You are called to move beyond comfortable Christianity and give Jesus all of your life, not just a part of it. Say yes to the Lord and no to your comfort, allowing His life to overflow through you to change everyone around you. Start living on mission today, whether you are in Uganda or just walking to a coffee shop.
Well, good morning, Real Church. You guys are the true Floridians. Floridians see hurricanes come in and laugh in the face of the wind. Amen? The rest of them, they just moved here a couple years ago, I guess.
So they're still a little scared. But we'll pray for them. You are the persevering enduring Floridians, and I'm proud of you. So my name is David John Phillips. I have the joy and honor of getting to be the pastor here.
There's no place I'd rather be. There's nothing I'd rather be doing. And I'm very grateful that you chose to spend your Sunday morning here. Most of you call Real Church your home, which is amazing. It's an it's an honor to get to be your pastor.
Our prayer is that every time that you come, you encounter the presence, the power, the love of God in such a way that you walk away never the same. Because when you encounter his presence, when you encounter his power, when you encounter his love, you won't be the same. Like, you will have to choose. I mean, then really, I unapologetically pray that every single 1 of you are forced into the valley of decision every time you come to real church. I mean, because when you encounter his love, it's he's going to give you the choice whether or not you stay the same or you take greater steps of obedience towards following him in in a way where you can experience and encounter more of him in the daily aspects of your life.
And if that's the case, then he's gonna overflow out of you more and more and more because Jesus said, follow me and I will make you fishers of men. Which means the more that you're following Jesus, the more you're fishing for people to follow Jesus too. There wasn't that many amens there. Like, FYI, real church is not the church where you're gonna come and sit in a chair and be comfortable just because, you know, and we'll be comfortable with you just sitting there just because you are a warm body that we can count and feel better about having more people here on a Sunday. If that's you, and if that's all that you want, you probably need to go to another church.
I *love* you enough to tell you that. But if you wanna be spurred on in your relationship with Jesus, if you wanna grow in your relationship with him, if you wanna learn what it looks like to live a life that says, no longer about me, it's not I who live, but Christ who lives in me, learn what it looks like to "pick up your cross" daily, deny yourself, and say, Jesus, I'm coming after you. If you're not if you're not ashamed and unafraid of being challenged out of your comfort zone and into obedience to the master, then real church is the right church for you. Because really following Jesus doesn't look comfortable to your flesh. As a matter of fact, if real if you following Jesus in your daily life is is just really comfortable for you, you're probably not being obedient to the Holy Spirit.
Because the Holy Spirit's called the comforter for a reason, because he's gonna challenge you outside of yourself and into him more and more. And every time he challenges you outside of yourself, your flesh goes, ah, ah, don't do it. Don't go pray for that person. No. No.
No. Don't wake up any earlier to spend time with the Lord. No. No. No.
Turn the TV back on. Turn your your devotional back. I mean, your your social media back on. Turn this other stuff back on. Don't don't sacrifice anything.
You should just incorporate Jesus into your life instead of really giving him all of your life. That's **comfortable Christianity** just incorporating him in. That's not real church, guys. Real church is I give you my all. I give myself away.
I give everything. And you will not experience his life unless you give him all of yours. And to the extent you lay your life down, that's the extent his life completely *transforms* you, but also moves through you to change everyone around you. That's real Christianity, guys. And unashamedly, I pray for every 1 of you to enter into the valley of decision every time that you come to this place, where you're pushed outside of yourself and into either, yes, Lord, all the more, or you know what?
This is too much for me. I'm going somewhere where I'm more comfortable. I'm good with it. I love you enough to pray that way, guys. Because, I mean, is life living in worth living any other way?
I mean, really? Just going about the day to day and just incorporating Jesus into your life as if it's all good? Is it is it the Bible isn't true if that's the way Christianity is supposed to be. It's just another religion. It's a that's not what the Bible is.
It's a relationship, and it calls you into a deeper relationship where you can encounter the "living God". 2 Peter-1 says, participate in the divine nature through the promises that he has given us. You're participators in his divine nature because you've been "born of the spirit", "born again". And if you haven't, this is an invitation to do so. Amen?
Amen. FYI, I'm a little lit up on fire, And I'm excited about it. We just got back from Uganda. You guys sent us to Uganda. So every testimony, every life change you participated in by your prayers and your giving, and you'll receive just as much a reward in heaven for the eternal results that happened as we do.
Because we're the church together, so thank you. Thousands of people were transformed. Thousands. Will you pull up the first picture? That right there is my good buddy, my African dad, pastor John Wandera.
He came here and preached in November. It was amazing and wonderful. I've been to Uganda 3 times now. This is our third time, and he's a man who leads a network of I think it's, like, either 625 or 650 churches throughout Uganda, Kenya, and South Sudan. And he was he invited us.
We were we were coming to to do a pastor's conference there, and God did immeasurably more than that than we could have asked, thought, or imagined. You're gonna hear about it in a second. Just a taste of something that happened. Would you go to the video? Hopefully, volume's turned up.
The next Shout of God. In *Jesus*' name. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
That was unplanned. *God* led us to many different schools where we got to preach the gospel. I know 1 Alex, who's not even here, preached the gospel to 400 kids, and it looked like all of them gave their life to Jesus. I got to preach to 200, a 150 kids twice on random random times in the day where the Holy Spirit just invites us, and we just follow him and say, yes, Lord, and all of a sudden, boom, lives are transformed. Pretty cool.
That's just a a taste. I'll let Jerry talk about that a little bit later. Go to the next 1. So this is the trip. We are we are going, and we're getting ready to travel, and Robbie gave our team a specific bit of instruction.
Robbie, do we have do you guys have a mic yet? Let me get that for you. Because I'm hold I'm keeping this 1.
Hey.
Just FYI, when you get the mic, put your thumb on this and push it up. That unmutes it. When you're done, push this back down. Fair enough? Robbie, would you give them an idea of what you told them in the van?
Yeah. So the moment we closed the doors and started driving off from this parking lot, I turned around to our crew in the van. I was like, alright, guys. Our mission trip starts right now. Everywhere on the way to get to the airport to getting to our gates through TSA, the mission is now.
And I told him that even when we get back home, the mission never ends. And so we ended up got got to minister to a few different people in the airport. And then on the planes, it was also a mission. And I know some of these other guys can share some of those stories.
Amen. Just making sure that this is recording. Yep. Good to go. Okay.
Go to the next slide.
So this is my my new friend.
Would you pause it for a second? Daniel. There he is. FYI, us praying, you guys praying, we were praying for God to do amazing miracles on this trip, even for some uncommon miracles. Like in in the book of Acts, people were *healed* when Paul's shadow went past them, when they touched, you know, letters and things that they had prayed for, uncommon miracles.
*Jesus still does that stuff today, not by our power, but by the power of the Holy Spirit*. So prepare your hearts for this 1.
Yeah. So on the first not the first flight. It was the last flight from Qatar to Uganda. I go and I sit next to this young man here. You'll you'll see the video in a second.
His name is Han June, 16 years old. He's coming from China to go visit his father who was doing some work in Uganda. And I realized pretty quickly he didn't speak any English. And so I I pulled out my phone and and, you know, I started using a translator app to share the gospel with him, and he was receiving. We're having a good conversation for maybe 10 minutes.
And then when the plane took off, there was no more Internet connection. So I was not able to use the translator app anymore. And we kinda just stopped talking for maybe 4 or 5 minutes, and I'm sitting there praying. I'm like, what should I do, Lord? Like, I I really felt like this guy was receiving this, and he's never heard the gospel before.
So I felt like the Lord said to do this. So I I laid my hand on his shoulder, and I said, Lord, in Jesus' name, I pray that this man would have the ability to speak and understand English. And I said, in Jesus' name, amen. And he began to speak English. He began to understand what I was saying, and it was pretty amazing.
And for the next hour or 2, I just shared the gospel, like, very in-depth with him. You still had to talk kind of slowly, but he was understanding everything. And and and he got born again, and he even said, like he even understood. He's like, yeah. God lives in my heart now.
And he was like, my life is is forever changed. And it was it was just amazing. So, yeah.
Absolutely amazing. Let's just let's go ahead and play that video, see if it comes across.
Now now I'm gonna tell
him about the gospel. So,
I mean, he's not moving his mouth like we normally do. That's why there's a heavy accent. So he'll learn over time. But that wasn't the only time that happened. That began to multiply on our trip.
How many of you guys prayed for people and they spoke English?
It was oh, yeah.
Okay. And and approximately how many that had never never spoken English before began speaking and understanding? I think
By the end of the trip, it was it was at least 50 people.
That's amazing. And some of them had spoke a little bit and their ability went way up, but many of them had never spoke or understand English before. God still does amazing things. Amen? So this started on the trip.
It's like, this was the amazing. Go to the next. Jerry, Heidi, was this guy born again?
No. He was not born again.
But just another opportunity to minister to people and be on mission wherever we're going. Go to the next 1. And once again, just in travel, that's Gabe ministering to to a guy at the gas station. Gabe, you you prayed for this guy? Do you remember this?
Yeah. I don't know what happened there.
Sure. Yep. So he he was a pastor, and he would kind of just been praying for God to send him a sign, and just was able to encourage him that his church would see revival. And he was excited
to receive that. So he became the sign from God that that man was praying for. Ain't that cool? Go to the next. Okay.
So just a little bit of the background of the story, and we'll get into a lot of the testimonies here in a second. The trip looked like travel there, a lot of travel, 30 something hours of travel there. For me, it was 45 hours of travel back, depending on which team you're in. Once we finally arrived, every morning, we would meet together and take 20 or 30 minutes to **"pray together"** and to worship because prayer precedes movement, and that's the best way to start your day. And not just praying to some random thing or to what you feel.
We're praying to Jesus because he's the Lord of our life and asking him to move in our in our lives by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen? Amen. And so this is where we would meet and encourage 1 another and pray. Go to the next slide.
You just see us doing that. Next slide. Yep. Next slide. Mhmm.
Keep going. We had our own very own little worship leader on the trip. He came in handy. It was awesome. Next slide.
This was a powerful time. This was at the hotel every night, very important. We would gather together and meet and share what we were thankful for and reminisce about what God did over the day. Because here's the deal, **testimony is powerful**. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
When you hear what God has done, you're seeing what he wants to do in your life. If you'll believe that you're not any less special than the people speaking because you have the same Holy Spirit that we do. The Bible also says that the the testimony of Jesus is our heritage. Right? You're an heir to what is happening.
And these stories that that happened in Uganda, you're an heir to in your daily life. Receive them by faith. *Revelation-12:11, they loved them. They they overcame the enemy not by or they overcame the enemy by the blood of the lamb* and the word of their testimony, not loving their life unto death. To the extent you're willing to step out and try this and not love your life unto death, that's the extent you'll see some of this and the same overcoming in your daily life.
Amen? Amen. So, hey, when you see God do something, get around the round table of phone call your your girlfriend or or, you know, your your your bro and share what God did. Let it encourage you and challenge others. That's what we're doing for you to spur you on to live a life on mission every day.
Okay. So after this, Wednesday, we went into a village church and began to do what we do at Belong on Tuesday nights at that village. Let's go to the next oh, first, you have to see this. We we we drink not this is not root beer, it's like ginger, like a high like ginger ale, except a lot more ginger. And we drank this every night before we went to bed, which might have helped with our bellies.
Next. And we did get to experience some cool stuff Wednesday morning, you know, when while in Africa, you need to see you need to see what's happening, you know, and get to enjoy some of the scenery. Next. So we we hiked, we did a hike Wednesday morning, next. Got to see this beautiful waterfall, which was amazing.
Next. But not all of us hiked up the water to the mountain to the waterfall, some stayed back and got to experience the kids in the village. Go to the next 1. 0, sorry. Go back to the previous 1.
Bart or Dom, some of those that stayed down, I know you guys got to experience some of the village there. You wanna share a little bit about that? Yeah. That's fine. Yeah.
So I met a guy named Randy while everyone else was going up the mountain, and we had gone back into the village and ended up being a long conversation, but just kept sharing the love with him. And then he finally was just like, alright. What what what are you asking of me? And I was like, well, are you ready to be born again? So that was kind of, you know, some of the first fruits of the day seeing him be born again.
And Dominique was living his best life kicking a a bottle around with the kids, and and Bart was just enjoying his time with the kids as well.
And Yeah. Yeah. Let let's hear from Dominic. What was it like hanging out with the kids there at the in that moment? Because I I saw the video of you kicking the ball.
Yeah. So just being able to play with the kids and, like, just see how joyful they were in that. They didn't have any toys and but me and my mom, we were there, and I just got to like, I just started kicking a bottle around with the kids, and then they all started gathering around. And we just had so much fun playing those games. And then there was this 1 little girl who was attached to my hip, like, the whole time.
And, like, just seeing the joy those kids had and the how happy they are with the little that they have in comparing their lives to ours really touched my heart. Yeah. And it was just amazing experience to see those kids.
Very powerful. You go to the next slide. And the next 1. Yeah. There he is with the little girl.
That's what I thought. They didn't have soccer balls, guys. FYI. Go to the next 1. Ain't that beautiful?
Next. We got to go to a Ugandan zoo. So I wanted you to see that, see the fun we had. Next. Gabe in his, in his habitat.
You'll see him in his habitat in a minute too. Next. Traveling and getting ready, and then next. Alright. I'll share about this in a second.
So on Wednesday evening, everything you saw was Wednesday morning. Wednesday evening, we went into a village and began to *minister at this church and take them out like we go on Tuesdays to the different houses and share the gospel*. Any any stories or testimonies from what happened on Wednesday?
Daniel, Dixie, and myself, we went with a couple of guys from the a different church. We all separated. And the first couple people we met, Daniel, I think I I started talking about Jesus. He led them to he he helped them to pray the prayer of salvation. Then the next people, he shared the gospel, then I got to pray with them, and we just started praying for everybody that they put in front of us.
We saw multiple people give their hearts to Jesus, multiple people get prayed for. And 1 of the guys said, I really want you to come to my house. My sister has gone to Saudi Arabia, and she's come back, and she's she's got some kind of demon. I'm like, cool. Let's go.
So the 3 of us went with a couple of the guys from church, and we walked in. And when I say a house, it's not what we're used to. It was a dirt floor. There was no electricity. We actually had to push back curtains, and they had a bunch of clothes on the floor just to get to this girl, and they touched her.
And she screamed some kinda, piercing ugly scream and just didn't want anything to do with us. And we just started praying. We just started showing the love of Jesus to her. That's exactly what I said. Jesus loves you.
Just Jesus loves you. And it was just this slow process that she started to take notice of everything that was going on around her. We just continued to pray. Yeah. She she did.
She took her headphones out. She started watching us, listening to us. And the more that we prayed, the more that she just started changing her whole attitude. And before it was over with, we ended up praying for the house. We did have different things, but she was actually sitting on the bed, having a conversation with us, completely normal.
God just delivered her completely from the demons that she had in that house.
Come on. It's amazing. On on Wednesday, I forgot, we split into, like, 4 different teams and went to 4 different churches and did ministry. Let's hear another testimony from Wednesday.
So it was Dom, Alex, Heidi, myself. The first clip that you saw, we went to a school, and the guy was telling us about, you know, what they're going to do, and he want us to share the gospel with his students. And the way he was talking was, they're all born again. And so this little guy steps up and he goes from Genesis to Revelation, a story, a little clip about everything, and I'm saying, jeez, he don't need to hear anything. So I start sharing the gospel.
And out of 80 to a 100 kids, 40 to 45 give their life to Christ. Heidi shared a little bit. Dom shared a testimony. From there, we went to the city. It was raining.
It was muddy. We went to bars, in which a bar is just a shack where they are sipping on moonshine. They're sitting in these little groups, some probably 10 people in each group with a spittoon in the middle, and they have these little straws in it, and they're sipping moonshine out. And so the guy said, I want you to share the gospel. And I said, well, how do you want me to do it?
And he said, go to each group. I said, no. I wanna stand in the middle. So I went in the middle, share the gospel. The leader stood up and he said, we're all born again.
And I actually told him, I said, well, does your life measure up to the fruit? I don't see the fruit of who God says you are. And they accepted. We've got to pray for them. We got to pray for a lady about her knees after all this was done.
She was healed. And so it was just a powerful powerful thing to be able to share with them because you saw walls start breaking down.
That's amazing. So that was on Wednesday, and that's that's just 1 of of multiple testimonies, and it's kind of the the precursor to what we went for. What you see there is is my group, we went to a village and they led me to a couple different houses, and then 1 person said, hey, let's go to this school. So we went to the school, they talked to the headmaster, they let me talk to the whole school. And then I shared the gospel, and all the kids gave their life to Jesus, which was really cool.
It was amazing. So the reason that we went is it the next picture? That's amazing. There we go. So we're at this is John's church, and we went, to do this pastor's conference.
That's 620 pastors there that came in from all over Uganda to be equipped in the way that we were gonna do it. I connected a dear friend of mine named Tom Rotolo who pioneered Power and Love. Maybe you're maybe maybe you've heard about Power and Love with Todd White. He pioneered that whole thing. Maybe maybe you've heard about doctor Randy Clark and the trips he does to Brazil.
Tom Rotolo helped to organize and make that happen and helped to to get the global school going with doctor Randy Clark. Tom Rotolo pioneered this thing called Cityquake and had just hadn't been a part of going to Africa yet because he didn't have the relational connections. Well, I have the relational connections through my dad and and the Go Deep Grace conference that we've been doing throughout Africa. So I said, let me be your the open door for you. So I connected him with pastor John so that they could go in and build off of the the conference that my dad my dad has done for his network of pastors.
So pastor John brought in these 620 pastors to be trained and equipped. It was an honor to get to be a part of this conference. It's a 3 day conference with 9 different sessions and 6 different times where we do this activation where we we equip people and then send them out into the surrounding city to do 2 hours of putting into practice what they learned. For instance, the first session we taught on they they taught on what it looks like to to love people with the gospel, and then what it looks like to walk in "words of knowledge", which is a spiritual gift. Right?
And then we practiced that, broke the pastors up into different groups of 2 in there, practiced it for 15 minutes, and then sent them out with our team in groups in in Bali, the city, which is the third largest city in Uganda, to go and love people with the gospel and ask the Lord to give them a word of knowledge. And so that was 1. We did another where we sent them out for evangelism, for prayer, I mean, healing, for and equipped them in prophecy, just a bunch of different things. And then they'd come back and they'd share testimonies just like we do at Belong of what God did. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of healings, salvations, *miracles*, and them being activated to go back to their congregation to equip their people.
So with those 620 pastors, there's approximately 30,000 congregates represented there, that if they're all trained and equipped into sharing the gospel simply in a loving way in their daily life, could impact those villages in a major way. There'd be major revival. All your phones are having alarms. Don't worry. It's gonna be okay.
Just just silence the alarm. So anyway, the next bulk of testimonies we're gonna hear from those 3 days of these guys going out with those pastors and just hearing some of what God did in in Bali. Because these guys led the pastors out and and equipped them to do this in their daily life. So who's Ezra, why don't you go first?
Does it share any testimony? Yes. So there we saw a lot of healing, a lot of miracles, a lot of devils being cast out. And I can share all of those stories, but the 1 that impacted me the most was I think it was the second day. And it was the reason it impacted me the most because it shows how much God loves people and how much he knows the very details of their lives.
I was walking the streets of Mbale and I saw this man that was walking really fast down the road. And I was like, hey, man. Can I can I share you the gospel with you? And he was like, no. I'm too busy.
I'm headed down the street. I'm like, cool. I'm headed down that same street. Can I walk with you? He's like, he just rolled his eyes.
He's like, oh, come on, man. I'm like, just let me share the gospel with you. He said, okay. I'll give you 2 minutes. So I started sharing my testimony and sharing the gospel with him, and still I could see that he wasn't really receptive to it.
And in my heart, I was like, God, how do I touch this man? And God put in my heart and said, this man's going through a lot in life. He's carrying his entire family, the finances for his entire family, and he has a lot of weight on his shoulders. So I shared that with him. I'm like, is this true?
And he's like, yeah. How did you know that? I don't even know you. And I was like, because Jesus loves you, man. And at that moment, he just received God's love and he became born again right then and there.
Yeah. What about because Jerry already shared 1. What about you, Heidi?
There's so many. But on the second day, I went to the hospital with a couple people and they took me to the acute children's part where children were pretty much, you know, almost about to die. And so I saw Job, and there's, like, 2 or 3 kids in 1 little crib, and they have them lined stacked because they just it's and I saw Job and he was about 6 or 7 and his his stomach was really blown up and his hands and his feet were, like, really yellow and orange and he was just in so much pain, you could just see it. And his aunt was there, and I asked him, could I pray? And I always talk to the parents about Jesus and to see if they are born again and in the praying.
And so I put my hands on him, and he was fire hot. Like, I don't even know what his temperature was. And I just spoke healing over his body and prayed for him. And for probably 10 minutes off and on when I was talking to the aunt, and I would get down in his face and I said, Job, your Jesus is healing you. You're gonna be okay.
And his little swollen his little hand came up shaking like this, like he was just trying to and he wasn't even moving. His little eye creeped open. And so I prayed for some other ones, but I just wanna focus on Job and and it broke my heart. And I went back and and pastor said, how was it? And I said, pastor, heart is broken.
And I shared some of the stories with him and he said, so you wanna go back tomorrow? And I said, that's where I'm supposed to go, absolutely, I'll go because it's the places that you don't wanna go because it's too uncomfortable for you because it hurts so much for you. And I wanted him to sit up in the bed and he didn't. But I told Job he was healed, and I told his aunt he was healed. Well, I got to go back the next day and I walk in and the oxygen is off of him.
His stomach is down, he's not connected to anything, and I'm like looking at him, I put my hand on him, he's cool, I'm like, *God healed* him and this aunt came over and she said, thank you so much for praying for him. And I'm like, this is amazing. And she said, he's well. And he's recovering, you know, and I lean over and I said, Job. I said, I'm the 1 that prayed for you yesterday, and he opened his eyes, and I said, you're well.
And that just it was so beautiful. And I think it was a 2 fold thing that for me, I had to remember that God is the healer. And and and for number 1, that it's not me, he's the healer and he *healed* him. And then also, that *healing* happens in different ways. Sometimes it's instant and sometimes it it's timely, you know, there's there's a little more time.
But I told all of those parents how to speak in *authority* to be healed over their children and I told them to keep doing it until they saw it. And last but not least, every single mama I said, your baby will be healed, Your baby is healed. Keep speaking that over them. And all the other ones were dramatically better and this was in the acute ward the second day.
Praise the Lord. Yeah. Let's pass it over. Let's hear from Dixie. So,
yeah, the first day, I think, was really impactful for me because number 1, I'm it's outside of my comfort zone to I I went out alone without another you know, typically, go with Bart. I can kinda hide in the shadows a little bit. Right? But we went out individually with some interpreters and a team of people. The first day we went
out took pastors out. Really? Yeah. Yeah.
We did. It's awesome. And I was incredibly blessed because I had a group of people that 2 women in particular that were just on fire. So they were running into crevices and pulling people out of alleys and pulling them over for prayer. And I personally had never individually led someone in the salvation prayer.
Well, I got to lead 32 people on on Wednesday. So, yeah, on on Thursday. So it was just Wait. 32 people
on Thursday?
On just 1 day. Yeah.
1 day, her taking a group out into the city and led 32 so,
like, 17 the first session 4 hours.
Yeah.
So it was just I I it was a very incredibly fruitful day, but I wanna say just I want to say to also encourage you that, you know, if you haven't done it yet, it can be scary and intimidating. But man, the reward just is so incredible. And so I encourage you all to go to Belong and just try it, you know. It it was really just an incredible I also went back to the hospital the day, the second day that Heidi went. I went into the women's ward and there was a girl there that was had come home from school and she was unresponsive.
They didn't have any idea what was wrong with her. They had to bring her a long way for the hospital to take her. And I just began to pray for her. And while I was praying for her, I just got this overwhelming feeling from the Holy *Spirit* and she began to respond. So I went back and prayed a second time and I prayed a third time.
The first time she was not She had not opened her eyes, she was not speaking, she was not eating or drinking. By the time I left there, she was talking. She had opened her eyes. She was drinking water. She was not completely well, but the level of improvement that we saw each time was incredible.
So I just encouraged her family that she was being healed and I have faith that She went home.
So Praise the Lord. Let's let's honor God what he's what he did. Let's go to Jessica. Just some stuff you saw on those 3 days and, how God impacted you.
So I wanna share about how the night before we went to the conference, I I'm not sure if it was God maybe giving me the boost of courage, trying to speak to a Muslim guy by the pool. I I kinda was like, no way. I'm good. But Daniel kept talking to him, and it it turned out good. He had a good conversation with him.
So that encouraged me when he told me about it. So the next day, on Wednesday, we went out and we were doing words of knowledge. And so God just took the fear away, and I just asked anyone, you you know, if they had any pain. And I come to find out, like, all 8 of them were Muslim, and they gave their life to Jesus.
So she was afraid to share the gospel with a Muslim in another country, saw Daniel doing it, built faith in her, and then led 8 Muslims to Jesus the next day. Yeah. That's normal. Dominic, go ahead, buddy. By the way, he's 16 and and, you know, has told me that it was really in April where he really gave his life to Jesus.
So that's about 3 months ago. Go ahead, Dom.
Yeah. So I will say that when the conference started, I was really nervous because I had to lead my own group. And then the whole time, we were supposed to have, like, 3 to 4 people, but every time my group consisted of maybe 10 to 15 people. And then, like, every time I had the same, like, 3 or 4 pastors with me. So, like, just being able to build the faith in myself that we both that I have the same Holy Spirit as them and that I can do the things they do and that I can lead people to Jesus as they do.
And the the story that impacted me the most, I'd say, was I think it was maybe Friday. We went to Moni Village. So it was maybe, like, a 10, 15 minute drive. And so I was walking around for about an hour, and 1 of the people in my group led me to this family because they wanted us to pray for her daughter, this mother. And she said that her daughter had been experiencing seizures, like, rapidly, and it came out of nowhere.
And that she took her to a hospital and a doctor and that they didn't know what was wrong with her. And they thought it was epilepsy, but it wasn't. And that the doctor himself told them that she was having a spirit and that she needed to be prayed for. So me and my group, we got to go into that house. And, like, when I walked in there, I just felt a lot of animosity in that little girl.
She wasn't, like, she wasn't talking or anything. She was just, like, sitting blank and staring, like, at the ground. So me and my group, we just went in there, and we got to talk to the mother and just, like, see when it started, ask if there was any witchcraft in her background, and there wasn't. So me and my group got to pray for her for about 10 minutes. And then while we were praying, I could just, like, feel her hands shaking, her body shaking, and see that she was getting visibly different and that I could see, like, more emotion and light come into her.
So I got to keep praying for her and got to encourage her mother and tell her that God is moving in her body and that the Lord wants to deliver her from that spirit and that she's going to be delivered. And then later on, she ended up giving her life to Jesus. And I just got to really encourage that family and just it impacted me so much just seeing that demons attack those peoples in so many different ways that I've never seen before. Because before this trip, I only like, maybe 5 days before we left, that was the first time I encountered a spirit. And the Lord was preparing me for that because I'd say, myself, I casted out maybe 8 demons.
So the Lord really wanted to prepare me for that.
And and like scripture says, we don't rejoice that demons submit to us, we rejoice that our name's written in the "book of life". Yeah. Right? That's just a byproduct of who we are in Christ Jesus. Right?
And it's just reality. And and Dominic led a lot of people to Jesus, got to got to share the gospel with a lot of people as a 3 month old believer. He doesn't have a junior Holy Spirit. Let that challenge you out of your seats and into the harvest field. Amen?
Amen. Roberto. His name's Robert. I just call him Roberto.
So on the third day of outreach, we went out into this smaller village that was about a 45 minute walk from the church. And, almost everyone we talked to in that village was already born again, so we just got to encourage them and pray for healings in them. And the Lord did some really incredible things, and he completely healed this older woman. But after I finished praying for her, I noticed this younger, woman sitting on the porch, and I noticed that God highlighted her. So I went to talk with her and asked if she had needed any healing or anything.
And after I prayed with her, I asked her if she knew who Jesus was, and she said, I'm Muslim. I was like, okay. Not afraid of that. So I asked her, well, why? Why are you Muslim?
And she said, oh, my family was I was born Muslim. I started to tell her the truth about it and tell her how much God loved her and how much Jesus loved her and just shared the gospel with her. And I saw her, like, visibly be impacted by it. So in that moment, she was born again, and I prayed for her again. And she just said she felt the love of God and just felt the peace.
Yeah.
Well, I I think ever yeah. Let's roll through some of the pictures real quick just so that you guys can get a picture of us. Oh, this is, some of the worship. They they wanted the the Americans to dance because they dance all out for *Jesus* in an amazing way. Worship's different in Africa.
Alright. Go to the next 1. Some more pictures. Keep going. 620 pastors.
It was just an honor to get to I mean, it's be a part of discipling a nation. There's there's Tom right there. Daniel sharing a testimony. Next. Jessica taking her group out into the city.
Next. 1 of the pastors praying for people for healing. Keep going. There we go. There's Robert taking his group out into the city.
Yep. Ezra,
So I have 4 guys here who just heard the gospel and prayed to be born again. So I'm gonna let 1 of them share how they experience Jesus move into them. So, you share what you just experienced.
He says born again. And, he's born again.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Did you Why is
it wrong?
Did you "feel him move" in you? He says, yes. He's feeling in
my my
breath moving.
He said, I'm good.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. Yes.
Yes. Did you Yeah. Did you experience something? Said his chest was painful but His chest is healed. Yeah.
So, his chest was healed as we prayed for him to be born again. Wow. And so, that's awesome. And, I wanna encourage you guys that right now God sees you completely clean. God sees you completely faultless before his eyes.
He's made you "brand new". So today is a new day. Walk with him.
Amen? Amen. Amen. Next. Jerry preaching in the church.
Next. Just ministering to people. Next. Robert preaching in the church. Go figure.
Next.
Say hello.
I got to preach on Sunday at pastor John's church.
Right here. Everybody wave. Hello. That
whole group of kids, it's about 50 kids there. They were all street kids who didn't have parents. They were orphaned and lived on the street. They had all been born again during the outreaches that we had done the previous 3 days and came to pastor John's church. This whole group of street kids came to pastor John's church.
So they made a special spot for them, and they had a dance competition with them, and told them they were gonna create a party for them so they could party because they were born again. Ain't that special? Next. Next. That was I don't know why that's in there.
That's in Pakistan. Next. My bad, guys.
I ask you to fill them with peace. Let them know that you are a good father. That you care about
That's me praying for them after they just were born again.
Lead them towards your purposes.
So I I on 1 of the outreaches on on Monday, we went to multiple different places and I I just went to like 4 or 5 different houses, there were like 4 or 5 different born again, and I saw these kids playing soccer at across the way at this at this soccer field at a school. And I had the thought to go play with them. So I walk over, the translator comes and and I say, hey, can I go play with them? He goes, yeah, let me run, tell the headmaster. So as he's going to tell the headmaster, I go steal the soccer ball from him and start dribbling around him.
They stole it from me too, but they were amazed that this Mzungu, which is what they call a white boy, could could steal a soccer ball from them and dribble around a couple of them. And so they all start running. There's about a 150, 200 kids just around me in a circle running from all over to hear what this white boy had to say, which was a setup. So I preached the gospel to them through an interpreter, and a few of them walked away, but most of them stayed, were born again, and that was me praying over them, which was really cool. Next.
That
was John's school too. Right?
Yeah. That's a good good point. So John Wandera actually went to that school when he was a boy. And a missionary from Europe went to that school when he was a boy and shared the gospel, and he gave his life to Jesus when that missionary came in and shared the gospel. And he was forever changed and started walking to to church, like 30 and I'm not exaggerating.
It's not 1 of those stories, but 28 to 30 kilometers away because there was no churches where he grew up, but he was really changed. As I was sharing the gospel with those kids, I had thoughts of, hey, John Wanderas. There's many little John Wanderas in this group. I didn't know until after that that that was the school where John Wanderas had grew up, and where he had given his life to Jesus. So I was a missionary coming in for some John Wanderas in that in that group, which was amazing.
That's, us at another church sending them out. Go to the next 1. We're in the church that our church built. That is the church in John Wanderas Pastor John Wanderas' home village where he grew up that didn't have a building, and, you guys sowed the seed to build that church. And that was an amazing time, but also remember, sow where you wanna go when we we are saving for a building.
And our elders said, well, if we're if that's what we're going for, we need to sow a building. And so we sowed that building. And so praise the Lord. That's it. Keep going.
They gave us chickens. That's that's the the best that they have. And as a as a as gratitude, they gave us their best. They don't eat those except for Christmas, Easter, and when special guests come. And they gave it as an offering out of their poverty.
They gave us their their best, their chickens. And so we had to take the chickens, honoring them, and ride with them in our bus. Next. That's them giving us the chickens. It means praise the Lord.
Next. Yeah. Next. Yeah. They're special people.
That's the whole team. There was 13 of us and 9 from Tom's team that met together in Uganda to to get to co labor with him and what he wanted to do. Yeah. So this is the last picture of the the thing. Unless you think that this only happens in mission in Uganda, this is yesterday.
I'm driving in Downtown Clearwater to go meet Gabriel Mullens, and I see some parking spots that are not pay to park, and usually I park at the coffee shop, but I had a thought I should park there this time. Well, it's an extra walk to get to where we're going in downtown. It's probably it would have been a 10 minute walk from where I parked. So I had the thought, this might be God and there might be some appointment he has for me. So I'd already passed him, so I had to make a loop.
I had to go out of the way to do it. So I made a loop, drove back around, parked in those spots, and was walking to the restaurant wondering what God had for me either on the way or on the way back. This guy walks up to me and says, hey, excuse me. Do you know where the bus station is? I say, hey, let me map it.
And I showed him on the maps the the the cross section. I said, well, I'm walking. It's this way. Why don't you walk with me? He walked with me.
I shared the gospel with him. In 2 minutes, the guy gave his life to Jesus. That was Friday, not yesterday. So you live on mission, you experience mission in your daily life. You live as normal, and a normal American, working your 9 to 5, and going to church on Sundays, you're not gonna experience much mission in your daily life.
But at your 9 to 5, at your job, at your business, at your home, at your family reunions, on your days off when you want it all to be about you and Jesus is inviting you to make it about him too. Live outside of yourself and be on mission and see God do supernatural results, and you get changed in the process. The supernatural's on the other side of obedience. It doesn't matter if you're 3 years old and 3 months in the you're 3 months old in the Lord, or if you've been walking with Jesus for decades. What level of surrender is he worth surrendering for you in your daily life?
To what extent are you willing to say yes, Lord, to your comfort? Yes, Lord, to Jesus and no to your comfort. That's the extent you're gonna experience yourself propelled toward the purposes he has for you. Sometimes that takes sacrifice, giving your chickens away. Sometimes it takes reordering and reorienting your life to for what's most important because incorporating Jesus into what you already have isn't gonna work.
And so you have to sacrifice some things to say, yes, Lord, and reorient your life to be obedient, to come on a Tuesday night for some of you maybe. Maybe it's start serving. Maybe it's reorient your life to open the word for 30 minutes extra in the mornings. Maybe it's reorient your mindset to add an extra 15 or 20 minutes to your shopping trip so that you can look for people to pray for? What do you have to reorient and reorganize in order to minister?
In order to be a fisher of people and not do the Christian life as you daily used to, but continue pressing forward to become more and more of a fisher of people because you're following Jesus. And my Jesus said, follow me and I'll make you a fisher of men. This is the life we live, church. This isn't just a mission. Some of these guys were activated into this life on this mission trip.
Most of them live it daily here, and that's why it overflowed. You just went through a a series on being a servant. The best way to serve people is be obedient to the way that he leads you day in and day out, to love them in the way that he says. Because in your when you're obeying his leading, he's inviting you to allow his love to flow through you, to supernaturally touch them so they can be supernaturally loved by the love of God.