WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.720 I take coming to Word of Life very seriously when they ask me to come up and speak. 00:05.520 --> 00:08.340 Just the fear of the Lord and just the annoying thing that comes up here. 00:09.200 --> 00:16.120 It's an honor. I want to thank Pastor Vernon Mary and Pastor Igor to let me come up and share my heart today in prayer. 00:19.620 --> 00:24.700 They asked me to come and do prayer. And at first I wasn't sure what direction to go. 00:25.300 --> 00:28.920 And then my wife actually said, well, it's the day before youth camp. Let's pray for the youth. 00:29.760 --> 00:33.740 And so I thought that's a good idea. Let's pray for the youth today for camp. 00:36.000 --> 00:40.720 I'm going to try not to cry. I don't know why I get up here and just tears come in. 00:43.420 --> 00:48.720 I want to share a little bit about what's going on because we don't always see everything that's going on in the background 00:48.720 --> 00:51.680 and all the ministries that are happening. So I want to share a little bit. 00:52.940 --> 00:57.980 We have two groups that we do. High school, middle school. The high school is called Encounter. 00:57.980 --> 01:02.600 And God gave us that name before we moved here because of what I'm going to share today 01:02.600 --> 01:06.600 and what I want to pray for the youth and what Felicia prayed. 01:06.800 --> 01:11.340 And I want to go back to that on Sunday, June 28th. She prayed from the piano. 01:11.800 --> 01:14.860 Something that's been on my heart that I've been praying since I was 20 years old. 01:15.660 --> 01:20.940 And that's for the kids to encounter the real living God. 01:20.940 --> 01:27.460 Because I know that when a person encounters the real living God for themselves, 01:28.060 --> 01:31.960 you are changed for your life. You'll never be the same. 01:32.620 --> 01:37.540 You can never go back to that old person. You can try. But it will never be comfortable. 01:37.840 --> 01:42.000 It will never feel good. The things that you may have done just don't seem right. 01:42.300 --> 01:46.440 Because the conviction of the Holy Spirit is there. Because you know you met the real God. 01:46.440 --> 01:51.200 And so we named that high school group Encounter because my heart's desire 01:51.200 --> 01:57.820 is for these young men and women to encounter the living God 01:58.300 --> 02:02.240 because God has a call on this generation to bring revival. 02:03.900 --> 02:06.440 The other group that we do is the middle school group. 02:06.700 --> 02:10.920 This is grade 6, 7th and 8th. And I just want to share with you 02:10.920 --> 02:14.780 if you're going into 6th grade, if you know a kid that's going into 6th grade, 02:14.780 --> 02:18.640 well start in September and 6th grade, they are welcome to come. It's starting to grow. 02:19.640 --> 02:26.540 And we named this group a blaze. Because we want God to begin to set a fire inside these kids 02:26.540 --> 02:31.920 at a young age, a fire within them to come a blaze. 02:33.220 --> 02:38.020 We're all sitting around. I think Ari was there and then my son and Danny were sitting around. 02:38.100 --> 02:40.220 What are we going to name this group? And it's a boom, a blaze. 02:40.820 --> 02:45.000 Because you got ignite, you got a blaze. And encounter used to be called fusion, 02:45.120 --> 02:48.560 which I still like because it has the key, so fusion is still there. 02:48.860 --> 02:52.800 Because you have ignite, a blaze and fusion, you fuse all that together. 02:53.740 --> 02:57.460 I named it encounter because I want them to encounter the living God. 02:58.380 --> 03:01.440 But diffuse that together with everything that we've been teaching them. 03:02.400 --> 03:06.360 And so in groups we've been talking about things like how do you love your enemies? 03:06.540 --> 03:08.600 What is love? What is real God love? 03:09.580 --> 03:15.220 Because the world today says, well, you don't love me if you don't accept me. 03:15.620 --> 03:19.620 If you don't accept my sin, my behaviors, then you don't love me, which is a lie. 03:19.800 --> 03:23.360 And a lot of people believe this. Real love is going to tell you the truth. 03:23.600 --> 03:27.180 And stand up no matter if you hate me for what I'm saying to you, but this is the truth. 03:27.320 --> 03:30.720 I love you enough to tell you where you're wrong, where sin is, 03:30.780 --> 03:34.360 because it's going to separate you from the living father, from the father God. 03:35.120 --> 03:37.060 And you'll spend eternity away from him. 03:37.160 --> 03:41.720 So I love you enough to tell you that I want you in heaven with me. 03:41.820 --> 03:46.220 And the things that you're doing wrong will separate you from the father. 03:47.440 --> 03:49.080 And so we've been talking about things like that. 03:49.180 --> 03:51.700 How do we love people who come at us and persecute us? 03:51.860 --> 03:55.680 Because we're entering a time where it's going to be wrong to follow Christ. 03:57.080 --> 04:01.500 We've celebrated 250 years in this country and I'm thankful for this country. 04:01.500 --> 04:05.000 But I see it disappearing, the founding, the foundation. 04:05.520 --> 04:07.540 There's a remnant there holding on to it. 04:08.140 --> 04:09.700 But our youth don't know it. 04:10.020 --> 04:12.440 That we were founded on the Christian values. 04:12.980 --> 04:17.840 That we're founded on the principle of following Christ and him our king. 04:18.760 --> 04:22.480 And we can't keep this country if we don't stay a good and moral people. 04:23.440 --> 04:26.280 Because that's what the Constitution is for, is a good and moral people. 04:26.560 --> 04:28.460 And we're straying away from that. 04:28.460 --> 04:34.180 And it will become that this Bible will be called hate speech if it's not already in this country. 04:34.820 --> 04:38.900 And to quote this Bible could bring persecution upon your life. 04:39.060 --> 04:41.860 But how do you love those people who come and persecute you? 04:42.800 --> 04:44.600 So we've been talking about that encounter. 04:45.480 --> 04:49.580 At the blaze we started talking about how do we hear the voice of God for ourselves? 04:52.580 --> 04:56.660 Because God speaks to everybody, young and old. 04:58.440 --> 05:01.220 God speaks to, and he wants to speak to everybody. 05:01.580 --> 05:04.040 He wants to reveal himself even to the young. 05:04.600 --> 05:08.960 And we look in the Bible that we see many young, that God used many young people. 05:09.860 --> 05:11.700 You have Samuel, you have David. 05:12.820 --> 05:14.240 Great men of God. 05:15.320 --> 05:18.280 And Samuel we'll be talking about in the coming weeks. 05:18.540 --> 05:22.320 About he was 12 years old when God began to call his name. 05:23.160 --> 05:24.580 Began to speak to him. 05:27.180 --> 05:30.640 And so we're talking about that in a blaze. 05:31.220 --> 05:38.820 Real foundational things to help bring this next generation up in a real presence of God. 05:40.460 --> 05:43.780 Not just to know the Bible stories, but to live the Bible stories. 05:44.460 --> 05:47.700 Because the one thing I liked about the book of Acts, there's no ending to it. 05:47.700 --> 05:51.720 I remember the first time I finished the book of Acts, I was disappointed because there was no ending. 05:52.260 --> 05:55.840 And then I heard someone said, the reason why the book of Acts has not been... 05:55.840 --> 05:58.400 There's no ending is because it's still being written today. 06:02.400 --> 06:05.420 And these kids can live in the miracles of God. 06:07.280 --> 06:08.920 And so we want to impart that to them. 06:09.120 --> 06:12.360 We want to give them the foundation that they just don't live on their parents' faith, 06:12.360 --> 06:16.080 the church's faith, the pastor's faith, but they have their own faith. 06:16.560 --> 06:20.700 That when they leave the house and they go in to live the world for themselves, 06:20.920 --> 06:24.260 that they don't falter and fall away from Christ like we see so many times. 06:24.420 --> 06:28.440 But they have a strong foundation in who they believe in because they have a relationship. 06:28.640 --> 06:31.240 They've encountered him, they've heard his voice. 06:34.040 --> 06:35.600 God is doing that right now. 06:37.400 --> 06:40.940 We're seeing the prayers that have been prayed. 06:41.140 --> 06:42.500 We're beginning to see a harvest. 06:43.320 --> 06:46.720 And I believe this youth camp that's coming up, that we leave for tomorrow. 06:48.620 --> 06:51.460 This is going to be impactful. I just feel it in my spirit. 06:51.560 --> 06:54.540 There's something different. There's something that God wants to do. 06:54.660 --> 06:56.080 It's like they're open heavens. 06:57.580 --> 07:00.820 Where God is going to encounter them in a real tangible way. 07:01.820 --> 07:05.460 And what I find interesting is it's called, the theme is Awaken. 07:08.700 --> 07:10.900 God gave me in the beginning of this year something. 07:12.380 --> 07:17.480 Actually, he gave it to me back in the summer of 2023. 07:18.380 --> 07:21.360 He says, I have put the ember of revival inside the youth. 07:21.660 --> 07:23.200 It is our job to fan the flame. 07:23.880 --> 07:26.820 It's our job to awaken the fire that's within these youth. 07:27.140 --> 07:29.720 It's our job to fan the flame within them 07:29.720 --> 07:32.920 so that they become on fire for God like nothing ever. 07:33.120 --> 07:34.580 That they have a heart for Jesus. 07:34.840 --> 07:36.980 That they begin to speak the gospel. 07:39.440 --> 07:41.940 And share it with those who don't know it. 07:48.140 --> 07:49.660 God brought me to the vision book. 07:52.240 --> 07:54.000 And I want to speak a little bit out of this. 07:56.040 --> 08:00.580 When I opened it up this past week, God spoke something to me. 08:01.000 --> 08:03.220 And this is personal, but I want to share it with you guys. 08:04.620 --> 08:06.460 This vision book is very important. 08:06.680 --> 08:10.660 And we should be reading it at least twice a year, if not more. 08:13.500 --> 08:17.000 It says, to write the vision down, for those who read it will run with it. 08:17.020 --> 08:19.020 Well, if we don't read it, we don't run with it. 08:20.040 --> 08:24.060 God spoke a lot of things to Pastor Vernon and Pastor Mary 08:24.060 --> 08:27.680 and through people over the past 30, 40 years 08:27.680 --> 08:29.360 about what he's doing now. 08:31.260 --> 08:32.580 So I just want to share that part. 08:32.960 --> 08:36.780 The Holy Spirit reminded me, you need to continue to read this over and over again. 08:38.240 --> 08:40.960 And take heart of what's being said so we can run with it. 08:41.740 --> 08:42.960 I want to go to page 87. 08:43.160 --> 08:45.780 If you have one at home, read it. 08:46.180 --> 08:48.160 If you don't get one, I believe they're free, correct? 08:49.460 --> 08:50.340 They're free, get one. 08:51.680 --> 08:56.800 On page 87, there was a prophecy that was given on March 20th in 2010. 08:59.860 --> 09:02.980 It says, I see you nine months pregnant. 09:03.240 --> 09:06.220 I see stretch marks. You cannot get stretched much further. 09:06.560 --> 09:10.260 It's time for the baby to be born, for revival to begin. 09:11.520 --> 09:13.960 You ask me, how? How will this be done? 09:15.380 --> 09:17.720 And here we'll come forth the Davids. 09:17.900 --> 09:18.960 We've been hearing that a lot. 09:20.300 --> 09:24.560 And I'm always like, explain that. What does that mean? 09:25.320 --> 09:26.580 Well, here's what it means. 09:27.280 --> 09:28.680 The least expected ones. 09:30.640 --> 09:33.900 These youth that we have here sometimes, as society, 09:34.000 --> 09:35.540 I'm not saying this church, but as society, 09:35.720 --> 09:38.900 we look at youth as the least expected ones to accomplish anything. 09:39.440 --> 09:41.820 But God wants to use the least expected one. 09:41.900 --> 09:43.180 He wants to use a young David. 09:43.900 --> 09:48.980 Pastor Igor on June 28th was prophesying about David 09:48.980 --> 09:51.700 and being ready for battle when the battle comes, 09:51.760 --> 09:53.840 that you don't run to the brook and grab the stones 09:53.840 --> 09:56.680 before the battle, right when the battle begins, 09:56.760 --> 09:58.340 that you are already prepared for the battle. 09:59.880 --> 10:01.760 So it's the least expected ones. 10:02.900 --> 10:05.160 The ones that others will say, go home. 10:06.000 --> 10:07.100 Go home to your father. 10:08.780 --> 10:10.060 David just came to serve. 10:10.400 --> 10:11.960 He came on command. 10:12.400 --> 10:14.020 He came to bring bread. 10:14.520 --> 10:18.460 David remembered what God had already done for him 10:18.460 --> 10:19.900 with the lion and the bear. 10:20.480 --> 10:24.760 Remember what God has done for you in that same glory. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.820 Remember what God has done for you in that same glory 10:27.820 --> 10:30.000 will come on you and more. 10:30.300 --> 10:32.300 Remember, you are the least expected. 10:32.800 --> 10:35.280 You will take a rock to the head of the enemy 10:35.280 --> 10:36.420 and he will fall. 10:36.780 --> 10:38.900 And here comes the kings, here comes the kings. 10:39.380 --> 10:41.460 And I pray that over this generation today, 10:42.760 --> 10:44.600 that these Daves begin to rise up, 10:44.720 --> 10:46.740 the least expected ones, and they pick up the rock 10:46.740 --> 10:49.640 and they begin to slay the giants in society. 10:50.100 --> 10:52.500 They begin to slay the giants in the crowd. 10:53.280 --> 10:55.280 They begin to take down these things 10:55.280 --> 10:57.740 that are trying to separate the youth from their God. 10:59.160 --> 11:01.260 And they will stand up and they will rise up 11:01.260 --> 11:02.060 and they will be an army. 11:07.110 --> 11:09.570 So we need to prepare them for that battle 11:09.570 --> 11:12.930 and awaken the spirit within them, 11:13.270 --> 11:14.550 the fire that's within them. 11:16.710 --> 11:19.510 Then I want to go to Felicia's prayer on June 28th. 11:19.510 --> 11:21.790 It hit me hard because it's a prayer that... 11:21.790 --> 11:24.970 it was a prayer that I've been praying since I was 20. 11:25.690 --> 11:27.230 I was asked recently in encounter, 11:27.350 --> 11:28.470 how'd you get into the ministry? 11:28.730 --> 11:30.770 And I haven't really thought about it for a long time 11:30.770 --> 11:32.210 because it's been a long time. 11:32.590 --> 11:34.130 It's been many years. 11:39.120 --> 11:41.660 And I remember the day that... 11:41.660 --> 11:43.560 God gave me a dream, but I remember the day 11:43.560 --> 11:45.880 that I knew what I'm doing is what I'm supposed to do. 11:46.960 --> 11:48.740 I was probably about 20, 21. 11:50.360 --> 11:51.720 And I was... 11:51.720 --> 11:52.580 I went to my parents' house. 11:52.700 --> 11:53.660 Someone gave me a DVD. 11:54.700 --> 11:56.500 For your young ones, that's like a CD 11:56.500 --> 11:58.080 that used to play movies. 12:00.200 --> 12:02.960 I put this DVD in and I start watching it. 12:03.060 --> 12:05.000 And it's a worship... 12:05.000 --> 12:06.840 it's just kids' worshiping 12:06.840 --> 12:09.600 all ages from very young to high school. 12:10.400 --> 12:12.480 And the anointing of God came in. 12:13.220 --> 12:15.140 And I fell on the floor 12:15.140 --> 12:17.200 and I was bawling before the Lord. 12:18.240 --> 12:20.200 And as I began to intercede, I said, 12:20.280 --> 12:21.720 I want to be a part of that. 12:23.020 --> 12:25.360 I see that it was just... 12:25.360 --> 12:27.600 it was raw. It was pure. 12:27.800 --> 12:28.880 It wasn't corrupted. 12:29.200 --> 12:30.720 It was just, we love Jesus. 12:31.600 --> 12:32.580 It was genuine. 12:38.610 --> 12:40.330 So I want to talk about Felicia's prayer 12:40.330 --> 12:42.670 because this is what came out of me that day. 12:43.870 --> 12:47.270 I'm reminded of a prophecy my father gave years ago. 12:47.670 --> 12:49.510 And Jesus was speaking about the father. 12:50.250 --> 12:54.570 He was saying that this next generation 12:54.570 --> 12:58.730 is needing a raw display of the power of the father. 13:00.050 --> 13:01.370 Does that sound like an encounter? 13:06.850 --> 13:09.790 He said it is the only thing that will bring them in. 13:10.810 --> 13:13.590 We're not going to bring them in by programs, by gimmicks, 13:13.850 --> 13:16.770 by lights, shows, and fog machines. 13:17.230 --> 13:20.130 We're going to bring them in by the raw power of the father. 13:21.130 --> 13:22.710 He said it is the only thing that will bring them 13:22.710 --> 13:24.510 the raw supernatural power. 13:24.610 --> 13:29.130 He said, and I want you to wield that power 13:32.250 --> 13:33.710 for it will bring them in. 13:33.990 --> 13:35.850 The next generation is crying out 13:35.850 --> 13:37.610 and the old way is not going to work anymore. 13:38.010 --> 13:40.030 They're crying out for us to stand up. 13:40.330 --> 13:43.090 They're crying out for us to show them who the father is. 13:43.170 --> 13:46.290 They're crying out to see the raw power of God. 13:46.490 --> 13:48.490 And it is us that God wants to use. 13:48.810 --> 13:50.630 It's the older generation to show them 13:50.630 --> 13:52.110 the power of the living God. 13:54.470 --> 13:55.610 Then she began to pray, 13:56.170 --> 14:00.130 Father, Father, we want you to come. 14:00.250 --> 14:02.010 We want you to come visit your church. 14:02.410 --> 14:03.750 Father, Father, come. 14:03.950 --> 14:04.950 Make us ready, God. 14:05.490 --> 14:06.750 Make us ready for the souls. 14:07.130 --> 14:08.470 Make us ready for revival. 14:09.250 --> 14:10.230 For the youth. 14:10.530 --> 14:12.450 Because God is going to bring in the youth. 14:15.270 --> 14:16.370 Make us holy. 14:17.550 --> 14:19.450 Prepare our hands for war and battle 14:19.450 --> 14:21.350 for they will come with demons 14:21.350 --> 14:22.970 and they will come with torments. 14:27.400 --> 14:29.920 But they will find freedom in your church. 14:31.560 --> 14:34.120 And your power will set them free from the world. 14:34.520 --> 14:36.580 Your power, your power, Father, 14:37.120 --> 14:38.080 it will make the way. 14:38.400 --> 14:39.060 So God is saying, 14:39.200 --> 14:41.820 I want you to wield the raw power of God. 14:41.900 --> 14:44.100 And he's speaking to us older generation 14:44.100 --> 14:46.460 to wield the raw power of God 14:46.460 --> 14:48.180 to show them to the youth. 14:48.440 --> 14:50.300 He's calling us to rise up 14:50.300 --> 14:52.260 and to show that raw power to the youth. 14:52.520 --> 14:53.960 We need to walk in it. 14:54.280 --> 14:55.100 Not just them, 14:55.160 --> 14:57.580 but we need to show them how to walk into it. 14:58.100 --> 14:59.580 We have to be the example. 14:59.700 --> 15:01.520 We have to be the warriors in this. 15:02.300 --> 15:03.940 So I want to go to page 72. 15:14.900 --> 15:17.780 This is just in the middle of a prophecy 15:19.380 --> 15:21.960 given to Pastor Vern in 2008 of August. 15:23.960 --> 15:25.400 Do not be satisfied. 15:25.840 --> 15:28.000 Do not be content for the way it used to work 15:28.000 --> 15:29.400 because it won't work anymore. 15:29.580 --> 15:31.140 We cannot do what we have been doing. 15:31.280 --> 15:32.000 We have to do something. 15:32.300 --> 15:34.200 That's where the raw display of the power of God 15:34.200 --> 15:34.960 needs to come in. 15:37.020 --> 15:39.520 We are living in a time where wickedness is increasing. 15:39.700 --> 15:40.300 Can we see it? 15:41.320 --> 15:42.380 More than 2008. 15:42.620 --> 15:44.080 Imagine this was given in 2008. 15:44.240 --> 15:46.780 Look where we're at now compared to 2008. 15:49.520 --> 15:52.100 But I have good news, amen. 15:54.240 --> 15:55.340 Where wickedness abounds, 15:55.520 --> 15:57.180 my grace, my favor also abounds 15:57.180 --> 15:58.380 and the standard is raised. 15:58.840 --> 16:00.760 But with the raising of the standard, 16:01.100 --> 16:02.960 new, new, new comes. 16:03.780 --> 16:05.460 I need a people, listen, 16:05.980 --> 16:08.160 who are willing to wield the raw, 16:10.640 --> 16:11.840 invincible, unquenchable, 16:12.360 --> 16:14.480 unfading power of the Almighty God. 16:15.780 --> 16:18.080 This is the one that Felicia was quoting from. 16:18.940 --> 16:20.740 It will bring this generation in. 16:20.880 --> 16:23.520 It will give hope where there is no hope. 16:23.520 --> 16:26.880 It will bring life where death seems to be to rule and reign. 16:27.040 --> 16:28.980 It will resurrect from the dead. 16:36.860 --> 16:39.880 God is asking for us to step into that raw power. 16:40.000 --> 16:41.600 And now I'm going to go to page 96. 16:43.900 --> 16:45.260 And older generation. 16:46.700 --> 16:48.120 This was a prophecy given, 16:49.900 --> 16:51.140 so it's at the end, 16:53.560 --> 16:55.260 of September 9th, 2012. 16:56.900 --> 16:59.740 There's also a parallel prophecy from 2007. 16:59.920 --> 17:00.660 This is at the end. 17:01.940 --> 17:03.380 God is beginning to speak, 17:03.700 --> 17:04.760 and the older generation. 17:05.140 --> 17:07.000 I'm going to consider myself part of that. 17:07.640 --> 17:10.260 I'm no longer in my 20s, so... 17:12.610 --> 17:14.330 my body tries to remind me that every day. 17:15.070 --> 17:15.930 It will submit. 17:16.930 --> 17:19.250 How will that one go as expected as they sent? 17:20.150 --> 17:22.710 I will convince you by my spirit. 17:22.890 --> 17:26.110 I will convince you, I will convince you, 17:26.110 --> 17:28.310 and it will be a supernatural convincing 17:28.310 --> 17:31.270 because I am raising up an army 17:31.270 --> 17:34.910 that is not going to be complacent. 17:35.190 --> 17:36.890 So he's talking about the next generation. 17:37.270 --> 17:39.950 He's going to raise up an army that's not going to be complacent. 17:39.990 --> 17:42.390 Now he's talking, I'm going to convince you of something here. 17:43.670 --> 17:46.770 An army that is not going to be slothful. 17:47.070 --> 17:48.250 And I was thinking about this. 17:49.430 --> 17:50.410 I'm a supervisor. 17:50.870 --> 17:52.150 I deal with the younger generation, 17:52.610 --> 17:54.870 and they call in sick for just odd reasons. 17:54.870 --> 17:57.750 The work ethic isn't there like the older generation. 17:58.050 --> 18:00.190 I come from a generation that taught me, 18:00.570 --> 18:02.650 you show up and you work until the work is done. 18:03.050 --> 18:05.450 If you're sick, you come in and do what you can 18:05.450 --> 18:07.250 until you can't do it no more. 18:07.810 --> 18:09.350 You work, you work, you work hard. 18:09.450 --> 18:11.150 You have this work ethic that goes, 18:11.530 --> 18:13.310 and we need that for the kingdom of God. 18:13.630 --> 18:15.690 We need someone who's not going to be slothful. 18:15.870 --> 18:17.650 We're not going to be someone who's just going to sit on their phone 18:17.650 --> 18:18.990 and look at TikTok every day. 18:19.190 --> 18:21.390 We need people to come out there and show them 18:21.390 --> 18:24.610 how to pull the cart, pull the plow, 18:24.750 --> 18:26.070 and get in and do the work. 18:27.190 --> 18:28.610 Because it is supernatural, 18:28.870 --> 18:30.350 but he has to wield it through us. 18:30.430 --> 18:31.990 We have to partner with him, correct? 18:33.630 --> 18:35.850 I'm raising up an army that will not be slothful. 18:36.110 --> 18:38.830 An army that is not going to be with me one day 18:38.830 --> 18:39.950 and against me the next. 18:40.170 --> 18:42.350 Talking about perseverance, talking about endurance. 18:42.670 --> 18:45.090 Who better than a generation that has gone through some things 18:45.090 --> 18:46.990 that had to persevere in their life? 18:48.450 --> 18:49.550 I've had to endure. 18:49.710 --> 18:50.710 I've had to persevere. 18:50.710 --> 18:53.650 I can teach how to do that, to go through it. 18:53.870 --> 18:56.670 To a generation that's... I call it the TikTok generation. 18:57.090 --> 19:00.110 That's sincere, and if it doesn't feed what they need 19:00.110 --> 19:01.890 in 30 seconds, they move on to the next. 19:02.590 --> 19:04.450 So if they're not getting what they want from God 19:04.450 --> 19:05.970 in 30 seconds, they're going to move on to the next. 19:06.290 --> 19:09.050 Do you know sometimes you have to sit and wait? 19:10.110 --> 19:11.870 Sometimes you just got to be patient. 19:12.770 --> 19:15.210 Sometimes the answer doesn't come in 30 seconds. 19:15.910 --> 19:17.990 Sometimes the promise takes 21 years. 19:21.610 --> 19:23.690 Sometimes the promise takes 40 years. 19:26.470 --> 19:28.810 Pastor Vernon and Mary have been praying for revival. 19:28.990 --> 19:30.610 For revival you see little spurts, 19:30.850 --> 19:32.610 but they're not talking about a little spur of revival. 19:32.750 --> 19:37.650 They're talking change, like society change, regional change, 19:38.630 --> 19:42.410 national change revival, world changing revival. 19:43.570 --> 19:44.850 Not just a spurt. 19:46.230 --> 19:47.350 So we have... 19:47.350 --> 19:49.590 us older generation teach them. 19:52.230 --> 19:53.590 And he's raising up an army. 19:54.230 --> 19:55.590 Fight for me... 19:57.790 --> 20:00.490 I am raising up an army that will step into realms 20:00.490 --> 20:03.870 of the supernatural and will operate with me at their side 20:03.870 --> 20:05.390 like this world has never seen before. 20:05.590 --> 20:08.650 And I'm standing at your heart's door 20:08.650 --> 20:10.710 and I am knocking this morning and I'm asking, 20:10.870 --> 20:11.990 open the door and let me in. 20:12.050 --> 20:13.510 Commit yourselves to me this one day. 20:21.320 --> 20:23.260 We've been hearing a lot about sacrifice, 20:24.720 --> 20:26.820 dying to self, going low. 20:28.500 --> 20:30.780 And these are things that we need to take seriously, 20:31.100 --> 20:32.400 that I need to take seriously. 20:33.280 --> 20:34.680 Because this is... 20:36.200 --> 20:37.820 this, when I read this booklet, 20:38.080 --> 20:40.420 there's two foundational things. 20:40.520 --> 20:41.140 There's a lot of things, 20:41.260 --> 20:43.520 but two things that is going to help bring the next revival. 20:43.920 --> 20:46.580 One, everything must be reliant on the Word of God. 20:47.320 --> 20:49.620 Must be a foundational thing with the Word of God. 20:50.880 --> 20:52.640 Everything lines up with the Word of God. 20:53.040 --> 20:54.140 Second is worship. 20:57.350 --> 21:00.290 There's a battle going on that worship is becoming emotional. 21:02.230 --> 21:04.970 This next generation is very emotional. 21:05.410 --> 21:07.890 And it's going that way because of the next generation, 21:07.990 --> 21:09.490 but it has to be rooted in the Word. 21:09.830 --> 21:11.690 Because if you go too emotional, you get into a ditch. 21:11.810 --> 21:13.390 If you're too much in the Word, you get into a ditch 21:13.390 --> 21:14.150 and it becomes religious. 21:14.630 --> 21:16.610 You need both and both are here. 21:18.810 --> 21:20.810 But what I find interesting, 21:21.010 --> 21:24.050 the first time the word worship is used in the Bible 21:24.050 --> 21:25.510 is in Genesis 22. 21:26.370 --> 21:30.790 It is when Abraham is going to take his son 21:30.790 --> 21:32.050 to sacrifice him. 21:33.350 --> 21:34.590 And he uses the word, 21:34.890 --> 21:36.910 we are going up the mountain to worship. 21:38.130 --> 21:39.610 Worship is a sacrifice. 21:39.950 --> 21:40.850 Worship is obedience. 21:41.190 --> 21:42.310 Worship is laying down. 21:42.590 --> 21:43.870 Worship is going low. 21:44.170 --> 21:45.910 Everything that we've been talking about, 21:45.910 --> 21:48.570 God is preparing us to true worship, 21:48.670 --> 21:50.130 not just music and emotional, 21:50.590 --> 21:52.710 but where we lay down our lives in sacrifice. 21:53.290 --> 21:55.890 Romans 12 says that laying down our lives, 21:56.070 --> 21:57.170 that is true worship. 21:58.170 --> 21:59.350 Sacrificing is true worship. 21:59.650 --> 22:01.450 So what I'm going to ask this week 22:02.150 --> 22:04.110 is that you sacrifice a little bit. 22:04.210 --> 22:06.170 You die to yourself, die to the flesh a little bit, 22:06.230 --> 22:08.210 and pray for the youth every night. 22:09.150 --> 22:10.870 As a matter of fact, I just got an email 22:10.870 --> 22:12.810 saying that there's a prayer chain going around 22:13.230 --> 22:15.230 and that they'll send out a text 22:15.230 --> 22:17.850 of every night of what they need prayer for. 22:18.410 --> 22:20.050 And I can send them the names and numbers 22:20.050 --> 22:21.090 and you'll get that text. 22:21.390 --> 22:23.810 I said, well, how many can I sign up 22:23.810 --> 22:25.130 as many as you want? 22:26.310 --> 22:28.050 And so I'm asking if you want to, 22:28.230 --> 22:29.510 I don't have a sign up sheet, it was quick. 22:31.370 --> 22:32.730 We'll get one out there real quick 22:32.730 --> 22:34.170 before service is over. 22:34.690 --> 22:36.290 Sign up, put your name, put your number, 22:36.350 --> 22:38.150 and I will send it to them and they'll pray for you. 22:39.290 --> 22:42.030 Or it sends you a text to pray for the youth. 22:44.410 --> 22:46.100 And what I want to do this morning, I know... 22:49.760 --> 22:50.880 Yeah, I better do this. 22:51.500 --> 22:52.680 What I want to do this morning 22:53.380 --> 22:54.800 is I want to pray for them. 22:54.980 --> 22:58.180 I want us as a congregation to pray for them. 22:58.580 --> 23:01.880 To come up and to begin to speak over them 23:02.360 --> 23:03.800 and the workers that are going 23:04.980 --> 23:06.440 and the workers that can't go 23:06.440 --> 23:07.420 but are going to stay back 23:07.420 --> 23:08.940 and hold the fort down and pray for them. 23:09.140 --> 23:11.660 We need to pray for these... 23:14.660 --> 23:18.460 This is an important time for them. 23:20.820 --> 23:24.880 God wants to encounter this generation. 23:25.580 --> 23:28.220 He wants to make himself real to them. 23:28.720 --> 23:30.720 And he's asking this older generation 23:31.240 --> 23:33.620 to stand in the gap, sacrifice, 23:34.240 --> 23:35.460 and to lay down and worship 23:35.460 --> 23:36.840 and show them the way.