 God is good all the time and all the time These testimonies touched me these testimonies Especially about the Last person when he said Jesus healed me Because he loves me that touches my heart The message I'm gonna try to make very clear today. I'm gonna try to keep it as short as possible The message is gonna be just simply Jesus loves you Let us bow our heads and close our eyes for just a moment dear, holy spirit. I'll come to you the name of Jesus Christ And father I ask you pour out your spirit in this place Touch my lips touch my mind God Everything that is of me I put away and holy spirit I come into obedience of you open the ears of people God open our spirits to understand you We cannot see you we cannot touch you, but we know you're here because you testify That we are the children of God And I thank you for your love today And the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray So my name is Vlad Stepanov. I'm from Spokane, Washington. Thank you Jesus So come from a background. I've been here before I testified and I Said my testimony a little bit And I talked about my Drug addicted past. I was addicted to meth. I was addicted to heroin. I grew up in a Christian house I grew up and with Christian parents, but somewhere along the way I got lost Somewhere along the way I went I went astray. I went after the things of this world and I remember when I was in rehab. I was God will provide an ever at Washington They just opened up. This was over three years ago. I was one of the first students there, you know, I came I came there About three weeks on the program. I started changing. I started looking at myself and my surroundings where I fell I started praying. I was not baptized in the Holy Spirit. I did not know what speaking in tongues was at that time I came from a church from a family with the Baptist background So it was something I didn't know much about I didn't know much about the Holy Spirit My parents love Jesus and the church they go to loves Jesus, but the Holy Spirit isn't preached there often and I came there. I'm hearing people speaking in tongues and you know, I'm seeing prof prophecies and prophets walking around and You know, this it was very new to me About a week and a half into being on the program. I started asking God for repentance. I repented many times in my life I repented in jail. I don't know at least ten times at least ten times I've repented in jail and I Repented on the streets. I Had a pistol to my face. I repented then, you know All these situations just led me to repentance when I was behind between a rock and a hard place I'd say Jesus my life is yours But as soon as Jesus frees me I go when I do what I kept doing But this time something was different Something inside of me was screaming out to me and telling me you're made for something bigger than this See what's interesting as a child that's growing up when I was five years old. I actually went up and down our street There's this some Russian song. I'm gonna try to interpret it. It's a very Slavic The Lord is coming soon and it's like a repent I'm not gonna sing it in Russian But I would walk up and down the I would walk up and down the streets and I would sing that song The Lord is coming soon repent Um And I would preach, you know, I'd see our neighbor who's getting drunk or getting high or smoking a cigarette I'm five years old. You're gonna go to hell. I always had a passion to preach. I Always had a passion to talk about God about a God. I didn't know I wanted to talk about a God I did not know when I was in drugs many times to try to take my life Which had to take my own life. I was in situations where I was looking death in the eyes I was in witchcraft. I was in sorcery. I was in communication with demons and The whole time there was something inside of me that was telling me you're for something better. You're designed for something else There was about a six-month period where I went completely atheist called out to God. I didn't believe in him I didn't know him, but I would pray to him God something inside of me My whole life was telling me God was telling me that you're made for something better than this There's one who loves you And you're called to preach his name, but I didn't know who he is So being at rehab I start praying about a week and a half in I start praying when I got there I made my I made a decision. There's no going back. I Got to change my life. I didn't come there seeking for seeking God at first. I came there first to get sober I was on my way to prison that kind of scared me. I was Out on a big bond for a bunch of crimes I didn't And you know that that was kind of shaking me another thing I overdosed about four or five times within one month period I ended up dying seeing demons come and try to take me to hell and I remember the very last time that when I was preaching. I mean not preaching I was Overdose, sorry my mind just went up, but I'm my last overdose when it happened. I cried out to God There was a demon about from here to the wall that was laughing He was laughing at me And he was saying you're mine now You're mine now what find me the most about this demon was this demon is a demon that I've seen on the side of my eyes for a very long time Since I was about 1415 when I started just drinking But then the time came When I was talking to him face-to-face Believe me or not, but God is my witness. I asked him for finances once and within an hour and went from broke to $1,500 in my pocket He gave it to me He told me where to go what door to open and it was right there. God is my witness See I was doing things like that in the spiritual world and I thought I encountered power But when that overdose happened when I was out of my body watching my body being slapped around and shaken I looked up and there was that same demon laughing saying you're mine now. I cried out to the Lord. I Cried out to the God. I don't know I Cried out to the God. I only heard about I Cried out to the God. I only knew how religion displays him to be And I remember I heard the softest voice in my life saying son This is your final shot And I felt this pain come over me. It wasn't my pain. It was a pain from within I Remember I woke up in the body Fast-forward I'm at rehab when I start asking God to give me repentance. I said God give me repentance. Give me repentance three weeks in I'm brewing the floors. The Holy Spirit touches me He touches me. He speaks to my heart. He calls me by name. I go on every pant that same evening I get baptized in the Holy Spirit. We fast forward a little bit. I Ended up going to jail. I ended up going to jail No spiritual father Just came to know the Lord. I go to jail. I go to prison for over a year part was broken My heart was aching And I was praying and then there was about a week where I relaxed Where I stopped praying where I Wasn't reading the word. I wasn't spending time with God. I was just I went into this very depressed Mode knowing my wife is about to give birth to her second child and now I'm on my way to prison Waiting in County Jail for the bus to come pick me up And I remember I went to sleep once I want that I go to bed and I have this dream the most realistic dream. I have ever had It's been almost three years and I remember it to the detail I remember in this dream I fast forward like I did my year and a half in prison and I walk out of prison with What's my box with my property box I Remember I walk out and I'm looking I'm expecting my wife to be there to pick me up. I Know I'm walking out. I'm excited And oh if anyone here has been in jail before they know that feeling when you get out It's like Christmas You know, you're going home finally and this and this dream was so realistic I had in this dream. I had a memories of me being in prison and all the things I'm about to tell my wife And I remember I come out And no one's there to pick me up My wife isn't there Now remember my heart starts hurting. I'm like what's going on. So I walk all across town I walk home and I remember I come home the door is open and I walk up to the refrigerator I drop the box and my wife's nowhere to be found walk up to the refrigerator and there's a note That says I'm busy right now. I Know you want to spend time with me, but I'm really busy right now We'll spend time later. Remember my heart breaks. They start crying in this dream I get cold and just this pain and Church understand this the way I loved my wife and that dream the emotions I had for her I still don't love her to this day that much. I don't love my children that much and I remember I call her work And her manager picks up and I'm like, hey, let me let me speak to Julie, please Let me speak to my wife and I hear her manager say hey Julie come here your husband's on the phone and I hear my wife yelling in the background Tell him I'm busy right now later I remember I was walking around town and this is dream and I was crying and I was heartbroken and I was crushed and Every time I will try to get in touch with her I would hear the same thing over and over again. I'm busy right now Later, I remember I was I don't know why but I was in a mall parking lot in this dream And I fell to my knees and I started crying and at that moment That's like my spirit came back into my body and I woke up. It was the weirdest thing I've ever experienced waking up from a dream And I hear a vocal voice Not inside I heard it in my room But I love you even more Vlad But way too often I come and I want to spend time with you but you tell me God, I'm busy right now over you Sometimes we think we need to climb a ladder Sometimes we want we think we need to reach high places to get to get to God more you don't a Lot of us we want a lot of us we want to encounter Jesus who here raise your hand if you want to encounter Jesus If you want him to come to you more during prayer in your dreams. Amen This is nothing compared to how he wants to encounter you quick testimony when we were at the conference kingdom domain Jesus came to me He held my hands He hugged me He brushed my hair. I felt him and he told me one thing. He said you love these visits. I said God Jesus, you know I do He said so do I a Lot of times we think we need to do something in order for God to love us Sometimes we think we need to do something in order to have Jesus visit us No In revelations it says he stood stands at the door and knocks He stands at the door and knocks Who remembers that feeling on the day you repented? That happy feeling he was right there the moment you needed him you knew he was there You believed it. You felt him you felt his blood washing you you felt his power coming over you You felt his presence, but time goes by After time goes by it's like he's far When husband and wife get married they don't distance each other from themselves if it is a loving relationship They come closer and closer when Jesus comes on the scene and he comes into your life He doesn't just want to save you just so you go to heaven the father's prayers let your will be done and let your kingdom come Who here believes that before you can you will experience heaven up there? Heaven has to come down When we step into heaven when we die and we pass over we have to know Those feelings you should have relived them if you get to heaven and it is the first time you experience Jesus Or look at Jesus in the face or felt his presence at a very sad Christian out here on earth And the biggest problem is we think we need to reach God We need to run after him. We need to chase him before we go into prayer I'm gonna share a revelation that I very recently had and I only shared it with a couple people and I shared it with Dennis here on the way Here today. I was praying and reading a few weeks ago Matthew 6 6 It says but when you but when you pray Go into your room and When you have shut your door pray to your father who was in the secret place and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly When a husband and wife get married Before their marriage there's a relationship that we they have with each other that everybody sees and And there is a relationship that they desire That they cannot have Legally in God's eyes until they're married Right, and so they're waiting. They're waiting until that that wedding day The guy is attracted to the girl the girl is attracted to the guy. They're passionate They're in love. They're in fire for each other. They're waiting and then the day comes When the relationship is built that nobody else can see It is between the husband and the wife where they satisfy each other and they satisfy each other to a point that they don't need anybody else and Not that moment when they are together nothing outside that door matters This is how the Lord spoke this to me when we repent We are automatically married to the father because of what Jesus did We are the bride we are the bride When it says go into but when you pray go into your room There is a relationship between a husband and wife that nobody needs to know about You don't talk about it. You should don't share it's between you two There's a relationship with God and you that God wants to have with you that nobody should hear about Nobody should know about and when you understand this relationship When you are behind the closed door with the father and spending time with him and his presence is upon you Nothing else in the world matters That is the secret place where we close our eyes we get on our knees and we feel his presence You want to save souls? You want to know the heart of the father? He's waiting for you. He's waiting for you better See my life was a wreck See maybe you're sitting here today and saying Vlad but you don't know my life God can't love me You might be saying to yourself like you don't know the sins have committed You don't know the depression I go through God can't use me. God doesn't want to see me 17 18 years old and a full-out methamphetamine addiction. I Know what it's like be 19 years old your wife is at home with a child And you just you're so addicted you want to go back, but you're so addicted I Know what it's like being so messed up in the head to where your mentality is when you go and rob people and you hurt them You have no heart for it And when somebody says man that you went too far and your your understanding your mind is so messed up You say no, what if he was in my position you would have done the same thing. I know what it's like I know what it's like thinking one is this gonna be over. I know what it's like being hopeless I know what it's like praying for death. I know what it's like waiting for death I know what it's like sitting at three o'clock in the morning with a loaded pistol thinking is tonight the night I'm gonna finish this when you give him a chance He's more real than me right here or you right there We are specks of dust He's forever if you're thinking here today, and you're sitting See when we were worshiping the Lord said something to me He said tonight a lot of people Will be changed their prayer life tonight will be changed. See I don't know the Bible too well. I'm not a Bible scholar But have an experience with the Lord I can't bring you great and fancy speeches, but I can bring bring your personal experience of my success I can tell you the joy of going Closing yourself in the secret place and praying for your family and for your friends and God answers I can tell you the joy of his presence I'd to invite the worship band to come up, please and play before we go into prayer See the Holy Spirit today. He wants to change a lot of our a lot of ours our Priorities he wants to change our prayer life. He wants us To dedicate ourselves to him more today. You're married to Christ You're married to the father Marriage doesn't have to be you're his wife. He's your husband. He's you're his child You're his beloved. You're his only one. There is no other It's close our eyes for a moment our heads Don't stand up just yet. Has anybody ever really asked God Why do you give us an answer if we ask you in the secret place? I asked the father this very recently This is the second half of my very recent revelation. I said father Why can't I just ask at church or why can't I just ask in front of anybody? What I want and receive it. Why does it have to be in a secret place? booked my heart And he said because I want you to be with me so much. I want you to give yourself to me Nobody there just you and I spending time one-on-one together and I know it is difficult He said and I knew from the very beginning that it will be difficult for you to do this And so I made a promise That if you give me your time And if you spend time with me alone, I promise to give you anything you ask for The father loves you so much And he wants to be alone with you so much That he's ready to give you anything you ask for