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2025 - The Year Of Milestones 3
Imagine a year so pivotal that it reshapes your spiritual journey forever—2025 is just that year. Join us on a path of reflection and growth as we draw wisdom from biblical scriptures like Psalm 92 and 1 Timothy. We'll explore how life's milestones, even amidst the toughest battles, are triumphs that honor God and strengthen our faith.
Anyway, let's lift our Bibles up and wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. Say this together, say, heavenly Father, we're so glad to be here today. 2025. It's the year of milestones and I'm piling up milestones in this year, and they're all for your glory, because every milestone is a testimony to your faithfulness, to your goodness, and I give you praise today in Jesus' name. Amen, Praise God. You can be seated to turn in our Bibles to our foundation scriptures.
Speaker 1:Psalm 92 first, which happened to be one of our Psalms for the day. If you follow the way I read my Bible, 92, in fact that's how I got the rhema word was on the 2nd of January. I was in Galveston praying, and the 2nd was Psalm 92 was one of my psalms and verse 10 was a rhema word to me, and so I give it to you this morning Psalm 92, 10. And this is David, and this, uh, he says but my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn, I shall be anointed with fresh oil. Everybody shout fresh oil. And then, first, timothy, chapter 1 was another rhema word that came that day. 1 Timothy 1, and Paul is writing and speaking to his son in the faith, and verse 17, now, unto the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. This charge, this mandate, I command or I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee that thou by them, by the prophecies, mightest war, a good warfare. And so today is our third and possibly the last in the series of messages on 2025, the year of milestones. And of course, then on the 5th of January, we uh, I mean I didn't really have a complete picture of what the year was about. I had some hints, I had these two Ramahs, had some other things, and it all came out in a word of prophecy that morning. And that's when God spoke about the year of milestones. It came in the moment, it came Sunday morning, and so God wants us to position ourselves in faith for a year full of milestones. I mean, that's why I'm preaching this, so you'll stir your faith up and let's come out.
Speaker 1:And some of you are going through some fierce battles. I mean some of you are going through some some fierce battles. I mean some of you are going through the battle of your lives. I mean health, wise, financially and so forth and so on. We don't deny the battle, but we give you the material that you need to overcome in those battles.
Speaker 1:And uh, you know, in over in chapter six, he told Timothy there, in first Timothy, chapter six, he said fight the good fight of faith. Why is it a good fight? Because we win, we don't quit, we win. And it's not a fight against flesh and blood, it's not even a fight against the devil. We wrestle with him. But I mean really it's the fight of faith. We, we need ingredients, we need hope. We need hope because hope is what faith gives substance to. Well, no hope, you know you don't have any faith then to overcome, and so when you're in the battle, you know you need something that will feed your faith.
Speaker 1:Now, what is a milestone? We talked about this an important event in the history or in the development of something or someone. It's an important event in your development. And so we talked about the definition. Definition it's also a landmark, a turning point, a watershed moment, a tipping point, and I didn't mention this one last time. I just came across this one Breakthrough. When you have a breakthrough, that's a milestone. When you have a breakthrough, I mean, that's victory. When you have a breakthrough, that's a testimony.
Speaker 1:And this year I just encourage you that every milestone is an opportunity for you to brag on Jesus. Brag on the one that gave it to you, because how are we going to give glory to him? Be glory and honor forever and ever, he told you, know he started off this in verse 17. He started about God who's invisible. He's the only wise God. To him be honor and glory forever and ever. And this is how you're going to give him honor and glory by fighting the good fight of faith, by engaging in the apostolic lifestyle.
Speaker 1:You know, I told you last week and I tell you again this week get all the messages that I've been preaching since the 1st of January or since this year. I mean they're all connected, even Wednesday nights, wednesday night messages, sunday night message, apostolic lifestyle. These are all integral and you need to get them in your heart, give you the raw material for your faith to grow. I mean, you know we've got to. This is by faith. And so everybody say breakthrough and let's dig down now, today, and examine closely this prophecy and these rhema words.
Speaker 1:But I've learned by experience sometimes, when I get a word from God, whether it's a rhema or a prophetic word, sometimes I just run with my initial understanding of what he's saying. But you know, many times God is saying things that we have to dig down like we're mining for gold. You got to dig down and study and meditate and take the top surface of what you think he's saying to you, because the Greek and the Hebrew are not our language. This is written in King James and I happen to read the King James. You might read the NLT, you might read the Passion Translate. I don't know what you read, it doesn't matter. But I mean God speaks in a language that has to be examined closely and you have to sift and uncover the true meaning of what's behind it or you're going to miss the import of what he's saying.
Speaker 1:Like regional center, I mean it took me 30 years. I mean it wasn't immediately apparent what he's talking about. I had no idea I had never been in a church that acted like they were a regional center. I mean I thought I knew it. I thought it meant big. I thought it meant a mega church. That's what I thought it meant. Well, that's not what it means. Some mega churches are just not that. They're not really really. They're not ruling and reigning, they're just kind of a big church of business and good you know, fancy message and and good business practices and rich people that go there and give lots of money to build their big building. They really don't rule and reign this, this country. This church is not a big church in numbers, but it's a big church and influence, not by might nor by army, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. So then, this definition of milestone is an important event in the development of a person or a thing.
Speaker 1:So think about your development. What does the word development mean? You know I got out of the home building business temporarily and I became a developer. You know that's the next step up. I mean a home builder builds houses in a development that the lots were developed by a developer, and so somebody built the lots that I'm building on. So now building is gone and I got a job running a real estate company in Corpus Christi, and so my job was to turn raw land into lots to sell to builders, which I did.
Speaker 1:I learned a whole lot of the how to get all of the utilities put in, how to get the streets put in, how to lay out the subdivision. It would be saleable to builders that are looking for lots to build, and the purpose of that was because the subdivision that I was doing that in the original section had a bunch of vacant lots. It had about 19 vacant lots scattered all through the subdivision and nobody wanted those lots. I mean it's like a dead. It's dead. How would a builder build on one lot on a street where all the people live there already and there's a vacant lot in the middle of a block? How are you going to get traffic in to see that how? I mean it's real difficult and most builders say I don't care about it, but if I add a whole? In fact I added two sections of lots in two different price ranges and I attracted a bunch of builders in there and sold them all the lots and so then they had to take those lots as part of the deal. You want these lots, you're going to take two of these and we got it all.
Speaker 1:Taken care of Development. What does development mean? It means growth, advancement, enlargement, expansion, improvement. A breakthrough is an event that marks improvement, expansion, improvement. A breakthrough is an event that marks improvement for you, increase, for you, progress, for you Progress. It's not shrinkage, it's not going backwards. It's not going backwards. I mean it's a milestone, not a tombstone. Everybody say it's a milestone, not a tombstone. Yeah, yeah, we mark graves with a marker. But no, this is not what this is. This is marking progress, this is marking increase, and so, of course, milestones result in testimonies to god's glory. So then, uh, so that that in that prophetic word, god says a year of milestones, and you know really, uh, it's a milestone year.
Speaker 1:On top of that, I mean in in the list of years we've had in our history which y'all did, y'all enjoy last Sunday. I mean Gladys and I just we immensely enjoyed last Sunday being with y'all and celebrating with y'all. And Brother Harold Green, if you're watching, I know we reached out to you, but thank you, you did an awesome job. Harold was our videographer that you know, made the video. How do you condense 30 years into 15, 12, or however long? It was 13 minutes, I think, and it's very difficult, but I think he captured the spirit of this church. And, for those of you that just have been here all along, you know you got to see yourself in younger days, and some of you did, and some of you, you know, came along a little later and you saw yourself and some of you just got here and you didn't see yourself. But that's all right, you're still part of it and that's what I wanted to accomplish. I wanted everybody here to know that you're part of something significant.
Speaker 1:But in Psalm 92, 10, the David let's go back there real quick. I want to point out something to you about this Psalm, because it's a rhema word, verse 10. And it's a Psalm of David, and he starts out verse 7. Let's look at Psalm 92, 7. When the wicked spring as the grass and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, keep that word flourish in mind. Workers of iniquity flourish, they're blooming. They're putting on fruit of evil, evil fruit. It is that they shall be destroyed forever. But thou, lord, art most high forevermore. For lo thine enemies, o Lord, lo thine enemies shall perish and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. But my horn shall you exalt like the horn of a unicorn. I shall be anointed with fresh oil. Now keep reading. Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine, enemies, and my ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Speaker 1:We're beginning to see that in this country, in this nation, the wicked people are crying. The wicked people are screaming. They're having to come apart. They just need to get saved. Some of them are going to get saved. When they get tired of crying and tired of screaming and hollering and ranting and raving, maybe they'll wake up and get saved. When they get tired of crying and tired of screaming and hollering and ranting and raving, maybe they'll wake up and get saved. Some of them will. But the righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Notice, flourish and grow so that fresh oil. Let's look at that.
Speaker 1:See, this is not a prayer. He is speaking. He is declaring as a king, a proclamation. In other words, this is his confession. We're going to have to adopt some confessions. We're going to have to ask See, we're the kings, he's the king of it. We're the lords, he's the lord of. We're going to have to shift gears and quit begging God for things he's already provided. He's provided a year of milestones. Are we going to get any or not? Well, we're going to get. We're not going to get any with our mouth shut.
Speaker 1:You got to have, you've got to believe in your heart, but you've got to develop a profession of faith, a confession of faith to where you're bold about saying well, god has anointed me with fresh oil. He's exalted my horn like the horn of a unicorn. See, david's not exalting himself, he's saying God is exalting him. God is made high. The word exalted means to make high above the wicked. The church is getting exalted right now. It's been under the heel of the wicked for the longest time, but finally some in the church are waking up to their place of authority. And isn't it an honor to be part of that awakening man? I mean, this church is part of that awakening Glory to God I marvel.
Speaker 1:So it's not a prayer, it's a confession slash, declaration. That's what kings do. Kings don't make requests, kings don't beg, they just make a declaration and everybody says, oh, we better get busy. Your angels are getting busy. Every time you make a declaration in faith, it lines up with what God said. See, it's not pie in the sky, it's not just anything you dream up. It's in line with what God's Word said. And, as we've made the case, a prophetic Word like we've received is just the same as Scripture. We can take it and do battle with it. We can take it and confess it. We can take it and declare it. You can take it and declare it. You can all say I've been anointed with fresh oil. Glory to God.
Speaker 1:So we talked about the horn. The horn is a symbol of strength. You know, when you mess with a bull, you get the horns. Don't be messing with a bull, don't be messing with a king, you get the horns. Don't be messing with a bull, don't be messing with a king, you get the horns. The king has got some strength.
Speaker 1:You know, the lion is the king of the jungle and he found out the hard way. Don't mess with the Cape Buffalo. I mean, you know you got you can mess with the Cape Buffalo's calf, but if you mess with mama, the full grown Cape Buffalo,000 pounds on the hoof, she's probably going to kill you. She's going to gore you. I mean I saw the video through that line 600 pound male line that's the king of the jungle Threw him up in the air and turned to somersault. He was up there 10, 12 foot in the air, turned a whole somersault, landed on his back and she gored him again and probably died. So he may have not died instantly, but if he got gored him again and probably died, see, I might not have died instantly, but if he got gored he's going to die because you can't get over that. They're so big they can crush you just with that big horn. The horns are here, but they've got a solid horn right there, all the way across.
Speaker 1:If you look at a Cape Buffalo and they crush with that, you know, listen, we've got some power. It's not our power, it's the power of God upon the church to crush demon powers. Amen, he's exalted, lifted us up above all the enemies round about and he's anointed us with fresh oil. Well, let's look at fresh oil. I looked it up and I looked it up and I've got the theological workbook of the Old Testament. I have the linguistic key to the Greek New Testament handles the New Testament. But I've got two big volumes, this thick, that call the theological workbook of the Old Testament. So it's all of the Hebrew words in the Old Testament.
Speaker 1:I'm not a Hebrew scholar any more than I'm a Greek scholar, but I have those books and it's a fancy concordance. It's more. It's more detailed than the regular concordance. It goes down into depth and it breaks down all of the places these words are used and what they mean when they're used there and all of that.
Speaker 1:So I looked up fresh, and it means flourishing. It means flourishing. It means man, we're bearing fruit, we're increasing, we're increasing. It means luxuriant I like that word luxuriant. It means super abundant. It means lush, extravagant. God is anointing me with extravagant oil. You know, extravagant can make people jealous Copious, productive, thriving. Now, these last three I like these last three Opulent, sumptuous. Okay, this last one's my favorite.
Speaker 1:I have to tell you, I mean, just dress like I am this morning with my shoes that I have on. These shoes right here, these shoes right here are flamboyant. That's what fresh oil means. It means flamboyant. So I decided to put my feet into a python skin that ate too many oranges in the orange grove.
Speaker 1:Everybody say flamboyant, see, I mean flamboyant is controversial. I mean we need to have a higher profile. Folks, that's not pride who's doing it, it's the fresh oil. It's an anointing, a new anointing that we're not really quite familiar with. It's time the church rises up into a place of flamboyance. Wow, look at that. Especially, man, all these people that are just having a conniption fit over Trump and all the things that he's doing. Oh, man, I mean this is our time. This is our time to shine. This is our time to make a difference in this world, to have a testimony of what Jesus can do. He wants to do Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Speaker 1:And so, during the prophecy, you know, uh, when you read the prophecy, uh, it says that 2025 is a year of exceeding abundantly above. It's a year of grace upon grace. And second Corinthians, chapter 10, and the amplified I think about, uh, about it says favor heaped upon favor. That's another element of this year. Grace is favor, grace is God's ability, grace is God's favor, favor heaped upon favor. I mean that all ties in to increase it, all ties into milestone versus tombstone.
Speaker 1:The devil's trying to get some of you to think well, this is the end, I guess I'm going to have to declare bankruptcy. Oh, this is the end. I guess this is a terminal disease. No, I'm telling you right now, it's an opportunity for a milestone for you to get your healing. It's a milestone for you to turn your finances around. God's got a plan for that, if you'll believe it and speak it. Glory to God.
Speaker 1:You know, all over the nation, the nation has you, just the atmosphere. How many of you know the atmosphere has changed. It's not just Trump, but it's an atmosphere that was created by millions of people finally doing the right thing in the voting booth and, even if they don't know the word, they line their vote up with what God wanted. God has a side. Does that mean Republicans are holy? No, it doesn't mean they're right all the time. Doesn't mean Trump is right all the time. It means that God has a side and millions of Americans got on his side, some of them for the first time, and God has responded and his hand of blessing is on the country.
Speaker 1:Now We've got a lot of work to do. We're just getting started with changing things. Now you understand it's not over. Don't take a vacation and think, oh well, everything. No, we've got to pursue this all the way to the end. But you can tell that already, over the whole nation, everything has changed the whole thing. I mean you've got all these billionaires courting, licking his boots, going to Mar-a-Lago and meeting with him.
Speaker 1:I mean, all of a sudden, facebook and all the social media people, man, they're repenting. What is that? Well, I mean I'm telling you this this nation is a headship gift for the whole world. It's an apostolic gift to the world, and globalism is the opposite. Globalism says, and it's a religion, it's the spirit of Ant, too powerful. We've got to weaken ourselves. We've got to have a coalition of governments around the world to to rule the poor dumb masses. You're one of the dumb masses that they want to rule over. You don't know how to rule yourself, you. You're not capable of voting. You just listen to what they're saying. Listen to what the elites are saying in between their fits and their crying jags. Glory to God.
Speaker 1:Things have changed, and so let's catch the atmosphere, let's get out of the atmosphere. What's there? I mean it's for us, it's for the church. I said it's for the church, it's for the church to grab a hold of this new anointing, this fresh anointing. It's time for America to make America great again, make the church great again, make the church like it should be. Are y'all with me? Now there's a new anointing in the atmosphere. See, I mean all this.
Speaker 1:And look, you know I've been listening to Trump. You know he's doing so much every day that the news media can't keep up and they're going crazy every day that the news media can't keep up and they're going crazy. I mean they blink and he's already issued 10 more executive orders. That's undone about 500 of the things that that they've been worshiping toward Musk. Guys got into the federal government and and and ended their app, their access to the computer system. They can't even. They got a letter and says you know, get your papers together if you want to continue. You know, if you want to give your resignation, we'll give you nine months pay and you can go take an extended vacation, but if you stay around here you're going to be terminated. And most of them are going to get terminated because they're just, they're going crazy. They don't know what to do. See, they're just. And so he's reforming the government. The apostolic takes back territory that's been lost, territory that's been lost and Trump was creating a whole nother bunch of people crying and screaming.
Speaker 1:Canada can be our 51st state. People think he's joking. He's not joking. We're going to. We like Greenland. The King of Denmark is coming unglued. The king of Denmark is coming unglued. They're supported entirely by Denmark.
Speaker 1:Denmark just mails the money. It's just a couple of million people live in Greenland. It's a very small population, but it's rich in strategic value. We're going to get it. I said we're going to get. It belongs to us. If Canada belongs to us, it ought to all be from the North Pole all the way to, you know, to the Gulf of America. I like that. I like the way that sounds. Google's already changed their maps. Gulf of America. But he got everybody screaming and hollering. Did you know? I looked it up Denmark.
Speaker 1:You know how long they held out against the Nazis when the Nazis attacked See? The Nazis attacked Denmark on their way to Norway. Norway was their main strategic benefit. They had to have Norway, had to be on the North Sea, they had to have that territory, but they had to get through Denmark. So you know how long Denmark held out? Two hours. I don't think they're going to last two minutes against Trump. I really don't think.
Speaker 1:And we'll buy it. We're going to buy it from them. They'll get money. I mean, why wouldn't you take money for? For Greenland? I mean, it's just that it's that European pride is what it is, that same pride they've always had. Looking down their nose at the colonies. We're still the colonies as far as See, they're all still. You know the king? They still got a monarchy. You know they're nuts. They live in a bubble wrap world. Without NATO, they wouldn't even be there. Russia would already occupy the whole place. Without NATO, we're going to get Greenland.
Speaker 1:See, what is this. Well, it's just like manifest destiny. You know this country was born on manifest destiny. Forget about Native Americans. There's no Native Americans. That's a lie. They came from somewhere. They came from somewhere. Indians came from somewhere. They didn't exist here originally. Nobody did Read your Bible. When the Tower of Babel fell, god scattered the people, so everybody that's anywhere came from there. So there's no such thing as indigenous. All of that is a lie Meant to hamper people that believe the Bible.
Speaker 1:I know this is kind of controversial. You're going to have to teach your children because they're learning the wrong thing. In school. We give all this credence to the skin color and all of that kind of thing when we're new creatures in Christ Jesus, we're all brand new creatures. Doesn't matter what our skin color is, doesn't matter what our DNA is. That's natural. We have supernatural. Everybody want that new anointing that's in the atmosphere. So I just want to leave you with a few thoughts here. Everybody want that new anointing that's in the atmosphere. So I just want to leave you with a few thoughts here. Listening to him reminds me of how this country was born, and we know this country was born of God. God is the one that birthed this nation. He had an idea.
Speaker 1:And you've got this other side, the spirit of Antichrist trying to tear down our founding fathers, tear down our founding document, the constitution. They talk about the constitution when it's convenient, but really they'd like to get rid of it. It hampers what they want to do. They want to pack the Supreme Court. They want to get rid of the you know all the rules of the Senate, all the, all the things that make this country what it is. They want to get rid of it because they want to turn it into a totalitarian dictatorship run by them. Well, praise God, you know there's an apostolic anointing.
Speaker 1:We're warring a good warfare. It's a good fight of faith, and we're resisting that. We're going back against that and we're going to take back territory that we've lost in the federal government. We're going to take some new territory that we haven't had before and we're going to. We're going to bring it into to our strategic benefit. We're going to get back in the apostolic gift that God made this country. It's a headship gift to the whole world. That's what America is. We're going to quit running away from that. Are y'all with me now? So you're part number.
Speaker 1:One thing you got to think about right now, this year. You're part of something bigger than yourself. You need to lift up. That's another thing. The word said A lot of people running to and fro, they're worried, they're assaulted. You know they're victims. But no, he said to us in that prophetic word lift up your head, look up. You know, on the football field, the guys that are like this, they're getting beat, they got their hands on their hip and they're looking down and they're getting rolled over. But the guys that are like this and they break the huddle and they run to the line of scrimmage and they get down huddle and they run to the line of scrimmage and they get down, they get ready. They're going to roll right over those guys with their hands on their heads. Why? Because they've got that momentum. We had momentum last year to lead us into this year of milestones and the year before that was the year of God's power. See how God is stacking these years up right before the return of the Lord to get the church in position. I want to get you in position. So you got to think of yourself maybe a little differently than you have. You're part of something greater than yourself. It's an honor to be part of what God is doing. And so then, number two, take your place as a puzzle piece, be a supply.
Speaker 1:Let's look at 1 Corinthians, chapter 10. We're going to have communion in a minute, but I wanted to read this verse in 1 Corinthians 10. And then in the next chapter, 1 Corinthians 11, paul talks more about communion. We're going to read out of Matthew this morning, but 1 Corinthians 10, 16, he says the cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ, the bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, being many, are one bread and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread. So, yeah, you're an individual, you have your individual challenges and your individual things, but you're part of something bigger. You're part of the body of Christ. You are a puzzle piece. You are absolutely indispensable. Without you, the puzzle is lacking a piece. Without your supply, we lack the strength, the vision, yeah, the money, the resources, the time that you contribute, and so then, the whole body is weaker then. But notice the cup of blessing. You know we're fixed to have communion and we're going to receive the cup of blessing, praise God. So you're a supply. Let's get in position to be a supply to the needs of this body, the needs of this body.
Speaker 1:And then, number three, I want you to think about that mandates wake up the church. That's a mandate. Preach the gospel to every creature. That's a mandate. All the mandates God has given us as church to accomplish require resources. Can't do it without resources, and I teach my staff this. I've been teaching this a long time. But the only resources that are available to us are people, time and money. That's it.
Speaker 1:Everybody say people, time and money. That's the resources it takes to accomplish the mandates. And when you don't have enough people and or you don't have enough money, then you run out of time. Time is affected by the people and the money. You got a lot of people and a lot of money. Then the time becomes shorter and you can accomplish a whole lot people and a lot of money. Then the time becomes shorter and you can accomplish a whole lot more in a shorter period of time, in which case God can give you more to do, like he has this church. I mean he's added to our mandates. I said he's added to our mandates.
Speaker 1:Everybody say people, time and money. Money. So on your on an individual basis. You know, we're all drank the cup of blessing. Where we're, we're all part. Where this is the communion of the blood of Christ, we break it, broken off of the bread. It's the body of Christ. We're all members of it, we're all part of it. So we all have an opportunity to be a resource to accomplish the mandate. If you're not going to be available to do that, you see what I'm saying You're going to have to make adjustments. Are you willing to make adjustments To partake of this new anointing, this flourishing, this increase, this flamboyance? Oh, I don't know. Y'all are really. Are your wheels turning, or are you just kind of bored and hope this gets over with pretty quick? Can I have a better amen? Okay, I mean. It requires resources, people, time and money, and more people and more money will buy the time that we need to do the things that God told us to do.
Speaker 1:If there's a fear I have, it's a fear of not of running out of time, of running out of time. In March of 2018, just weeks after my open heart surgery, I'm at home. I hadn't even gotten back to church yet. I'm weak as water. I mean. I still remember just kind of slowly making my way outside and sitting in the sun in the driveway. My driveway faces south and wintertime, that sun is low in the sky and it's I'm just so pale, I look, you know, white as a sheet and and it felt weak as water. I mean I would just sit in my chair, patio chair, out on the outside, on the on right, out in the sunlight, just to get the heat and the sun to shine in my face. I mean, I'm so weak. But one morning God spoke to me. He says you know, I've just reset your clock. I've reset your clock. He gave me more time and if there's a fear I have is that I'm going to run out of time before we accomplish the mandates he's given us. I don't want to have to stand before him and say well, god, I just ran out of time when he already reset my clock. Why did he reset my clock? He wants me to accomplish it. He said you'd run out of time. That's what he said. But I reset your clock.
Speaker 1:Joshua stretched out his hand to the sky and said sun, stand still, moon, go back or be still. He gained a whole day so they could kill the Amalekites. Prophet Isaiah said what sign do you want that I'm speaking, I'm. You know God's going to give you 15 more years. You know what? What sign, what sign can you give me that that God is really saying that he said well, what do you want? You want the sundial to go ahead to two degrees or behind two degrees? Oh, anything can happen. Two degrees ahead, make it go back. So Isaiah made the sun go backward.
Speaker 1:I mean, you know, we, we, we got a better covenant than those he got. We got a better covenant than Isaiah. We got a better covenant than Joshua. We've got, we've got power. Are y'all with me now this morning? I mean, let's lift up our eyes and let's lift up our heads. Quit, quit allowing the devil to attack your mind and rob you of your hope and your expectations, and as you walk by faith, the resources will come while you're on the way.
Speaker 1:If I'd waited, you know we didn't know what God's plan was when he told me he was going to open up a door into the regions beyond May of 2018, just a few weeks after he told me he'd reset my clock. Now I've got my feet under me. I'm not looking much better, but I'm feeling a little better. I'm really white. I look in the mirror and I go, wow, so pale and, uh, something about all your blood leaving your body and having to pump it back in you that it just kind of takes a while for your face to catch up. Uh, but anyway, um, god's got a plan to increase. God's got a plan for us to cover the bases. So when he spoke to me about all that and he said I've got a place in the regions beyond, I didn't know what he was talking about.
Speaker 1:But then we had the COVID thing we opened during COVID. It opened a door for us to have notoriety. I mean, you saw the video last week where you got Channel 2, channel 26, channel 11, Channel 13. They're all coming out here on the front porch wanting to talk to me, wanting to talk to James, wanting to film you and trying to catch us when we don't have our masks on. Well, we didn't have any masks, I didn't wear any masks. They caught me hugging. You know people out front. You know our lawyer and Dr Hoetze were visiting Easter Sunday. I hugged them and they caught me on camera. Oh, there they are. They're violating social distancing. They've admitted that whole thing was a lie. The whole thing was made up. I've been saying that all along, all along. I said it was made up, sure was, sure was. I didn't know that was going to open a door for my God votes, for us to get capital worship installed in state capitals.
Speaker 1:We started with Texas and as we took a step of faith, resources came People, time and money. And we successfully did Texas. And then Texas is out of. You know, they have no legislature in 24. So in 24, god opened the door and we go on the way to Oklahoma and Louisiana. We took a step of faith and resources showed up as we took a step of faith. And now we took a step of faith this year into Maine, still keeping Texas and Oklahoma and Louisiana going. And then now we take a step of faith toward Maine. Well, the, you know, resources showed up when we went to Maine. We've got people there, we've got money to pay that coordinator, and now Indiana is coming online and Michigan is coming online and we've got some other states and as we keep stepping out, there is, there is resources coming to meet us.
Speaker 1:But we can't just stay here and well, god, you know, as soon as you supply our needs we'll go. No, we said yes and the resources went. See, when you say yes to God, that song we sing Faithfulness to God. We sang it last week and it says in there with my life laid down, I surrender. Now I give you everything. Gladys and I did that on an August morning in 1994. He knelt at our bedside, we laid our life down, we surrendered to all. We gave him everything, and look what the resources wound up being. Look at the resources that he supplied. Look at the resource that he supplied. Look at the resource that he supplied. He supplied every bit of it, and he'll do the same for you. 2025 is a year of milestones. Get ready for mighty testimonies to the glory of God. Come on, lift your hands and receive Hallelujah. Glory to God. Thank you, jesus.