 chains are broken as you have spoken. The cross eases you. Yes, God, we sing of your goodness, Lord. Your faithfulness, God. Oh, we love you, Lord. Yes, God, we lift up a praise to you. Come on, every hand lifted in this house. Come on, we're gonna just sing to the Lord. Come on, from the front to the back of this sanctuary and the other sanctuary, sanctuary too. Come on, just lift up a praise to the Lord right where you are. Yes, God, we love you, God. Come on, we're singing all together. You give life. You are love. You bring life to the darkness. You give hope. You restore every heart that is broken. Oh, we sing. How great. How great. It's your breath we sing. It's your breath in our life. You give life. Yeah. You are love. And all the earth we sing. Yes, all the earth will shout your praise. Our hearts will cry. These bones will sing it out. Say, this is your breath. Come on, let's sing all the earth. And all the earth will shout your praise. Our hearts will cry. These bones will sing. How great. How great. We sing. How great. Oh, how great. Are you the Lord? What a son. How great. How great. Oh, we sing to you, God. We love you, God. We lift up a praise to you. Yes, God, you're worthy of all the praise, my God. Yes, Lord, we love you, God. We lift you on high. Come on, sing. The splendor of a king clothed in majesty. Let all the earth rejoice. Let all the earth rejoice. He wraps. He wraps himself in life. And darkness tries to hide. Come on. And darkness tries to hide. And trembles at his voice. And trembles at his voice. Come on, we sing. How great. All together. How great. Second sanctuary as well as those in line. Just tell that to Jesus. Put your hands together for Jesus in the second sanctuary as well. Give the Lord a pfft. We are a shouting, shawrish. Make some noise. If you're excited for the greatness, the goodness of our God, the faithfulness of our God. Maybe not the whistling, but the shouting. Matthew 26 says, And when they were eating, Jesus took the bread, blessed and broken, and gave it to the disciples and said, Take, eat. This is my body. Then he took the cup and gave thanks. And gave it to them saying, Drink from it all of you. For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin. But I say to you, I will not drink of this cup of wine until now, from now on until the day when I drink it in you with you in my father's kingdom. There's communion elements right in front of your pew in the second sanctuary. The ushers will pass them around right now. So I want you to take them and you can already peel the top layer and take the wafer and peel the second layer. And we're going to pray in just a moment. On that faithful day when the Bible says that Jesus gathered with his disciples and they celebrated the Passover. The Passover was a celebration for Israel when the dark angel passed over the houses of Israelites in Egypt. So it was a celebration of something that happened. Jesus holds the bread and the cup and says, This is something that's going to happen. My blood will be spilled. My body will be torn for your sins. And then he tells them, This is something that's going to happen. He said, One day we will take this supper in the presence banquet where we will be remembering now not the Passover in Egypt, but we will be remembering when the wrath of God passed over us because of the Lamb Jesus dying on the cross for us. So the Holy Communion is a time when we look back. It's the time when we look forward. And Apostle Paul tells us it's also a time that we look within. How is our relationship to the body of Jesus Christ? How are we walking with the body of Jesus Christ? So we don't take it in unworthy manner. It's not that we have to be worthy people. None of us are worthy in ourselves. But we as Christians must understand as we partake of the bread, as we partake of the Jews, we are collectively a body of Jesus Christ. Nobody's a lone ranger. Nobody's a superman, an iron man, an old man. We are a body. That means we must live in the relationship with the body of Jesus Christ. Amen? If you are visiting us today for the first time, and maybe you're not a Christian, you don't believe in the gospel, in the good news of Jesus Christ, and perhaps you're skeptic or you're an atheist, you are welcome here. But this is not a church snack. Plus it's not enough for the church snack. This is for people who have a connection and a relationship with God through His Son, Jesus Christ. This is not for people who practice spirituality, or we connect with Mother Earth, with the universe, or attract different things. We are Christians who believe in God and in His Son, Jesus Christ is the power of the Holy Spirit. And so we encourage you to abstain from that until you take that step of placing your trust in Jesus. Amen? So as you take these communion elements, those of you in our second century, and those of you online, I want us to pray. Ask the Lord, first of all, I want us to thank God for the death of His Son, Jesus Christ. I want us to thank Him for the forgiveness of our sins. If maybe you have some guilt, things are done, you left undone, you feel unworthy right now. This is a good moment to ask the precious blood of Jesus. According to 1 John 1.9, it says that He will cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Forgive us of our sin. Ask Him to cleanse you right now and purify you. If you have beef with other brothers and sisters, you like to pick fights all the time. This is a good moment to ask the Lord to forgive you so that you don't take it in judgment, but you take it in blessing. Amen? Let's bow our heads and pray. Father, we thank You for Your Son, Jesus Christ, whom You send on this earth to die for us, to die for all our sins, to die for our unrighteousness, our rebellion. We thank You that on that cross there was a Passover, Your wrath, eternal judgment, eternal separation from You passed us over because Jesus took our place. He became the substitute. He died in our place. We didn't deserve it. We didn't earn it. We will never be able to repay You for that, Lord. But today, with a grateful heart, we turn our eyes toward You and we say thank You for giving us the gift that we could not earn, deserve. We thank You for the eternal life. We thank You for the forgiveness of our sins, for the gift of righteousness. We thank You that we have peace with You today, God. No matter what we're going through, no matter what is happening in our world, we are in peace with You, Lord. We thank You that You have adopted us in Your family. We thank You that You let Your Son take our place on that cross that we can be forgiven. I ask You right now that You cleanse us from our sins. I ask You right now that You purify us, God. None of us are worthy in ourselves. All of us have things that we have fallen short and we ask You that Your precious blood will purify our conscience. It will purify our hearts, our souls, and lives that we will partake of this communion in a manner that glorifies You, in a manner that brings health, healing, instead of judgment. We pray for every believer in this room, every believer in the Second Century as well as watching online, as they take part of this, that it will bring healing to their faith and to their bodies. In Jesus' name. Amen. I want you to partake of the wafer and then of the cup. In Jesus' name. And I want you to open your heart in worship right now. As you partake of this communion, prepare your heart to worship. We're going to pray for healing in just a moment. But before we pray for healing, I want you to just take a moment and just adore Jesus. Thank Him that He took that place for you instead of you on the cross. Hallelujah. You can put the remains of those things back into the basket. Just lift your hands right now and just praise Him right now. Those of you in the Second Century, join us. Those of you online, drop that hands-up emojis in the chat. Join us with your family. Let's just worship Him. We love you, Lord. Come on, sing your name. This is your name. Is the highest your name. Is the greatest your name. It stands above them all. All thrones we sing, yeah. All thrones and dominions all pound. This is just the voice. His hand raised. Join us with the angel. We sing. The Bible says, Anillistra, there was a certain man without strength in his feet, was sitting. A cripple from his mother's womb who had never walked. This man heard Paul speaking. Paul observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed. Said with a loud voice, Stand up straight on your feet. And he leaped and walked. My friends, this is in the Bible. It didn't end with Jesus. Miracles and healings did not stop with Jesus' death. It did not end with disciples of Jesus. This was Paul. He wasn't a direct apostle of Jesus. And yet he came to a place where a crippled man from his mother's womb. This is not a guy who had an accident, fell and could limp. This guy could not walk at all. For those of you who remember a testimony in our church where a young lady had a car accident, Julia, and she was paralyzed from neck down for six months. Her body was a vegetable. She came to the conference about five years ago and God supernaturally healed her. Today she's walking fully for the glory of God. She finished her college and she's serving Jesus. Sixteen-year-old Sammy, just not long ago, has gone into cardiac arrest. His heart suddenly stopped. The workers at the gym tried for two hours to resuscitate him. If you can give us some background photos. They tried to resuscitate him for two hours and after that the doctor came and declared him dead. And he died. For two hours he was pretty much gone. Mom came, said her last words to her son. Now mind you, this family lost his brother earlier to the same issue. It's a generic disorder they have in their family. And they lost their son, the previous son already. So the mom came to the boy and said her last final goodbyes. And when she did that, she started to pray. You can see when all hope is lost, we must understand we still have hope. Because we have something that has power and that is prayer. I know we've tried medicine, maybe we've tried everything, but if you haven't prayed yet, you haven't tried everything. When she prayed for the boy, who was gone? Two hours gone. Suddenly she saw movement in the body. And the doctors testified that it's a medically verified miracle. They brought him back to life. The crazy part is after 10 minutes when your brain is shut off, you're a vegetable. This guy was gone for two hours and there was only slight memory loss that was regained. No permanent brain damage. He got back, he started to have massage and all of this stuff and therapy, and he got back on his feet. Our God is the God of miracles. Nothing is impossible to those that believe. I want to inspire your faith today. There was a man that came to our church just few months ago. He was shot when a burglar got into his house and shot him straight through. And he came on the crutch. As he came on the crutch to prayer, we prayed for him. He went back to sit in his seat and during his seat, something was happening. He later testified a fire. He felt like a fire, electric shock was going through his leg. He decided to take a risk and go to the restroom during the sermon without this crutch. And found out that he was instantly healed. Left the crutch on the stage after the service and carried his crutch back home. And got supernatural to restore the damage that the bullet made in his knee. Our guest speaker today is from a church where some of you saw a news article. It's a James River church where there was a lady there that had three of her fingers missing because of a... Somebody shot her. Her toes. Her toes. Christina. And so right behind me you can see what happened is that they were amputated. And during a prayer, just like we're going to pray right now, God supernaturally started to grow her toes. And they grew back and the doctor, her doctor testified that she had them missing and God restored those toes in a service at church. God can grow limbs. He can do creative miracles because he's the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen. Those of you in the second sanctuary in the first one and online, you didn't just come today to listen to a sermon and just to worship God. You came to meet with God. And the Bible says where two or three are gathered in my name, I am among them. God still heals today. God still restores today. We're going to do something different today. If you have pain in your body or if you are believing for a healing in your body and you came today and you want to agree with prayer, you say, I would like to receive prayer for my healing. We want to pray with you. We're going to ask you to raise your hand. Now, let's keep your hand up for just a moment. I want the believers around them, believers, to come around them right now. So just those of you who have faith, those of you who are Christians, you don't have to have a gift of healing, you just have to know the Lord. Come around them and I want you to ask them three questions. First, ask them what the pain they have or what is the issue that they have. Go ahead, ask them right now. Let's minister, just come up. Person behind you, person in front of you, let's do the same thing in the second sanctuary. If every person can be attended to and once somebody attends to you, you can drop your hand down. Church, if you see somebody with their hand up, just come out of your seat and go up to them right now. This is that moment. Don't be intimidated, don't be shy and don't be scared. God is going to use everybody. Don't pray for them yet. Just ask them what is the sickness or what is the pain that they have right now. And then ask them if they feel the pain right now. The second question is this. Do you have that pain right now? Is this something that is invisible or is this something that's visible? Those of you online, we want to ask you to drop that in the comments right now. If you're believing for healing, we're going to pray for you as well. Amen. All right. Listen very carefully. How are we going to pray? First, we're going to pray first prayer. I want us to ask God for mercy and for favor, like the blind man asked. He didn't demand for healing. He asked for mercy. So go ahead right now. If with permission, you can lay hands on that person and then just ask God right now. Next 60 seconds, just ask the Lord have mercy. Lord, extend your compassion right now. Come on, let's pray. In the second sanctuary, just pray right now. Say, Lord, have mercy upon this person. Lord, extend compassion toward this issue right now. Lord, we ask you, may your favor speak for this person right now. Lord, we ask you, may your mercy speak for this person right now. In the name of Jesus, Father, we ask you extend your loving, tender compassion. Come on. 30 more seconds. Just ask for God's mercy right now. Ask for God's mercy because God is a merciful, compassionate and loving God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Ask for that mercy right now. Ask for the mercy of God to cover this person right now. Ask for the mercy of God to come to their aid right now. Ask for the mercy of God to come to their aid right now. In Jesus' name. Amen. Now, those of you in the second sanctuary and in this one, don't leave them yet. I want you to ask them because this is what happened with the story I read. Paul told the crippled man from the birth, he says, get up. I want you to ask him, say, could you check that part of the body where you had pain? Do you have any pain anymore? Go ahead. Just ask him that right now. Be bold. This is how the Lord heals. This is how the Lord restores. Amen. For those people who said, wow, something just happened. Then the whole group that prayed, I want you to wave your hands. I want to see you. The whole group that prayed, we want to praise God, praise the Lord. Wow. Amen. Let's give the Lord a clap offering. I want to see in the second sanctuary, if you prayed and just, surprisingly, something happened. Just wave your hands. We just want to celebrate that and give the Lord a clap offering. Now, we're not done. I know that I see a few people saying, but I feel the same. Actually, some of you maybe are saying, actually feel worse. If you feel worse, something is happening. It might not be the thing that we're expecting it to happen, but we're going to pray again. This time, we're not going to ask God for mercy, because we already did. We're going to commend that pain to go. Because the Bible doesn't just say we have access to God. The Bible says we also have authority in God. Amen. So if that person is saying, I still have pain, right now, how many of you are still saying, hey, I still have pain? I need that. It's okay. Don't be shy. It's okay. Just lift your hand. Okay. You can put your hand down. Let's have somebody beside you. Right now, let's commend that pain to go. Take next 60 seconds. Come on. Just take authority. Take authority over the spirit of infirmity. Take authority over every generational curse. Take authority over every unclean spirit. And just commend that pain to go. Commend that pain to leave right now. Come on. Just say, I commend that pain to go. I commend the pain in the lower back to go. I commend the pain in the knees to go. I commend that pain in the asthma to go. Just name that disease and just take authority right now. Don't ask God. Speak to that mountain. Speak to the dry bones. Commend Lazarus to come forth, meaning commend the death to leave right now. In Jesus' name. Come on. 20 more seconds. Speak with faith. Speak with God's word right now into that situation. Notable miracles. Creating miracles. Those of you in the second sanctuary. Come on. Just release that word. The word of faith. The word of God into that situation right now. In Jesus' mighty name. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Everybody said amen. Now I want you to test your body again. If you had pain. I understand a lot of people are not able to see the healing. But if you have pain. You had pain. I want you to examine your body. If you notice that after the second prayer it's gone. The whole group that prayed with you. Wave your hands so we can celebrate and we can thank God. Amen. Praise God. Praise the Lord. Now we're going to do something today. Because we have a little bit more time than normally. If you experienced healing. Or if you experienced pain gone. After the first or the second prayer. Or if you're here. You've been following our ministry. And God healed you before through YouTube. Or through other things. But you've never shared your testimony. I'm going to ask you. As the rest of us will take our seats. To come. See me right here right now. From the second sanctuary in here. Just come all the way here. Come all the way here right now. And if I can have Morgan. Pastor Martin. As well as Joe and others. Help us to interview them. From the second sanctuary. Make your way forward. All the way to the first sanctuary. We will let you back. Afterwards to your wonderful worship experience. If you're watching us online. Let us know in the comments. What happened. Let us know what happened. As other people were praying for you. So go ahead. Just come forward. Here. And we are going to interview you. Just briefly. After this video. Church. Let's fix our eyes on the screen. And then we're going to hear testimonies. Good morning church. And welcome to Hungary. And this is Pastor Vlad and Lana. And we want to specially welcome. Every new guest. That is here this morning. We hope that you enjoy our service. Now if you're looking to take a next step. We have a life class. Presented for you. Now what is life class. A life class is the next step. At Hungary Gen. That you can take. To join. A team. Of serving. On Sunday. And become a member. Get water baptized. Or maybe even if you're looking for freedom. And you're just really wanting to take your relationship with God. To the next level. It's like that next step. Is life class. It's about seven weeks. Happens on Monday nights. We also take the whole life class. Outside of town for a weekend retreat. That we call encounter. Where people experience freedom. Healing in their heart. And a lot of them get filled with the Holy Spirit. Experience just a really closer community. And afterwards they join the team to serve. Some join the church membership. And others go on to become leaders of small groups. Life class is actually that kind of a step. That people take. In order to get connected deeper to their faith. And to the local church. If you're looking to take that next step. Which we encourage you to do so. I want to also mention that the childcare will be provided. Those evenings that you will be attending the class. And you can go to hungryjenn.com. Slash life class. And sign up for the next available life class today. If you want to learn how to live for Jesus. Life class is the way to go. So please help me to welcome the next person. Which happens to be me again. Softball practice. And today God miraculously healed her. Praise God. What happened? How are you feeling? I'm feeling great actually. Feeling great? The pain is gone? Yeah. Amen. Praise God. We give all the glory to Jesus. Amen. God bless you. God bless you. Keep on walking in the glory of God. This is Phyllis. As she's coming today to us. She woke up with a very bad pain in her toes. And today as the prayer was being offered. She feels no more pain. And she feels great. Come on. How are you feeling? I feel wonderful. Truly. It was hurting so bad. And no more pain now. No more pain. Come on. God bless you. God bless you. Let's go. Let's try to have the next person already in line. And waiting on the stage. Alright. Now we're going to definitely test the healing. By getting up on the stage. Amen. So this is Leonore. She has been dealing with chronic pain in her back since 2017. She actually came in here with a crutch today. But after the prayer. Her knees couldn't really bend. Now they bend. She needs a crutch to come up. And she has been completely healed. How are you feeling Leonore? I'm feeling great. Feeling great? Yes. Come on somebody. God bless you. Amen. But do help her. Do help her. Faster. We have Carol here. She's been struggling on and off with a very bad shoulder pain. But today was really, really bad. And as we're praying for her. The pain went away. How are you feeling? I'm feeling great. The pain went away. And yeah. Feeling great. God be the glory. Come on. God bless you Carol. Thank you for serving. God bless you. We have Jessica here from Kennewick. And she was recently diagnosed with leukemia. And during the prayer. She felt a heat come over her. And all of her pain is gone. Really? What's happening to you? And also I just want to say that. I did not know you were from here. And I've been watching you forever. So I've been watching online. And then I finally my niece had said. How many years have you been watching our ministry? For like two years. For two years? Yeah. And you didn't know we were in Tri-Cities? No. My niece had told me. Your niece told you that? Yeah. Oh wow. She's like he's from Pasco. Oh my goodness. Can anything good come from Pasco, huh? Everything great comes from Tri-Cities. So you've been battling with leukemia? It's called Kappa light chain disease. Okay. So they gave you six years? Six years? Yeah. When were you diagnosed? Six months ago. Six months ago? Yeah. And so during prayer, what did you feel? My bones have been really bad lately. Uh huh. Because that's what it deteriorates. And I just felt heat all the way through. And I felt no pain right now whatsoever. You're going to have to go to your doctor though. I have another appointment in a week with him. In a week? Yeah. We're going to believe for a clean doctor's report. Come on church, stretch your hands right now father. We thank you. For your healing touch. From the top of our head to the soles of our feet. I ask you right now Holy Spirit that your fire will burn whatever is not of the Lord. Receive your healing right now. Receive the touch of Jesus right now. Be made whole. In Jesus' name. Lord may she live to testify of your goodness and of your mercy for the rest of the days. May her family, may other people that would know her be encouraged in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. God bless your sister. Thank you. Thank you for sharing. God bless. Thank you for being here today. Amen. This. Want to check. This is Jane coming all the way from Tacoma and today she came and she had a lot of dizziness in her and her head and God healed her today to that. And then also she's testifying that when she was watching you when you were at the global vision church live she had, she's a Christian believing person but she had this spirit of fear and heaviness on her life that when she was watching you live God delivered her in her place where she was at and today she came to testify for the deliverance and also God healed her for the glory of God. Come on Jane. Praise God. You were watching. You were watching from Tacoma. He will hold it. I was watching, I've been following Pastor Greg Locke for years because he's bold but he did that deliverance conference so I've been all through his growth and deliverance and when he had that and you said your deliverance prayer that's when I got freed and instantly that burden of fear and other things. Those of you watching online distance is not a barrier. Amen. And today. I came from Tacoma. I came all the way from Tacoma. I was in town for a conference and wanted to come and say thank you and to give glory to God for all things. He goes to Jesus. Amen. Jane, thank you so much for sharing. God bless you. God bless you. Amen. Amen. Church, this is... Could we have somebody help people down here? Yeah, she also came from Tacoma and she actually has two things. She's getting an exam done on Tuesday but today she came in with a problem of the bone and so she couldn't really... she almost lost an inch in height because of the back it wouldn't kind of come straight and it would hurt. Today she testified that after the prayer she can stand up with ease and she feels no pain so it's very, very easy for her. How are you feeling? Pretty good. And I just kind of feel like it's easy to put my shoulders back and stand up straight rather it usually takes some effort to kind of hold them back. And I have a biopsy being done on my left breast Tuesday and I'm hoping it's not cancer. I had cancer in that same breast five years ago. Today we just speak healing, total healing for her body in the name of Jesus. Touch her Lord. Right now from the top of her head to the soles of her feet in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Go walk for the glory of God. Amen. He will help you. Go ahead, Danny. Just have one more. We have Josh here. He was struggling for about a week and a half with lower back pain. Right? Yes, ma'am. Yeah. And then during the prayer we felt that the Lord healed him. Oh, yeah. Josh, what's happening? Oh, yeah. The Lord, I just, yeah, I felt some heat in my lower back and the pain was gone. So glory to God. Glory to God. Thank you. Thank you, sir. And thank you for your service as a police officer. Amen. We have Casey here and she had a large goiter on her throat for 25 years, a huge lump in her neck. And as she was being prayed for today she felt it completely move and go down under her hand. Right? Yeah, I wasn't expecting that. I felt God. Really? Where is that at right now? It's gone? It's almost gone. Amen. Father, put your hand there. Put your hand there. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for a complete restoration and every single thing that doesn't belong there, it's going to be gone in Jesus' name and she will walk for your glory and serve you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Amen. God bless you. Amen. Those of you online, share with us online. Drop that in the comments of what the Lord did in you and in your body in Jesus' name. Amen, church. Were you blessed today? Amen. This is just the beginning. Would you help me to welcome Bryson as he prepares our hearts for giving? Come on. Let's put our hands together one more time for Jesus. So awesome. God's already moving in this place. The Spirit of the Lord is here. Church, right now, we've come to a time of giving our tithes and offerings and I know faithfully we give every single week and sometimes it can feel like, man, depending on the season that you're in, it can feel sometimes harder than other times. When we have a lot, it's really easy to just give from what you have but when you're in a season of your life when things are tough, it's like, man, I'm giving but my hand doesn't want to move. I know I want to give but my hand doesn't want to move. I just want to encourage you what Proverbs 11-24 says. It says that one who gives generously yet they always will come to wealth. The other person who is withholding that they will come to poverty and this is a biblical principle. This is a biblical truth that those who give freely it's like a river. The water, the fresh water is always flowing. Those who are trying to hold on it's like a puddle or a pond that doesn't have any new outflow or inflow. It just becomes stagnant and stale and I just want to encourage you today as you're giving that you would give from a place of knowing that what you have is coming from God and God alone. Oftentimes it's hard to give when we think that our finances are our own. It's hard to give when we feel like I earn this money and if I'm holding on to it then if I give this away then I'll have nothing left. But I want to remind you of what Philippians 4-19 says. It says, You see it's so easy to give when you know who your source is. When you know who the one that provides for you it's easy to give because you're not giving and saying, oh no, I don't have anything left to give. When I give I know that the giver of all things is the one that provides for me. My source is not my job. My source is not my ability to just save my money and hold on to everything. My source is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Amen church. Amen. And right now in front of you many of you guys received this little flyer when you came in. It says new team members coming to Hungry Jin. We have a couple people that are going to be joining our church who are going to be joining the team here at Hungry Jin. We're excited to have them come and be a part of the family. They're going to be playing very crucial roles here at this church and this local body. They're coming along and you probably see some pictures of the families that are coming. This is Kaleen and this is Tim and his wife and his kids and then we also have Brother Ed. Many of you may even remember Brother Ed from pastors conferences that we had him and his wife and then we have Cetric. Some of you guys have seen he was here leading worship on stage. We have a couple people that are coming to the team. They're wanting to move here and be a part of the vision of what God is doing. They're actually all from a different country and so this is not them just moving here within the United States where it's just when they get a chance they'll move and everything can kind of work out more easy for them and the real struggle here is that when they come here they're going to pretty much not have a whole lot of anything. They're going to have to figure it out as they're getting here but as a church body as a church family we want to come and support them and so here you see we have this list we're just looking for slightly new or slightly used pots, pans, furniture, beds, other household items imagine you know you're uprooting your life to come here and move to another country and we just really want to help them especially because they're coming here and we're asking them to be a part of the team here asking them to come and really pour into the vision that God is doing here so as they're coming on the team we just want to pull them in we want to show them some love so if you have it in your heart to give maybe you have something maybe you know hey I have these pots and pans that have been slightly used and I would love to donate that you'll see at the bottom or even a car honestly you know when they get here it's going to be hard a lot of the things that normally as US citizens would be easy for us to kind of work out things get a little bit more difficult sometimes even getting a car even as a US citizen is not easy but then you put on top of that being from out of country it does make things a little bit more difficult and so we just want to support them you see at the bottom there is a donations at hungrygen.com if you have items that you would like to give we have someone on the end of that line her name's Dana Knapp and she is going to be kind of helping us to make sure that the family members get what they need and when they arrive and so she'll be helping to collect and organize that or if you have finances that you're like hey you know what I don't have a car I don't have these things that I would be I'm able to give at this time but I do have finances there is a fund on our giving app called the new team members fund and there you can give whatever God has put on your heart and I just want to encourage you to be generous you know let's let them come here and feel the love of our family hungrygen family amen let's go ahead and pray for the offerings that God has purposed on our hearts to give so Lord Jesus I thank you God that this is a generous church I thank you God that you are moving here there are signs there's wonders there's miracles there's beautiful things happening in this place and I pray Holy Spirit as we give today we've purposed in our heart to give I pray that you would you would watch over us Lord that you would rebuke the devourer for our sake I pray Holy Spirit Lord that we be reminded that our source is not our self it's not our job it's not our boss but Lord it's you you are the source of all things in our lives God whatever it may be and I just pray in Jesus name as we give Lord that it will come back to us press down shaken together and running over in Jesus mighty name we pray amen help me to welcome the next the next thing which is a video Hi my name is John I'm born in Mexico I grew up in Mexico as a child I was sexually molested and that lasted throughout my childhood I remember I was 8 years old when my dad took me to church for the first time on a Christmas morning and the pastor was talking about this Jesus how he came to earth to judge us for our sins that Jesus had this big whip that for every sin we will do we will get a whip and we were singing a song but this God how mad God was at us at the age of 22 I got married to my wonderful wife we moved to Canada we have five kids and we went to a church that believed in salvation they didn't believe in the Holy Spirit they didn't believe in the book of Acts the gift of the Spirit what they believed in salvation in 1996 I was convicted and I went to my pastor's house and he prayed over me he led me to Jesus I gave my life to Jesus I accepted Jesus I was 1996 in June I accepted Jesus as my personal savior I remember leaving the pastor's house how I felt how good I felt how free I felt but my childhood was always haunting me and from that day on God kept nudging us go back to Mexico to your own people bring the gospel back to your people in 2007 my wife and I we sold every team we had in Canada packed our family moved to Mexico we started a small school we had 13 kids to begin with and we start ministering to these kids and these kids would give their except Jesus as our savior these kids would go home to their parents and tell their parents about Jesus and the parents wouldn't believe and the kids would read out of their own Bible that Jesus came to save and these parents would give their life to Jesus and we saw a revival but the church got so mad 2012 the excommunicate me out of their church in order to stop the school but that made the school grow faster yet that's the very same year 2012 on November 10 the church paid the cartels $10,000 to kidnap me and kill me 7.30 in the evening these cartels came and they picked me up handcuffed me threw me in the back of their pickup truck in that deep peace it was over me there was no I was not afraid of anything I kept telling Jesus here I come I was thinking this is the day I want to meet Jesus and when they stopped to pick up truck and they got me out of the pickup truck I was in front of these big machine guns and Jesus was driving between us and he touched me on both of my shoulders he says an audible voice says John I've got this and I says thank you Jesus hallelujah and these guys says you're crazy nobody's ever stood in front of these machine guns and has smiled and they dropped me off that very same night 5.30 in the morning I came home and it was not normal in Mexico if you get kidnapped you're dead and I was alive and we started one church and we started the second church and I kept teaching the book of Acts was for the apostles it's no longer for us in 2019 I was in the mountain I was up in the mountain and I was praying for revival and I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit told me John the book of Acts is for you the gifts of the Spirit they are for you they are for you today and we found a church that believed in the gifts of the Spirit and I started studying in my Bible I just had a different Bible it was talking to me all over the place but this childhood thing was still happening to me just one day I was listening to minister Andrew Womack and he talked about deliverance and at the end of that teaching he gave a prayer line number that I could people could call I typed in that number and I saved that number and I called that prayer line and I told minister hey I have demons he says how do you know you have demons well I told him about my child and he says yes you have demons and he started praying over me and it felt like he was ripping my heart out like the next thing I knew I was looking for my phone I couldn't find my phone I don't remember what all happened well when I found my phone I said are you still there he says yes I'm still here he says what happened I said I had no idea he says what's going on I said I feel so light I feel so good and he started ministering with the Holy Spirit to me I got a phone call to go do some deliverance it was seven hours away from home and I called my spiritual mentor and he called my pastor and they both came over and they prayed over me and they sent me out I called my wife and he says they are coming and you have a ride they are sitting in the plane they ran to a small plane the next morning it was Tuesday morning they got into a plane and as this plane took off shortly after they took off the cartels brought the plane down and they crashed and everybody was killed on the plane a friend of mine drove me back to the funeral home and we got to the funeral home I asked the funeral director I said where is my wife and he says we can't show her to you and he says in the name of Jesus I will bring every door down in this house until I find my wife and I start kicking the doors when I put out so angry and he led me into the room and he says that in that bag is your wife and I opened that bag I grabbed my wife by the hand and I said Aster have you changed your mind just checking she opened her left I halfway and turned her head away from me he says I am so sorry Aster I am going to let you go away and I said my goodbyes and I let her go and after the funeral my sons took me to Canada this grieving period is the toughest time of journey in my life many people in my life that helped me through this grieving journey I started listening to Pastor Vlad at Hungry Jan and a ministry started in Canada and I was copying Pastor Vlad's messages and I was preaching them in German in 2022 I saw a link to sign up for Pastor Summit at Hungry Jan I signed up and I came I talked to Pastor Vlad and he invited me to come to the intern trip at Hungry Jan I went back home I couldn't see this as possible but I signed up and I was so thankful that I've been able to come to this intern trip it has changed my life it's been a life-changer for me my life will never be the same I'm so thankful for that God has sent great people into my life to help me through this grieving journey although all those mistakes I've made I've received forgiveness from them I've received deliverance from them part of our student and this is pretty much his story he went through very tragic losses and how God brought him through that he leads now a few churches in Canada he was just with his team at the pastors conference we kind of wanted our church to be exposed to that today is going to be a very powerful moment of preaching and teaching that you guys will receive we're very honored to have our good friend good friend of this house George David Duke but we're also very honored because today he is with his wife so Esther if you can rise we just want to honor you as George has been here before many times we want to honor you thank you for agreeing to accompany your husband and George has been with us so we belong to the assemblies of God Slavic district and George is one of the key leaders there he's been also a huge advocate a wise voice in our church I respect and honor George a lot our team does you know he's one of the very few people that actually came to our race to deliver conference not to speak but and if you saw and he was just got involved in deliverance right there got activated and so we're so blessed and he's just a really he's a powerful man of God very successful singer also there's some photo over there him being a little bit goofy yeah he's cool so he speaks fluent Spanish fluent Ukrainian and fluent English and stuff so he has raised a very strong family his children are serving God and has a really amazing reputation character and I know that today you're gonna be hearing like from a father in this house and so I believe you're gonna be challenged blessed and encouraged I want you to open up your heart those of you in our second sanctuary here I want you to get your Bible open get your notes ready and just begin to be ready to receive amen church without further ado let's help to welcome George as he brings God's word to us today good morning church God is so good and anything that's been accomplished has been by the grace of God because when we are weak he is strong I'm really happy to be at Hungry Jen I have such respect for your pastor Vlad and Lana they're very dear to me because they love Jesus so much and I'm defending you I'm a big supporter of your church and your ministry God bless you guys I want to give all the time to this message some of you will discover where you are in the Lord through these words some of you have questions for God why am I going through this or that and today God will speak to you God will give you some insight but you have to have your heart really open you know if you want to you can put the PowerPoint on the screen and follow along my message is how to understand adversity what is adversity the word adverse means against so did you ever feel like in your Christian walk when you're really obeying the Lord it's not when you're disobedient or not when you're sinful but you're really doing well with the Lord and all of a sudden bad things begin to happen to good people like you or to me let me just give you a brief summary of my background and my life my parents came to America through war-torn Germany from Ukraine and in a camp not a concentration but a displaced persons camp in the 1950 a pastor took them into his home and I was born in New Jersey in 1954 that makes me 69 I want to be 70 which is something else I just don't life goes by so fast my dad walked with God just like Enoch I grew up in a pastor's home but I never resented being a pastor's kid because my dad was the same at home as he was behind the pulpit I was baptized in the Holy Spirit when I was 8 years old water baptized at 14 at 16 I was singing with older people my sister her husband and a singing group came out of that for the Ukrainian people we broadcast music for 50 years yeah you heard right 50 years and so through my marriage to a wonderful Canadian Ukrainian Estee short for Estelle we raised two sons and a daughter and I never went through trials as a child I never went through trials as a teenager I never went into the world I've been on a missions trip every year of my life since I was 16 years old till this year and I never went to trials in my marriage and then when God helped me to pastor for 10 years God called me to missions work when the Soviet Union fell I never went through trials there God blessed me, blessed me blessed my children they're serving the Lord one is a surgeon one is a major in the Air Force my daughter is a teacher retired I have nine, eight and a half grandchildren the ninth is on the way but here in the 67th year of my life I began to have trials and I couldn't understand you hear me sucking air because I've damaged my vocal cords singing, preaching outdoor services and it's not a punishment you know when you go through trials you're right away looking to yourself okay what did I do wrong how did I displease you so I looked back and I confessed every sin I could remember and then I came to Psalm 34 it says the righteous will suffer many afflictions and the Lord will deliver him or her out of them all so if you're going to go through adversity we're going to go through this lesson together and let's look at some examples of adversity okay so why is life so hard or struggles why are things going against me oppositions why don't people like me failure in finance no matter what I do no matter what I start I struggle next slide mental or emotional battle why do I feel depressed now there is demonic attacks that bring depression but sometimes we overdo things and sometimes we just feel low depression is a real thing Elijah man of God after a great blessing when fire came down from heaven he killed 900 or 850 false prophets and through all of that emotional energy he wasted or he spent excuse me not wasted spent one woman a queen says tomorrow you're going to die and he fell into depression if you ran around the building 10 times physical you'd be tired when you use up your emotional energy you feel emotionally tired but that's when we need the Lord the most to minister to us physical illness I've been battling this but you know I said to the Lord Lord when will you heal me and he said soon so what's God's soon right it's not my soon I want it now God has a perfect timing so one time a man was talking to the Lord and he said Lord what's a million years for you and the Lord answered well a million years is like one second oh he thought about that then he got an idea he said Lord what's a million dollars for you and the Lord said a million dollars well that's just like a penny for me and the Lord and the man started thinking about that penny he said Lord would you give me a penny and the Lord said yeah I will wait a sec then there's demonic oppression where deliverance is needed somehow they have a doorway they can enter or a permission that you can give and there's deliverance for that now why does God allow adversity why does God allow these things to oppose us in our life that's the next step slide well some of them are a result of our own poor choices you see God is not punishing you for your sins God punished Jesus for our sins but sometimes our sins punish us our poor choices if you go around a curve at 100 miles an hour your car or a jeep will flip right if you don't you don't go to the dentist and you eat a lot of sugar your teeth will rot you can't blame God for your or my poor choices now some other people suffer through the poor choices of other people like a husband or a wife or a child can bring grief to a mom or at work or co-workers or the enemy and the enemy will attack also now there's other possible reasons next slide trials will be a part of our human experience if you've not gone through trials God will choose a time in your life where you will go through a trial and you would say and I certainly ask the Lord what's the purpose of suffering well there are lessons I am learning that I can only learn if I suffer you know even Jesus the son of God who took on human flesh Hebrews 5.7 says although Jesus was a son he learned obedience through what? the things that he suffered suffering has many beautiful side effects or end results and in suffering God wants to teach us something and our challenges can help us to grow spiritually and become more like Jesus the son of God next slide did you ever ask the question why? well I discovered there's two kinds of people that ask the word why the first kind of people are the one who really want to learn okay Lord this is a lesson could you explain to me why you're doing this and what I am learning in this fiery trial and God little by little will show you glimpses will show you an understanding and afterwards looking backwards you can see the benefits so that why is a godly, honest desire to understand what God is trying to do in your life through a trial but the other why is you don't want to know the answer and say I don't like that why is this happening to me why oh God why is that another person he's not even a Christian and they're successful even the psalmist struggled with that I don't like this now next slide there are two results from your suffering or mine number one our suffering could be our greatest motivation to grow spiritually when we struggle we either seek the Lord or we give up and we can become discouraged are you discouraged today do you know I was sitting in the pew and God slipped into my heart someone watching online and you are in the worst depression you could ever be your life you're despairing even to live the spiritual spirits are telling you end it all finish it I don't want to suffer this way anymore but I want to tell you that if you cry out to the Lord Jesus Christ and if you speak to the Holy Spirit and if you ask the angels of God to push back the darkness that's attacking you right now young lady young man God has a beautiful future for you God has a beautiful life partner for you you will have children so God is speaking to you today because you were thinking when you were going to bed I want to finish with this oh no God's not finished with you yet you will come out of this fire pure as gold now what is the difference between our struggles making us more spiritually sound or becoming very discouraged it depends on our understanding that's the next slide of God's purpose what does God want to do through you by giving you this fire well let's go through some points and we'll see how many we can get through number one adversity is God's method to purify our faith what's the most valuable thing about you or me with God that's our faith and our trust in him the Bible says it's more valuable than gold and people I mean value gold they value finance they value very valuable things so Peter chapter one and James chapter one are chapters that I've been reading and they're for me and they're for you it says if you're in a fiery trial rejoice oh Lord how can I rejoice but you don't rejoice in your illness or your pain or your adversity you rejoice that Jesus is with you right now in your pain and your adversity you know he loves you he has a kind and sensitive heart and when you weep his heart is touched he said I will never leave you I will never forsake you I will be with you until the end of this world now the next slide shows gold being refined my brother-in-law who's now with Jesus he was a jeweler and as a teenager I would sit next to him at his workbench and he would gather the scraps of gold that he used from cutting off the ends of rings and jewelry he would put it in this little crucible which is made of carbon it doesn't burn and I watched him he had a tank of oxygen and he had a tank of propane and the two made his flame 5000 degrees centigrade so he says watch this and he put the fire on the pieces of gold and started to turn to liquid and they melted and came one little yellow glob so this yellow glob of gold it began to boil I would say agitate it turns red red hot and I'm watching he puts more fire now it turns white hot and then as he kept the flame on this gold black spots started to come out of the gold and rise to the surface I said John what's that he says those are impurities I said where do they come from oh they're inside the gold but the fire brings them out how many of us know there's a fire in our life whatever is ugly is going to come out someone steps on your ingrown toenail on the bus knock over a barrel of honey what comes out honey knock over a barrel of tar what comes out and Jesus said out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks so God wants to show us what he actually sees but we don't see and in that time of reflection I look back at sins that were committed that were forgiven by the Lord covered by the blood of Jesus no guilt no shame anymore but then as I began to examine them he brought them back to my memory I became so ashamed because I hurt the heart of God and that was always in me and I didn't see that lots of pride lots of selfishness lots of insensitivity to other people and you know God will show you as well but that's a beautiful time to humble yourself under the mighty hand of God number two and even as I'm speaking to you I'm going through weakness but when I'm weak God is strong amen number two adversity is God's way of getting our attention there's a story about Mary and Martha who were two sisters and their brother was Lazarus who later Jesus raised from the dead and we always pick on Martha because she's in the kitchen making food and she's anxious she's distracted well her sister Mary sits at the feet of Jesus it's not doing anything so that ticked Martha off so everybody jumps on Martha and thinks no no we got to get out of the kitchen and sit at Jesus feet yeah but who's going to make the food I want to defend Martha you know what Jesus said to her is not that she shouldn't be in the kitchen is not that she shouldn't have that ministry and he's saying to her it's not that come out of that kitchen and sit at my feet like your sister Mary no that would be the easy thing to do but you know what he was saying let your activity take away your attention from me let me illustrate that putting on a service like this requires musicians lights, sound preparation, sermon preparation all kinds of organizational things but it could happen that our activity could distract us from the person we're doing it for oh the lights have to be better oh the sound has to be fixed oh the guitar has to be tuned and Martha she's supposed to be in the kitchen that's her ministry that's her ministry gift but she should have not worried about the food she should be preparing the food and say this is for Jesus I am cooking for the Lord Jesus so in your activity in your ministry in your sermon preparation in your busyness and we're all busy it's all about Jesus it's all for Him and so when you greet people greet them in Jesus name when you pray for people pray for them that they would feel the presence of Jesus do you know what she got it Jesus said to Martha Martha you're so anxious you're worried about everything but one thing is important and Mary has chosen it it's not that she sat at the feet of Jesus she was aware of Jesus and Martha in the kitchen you need to be aware of the presence of Jesus sitting in your pew Jesus is with you and don't let your activity distract you from the Lord number three adversity is our assurance that God loves you I want to make it clear today church sanctuary online God is not angry with you no no no he's angry about sin which damages people he's angry about the world that hurts people who are in this room the Lord is angry with the wicked but he loves you and in fact it's because of his love that he brings training I don't call my fiery trial punishment no no God's not punishing me God is training me to believe in him when I'm hanging by a thread God is training me to serve him when it's not easy to speak or to pray or I can't do what I used to do before and my illness affects my physical body as you can see but God is allowing you to see my weakness to know that his strength is with me so many people are praying and I know God's going to heal me it's just a question of timing so once again I said okay God what is your soon a thousand years or in heaven will I be healed and you know what God said to me he said my timing is perfect and Hebrews 12 says for a little time you are grieving for a limited time do you know every test has a time duration every trial you are going through there's going to be a result you know Job did not understand his adversity what did Job do wrong did Job not fear the Lord he feared the Lord God even said so did Job not help the widow and the orphan yes he did and he lost 10 children in one day imagine his grief he lost all of his wealth in one day imagine his loss but he said I'm going through this fire but when I come out of this trial I shall be pure as gold hallelujah so I just want to encourage you God loves you and he loves every son and it's training number four and Pastor Vlad alluded to this that adversity is God's call to examine ourselves we always see the faults and others but you know have you ever taken time to get on your knees God what do you want to teach me what do you want to show me what do you see in me now don't do this if you're not serious because when God does show you your heart you're going to agree with Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 1 you know that the sin of Judah is inscribed on our hearts with a pen, a point of a diamond the heart is exceedingly wicked who can know our heart we can only God can that's why David in Psalm 139 says Lord search my heart oh Lord and see if there's any wicked way in me and lead me in the path everlasting number five God when he sees pride he wants to deflate it why? because pride prevents us from getting the grace of God what is the grace of God Philippians 2.13 gives the definition number one the grace of God is God's desire that he puts in our heart number two God's power he puts in our spirit to do his will for God is willing to do and to will according to his good pleasure and he can't give grace when we're proud he can't give grace when we are God how many of you have tried to tell God what to do how to do it when to do it how you want it and then when God doesn't do what you want or what I want we get angry at God but I'm discovering that I am not God he is God and he is in control and you know God's hand is on the thermostat and he will adjust the heat of the fire according to his good purpose another example there's three young boys who were captured in Israel and taken to Babylon you know their names from Sunday school Shadrach Meshach and Abed Bagol and they refused to bow down to an idol of the king a false statue and they were willing to go through that fiery trial and so the king was so angry through them in the furnace bound with ropes do you know the only thing that burned were the ropes that had them captured and then the king notices a fourth man do you know that Jesus came down from heaven and he went and he was in that trial with Shadrach and with Meshach and Abed Bagol and a pagan king recognized him as the son of God somehow he said did I not cast three and there's the fourth the world watches the Christian and when they see that we love God even when things are hard when tragedy comes when bad things happen to good people and we still believe in the goodness of God you see one of the reason God sends difficulty will we praise him when we can't pray and our vocal chords are shut down when we minister to others when we ourselves are weak God has a way of conquering our pride number six adversity is God's reminder of our weakness now the apostle Paul was not a weak character in fact he was a very intense caloric hard driving high leaving brilliant scholar under Gamaliel and then he was such a persecutor of the church that when he got converted he was a power house I wrote 14 letters to churches that's more than anyone else wrote and yet he went through such persecution he went through cold through hunger through beatings 39 times with whips and his back must have been ribbons and when he when Paul and Silas were cast into jail what did they do at midnight they worshiped and they praised the Lord hallelujah and then then he had some kind of a thorn we're not sure what it is I personally think it was his eyesight I think that from the blindness when he met the Lord on the way uh did Damascus that his eyes his retinas were affected and he he asked the Lord to heal him three different times God said no I'm going to allow you because you're too strong you have too much pride Paul I've taken your third heaven and his illness was a weakness that God did not heal him that goes against our theology because we say God wants to heal everybody I believe that but there are exceptions always to a rule and sometimes God gets more glory when we are weak Jim Simbola wrote a great book called Fresh Wind Fresh Fire and this is his quote from the very first opening sentence God is attracted to our weakness he can't resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him God wants you to depend on him like I'm depending on him right now I can't talk to you without his grace number seven adversity is a signal to evaluate our priorities what are you spending your time on you know I'm ashamed to admit that I was a young man I didn't pray as much as I wanted I did the things I wanted to do and I has God to bless them but now when I kneel down to pray I'm asking God Lord give me God prayers what do you want me to pray about God surprised me he said I want you to pray the street that you live on I live on La Tana Drive in Ozark by Springfield Missouri and I want you to walk around that street seven times like in Jericho and I want you to pray over each household there are people who need me there are marriages that are failing there are people that are sinning there are pagans who don't know the Lord God I want you to pray for them every day that you remember so in the middle of the night the Lord wakes me I get on my knees I go to my window sometimes and I stretch my hand out to the houses on my drive and I'm praying that God would use me to bless them now he gave me a strategy he said in the summertime make a block party get a couple of guys, couple of grills feed hamburgers and hot dogs just feed them give out name tags and have the neighbors get to know each other on your street but don't preach to them don't give a bible study yet pray for one more year and next summer do another block party and then invite them Tuesday nights to your house for a prayer meeting I believe God's going to save some of my neighbors hallelujah and you know I didn't come up with that idea I said God what do you want me to pray for? pray for Lutana Drive another prayer God gave me he said get a Ukrainian bible have one of your state senators sign it and the pastor of that church sign it and you and give it to the president of Ukraine Zelensky and in that put a letter asking him to declare a day of prayer and calling out to God to end the war in Ukraine I'm thinking God that's not I don't know if I could do that I'm doing it I am do it and so the bible is now in the hands of the pastor and Josh Howley I believe is going to sign it and I'm going to give it through one of the advisors to the president of Ukraine and like Abraham Lincoln may he declare a day of fasting and prayer and call all the churches and the believers of God to cry out to God and God can end the war in Ukraine I want to ask you today in the church here present listening to me struggling and in second sanctuary I'm so glad you came and watching online you think that when you serve Jesus you're going to be always strong you're always going to be victorious everything's always going to be good let me tell you something that you will go through a storm you will sooner or later go through a trial sooner or later God's going to touch the strongest thing that you have and weaken it so that your power will not rest on your strength but God's strength and in that time of fire you're going to walk with the Lord you know who the Lord says he's closest to those who are brokenhearted those who are mourning blessed are they who mourn said Jesus you're going to be comforted what does it mean to mourn I mourn when I see what's happening to people in America I mourn for Gen Z who are being taught in their universities and colleges that man will find a way to build a utopia that socialism and forced redistribution of property and wealth is the way I mourn for them because they haven't been touched by the Lord I believe they're hungry for truth I believe that the reason they're against capitalism because of people's greed and idolatry and materialism and they want something real they want something genuine and like the Jesus movement of the 70s I believe great revival is coming to America let me tell you something that the Lord showed me do you remember when the nation of Israel was told by God to finally put blood on the doors Pastor Vlad alluded to that and then the Egyptians forced them out they said go go get out of here and God gave gold and silver and two and a half million people went to the Red Sea but the enemy made Pharaoh changes mine or maybe it was even the Lord that allowed them so now they're at the edge of the sea right here and it's water and behind them they hear Egyptian hooves and chariots and they're going to be taken back as slaves now the Bible says that God made a pillar and there was a pillar of fire by night and in the daytime it would turn into a cloud with a covering to keep them from the burning sun and the many years that they had to spend without cover and protection so one time that night God did something unusual he combined the pillar of fire with the pillar of cloud and he put the pillar between the people of God and the attacking army now watch this the first front half of the pillar was fire and illuminated for the Christians it was bright it was warm it was beautiful you can see the back part of the pillar was a dark cloud of confusion and the army could not see where on the shore the people were and that's a picture of our society that God he will polarize our society where the people of God will see the fire of God the miracles of God the healings of God not just ordinary miracles but extraordinary miracles and the book of the Bible and the prophets say that the latter reign there's two reigns R-A-I-N-S right? the first reign was the book of Acts the early church and all the miracles and then the dark ages came and then Pentecost came and began to really be on fire in the 1900s, right? and we're going to see the fire of God greater than we've ever seen it in our life don't you want to be a part of that? but God has to prepare us for the fire of God and we have to go through the fire of God so that our faith would be purified and all the impurities of our sinful nature all the black spots come to the top and God will skim them off and you know what? only gold will remain hallelujah whatever you do for the Lord Apostle Paul got a revelation he said it will pass through fire in other words, if you do the right thing for the right reason for the glory of God and not your praise and not your glory it will go through God's fire and it will remain and you will get reward for that I don't know what kind of rewards God will give but it will be something marvelous but if you do the right thing to be seen of people to have people praise you or to be looked at and get attention that's building with wood and grass and it will go through the fire and it's gone do you know Jesus told the Pharisees and you wave that $100 bill around hoping somebody will see you you got your reward if you're fasting you tell five people, I'm fasting today aren't I spiritual? you got your reward if you pray and you pray super long well do you pray super long at home or do you pray so that people would hear your super long prayer I listen to people's prayer publicly and the longer they pray okay this guy doesn't pray at home Jesus prayed short prayers publicly but he would go to the mountain and spend time with the heavenly Father and number eight, adversity makes you more compassionate to people who are sick my heart goes out to people who struggle I understand I would say I'll pray for you but I didn't know what it felt like but now I know what it feels like would you stand up on your feet with me adversity could be your greatest motivation for growth or the deadliest mean means of discouragement I want to pray a prayer with you and for you and this prayer will take the form of answering or repeating after me those of you that are willing to pray this prayer I'll tell you how we're going to do it but just bow your heads and close your eyes in the second sanctuary I won't be able to see you but God will see your hand online put a hand emoji in your comments up to God because God's going to do something powerful for you right now God is going to change your understanding of what you're going through right now God's going to give you a scripture if you read the Psalms especially the Psalms that cry out to God God why is my soul disquieted within me? God where are you I don't feel you I don't sense you God has spoken to me the Psalms have become my spiritual food the Psalms have explained to me what God is doing if you're going through a trial would you raise your hand right now right where you are yes hands are raised and those of you where things are good it may come tomorrow or in years from now online raise your hands to God pray this prayer after me dear God I turn to you in my trial you are my God I am your son or daughter I am your son and I ask you Lord minister to my broken heart Holy Spirit pour your oil on my head give comfort when I am low raise my heart to you I trust you I don't understand everything but teach me your ways give me your heart I surrender all my ambitions all my desires and I wait for you more than they that wait for the morning for you will come you are my God and I love you and I thank you in Jesus name Father I pray for this great beautiful congregation of people that love you with all their hearts I pray oh God that in their difficulties that you would become so close to them I pray oh God that beautiful fruit will result as a result of suffering Lord because when we suffer we cease to sin when we suffer you have our attention when we need healing we wait for you Lord and you will come Lord you are never late you are always on time and your timing is perfect minister Lord tonight when they kneel by their bed minister Lord when they read the Psalms for we will serve you in good times and we will serve you in difficult times we will serve you we will answer our prayers and we will serve you when we have to wait for the answer but you surely will come just like the people in the plaza you came to some early at 6 in the morning others at noon but I pray for the 5 o'clock people like me you will come you will come Lord and we will praise you you will turn our morning for you you will take off our sack cloth thank you Lord for your close to those who are crushed in spirit who love you and tremble at your word and all glory and all honor and all praise be to the son of God who suffered so that we could live in Jesus name amen remain standing pastor has something he wants to share with you right now many of you received something today amen brother George on the way out under the canopy he has a book that he wrote it will really impact you on the way out today can I ask everyone to bow your head I just have one more prayer that I want to invite people for in the second sanctuary as well if you are in this room today and maybe you are visiting us today for the first time or you have been coming already for some time you have made a decision to give your life to Jesus Christ maybe you are a backslid you walked away from your Christian faith and today you are recognizing your need for the Lord and you want to make the decision to come back to Jesus when I count to three I am going to ask you to raise your hand all around in this sanctuary as well as in the sanctuary in our second sanctuary and in line if you are far from Jesus if you need to be forgiven of your sin if you need to come back to the Lord just raise your hand just raise your hand high see hands going all around this room thank you, thank you, thank you anybody else who is saying today I need to give my life to Christ I need to get right with the Lord in the second sanctuary just raise your hand high now I am going to ask you to do a bold step if you raised your hand or you wanted to raise your hand I am going to ask you to step out of your seat come right here to the front just come right here just make your way forward I want to see you right here come on the church let's give a round of applause come on in the second sanctuary the same I want you to come forward I want you to come forward all the way to the front God bless you see you got healed God bless you love that cowboy head bless you ma'am anybody else in the second sanctuary just make your way forward right now we are going to pray together with those of you online with those people that are in this room as well as in the second room and who are watching church would you pray together with them right now once you guys set your hands like this like you are receiving a gift say this out loud with me say Lord Jesus Christ I am a sinner please forgive me for all my sin and wash me with your blood say I believe you are the son of God who died on a cross for all my sin I repent please forgive me wash me make me new and from this day forward I promise to follow you the best I know how Jesus name amen right now my wife is going to take you into the room over there and we are going to meet with the people from the sanctuary the second sanctuary as well let's go through this side so we don't hit the camera can you just follow my wife and we will meet you guys from the second sanctuary there as well amen let's give the Lord a clap of offering right now amen hallelujah thank you Jesus