You are invited to step out of your comfort zone and encounter Jesus personally, just like the believers on the mission trip. Let go of living for yourself and find true freedom by saying, "No longer me, you Jesus." Come forward today to start a new relationship with Him.
to it, I don't know
if you're gonna tell it, but real quick, the week before I left, I "counted the cost" and I I asked God for a demonstration of power. And so in my business, we did 1 in 1 week, a full month's worth of sales. But
you have to understand, he he's the only 1 that works his business. So he was going to shut his business down for 10 days, and and he was gonna lose all that money. Right? And so he was concerned and that that thing is a strong was a stronghold in his life. God used this trip and this whole process to break that and cause him to be radically generous and show him that he could provide.
Amen. You know, so he prayed about that and and you needed if you if you don't mind saying or you wanna say, you needed how much and then how much the guy gave?
So the number and it was not a small number so 36,000 was what I calculated and that Saturday before I left it was 68,000. They called me so hard, man, so I could go on all day, but I'll pass it on.
Well, have to understand in hearing these testimonies, and this is just the beginning. Yeah. They're going to hit on different aspects of your life where where you are struggling or doubting God moving. And the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Yeah.
So if you hear a story of what God's done in us or through us, well, that that is showing you what he wants to do in and through you.
Yeah. So
believe that. Some of you are gonna be free today from, like, a stronghold of man and of money, of debt, and realizing that you can trust God and release. You know, some of you are gonna be healed today. Some of you are going to literally experience "miraculous healing" in this service. Amen.
As we're doing it. Yes. Yes. Some of you, maybe you've never experienced a relationship with a God who can literally impact every aspect of your life. Some of you are going to be born again.
I'm afraid you'll receive that. God loves you and cares for you. Yes. The other thing, and I call this this guy now, but he's like the mighty man of faith, Gate, is he didn't have his passport. And he like, because he lost it.
And he couldn't get an appointment, so he he finally got we were supposed to leave on Sunday morning. He got an appointment in Miami on Friday. And you have to not only get a passport, but also a visa. And the visa you do online. And so he drives down for his appointment.
He leaves at like 1AM at 12PM AM to drive down to get there at 8AM. And we about 6AM or so, his car breaks down. And he's got a sister with him. And so he's like, God, I don't know. And I think he called Jerry.
Jerry, what did you tell Oh, in the microphone so I can hear you.
I was meeting with somebody, and I saw this number come in. I said, man, gotta take this. And Gabe was, hey, man. You know my appointment was this morning? I said, yeah.
He said, well, I'm sitting beside the road. My car is broken down. I know what you're gonna say, but what should I do? I said, well, Gabe, you'll never know unless you go. Right.
I said, if you stop now, you will never know the answer God has
for you. And I said, keep going. And he says, alright. And he prayed and he he went. Yeah.
So so he went to the closest gas station praying that they would have a U Haul. Found They had a U Haul and a trailer exactly what he needed right behind the gas station. So he put his truck and vehicle on the trailer, drove to Miami to the place, walked late for his appointment. They didn't have 1. And they usually don't take I don't know if you know about, you know, the passport control.
They usually don't don't take appointments. They said, you know what? We'll do it for you. So then he by the end of the day, like 4 or 5PM waiting around the patient, he finally got his passport. Now he's got to apply for a visa online.
And we'll leave in Sunday morning. So I called doctor Ben. I said, hey, doctor Ben. We we got this guy. I don't I'm not sure what to do.
I told him the story. He said, well, let me pray. And he prayed and he said I and he prayed that God would give me wisdom. In that moment, I had an idea. And so I looked at all of our flights, and if we flew into South Africa instead of Brussels, we wouldn't have we could we wouldn't have to have a visa to get into South Africa.
So it would give us all day Monday for him to get a visa. So I changed all of our flights and he got on the plane without a visa to you, nothing. But here's the thing. It wasn't just like I'm hoping. It was God that already been moving step by step.
Like, the money with this business, the thing the miracle that happened in Miami. So, like, by now, we're finishing this thing because faith always finishes. So we we changed all the flights Monday in the air over the Atlantic. He gets his visa to be done then. And his license started changing.
Just a quick question. How does this whole process impacted your family?
Well I guess the first thing that comes to mind is getting a text from Kevin, an amazing wife, that my daughter was going around and she had this thing like, you know, I just see that, like, there's a monster stomping on the church. She's 3. 0, wow. And, you know, we have all of these things going on, and and so her grandmother was like, well, let's pray about it. And so they prayed.
And the next morning, Kelly asked her, hey. What what's going on? And she's like, nothing. We prayed about it. And and I just feel like we really understand the power of prayer for this trip that that we experience that and, you know, to get get text from her, like, you know, if there was somebody who's sick, you know, and we just pray about it.
You know, when we're together, if there's something going on, we're praying. And, you know, this whole, you know, through experiencing God through these trials and these tribulations and then see how it provides in each and every step that we're we're just there's no experience that we could have in the future now because of what we've experienced in this process. Amen. Sounds like we know God's good and that
you all will provide in whatever it is. Amen. So, you know, obviously, when Olivier had that dream about we're going to steal what's tied to the enemy, I knew this trip would be very significant for the kingdom of God. And then all of a sudden, everything changed. Instead of going and building stuff and and doing that kind of thing, we we were on a mission.
Doctor Ben asked us if we would be willing to do a crusade in a village that was overrun by a cult, and it was the international seat of this cult. It's actually an international cult in Canada and other places, but the palace is there. Would you would you willing to do that? And of course we said yes. Encouraged by faith based on what the other day's dream was.
But then also we we ended up doing a pastor's conference that was brought multiple different denominations together for the first time, Anglican and Pentecostal, together under the same roof. Had 300, I've got the numbers, 339 pastors and leaders on, I think, the second day that came under the same roof to hear this and which is a big deal. We also got to preach the gospel in 3 different schools around Uganda. We got to preach at crusades, and you'll hear about those. I mean, God did a lot.
And so we're just gonna we're gonna go through and tell you the story. I'll let them tell the story now. So this is our team, and they're amazing. But this is how we started. And of course this trip.
It's a nickname every trip we go on. This 1 is Jerry the Hunter. He's planning his next kill. And so these are some some other missionaries we we met in a airport. And then there's 1 of his kittles.
So you'll just see all these pictures with him and people he's led to Jesus in the airports on the way to the trip. Terry, you just talk about it, brother? Well,
you know, the week before we went on this trip, we heard a message of going from the natural to the supernatural. Yeah. And yesterday, I was walking along thinking about the trip, and the scripture came about. It was but we have this treasure in "jars of clay" to show that this passing power belongs to God and not of us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed, but not driven to despair, persecuted, but not not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed, always carrying in the body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
Amen. For if we live for we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Well, with these guys, I mean, I was just overcome by the by the supernatural Holy Spirit. And as I was walking down the plane with that guy, Michael, we were on the tarmac and overheard a conversation with him and another guy. Well, the guy opened the door,
and he kinda stopped. So I stepped in and started sharing with him about Jesus. And before you know it, he says, I'm hearing you. I'm listening. And before you know it, I said, now you know you've heard this truth.
You wanna accept Jesus Christ to be your Lord
and savior to be born again? The Yes. The plane. And so we get on the plane, and David is actually sitting in my seat. And this guy, Bones, the the the first guy, he was sitting there.
And so David gets over and moves beside Casey. I sit down, and before the plane ever takes off, he's already he's already born again. And so
What I wanted to say, kind of tag onto that, is the second night of the crusade Jerry preached And I remember standing in the middle of the field there just sort of watching it all. And I was thinking to myself while we had, I think, 4 people go up that night, which was smaller the crowd was smaller the second night. I think fewer people went up. And I'm just sitting back there thinking to myself, sort of sweating a little bit, thinking and then Jerry starts into the healing offer. And, you know, I'm just sweating a little bit thinking, Lord, it doesn't look like you're really showing up here all that much.
And you know what? I've also done just a couple times, gone out with Jerry doing "door to door". Yeah. And it's the same the thing that I love about Jerry and that I saw a lot on this thread is that he's able to detach himself from the flesh. It's like like in in that teaching time the second night, he didn't waver.
You know, there are a few just a few people coming on. He didn't waver. He didn't change his message. And then you know what happened? Boom.
We had that lady, I forget her name, with a broken leg. The next thing I know, she's "dancing around" on the stage up there. So it's just his faithfulness, and he never stops trusting the Lord that the Lord's gonna show up. And so that was just such a big takeaway.
Praise the Lord. Okay. So this is
Real quick, baby. Come on.
We forget, but they drove on us for a trip. I mean, except for the guy in between us, his name was Zah. He's a really curious kid, 21 years old. David starts in talking to him, sharing the gospel with him. The guy's really smart and we find out later he's from Harvard.
He's a rower there. And David asked me to give him my testimony. He's like,
just hold my memory for a minute.
Ask this guy to your left. So I started sharing my testimony. I finished and I'm like, do you have any questions? How did that go for you? How's that how's that sit?
And he's like, oh, mean, amazing, man. It sounds like God's really good. And meanwhile, it's like an alley oop. David's trying to give me a "slam dunk". I I like just didn't catch it.
So he's like, he looks back over to David and David turns left. He's like, so you ready to give your life to Jesus? And so I like, was yeah. So then we disciple Acts for the next like 5 hours too. It's awesome.
First reads. So this is our transportation. We spent most of the trip in that bus. Driving around and it was amazing. This is Doctor.
Ben, full of joy. This is Kevin in 40 years. Same personality, full of Jesus and amazing. This is his wife, William. Hi.
This is my African dad, John Monzera. And this is Doctor Abel. He is the CEO of Doctor. Ben's outfit ministry. He kind of runs everything.
That was our driver, Andrew. This is Sarah. She was kind of over the prayer for the trip, and so she did a lot of the work on her knees, which was beautiful. This is the first day. This is the pastor's conference that we got to do.
And really, I'd say, you know, I I did most of the ministry the first 2 days. Bart Creek got to preach to at the pastor's conference, and then and then it was and our team got to do most of the ministry for the rest of it. And but, man, it's a joy to get to to carry on the DNA of my dad. My dad's did let's see. Even just last year, they did 60 conferences throughout Africa, training between 9 and 10000 pastors.
And second Corinthians base the basis of of a conference is 2 Corinthians-3:6. For God has made you competent as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter that kills, but the spirit that gives life. Amen. And so we basically take the full the pastor's pulpits from from law and grace, and it it it makes revival in their churches and in their villages, and revival happens throughout. So anybody how did how did the conference impact you guys?
Well, just real quick. I wanted to say that the, revival is very much the spirit of this conference that these pastors are so hungry for revival
for
the community to experience God in a whole new way. And so the 4 different kinds of churches all came within this conference. So Pentecostal, Anglican, Episcopal, and I think there was a few other you know lesser denominations that they came in 1 house in unity and they they were hungry for the spirit. And so that was beautiful to see and you know, inspired unity that, you know, the church is the reward. And so the the conference, I was joking with them.
Was like, well, was great. That was about a year's worth of church that we just went through. Yeah. And it was it was long days, but powerful. I mean, and and John is is is my who I wanna be when I grow up because he's so powerful.
He has so much energy, and he just really hammers into points and hits you home with it. So the conference was 4 main powerful messages that were unforgettable. Oh, so somebody else, how how did the conference impact you?
Yeah. You. You got to preach that. Come on.
It impacted me. The first day was Wednesday, and David and John spoke 4 different messages that day. But doctor Ben asked everybody that needed prayer to
come up. Come on.
And we got to pray for them. And a lot of them did not speak English. We didn't know what we were seeing and praying over. We were just praying. And so the next morning, I got to
be able to be
the first speaker, and I felt like I wanted to ask out yesterday who was affected by the prayers that we did. I mean, who who who let God change them and and what happened? And I said, well, can I have 2 volunteers? There was 25 hands in my hand. Wow.
Wow. I'm on the hill. 2 of them, I actually came and gave their testimony,
but all of these guys were just like you. They were facing this way, and I saw all the hands. And it was just amazing to be able to see how much God does. We will never know Yeah. Individually what happened, but God was working.
Yeah. Well, 1 of
the testimony to remember is 1 of the pastors said, I could not read my Bible, and God blew my eyes to where I could read my Bible. Wow. Amazing. God's just good. Anybody else on that?
The faster okay. So just like you said, we we prayed over like and when we ask for PLUs in America, like, if anyone wants to be healed, there's so much hesitancy in your mind. Your mind is like a limitation. It's like, no. I don't know what it thinks.
It's like you see like 20 percent maybe come up. Like 80% were done. And so like you said, there was a language barrier though, we didn't really know what we were praying for. Like, is it your knees, is your head, how are you feeling, and did it take? But Bart, I mean, like, yes, he asked about that, but he
ask to him
him to to to
to ask
same number that he had a vision about. And then as they're giving testimony, the woman who went second has the microphone and she's like, yeah, know, so yesterday I brought my baby with me and myself and they're distracted, you know, like they don't push carriages. They there's on them and they go over the parent stuff. And it was cool. We had a translator, but she says, you know, I came sick.
My baby was sick, but this gentleman right here prayed for me and I was healed. And she pointed at me. Didn't feel anything in that that moment. I didn't have any fire come out of my hands. Didn't have any electricity in my body.
So, like, I thought I was just kinda going through the motions, but, like, in faith. I knew where my heart was. So, like, my heart was there, and it was just such a god thing to to say good job, He did what I asked you to do.
Amen. Alright. So that's the conference. That's a mighty man of God preaching the credit of righteousness, and man, he killed it. It was awesome.
Now, hey, I do have to apologize. We couldn't figure out how to change rotate the stuff. So when you're watching the video, you're gonna have to go like this. Just bear give us a little mercy on that. So this is night of the crusade, which you guys have heard about.
At the crusade, God just did amazing things. And I wanna say this to you guys. Like, I preached the first night. I preached the second night, Jerry preached. And I preached just a simple gospel.
Like, do you believe you can have a relationship with God? Sin separates us from a relationship with God and what it looks like to receive Jesus as your Lord. Like 3 minutes, 4 minutes. And multiple people gave their life to Jesus responding. Then I went through where Jesus and the nobleman.
The nobleman came to Jesus asking for his kid to be healed. And and Jesus said, he said these words, you won't believe unless you see a miracle or unless you see a human. That's what he said. A lot of times we take that as derogatory. Jesus was being derogatory, but I can tell you he wasn't because right after that, he said, go.
Your son will be healed. And on the way home, his son was healed. So Jesus met him in his area of unbelief. There's a lot of you that are there, and Jesus wants to meet you at your area of unbelief today. Amen.
Amen. He wants to show you that, hey. Yeah. You know what? He wants to heal people.
He wants to do a miracle and meet you where you said, you know, you never believe because Jesus said that in scripture. Then in John-10, Jesus said, unless you hear I mean, if you don't believe based on what I say, at least believe based on the works that I do. So I just I told them that. And then I told them the 3 levels of faith. The first level is very little thing.
Timothy, what do believe faith? Where, you know, the demoniac's father or he's he's the kid that struggled with epilepsy and had had demons and stuff. And the dad came to Jesus, and he said, "if you can", do anything. Please help. Yeah.
A lot of people, you you come to Jesus, came to church, but you don't really believe in doing anything. It's just more like, you know, if you can, please help. Jesus wants to meet you there. Yeah. He met that boy's dad there, and he healed the boy.
Every time Jesus confronted sickness in scripture, it was healed. Every single time. So he wants to show you he's able to do it. The second thing, the second level of belief is a little thing, where the leper came to Jesus and said, if you're willing. And Jesus said, I'm willing to be clean.
There's a lot I think majority of Christians in America think that Jesus is able, but don't think that he's willing. Right. You know? You know what? That's a little thing.
He's able. But if he's willing, I don't know if he will do it for me. To hear this from God through me, he's willing. He wants to heal you. He wants to impact.
He wants to change your life supernaturally to him by the power of the Holy Spirit. And then there's great faith, which is the woman with issue of blood who did whatever she could to get to Jesus. If I can just get to him and touch him, I know, because she knew he was willing and she never did. And and maybe once you see that, you're just going after it. Keep going after it.
The bible says "seek him", you will find. Ask him, and will be. Don't stop. Yeah. Pursue him with everything in mind.
Amen?
Amen. Amen. Amen. Can't You guys answer read it today. To that?
Yeah. Yeah. Please. Please.
Because that's absolutely me. That's who I was. You know, I'd go home from healings here and tell Marna, you know, what problems I had with what I saw. And talking with David on this trip, he just made me see that I just need a new attitude in my heart, exactly what he just said. If I have a constant attitude of doubting and criticism, then I'm not going to get any closer.
My faith isn't going be drawn. I'm not going get any closer to the Lord. But like I said about that second night of when Jerry preached, that the lady whose leg that was broken was healed. And I saw her walking home, you know, so I'm I'm sure that a broken leg was healed that night. But I felt like that was the Lord, you know, telling me personally.
Because that
was a big that was a big
request I put out to the people praying for me before I even left. It's like, Lord, I wanna understand healing, and I wanna you work, and I want a heart change, so please show that to me. And I felt like that broken leg that was healed was him saying, well, here you go. And so I'm I'm going to look at healing now with a completely different attitude, not of, well, well that can't be right or that's a headache and you know, to I believe Lord, "help my unbelief". Come on.
Amen.
So for you guys and I preached on words of knowledge about a month ago, and God gave I mean, there's 15 people healed in the middle of the service from Words of Knowledge. Right? A word of knowledge is Jesus saying to 1 of his disciples, hey. Bring that person to me. I wanna heal him.
That's what a word of knowledge is. And he wants to confront you, you the sickness that's going on in your body right there. And so I just I just believe God wants to do that now. And why not? Right?
Why not in the middle of the message? Can't you let her tell that story? Please.
So, yeah, 1 of the the night after the last night of the crusade, we were the next day heading out to where we were going to be to go to the safari. And we were not scheduled to be doing anything that night, but on the way there, we got some information that there was a crusade happening in this particular town, just a couple of minutes from where we were staying. And they asked us to come. So David said, sure. Why not?
Let's go. We had no indication of what was going on, that we were supposed to be there or anything. Well, on the way, I got this pain in my knee, my left knee. And I was talking to Bart, and I said, man, I just got this pain in my left knee. I don't have pain in my left knee.
Maybe this is a word of knowledge. Well, David overheard me, so he asked me. I gave him the information. So when we got to the crusade, he got up and spoke. He was giving a message, and then he started the healing process, and he gave the word-of-mouth.
She asked if anyone had a pain in their left knee. There were a few people that raised their hand, but there was 1 woman in particular that just my eye line went to her from the moment that we sat down. And I kept watching her, and she did not get up. I think she might have raised her hand at
1
point. David prayed. He asked for anybody that maybe had some healing or had felt anything better. So he ended up having 3 people come forward and give a testimony that they had been healed. And I just kept looking at her.
I just was I don't know. It was just something. And so he asked again, and she raised her hand. Or he prayed again, and then he asked if there was anybody else, and she raised her hand. Well, he went to her.
And when on his way to her, I looked at Barton and I said, that's asked her. She stood up, and it was actually a little bit I I think I'll kinda let David explain this more, but it was a little bit different than what we would expect, but it definitely was Well, this this happens
here too. I'm just saying this is weird because it alright. It happens in Ghana. It happens here all the time. You just probably haven't seen it because you didn't realize it.
But when we gave the word of knowledge about the knee, there 4 was people that stood up for a need. 3 of them were healed, she wasn't. There were multiple then we we prayed for multiple different people to be healed and there were multiple people that healed were healed. And it was in part of the process. I was in the middle of preaching the gospel.
So I was gonna do that and then preach the gospel again, and more people were gonna give their life to Jesus because they were healed. It was my hope. Well, this lady stood up and kept standing. And so I went to her and I said, hey, you know, was it you with the left knee? She said, yes.
I said, is your knee healed? She said, yes. She said, but I got fired in my right knee. And and she said it in a joking way so everybody kinda laughed. And I didn't really understand what she was saying.
I said, so can I pray for your right knee? She said, yes. And so I prayed for her right knee. And I said, is your right knee better? She said, yes.
But now I have "fire in my right ankle". And I said, So I I said, come with me. Grab your hand, and I pulled her to the to the front because the the there was a there was a spirit of affliction. It was a demon. Yeah.
You pray and it moves. Yeah. If that's weird for you, if you're not used to that, it's real. It's biblical. Maybe shift your your belief.
So so I get her to the front, and I I I tell everybody. I say, look. We prayed for her demon. She was healed, but it moved, which shows it's a demon. She's not a demon.
She's loved by God. God wants to heal her. But there's a demon that's afflicting her body. And so I I laid my hands on her ankle, and her leg began to shake, and then it left. And all the pain was gone, she was healed.
And which was great because God got the glory, and many people gave their life to Jesus, which is a beautiful thing. So just to let you know, if you ever prayed for somebody or if somebody prays for you and the pain moves from your elbow to your your to your wrist, well, you know what it is. And Jesus is authority over every demon. Praise the Lord. So just cast thing out, you do.
That is that we're gonna take a risk right now. Now words of knowledge are always a risk. K? But I ask you risk witness. Meaning, we're not a fake it till you make it type of church.
So if we pray for someone and somebody and nothing happens, you better not lie and say something happened. Right? Just say nothing happened. If we give a word of knowledge and you don't have that, don't raise your hand. But please take a risk with us.
I know it might be a little nerve nerve racking. If we say, hey. We got this for knowledge, and that is you. Well, then please respond because you're showing that God's moving, and it's building faith in you and building faith in the place. And Jesus is gonna heal you if that's the case because he's confronting your pain or your sickness.
And every time sickness or pain is confronted by Jesus, it's here. Yep. Right? Yep. Every time I pray, it's not here.
But when it's the word knowledge, Jesus is specifically confronting me. Does that make sense? Yeah. And then if we just miss it, well, you know, we're growing in this thing. Praise the Lord.
Here's room to grow. We're learning as a church body what it looks like to follow Jesus supernaturally. But I think Dixie had a word of knowledge. And if anybody else did, Bart, you had a word of So would you Dixie, what was the word of knowledge? And let's just get them all together and then you guys can
Sure. It was a "left heel". If there's any pain specifically it was kind of a sharp throbbing pain in the left heel.
So if you yeah. If you have any pain in the left heel, is there anybody who has pain in your left heel? Yep. Alright. Would you stand up please?
That'd be great. Wonderful. Mark? I heard carpal tunnel. Okay.
Not most of you. Carpal tunnel. It's specific side? Just carpal tunnel? Anybody have carpal tunnel?
In the wrist. In the wrist. Just stand up. Cool. Dixie, did you, anybody else?
Kevin you had something as far as I think it's go ahead. Yeah. Stomach pain. Sorry. That's a little more general, but praise the Lord God has general pain too.
Come on. I see you. Come on. Beautiful. So I think what we're gonna do right now is we're just gonna pray for you where you are and and and then go from there.
So, Stacy, would you would you pray for me?
You for who you've made us. And, God, we just know that you are the all powerful healer, and we know you're willing and that you're able. And we just ask for healing in these bodies. Mhmm. That wherever this pain may be, wherever the affliction are, that you just restore it back to just complete and total restoration of those bodies that heal that carpal tunnel, that stomach disorder, that you just reach in and you just touch these bodies, that you just heal these muscles, these tendons, these just bones, whatever the case may be.
Father, we just pray in Jesus' name, complete and total healing. In Jesus' name.
Amen. So see, super simple. Okay. Now I want you to test your body. And if it's 80% better or a 100%, 80% better or more, if you can tell.
Anybody? If you're what about did anything happen in your heel? It feels a little bit better. Not much better at all? I say at 40%.
Say that again? 40%. So you're saying you have to do it in your heel? Yes. Okay.
Alright. So praise the Lord. Well, we don't we're not gonna sit at 40%. So, look, I would just thank you that you're moving in your healing. We recognize that.
We wanna join in with what you're doing. So in the name of Jesus, heal, be healed. Amen. In the name of Jesus, all pain will die. Lord, we love you, and we praise you for your patience.
Okay. Now, if nothing changed, just we'll just be honest. With that. You can't know, you know, you'll feel a physical sensation. Not every time.
About 50% of the time I pray for something to happen. Mariah, what are your thoughts?
He pulls his robe off. The sister pulls her robe off. He smiles. He sits down. We start having tea, bananas, and bread.
And then he looks at me and he says, you know, that word. He said, I just wanted to keep eating that word that you have given out. I said, I'm so sorry.
Yeah. It's just it's just really important to a lot of times, we just focus on trying to decrease, decrease, decrease, and the focus is ourself. But the the the flip is what he's saying. We gotta focus on him increasing. And if our focus is Christ, then he will multiply, and we will naturally.
We will be good. Yeah.
Last thing worth saying there. At the end, they had some guy get up who was building a church for them and he was like an elder in their congregation and he had said, you know, I gotta be honest guys, when we see media reports of what's happening in America and whatnot, we see white people and we don't think Americans know God. Right? We think that Christians are fakers, and you guys brought authentic gospel, like biblical teaching, your life showed it.
Gonna go till 12 today. And I apologize, but we have a baptism, and we can't rush through that. So if you're if you're getting baptized today, I I want I want you to go prepare. And I also want to want to do this, and I don't wanna rush through this. Look, if you're hearing all this and you realize you don't know God, Like, you you just realized you've experienced the power of God, you've experienced the presence of God, and you're hearing these testimonies, and your heart's burning because you want to know Jesus like this, but you know you haven't.
Well, maybe you need to be 1 of them. But I'm not saying that in the right term. I'm saying God loves you, and he's he's pulling on your heart. If you if you didn't believe because of the things you've heard in the past, at least believe because of what you saw Jesus do today. And he wants to impact every aspect of your life in a new way.
So so I want to give you the opportunity to be born again. Jesus said in John-3, no 1 can see the kingdom of God unless you've been born again. Right? You know, a lot of a lot of my friends in other denominations, certain denominations, they think the born agains are the weird ones. No.
The born Jesus said you can't see the kingdom of God unless you've been born again. And he he defined it as being born of water and then born of spirit. Well, you and I were both born of water. Your mama's water broke. We were all born of Adam.
But we need to be born again. We need to be born of Christ. Jesus said, when you believe in him, he gives you the right to become children of God. Children not born of the natural descent of human decision, but born of God. Born of spirit.
So when we believe Jesus died for our sin and rose again, and we confess Jesus as our Lord, like what you're saying there is, I'm not gonna live for me anymore. I'm gonna live for you. I might know what not know what all that means, but I know you're gonna teach me because you're good and you're a good father. So I'm gonna trust you and say, yes, Lord. You're you're the Lord of my life.
In that moment, he washes away your sin, makes you clean, and puts his spirit inside of you. You're born of spirit. So that, like John-17:3 says, so that you can have eternal life, which is knowing to God. And you can know the voice of
[Speaker 2] [01:01:02] God today. Amen. And walk with him like
**[Speaker 1]* [01:01:05]*
a baby. You might not be able to understand every word he's saying yet, but you spend time in his presence and grow and mature. You will. "Hallelujah". He wants you to.
So about as I'm speaking here, like, I've never experienced a relationship with God like that, and I know that I need Jesus. I've seen him work. I've seen him move. And, man, I want him to move in my life, and I wanna encounter him in that way. If that's you, I'm gonna ask you to be radically bold.
I'm gonna ask you to stand up. If you know you need Jesus, just stand up. On. There's there's somebody in here. Your your heart, you're, like, nervous.
Jesus said, if you deny me before men, I'll deny you before my father in heaven. This is not a a personal thing where you hide it from everybody else. If you're not going public with your faith, I doubt if you know him. Amen. Amen.
The bible says out of the abundance of heart, the mouth will speak. If you're not speaking about Jesus, check what you really believe in your heart. Jesus loves you and he cares for you and he wants to transform you so much. Yes. So much that your whole life is about it and it's not about you anymore.
Amen. You can't follow Jesus if it's about you. Amen. Like we say, you're my Lord. I'm not living for me anymore.
Like God loves you so much. And the Bible says, he who finds his life will lose it. He who loses my life, his life for my sake will find it. The only way to freedom and the love and the joy is to say, no longer me, you Jesus. And it takes saying, I don't care who sees it, "I'm all in".
So if that's you, if you know that I'm ready, I'm ready to be all about Jesus, I want you to stand up. Who is it? I wanna say this. I know it's a high pressure situation. The rest of your life following Jesus is a high pressure situation.
He's always gonna push you out of your "comfort zone". Always. That's the only way to grow. But I wanna say this, if you didn't stand up, God still loves you and he cares for you. Yep.
He wants to invite you in a relationship anyway. So please come and talk to someone after service. Come and get prayed for after service. Come and we want to walk into a relationship with Jesus where you encounter every aspect of who you need. Yes.
Amen? Amen. Okay. Alright. I think they're finishing up getting ready for baptism.
We're almost done with the slides. Just cool stuff. We got to preach the gospel at a high school. That was 1 of doctor Ben's things. And at the high school let's see.
This is the high school here. At the high school, 36 gave the life to Jesus. At the same time, we were preaching at the high school. Then I mean, Bart, Dixie, and Jerry preached at church. And many how many came out to Jesus?
[Speaker 2] [01:04:47] There's probably about 50 kids and then about 20, 25 adults.
[Speaker 1] [01:04:51] Yeah. 50, 25 adults. Thank you guys for your patience. There's a picture of of them, the 1 that came forth, did the life of Jesus at the high school. There's Mark in the hospital in Uganda.
Of course, we're gonna end the trip with oh. And you think that would you know, just he won't stop. He's the hunter. Alright. That's it.