October 18th, 2009

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   fire, I desire anything that isn't my own reason, because I want to sing God. Lord I know there's there's a power and a glory Lord to bring conviction, to melt sinners. Lord there's so many people lost, so many people lost, so many people blinded, so many people deceived by dead religion, deceived by false religions, deceived by Christianity even, deceived by many in the Christian church. Lord we just pray we need your presence, we need your glory, we need you Lord to come and convict us of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment to come. We need you to awaken hearts to the truth of the gospel Lord. Not another Jesus, not another spirit, not another gospel, but to the true gospel of Jesus Christ. It's not watered down, the it's not compromised. Oh Jesus we need your holy presence to come. Lord you did it with Charles Finney, you did it in Wales, you did it in the Hebrides, you did it before Lord. You can descend from heaven, your glory can descend, you can rend the heavens and come down and cause the heathen to tremble at your presence. Oh Lord do it again, do it again in our day, in our time. We're like the prophet prayed in wrath, remember mercy. Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you Lord? That's the word. Lord the desperate cries Lord stir your people to have desperate cries for you, desperate, desperate longing, desperate hunger, desperate prayers, broken hearts for people lost and going to hell, broken hearts for people suffering that we may get a hold of you Lord and then take that anointing and that glory and that truth into the streets, into homes, to our neighbors, our classmates, our co-workers, our family members, Jesus. Praise your holy name, praise your holy name. Just worship him

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   for me, just pray everybody, just lift up your voice. Pray for God to come and visit this city. Go on and pray, go on and lift up your voices and pray and ask God to visit, visit this city and visit your neighbors and visit people in your school and visit people around you by you speaking the truth and the anointing, being all that truth or by you laying hands on them and them being being healed or being touched by the presence of God. Oh God we've had enough, we've had enough deception, we've had enough lukewarm Christianity, we haven't had enough weak form of Christianity without the power, the power to convict, the power to draw, the power to save and get people born again, the power to heal and deliver, the great and notable miracles Lord. God not just healing a headache Lord but Lord the crippled walking and the blind seeing and the deaf hearing God so that they know that the Jesus we preach is the Jesus of the Bible and the Jesus who rose from the dead. Lord God we pray visit Auburn, visit Opelika, visit Alabama, visit the United States again. God we don't deserve it Lord we don't do that we have squandered so much Lord we have squandered it through our lust, our sexual sin, our abortions, where we have squandered it through through our rebellion and our disobedience. We don't deserve anything. God forgive our sins forgive the sins of our forefathers on this land right here where we stand the land of Auburn Alabama forgive the sins that have gone on on that campus for decades and decades the sins of fornication and pornography and adultery and even rape and a lot of date rapes Lord just the untold sin that has defiled this land. Oh God forgive us forgive us Lord forgive our sins forgive the sins of Auburn Alabama. Our sins cause you to hide your face but you said Lord if your people would repent and turn from their wicked ways you would heal the land heal the land father heal the land so the land doesn't spit us out into hell heal the land Lord Jesus Jesus touches break our hearts Lord break our hearts now I just feel like I'm supposed to say something here to some of you this may not be for all of you but for some of you stop thinking that God will not use you stop thinking that you're not good enough or you're not strong enough or you don't know enough

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   or you're not good enough stop it I think God did did almost more with me when I was a baby Christian than even now you know why because I didn't let stupid stuff like I didn't know enough I wasn't good enough it was all fresh to me I believe the blood of Jesus had washed my sins away and they were gone so I wouldn't walk it around like I wasn't good enough and I didn't know any better than to read the Bible and believe that if I laid my hands on somebody they'd be healed or that any miracle in the Bible was possible through me or that if Jesus said that cast out demons I could do it and I mean I saw the greatest miracles in the ministry that I've seen when I was 21 22 years old because my head when getting in the way stop it just stop it and start listen the anointing is here the presence of God is here you guys have done some things you've gotten some things you know since we've been meeting in this church I know God's cleaned out some things out of your life and yes I know there's still work to be done but you know what you can soak in the anointing you can receive the baptism the Holy Spirit you can have hands laid on you and receive impartation for the gifts and things but you have got to give it out to somebody you have got to open your mouth and start giving it out boldly you open your mouth you find somebody go lay hands on them believing they're gonna be healed it doesn't matter if they are not that's between them and God after that but you did what you're supposed to do you believe I love what David Hogan said you know people talk about how they've had 400 people or so raised from the dead down there in his ministry in Mexico he said but what people don't know is we prayed for three four thousand dead bodies you know the results are in the hand of God he told us to believe and to do it right so let's do it man I wasn't a pastor of a church or or even even in full-time ministry when I would be in my prayer closet I remember when I was like 20 years old in my prayer closet praying and and my dad was at work at the VA Hospital in in Montgomery and one of his co-workers a woman had breast cancer and they had said she was gonna die and I'd had never met the woman my dad just told me and I was praying and I wasn't even praying for her but in a vision I saw her and I saw a demon hanging on

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   to her side right here and actually I didn't even know it was breast cancer I just knew it was cancer he told me later it was breast cancer but I remember in this vision while I'm in prayer with my eyes closed it was a closed vision I could see it my mind though and I could see this little demon hanging on her side and all I did was say in the name of Jesus I command you demon to lose her and go from her in Jesus name and in this vision I saw this demon drop off onto the floor and run away from her you know what I did I got on the phone I called my dad and I didn't even know her name I said you know the lady you told me about as breast cancer he said yeah or cancer I said what is it he goes it's breast cancer I said well I told him just what I told you I said tell her what I just told you and to believe she is healed do you know that she went back to the doctor and not a trace of cancer was in her body and I'm just saying that I was 20 years old I had just gotten back saved and filled with the Holy Ghost at 19 years old the word works you guys for anybody I didn't have it all together I didn't know what I know now I hadn't been through a lot of stuff but the Word of God is still true amen hallelujah y'all can be seated that that was just extra I guess I guess I need my Bible huh I guess I'm just gonna continue with this I I really wasn't sure this morning of just seeking God about what he wanted me to share with you I'm excited about the presence presence of God and what I believe God's gonna do around here take your Bible I want you to turn with me go to let's go to first Thessalonians first first Thessalonians chapter 1 I'm just gonna look at some things I want to talk about the power of God a little bit and some of the things that the power of God is connected to some of the safeguards because how many of you know that there's miracles on both sides of the spiritual fence Satan and his crew can do supernatural things supernatural manifestations and of course we know God does and we got to know the difference between the two and Jesus one of the things he said in the last days in Matthew 24 he said there'll be many false prophets would rise and deceive many he said even some of them would show great signs and wonders even so and so much that if it were possible they would deceive the very elect so these false prophets some of these false prophets and some of these these

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