta have electrolytes. You gotta have a seat belt, whatever, ready to go because those services go like three, four hours but they're going after God. They called me up. They prayed over me. They prophesied over me, ministered to me. And I felt like I received something from the Lord. And I'm like, God, I came back from Arizona back to normal life. I said, God, what did you do? What did you do to me? What are you doing right now? And as I had that conversation, which by the way, if God touches your life, it's legal to engage him in a conversation. Say, God, what did you do to me? You were talking about the women's retreat and what God is doing. More and more we are seeing people go to these kinds of gatherings and just radically experience God. We don't want you to just end up with a thrill and a zing. None of us want that. Those life changing encounters with God, please seek God. When you get touched by His presence, say, God, what did you do to me? What are you saying? What are you upgrading? Because I asked him that question, Sydney, and he said this. And every time I say it, I feel a fear of God on it because he made a statement. He didn't tell me really what he did to me. He said, Larry, tell my church I'm reintroducing her to Pentecostal fire. And just one last thing, please don't be afraid of the word Pentecostal because you might be thinking a very weird, strange experience. Even when I named the book, I had some people saying, are you sure you want to call it that? And the Lord was very emphatic with me because Pentecost is not, it's not just a denomination. It's not a flavor of church. Pentecost is what birthed the church when the Spirit of God fell on a company of hungry people crying out in an upper room. They weren't just sitting there idly. It actually tells us in Acts one, what they were doing. In fact, in my Bible, there's a little heading. It says the upper room prayer meeting. They gathered together one place in one accord, God poured out his spirit. I'm gonna prophesy right now because even what we saw at Asbury University, I was there. I said, God, what are you doing? Because everybody was coming together one place in one accord. They were worshiping. They were praying. We saw it at Lee and we saw it at Liberty and other places. Seeing it at Auburn where there's all these people getting baptized. God, what are you doing? The Lord says, I'm gathering my people together in one place and in one accord. And the Spirit of the Lord would say to you even right now that will produce as it did in the book of Acts the inevitability of a suddenly. I prophesy right now. We are moving towards something guys. We're moving towards the inevitability of a suddenly outpouring of the Spirit that is gonna change the landscape of this nation. Cause this is the hope for the nation. Anyway, I answered probably more than you were talking about. Because like this is what we're all about and hope today is we wanna go where the Holy Spirit is going. And we just even feel that there's a divine interruption that's even happening in this program today. And we just wanna encourage you if you feeling the heat on your hands or you have a hunger, give us a call on our prayer line at 888-665-4483. And Larry, you said something as you were just like just reminding something that you mentioned in your book and you talked about revival resuscitates but Pentecost sustains. And what you're talking about is this Pentecostal fire. It's not this move that is happening in church or gathering. It is something that is continually happening. We have to be on the altar of his presence and just to receive it. This is what he's desiring for all of us in this season. I love that you brought that up because that reminds me another prophetic word from a dear friend of mine, Miriam Evans. I travel very closely with Tommy and Miriam. We go to all these just different cities seeing revival break. Sometimes, listen, there's nothing special about us. We're just hungry. And we go and partner with these different churches and we basically go in and we go in and tell them it's legal for you to go after the fullness of the Holy Spirit. But my friend Miriam at a time when she actually lost her father unexpectedly and she's a revivalist. She's flying to a place to go minister and Lord gave her this vision. And in this vision, she saw Jesus with resuscitation paddles over the United States shocking the nation. Just like, and again, not shocking it in a bad way. Shocking and telling the nation be revived. Wake up, because that's what revival does. It is a shock. It is unusual. It's a powerful demonstration of God. But then it shifted because then she actually felt like in this vision the Lord said, and guess what? I'm actually turning my church into resuscitation paddles. Because we are filled with the Spirit of Christ. He resuscitates. He revives us. But we are literally filled with the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit. And I see that happening. He's raising up a company of people that would go to every place that's dry and dead. And let me tell you, if you're a Christian, you're watching this, congratulation, you're a revivalist. Because you're filled with the resurrection power of Jesus, which means any dead thing is not safe around you. I feel like the Lord is saying dead things are not safe around you because you actually are the resuscitation paddles in the hands of the Lord. So... I have to ask you, you had mentioned about people being saved in the meetings you were seeing. And of course we see in Auburn, there were people being baptized, an outward sign of salvation. What are you seeing with people that are, it's not just Christians, but there are non-Christians being attracted and coming to God. It's wild, it's weird, and it's wacky. In this sense, because there's this religious lie that says, people who don't know Jesus, they don't want that stuff in our churches. I just gotta go after this because we gotta be mature enough to talk about it. It's like, they want hip, they want cool, they want TED talks, they want motivational, all I know is when we do these outdoor gatherings like you're talking about, and literally people, it's not that they're just like not saved. These are often demonized people. These are often people who are in great torment, great bondage, that type of thing. They come, it's like the sound draws them in. I remember we did a meeting, an outdoor meeting in South Florida, cardiologist actually, Dr. Chauncey Crandall, precious man who's an evangelist ministered with Reinhardt, Bonke, me and Tommy and Miriam were there. We did it in this outdoor area in Palm Beach. And there was worship and we were going after the power of God, the baptism of the spirit. And there were people who lived in these high rises. No joke, came down to the meeting, got saved. They came out of their condo. These are not, these are well-to-do people. Came down, got born again, because they heard the sound. And in Acts 2 verse 6, I love it. It says, when they heard the sound of the relevant hip, cool, it doesn't say that. I always get very facetious. It doesn't say when they heard the sound of the hip, cool, relevant preacher or the church that had a children's program that was like Disneyland. And listen, we want good, we want to be professional. We want to be excellent. I'm not devaluing that. But it says, when they heard the sound, the multitude came together. What was the sound? When you look at it in context, we're talking about the book of Acts, it was the sound of a mighty rushing wind. It was the sound of the manifestation of the spirit. It was the sound of something that sometimes we'd consider a little bit weird, unusual and supernatural. But back to your question, people who don't know Jesus, people who are in the world, whatever, the tired of the world, they want us to actually carry the otherworldly. And that is that supernatural power of the spirit to them. It is so good. So talk to us about a testimony of someone who attended and you've seen their life just be impacted. Yeah, one of the most, one that marks me as a dad. And I might cry over this because I remember, we've been doing meetings for 10 years in South Florida as well, me and my pastor. We did a meeting with Heidi Baker, Randy Clark. God just filled the building. Like you couldn't escape from the presence of God. So we're going around, just ministering to people. And there was a family there, and I knew them quite well. They attended a more traditional church, nothing kind of like what I'm talking about right now. But you know, you just know the people and you know that they're not faking an experience with God. And I went over and everybody's at the altar in front of the church getting touched by God. And there's this husband and wife with their daughter, had to be nine or 10, and the kid's not going to make it up. Kids not going to manufacture this. And a little girl was just laying there, the smile on her face, trembling under the power of God. That's so marked me. And I went over there and again, these are not like, these are not people who are revival junkies. These are precious, solid people who are like our daughters being marked by the presence of God. I came over and I'm like, God, what do I do? I don't need to add anything to what you're doing. And I made this decree over her, and I carry this for the generation. I said, Jesus, may this encounter with you right now be an argument one day against the devil. May this encounter, as she's experiencing the real God, when the enemy comes in like a flood with temptation, with the world, peer pressure, I pray that she remember, I pray that she remember the moment at an altar where she met the real and living God that caused, it's not about the trembling, the shaking, the falling down, being slain in the spirit. I celebrate all that actually. I tell people and it disarms them. I don't tolerate the manifestations of the Holy Spirit, I celebrate them. I do, well, brother, what happens if things get weird? We pastor it, because often in times past we shut it down. Oh, no, no, no, we pastor it. There's somebody being distracted, we deal with it. Hey, well, what if it's a demon? It has to suck her out. That's right, yeah. I mean, literally, if somebody, we see that regularly in these meetings where God comes so strongly, people will do unusual things and it's like, there might be something demonic. Well, great, let's take them aside so we can preserve their dignity and see that person liberated and set free. He just, God comes with that level of force, that level of fire. Well, Larry, how can I position myself for that? We just need to be hungry. We need to number two, welcome him when he comes. We don't, like I said, we don't tolerate him. We celebrate him. So that was one, I remember seeing that, that marked me and I said, Jesus, do the same for my daughter. Do the same for my family. And he is, he's apprehending children like that powerfully. You know, Larry, just like before you just mentioned about your family and your daughter, I just really sense that you have a father's heart for so many people where it's like you see with your daughter and this generation. And so, can you just take a moment and just speak as a father to the people that are out there that are desperate, that are hurting, that are hungry? Just take a moment and just minister to them. Yeah, I wanna encourage you what our kids need, what the next generation needs. And if you're a young, I'm not that old by the way, I'm 40, we need an encounter with God. We need to know that he's real. And you know what? He responds, I was thinking in Joel two where it talks about, let the people pray. And then right after it says, and God will respond or God will reply. So I wanna encourage you. That's the greatest legacy that we can leave. That's the greatest thing that we can encourage the next generation is to cry out to God, is to pray and say, Holy Spirit, would you come and move with power? Think of Karen Wheaton, who's one of my heroes. She said, God called me to do the ramp. To me, one of the most powerful youth ministries on the planet, God called me and I gave God every reason why I was unqualified to be called. I'm not cool, I'm not hip. I don't know how to talk to young people, but you know what the Lord told Karen Wheaton? He said, yeah, but you know the way into my presence and you know that if you pray, I will come. And that is what you need to teach the next generation. So that's my encouragement to moms and dads and really my encouragement to you, whatever your age is, is that we've got to preserve that passion for God's presence above all else. And number two, when you pray, he will come. When you pray, he will respond, he will reply and he's so faithful to do that. This has been such a joy, I just appreciate your enthusiasm and your zeal for the Holy Spirit. It is truly contagious. Thank you for all that you do for the kingdom of God as you've been sharing this word of revival across the world and all that you do for Destiny Images, like dear ministry partners of ours and we're just so thankful for you and the mandate that you're carrying. Well, thank you guys for honoring the prophetic, the move of the spirit and again, that's what fuels hope in people. People actually need to know it's possible for God to do that again for him to move like that and that does fuel hope big time. Absolutely. I can't wait to, I wanna, Amanda's gonna read a verse and I can't wait to get your reactions of the verse as well. Yes, it's a good one. This comes from Acts four, verse 31. And it says, And when they had prayed, the place they were in and assembled together was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke the word of God with boldness. Oh, glory to God. I think it's so important that we hear that. Yeah, yeah. Do you want me to comment? Yes, please. I can comment. I wanna say this is that that was not just for the book of Acts days because there was a revival that happened in the late 40s called the Hebrides revival in this little area of islands off the coast of Scotland. God was breaking out and there was an area of the Hebrides islands that there was revival happening but this little area did not get touched yet by revival. So they all gathered together and they were gonna pray and they basically, this man talked about a bold, audacious prayer who's a blacksmith. He said, God, you said you would pour out water on dry ground and in our territory, it is not happening. So Lord, I appeal to you right now as the covenant keeping God, you said this, it is not happening and we appeal that you would move because your very honor is at stake. Now, that's the kind of prayer when somebody prays that you back away because you're afraid the lightning might strike them because it almost sounds irreligious but I was reading that in the history books and I actually felt like the Lord said, oh, no, no, Larry, that is the highest form of the fear of God because that man knows me so intimately that he knows I am the God who keeps my promise and if I said I would pour out my rain, my water, my outpouring on dry ground, I will do it and it says in multiple accounts, after that man, lowly blacksmith prayed that prayer, the place where they met, that house was physically shaken. The power of God filled not only that prayer meeting but it filled that territory. What's that relevant to us today? We need to pray those types of prayers. I call them building, shaking prayers where we say God pour out your spirit in Jesus' name and we'll do whatever we can to host you. Amen. Wow. Wow. It's really speechless. It's really speechless. I have read some of that Hephradi's revival. I mean, it's just amazing what God wants to do. I mean, look, we're gonna end a program here in a little bit but God's not going away. God wants to move in your life. He wants to open that door right now, open it. Sidney, they just need to open the door in a special way to invite Christ in. You know, it's like you just said the open door and we've been saying this over and over and over again on the Hebrew calendar. It is the year of the open door. We are in 5784 and that 80 means pay. It means your mouth. It is time for you to open your mouth and agree with what God has spoken in your life. You know, at church yesterday, it was just so powerful. The man of God our house, he's a prophet house. He just started declaring like it's time for rain. He just said over and over and over again. It is time for rain and we're speaking that over you today that the rain of the spirit would fall afresh on your house. The rain of the spirit would fall afresh on your heart. The rain of the spirit would fall afresh on your family. And Father God, right now in the name of Jesus, I thank you, Father God, that your fire is igniting around homes across the country in Pittsburgh and Dallas and Orlando and Jacksonville and Atlanta. Wherever you're watching Montgomery, Alabama, this is what we're here for. We want you to experience the fire and the presence and the power of God. There's nothing else that matters. And if it wasn't for Jesus leaving, being resurrected, and then he's like, all right, I'm out, ascending. So we could receive the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit enters your life, when you have an encounter with the Holy Spirit, everything changes and you're never the same. And that's what we want for you. Not a tingly feeling, not a tickle of yours. No, we want you to experience and come into a knowing relationship with the Holy Spirit. And we are so grateful that you've joined us on this very special program of Hope Today, just like Tom said. It's not ending over here, so after we go up the air, make sure you make an altar before the Lord and just pray and thank him for all that he's done for you. We love you. On tomorrow's Hope Today, discover the true value of what it means to honor God with your body. Author Catherine Pace Sauer shares how seeking a healthier lifestyle can lead to a more fulfilling life that better serves God and others. Don't miss tomorrow's Hope Today. Cornerstone Television wishes to thank all our faithful viewers, whose consistent prayers and financial support have made this program possible.