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Apostolic Deliverance
Can the ancient wisdom of Solomon illuminate the path for the modern church? Discover how prophetic and apostolic themes within Psalm 72 can guide today's believers toward embodying divine leadership and justice. We'll explore the parallels between the reign of Solomon, the life of Jesus, and the role of the church, emphasizing our collective mission to protect the vulnerable and advocate for truth amidst a world of deceit and violence.
Just lift our Bibles up. I want to get into the Word with you tonight and we'll let the Holy Ghost move in any way he chooses. And so just lift your Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. Say this together. Say, heavenly Father, thank you tonight for the Word of God. I come on Sunday night here, on the last Sunday of 2024, and I want to soak in the Word of God. Holy Spirit, shine your light on this Word, give me understanding so that it will build my faith, nourish my spirit and give me the tools for victory in 2025.
Speaker 1:In Jesus' name, let's turn in our Bibles to Psalm 72. And I'm going to haul off and read the entire Psalm. It's 20 verses. I don't often do that, but this one is at the top of my. This is not the part that's anointed, this is not the scripture, but it says Psalm 72. And then it's got this little thing. It says a Psalm for Solomon. And then the end of the Psalm says that in verse 20, the prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are in it. So this Psalm is a Psalm about Solomon, given by David.
Speaker 1:Okay, give the king thy judgments, o God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people in the little hills. By righteousness, he shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressor. They shall fear thee. As long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, the showers that water the earth. In his day shall the righteous flourish an abundance of peace. As long as the moon endureth. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river under the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him and his enemies shall lick the dust. The kings of Tarshish and of the Isle shall bring presents, the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him and all nations shall serve him, for he shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and the needy and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight, and he shall live and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Prayer also shall be made for him. Continually and daily shall he be praised. There shall be a handful of corn on the earth on the top of the mountains. The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. His name shall endure forever. His name shall be continued as long as the sun and men shall be blessed in him and all nations shall call him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things, and blessed be his glorious name forever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended Now.
Speaker 1:The message here tonight is entitled Apostolic Deliverance and, as I mentioned, david wrote this psalm for Solomon. You can see it talks about Sheba. Well, the Queen of Sheba brought him a bunch of gifts. I mean, that happened way before the Queen of Sheba showed up. So it's prophetic. And of course it's talking about Jesus too. Solomon's a type of Christ, solomon's a type of the church. So when you see the word king, that's apostolic. And so I labor to teach you on the apostolic, because this is an apostolic vine with a prophetic river.
Speaker 1:And you know, it's taken me years to admit it, you know, I knew it for sure when Brother Osteen went to heaven and people started asking me well, who are you going to find? You know, I had one guy who was a contemporary of mine, and you know, and he, he said, you know, who are you going to? I'm looking to find another father. Who are you going to get? And Brother Osteen, take Brother Osteen's place. I said Brother Osteen's my father. He went to heaven. I'm not another father. I can't choose another father. I am a father. And I couldn't believe. I said it out of my mouth, but I said it to him, you know.
Speaker 1:But the apostolic is when you see, when he talks about dominion. See, dominion is an apostolic term. Really. You know, god intended for Adam to rule this earth, and so that's apostolic. He intended for there to be no poor. He intended for there to be no poor. He intended for man to rule everything. And of course we know that Adam sold out to the devil and that God's plan was upset. But in Christ now he has redeemed man, and so it's time for the church to step up in its role. I mean, the church should be apostolic.
Speaker 1:What is an apostle? It's a sent one. We've been sent into all the world with good news. So this Psalm is a picture of Solomon's apostolic influence Issue judgment, enforce the peace, the shalom, to gather riches and distribute them to cause the people to be blessed. And notice here, in verse 12, I want you to see this, for he shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He'll deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also and him that hath no helper. And then, in verse 14, look at this he shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence. Everybody shout violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight. So that word there violence. He shall deliver the poor needy from deceit and violence. That's where I get this term apostolic deliverance. There's an apostolic deliverance. That's one of the characteristics of an apostolic vine. It's sensitive to the cries of the needy.
Speaker 1:You know the early part of the ministry. You know I came out of Lakewood we, you know, I know brother Osteen partnered with different ministries. I'm thinking about a brother, john counts. I think he partnered with John counts there for a while and they had a feed, feeding the poor type thing, but it wasn't prevalent among our word of faith people. We don't hear a lot about it and and you know they don't say a lot about it. But it's changed over the years. All these, all these years it's more and more, but but as we started out we didn't really emphasize that.
Speaker 1:I was sensitive to go overseas. I made about 10 or 12 international trips to to teach the needy. I mean, I'd always, when I went to have a pastor's conference, I always teach them on finances at least one or two sessions. I remember one time I was in the Philippines. I was supposed to preach an hour and I had. And these guys, you know, they had to take boats to come to the conference, you know, and it's how many islands are there? I don't know how many? Philippines is mostly islands. And so you, to travel to the philippines, you gotta, you gotta cross in boats, you know, and then you gotta ride buses or trains or whatever. It's a real pain to go from one end of the philippines or the other unless you fly, and they can't afford flying, most of them, and uh, and so we had to have time to hand them the money it would take for them to pay their way home. If they could get to the meeting, glorious Way Church would pay their way home. You're talking about 1300 ministers and you're talking about paying their way home. So we're there to help them. But the best way I felt like we could help them, rather than giving them food, is to give them the word of God, to show them what they can believe God for and bring them up. And and bring them up that way, and that's that was my way of fulfilling these verses here.
Speaker 1:But in 2008, when we suffered through Ike and we uh, we had Ike hit and do some damage here in the Eastern part of uh, uh, well, really it did some damage all over. Really Ike was pretty bad. Um, god said I want you to help Haiti. They got Ike when it was a category fours I was rejoicing and we cut it down to a category two and we stopped Ike and it went just east of the ship channel. If it had come up the ship channel, it would have been billions of dollars of damage in this city. We probably I don't know if we'd ever recovered from it and so we held it back and it did not hit.
Speaker 1:You remember Katrina? See, katrina came right. It was headed right for Houston. And on that morning in 2005, we I mean, we had a man. I prophesied. I said they've sown to the wind and they're reaping the world. We're in talking about New Orleans. It's not coming here and, of course, we know the story.
Speaker 1:When I got home, I thought, well, I miss God. Uh, they, they, they news media showed you, uh, you know, the French quarter, and there wasn't any water, it was just just little puddles, it was dope. Oh, the storm misses. Well, you know, the, the dam broke and all the water flooded new Orleans and all those people were were stranded. A lot of people died, they went into the super, you know, in the the dome, saying what's the name of that? Huh, superdome. They went into the superdome, just like we had the astrodome, you know, and so um so.
Speaker 1:But in 2008, god said you know, you've stopped. You stopped katrina, you stopped rita. Rita hit on the border between Louisiana and Texas, and so hurricanes coming from the Caribbean across and from that direction coming headed west. I mean, I knew we were going to suffer with you know, god said you can't stop it, it's going to come because the country is doing the wrong things. We're not supporting Israel like we're supposed to and you're going to have to bear the brunt of it, but I'll answer your prayer if you'll keep praying. So we did, we rebuked it, we did everything we could and we scooted it over to where it hit, just East of the ship channel, and it it really kind of went over Kingwood and over on the East part of town I'm sorry, kingwood and we didn't mean anything personal by it, but our job was to keep it out of the ship channel and we did it.
Speaker 1:We have authority. This is apostolic rule here, and so this isn't in my notes, but I just I wanted to go over some of this history with you, that we're designed to release apostolic deliverance. We delivered this city from the worst of the damage it could have been done. Now notice it says they shall be redeemed, verse 14,. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight. So in 2008, god said you know, help Haiti. You reduced that hurricane Ike down to a two from a four. It was a four. Right off the coast it was a four. If it had been a four it would have been terrible, but it was a two bad enough. And so he said you had it when it was a two, they had it when it was a four. I want you to help them.
Speaker 1:So we found out about Brother Max Manning, and that's when we got in partnership and we began to directly help the poor. We began to ship goods and services. We formed Global Aid Partnership for that purpose. Later on, just a little bit after that, we found another worthy partner in the West, and actually it was the West's father-in-law and mother-in-ene. West's parents were uh had the orphanage there in Malawi and we began to be part of uh. We bought into kids against hunger. That's cost us money, that's a franchise, and so we we invested in that and we started doing meal packs, and so we've been doing that all these years.
Speaker 1:To to uh, to answer what apostolic deliverance is. It's sensitive to the needy and we need to meet the need more than just the word. Only. We can't just give them the word, we need to give them the goods. Are y'all with me now Just going over some history of this church? And so it says that he will redeem their soul from deceit and violence.
Speaker 1:Now that word violence is the Hebrew word Hamas. Has anybody ever heard of Hamas? Well, see, when they named Hamas, they didn't know it was a Hebrew word that meant violence. To them it's an Arabic word and Hamas really is an acronym, which means the Islamic resistance movement. That's what Hamas is to them. Hamas to the quote, unquote Palestinians is the Islamic resistance movement. It's a terrorist organization we already know. I mean they're capable of all kinds and the one that's behind it is the devil, the dragon in Revelation, chapter 12. The dragon is the one who inhabits those people and that's how they can chop baby's heads off and torture children. Finally, israel finally gave you a United Nations just the other day, a list of the torture stories that they had been able to assemble from the witnesses that have survived of what Hamas has done to Jewish people.
Speaker 1:It's just and see, we don't have the guts to read it ourselves. We don't have the guts to find out about it ourselves. It ought to be on the front page of every paper in the country. It ought to be on the front page of every magazine Instead of some of these Vogue magazines. Ought to have that on there, anyway.
Speaker 1:So the word Hamas means violence, wrong, unjust gain, injustice, oppression, and it's used 67 times in the Old Testament. It is not natural catastrophe. In other words, violence is not a hurricane, violence is not a tornado. Violence is never anything that has anything to do with God. God does not operate in violence. Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1:So let's look at a few Bible examples of Hamas. I mean, it's just amazing. They picked that name out and they didn't know that they're just showing their colors. It's prophetic folks. This is God. Our God is so great and so powerful that he's able to take these people and they and just turn them into fools. You named your organization Hamas. You know they're trying to hide behind this Islamic resistance movement. No, they're just demonized murderers, torturers.
Speaker 1:And so in Genesis 6, 11 and 13, it's you know, right before Noah's flood, the Bible says the earth was filled with Hamas. The earth was filled with Hamas and God began to regret that he made man, so he sent the flood. I mean, man had degenerated into performers of Hamas. And a second Samuel 22, two and three. God delivered David from Saul's Hamas. Saul had Hamas toward David and God delivered him. Psalm 11, five. God hates those who do Hamas. Saul had Hamas toward David and God delivered him. Psalm 11, 5,. God hates those who do Hamas Psalm 55, 9.
Speaker 1:Let's turn to Psalm 55. It's just a few pages to the left. I want you to see this. Psalm 55 is a prayer to judge Hamas. God's being entreated by the psalmist. He says in verse 2, attend unto me, hear me, I mourn in my complaint I make a noise. Verse 5, fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horror has overwhelmed me. Oh, if I had wings, like a dove, I'd fly away and be at rest. He goes on to say, verse 8, I would hasten my escape from the windy, storm and tempest. Destroy, o Lord.
Speaker 1:Now here's what he's praying about, about Hamas. He's praying for God to judge wickedness and violence. Destroy, o Lord, and divide their tongues, for I have seen violence, I have seen Hamas and strife in the city, day and night. They go about upon the walls thereof. Mischief also, and sorrow in the midst of it, wickedness in the midst thereof, deceit and guile. Depart not from her streets and skip on down what it says. This it says for it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it. Neither was it he that hated me, that magnified himself against me, but I could have hid myself from him. But it was you, a man, mine, mine equal, my guide and my acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together and walked in the house of God and company. What does that mean? Well, you know, it can mean sometimes your biggest enemy, or people that play like they're your friends, but it's really not talking about that. It's prophetic really.
Speaker 1:I, you know, the Jews, have lived side by side with a stranger for thousands of years. They're called the stranger. They have rules about the stranger. You've got to treat the stranger If they're non-Jewish inhabitants of the land. Some of the strangers are slaves that they've conquered from other countries, they've brought in to be slaves or they're servants. Some of them just happen to live in the neighborhood and Israel has had a a a pretty good relationship with most of the strangers. But then in later years this devil has gotten hold of the Muslims, and Muslims that used to be friendly with Jews and they would cooperate with each other, they would do business with each other. Then suddenly they turned on them when they became a nation and overnight you had children, guys, you know, in their twenties and thirties, that grew up side by side. One is a Muslim, one is a Jew. They live in adjoining villages. They played together, they grew up together and now they're mortal enemies. That's what it's talking. Just like that. They turned against Israel, just like that.
Speaker 1:And so, talking about apostolic deliverance, listen to the prayer. Let death seize upon them and let them go down quick into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them. As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me, and so forth. God shall hear in verse 19, and inflict them, even he that abideth old Silad. Because they Verse 19,. Inflict them, even he that abideth old Selah. Because they have no changes. Therefore, they fear not God. He hath put forth his hands against such as. Be at peace with him. He hath broken his covenant. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. So this is a prayer for God to judge Hamas. Why? Because God hates it and he still hates it, and he hates the actions of October, the 7th of 2023.
Speaker 1:I mean, it was a horrible thing. It's one of the worst tragedies I think that Israel has ever faced in their history, other than the Holocaust. The Holocaust had more people, but I don't think the Holocaust, in individual cases, was as horrible as what they did to that? Those people, you know, right outside the walls of Gaza. They're right there, gaza's right over there and they're having a music festival. It's Sukkot, it's the Feast of Tabernacles. They're rejoicing, they're having an outdoor music festival, you know they made out like it's a rock concert. Well, it wasn't a rock concert. They're worshiping God, most of them. They're singing to the Lord. They're commanded to rejoice during Sukkot and they always attack during a high holy day. That's their mode. Are y'all with me now Talking about Hamas?
Speaker 1:So Isaiah 60, 18,. God will ultimately put an end to Hamas. And then Joel 3, 19,. Edom was destroyed because of Hamas against Judah and for shedding innocent blood. So there's just a few examples of God's attitude toward Hamas.
Speaker 1:Now, another aspect of Hamas is unjust gain. Notice in Psalm 72, 14,. Go back there. This is about Solomon. See, you know, solomon built the temple.
Speaker 1:Remember, david wanted to build the temple and God said no, you can't build, build the temple. You've shed too much blood in my side on the earth. You're a man of blood. I can't use you to build the temple, but I, I will honor you. I will have your son build it. And so when God, when he heard that he prepared with all of his might man, I mean David went to work and he started preparing all the gold, the silver, the brass, the money. I mean, he put aside billions of dollars worth of those things jewels, name it, whatever it took, and of course they raised more money than him. His mighty men had to give too, and he shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Speaker 1:So deceit and unjust gain when the needy cry. A lot of times the needy are crying because of injustice. You know, we've got needy people crying in this country because, especially people that are retirement age, that are living on social security, they've gotten just almost no raise 2% or something stupid like that cost a living raise 2%. Well, if all you've got is, if all you've got is social security, you're in trouble already. But let me tell you something you're really in trouble right now. You're really in trouble right now because you there's no way that social security can keep up with the inflation rate and these people are crying out.
Speaker 1:You know, here we are giving all this money away to people that are illegally crossing our borders. We're giving all this money away to criminals, and that's what they are, I don't care what you call them. They're criminals as far as I'm concerned, I'm sorry. They're violating our laws and they're criminals and they can't get away with that in any other nation in the world without severe consequences. You just try crossing the border illegally into Mexico and see what happens to you. Or any country Germany, you name it you can't do it. You can't. If they catch you, you're roadkill. But the Democrats, they like it. They want all the voters they can import.
Speaker 1:So when the needy cry, you know there's another one is is our veterans? They should be taken care of. We have, we have. We have stolen their lives. They've lost limbs. They've lost, they've got brain injuries. They're not able to even function, a lot of them. And where's all the help? Coming from Private money. It should be coming from the U S government. We owe it them has nothing to do with a welfare state. It has to do with doing the right thing by the people.
Speaker 1:We've asked to go over there for nothing. They went over there for nothing. There was no reason to go to Iraq. That was a complete waste, and so was at the end. So was Afghanistan. We went off, and as soon as Biden went in there. He just we know the story. He just withdrew and turned everything over to the Taliban. We were over there fighting the Taliban. He turned all the weaponry over to the Taliban.
Speaker 1:If I'd lost an arm or a leg or my brain over there, I wouldn't be very happy right now. I would feel like it would be hard for me to understand. What did I do? Why did I go? I didn't protect this nation at all. Look what they did. Look what one man, one shriveled up old codger, did that undid all of that sacrifice. I'm getting on my high horse. I better climb back down.
Speaker 1:The wrath of man worketh, not the righteousness of God. Really, I think some of the wrath is the wrath of God. Be honest with you. We're going to have to get some things right in this country and we need to honor our old folks and we need to honor our word to people. When we say you've got social security, then we better make social security work for the ones that are already paid in. Now you might have to adjust it for the younger people. That's going to have to happen, folks. The numbers don't work otherwise. So it has to be changed, but I don't mean change by the ones that are already collecting it, that has to be frozen in place and built in cost of living. So, anyway, part of Hamas is unjust gain, and so when the needy cry out, then we precious shall their blood be in our sight.
Speaker 1:You know, years ago in James chapter five, god gave me a revelation in James chapter five about the stolen wages. Let's turn over there real quick, talking about apostolic deliverance. James chapter five is an end time book. The context is the end times is talking about the God has great patience for the precious fruit of the earth. And he says here in verse four behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields. He's talking to the unrighteous rich he's talking about. He's talking to people like biden and obama and all the rest of these rich politicians. Uh, pelosi, who has gamed the system for decades and has taken unfair advantage, she, she's guilty of insider trading. She belongs in federal prison. I don't care if she is 84. That's where she belongs. She's as guilty as sin and everybody knows it. Everybody knows it and they don't care. Well, I care, notice. Now, behold the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you, kept back by fraud cry. So what does it say? Wages cry out.
Speaker 1:When I read that back in 2006, I was studying this whole thing and I said, god, how do wages cry? That's like blood. I know blood of Abel cried. How is it that wages cry? He said, well, wages are like blood. Wages represent your life. You exchange your life for money. They bought your life and in turn, they give you money so that you give them your life, and I've witnessed that as a home builder.
Speaker 1:I sold a house to a guy that worked for Shell Oil and I met him out on the job site one afternoon. I've showed him a house and they wanted a custom home built and they were going to move to Houston in a few months. I said, well, it'll take me four to six months to custom home built and they were going to move to Houston in a few months. I said, well, it'll take me four to six months to build a house. And so we picked out the floor plan they liked and I said, well, do you like the way our normal finish work? And they weren't picky about the floor plan or anything. They picked out the floor plan that they liked, that I had one to show them and I said, well, all you'll have to do is you just have to pick out your colors, your paint colors, your wallpaper, flooring and all of that carpet. And so we agreed on a price and I started construction. And so we got to visiting back and forth and I said so where are you working for Shell? He said, yeah, this is my 22nd move. I said 22nd move? How long have you been with Shell? 23 years. How would you like to work for a company that moves you every year for 23 years? That guy didn't. That guy just barely lived long enough to move in that house and he died at about six.
Speaker 1:They sucked the life out of it. They used to call that the fast track to management. I call it the fast track to the graveyard. So you know, wages is blood and I you know when people are crying out and they're not paid correctly and they're cheated and they are treated unjustly. And you've got the president's son doing business you know with with Ukraine and these and China and all these people and introducing his, his scumbag father and getting paid for. I mean these people are horrible and well, that didn't cost you. Well, it did in a for. I mean these people are horrible. And well, that didn't cost you. Well, it did in a way. I mean, our tax money is being stolen. It's unjust. It's Hamas.
Speaker 1:And what about God? God hates it. That's what I wouldn't want to be, joe Biden. When he dies, I wouldn't want to be him. He can repent, but he better hurry up, and so your wages cry. And he said you word of faith, people, you need to learn how to cry out and agree with your wages. That's what he told me when I was studying. And so we started crying out.
Speaker 1:I think about the time we cried out on Sunday night, ms Irma. We all stood up. We started to say Jesus, I want my money. I make a demand, I want my money. Lord of the armies of heaven, bring the stolen wages, bring all the money that has been stolen from me that I don't even know about. See, you don't even know how many times you've been passed over for promotion. You don't know how many times that somebody in the back office put a bad word in for you and a good word in for their nephew and you got left holding the bag and you didn't even know it. You don't know how many times your company that you work for the executives, you know, got paid in stock and they engineered a buyout and they laid a whole bunch of people off.
Speaker 1:I've witnessed this over and over and over again. And everybody that's laid off, you know, they lay off the, the, the ones that have worked there the longest, and they've, you know, in Ron, you just name all of them. They just go up and up and up, they just go up, and then who gets rich? Well, the CEO and all the board of directors. They're the ones that get rich. And all the, all the people that made the company great are laid off, early retired, given a pittance.
Speaker 1:Are y'all with me now? Well, I'm touched by that. I want to see that remedied. What can we do? Well, we can teach people how to receive what belongs to them. God said cry out and agree with your wages. Anyway, we cried out.
Speaker 1:And, miss Irma, she got a letter. She retired from the post office and she got a letter that they had found this big old figure and I mean wrote her a check. She got a check in the mail, wasn't it? It was a big check in the mail, wasn't it? Okay, I can't hear you what? 20 years they had to send you money for 20 years. Oh, they'd taken money from her for 20 years. They had to restore it. That's what it was. Glory to God. Post office. I bet you know it's like man getting blood out of a turnover. Get it out of the post office. They're going broke fast Every day. They're going. How much is a forever stamp now? $10?, $10?
Speaker 1:So you know, I've been around the world teaching, teaching this to ministers, teaching this to people that uh need to hear about, and so apostolic deliverance is part of our job description. To bring judgment on hamas. We can pronounce, you know, the apostolic. Go back to the king. See, we're kings and priests unto god. He's the king of kings. We, we're kings and priests unto God. He's the king of kings, we're the kings, he's the king of. He's the king, but we are kings, and so he's the king, he's our king, but he has given us on earth this kingly, or we could say this apostolic anointing this authority, this dominion. Are y'all with me now? That's what this church is about. It's one of its, it's one of the prime evidences of God's anointing on this church.
Speaker 1:So, to bring a judgment on Hamas and to deliver the oppressed and the needy. So you know, you can't really obey God without getting blessed. And so let's look at the blessings for bringing deliverance to the poor and the needy, and it's found back over here in Psalm 72. You get anything out of this, all right. Verse 15. And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. So the number one blessing for bringing apostolic deliverance is supernatural provision. Supernatural provision, and God has given is supernatural provision. Supernatural provision, and God has given us supernatural provision. We've been able to do things that in the natural would be impossible for us to do. When we got involved in God's apostolic anointing and started obeying it and started recognizing what it was, I started teaching on this In these years. I began to teach on it even before I fully understood it, because I knew it was God's way of bringing us up into the place of blessing.
Speaker 1:Everybody say supernatural provision. See, we have provision when we work with our hands. A thing that's good. We'll have seed to sow and bread to eat. That's just normal. But then there's supernatural provision. Everybody say supernatural, all right. And then in verse 16, there should be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains. The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth. So the righteous shall flourish, or in other words, be blessed, we're blessed. We're blessed like a wonderful field of grain. I mean, we're just, we bear fruit. And then, in verse 17, his name shall endure forever. His name shall be continued as long as the sun and men shall be blessed in him. All nations shall call him blessed. So the the next thing is influence with leaders. Influence with leaders.
Speaker 1:God has really expanded our footprint in recent years and we've had a lot of favor with leaders. I mean, right here in this sanctuary, we had, uh, you know, the Lieutenant governor of the state of Texas, dan Patrick, stand right here and address a Republican party right here from our platform. I met him. He he said hey, why don't you have him to come preach I, you know I preach at second Baptist on new year's night. I said, well, yeah, I'll take you up on it. Well, we missed new year, so he didn't. He didn't come, but anyway, I wouldn't mind having. He's a good baptist man, I wouldn't mind having him come. Would you mind listening to dan patrick? He's got a great testimony. I remember him when he was lost. I remember when he got saved. So I I'm kind of acquainted with him in that way just as a public figure.
Speaker 1:Um, but god gives you favor. I mean we have favor with leaders. God is opening doors to give us favor with legislators across the country. We're talking to legislators. Legislators are calling us. I mean you have a legislator from Michigan calling you, want you to come and come to their state and have capital worship. You got a legislator calling you from Maine. You got a legislator calling you from Kansas, from Nebraska, from Alaska, from. We've had calls. I mean it's just listen, because why? Because it's the blessing of what God wants to do with the apostolic. And then finally, verse 18, blessed be the Lord, god, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. I tell you, our God is doing wondrously for us and signs and wonders are part of what he wants to do at glorious way. Church, come on, lift your hands and receive tonight. Praise God, thank you, Lord, for apostolic deliverance. Thank God that you've gathered us together in these last days. Glory to God.