WEBVTT 00:00.552 --> 00:07.499 [SPEAKER_01]: The power of your testimony, you know your testimony holds a powerful truth of what God has done in your life. 00:08.020 --> 00:19.071 [SPEAKER_01]: It is a witness to God's power in His glory and it's so important to be able to go and tell testimonies or something that should be shouted from the rooftops of what God has done in your life. 00:19.632 --> 00:21.373 [SPEAKER_01]: but yet a lot of times they're withheld. 00:21.793 --> 00:32.400 [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of times you maybe embarrassed of your past or maybe just don't want to talk to people and tell them about what you've been through, but a testimony is a shout of praise to what the Lord has done. 00:32.740 --> 00:44.147 [SPEAKER_01]: And today, Pastor Elwood and I were gonna talk about our testimonies but also encourage you to talk about yours and we're gonna tell you some scriptures that point to how and why you should tell your testimony. 00:44.667 --> 00:48.209 [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to the Discipleship series with me and Pastor Elwood. 00:49.270 --> 00:52.614 [SPEAKER_00]: absolutely, you know, talking about testimonies. 00:53.334 --> 00:54.415 [SPEAKER_00]: And we've all got one. 00:54.796 --> 00:56.698 [SPEAKER_00]: Every one of us has one. 00:57.559 --> 01:01.482 [SPEAKER_00]: And just to matter if we're going to give it or not, but I'd like to go back to Brother Paul. 01:03.084 --> 01:11.893 [SPEAKER_00]: When they brought the Paul before King of Grippa and Festus, you know, he told them all the way from the very very first time that he met. 01:12.153 --> 01:12.874 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he did. 01:13.034 --> 01:14.235 [SPEAKER_00]: on the road of Damascus. 01:14.816 --> 01:23.124 [SPEAKER_00]: And his testimony was so powerful that King and Gripper said, Paul, that almost persuaders me to be a Christian. 01:23.244 --> 01:26.086 [SPEAKER_00]: And Paul said not only you, but the rest of them up as well. 01:26.467 --> 01:29.049 [SPEAKER_00]: The Paul was telling what Christ had done for him. 01:29.830 --> 01:38.158 [SPEAKER_00]: And then what Paul had been through and as Paul said, I cannot count all things that's done for the cause of Christ. 01:38.738 --> 02:02.327 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though Paul was in bondage at this time, he had a testimony that just would not die, would not die, and he had a powerful, a powerful testimony, and people today, and I've always said this in church, people today are setting up on their testimonies, they're not standing up and giving it for what God has done for them. 02:02.827 --> 02:06.909 [SPEAKER_00]: And just to sure as you're there, somebody else needs to hear. 02:07.029 --> 02:07.409 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 02:07.629 --> 02:17.492 [SPEAKER_00]: What Christ has done for you, because you know, they may be after only them and thanks nobody cares about them or whatever may be the case, but they need to give that testimony. 02:17.512 --> 02:18.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 02:18.493 --> 02:23.615 [SPEAKER_00]: And I've been in churches where they have pop up testimonies of what God has done in people's life. 02:23.975 --> 02:26.816 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't war was made how the devil beat me up. 02:27.236 --> 02:29.257 [SPEAKER_00]: It was uplifting of what Christ. 02:29.897 --> 02:31.058 [SPEAKER_00]: had done for them. 02:31.858 --> 02:34.119 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was just a joy to hear. 02:34.399 --> 02:45.504 [SPEAKER_00]: And so somebody may have a testimony of what God has done for them, of what God has brought through, that is helping somebody else right there in that service. 02:46.225 --> 02:48.566 [SPEAKER_00]: And so they need to give it for the Lord. 02:48.766 --> 02:49.226 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 02:49.246 --> 02:52.368 [SPEAKER_00]: The Holy Spirit nudges you to do it, then do it. 02:52.848 --> 02:53.128 [SPEAKER_00]: Do it. 02:53.508 --> 03:15.655 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you know, my testimony is how I've talked to many people about Christ, that's how I start out as I'll just, you know, be talking to somebody and I'll tell them what God has done in my life and how I got to the point where I am today and the joy of the Lord upon you, as you tell what the Lord has done for you, I mean, it can literally change someone's life, it can transform their entire existence. 03:16.195 --> 03:29.338 [SPEAKER_01]: by you telling your testimony and you know there's been times where you remember in Ohio we were sitting there on the steps and we were all done baptizing and this man comes up for the porta potty's always an important party people too. 03:29.958 --> 03:43.941 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you at every revival we've ever had we've baptized the porta potty people and even have some on our team now but anyways in Ohio there was a man and he came in to you know change the porta potty's and he stops at the steps and you know we're just talking to 03:46.222 --> 03:47.443 [SPEAKER_01]: not not of anything else. 03:47.503 --> 04:01.808 [SPEAKER_01]: I just started telling my testimony of how we got to where we were and why we're there and I wouldn't halfway done with it and that may have looked at me and he said can you you got time for one more can we you ready and I went baptize him on the spot. 04:01.888 --> 04:11.012 [SPEAKER_01]: We done finished revival but here we were one more soul and that's happened time and time again the exact same thing happened at our Airbnb in Montana. 04:11.032 --> 04:12.832 [SPEAKER_01]: We were going to what mountain 04:15.140 --> 04:17.001 [SPEAKER_00]: I think we was going to bear two's mountain. 04:17.161 --> 04:23.984 [SPEAKER_01]: Yep, and Elwood got to go, but I was just about to leave and go, and the Lord placed it upon my heart that I needed to stay. 04:24.364 --> 04:30.286 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I was sad about it a little bit, but I sat there on the front porch steps and I knew God had a reason for it. 04:30.686 --> 04:34.148 [SPEAKER_01]: And about that time, the Airbnb owner comes walking across the lawn. 04:34.728 --> 04:38.472 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, hey, you know, and usually you don't even see those guys. 04:38.492 --> 04:41.254 [SPEAKER_01]: You're Airbnb owners, you don't really, you know, talk to them. 04:41.975 --> 04:45.038 [SPEAKER_01]: But I waved him down, you know, and I start going into my testimony. 04:45.078 --> 04:47.901 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just barely start talking about what the Lord has done for me. 04:48.201 --> 04:49.162 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was the same thing. 04:49.182 --> 04:52.205 [SPEAKER_01]: You got time for one more, do you, can you baptize me? 04:52.245 --> 04:54.367 [SPEAKER_01]: And he says, well, I've never been baptized before. 04:55.067 --> 05:21.599 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I've had this happen in so many different places, and it's not because of, you know, this revival and who I am to people now, like because a lot of people see us and, and they know that hey, you know, they're the people that go out and do the revivals and whatnot, but these people didn't know me from Adam, they didn't know that these revivals, what we were here for, it was just a person that I had the opportunity to tell of what God has done in my life to, and it changed everything. 05:21.719 --> 05:25.380 [SPEAKER_01]: They immediately were ready to give their lives to the Lord and be baptized. 05:26.021 --> 05:29.302 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's so important to realize that God can use you in the same way. 05:29.622 --> 05:40.766 [SPEAKER_01]: He can use you in a way every day to where you can talk to somebody about what he has done for you and how he's transformed your life and then it can transform someone else's. 05:41.146 --> 05:42.607 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't sleep on your testimony. 05:43.131 --> 05:43.812 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely. 05:44.232 --> 05:50.157 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, my not like go back, test my best, how I came into this. 05:50.638 --> 05:54.641 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, like I was talking about here while back, I ran from God for three years. 05:55.522 --> 05:58.685 [SPEAKER_00]: And years only three years old. 05:59.606 --> 06:03.809 [SPEAKER_00]: And so when I accepted the pastor job at Cobb, he only was six years old. 06:04.650 --> 06:06.552 [SPEAKER_00]: And so after 27 years there, 06:09.828 --> 06:16.773 [SPEAKER_00]: good times and bad times and joyful times and sad times, you know it come time for me to step down. 06:17.234 --> 06:19.455 [SPEAKER_00]: It took me three years to step down. 06:20.576 --> 06:26.501 [SPEAKER_00]: And once I did, after COVID hit, it really really done a number. 06:27.201 --> 06:31.464 [SPEAKER_00]: And after I had stepped down, went to my son's church and you showed 06:39.310 --> 07:06.267 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and then you asked me that Sunday when you came back But the preacher's a tent revival in Lexington and said let me get my calendar a little pocket calendar But as a look it's a yes and go back and look at everything God already had everything planned out Yes, he did and I I'd I'd start pastor and at the right time and I start pastor and at the right time 07:06.722 --> 07:14.528 [SPEAKER_00]: We ain't never really stopped past your man in the church house and then you showed up and here we are. 07:14.908 --> 07:15.369 [SPEAKER_00]: Here we are. 07:15.669 --> 07:23.775 [SPEAKER_00]: And I look at that sometimes and I just marvel the way that God knew exactly and had everything planned out to the T's. 07:24.176 --> 07:25.157 [SPEAKER_00]: But if anything. 07:25.897 --> 07:33.720 [SPEAKER_00]: Anything, if I had a pastured sooner, or if I had a left stop pastured as a true sooner, we would have probably never met. 07:34.180 --> 07:35.581 [SPEAKER_00]: We would have probably never met. 07:35.781 --> 07:36.081 [SPEAKER_01]: Well. 07:36.161 --> 07:40.843 [SPEAKER_00]: But the way God has had that was just, I just think it just miraculous. 07:40.983 --> 07:41.683 [SPEAKER_01]: It is. 07:42.443 --> 07:44.064 [SPEAKER_00]: But he's got things planned out. 07:44.284 --> 07:45.024 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 07:46.065 --> 07:48.546 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm telling you what, I am enjoying. 07:49.326 --> 08:06.114 [SPEAKER_00]: What I'm doing I'm enjoying going to these places and send people's lives changed and and it's all of God Yes, all of God and I just think the Lord for for that opportunity and Even though we had no idea you need no existence. 08:06.174 --> 08:10.516 [SPEAKER_00]: I know you existed But the Lord had a way of bringing us together. 08:10.556 --> 08:15.878 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so it's just it's just marvelous way that it's a beautiful thing to what he did 08:16.158 --> 08:21.005 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it is, you know, when I met Pastor Elwood, he had two forms of cancer. 08:21.605 --> 08:32.039 [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, undoubtedly at the time, you probably thought you were going to retire, sit on your porch swing with your wife out there and just, you know, which she probably don't let you on the porch swing, but anyways. 08:32.780 --> 09:00.257 [SPEAKER_01]: you just thought she was going to sit on the porch and be retired and you know when I met you I knew that the Lord had called you to pastor this revival like I knew I had heard pastor I was voice and the people that aren't very spiritual that sounds crazy but I knew that he was post a pastor this revival and so when I met him it was an instant like oh man I really pray that he says yes because you know his testimony and the life that he's lived and how he pastors you know 09:00.817 --> 09:13.666 [SPEAKER_01]: I've always really loved the pastors that are just deeply into the Word of God and you can see that and they are just, they're so Holy Spirit filled and on fire and when I heard Elwood preach, I'm like, that's him. 09:13.866 --> 09:15.327 [SPEAKER_01]: Here we go. 09:16.488 --> 09:21.771 [SPEAKER_01]: And so when I met him, he had two forms of cancer and I didn't know, you know, I didn't know that he was dealing with that. 09:21.791 --> 09:24.273 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know that he had had his kidney taken out because of cancer. 09:24.673 --> 09:25.834 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know any of these things 09:29.236 --> 09:35.522 [SPEAKER_01]: Happier than a two-to-toe take going a hairless handle, somebody says, but he's always happy and joyful. 09:35.863 --> 09:40.287 [SPEAKER_01]: And so there was some things going on in his life that, you know, I didn't know personally about yet. 09:40.868 --> 09:45.632 [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, the first time he helped there in a Kentucky, we were in Lexington. 09:46.193 --> 09:49.876 [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, somebody had asked him, do you know what you've gotten yourself into? 09:50.577 --> 09:54.461 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, no, you know, and he pulls up and the river banks lined with people. 09:55.102 --> 10:00.048 [SPEAKER_01]: And I can imagine the shock of his life told him to bring waiters. 10:00.108 --> 10:08.417 [SPEAKER_01]: He did not, but he learned about halfway through that that should have brought like waiters, now you got waiters and a dress suit. 10:08.777 --> 10:09.057 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 10:09.758 --> 10:11.119 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't learn a thing or two. 10:12.621 --> 10:27.695 [SPEAKER_01]: That anyways, we're at this point where, you know, we've apt us like 400 people, I think at that, that was his first time ever, you know, starting with this revival, and from then we've just been running full speed ahead, but now it's over 31,000 people has been packed up. 10:29.557 --> 10:42.849 [SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, so when I had Medell Woody had cancer, and his wife was bedridden, and she was bedridden for 15 years, and she had trouble walking down what three stairs of their home, and just many things like that. 10:43.010 --> 10:52.518 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I'll let him finish telling his testimony here with it, but his testimony inspired me so much because of how the Lord miraculously healed him in his wife. 10:53.399 --> 11:12.232 [SPEAKER_01]: it was so only God can do it type of moments that they are walking testimonies now and I tell their stories a lot too because of this powerful testimony of how now they're going in serving like we're all going out and serving the Lord together and it's made this powerful revival movement happen and it's 11:12.452 --> 11:20.036 [SPEAKER_01]: based on our testimonies that the Lord has delivered us from these things and rose us up for such a time as this to go and speak of Him. 11:20.556 --> 11:22.477 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we spend our lives preaching Christ. 11:22.557 --> 11:26.959 [SPEAKER_01]: Like that's our main goal is to do the great commission and to teach people about Jesus. 11:27.640 --> 11:31.341 [SPEAKER_01]: And a huge part of that is telling of what His goodness of what He has done. 11:31.482 --> 11:35.123 [SPEAKER_01]: So I'll let you finish telling about your cancer story and dead. 11:36.645 --> 12:02.097 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my, the semi-tolex and have my kidney taken out had to go back for a scan and they said I've got a bone cancer and they said you've got lesions up on your bones and we're going to do a bone marrow by upsy and they sent me to Lexington once again and got me all prepped up and ready and a doctor walked in and he said what are we doing for you today? 12:02.917 --> 12:06.799 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think for you, how we found out about that when we... What was with you? 12:07.059 --> 12:08.360 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, what was with you? 12:08.480 --> 12:08.760 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 12:08.900 --> 12:10.201 [SPEAKER_00]: And we've been praying about that. 12:10.261 --> 12:10.561 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 12:11.102 --> 12:13.563 [SPEAKER_00]: And we really didn't want to have that done. 12:14.283 --> 12:21.087 [SPEAKER_00]: But with cancer, you know, it's almost when they tell you that it's like a death sentence. 12:21.187 --> 12:21.607 [SPEAKER_00]: It is. 12:22.368 --> 12:27.230 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I learned that bad probably the most expensive nap I've ever took in a life. 12:27.270 --> 12:29.612 [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, the doctor came in and said, 12:30.552 --> 12:31.912 [SPEAKER_00]: said, what are we doing for you today? 12:32.532 --> 12:38.374 [SPEAKER_00]: I suppose I said, I'm, I'm, they sent me here for a bomb box, they were called, I've got cancer on the bone. 12:39.314 --> 12:42.054 [SPEAKER_00]: And he looked at me and he says, we're at. 12:42.955 --> 12:47.856 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Dr. Spockson though that, you know, so he goes out of the room and then he comes back. 12:48.336 --> 12:49.676 [SPEAKER_00]: And he has another guy with him. 12:50.356 --> 12:56.057 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, we have no papers whatsoever from the other doctor that sent you here. 12:56.077 --> 12:57.858 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we're not going to be able to do that. 12:58.918 --> 13:20.181 [SPEAKER_00]: and so we lived and then later on had to have another scan and he looked at the scan said there's nothing on your bone and so the Lord moved away on that that's on that part of my life and I've got him to forever think but deep she had been pretty well bedfast for 13:21.003 --> 13:28.997 [SPEAKER_00]: 15 years after she went to the arts and double pneumonia and all that stuff and Within Colorado and you ask me about her 13:30.485 --> 13:38.751 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I told you, and she said, I'd like the meter and young come over to house, or I'd come up to your house, or you'd have won. 13:39.071 --> 13:40.672 [SPEAKER_00]: And it took us too much to get here. 13:41.253 --> 13:42.734 [SPEAKER_00]: God's timing is everything. 13:42.814 --> 13:43.134 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 13:43.394 --> 13:43.955 [SPEAKER_00]: It really is. 13:44.035 --> 13:44.995 [SPEAKER_00]: It's everything. 13:45.496 --> 13:48.918 [SPEAKER_00]: And so finally one day we're sitting around the house but I didn't do anything. 13:49.519 --> 13:53.802 [SPEAKER_00]: And so if you want to go to Calis, I asked Deb and she said, no, not really. 13:54.442 --> 14:00.046 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I said, she said she's either going to come up here, or if not, why I can bring you over there. 14:00.767 --> 14:03.789 [SPEAKER_00]: And she said that for a while, she said, well, okay, we'll go. 14:04.650 --> 14:09.974 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I think I called you and asked you to make sure and broke that over here and so. 14:10.495 --> 14:12.376 [SPEAKER_00]: You and Deb was down there in the living room. 14:12.516 --> 14:16.139 [SPEAKER_00]: Mim Walt was out on the porch and whatever happened. 14:16.159 --> 14:19.061 [SPEAKER_00]: The boys come out there and said, did you all feel that? 14:19.542 --> 14:19.802 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 14:20.202 --> 14:40.201 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, hold this spirit to go over here and then we walked up the barn and here dead there's walking up to the barn and she can't even hardly climb two or three steps up on the porch and here she is walking up to the barn and God miraculous touched her. 14:40.721 --> 14:41.602 [SPEAKER_00]: Now she got her a 14:44.745 --> 15:07.404 [SPEAKER_00]: that she bought the other day and has making prayer cloth and so she's read a low that thing up, take it to Texas and I'm telling you what, the guard has done miraculously things in her life and I couldn't deny it whatsoever of what he has really done and I give him all the glory for him. 15:07.424 --> 15:07.885 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 15:07.905 --> 15:08.625 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 15:08.706 --> 15:09.146 [SPEAKER_00]: It's great. 15:09.406 --> 15:09.887 [SPEAKER_00]: It's great. 15:10.707 --> 15:12.188 [SPEAKER_01]: Walking, talking, testimony. 15:12.208 --> 15:12.368 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 15:12.809 --> 15:23.817 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I tell dibs all the time because at the beginning of the revivals when I'm talking about the certificate table or the prayer calls, I'll just talk about dibs just for a moment because it's just so powerful. 15:23.837 --> 15:23.937 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 15:24.137 --> 15:29.641 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like it was one prayer, one moment of the Holy Spirit just swooping in. 15:29.661 --> 15:32.764 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why the boys are like, did you feel that because we did? 15:34.145 --> 15:43.959 [SPEAKER_01]: Because it was just so powerful of how the Lord touched her and healed her and you know now to watch her She's not missed a revival since and this has been was this two years or one year? 15:44.260 --> 15:46.083 [SPEAKER_00]: It's about probably about two years. 15:46.223 --> 15:47.945 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, this been it's been two years. 15:47.965 --> 15:48.045 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah 15:48.646 --> 16:10.068 [SPEAKER_01]: and she has traveled to every revival since and so now we know you know all of our faith has increased through all of this like every time that the Lord does something so miraculous like that you can't help but to want to shout out from the rooftops and just you know you see that in the Bible so many times of when he would heal someone and they would jump up shouting and they people would thought they were mad 16:10.528 --> 16:20.958 [SPEAKER_01]: and it was because they were healed, they were had this miraculous encounter with the Lord who touched and healed them and all they could do was celebrate and to go and tell everyone that would hear. 16:21.518 --> 16:23.260 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's how you and I have to be, too. 16:23.400 --> 16:27.024 [SPEAKER_01]: It has to be a moment of like, you know what, the Lord has done this in my life. 16:27.084 --> 16:28.665 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me use it for his glory. 16:29.025 --> 16:31.628 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me go forth and to tell all who will listen. 16:31.648 --> 16:32.489 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't care, fake thing. 16:32.549 --> 16:33.510 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm crazy, you're not. 16:34.050 --> 16:34.711 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a teller. 16:36.272 --> 16:43.659 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, with Elwood and his story, how he was explaining with the cancer, you know, we, we prayed for him and didn't give up ceasing praying. 16:43.739 --> 16:46.602 [SPEAKER_01]: Like it was, it we believed upon his healing. 16:46.962 --> 16:51.567 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't just like a, oh, I hope you're healed and I'll put you on a prayer list for next week. 16:51.967 --> 17:00.796 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it was a we rebuked this spirit of death off of you in Jesus' name and command your healing in Jesus' name because Jesus Christ came to give you life and give it abundantly. 17:01.316 --> 17:07.959 [SPEAKER_01]: And this was what we spoke over Elwood, and we prayed, and we prayed, and God interceded, God touched and healed him. 17:08.339 --> 17:11.600 [SPEAKER_01]: And when he went back for that scan, and it was like, well, there's no spots. 17:11.620 --> 17:13.181 [SPEAKER_01]: We're like, that's right. 17:13.781 --> 17:18.843 [SPEAKER_01]: Calls Jesus, you know, and you know, that's the thing about God is God has created our bodies. 17:19.223 --> 17:25.686 [SPEAKER_01]: Therefore God can heal your bodies, and when you stand in that kind of faith, and when you believe it, faith is what made you whole. 17:25.706 --> 17:28.627 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what the Bible says, is that by your faith, you are healed. 17:29.347 --> 17:31.548 [SPEAKER_01]: And we have just seen such miraculous healings. 17:31.709 --> 17:38.513 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's just increased our faith to this point to where now when we go out to these revivals, they're ain't nobody. 17:38.813 --> 17:43.576 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody that steps on the property and that is faced with me that I'm like, oh, I don't think we can help you. 17:44.076 --> 17:46.057 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, because I'm like, Jesus can help you. 17:47.298 --> 17:51.220 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I know my Jesus and I know what he can do and I've seen his goodness. 17:51.360 --> 17:57.965 [SPEAKER_01]: And I've just seen too much of what he can do in his mercies and his faithfulness and absolutely. 17:58.825 --> 18:05.687 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, Satan likes to throw a whole lot of doubt in person's life, and I like you'll back to the man in the tomb. 18:06.447 --> 18:13.128 [SPEAKER_00]: And after Jesus, he has some demons out of him, and they went as a hogs and killed himself. 18:13.768 --> 18:18.449 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible said that when the people came out of the towns, before he was at, he was 18:21.690 --> 18:24.973 [SPEAKER_00]: And they wasn't afraid of Him. 18:26.414 --> 18:28.316 [SPEAKER_00]: They prayed Jesus to leave their coast. 18:28.336 --> 18:29.457 [SPEAKER_01]: That's so wild, ain't it? 18:30.128 --> 18:40.372 [SPEAKER_00]: But then as they done that, the man wanted to follow Christ and Christ said, no, you go home and tell how great things the Lord has done for you. 18:40.513 --> 18:40.913 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on. 18:41.073 --> 18:47.356 [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, if they ain't going to receive me, they knew that you was here, they had bond you up with change. 18:47.376 --> 18:52.738 [SPEAKER_00]: You've broken my son, and now you're clothed in your right mind, so now you go, come on. 18:53.258 --> 19:17.933 [SPEAKER_00]: Tell what the little how great things the Lord has done for you and I can only imagine when he walked into town the people knew this man Yeah, and they wasn't a bit bothered with him while he was in the tomb and now here this man is saying Tolkien not feel with demon spirits and telling people of what God has done for him And it's the same thing that we need to do for people around us to tell what God has done 19:18.433 --> 19:46.406 [SPEAKER_00]: in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God, in our God 19:46.946 --> 19:49.628 [SPEAKER_00]: because they didn't want him and that's exactly what he'll do. 19:50.008 --> 19:57.273 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey that man, I can only imagine, I can only imagine in his life what a testimony he had. 19:57.513 --> 20:05.098 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey man, you know my testimony is long so I'll give a very short version of it and I'm actually writing a book, I've been writing a book for. 20:05.878 --> 20:25.786 [SPEAKER_01]: really long time but I'm getting very close to being able to publish it like it's already in the rewriting process so it's done is just taking me a little while because it's hard to sit down and tell your entire life you know the short version of your testimonies pretty easy but you know to sit down and tell the really darkness and the things that you've been through but I know it'll help people. 20:26.026 --> 20:32.211 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the thing with anything that God's brought you through is that you can go forth and help other people out of the same things. 20:32.391 --> 20:41.579 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I think it's so powerful in your testimony is when you tell it there can be somebody that's in the same predicaments or maybe they know somebody that is and then they have hope for them. 20:41.860 --> 20:43.481 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, faith goes a long way. 20:43.561 --> 20:45.483 [SPEAKER_01]: So to be able to tell your testimony is important. 20:46.163 --> 20:51.646 [SPEAKER_01]: And so with me, the short version is that, you know, I spent 12 years in and out of hospitals. 20:51.987 --> 20:54.208 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was a more time in the hospital than out. 20:54.308 --> 20:57.310 [SPEAKER_01]: It was so many times that I would just be admitted. 20:57.530 --> 21:00.732 [SPEAKER_01]: I would go in for, you know, just excruciating stomach pain. 21:01.452 --> 21:10.238 [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, at the time, they're at the very beginning of this in 2011, they would diagnose me with all the lists that they start to go down with stomach problems. 21:10.378 --> 21:19.445 [SPEAKER_01]: And it would be all with your gallbladder, it's IBS, it's, you know, gastroparesis, like they would go through all these things and diagnose me with them and treat me for them. 21:21.166 --> 21:26.651 [SPEAKER_01]: Through this laundry list of things, I'm talking a massive list that I was diagnosed with over the course of years. 21:27.692 --> 21:36.239 [SPEAKER_01]: I've seen 11 GI doctors and you know it takes a while to get into one specialist, but I had been to 11 of them and they still couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. 21:36.739 --> 21:39.240 [SPEAKER_01]: And at this point, I had had five stomach surgeries. 21:39.280 --> 21:40.120 [SPEAKER_01]: I've had six total. 21:40.840 --> 21:43.061 [SPEAKER_01]: And at this point, I was dying about nutrition. 21:43.181 --> 21:46.522 [SPEAKER_01]: So fast forward, 2019, I have feeding tubes. 21:46.942 --> 21:49.243 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm on my last leg, just given up. 21:49.443 --> 21:51.183 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I had fault for so long. 21:51.583 --> 21:52.984 [SPEAKER_01]: I had fault because I had a family. 21:53.124 --> 22:01.066 [SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't want to leave my two young boys and my husband alone, because Lord knows they don't know what to do without me washing their clothes and cleaning up after a minute. 22:01.786 --> 22:22.931 [SPEAKER_01]: And even at this point of me just being definitely sick, I still took care of my family, and showed as much joy as I could, but at this point I was dying, and the darkest point of my life, you know, I thought I was a Christian, my whole life I went to church, my grandpa was a preacher, and I truly believed that I was a Christian, and that if I died I would go to heaven. 22:23.731 --> 22:24.593 [SPEAKER_01]: And then I was dying. 22:24.873 --> 22:28.298 [SPEAKER_01]: And when you're faced with death, that's the thing is, is that darkness comes in. 22:28.919 --> 22:31.122 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, it's, the truth is revealed. 22:31.783 --> 22:38.954 [SPEAKER_01]: And when I was actually dying and they pulled my last feeding tube out, you know, I remember laying on the floor and 22:39.955 --> 22:59.796 [SPEAKER_01]: looking up in my husband and telling him to take my life because I wasn't done messing up in my body hurts so bad from shutting down my organs and the things that was happening internally and it was just it was so much pain and I pleaded with him to just end it and of course he didn't do anything radical he you know was immediately we were praying 23:00.356 --> 23:09.344 [SPEAKER_01]: And at that point, you know, we had been a church, like I had said, I thought I was Christian, we had prayed, but I truly met Jesus in the next hospital trip that I had went on. 23:09.404 --> 23:10.385 [SPEAKER_01]: I went to the hospital. 23:10.425 --> 23:15.910 [SPEAKER_01]: My husband had found a surgeon, a vascular surgeon that was going to do this rare surgery on SMS. 23:16.070 --> 23:22.235 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a vascular compression, crosses over your doodinum and clamps off your your intestines from you being able to digest food. 23:22.716 --> 23:26.419 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I had at this point, they had found five vascular compressions in my body. 23:26.839 --> 23:30.101 [SPEAKER_01]: And one of them was making it to the point to where I couldn't digest food. 23:30.381 --> 23:35.624 [SPEAKER_01]: So that was a problem, but there's not a lot of people knowledgeable in the United States that would work on this. 23:35.984 --> 23:42.247 [SPEAKER_01]: We had actually looked in and actually gotten a passport to go to Germany to try to get this fixed and never ended up going. 23:42.427 --> 23:43.928 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was just done. 23:44.068 --> 23:45.909 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, all right, we're just going to... this is it. 23:46.469 --> 23:49.911 [SPEAKER_01]: And so my decision to be done fighting, um... 23:50.691 --> 23:54.152 [SPEAKER_01]: My husband had another decision and he's like, nope, we're gonna fight this. 23:54.252 --> 23:58.014 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he found this surgeon and the surgeon took my case right away. 23:58.194 --> 24:02.075 [SPEAKER_01]: And so we drove to Baltimore, Maryland and they did the surgery. 24:02.095 --> 24:05.196 [SPEAKER_01]: It was 10-hour surgery and it was a 50-50 chance of me living. 24:05.336 --> 24:07.377 [SPEAKER_01]: Because at that point I was so small. 24:07.437 --> 24:08.617 [SPEAKER_01]: I was 90-something pounds. 24:08.817 --> 24:10.298 [SPEAKER_01]: They're gonna do this big surgery. 24:10.498 --> 24:13.019 [SPEAKER_01]: Might not make it through and I prayed not to make it through. 24:13.159 --> 24:15.319 [SPEAKER_01]: I was just about to go under and I prayed to the Lord. 24:15.639 --> 24:17.620 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just said, I'm done with this. 24:17.680 --> 24:18.640 [SPEAKER_01]: The pain is too much. 24:18.740 --> 24:20.301 [SPEAKER_01]: Just please don't let me wake up from it. 24:20.921 --> 24:31.071 [SPEAKER_01]: I was alone and I was scared and I was in the hospital room and all I could feel was just darkness Like everything was so dark. 24:31.151 --> 24:32.252 [SPEAKER_01]: It was it was just nothing. 24:32.332 --> 24:37.357 [SPEAKER_01]: It smelled like death And I thought I was dying like I really am like, okay, this is it. 24:37.437 --> 24:43.583 [SPEAKER_01]: You know and like I said I was alone And it was just cold dark lonely just nothingness 24:44.123 --> 24:49.673 [SPEAKER_01]: and I felt like I was in hell and you know it truly was just I didn't feel the Lord's presence. 24:49.774 --> 24:51.316 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't feel any light in my life. 24:51.497 --> 24:54.001 [SPEAKER_01]: I wasn't happy that I woke up from surgery. 24:54.081 --> 24:54.983 [SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted to die. 24:55.930 --> 25:17.508 [SPEAKER_01]: And I truly believe that spirit of death was trying to take me, but Jesus obviously had greater things for me in store, and I met him in that hospital room, and when I did, I told the Lord, I remember nurses coming in and they were trying to care for me, and you know, I had to learn how to eat again, which was pureed foods and all kinds of stuff for a really long time. 25:17.968 --> 25:23.893 [SPEAKER_01]: But as they would come in and they would try to care for my body, I knew something was deeper, I knew I had died to myself. 25:24.173 --> 25:34.379 [SPEAKER_01]: I had died to whoever that was before, and the life I was living for me, I knew at that point that I had died to it, but I didn't quite know what I was gonna do or what it meant to follow Christ. 25:34.539 --> 25:40.222 [SPEAKER_01]: I just knew that I was gonna follow him, that whatever he told me to do from this point on, I would do. 25:40.763 --> 25:42.163 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I started reading my Bible. 25:42.784 --> 25:46.486 [SPEAKER_01]: I got home and ended up trying to eat food again. 25:46.906 --> 26:07.647 [SPEAKER_01]: digest food learned how to eat food again and as I did that I learned how to read my Bible and digest spiritually so I was not only hungry for the physical I was more hungry for the spiritual and I was reading like it was actual food like I was just reading the Bible constantly all day every day in this recovery you know transition of my life. 26:08.548 --> 26:16.198 [SPEAKER_01]: And man, the Lord just woke me up and just set a fire in me that could literally not be contained. 26:16.238 --> 26:20.063 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I started just being so hungry for more. 26:20.424 --> 26:24.329 [SPEAKER_01]: And just wanting to learn more about Jesus and I knew He saved me. 26:24.789 --> 26:26.391 [SPEAKER_01]: I knew that it was for a reason. 26:27.092 --> 26:29.353 [SPEAKER_01]: and I surrendered to the point of God. 26:29.413 --> 26:32.675 [SPEAKER_01]: If there's anything in my life that doesn't honor you, take it out. 26:32.915 --> 26:43.499 [SPEAKER_01]: Show me I was going through my wardrobe, I was changing holidays, I was changing music, everything in my life that I had done prior to this moment of my new life. 26:44.040 --> 26:45.120 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, get rid of it. 26:45.160 --> 26:49.182 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me just, I'm a new creation, and I was walking in being a new creation. 26:49.742 --> 26:50.683 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, um, 26:51.403 --> 26:56.346 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, fast forward two years down the road, I start teaching just on social media. 26:56.386 --> 27:03.530 [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord had me just sit down with a ring light and a phone and I just have my Bible and I wanted people to know what I knew. 27:03.810 --> 27:12.555 [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted people to see what I see and I wanted other people that were struggling and seeing and facing death or just not knowing what they wanted to live for. 27:12.735 --> 27:14.336 [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to help them too. 27:14.796 --> 27:16.057 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I just read from the Bible. 27:16.177 --> 27:16.537 [SPEAKER_01]: That's it. 27:16.698 --> 27:18.098 [SPEAKER_01]: No sugar coating. 27:18.338 --> 27:20.620 [SPEAKER_01]: No, just sit down, read from the Bible. 27:21.300 --> 27:27.846 [SPEAKER_01]: And after a long time of obedience of doing that every single day, then the Lord called me to baptize. 27:28.286 --> 27:36.232 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was driving by a river with my family, and I look out the window, and I just blurt out of nowhere, and I'm like, one day, I'm going to baptize nations in the river. 27:37.373 --> 27:41.697 [SPEAKER_01]: And I said that with all the confidence in the world and my husband and my kids was like, huh? 27:42.378 --> 27:47.723 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, everybody's like, right, did she say, and even me in the moment I was like, what was that? 27:47.883 --> 27:50.746 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, because at this point I had never even thought of baptism. 27:50.906 --> 27:52.067 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't even really understand it. 27:52.227 --> 27:56.672 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't it was just, you know, and whenever I had said that I was like, what in the world? 27:57.092 --> 28:03.196 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, lo and behold, just a few months later, I was contacted by somebody, and so I ended up baptizing after that. 28:03.236 --> 28:10.541 [SPEAKER_01]: It was probably seven or eight people, a string of people, who was like, hey, you know, I want you to baptize me. 28:11.262 --> 28:17.926 [SPEAKER_01]: And from there, it was just, it was continuous, with people coming to me and asking me that they want to meet a baptize them. 28:18.207 --> 28:19.728 [SPEAKER_01]: And so the first 28:21.789 --> 28:44.049 [SPEAKER_01]: I was terrified because you know I grew up in the period when when when the internet was coming out you didn't tell people where you were going like you didn't tell people your location and the Lord had me put out a flyer just like a little and just pin it all my stories and say where I was going to be and um nothing planned just me and a backpack and my family and we show up and 28:44.850 --> 28:45.871 [SPEAKER_01]: This was in North Carolina. 28:45.891 --> 28:48.632 [SPEAKER_01]: We just drove down in North Carolina where the Lord showed me it would be. 28:49.312 --> 28:55.295 [SPEAKER_01]: And I baptized us 54 people for my first ever baptism of vent official fame. 28:56.516 --> 29:01.438 [SPEAKER_01]: And just from there, the Lord just continued to move in my life and he continued to strengthen my body. 29:01.578 --> 29:04.039 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I had to work through all those diagnosis still. 29:04.480 --> 29:06.881 [SPEAKER_01]: I was diagnosed with a bunch of autoimmune diseases. 29:07.261 --> 29:09.282 [SPEAKER_01]: And I was learning how to not accept those. 29:09.482 --> 29:10.743 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, nobody teaches you that. 29:10.763 --> 29:20.491 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't teach you how to speak against diagnosis, how to bind up and rebuke those, how to cancel word curses, and how to not believe, you know, upon these diagnosis. 29:20.912 --> 29:28.078 [SPEAKER_01]: As you said, it's a death sentence, they're handing you, and if you come in agreement with that, then you're allowing it in your life, and I had to learn. 29:28.558 --> 29:34.004 [SPEAKER_01]: as a Lord taught me of how to reject these things, of how to bond them up and cast them out in Jesus Christ's name. 29:34.544 --> 29:41.831 [SPEAKER_01]: And so as I grew in my power and authority in Christ and just really learned who he is, then I found out who I was. 29:42.151 --> 29:46.355 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I found out my identity in Christ and I found out what he created me for. 29:47.016 --> 29:50.179 [SPEAKER_01]: And now I said long story short, but that's pretty long, 29:51.340 --> 29:56.903 [SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ, and that's my life, that is my mission, it is to go and to preach the gospel. 29:57.183 --> 30:01.946 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a preacher, but everybody who is a disciple of Christ is to preach the gospel. 30:01.986 --> 30:14.793 [SPEAKER_01]: You are to go out and to tell the goodness of God to do the great commission, to preach the gospel, to lay your hands and heal the sick, to cast out demons in Jesus' name, and to really work for the Lord, to be the hands and feet of Jesus. 30:15.533 --> 30:18.315 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I am, that's my testimony. 30:18.535 --> 30:22.237 [SPEAKER_01]: And I worked for Jesus with every part of my life now. 30:22.617 --> 30:30.102 [SPEAKER_01]: I do these videos, teach and baptize and bring revival to certain areas that the Lord leads us to. 30:30.302 --> 30:34.665 [SPEAKER_01]: And just whatever the Lord commands me to do, I say, here I am. 30:36.115 --> 31:01.107 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, with Deb, Deb was really sick, and she had passed out on me twice, and they said she had double pneumonia, and that was a virus going around, and so a little nurse there, and she told her doctor said she has the same virus as these other ladies does, and these other ladies they had passed away, and said, and the doctor said, no, she's not got the same thing. 31:01.847 --> 31:04.109 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, yes, she does too. 31:04.829 --> 31:10.733 [SPEAKER_00]: And so they put her in, it's a care that, on a Friday night, on Sunday morning, I was there. 31:11.173 --> 31:16.236 [SPEAKER_00]: And she was just coughing so much that they said her body cannot sustain this. 31:16.296 --> 31:16.657 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. 31:16.857 --> 31:18.838 [SPEAKER_00]: And so they wanted to put her in a Cymar coma. 31:19.639 --> 31:23.901 [SPEAKER_00]: And so they said, we'll walk out the room and let you all talk it over. 31:24.262 --> 31:30.065 [SPEAKER_00]: And so when they started putting her in a Cymar coma, they hadn't put a breathing tube down her. 31:31.706 --> 31:39.129 [SPEAKER_00]: And Deb has a kind of odd shape in her throat, and they started doing that, they couldn't get it down. 31:39.849 --> 31:42.570 [SPEAKER_00]: And so they had the bagger for an hour and a half. 31:42.770 --> 31:43.090 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. 31:43.250 --> 31:44.870 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a makeshift thing. 31:44.910 --> 31:47.631 [SPEAKER_00]: Keep her breathing until they got in a specialist in her. 31:47.691 --> 31:52.613 [SPEAKER_00]: And finally, I got it down an hour and a half later. 31:53.393 --> 31:55.895 [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, they never have to do that. 31:56.015 --> 31:56.376 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. 31:56.696 --> 31:58.317 [SPEAKER_00]: And so she was there. 31:58.718 --> 32:00.820 [SPEAKER_00]: She was in there for seven days. 32:02.021 --> 32:03.642 [SPEAKER_00]: I see you on the bin later. 32:04.563 --> 32:08.486 [SPEAKER_00]: Through all that, a lot of then she got to come home after. 32:09.747 --> 32:22.823 [SPEAKER_00]: Her lungs started hardening in there and so she just never did have her breath back To force you could do anything until she met you and the Lord moved up on her face. 32:22.863 --> 32:27.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he did and yes And now They have zapping at it and 32:28.290 --> 32:30.371 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, bar cracker, let's tell you. 32:30.571 --> 32:33.872 [SPEAKER_00]: Making prayer cloth right and left, and it sits up all night. 32:33.892 --> 32:34.193 [SPEAKER_00]: She does. 32:34.213 --> 32:36.674 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, she got that traveling sewing machine now. 32:36.694 --> 32:37.834 [SPEAKER_00]: She's so cute. 32:37.854 --> 32:38.715 [SPEAKER_00]: She's so cute. 32:38.755 --> 32:39.495 [SPEAKER_00]: Back to the girl. 32:40.055 --> 32:43.837 [SPEAKER_00]: And so the Lord just moved miraculous in our lives. 32:44.197 --> 32:48.639 [SPEAKER_00]: And we can never, never, not give him the glory for what he's done. 32:50.059 --> 32:51.360 [SPEAKER_01]: It just got so emotional. 32:53.561 --> 32:55.682 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just so amazing what God can do. 32:56.750 --> 32:58.091 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, absolutely. 32:58.492 --> 33:00.833 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you imagine the woman at the will? 33:01.474 --> 33:14.004 [SPEAKER_01]: If she never went and told her testimony, you know, if she would have just been like, you know what, I'm just gonna quietly go about my business, but instead she was like, come and see about a man who told me everything I did. 33:14.124 --> 33:17.848 [SPEAKER_01]: He knew about me, he told me my life, come and see about a man. 33:18.488 --> 33:19.690 [SPEAKER_01]: and that's how we should all be. 33:20.050 --> 33:26.278 [SPEAKER_01]: We should literally all be praising God to the point of telling other people, come see about this man. 33:26.578 --> 33:37.052 [SPEAKER_01]: She wasn't ashamed that she had been married five times before all the things that he had said to her, you know, it wasn't the guilt of those things what didn't make her not want to go tell people. 33:37.492 --> 33:46.194 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's the problem with people today, is that the shame and the guilt of their past and the things that they've been through hold them back from telling their testimony. 33:46.474 --> 33:57.176 [SPEAKER_01]: You take somebody that's been a drug addict or a prostitute or just whatever they've been through in their life and they're shamed now that they're in a new creation to go and tell of what their old self did. 33:57.576 --> 34:00.637 [SPEAKER_01]: But honey, that's a part of your testimony that other people need to hear. 34:00.657 --> 34:06.218 [SPEAKER_01]: The people that are stuck in those ways, the people that are not seeing a way out for you to 34:07.538 --> 34:24.280 [SPEAKER_01]: You know that's the woman at the well she goes back and she tells people with boldness You know these men and these women it even says in the Bible to where she would go out in the parts of the day that the other women weren't out Because she was so ashamed she didn't she didn't fit in with them because of her lifestyle 34:24.640 --> 34:33.346 [SPEAKER_01]: But now that she was a new creation, she was bold and fierce, and she would go and tell everybody about this Jesus that she encountered. 34:33.666 --> 34:35.348 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's how you and I have to be too. 34:35.688 --> 34:43.013 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't matter if you're past, it doesn't matter what you were into, what you did, the shame and the guilt of your past, it's no part of you anymore. 34:43.353 --> 34:50.839 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a part of your former self, when you are a new creation in Christ, then you go forth as a new creation, and you tell of his goodness. 34:51.159 --> 34:52.420 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine the man in the tubes. 34:53.100 --> 34:57.361 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine if he never went back and told people that whole town wouldn't have been changed. 34:57.641 --> 35:05.204 [SPEAKER_01]: And I imagine that as Jesus commissioned him to do, he went to a field that commissioned and he went and told the town of what Jesus had done for him. 35:05.544 --> 35:12.046 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine the ones that were blind that Jesus touched and then them going out and telling people that, you know, people to stay in time. 35:12.826 --> 35:18.474 [SPEAKER_01]: They wouldn't believe it, but you'd walk up to them and say, I was once blind, but Jesus healed me, and they'd be like, what? 35:19.735 --> 35:23.680 [SPEAKER_01]: But the thing is, is we don't have bold enough people going and telling these things. 35:24.021 --> 35:27.125 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we had a lady at our Kentucky revival. 35:27.485 --> 35:28.066 [SPEAKER_01]: She was deaf. 35:28.847 --> 35:50.540 [SPEAKER_01]: And now she hears and that's huge, I mean that's so massive of a testimony and I'm like I pray that she is going and shouting to everybody she knows and it's just so important It's so important for you to go and tell your testimony that is what God has done for you Be bold about it and be excited to shout from the rooftops 35:51.000 --> 35:52.321 [SPEAKER_01]: of God's glory. 35:52.781 --> 35:54.062 [SPEAKER_01]: Not of what you have done. 35:54.082 --> 35:57.164 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there was this one lady out of this, there's this one lady. 35:57.664 --> 36:00.366 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Lord had healed her for so many things. 36:00.766 --> 36:04.829 [SPEAKER_01]: And when she went to go tell her testimony, she kept giving herself glory. 36:05.149 --> 36:07.771 [SPEAKER_01]: She kept constantly saying, yeah, but I changed my diet. 36:07.851 --> 36:08.932 [SPEAKER_01]: But I went to this person. 36:08.952 --> 36:10.893 [SPEAKER_01]: But I read this book, but I did this. 36:11.473 --> 36:14.435 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm my honey, you are taking the testimony right away from God. 36:14.836 --> 36:16.677 [SPEAKER_01]: Who do you think led you to do those things? 36:17.057 --> 36:20.679 [SPEAKER_01]: God, God is the one that helped you with different. 36:20.779 --> 36:21.660 [SPEAKER_01]: He can use elements. 36:21.720 --> 36:23.841 [SPEAKER_01]: He can use doctors, he can use diets. 36:24.282 --> 36:28.545 [SPEAKER_01]: God can use many things to lead you to healing, but at the end of the day, it's him. 36:29.505 --> 36:31.046 [SPEAKER_01]: It is God that has touched your body. 36:31.106 --> 36:36.129 [SPEAKER_01]: It is God that has given you the things in nature or wherever it may be that has helped you. 36:36.510 --> 36:38.171 [SPEAKER_01]: It is God that led you to that doctor. 36:38.231 --> 36:39.832 [SPEAKER_01]: It's God who gave that doctor the commission. 36:40.492 --> 36:48.015 [SPEAKER_01]: God is behind all things and if you're not given him the glory for it, you're taking the testimony away from him The glory belongs to him and him alone. 36:48.335 --> 37:02.120 [SPEAKER_01]: You tell of what God has done how he has touched your life as he is healed you And I just think it's so important in this day and time that Christians get bolder to tell their testimony and to point to him about His goodness and about what he has done in their lives 37:02.460 --> 37:03.060 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely. 37:03.360 --> 37:11.404 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you take the man that's gave a beautiful Peter said silver and gold how we numbers such as I have in the name of Jesus Christ rise up and walk. 37:12.244 --> 37:16.907 [SPEAKER_00]: And that boy when they took him by the hand, the Bible said that he leaped. 37:17.067 --> 37:17.707 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. 37:17.947 --> 37:20.988 [SPEAKER_00]: A strength came into his ankle but then where was the next place he went? 37:21.349 --> 37:22.269 [SPEAKER_00]: He went into the Senate. 37:22.549 --> 37:24.150 [SPEAKER_00]: He went into church. 37:24.650 --> 37:27.391 [SPEAKER_00]: You do that this day and time they were putting a straight jacket. 37:27.411 --> 37:28.492 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, they think you're nuts. 37:29.012 --> 37:32.033 [SPEAKER_00]: But he went in there leaping and phrasing the Lord. 37:32.053 --> 37:32.594 [SPEAKER_01]: Come on. 37:32.614 --> 37:33.974 [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't praising Peter. 37:34.214 --> 37:34.634 [SPEAKER_01]: Right. 37:34.655 --> 37:39.277 [SPEAKER_00]: Peter said, as they looked on them, while look at us as we did this. 37:39.717 --> 37:40.777 [SPEAKER_00]: We did not. 37:41.077 --> 37:41.397 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 37:41.417 --> 37:46.160 [SPEAKER_00]: The one that you all crucified and put upon the cross, did this for this man. 37:46.280 --> 37:56.244 [SPEAKER_00]: He said, and I can imagine that man's testimony, seeing those people walk by him day after day after day, even the ones in the synagogue. 37:56.564 --> 38:13.489 [SPEAKER_00]: even the priests and look what the Lord has done for me and he no doubt that man had a testimony that he was given the glory and you know I'm telling you Christ has done so much for each and every one of us. 38:13.649 --> 38:17.510 [SPEAKER_00]: Each and every he loved this while we was yet sinners. 38:17.810 --> 38:18.670 [SPEAKER_00]: A testimony 38:19.230 --> 38:23.411 [SPEAKER_00]: And so many Christians are sitting around in a church world today. 38:23.471 --> 38:28.573 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not given a testimony of what God has done for him and what God has brought to them. 38:29.013 --> 38:30.794 [SPEAKER_00]: We've all got a past. 38:31.934 --> 38:38.856 [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen something today for the rest of 101 year old man, something about the future. 38:39.196 --> 38:41.637 [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, yesterday was a past. 38:43.208 --> 38:50.073 [SPEAKER_00]: of yesterday was history, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift from God. 38:51.054 --> 38:53.135 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is, it's a gift of God. 38:54.136 --> 38:55.997 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and what are you gonna do with today? 38:56.338 --> 39:00.901 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the thing is, so many people will say things like, why can't work for Jesus? 39:01.141 --> 39:08.426 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I don't go out or I don't do this or I can't preach or I can't sing and all these things they can make it, you can testify. 39:09.427 --> 39:28.560 [SPEAKER_01]: you can testify and that's a thing with with everything that you do with people they can type malicious comments and in people's you know but do they go testify you know do they go and tell what the goodness is that God's done for them so every person in this world can testify for the Lord of what he has done in your life he gave you life. 39:29.120 --> 39:34.787 [SPEAKER_01]: And so therefore you have a story, if you are breathing and living, you've got a story for what the Lord has done for you. 39:35.167 --> 39:36.789 [SPEAKER_01]: But how you use it is up to you. 39:37.069 --> 39:41.214 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, a testimony is a powerful witness to the things that God has done. 39:41.775 --> 39:45.980 [SPEAKER_01]: And you can use it for the betterment of the kingdom of God, or you can use it for self. 39:46.560 --> 39:48.061 [SPEAKER_01]: Or you can use it for the world. 39:48.981 --> 39:51.043 [SPEAKER_01]: The words you speak are very important. 39:51.063 --> 39:55.825 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you go forth and you testify for the Lord, I'm telling you it'll change people's lives. 39:56.245 --> 40:10.413 [SPEAKER_01]: And I just really encourage you today that if you haven't told somebody your testimony or if you haven't testified about the goodness of God and what he can do in your lives, then I just encourage you to do so because you will not believe the amount of people that are just needing hope out here. 40:10.853 --> 40:18.437 [SPEAKER_01]: They're needing somebody to tell them about what can be transpired in their life and the changes that can be made and what God can do for them. 40:18.937 --> 40:20.018 [SPEAKER_01]: And if not you, then who? 40:20.578 --> 40:21.638 [SPEAKER_01]: If not you, then who? 40:22.019 --> 40:24.800 [SPEAKER_01]: So go forth and tell your testimony, be excited about it. 40:24.820 --> 40:30.903 [SPEAKER_01]: Be like the ones in the Bible that wouldn't stop talking about it because they were so excited of what the Lord has done for them. 40:31.457 --> 40:31.977 [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely. 40:32.377 --> 40:41.580 [SPEAKER_00]: You know the testimony of this ministry over 31,000 people came to the Lord and gave it a heart to the Lord and was baptized. 40:41.960 --> 40:43.700 [SPEAKER_00]: We've seen people get delivered. 40:43.780 --> 40:52.583 [SPEAKER_00]: We've seen people step free and I'll tell you, I wish to have a picture of the lady and her husband the other day. 40:53.123 --> 41:00.888 [SPEAKER_00]: in Tennessee, when they came, spent a half hour with them, and then they was spent another half hour with them in the water. 41:01.408 --> 41:06.311 [SPEAKER_00]: But when I see them before they live, all the darkness had done else or fine. 41:06.591 --> 41:11.974 [SPEAKER_00]: They were smiling, and they were happy as a two-toe tick on her, it's held up. 41:12.414 --> 41:16.216 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to tell you what, they was walking out there in Betry. 41:16.276 --> 41:18.537 [SPEAKER_00]: They had a joy of the Lord in their life. 41:18.677 --> 41:19.337 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 41:19.617 --> 41:22.118 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a testimony to this ministry as well. 41:22.258 --> 41:22.718 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 41:22.738 --> 41:30.442 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, that people will spend time with them, and pray with them, and get down in the gutter with them. 41:30.462 --> 41:31.562 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what it takes. 41:32.303 --> 41:37.089 [SPEAKER_00]: to help pull them out there, because Jesus said, I come to give you life and give it more abundantly. 41:37.689 --> 41:40.753 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's exactly what this ministry wants for these people. 41:40.793 --> 41:46.921 [SPEAKER_00]: They want them to have the abundance of life, the joy, the peace and the happiness that God has. 41:48.362 --> 42:03.512 [SPEAKER_00]: To get their souls lined out to meet their maker and I'll tell you what it's a testimony What this ministry has done a 31,000 plus and it's gonna be something else next year 42:03.952 --> 42:04.532 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 42:05.072 --> 42:09.633 [SPEAKER_01]: You know something with Edward as he is bold about speaking about what the Lord has done. 42:09.913 --> 42:16.635 [SPEAKER_01]: He don't care who likes it, who tells him not to talk, he's gonna stand up and testify of what the Lord has done. 42:16.975 --> 42:24.616 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think that is so important for so many people because we see in the Bible of where persecution comes from of when people would testify. 42:24.896 --> 42:26.677 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, that was the whole thing of the disciples. 42:26.697 --> 42:29.117 [SPEAKER_01]: They were going out and preaching the gospel and testifying the 42:33.898 --> 42:41.368 [SPEAKER_01]: It is still so baffling to me that you could go forth and tell about someone's healing or tell about someone's life that was dramatically transformed. 42:41.388 --> 42:48.738 [SPEAKER_01]: Like this person was in darkness, now look at them, they are just loving life and they are healed and yet some eyes mad about it. 42:49.178 --> 42:53.661 [SPEAKER_01]: It blows my mind of how the world is, but that's how it was in the Bible Days 2. 42:53.741 --> 43:01.066 [SPEAKER_01]: You always will have the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the people that are upset about what has happened about the healings of Jesus Christ. 43:01.106 --> 43:05.469 [SPEAKER_01]: This has been from the beginning when Jesus first started healing from till now. 43:05.909 --> 43:26.005 [SPEAKER_01]: be healed they would be set free and somebody be mad about it and it just it's mind-blowing to see that but it doesn't matter who receives the testimony or who you know is upset about the testimony it matters if you tell it you know your obedience to Christ is so important and if God tells you to stand up and testify about something then you better do it. 43:26.385 --> 43:30.890 [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, that's what I said I love and admire about Elwood is that he don't care who you are. 43:31.030 --> 43:38.037 [SPEAKER_01]: If wherever we are, if you are in a new church, a restaurant or wherever you are, we're going to tell you about Jesus. 43:38.298 --> 43:47.127 [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, I think it's so important to, you know, that like you said, even the testimony of this ministry, he'll go and tell people, you know, about what this ministry has done. 43:47.547 --> 43:51.652 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, some people, especially religious people, they may get a little upset about it. 43:51.712 --> 43:59.201 [SPEAKER_01]: They may start saying things against it or whatever it may be, but the small length wiped off of our faces, because we know what Jesus has done. 43:59.221 --> 44:06.690 [SPEAKER_01]: And we've seen the goodness of God, we have seen these people like you said, you wish you had to picture their faces because you'll never forget them. 44:06.930 --> 44:07.451 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we do. 44:07.611 --> 44:21.282 [SPEAKER_01]: We have pictures and we have all these things that the Lord's, you know, captured in the moment of of these people's lives change, their testimonies are walking shouts of praise of what they have happened in this moment and what God has done for them. 44:21.763 --> 44:25.606 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's one thing you can't never take from a person is their testimony. 44:25.986 --> 44:27.628 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care who's sour about it. 44:27.688 --> 44:32.312 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care if they what you say sister-sale or Dr. Dumbel likes it or not. 44:33.653 --> 44:45.486 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a glorious moment that we will continually shout the praise of the Lord and what He has done for their lives, and they go forth and its ripples and splashes, you know, their testimony of what God has personally done for them. 44:45.667 --> 44:53.656 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't take it away, no amount of negativity or whatever people try to bring into it can take that away if God has set someone free. 44:54.056 --> 45:10.496 [SPEAKER_01]: If he has touched and healed them, if he has delivered them from addiction or drugs or depression or anxieties or whatever he's delivered them from, you can't take that away, can't nobody in the world, they are now a testimony of what the living God can do. 45:10.843 --> 45:11.884 [SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly right. 45:12.524 --> 45:12.904 [SPEAKER_00]: Give it. 45:13.625 --> 45:14.225 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. 45:14.766 --> 45:21.350 [SPEAKER_00]: And let the world know because so many people's keeping their testimonies down. 45:21.490 --> 45:21.850 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. 45:22.371 --> 45:23.832 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll tell you what. 45:24.672 --> 45:26.934 [SPEAKER_00]: What God is brought you through this worth telling. 45:27.034 --> 45:27.534 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes it is. 45:27.594 --> 45:29.976 [SPEAKER_00]: It is worth, even if somebody doesn't like it. 45:30.456 --> 45:31.757 [SPEAKER_00]: It is worth telling. 45:31.777 --> 45:32.558 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you know. 45:33.378 --> 45:49.782 [SPEAKER_00]: You know and they can't rob you of that and but you tell it because you go through the Bible You take the lady with a son and ask Elijah and she had and lies to ask what would you have me do for thee And she told him and he said you go borrow all these vessels 45:50.462 --> 46:05.018 [SPEAKER_00]: and you pour that oil into it and she did and it's just like us we're trying to pour all of these vessels that is empty throughout the world and to help to get them filled up with Jesus Christ. 46:05.058 --> 46:06.340 [SPEAKER_00]: They can have a better life. 46:06.920 --> 46:31.189 [SPEAKER_00]: And they can absolutely put their past behind them just like the lady did the well put her past behind her and went forward She didn't look back on that no more because she had a testimony of what Christ had told her and What he had done for her gave that water of living life well of living water in her life And so she was going to just dash it all over everybody and that's what she did 46:31.489 --> 46:31.809 [SPEAKER_01]: Amen. 46:31.889 --> 46:32.689 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what she did. 46:33.169 --> 46:35.390 [SPEAKER_00]: So your testimony is meant for somebody. 46:35.650 --> 46:35.970 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. 46:36.190 --> 46:38.630 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is meant for somebody there. 46:39.211 --> 46:51.853 [SPEAKER_00]: And whatever it is, whatever you went through of what God has brought you from and what God has delivered you up and what God has placed you and what God has placed you to be a blessing to other people. 46:52.433 --> 46:54.573 [SPEAKER_00]: And so don't never back up on it. 46:54.654 --> 46:56.794 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't never quench the spirit. 46:57.554 --> 47:00.115 [SPEAKER_01]: We really hope that you have loved this one on your testimony. 47:00.175 --> 47:23.602 [SPEAKER_01]: I pray that it's inspired you to go until your testimony Go forth and shout the praises of the Lord and what he has done in your life Go tell anybody whoever will listen and just tell about the goodness of God and you will regret it You'll be glorifying him He will hear those shouts of praises and it could change someone's life forever May God bless you and we will see you soon with another discipleship episode