The Sixth-Trumpet War

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   holy ghost fire and power and passion boldness the longing for you lord and not for this world the longing god for your holiness and righteousness lord rather than the sins and the lust of this world lord we pray god that you'll just draw us draw us closer and lord you promised lord if we would draw near to you you would draw near to us lord and god you promised that by the blood of jesus that we could draw near to you lord we could draw near have our sins washed away lord you just ask that we confess you just ask that we repent you just ask if we come you are merciful you are loving you are forgiving you are holy you are just we know god that you will judge sin you will judge those who won't repent you will judge those who choose to reject your ways but even in that lord you are you are still the merciful true god jehovah yahweh the god and father of our lord jesus christ we worship you this morning we need your holy spirit we need the spirit of jesus christ to fill us and anoint us a afresh and you do a new thing in us lord put in a a new heart a new passion a new zeal a new fire got a new desire to know you and to be with you and to worship you a new desire lord to to live the word of god to live the truth to to walk it and not just talk it but also lord the holy anointing god to be a witness to be a light to this world to speak the truth or whether it offends them whether it makes them angry whether it makes them hate us lord the truth of your word that will set the captives free lord there are people out there who will hear who will listen in these last days they will hear and turn and be saved lord we believe god that in the midst of things getting darker and darker that there's also going to be a move of the holy ghost bringing people to repentance and faith in the lord jesus christ lord we thank you for the cross we thank you that you died in our place on that cross that you lived a holy righteous sinless life you died on that cross for our sins you bore our sins in your body lord jesus and we thank you that you rose from the dead on the third day that you are alive forevermore that you have the keys of hell and death that you are the soon coming king that you will one day bring down this this evil corrupt world system and their world government everything else that's coming you will bring it down and establish your kingdom and your people with you forever and forever lord we worship you the king of kings and the lord of lords we exalt you jesus the only way the only truth and the only

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   life we thank you by virtue of your blood that we can have eternal life in heaven if we'll but turn from sin and make you lord oh lord i praise you today i praise you today praise you lord hallelujah you may be seated this morning you know before i get into this message this morning i was just thinking as we were singing that song a minute ago i started this journey with the lord in april of 1979 and a little baptist church called northside baptist church over in opalia cabal down from opelika high school and it was a powerful experience i had then with the presence of of jesus even though i got away from god in my teenage years through a lot of different things that happened in my family and though i ran from god and did what i wanted to do for a season no one could ever tell me that he wasn't real you know jesus so revealed himself to me when i was born again at 11 years old that you know i mean me you know richard almost got in a fight because he tried to argue with me about it one time when we were in school because you know i knew i knew two things after that touch from god in that church i knew that jesus was really who he said he was i knew he was the only way to heaven i knew i was headed to hell if i didn't turn to him and the presence of god so enveloped me as an 11 year old boy there's nothing you could do or say to change my mind nothing and i was just thinking you know uh in june you know of course in june of 1987 god got a hold of me to get my life right to get out of my drugs and alcohol and immorality and just to finally give up my sinful lifestyle and and follow him completely and i thank god i made that decision to do that and uh that'll be 26 years this june and i'm going to tell you i'm as hungry and thirsty for him today as i was back then amen ain't nothing better folks nothing better than to know the presence of jesus and the truth of

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   jesus the truth of god's word down deep in your soul to know him not just know about him but to know him intimately and powerfully and to be walking with him in in righteousness and in uh just in his in his love there is nothing better to know the peace and the presence of god and you don't get that by sitting on your your tail doing nothing you have to you have to seek him you have to pursue him amen you have to want him you have to long for him it makes me sad that most of this world they don't and what's even worse is most christians or people who call themselves christians are so lukewarm now they've lost that that they've lost that loving feeling haven't they they really don't love god like they did when they were saved when they were first saved it was all new the world's got a hold of them sins got a hold of them the lies of the devil's gotten a hold of them and it's sad to see you know and i'm not condemning them because you know i pray god every one of them come home amen i pray i pray to god every prodigal that strayed from home will come home i was one you know when i went through my divorce and my whole world fell apart i strayed a bit myself i got lukewarm myself even even when i believed i never would i thought it wouldn't happen to me but it happened but you know what i thank god for his mercy that he will protect us that he will draw us that he will keep us alive when he really shouldn't and he'll give us a chance after chance after chance um man are we blessed to have to have had the opportunities that we have and and even still have some i'm just in all but you know um the days uh the days are getting shorter you know before i go into this i want everybody just turn to matthew 24 this morning you know i want to share something that happened i remember i came back to the lord in june of 1987 out in eureka springs arkansas where i was working for the summer full intentions on returning to troy that was my plan uh you know i wanted to walk on and play football at troy and do some other things but it just wasn't uh god's plan for me but i was out there working in eureka springs for the summer and uh i know i've shared the story with y'all but god got a hold of me and convicted me of my sin and used the guy that i was working for he was only 24 years old and i was 19. it was just powerful god came flooding back into my life well that was in june and then in october i and and from june to october i just spent pretty much every day in prayer and reading the bible if i wasn't at work i was praying and studying the bible or reading a

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   christian book or some type christian article i remember back in those days i read a lot of david wilkerson's stuff a lot of keith green you know that was back when we had good preachers out there that were big and popular that preached it you know leonard ravenhill you know that's what i cut my teeth on the good stuff i think most of this generation that a lot of them don't even know who those people are um but in october of 1987 before i left and came back here of course you all know the story that i had led a girl to the lord who was a satanist and she was um you know pretty pretty deep in all that but one night i was up praying and um it was probably about three four in the morning and there was one little lamp on in the room over there i'm way over here so it's mostly dark in the room and so the the lamps over there and maybe i say i'm praying right here and over here in this corner it was like the room began to open up it was like a hole began to open up like in the wall basically the light over here got brighter than any light that was in the room and basically what happened was i began to have an open vision of jesus of heaven it was one of the most powerful experiences i ever had i literally saw the heavens open up i saw jesus standing in heaven and seemingly at a distance i could see him standing there i could see him beside the glory of the father and i saw as i watched the the wings all i could see was the wings because the light was so bright in the center i could see just the wings like dove's wings the holy spirit coming down and hovering over jesus um the power of god and the presence of god was so strong in that vision and that time with god that i actually believed in my head i'm thinking that the presence of god is so powerful and so strong that jesus must be coming right now that's how powerful it was and then after it continued for about 10 minutes i thought my physical body cannot handle this much longer it was so powerful but not painful it was the most glorious intense love and sheer power that i have ever experienced in my life i mean it was just i i just i there's no way to put it into words but of course this is where the lord began to speak to me and he called me to be a prophet at this time and and part of being a prophet is having visions from god so this was kind of the beginning of that calling and those gifts beginning to operate my life but one of

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