Kevin Jessip passionately calls the church to awaken, repent, and prepare for the greatest global harvest of souls empowered by the Holy Spirit in the last days.
In 'The Great Coming Harvest,' Kevin Jessip delivers a prophetic message urging the global church to awaken from spiritual slumber and prepare for an unprecedented outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Drawing from scripture and personal vision, he highlights the necessity of repentance, revival, and alignment with God's will. Jessip shares insights on the shaking of nations, the cleansing of the church, and the powerful move of God that will usher in the greatest harvest of souls in history.
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Father, I just pray for your Holy Spirit anointing this evening, Father, that you would speak and that we would have ears to hear and our hearts open to hear what you would share with us tonight, Father. We thank you that you came and you did what you did for us, Lord. We thank you, God, for your only begotten Son who shed his blood at Calvary's hill so that we could be redeemed, so that we could come into your presence, Lord, into your holiness, and we thank you for this opportunity tonight.
Lord, we thank you that there is light in your word, and we ask that your Holy Spirit would unseal the light of your word tonight to our hearts and to our minds that we might be transformed by the power of your word in each of us tonight, and we thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
Well, praise God. About six years ago, I had a vision for global repentance, national and global repentance, and it took five years. Like Habakkuk, we wrote down the plan, and we ran with it, and we had no idea how we were going to broadcast into nearly 200 nations and nearly 100 languages and tens and tens of millions of people watching and participating in a holy moment where we came before a holy God in reverent fear and bowed our knees before him, asking him for his mercy in the midst of judgment, and the return was a five-year labor of love.
It was a searching of the scriptures on what a national sacred psalm assembly would be, how to conduct one, and why we so desperately needed one at this time, and so many of you who may have watched on September 26 in Washington, D.C., as we broadcast all around the world, which has been described now as the largest broadcast of Christendom in the history of the world, over 50 million people participating in over 183 nations in nearly 100 languages, and so we're so grateful to God that in these days we have technology that we can utilize to spread the gospel and to actually come into the presence of God and see the Holy Spirit move. You know, when the weightiness of the Holy Spirit comes, you just almost don't want to move, you don't want to speak, you just want to be in the presence, and we experienced it that day, and so did tens of millions across the world. It had a global impact as the remnant bride of Christ came, and we prayed, and we stood in the gap for the unrighteous, for the greatest harvest of souls that I believe we're about to see.
You know, Joel talks about the last great outpouring, the latter rain, the latter rain, the promised latter rain of the Holy Spirit that will come, and God will sweep this world with a wave of salvation, mixed with his fire, his refining fire of the Holy Spirit. I believe we're going to see the greatest move of God ever. I believe we're going to see a move in the Muslim world.
I believe we're going to see a move across radical Islam. God's going to manifest himself for the greatest harvest of souls ever, and it's time to wake up. You know, the Lord gave me three verses of scripture.
One was Revelation 3-2, which was John's church, the letter at Sardis, where he said, you have a reputation of being alive, but you're actually dead, so wake up and revive that which remains, because my work is not done through you and with you. And so he said, repent, or I'll come in an hour you know not of. So the first mandate that God gave us was to revive and awaken the church, bring it back to the remembrance of what we had with our first love.
The second verse of scripture God gave me was Amos 8-11. There's a famine in the land, not of bread and water, but of the word of God, and people will run to and fro from east to west, north to south, searching the word, but they will not find it. That second mandate, God said, was to re-engage the word of God in our schools, in our government, in our marriages, in our homes, in our churches.
Imagine that. And re-establish a dialogue of God's word in our national dialogue once again. And number three, Psalm 71-17, which is a mandate to the young people by us that have walked with God for years, and I'm paraphrasing, but it says that, Oh God, since I was young, you taught me your wondrous deeds.
So even until I'm old and gray, do not forsake me until I've shown this next generation the things of your power yet to come. And so we have a mandate to lead the next generation into a mighty move of the Holy Spirit. Who is the Holy Spirit? What does he do? Why do we need him desperately more now than ever? You see, there's three parts to the Godhead.
There's a God, the Father, up in heaven. There's Jesus ever interceding by his right hand on behalf of us. And yet that third part of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit, is down here on earth, superintending the things of God as per the will in heaven, his will in heaven.
So you see, when we come into total alignment with God's word and his will and his ways here on earth, the Holy Spirit tells the Son, we have someone down here who's in line with Father's will. Jesus tells the Son and the Father tells the Son, tell the Holy Spirit to pour out the treasuries of heaven. Tell him to open doors.
Tell him to give these people favor. And so we can do nothing without the Holy Spirit. We are nothing without the Holy Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit is needed now more than ever. We have to come into alignment with our assignments that God's given us. I'm going to talk about that a little bit more tonight.
I want to just share, I have a couple of messages that God's given me and I'm having trouble with them tonight because they're more lengthy than I wanted to. They're actually teachings. I'm more of a teacher than I am a preacher, but one is the shaking of the nations and the word of God tells us that these nations will be shaken in the last days.
And we're beginning to see that now. We're beginning to see the whole world turned upside down. God is shaking the nations.
And there's a whole lot that the word of God has to say about the nations being shaken. And we're living in it right now. So we are so close to the soon return of Christ.
The bride of Christ is preparing herself. She is setting herself apart. The wonderful man, Carter Conlon, what a great pastor, what a good friend he has become.
I love him so much. And he preached a message, the wolf is at the door. And I just want to touch on the three key points on his message of what he thinks, which I agree with what the church is going through today.
First of all, the church is going through a cleansing and there's a sifting going on. And much like the first time when Jesus came, he cleansed the temple. He's doing that again today.
He's looking for those that are set aside, set apart just for him. Hungry for the word of God, hungry for the things of God, hungry for the ways of the Lord, hungry for the Holy Spirit to manifest himself in us and then through us. The second thing he's doing, he's allowing the church to enter into his rest.
This is something he's wanted to do for a long time. Even before the days of the judges and the prophets, even into the days of the Israelites, God wanted his people to enter into a rest. Even in Hebrews, it states there's yet a rest to be entered into.
In these final days, God is allowing his bride to enter into a peaceful rest. He's hiding us in the cleft of the rock under the shadow of his wings. He's showing us where we need to be.
And there's a whole message just on that. But the point is that God is allowing his people finally to enter into his rest. And the basis and the foundation of that rest is the finished work of the cross.
The powerful redemptive blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on the cross allows us to not strive ever again. But like Mark says, get into the yoke with him. His yoke is easy as burden is light.
And when we do that, he pulls the load. And so tonight he's allowing us to enter into the rest, the finished work of the cross, like never before. And finally, the third thing he's doing, he's allowing us to have a faith that is so strong because of the word of God.
I was reading early this morning in the faith chapter of Hebrews 11 and the patriarchs and the things that they were able to accomplish, the things that they were able to do by faith. And yet there were those, the apostles and others who didn't see the end of all things, but they made their way by faith and God did wonderful things. And folks, we're here just as sojourners.
This is a, I know I'm speaking to the choir, but there are times on our journeys where we get tired, we get weary, and we almost sometimes give up. And that's mainly what I want to talk about tonight. I want to talk about the fact that, well, thank the Lord he's cleansing the temple.
We're going to see a lot of that going on. It's already begun. Judgment starts in the house of God and he is allowing us to have that rest.
And he is infusing us with faith, faith so strong. We have no fear of death. We have no fear of man.
We have no fear of anything because we know that God holds everything in his hand. He's still on the throne. You know, I work in three areas.
God has given us tremendous relational equity in ministry, in business, and in government. And in ministry, we work with denomination heads and universities and paraministries and prayer groups all over the world. And God has a diverse and rich body.
And we've come together in a global strategic alliance to further the word of God, to preach the good news of the gospel, and to preach that the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back soon and we need to prepare ourselves. In business, God has given us relational equity and major companies all around the world that he is now giving them equations and technologies and downloading things that we could have never imagined even 20 years ago. These are technologies and businesses in the area of security, housing, communications, agriculture, water, and so many things that meet the felt needs of nations as we enter this time of discipling nations.
You know, we need to go to nations with national planning and public diplomacy, and also most importantly, the plumb line of God's word. You know, if your nation has societal ills or cultural differences or economic woes, all of those things can be taken care of because all of the answers are in God's word. And we align the leadership of nations with God's word.
They can eliminate those problems because God's word has all the answers. It's all there. And so they don't care about our theology if they're starving to death or their kids are dying of dysentery.
So the Joseph Mandate is part of our ministry on a global scale, and the Nehemiah Project is a domestic project. We work with a lot of folks on, including the 15 federal cabinet heads in our government and ministries, paraministries, and faith-based organizations all over the nation to have a seat at the table and to help meet the felt needs of our cities. We work with city governments and faith-based law enforcement programs, rehabilitation programs.
We work with pastors and law enforcement school boards and city councils, mayors. And when they all come together, it's amazing what you can do. And if God's called you to a specific ministry in a specific city, working together with all of those that have like-minded faith-based initiatives, we can make an impact.
We can make a difference. And now is the time that we need to shine forth the light of the good news of the gospel and who Jesus is. He is the answer.
He's the only answer. It's not military. It's not economics.
It's not government. It's Jesus Christ. We need all of those things, and they're all good.
But now we're seeing people arise in these areas and become lights in their communities. And so the Return is a global movement of repentance. The Nehemiah Project is a domestic part of our ministry where we're rebuilding the walls, which are the living stones of our brothers and sisters across this land and in this nation.
And finally, the Joseph Band-Aid is a discipling program of nations where we bring an answer for the felt needs of those nations, both in national planning, public diplomacy, and sound theological doctrine. So thank you. You can learn more about GSA Ministries at gsaministries.org, and there's a link there to the Return and many other things.
So praise God. You know, tonight, as we prepare for what I call the greatest harvest of souls ever, the Lord showed me a long time ago it was going to come in the midst of a storm. And it reminded me of the shipwreck at Malta, where Paul went from being captive to captain in just a minute.
And he instructed those on that breaking up ship that day to send their strong swimmers first. And when they got to shore, turn around hip deep in water and look for those that are floundering. And you know, not a single soul was lost on that day.
And this is what God is doing. He's preparing us for the assignments of this harvest. He's preparing us.
We are consecrating ourselves, setting ourselves aside, divorcing ourselves from all that's in the world in these last days, making preparation for the greatest harvest of souls ever. And God's going to give us an opportunity, excuse me, to walk into situations on every hand, and all day long, we'll be harvesting souls for the kingdom of God. I believe that's coming.
Because when the darkness comes, people are going to be looking for the light. And you are the light. We are the light.
I am the light. I thank God for his light that lives in us through the power of his Holy Spirit. Now, the last day church, I believe God's vision for his last day church is based upon his revealed word, because the Bible clearly outlines what the church of Jesus Christ will be like just before his coming.
And I want to briefly talk about the last day church, the latter reign, and what I call the Joseph company. And so the church in America is far from, I think, what God has envisioned it to be. For the most part today, unfortunately, entire denominations today operate without the Holy Spirit.
They're devoid of the presence of Jesus and bankrupt of all spiritual gifts. They practice a form of religion without any power, conviction, or saving message. They're cozy with the world, and they're more political than spiritual.
They appease sin. They wink at divorce. They ridicule the supernatural while tossing aside teaching about heaven, hell, repentance, and judgment.
I don't know many people today that want to hear a message about repentance and judgment, but there's one thing for sure regarding sin of which we all are, and that is we either have to repent or be judged by it and for it. The New Testament church used to make devils tremble. It drove legions of demons into the abyss.
It prayed prison doors open. It made rulers cringe in fear. And those early believers had such faith and power that cripples rose up, leaping.
Beggars became evangelists, and they believed in the supernatural, and they opened blind eyes. They unstopped deaf ears, and they healed all manner of diseases. They even raised the dead.
Now, I'm not saying that God's last day church will be a repeat or a copy of the first century church. No. Rather, I'm saying it will be even greater than that.
It will be mightier. It will be stronger. It will have a greater revelation of Jesus.
It will have greater unction from the spirit than ever before, greater even than the day of Pentecost. God always saves his best wine for last. You see, the prophet Daniel confirms this.
He said that certain prophetic truths were locked up only to be revealed in the last days. But the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end, the scripture says. And none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.
This is from Daniel 12, 9, and 10. You see, today the Holy Spirit is revealing these things to spiritual discerning saints, especially when we spend time in the presence of God in our own prayer closets. It is written, I have not seen nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those who love him.
But God has revealed them to us through his spirit, for the spirit searches all things. Yes, the deep things of God. We see this in 1 Corinthians 2, 9, and 10.
You see, the Lord is preparing a powerful yet humble army of shepherds after his own heart, and also a remnant congregation of hungry sheep who have turned away not only from the deadness of sin in the modern church, but the scene is now being set for a church that will be hot, not lukewarm, and it will rock the very foundations of hell. No power on earth will be able to ignore it or despise it. Psalm 83, 3 says that with cunning they conspire against your people and those that you love and cherish.
Come, they say, let us destroy them as a nation. But thank God for Psalm 31, 20. And we're watching this happen.
We're watching the preemption to the antichrist. We're watching the preemption to the great reset. We're watching this one world movement, the socialistic communism, humanism, facing us head on.
And yet, while we have a liberal ecumenical beast system arising out of the Vatican, with its cultic climate change, false religion, God is raising up a remnant of believers who have all faith in the power of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. He's in the shelter of your presence. He hides them from all human intrigues, and he keeps them safe in your dwelling from all accusing tongues.
The Lord is just doing a mighty work in these days. I'm seeing it all over the world. Last week, we had a conference with world leaders in Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, Israel, Sweden, Denmark, Finland.
They were coming in from all over the world. And God is doing something tremendous. He's preparing his bride.
Jesus has been waiting ever since the very foundations of the earth for this one moment in time where he could come and inhabit his bride. So I want to say that it shall be in that day, this is from Zechariah 12, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem, and I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication. Then they will look on me whom they have pierced.
They will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son and grieve for him as one grieves for a firstborn. We're talking about the latter rain here, folks. We're talking about the restitution of all things in Acts 19.
I believe that started when Israel became a nation in 1947, to Jerusalem in 1967. And now we're seeing all the Jews from around the world returning. We're watching Israel thrive as a nation from a, just like Ezekiel 36 said it would.
It was a dry, arid wasteland. And today it's a thriving nation of production, food, technology, meeting the felt needs of the nations. It's an incredible story of the arising of Israel as just before the Messiah returns.
This is exactly what Ezekiel 36 says. But this particular prophecy from Zechariah is about a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit that will take place in the last days. It's a similar outpouring described in Joel 2, which I believe to be Pentecost.
And this passage reads, and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams.
Young men shall see visions. And also on my manservants and on my maidservants, I will pour out my Spirit in these days. This is Joel 2, 28 and 29.
This is exactly what happened on the day of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit came in like a flood as the spirit of prophecy at the upper room in Jerusalem. And this great outpouring also became a study watering of the Holy Spirit that's lasted throughout the centuries.
And for nearly 2000 years, God has poured out His Spirit like showers on His people daily watering His church and protecting it. Isaiah refers to it as Isaiah 27, two and three, where it says a vineyard of red wine. I, the Lord, keep it.
I water it every moment lest any hurt it. I keep it night and day. The two outpourings of the Spirit are referred to as the first or former rain and the last or latter rain.
And it shall be that if you diligently obey my commandments, which I command you today to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, then I will give you the rain for your land and its season, the early rain and the latter rain that you may gather in your grain, your new wine and your oil. Hallelujah. We see this in Deuteronomy 11, 13 and 14.
Folks, if you think that God's going to stand by and let His harvest go to Islam, you're sadly mistaken. If you think that He's not in full control, you know, I'm going to say something here and I've worked very personally and diligently over the last several weeks with Sidney Powell and General Flynn and Russell Ramsland and Keith Lewis and a group of people that are working on the issues of the day coming out of DC. And I can tell you one thing though, it doesn't matter.
God's on the throne. He's in control. He's laughing at all of this.
He is preparing exactly as the prophet stated, exactly as the word of God stated. We're not on any other program but God's and He is still in control. The planting and harvest seasons in Israel were just the opposite of ours.
The first rains which softened the ground were from October to the end of December, just before the planting season. The last rains ripened the harvest and fell from March through April, just prior to reaping. It's important to note that these two outpourings always had to do with the harvest.
You see, the Spirit is at work and His work has always been focused on the harvest of souls. I'm not concerned about getting people to the polls. I'm concerned about the harvest of souls, praise God.
He is concerned today more than anything else about the church. He is concerned that He is about to send His Son to come to inhabit His bride. The whole Bible is a wonderful story.
About a father seeking a virtuous bride for his son. And here we are today preparing ourselves for that one moment. And I couldn't be happier.
The Lord is soon to return. We're in the neighborhood. We're watching our brothers in Israel come alive with who Messiah is.
And we're watching the church across the Western world begin to be thankful for being grafted into the olive tree. It's an incredible time. This one new man is coming together, just as the scripture said it would.
Finally, the Joseph Company. You see, Joseph had a vision that his life would be used mightily by God. And I'm going to get into this in just a moment about Joseph.
But that vision seemed like a pipe dream. After his jealous brother sold him into slavery, the following years of Joseph's life were filled with hardship and injustice. Then when Joseph seemed to get back on his feet, he was falsely accused of attempted rape and he was sent to prison.
At all this time, God was watching over Joseph's life. And finally, after years of turmoil, Joseph ended up serving in Pharaoh's house. Pharaoh eventually appointed Joseph ruler all over Egypt.
And you know, I can relate to that pit. I can relate to be thrown in that pit and there's no way out. And I remember the story of the Chilean miners when they were in that pit for 17 days, had no water, no food, they were coming to the end of their life.
And all of a sudden, we all watched and cheered as that man-made contraption went into that pit and one by one rescued each and every one of them. I'll never forget that scene as one after the other until the whole pit was empty. God's long arm of salvation reached down and saved every single one of them.
And that's what he did in my life. He pulled me out of a pit I couldn't get out of. I'm so grateful for that.
Because God was watching over Joseph, he's watching over us as well. Beloved, that's how God works. He was preparing a man to save a remnant.
Indeed, in every generation, the Lord raises up a Joseph company. He takes these devoted servants through years of trouble and trials and he proves them and strengthens their faith. He did it to Abraham, he did it to Noah, he did it to Moses, he did it to David, he did it to Joseph.
What does this mean? It means scripture says, it's what Joseph endured. He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant, whose feet they were hurt with fetters. He was laid in iron until the time that his word came, the word of the Lord tried him.
I'm here today to tell you that Paul talks to Timothy about enduring until the end, for those that wait upon his appearing. There are many times, many people are called to the mountain. Moses wasn't the only one, but God only let him come up because he knew that he had a heart for God.
He was willing to go all the way. He was willing to do whatever God said. God revealed himself unto Moses like he did with no other man.
Today, the Lord also has a Joseph company. He's been preparing many of us, I believe. These are godly men and women.
He is touched and called. They don't seek fame or fortune. All they want is to live and die, fulfilling the calling that God has placed on them.
I know many of you on this call tonight are in that camp and the Lord promised their lives would count for his kingdom. Joseph told his brothers, you know, God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. And folks, if you're called to the ministry tonight, God's called you.
He's chosen you. He sent you before those to help them along their journey. So brothers, the Lord's been preparing.
He told his brothers, he could look back over the years of suffering and testify that God had sent him on this journey. He had a purpose in taking me through all those hardships, he said. I see now that everything I've endured has led up to this moment.
Brothers, the Lord has been preparing me to minister to you. He orchestrated all these things to bring you under his preserving grace as he did with me. This is what Joseph told his brothers.
What an incredible revelation for Joseph. Yet what is the lesson here for God's people today? It is this, our Lord has preserved us in the past and he will preserve us in the days ahead. Hallelujah.
And most important of all, he has an eternal purpose behind it all. He preserved you because he has a purpose for you. He has laid out a divine work ahead of you and only a tried, tested, proven believer can accomplish it.
This is not a time for timid faith. It's a time when every Christian who's endured great testings must step forward. Our captain is calling.
He's calling for us to stand up amidst a fearful society and engage in a powerful faith. We are to make the Joseph declaration that God sent me before you to save your lives by great deliverance. Genesis 45, seven.
Let it come alive in you today. I pray. You know, we are the stewards.
The Bible says we are the stewards of the mysteries of God. I was on a call last Saturday at 3 a.m. with young people from 12 nations all across the continent of Africa. They tuned in.
I think there were about 554, if I'm not mistaken. These are young people who were on the phone all day long, getting prepared for leadership, getting prepared for the great harvest of souls, getting prepared for what God is assigning them to do in these last days. I've never seen anything like it.
Such wonderful young people. And this one young woman unpacked the reality of the power of God's word when she made these statements. I'll never forget it.
It impacted me. You see, she said that the word of God is like a capsule. Every single word in God's word is like a capsule, sealed with a mystery.
And when we're in God's presence, because of the righteousness that was given to us by the shed blood at Calvary, when we come into God's presence, she said, it's like Jacob watching the angels go up and down the ladder. And you go into the presence of God. Always take a pen and paper.
Isn't that true? The Lord awakens me usually at 3 to 3.30 every morning. And I always go into the living room with a pad and a paper and my Bible. And I say, Lord, here I am.
Speak to me. It's in those moments that I get my greatest conversations. I get answers.
I get solutions. I get so many things from the Lord during those times. You see, when God takes you into his presence and he makes you a steward of the mysteries of his word, he takes that word capsule and he breaks it open and out comes the light of the revelation of God's word.
And when we're in the presence in the heavenly realms and God gives us that revelation of which we need every day, we come back into this earth realm and we deliver that light of God's word through our vessels by the anointed power of the Holy Spirit. When that word goes out, the Holy Spirit anoints it and it transforms the minds of those who hear it. The scripture says, be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, by the washing of the water of the word.
Folks in the Western church, we've tried to conform to the ways of the world to attract people. And today we have to return once again to the full counsel of God's word. We must teach, encourage, rebuke when necessary, reprove, but do it all with love and compassion.
We must speak the truth, the full counsel. Like Ezekiel says, man of God, I gave you a word. If these people die in their sin and iniquity and they haven't heard that word, their blood's on your hands.
Every time I take a pulpit, every time I open my Bible, I tremble with what I feel God's given us to do as ministers, to speak the full counsel of God's word with love and compassion. But we have to call sin, sin. So we are the stewards of the mysteries of God's word and God's word is full of light.
It's a lamp unto my path. It's a light unto my feet. And God's word is something to be stewarded.
You can't give what you don't have. But when we get the revelation and the light that dispels the darkness, when we see the word of God come alive, this is the greatest thing that we have been given to be stewards of the mysteries of God's word, to speak life into those who so desperately need it, especially in these hours. The Lord said, I'm going to shake up all things, including the church.
That's a message that I had tonight that I haven't even opened up yet, but I feel like the Lord's given me a couple of other things and maybe we'll get to some of that message and maybe we won't. But tonight I want to unpack two things for you. First of all, I started writing a book called The Five Garments and the Four Faces.
I'd like to just give you a taste of that tonight because it's changed my life with the understanding. This is part of that capsule of light that God breaks open to you. And we mentioned Joseph just a second ago.
You see, Joseph had five garments. He had the garment that his father gave to him, which was very, a colorful robe. It came with many prophetic priestly visions.
He saw things and he was very prophetic, very priestly. Joseph then had the coat, the garment, the second garment that he left behind at Potiphar's house when he was wrongly accused. The third garment he had when he wore in prison, the fourth garment, one that he changed to, he may have wore it only for an hour as he went into Pharaoh's presence to deliver a word of wisdom.
And the fifth garment was one that he wore when he ruled and reigned. You see, there was a changing of garments throughout Joseph's journey. Joseph's life was an archetype of Jesus and Pharaoh's was like that of the father.
And so it's important to note these five garments, and I'm going to tie them together here in just a second. But then we look into Ezekiel chapter one, verse 10, and we see Ezekiel in the presence of God having a vision of these four faces around the throne of God, the lion, the ox, the eagle, and the man. We also see that same scripture in the New Testament, Revelation 4, 7, where John is around the throne and the 24 elders are there, the 12 tribes and the 12 apostles, and they're standing in the midst of heaven at the throne room.
And they're saying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty, he who was and is and is yet to come. And as they're worshiping him, we see these 24 elders and they look upon this face. John sees the same four faces that Ezekiel saw.
There's a face of the lion, face of the eagle, the face of the ox, and the face of the man. And I just want to tie together the five garments and the four faces for you in scripture. You see, the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.
And so when we go back to the tent of meeting with Moses outside the camp, where he set up his prayer closet, the tent of meeting, when he got out of that defiled camp and he went outside the camp, he got out of the defilement that God said to leave, and he set up his prayer closet, the tent of meeting. And those 12 tribes were encamped around the four sides of that tent of meeting. And there were 12 tribes, there was three on each of the four sides.
And when you read the giftings and the blessings and the anointings that Jacob had given those 12 tribes, you begin to understand their assignments. And then how Moses aligned them around the tent of meeting is very important. You see on each side, there were two tribes who really didn't get along.
They had to learn how to work together. And in the middle of those two tribes was a predominant tribe. And those predominant tribes on all four sides with two lesser tribes on either side had a banner.
Around the tent of meeting, there were four banners. One was the lion, one was the ox, one was the eagle, and one was the man. You see, these are the four characteristics and attributes of Jesus Christ.
You see in the New Testament, we have 12 authors. There are four on the first floor. I look at the New Testament like a three-story house.
We have four authors on the first floor. We have a book called the Book of Acts, which is written to the Christian church. Then on the second floor, as we go up that axe staircase, we see the Pauline epistles with Paul and Timothy and Theophilus and the others.
And these are the instructions to that church. And then we go up that second ladder, a book called Hebrews, which is written. We talked about it earlier, about the patriarchs and the faith.
But that book was written for the Jews predominantly. And then we go up to the third and final story of the house, the revelatory books. And this is where we see John again in Revelation.
And so we see on the first floor, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. We see those four foundational books talking about the attributes and characteristics of Christ. Number one, Matthew is written in the theme of the lion, the lawgiver, the judge.
The beatitudes are in Matthew. Number two, Mark is written in the theme of the ox. My burden is light, my yoke is easy.
Get in my yoke. Let the Holy Spirit do the work. Folks, we can't do it.
We can strive all of our lives. We can't do it. Before the return, we had six months.
We had a $4 million budget. We didn't know how we were going to do it. We prayed it in.
God did it. We did it. We wrote the plan.
We ran with it. And supernaturally, thousands of people heard the call. They went to the return.org, and they joined with us.
And that $4 million budget was met right to the T. At the very hour that we took the platform, we wrote the final check and paid off everything. You see, the Holy Spirit was in it. He did it.
We simply walked out by faith. We set our sail to catch the wind of the Spirit, and He did the work. Yeah, we had to do our part, but God provided.
Wherever God guides, He provides. And usually, it's at 11.59 in the midnight hour, but God is faithful. And this is our job, is to endure all things and await for Him.
So, as we see, Luke is the eagle. Isaiah 40:31 says that those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall run and not grow weary.
They shall walk and not faint. You see, that word wait in Hebrew means to bind together with God's purposes. As we're waiting on God, we're binding together with His purposes in all things and everything that we do, because God does it.
He just uses men. He just chooses men. He chooses humble men, the meekness.
Moses spent 40 days on the mountain. Jesus spent 40 days in the desert. I mean, that number 40 is a time of testing.
If you're on this call tonight and you're a minister of the gospel, you've been tested, you've been tried. There are days where you want to give up. You know, Moses sat on the top of the mountain for six days, and finally the Lord on the seventh day said, come on in.
Can you imagine on the fifth day, if he would have left, he would have never gone into the cloud. Can you imagine? Many of us get right to the point of meeting the final test, and unfortunately we give up. We don't endure.
Ministry is filled with people like that. Today, God is calling you to be stronger, to endure all things, especially in these last days. So many, the scriptures say, will fall, become apostate, will see the great falling away.
We're seeing it already. But God is saying, wait, bind together with my purposes. Come into the cleft of the rock.
Come into the shadow of my wings. Come into my presence and wait for me. Let me unpack the capsule of the mysteries of my word to you, so that you can feed my sheep in due season.
And finally, John is just a man, yet filled with the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit. You see, there's no such thing as a painless Pentecost. You can't experience the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit until you've gone fully into the tomb.
And folks, we have to go into that tomb every day. It's a battle of the flesh. There's nothing good in us.
But the Holy Spirit, when he lives and breathes, and we have our being in him, he strengthens us. He leads us. He comforts us.
He counsels us. But he's a gentleman. He'll only do what we allow him to do.
I hunger and thirst for the presence of the Holy Spirit. I hunger and thirst for Jesus Christ. That's why he said, it's better that I go away so that I can send my spirit.
He will lead you and teach you and guide you in all things. And the Holy Spirit, when we're hungry for the word of God and we digest it, the word of God is a four-course meal. The scriptures say it's milk and bread and meat and honey.
It's a four-course meal. And when we digest it, when we savor it, when we marinate it, and when we think it, we pray it, we sing it, we stand upon it, and we meditate upon it all day long, it produces the changing of our DNA. It produces the fruit of the spirit, kindness, gentleness, meekness, long-suffering.
And the Lord wants to come and dine with us. He wants to come and sup with us. He wants to feed us the milk, the bread, the meat, and the honey, so that we in turn can feed him the fruits that come forth from our life.
He wants to eat the fruit. And so my prayer today is that we will begin to see by the refining fire of God's Holy Spirit, as we walk in our journey, preparing our garments. You see, Joseph had five garments.
And in the midst of those five garments, there was one, two, three, four faces of anointing that God was perfecting in him during all of those trials, during all of those tribulations. 2 Corinthians 6:17 says, well, first of all, let me go back to 2 Peter 3:11 and 12, where it says, therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what man or person ought you to be holy in conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 6:17 says, therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you. I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord God Almighty. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit and perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Count it all joy when we fall into various trials, knowing that testing of our faith produces endurance. But we let endurance have its perfect work, that we may be complete and perfect, lacking nothing. And so we thank the Lord for these tests and trials.
Romans 8:28 says, all things work together. If ever you've been tested and tried, God doesn't give his fresh oil to those he hasn't tested and tried. Don't give up, endure until the end, the scripture says.
I'll be a father to you, and you should be my sons and daughters, says the Lord. So I want to just give you a word. I was in Washington, D.C. at the Jericho March on 12-12 at the National Mall.
There were thousands there. The president was flying over in his helicopter, marine one. And it was kind of a mixed bag on that day, but I wanted to read you what the Lord gave me.
And this was what I gave. And I'm here today to tell you that you've been called, you've been chosen, you've been protected, you've been preserved, you've been prepared, and you're about to be promoted. Don't give up.
This first American Revolution was actually fought by 3% of the population. They were known as the Black Robe Brigade. They were pastors who tore off their black robes and told their parishioners to come and fight on the front lines.
They pledged everything, family, faith, honor, everything they had, fortune. And against the far superior enemy, against the far superior army of the sovereign hand of God, battle after battle, God delivered us our liberty from the British, and we won that freedom. And today, much like those days of the American Revolution, where only 3% fought in the battle, 10% of the population supplied them with ammunition and goods and supplies and all they needed.
37% of the population at that time fought against us with the British. And 50%, the remaining 50% of the population did absolutely nothing. Folks, I'm watching those numbers are eerily true today.
50% of the people are not engaged in the battle. They're simply an echo chamber of what they hear on TV. 37% of the left-leaning ideologues are fighting against us for the very soul of a nation, the very word of God they want to shut down our churches.
They want to shut them down. There are a few people that are still supplying the 3%ers, and if you're on this call tonight, I believe you're called to be a 3%er. You see, it's a remnant army.
It's Gideon's 300. He looked for those that were drinking out of the cup of their hand. God is preparing a remnant army today to take on the greatest harvest of souls ever, and we need everybody on.
We need all hands on deck. This is the warrior mandate. It's a battle cry.
It is a call to arms, not a physical arms. This is a battle in the spirit. And I would welcome you tonight to the term battle cry.
It's an end-time mobilization of God's men, made holy by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and empowered by the gift of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This battle cry is a call to all Christian men to be fully obedient, to walk a walk worthy of the calling. It's first a call to pick up our cross through the repentance and prayer as we prepare for a strategic gathering of men in this hour to dispel the kingdom of darkness, first from our own souls and from our homes, our churches, and even our communities, to repel and cast off the onslaught of wickedness invading our businesses, our cities, our government, and our nation, to establish as one man the kingdom of God mandate within our sphere of influence.
It is the on earth as it is to heaven, as it is in heaven, decree which burns in all of our hearts. This mass awakening of the call of God to men, his sons, appointed to be his image bearers, will be the catalyst for the end-time harvest of souls to the nations until the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. Praying men across our nation and worldwide within Christian communities are mobilizing under the leading of the Holy Spirit, arising as an army of renewed and redeemed active participating members of the body of Christ within their cities.
Pastors, you're not alone. You've got some hungry men out there. God is reviving at this very moment tens of millions of men to grow in their faith, accepting the reality of Jesus Christ, and as their spiritual compasses are being renewed within this awakening, as the bondages of debt and those captured by pornography are caught up in addictions and sin, along with those that have been confused about masculinity and have been disillusioned by the false promises of wealth and power, they're now being set free from these chains in the mighty name of Jesus.
Hallelujah. Men are the most prominent critical mission field in our communities, and the Holy Spirit is moving in this hour, drawing them to their Father in heaven once again to become the church, the bride of Christ through a holy and pure walk in his righteousness. Many called by God to be spiritual leaders have grown cold and indifferent and have been spiritually adrift, but now they are recognizing in this major crisis the great need to heed the call to be better husbands, fathers, leaders, and witnesses to other men.
You see, men are strategic and must lead the charge as God's point men to lead their marriages, homes, and families in the will, the ways, and the word of God once again. In this time of challenge, men must risk by faith to live their lives of adventures and walking in faith by the leading of God's Holy Spirit in every aspect of their lives. This battle cry is a summoning to the courageous and faithful disciples of our Lord and likewise to these men that have momentarily faltered to unite together and re-enter the fight as one man.
We skillfully pick up the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, and put on the whole armor of God, which is to put on Christ as our vestment of battle armor. We are both priests and kings, and nothing can stand against us as we remain hidden in Christ. As I stated earlier, Psalm 83, one through four, says, O God, do not keep silent.
Do not hold your peace or be still, O God. For behold, your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate you have raised their heads.
They have laid crafty plans against your people. They consult together against your treasured ones. They say, Come, let us wipe them out as a nation.
But once again, O how abundant is your goodness, which you've stored up for those who fear you and work for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of children of mankind. In the cover of your presence, you hide them from the plots of men. You store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
Blessed be the Lord, hallelujah, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city. I had said in my alarm, I'm cut off from your sight, but you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy. And when I cried to you for help, love the Lord, all of you, his saints.
The Lord preserves the faithful, but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride. Be strong and let your heart take courage. All you who wait upon the Lord.
This is Psalm 31 20. Praise God. We wait upon the Lord.
We are faithful. We're strong. We're taking heart.
Therefore, and let me say this, it is preeminently a time for men, husbands and fathers, God's men to arise and shine and bring the glory of God to all creation amidst the chaos and confusion of a generation at the precipice of the final epic battle and what the scripture describes as the last days. Our enlistment together as God's men has prophetic implications in this hour. Our response is to his call has eternal consequences in heaven as well as earth.
As many are perishing and going to destruction for even the creation visible and invisible is agonizing with great expectation for our appearing because we have been held in reserve for this final generation. We're now designated as a secret weapon of the kingdom of God, the last great hope of the church in these last days. We're it.
Rise up. Revive that's within you. Get the word of God in you.
Allow the Holy Spirit to speak it through you with an anointing. Lead this next generation into who and how and why we so desperately need the Holy Spirit, who he is and how he works. He does the work.
We do nothing. We just allow him to flow through us. We're just a conduit, nothing but a vessel.
We dwell simultaneously within conflicting spheres, the natural and the supernatural, the unholy and the holy, though at times we have confused our destiny with our assignment. Our destiny is heaven. Our assignment is to bring heaven on a collision course with earth, but we are seated with Christ in heavenly places.
We conduct our affairs with a heaven to earth perspective. We are the prophets, priests, and kings of ancient times, the apostles of our Lord and of his kingdom. We are the echo of eternal truth spoken through the ages, the reverberation of ancient manuscripts, unquestionably controversial.
Former prisoners of war, without hope in the world, we have been reborn by the blood of the lamb for heaven's glory. Although we are deployed in hostile territory under enemy occupation, we are now commissioned as the special forces of all the heavenly host. We have been stationed in the midst of an ongoing ancient conflict originating in the highest heavens with its final battle and judgments on the perpetrators of this rebellion unfolding on our planet.
We are the final mission to ending this high treason. We're without question men born for war. We're fully equipped as warriors with battle armor directly suited for our assignment.
What is our assignment? It is the restored Eden mandate of occupation and expansion of the glory of God filling the earth. However, we understand the hazardous conditions of this warfare. We've been summoned as a search and rescue team headed into a multifaceted disaster.
We're sent forth as sheep in the midst of wolves as we enter into the perfect storm. Our duty, a massive rescue operation. We're here to rescue earth and its inhabitants, to save as many as we can, to save God's imagers and the creation, to uphold the eternal covenant, to reinstate his fallen ones, condemned to destruction without hope.
Those that are confined to this present decaying world system, which is passing away. However, we proclaimed all enemy forces hostile to the king of kings that all demonically inhabited territory possessed through treachery and deceit is now reclaimed in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Lord over all creation. Hallelujah.
Say amen. That we may restore by his grace the image of God and return it back to him as his prized possession to enforce the rule and reign of the kingdom of God while we dispossess enemy forces to heal the sick, to raise the dead, cast out evils and cleanse lepers, to enforce the victory already accomplished at the cross of Calvary. Hallelujah.
We are backed by all of heaven's resources for this task at our disposal are dreadful angelic beings of immense power and we have been perfectly united with the great cloud of witnesses that's gone on before us. The word of God is in our mouth, the Holy Ghost and fire who is innocent upon us to empower, to equip us for this battle for we are not alone. Today is the day of salvation.
It's not the day of damnation. Arise oh army of the Lord and let the redeemed say so. Hallelujah.
This is our task as men, the glory of the Lord and today I want to encourage those of you on this call today. I want you to know your assignment. I want you to align with the body of Christ.
You see there has been this need for recognition. The definition of success and inspiration in the church has been that of not meekness, those who've been abased, but it's been that of recognition, those who want to be superstars. God isn't looking for a superstar.
He's looking to equip those who are willing for the power of his Holy Spirit to speak forth his word to dispel the darkness in this hour, to be a life preserver to those who are desperately seeking a word of life, not a word of inspiration, not a word of psychology, not a word of motivation, but the word of God, the word of God, the word of God coming forth like rivers of living water from your belly. Oh I thank God. Let us be glad and rejoice and give God glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready.
Folks, if you're in this journey and you've changed your garments, you're preparing your garments, it's by the power of the Holy Spirit, the refining fire that you've been walking through that God is creating a perfect image of his characteristics and his attributes, that of the lion, that of the ox, that of the eagle, that of the man, get filled with the power, the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit. In these hours of shaking when everything is going to be shaken, governments are going to be shaken, institutions are going to be shaken, military is going to be shaken, banks are going to crumble, geophysical events are going to increase in their intensity and frequency. Every single thing that can be shaken can be shaken.
Now is our time. Now is our time to allow the Holy Spirit to perfect us in the image of Christ so that through love and compassion, preaching with tears once again the full counsel of God, we can bring in a harvest of souls. Folks, we're going to have to go outside the walls of our church.
We're going to have to go into the deep waters and pull them out. God is looking for you. He's calling you.
He's tested you. He's protected you. He's preserved you.
He's about to promote you for the greatest harvest of souls ever in the kingdom of God. Don't grow weary. Don't grow weary.
Now is the time to dig in. Now is the time to go in your prayer closet like never before and hear the voice of God. Now is the time to have the revelation that Moses did when he was hidden in the cleft.
He saw the very bosom of God. God showed him Genesis through Revelation. He had a vision of the incarnate unborn son of the living God.
He saw Jesus Christ for who he was. He comes out of that cleft in the rock, out of the bosom of God after seeing that. In Exodus 34, 5, he falls on his face and he repents and he says, Oh God, now, now I know who you are.
And he went back down. First time he went to the mountain, he got the law and it killed. The second time he went to the mountain with a fresh set of tablets, he came down with grace and mercy because he saw the heart of God.
He saw Jesus Christ, the son of the living God. And he saw the plan of salvation, the lamb who is to be slain for the sins of the world. Folks, that is the greatest news we have.
That is what we carry. We carry the light and the life of Jesus Christ. For when we went into the tomb with him, we were risen with resurrection power.
We have one foot here and one foot in heaven. And we are to bring heaven according to his will on earth to establish his kingdom, to see it expand, to see his glory fill the earth. And we're just about there.
Don't give up. Endure until the end. Heavenly Father, I thank you tonight for this message.
There's so much more to unpack about the cleansing of your church. There's so much more to talk about and how our garments are prepared, what we must do, how we endure. Oh God, I thank you.
You didn't leave us blind, but you gave us your word. And tonight, Lord, I pray that you give us a hunger for your word. I pray that you give us a thirst for your word.
Oh God, without your Holy Spirit speaking to us through your word, we have nothing. We're at a deficit. We're starving.
Well, Father in heaven, we have so many Jonahs who ran from the call, many of them that may be on this call tonight, Lord. And I pray that if you've got a spirit of Jonah and you've been fed up, I mean, I look at Noah, I wonder how he did that for 120 years. He endured.
We look at Moses, 40 years he wandered, he endured. At the age of 80, he started his ministry. Daniel shook the gates of hell as a whole nation tried to make him stop praying.
He opened up the doors and he went into your presence and he prayed even three times a day. The whole nation couldn't stop him. Oh God, I pray tonight that you would raise up Daniels, that you would raise up Nehemiahs.
Nehemiah was baptized with the anguish in your heart for the condition of mankind. And you took him for a period of fasting and praying and weeping and mourning. Oh God, you gave him strategies from heaven's war room.
You spoke to him and then you gave favor to him. Lord, I pray for all who are on this call tonight that you would once again revive the fire in our hearts, revive your word to our souls, revive the fire God, refine us into your image. May we endure all things for the sake of your kingdom and for the glory of your name, Lord.
May we sing a new song in the midst of all of this. As your scripture says, Lord. Oh God, I pray for the men and women on this call tonight that you would restore them, that you would revive them, that you would reconcile them, that they would have a mind stayed upon you, a mind that is filled with the glory of your name, your presence.
Oh Holy Spirit, we need you now more than ever. We cry out for the latter rain outpouring of your Holy Spirit, Lord. In the midst of economic collapse, in the midst of geophysical events, in the mix of man-made disasters, in the mix of an anti-Christ spirit in these last days, these are times that men's hearts and minds are perplexed and troubled.
And yet, Lord, you are still on the throne. We place all of our faith in you. We fix our gaze upon your face and we don't look to the right or to the left.
Lord, we ask that you clothe us with your presence, that we may enter into that peace, that we may enter into your rest, that you would give us faith with a backbone of steel as we prepare to cover ourselves in the vestments of you, O Lord. We go into the tomb, we lay there with you and we arise with you in the resurrection power that you've given us. Lord, may we speak boldly your word and we do it with love and compassion and tears.
May you raise up Daniels, may you raise up Nehemiahs, may you raise up Noahs and Josephs and Moseses, and all God help us. In this hour, I pray that you would strengthen us with wisdom. We ask for wisdom.
We ask for discernment. We ask for discretion. Lord, we ask for meekness.
We ask for long-suffering and patience. Lord, that we may wait on you once again, for you are our source. You alone are our resource.
You are all we have and yet you are all we need. And tonight, Lord, we come. We come into your presence.
For however long it takes, six days, seven days, 21 days, 40 days, O God, may you fill us full. May you strengthen us. Lord, we minister unto you tonight.
We thank you for your presence. We thank you for what you've done. We thank you that you've prepared so many of these men, your remnant army, the three percenters, those men, they're fighting on the front lines.
They have not compromised your word, but you have taken them on a journey. You've been preparing them and, Lord, they are leading the way. Lord, in verse eight, your word says, to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
O Lord, Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. You will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Lord, we seek first the kingdom of God and your righteousness, knowing that you'll add all these other things to us, Lord. I pray for every man. I pray for his wife, his family, his extended family, that your shalom peace would come across this broadcast tonight, that it would resonate in their hearts that you are all they need, Lord.
Even if 10,000 fall at our right hand, they shall not come upon our house. Lord, we thank you for your promises. We ask that you gird us now with the armor needed to fight this last battle, to stand with you in all your glory, knowing that it's your Holy Spirit that does the work.
We submit ourselves unto you. We humbly come before you. We ask you to fill our vessels.
We ask you to use us. Father, we thank you. We thank you.
We thank you. We love you. We praise you.
We honor you. O God, that you came down, you were mindful of us, and you saved us. You took us from this deep, dark pit, and you redeemed us.
In these hours, as Paul instructed Timothy, and he was finally at the end, he'd run his race, he'd kept, he fought the fight, he fought the good fight, and that you come to those who await your appearing. Lord, there have been many times I've opened up your word and you've appeared. You've appeared to me so many times.
Tonight, I ask that you would appear to each and every man, that as we humble ourselves before you, as we come into your presence, as we seek fresh oil of your anointing, as we devour your word, that you would speak to us, speak through us, use our vessels. We give you all we have as bond servants. We are nothing without you.
And so I ask you tonight, Lord, to refresh us, renew us, revive us. In these last hours, God, may your Holy Spirit come, and may he do his complete and full measure of work in us, and then through us, I pray. And I thank you for it all in the precious name of Jesus.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I don't know who's all on this call tonight, but I can tell you that we are in the last days of the last days.
My birthday was on November 1st, 1959, 1159. The midnight hour has been a mantra my whole life. I believe we are in an hour where the Lord will render the heavens and do a quick work.
The Lord showed me that he's rising up young men and women all across the world who will speak life into their nations. They won't have fancy organizations and a lot of money. They won't have a lot of things.
They'll be like the disciples. They won't have an extra tunic. They won't have money in their pocket.
They're just going to go. The Holy Spirit's going to lead them and guide them. Folks, we need new wine.
We need to not look at our programs. We need to look at the presence. God looked at Eli and through Samuel, he said, you know, you're holding services, but I'm not there.
And so many of our churches, I wonder where the Holy Spirit is. Has the presence left our churches? I believe there's a remnant. I believe if you're on this call tonight, you're part of that remnant.
I believe that God is raising up a remnant, filling them with the power to speak an anointed word. And in these days, we must do just that as we prepare for this greatest harvest of souls ever, this latter rain outpouring. The Lord showed me that in the darkest of days, Isaiah says, I will arise for the sake of my own name.
And he's about to do that. God is about to arise. He's about to do a mighty work.
And he's chosen you to work through. You see, God could do it all by himself, but he works through men. He works through women who are submitted unto him.
And tonight I've got a 24 page message that I never even got into. It's a great teaching, but tonight I'm just leading with you, begging with you to go to your tent of meeting, find your prayer closet, spend the time communing with the Holy Spirit. The devil wants to keep us so busy, so busy with everything.
I met with a denomination leader here in America who has 12,800 churches. He said, Kevin, the pastor with 50 to 150 people is busy doing everything, cleaning the parking lot, taking out the trash, marrying, burying, doing hospital visits, prayer meetings, preparing sermons, doing everything. He's burned out.
The church between 150 and 350 is now a manager. He's got a staff. He's got some income.
They're building it. And he's got all kinds of new dilemmas to face. The man who has a church of 350 to 750 is most likely in a building program and he's become a supervisor.
The man with a church of a thousand or more considered a megachurch has so many things going on now. He's so busy that he has to fight to find the time to get into the prayer closet and get fresh oil every week. Folks, it's not even every week.
It's every day. Every day I fight for that time along with the Lord. It gets more difficult every day.
But I remember someone who once said, if you have six hours to chop down a tree, spend five hours sharpening the ax. The Holy Spirit can do much more through you in five minutes than you can do by yourself in 50 years. I thank God that he's still alive.
He's still on the throne. His Holy Spirit's never stopped moving. And the wind of the Spirit is moving today.
Therefore, we have to set our sails to catch the wind of what he's doing. I encourage you to align yourself within the body of Christ, whatever your assignment is. During those five garment changes, the Lord took Joseph as he did with Jesus, and he took him through everything.
Jesus has experienced every single thing you've experienced. Frustration, wanting to give up every test, every trial he's been through. And yet he was faithful.
So today, we too must endure until the end. And there's going to be a glorious end, because when he comes, we're going to rule and reign with him. And we will see the fruit of our ministries if we don't give up.
Today, pastors all over the nation are giving up. Tonight, if you're a pastor and you're on this call, I plead with you, join me in that prayer closet. Join me getting a fresh word from the Lord every day.
It's the greatest thing you can do. My wife and I do it together every day, every morning and every night. It's the greatest moment of my day is when my wife and I do this.
And I thank God for her. Oh, God, I thank God for my wife. Women have intuition, men don't have.
And if we're smart and wise, we'll listen to our wives. They can save us many times. And yet we're the leaders.
So men, love your wives, get with them, pray with them, sing with them, worship with them. Spend the time with your wife and spend the time, most importantly, with the Lord. I thank you for this opportunity tonight.
There's so much more. We do have a book coming out called The Five Garments and the Four Faces and another book entitled 1159, The Midnight Hour. It talks prophetically on where we are, very specifically on where we are in this timeline.
And it talks about repentance, the only strategy to save a nation. Without national repentance, we can't have national restoration. And finally, it leads us into an introduction of the Holy Spirit, who he is, what he does, how he works, and why, again, we so desperately need him doing all things in us and through us.
So tonight, thank you for this opportunity. I hope that the Lord has spoken something to your heart. Reinhard Bonnke, the great evangelist, one of the last things he said was, I'm immune to man's criticism because I'm immune to man's praise.
Folks, we have an audience of one, the Lord. We answer only unto him. And yet we need each other.
We need the body of Christ to unite. I need you. You need each other.
So as we join together, Lord, we pray that John 17 prayer that we may be one in you so the world will see you in us, manifest your presence in us and through us, I pray tonight. And we thank you for it in Jesus.
Sermon Outline
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- Global vision for repentance and awakening
- The importance of the Holy Spirit's anointing
- The promise of the latter rain and great harvest
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- Mandates from scripture to revive, re-engage, and lead
- The role of the Holy Spirit in aligning with God's will
- The shaking of nations and preparation for Christ's return
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- The cleansing, resting, and strengthening of the church
- The power and faith of the early church as a model
- The Joseph Mandate and Nehemiah Project in ministry
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- The vision for the last day church and its mighty move
- The rise of a remnant church empowered by the Spirit
- The global spiritual battle and hope in God's protection
Key Quotes
“When the weightiness of the Holy Spirit comes, you just almost don't want to move, you don't want to speak, you just want to be in the presence.” — Kevin Jessip
“God always saves his best wine for last.” — Kevin Jessip
“We are consecrating ourselves, setting ourselves aside, divorcing ourselves from all that's in the world in these last days, making preparation for the greatest harvest of souls ever.” — Kevin Jessip
Application Points
- Seek a deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit to align with God's will in these last days.
- Engage actively in personal and corporate repentance to prepare for the coming revival.
- Partner with like-minded believers to impact your community and nation through faith and practical ministry.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the 'latter rain' mentioned in the sermon?
The 'latter rain' refers to a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the last days that will bring a great harvest of souls and spiritual revival.
Why does Kevin Jessip emphasize repentance?
Repentance is crucial to awaken the church, revive its first love, and prepare believers to participate in God's end-time plans.
What is the Joseph Mandate?
The Joseph Mandate is a ministry initiative focused on discipling nations by addressing their felt needs through national planning, public diplomacy, and biblical doctrine.
How does the sermon describe the current state of the church?
The church is described as largely lukewarm, politically influenced, and lacking the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, but a remnant is rising.
What role does the Holy Spirit play according to the sermon?
The Holy Spirit aligns believers with God's will, empowers the church, opens doors, and is essential for the coming harvest and spiritual awakening.
